Like all theoretical programming styles and religions, clean coding has one or two points to commend it but it would be impractical to follow it in every detail in real life. You'd end up with an unmaintainable mess of XYZArgument objects.
This really is bad news, Chrome is a dreadful browser with its missing menus and propensity for phoning home every few minutes. The experience of trying Chrome on Windows, where it secretly installed two services to keep itself updated, and a hidden scheduled task to reinstall the services, has convinced me that no free software project should have any kind of association with Google whatever.
Obviously the Kazakh government has sinister motives, but domains using specific country identifiers should only be for use by bona fide bodies from that country. We have a lot of trouble in the UK with bogus co.uk domains being used by Indian companies to pretend that they're UK-based and rip off consumers.
Don't forget that in many cases there will have been no proof whatsoever of wrongdoing, just suspicion and unsupported copyright/trademark claims. We shouldn't be enabling the authoritarians by publishing puff pieces like this for their macho 'takedown' nonsense.
I thought we wouldn't get an unbiased presentation of this story on Slashdot - the US media have done their job well in shilling for the agrogiants. In Europe we take a much more sceptical view of genetically modified food. We aren't about to allow organisms to be released into our environment that have only been tested by people who have a very strong financial incentive to keep quiet about the dangers.
The authorities have good reason to keep the zombie meme in people's minds. It was originally created to help keep Americans suspicious of collective action and revolutionary ideas. And it still seems to be doing its job 40 years later.
A programmer who insists on having two monitors is like an executive insisting on a 6-drawer desk or a corner office. Of course two monitors aren't necessary, what do you think Alt-Tab is for?
There is simply no scope for satire in the idea of Disney planning to market lines of toys using the OBL assassination. All the points one could possibly make about US society are already there.
Whoever said the war of terror was like the Vietnam war on crack was right. And now this incident is like the Kennedy assassination on fast forward; OBL has only been dead two weeks and the terror forces' account of events has already turned out to have been a pack of lies from the beginning.
Given a benevolent government and benevolent holders of economic power, there would be some sense in a way of identifying real people for real purposes, like making online tax returns or opening bank accounts.
In the real world such a mechanism would be massively abused. The government would demand that all online expression be tied to such an identifier, and those with economic power would demand that it be used for all financial transactions, either because it suits their convenience (like with driving licences) or because they support the government's authoritarian agenda. And because capitalism is a 'pay up or piss off' system there would be no other way to access goods and services.
No doubt the Chinese government will be employing the Restoration Team to replace John Bennett with a Chinese actor on future versions of the Talons of Weng-Chiang DVD. Come to think of it, they've probably done it already on the grounds that it was the original production team's intention. And turned everyone bright orange with their Gumby restoration techniques.
Any mass recording of car registrations by police constitutes a false accusation against the owner of every vehicle that comes within the scope of the spy cameras. Police should only be permitted to watch for specific numbers that correspond to people against whom they have a genuine, pre-existing suspicion of wrongdoing. 'Conspiring to commit activities not normally considered illegal' is not a sufficient suspicion.
These books are useless because everything is expressed in terms of Knuth's ludicrous obfuscatory pseudo-OS. And the typography makes the material look like it was last revised in 1965. Other fonts than Century Schoolbook are available.
The problem with Wikipaedia is that the articles reflect the opinion of anyone who's prepared to sit and watch them, reverting any edit that they don't agree with. I can understand academics, or indeed anyone, not wanting to spend time editing it under those conditions.
I can't see the point of circumventing paywalls when I can read the same news without effort, for free elsewhere. If a news site isn't available free then it just disappears off my radar.
Doubtless the Cubans are merely following the shining example of the kangaroo courts that try 'terrorist' inmates in the concentration camp at Guantanamo. I can't quite recall which democratic power operates that camp though, perhaps it will come back to me...
I stopped buying PC Pro in 1992 because of its authoritarian ideas about software being 'stolen' or the object of 'theft'. I'm sorry to see that in the succeeding 19 years they have learnt nothing.
This is just about generating a story that Daily Mail readers will lap up - unruly kids brought to heel by stern authoritarian teachers. In practice it would be so difficult, physically and technically, to search an unwilling student's phone that no-one will bother.
People have mentioned home school contracts as if they would legitimise this. These 'contracts' have no legal standing because they don't involve a consideration, ie the school undertakes to provide nothing on the basis of the contract that it would not have to do anyway.
If they couldn't stop David Day from publishing his compilations based on Tolkien's actual works, I can't see how they expect to stop someone from writing about Tolkien himself.
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Like all theoretical programming styles and religions, clean coding has one or two points to commend it but it would be impractical to follow it in every detail in real life. You'd end up with an unmaintainable mess of XYZArgument objects.
It's about time someone fought back against these no-trial, no-evidence seizures.
