I'm not sure why Slashdot is so afraid of this. You don't have a right to be anonymous to your employer. You don't have a right to avoid taxes. You just got the right to healthcare, but do you really want that going to illegal immigrants?
Because it is pretty obvious that has nothing to do with illegals. If they wanted to get rid of illegals it would be a very simple matter to do it. Previous presidents had no problem with it. Then, starting in the Reagan years it was decided to stop enforcing immigration so that cheap labor could stream in. Of course back in 1986 when we had our first amnesty (I say first since both parties want a second one so it will probably happen,) we were told that after that there would be strict enforcement. I'm sure that after this card we will get another empty promise of strict enforcement.
This crap is to make it easier to track people and make it harder to avoid the government knowing everything about you.
Furthermore, just like any other required documentation it will turn into another useless nightmare for citizens. Before going you will need to scrounge up 100 documents and pictures, etc. Then you will need to make an appointment. Then you will have to pay some ludicrous processing fee. Then take a day off work to stand in line for a day and deal with some fat government slob, etc. Then wait an entire month to get the stupid thing (which means you won't be able to travel/get a job/drive/etc while you wait for a stinking month for them to make a laminated card.) And then God knows how many months it will take for those clowns to process a change of address/etc.
The PITA of a driver's license and a social security card should be enough to scare the living crap out of anyone with half a brain from wanting a national id card.
Let's not think of the things we'd be able to get away with with a fake id
Yeah, having social security cards sure did make everything safer. Noone uses that to fake someone's identity
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I agree with you for most cases, which is why you only use metaprogramming in extreme cases. But sometimes speed or some other factor (maybe the code is just cleaner by adding a new language construct) and metaprogramming is the correct method.
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When I catch my developers using these techniques, we have a nice little chat about writing maintainable code, and then their code gets reworked.
God, nothing is more annoying than an opinionated boss that starts sticking his fingers in your code.
cause nothing but problems when it comes to maintainability
Yes, because it's much more maintainable to keep repeating the same code everywhere and having it scattered throughout the source than to use some metaprogramming to make a useful (and efficient) macro.
I hear what you are saying but I don't think it works. The REALLY big innovations rarely ever get done at some big behemoth company (sure there are exceptions like PARC and Bell Labs.) Most of the time the next huge thing comes from some guy starting his OWN company. Let's not forget that Europe saw the US dominance in computers and tried their own big government subsidies and it did very little to stop Intel, Microsoft, etc.
If you really want to look long term, then you have the best universities (the US is still far and away at the top here) and provide basic funding for university research.
Saying no to H1Bs etc. does not necessarily get americans hired - it just forces complete departments to be outsourced.Why keep IT here - when you can have the whole thing in Mumbai or Bangalore ?
I much prefer offshoring to bringing them here. 1)They have terrifyingly bad social skills. 2) Without them coming over here and getting trained in American schools and by American engineers, they barely have the skills to find the men's room.
The Chinese engineers I've worked with have been top notch, however. Any company dumb enough to move R&D to India deserves what they get.
If the immigrants are so great and people like me are so horrible then answer a simple question. Why are you trying to leave a country full of people like you to come live in a country full of people like me? And why is the country full of people like you such a horrible place to live?
There are water shortages across huge sections of the country. For a while there were talks of riots ensuing in the Atlanta area as water levels were reaching dangerously low levels. The roads, schools, and prisons are filled to capacity. There are shortages of decent cheap housing.
Tough luck for you if the majority of people in this country don't want this problem exacerbated.
If he was really too fat to fly they never should have sold him a ticket.
And they'd better damn well have given him a full refund or a free transfer or it's fraud.
They were trying to save the man's life. Instead of flying the lard should have tried jogging or at least walking to his destination.
You haven't seen what the roads are like. They've been raiding the gasoline tax for years now. Driving in San Diego is an adventure. The roads look as if they've taken a bombardment.
You'd be surprised how many people say that, and yet when the software gets to see their dynamic signature (as points in time, not just an image), it easily finds the things that make their signature unique and clearly distinguishes it from anyone else's.
Good God!! You guys couldn't even get the DHCP in Vista to keep from knocking out my router. And you think someone would be stupid enough to buy a device that uses advanced signature recognition software to access it? I could just imagine forever losing access to my data because some stupid signature recognition algorithm had a bug.
