That is a bizarre notion. Not to say that I'm entitled to suffocate you (or am I, if I own the air in the room? I'm not taking your property out of your lungs, I'm just denying you access to mine!), but to turn that into a property rights argument is SERIOUS libertarian crankery.
What the fuck are you prattling on about? I don’t want to blow MY breath into your dumb toy.
you signed away those rights of which you speak
Dangerous argument! Which exactly rights do I have to “sign away” to drive my car on your roads? Hows about I sign away my right to not being anally raped by the cops when they pull me over, too... hmm? So which rights do I have to give up, and what makes that “reasonable”? If you can’t tell that someone is intoxicated without a fancy little toy that displays the magic numbers, you shouldn’t be convicting them of it.
change an attitude that "there's nothing wrong with this"
Did you miss the part where I said right afterward that they’re more likely to cause a bad accident?
If the DUI laws were set sensibly so that they outlawed drunk driving while the slightly-buzzed drivers (who are much less likely to cause an accident) get, say, something more like a speeding ticket, my complaint would be largely answered. But that’ll never happen, because the neo-prohibitionists at MADD are pushing to get the limits set even LOWER and any politician who doesn’t accommodate is “soft” on drunk driving. MADD used to be against drunk driving; now they’re against drinking.
I always do an insertion sort until it starts getting inefficient (pretty soon usually) then abandon my sorted stack and start a new one. Once I have sorted everything into small sorted stacks, I merge sort them two at a time to get larger sorted stacks, then repeat until I have only one sorted pile.
try {
var canvas = document.getElementById("paintbox").getContext("2d");
for (var i = 0; i < 640; i ++) a[i] = Math.floor(i / 640 * 480);
for (var i = a.length - 1; i > 0; i --) {
var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1));
a[i] ^= a[j]; a[j] ^= a[i]; a[i] ^= a[j];
(Bonus points if you knew what i ^= j; j ^= i; i ^= j; does without thinking about it too hard. Those are bitwise XOR operations, in case anyone didn’t know.)
Well, that, and to teach that their performance isn’t the only metric that you can judge them by... for instance, the “best” (fastest) sorting methods also tend to be the most inefficient in terms of how much extra memory they need. If you swap elements with XOR, a bubble sort only requires 1 extra bit to tell it when it’s finished.
Great. When Gramma has the same legal consequences for driving with her inch-thick glasses as I’d get after having 3 beers, I’ll be satisfied that at least if the system isn’t just it’s at least fairly and consistently applied.
Pff, the stuff I buy costs $11.49 a handle at Price Chopper. As long as the only poison is ethanol and it’s at least 40% that, I’m happy.
If I want a “good” vodka, I’ll pick up a handle of Most Wanted, which is more like $24 a handle IIRC. It’s noticeably smoother, but unless you’re drinking it straight it’s not that important, and even then only if you’re picky, which I’m not.
That is caused by frequency irregularities in the clock circuits. It has nothing to do with the cable you use. The only way a bad cable could degrade audio quality is if it made a loose connection or was picking up so much EMF noise that the digital 1 and 0 states couldn’t be reliably decoded again from the signal, and that would fail catastrophically if the errors were too many or be completely unnoticeable if the errors were very few (digital error detection and correction would fix the erroneous bits or re-request the entire block of data if there were too many errors to correct).
I don’t prefer Slashdot to necessarily become a place to actively counteract every idiot who has a soapbox. That’s just me personally, though. Sure, giving this guy all of this publicity makes him look like a moron, but why even bother?
I have spoken with Muslims and I can assure you that they do indeed believe in Jesus; now, granted they don’t believe all of the same things about Jesus that Christians believe, but then neither do Mormons.
Yes, but would shielding the cable help to prevent it from interfering with other devices? I’m pretty sure the answer is no, unless maybe the shield is grounded. The shield just prevents other devices from causing interference on it.
Who reports the results of the md5 checks? Biased reviewer?
No, I’m pretty sure the MD5 algo isn’t a biased reviewer. And I’m also pretty sure there is no way for a biased reviewer to screw up telling whether the two MD5 hashes are, well, identical, since there’s no subjectivity whatsoever in the comparison.
Seriously. I suppose a double-blind study is also needed to determine whether 2+2=5?
I don’t drive drunk (I have in the past, I admit; but as I know it is more dangerous and don’t much care for the consequences anyway, I don’t), but I also see things realistically, and realistically a BAC of 0.08 isn’t what I consider significant in terms of being more dangerous than normal. Certainly less dangerous than eating or texting while driving.
Driving is dangerous. Period. By your rationale, nobody should drive, ever. You are, after all, still probably about 20% as likely to get in an accident compared to if you had a BAC of 0.08. (And compared to 0.05, it’s probably closer to 40% as likely.) You are playing Russian roulette with your life and other people’s lives every time you get behind the wheel. SleazyRidr indeed... how do you live with yourself? (Or, you can look at things realistically as I do and realise that the chance of getting in an accident is basically negligible, and still pretty much negligible after having 1 drink.)