This really is bad news, Chrome is a dreadful browser with its missing menus and propensity for phoning home every few minutes. The experience of trying Chrome on Windows, where it secretly installed two services to keep itself updated, and a hidden scheduled task to reinstall the services, has convinced me that no free software project should have any kind of association with Google whatever.
The idea of causing 'offence' is the new weapon of choice in the authoritarian war against dissent.
Obviously the Kazakh government has sinister motives, but domains using specific country identifiers should only be for use by bona fide bodies from that country. We have a lot of trouble in the UK with bogus co.uk domains being used by Indian companies to pretend that they're UK-based and rip off consumers.
Don't forget that in many cases there will have been no proof whatsoever of wrongdoing, just suspicion and unsupported copyright/trademark claims. We shouldn't be enabling the authoritarians by publishing puff pieces like this for their macho 'takedown' nonsense.
I thought we wouldn't get an unbiased presentation of this story on Slashdot - the US media have done their job well in shilling for the agrogiants. In Europe we take a much more sceptical view of genetically modified food. We aren't about to allow organisms to be released into our environment that have only been tested by people who have a very strong financial incentive to keep quiet about the dangers.
What, so Amazon can have books removed from the U of C library without warning? and they can take the notes the students have made too?
It's no substitute for the real thing. If you can't browse along the shelves you might as well not visit a library at all.
The authorities have good reason to keep the zombie meme in people's minds. It was originally created to help keep Americans suspicious of collective action and revolutionary ideas. And it still seems to be doing its job 40 years later.
A programmer who insists on having two monitors is like an executive insisting on a 6-drawer desk or a corner office. Of course two monitors aren't necessary, what do you think Alt-Tab is for?
There is simply no scope for satire in the idea of Disney planning to market lines of toys using the OBL assassination. All the points one could possibly make about US society are already there.
Whoever said the war of terror was like the Vietnam war on crack was right. And now this incident is like the Kennedy assassination on fast forward; OBL has only been dead two weeks and the terror forces' account of events has already turned out to have been a pack of lies from the beginning.
Given a benevolent government and benevolent holders of economic power, there would be some sense in a way of identifying real people for real purposes, like making online tax returns or opening bank accounts. In the real world such a mechanism would be massively abused. The government would demand that all online expression be tied to such an identifier, and those with economic power would demand that it be used for all financial transactions, either because it suits their convenience (like with driving licences) or because they support the government's authoritarian agenda. And because capitalism is a 'pay up or piss off' system there would be no other way to access goods and services.
No doubt the Chinese government will be employing the Restoration Team to replace John Bennett with a Chinese actor on future versions of the Talons of Weng-Chiang DVD. Come to think of it, they've probably done it already on the grounds that it was the original production team's intention. And turned everyone bright orange with their Gumby restoration techniques.
Any mass recording of car registrations by police constitutes a false accusation against the owner of every vehicle that comes within the scope of the spy cameras. Police should only be permitted to watch for specific numbers that correspond to people against whom they have a genuine, pre-existing suspicion of wrongdoing. 'Conspiring to commit activities not normally considered illegal' is not a sufficient suspicion.
These books are useless because everything is expressed in terms of Knuth's ludicrous obfuscatory pseudo-OS. And the typography makes the material look like it was last revised in 1965. Other fonts than Century Schoolbook are available.
The problem with Wikipaedia is that the articles reflect the opinion of anyone who's prepared to sit and watch them, reverting any edit that they don't agree with. I can understand academics, or indeed anyone, not wanting to spend time editing it under those conditions.
I can't see the point of circumventing paywalls when I can read the same news without effort, for free elsewhere. If a news site isn't available free then it just disappears off my radar.
This further censorship would encourage me to stop watching The Simpsons - if I hadn't done so when it stopped being funny 10 years ago.
Doubtless the Cubans are merely following the shining example of the kangaroo courts that try 'terrorist' inmates in the concentration camp at Guantanamo. I can't quite recall which democratic power operates that camp though, perhaps it will come back to me...
I stopped buying PC Pro in 1992 because of its authoritarian ideas about software being 'stolen' or the object of 'theft'. I'm sorry to see that in the succeeding 19 years they have learnt nothing.
This is just about generating a story that Daily Mail readers will lap up - unruly kids brought to heel by stern authoritarian teachers. In practice it would be so difficult, physically and technically, to search an unwilling student's phone that no-one will bother. People have mentioned home school contracts as if they would legitimise this. These 'contracts' have no legal standing because they don't involve a consideration, ie the school undertakes to provide nothing on the basis of the contract that it would not have to do anyway.
..did not use his right name or allow it to be spoken. Full marks to the Estate for following in his footsteps.
If they couldn't stop David Day from publishing his compilations based on Tolkien's actual works, I can't see how they expect to stop someone from writing about Tolkien himself.