Just admit that Microsoft has very poor technical talent and poor innovation. While you were bitching and moaning about styluses, Apple realized people hate using a stylus and brought us touch screen interfaces.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I was expecting the thing to have a different take on ebook readers. I'll stick to a kindle/nook with its eink and the smaller profile..
Only Obama and McCain had any real chance of winning
They did a study once that a person is more likely to die on the way to the polls than having any meaningful effect on the election. So saying that someone wasted a vote by voting their conscience is nonsense.
I'm having that "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" moment that I really didn't want to have.
Look at all the dirty money he got to fund his campaign with. Goldman Sachs didn't give him all that money because they thought Obama was a reformer.
I still don't get why it is legal in the US to bribe politicians. In other countries a person giving money to an elected official goes in front of a firing squad.
California state government has to be one of the most lucrative jobs there is. Retirement in your 50's and you get 90% of your salary averaged over your 3 highest paid years!!!
AMEN to this. I worked at a big semiconductor company. I worked my nuts off and was constantly getting good reviews. Then with some new management, I was forced to train a gang of people overseas and some H1-B's (aka slaves) and then that was all she wrote for my job.
Besides not having h1-b's at the new place, there is another advantage. Since there aren't as many people I don't get pigeon-holed. I constantly get to learn new skills. Hell, I started out as a hardware guy and am now getting to do some web development.
Well Opera has some nifty searching. Let's say you want to search for "gorillas" If you want to use google, you type "g gorillas". If you want to use wikipedia, you type "w gorillas". I added a b command for bing. So I get to choose where I want to search but don't have to type in big addresses.
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How long before some sicko puts one of these peppers in a cat's anus. Don't lie and say you weren't thinking the same exact question.
I'm not sure why Slashdot is so afraid of this. You don't have a right to be anonymous to your employer. You don't have a right to avoid taxes. You just got the right to healthcare, but do you really want that going to illegal immigrants?
Because it is pretty obvious that has nothing to do with illegals. If they wanted to get rid of illegals it would be a very simple matter to do it. Previous presidents had no problem with it. Then, starting in the Reagan years it was decided to stop enforcing immigration so that cheap labor could stream in. Of course back in 1986 when we had our first amnesty (I say first since both parties want a second one so it will probably happen,) we were told that after that there would be strict enforcement. I'm sure that after this card we will get another empty promise of strict enforcement.
This crap is to make it easier to track people and make it harder to avoid the government knowing everything about you.
Furthermore, just like any other required documentation it will turn into another useless nightmare for citizens. Before going you will need to scrounge up 100 documents and pictures, etc. Then you will need to make an appointment. Then you will have to pay some ludicrous processing fee. Then take a day off work to stand in line for a day and deal with some fat government slob, etc. Then wait an entire month to get the stupid thing (which means you won't be able to travel/get a job/drive/etc while you wait for a stinking month for them to make a laminated card.) And then God knows how many months it will take for those clowns to process a change of address/etc.
The PITA of a driver's license and a social security card should be enough to scare the living crap out of anyone with half a brain from wanting a national id card.
Let's not think of the things we'd be able to get away with with a fake id
Yeah, having social security cards sure did make everything safer. Noone uses that to fake someone's identity
Someone mod this guy insightful
I agree with you for most cases, which is why you only use metaprogramming in extreme cases. But sometimes speed or some other factor (maybe the code is just cleaner by adding a new language construct) and metaprogramming is the correct method.
When I catch my developers using these techniques, we have a nice little chat about writing maintainable code, and then their code gets reworked.
God, nothing is more annoying than an opinionated boss that starts sticking his fingers in your code.
cause nothing but problems when it comes to maintainability
Yes, because it's much more maintainable to keep repeating the same code everywhere and having it scattered throughout the source than to use some metaprogramming to make a useful (and efficient) macro.
I hear what you are saying but I don't think it works. The REALLY big innovations rarely ever get done at some big behemoth company (sure there are exceptions like PARC and Bell Labs.) Most of the time the next huge thing comes from some guy starting his OWN company. Let's not forget that Europe saw the US dominance in computers and tried their own big government subsidies and it did very little to stop Intel, Microsoft, etc.