In the meantime (regardless of whether it’s practical to catch them) distracted drivers pretty much get a free pass; there’s nowhere near the same amount of social stigma against texting while you drive as there is against driving after having a couple of drinks. And if you did catch someone driving while dangerously distracted, they still wouldn’t get anywhere even remotely close to the same punishment as the guy who doesn’t even appear intoxicated but blows a 0.081 at a DUI checkpoint.
That’s funny, because I do have the right to drink and drive* and fire my gun randomly**. GFY.
*as long as I’m not over the arbitrarily-set BAC limit of 0.08 when I drive, at which point I abruptly become fall-down drunk and incompetent to operate a motor vehicle without certainly killing someone (or so the false dichotomy claims)
**in desolate areas and on private property, aimed sensibly enough so that the shot’s trajectory will not leave the property
A red light traffic cam snaps a photo of a vehicle of the same make, model, and approximate year as a vehicle that you own. The license plates are dirty and only the last digit is legible. Based on the description of the vehicle and the matching numbers from the plate, they send you the ticket. Statistically speaking, there are many other vehicles that would match the description of your car, and probably 20 with the same last digit in their license plate number. So there’s really only a 1:20 chance that it was your car, but since you aren’t given any real chance to defend yourself against the charge, you have to pay the ticket.
What is punished is the irresponsibility, not the outcome.
Strange, running a red light, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road are punished a hell of a lot less harshly than driving after 3 drinks... and probably a lot more likely to cause a bad accident, incident-per-incident. Well, running red lights or driving on the wrong side of the road at least. Not so sure about speeding, unless you’re doing 15+ over.
Unlike Dick Cheney, I haven’t shot anyone. Besides, I have this strange belief that people should be punished for things they actually do, not for things that potentially could have happened due to risky behaviour.
No, I just have the bizarre notion that the air inside my lungs is mine, until I decide to release it, and I shouldn’t be forced to submit myself, my papers, or my effects (that which is mine) to any unwarranted search. The constitution and all that...
You wanna test the air inside my lungs? Fine, I’m about to exhale it anyway, but not into your tube. If you can figure out a way to collect it without forcing me to assist you, more power to ya.
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Erm... his evidence showed that “at least” one e-book’s Kindle version was outselling the iBook version.
What evidence did you give to show that “at most” one e-book’s Kindle version is outselling the iBook version?
Oh... you didn’t.
That is a bizarre notion. Not to say that I'm entitled to suffocate you (or am I, if I own the air in the room? I'm not taking your property out of your lungs, I'm just denying you access to mine!), but to turn that into a property rights argument is SERIOUS libertarian crankery.
What the fuck are you prattling on about? I don’t want to blow MY breath into your dumb toy.
you signed away those rights of which you speak
Dangerous argument! Which exactly rights do I have to “sign away” to drive my car on your roads? Hows about I sign away my right to not being anally raped by the cops when they pull me over, too... hmm? So which rights do I have to give up, and what makes that “reasonable”? If you can’t tell that someone is intoxicated without a fancy little toy that displays the magic numbers, you shouldn’t be convicting them of it.
change an attitude that "there's nothing wrong with this"
Did you miss the part where I said right afterward that they’re more likely to cause a bad accident?
If the DUI laws were set sensibly so that they outlawed drunk driving while the slightly-buzzed drivers (who are much less likely to cause an accident) get, say, something more like a speeding ticket, my complaint would be largely answered. But that’ll never happen, because the neo-prohibitionists at MADD are pushing to get the limits set even LOWER and any politician who doesn’t accommodate is “soft” on drunk driving. MADD used to be against drunk driving; now they’re against drinking.
I always do an insertion sort until it starts getting inefficient (pretty soon usually) then abandon my sorted stack and start a new one. Once I have sorted everything into small sorted stacks, I merge sort them two at a time to get larger sorted stacks, then repeat until I have only one sorted pile.
I would optimize that by only swapping the values if they’re out of order:
(Bonus points if you knew what i ^= j; j ^= i; i ^= j; does without thinking about it too hard. Those are bitwise XOR operations, in case anyone didn’t know.)
The point is to teach algorithm analysis skills.
Well, that, and to teach that their performance isn’t the only metric that you can judge them by... for instance, the “best” (fastest) sorting methods also tend to be the most inefficient in terms of how much extra memory they need. If you swap elements with XOR, a bubble sort only requires 1 extra bit to tell it when it’s finished.
Great. When Gramma has the same legal consequences for driving with her inch-thick glasses as I’d get after having 3 beers, I’ll be satisfied that at least if the system isn’t just it’s at least fairly and consistently applied.
it made my WAV files WAVier, my MP3s became MP4s and my EXE files were sEXEy all of a sudden
Oh, that must have been the problem... the ones I downloaded from LimeWire weren’t sexey at all in fact I thought my computer was just broken
Pff, the stuff I buy costs $11.49 a handle at Price Chopper. As long as the only poison is ethanol and it’s at least 40% that, I’m happy.
If I want a “good” vodka, I’ll pick up a handle of Most Wanted, which is more like $24 a handle IIRC. It’s noticeably smoother, but unless you’re drinking it straight it’s not that important, and even then only if you’re picky, which I’m not.
Cables don’t cause jitter. They cause noise. Jitter and noise are not the same. In fact they are entirely different.
That is caused by frequency irregularities in the clock circuits. It has nothing to do with the cable you use. The only way a bad cable could degrade audio quality is if it made a loose connection or was picking up so much EMF noise that the digital 1 and 0 states couldn’t be reliably decoded again from the signal, and that would fail catastrophically if the errors were too many or be completely unnoticeable if the errors were very few (digital error detection and correction would fix the erroneous bits or re-request the entire block of data if there were too many errors to correct).
I don’t prefer Slashdot to necessarily become a place to actively counteract every idiot who has a soapbox. That’s just me personally, though. Sure, giving this guy all of this publicity makes him look like a moron, but why even bother?
I have spoken with Muslims and I can assure you that they do indeed believe in Jesus; now, granted they don’t believe all of the same things about Jesus that Christians believe, but then neither do Mormons.
Yes, but would shielding the cable help to prevent it from interfering with other devices? I’m pretty sure the answer is no, unless maybe the shield is grounded. The shield just prevents other devices from causing interference on it.
“Gee, is this a 0 or a 1? I think I need a double-blind study to make sure I’m not introducing bias into my decision...”
Get real.
Who reports the results of the md5 checks? Biased reviewer?
No, I’m pretty sure the MD5 algo isn’t a biased reviewer. And I’m also pretty sure there is no way for a biased reviewer to screw up telling whether the two MD5 hashes are, well, identical, since there’s no subjectivity whatsoever in the comparison.
Seriously. I suppose a double-blind study is also needed to determine whether 2+2=5?
I don’t drive drunk (I have in the past, I admit; but as I know it is more dangerous and don’t much care for the consequences anyway, I don’t), but I also see things realistically, and realistically a BAC of 0.08 isn’t what I consider significant in terms of being more dangerous than normal. Certainly less dangerous than eating or texting while driving.
Driving is dangerous. Period. By your rationale, nobody should drive, ever. You are, after all, still probably about 20% as likely to get in an accident compared to if you had a BAC of 0.08. (And compared to 0.05, it’s probably closer to 40% as likely.) You are playing Russian roulette with your life and other people’s lives every time you get behind the wheel. SleazyRidr indeed... how do you live with yourself? (Or, you can look at things realistically as I do and realise that the chance of getting in an accident is basically negligible, and still pretty much negligible after having 1 drink.)
In the meantime (regardless of whether it’s practical to catch them) distracted drivers pretty much get a free pass; there’s nowhere near the same amount of social stigma against texting while you drive as there is against driving after having a couple of drinks. And if you did catch someone driving while dangerously distracted, they still wouldn’t get anywhere even remotely close to the same punishment as the guy who doesn’t even appear intoxicated but blows a 0.081 at a DUI checkpoint.
Personally I prefer italics for that jazzy sound!
That’s funny, because I do have the right to drink and drive* and fire my gun randomly**. GFY.
*as long as I’m not over the arbitrarily-set BAC limit of 0.08 when I drive, at which point I abruptly become fall-down drunk and incompetent to operate a motor vehicle without certainly killing someone (or so the false dichotomy claims)
**in desolate areas and on private property, aimed sensibly enough so that the shot’s trajectory will not leave the property
A red light traffic cam snaps a photo of a vehicle of the same make, model, and approximate year as a vehicle that you own. The license plates are dirty and only the last digit is legible. Based on the description of the vehicle and the matching numbers from the plate, they send you the ticket. Statistically speaking, there are many other vehicles that would match the description of your car, and probably 20 with the same last digit in their license plate number. So there’s really only a 1:20 chance that it was your car, but since you aren’t given any real chance to defend yourself against the charge, you have to pay the ticket.
Circumventing due process and putting it entirely at the discretion of the LEO? Sounds like a great idea!
I’m sure that no police officer would ever abuse that system...
What is punished is the irresponsibility, not the outcome.
Strange, running a red light, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road are punished a hell of a lot less harshly than driving after 3 drinks... and probably a lot more likely to cause a bad accident, incident-per-incident. Well, running red lights or driving on the wrong side of the road at least. Not so sure about speeding, unless you’re doing 15+ over.
Yes, but to put the credit where the credit belongs, I directly implied it before he explicitly stated it.
Unlike Dick Cheney, I haven’t shot anyone. Besides, I have this strange belief that people should be punished for things they actually do, not for things that potentially could have happened due to risky behaviour.
No, I just have the bizarre notion that the air inside my lungs is mine, until I decide to release it, and I shouldn’t be forced to submit myself, my papers, or my effects (that which is mine) to any unwarranted search. The constitution and all that...
You wanna test the air inside my lungs? Fine, I’m about to exhale it anyway, but not into your tube. If you can figure out a way to collect it without forcing me to assist you, more power to ya.