If you really want to look long term, then you have the best universities (the US is still far and away at the top here) and provide basic funding for university research.
Saying no to H1Bs etc. does not necessarily get americans hired - it just forces complete departments to be outsourced.Why keep IT here - when you can have the whole thing in Mumbai or Bangalore ?
I much prefer offshoring to bringing them here. 1)They have terrifyingly bad social skills. 2) Without them coming over here and getting trained in American schools and by American engineers, they barely have the skills to find the men's room.
The Chinese engineers I've worked with have been top notch, however. Any company dumb enough to move R&D to India deserves what they get.
If the immigrants are so great and people like me are so horrible then answer a simple question. Why are you trying to leave a country full of people like you to come live in a country full of people like me? And why is the country full of people like you such a horrible place to live?
Once the republicans get back into office, they'll go back to railing against immigrants
You may not be aware of this but the last immigration bill was pushed heavily by Bush, McCain, and other Republican leaders.
There are water shortages across huge sections of the country. For a while there were talks of riots ensuing in the Atlanta area as water levels were reaching dangerously low levels. The roads, schools, and prisons are filled to capacity. There are shortages of decent cheap housing.
Tough luck for you if the majority of people in this country don't want this problem exacerbated.
It's a real shame that nowhere in the modern education system do they teach you the fundamentals of the basic cons....
Common sense is one of those things you have to be born with.
Only the gay koalas are in danger
Well, for Javascript they had a rhino. And then for Learning Javascript they had a baby rhino which I thought was pretty clever.
If he was really too fat to fly they never should have sold him a ticket. And they'd better damn well have given him a full refund or a free transfer or it's fraud.
They were trying to save the man's life. Instead of flying the lard should have tried jogging or at least walking to his destination.
You haven't seen what the roads are like. They've been raiding the gasoline tax for years now. Driving in San Diego is an adventure. The roads look as if they've taken a bombardment.
You'd be surprised how many people say that, and yet when the software gets to see their dynamic signature (as points in time, not just an image), it easily finds the things that make their signature unique and clearly distinguishes it from anyone else's.
Good God!! You guys couldn't even get the DHCP in Vista to keep from knocking out my router. And you think someone would be stupid enough to buy a device that uses advanced signature recognition software to access it? I could just imagine forever losing access to my data because some stupid signature recognition algorithm had a bug.
Just admit that Microsoft has very poor technical talent and poor innovation. While you were bitching and moaning about styluses, Apple realized people hate using a stylus and brought us touch screen interfaces.
Yes, dumb moderators, let's mod someone down for saying something that is supported by US Census Data. Politically correct ass clown.
Perhaps the FBI, CIA, or NSA might do the stuff you were spouting off about
Speaking of the NSA. Why do we need a Cybercommand when all of its functions look like what the NSA is supposed to be doing?
Isn't this just a big expensive iPod touch now?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I was expecting the thing to have a different take on ebook readers. I'll stick to a kindle/nook with its eink and the smaller profile..
Only Obama and McCain had any real chance of winning
They did a study once that a person is more likely to die on the way to the polls than having any meaningful effect on the election. So saying that someone wasted a vote by voting their conscience is nonsense.
I'm having that "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" moment that I really didn't want to have.
Look at all the dirty money he got to fund his campaign with. Goldman Sachs didn't give him all that money because they thought Obama was a reformer.
I still don't get why it is legal in the US to bribe politicians. In other countries a person giving money to an elected official goes in front of a firing squad.
California state government has to be one of the most lucrative jobs there is. Retirement in your 50's and you get 90% of your salary averaged over your 3 highest paid years!!!
SMB all the way.
AMEN to this. I worked at a big semiconductor company. I worked my nuts off and was constantly getting good reviews. Then with some new management, I was forced to train a gang of people overseas and some H1-B's (aka slaves) and then that was all she wrote for my job.
Besides not having h1-b's at the new place, there is another advantage. Since there aren't as many people I don't get pigeon-holed. I constantly get to learn new skills. Hell, I started out as a hardware guy and am now getting to do some web development.
Well Opera has some nifty searching. Let's say you want to search for "gorillas" If you want to use google, you type "g gorillas". If you want to use wikipedia, you type "w gorillas". I added a b command for bing. So I get to choose where I want to search but don't have to type in big addresses.