What will happen when technology allows any attendee at any function to transmit information (multimedia, for example) to anywhere s/he wants to?
Why would that even matter? The fact remains that if you are FOUND OUT, you will be removed from the premises. I fail to see how the technical details of the communication bear at all on this.
Changing the shape of a lens doesn't adjust its refraction, it just... changes the shape of the lens. Refractivity is a property of the material, not the geometry of the lens.
Here's my question. When are router manufacturers going to start requiring people to use WPA security?
Hopefully never. Who the hell are they (and you, for that matter) to tell me I can't run an open network? Making it impossible for me to do so is a good way to guarantee I'll be going with another vendor.
I find it amazing that people are leaving their connections open when setting up a secure connection is so easy.
I similarly find it amazing how fucking chickenshit some people are. Secure your home machines, put them behind another layer of firewall, whatever. Encrypted wireless is not a magic bullet, nor is it even wanted in some cases.
This is a pretty good point. I comment heavily not only because it's policy but because the kind of code we write is by nature pretty obscure and it's hard to find people who are already heavily versed in the particular field. Typically I'll write comments before I write the code that does what the comment says. And if I begin to modify a piece of code, the first thing I do is insert the letters "XXX" at the beginning of the appropriate comment. Once my changes are stabilized, I go back, update the comment, and remove the XXX. This makes it trivial to find comments that have gotten out of sync with reality -- just search for XXX.
When I code for myself I never write comments. If the code needs comments it means it isn't clear enough. I've come back to personal projects that have languished for years and had no problem getting back into them. Picking good names for things and using appropriate structures goes a long way.
Let's see, we have some "not exactly sane" people who "break every law/commandment each day by lunch" and we deal with this by writing their names down on a list? How about PRISON? Why the hell are people like this OUT OF PRISON in the first place?
Damn. It would be pretty depressing if, for ANY given name, there is a sex offender somewhere with that name.
Anyway, I find the whole idea of registering sex offenders to be ridiculous -- as if their crime is somehow worse than ANY other crime. It's despicable, but murder is worse, and we don't have "murderer registries."
Once again I say, "it's only a million dollars." How much money will it cost to get the government to change its policies? Probably more than the million you'd gain by doing it. Why not go after the multiple BILLIONS in waste in other areas?
Million here, million there, and before too long it starts to become real money.
Exactly, but when you're trying to clean up a pile of dog shit you pick up the nice big hard pieces first instead of scraping the goop with a trowel. Let's start with the real waste and move on from there, shall we?
While this is probably not a proper thing for the government to do (and in my opinion it is despicable), stay real. This is only a million bucks. This is hardly a standout example of government waste.
Indeed. And in case the child decides he/she will use deception and concealment to hide their activities from me, I make it quite clear that I will use deception and concealment "right back at ya!" Don't want dad sneaking around watching you? Then YOU stop fucking sneaking around.
What the hell is "spying?" Is watching a toddler while he plays on a swing set spying? How about supervising when they are learning to drive a car? How about monitoring what they do on the internet?
I think you're just a kid who's pissed off that it's difficult to conceal things from your parents. TOUGH SHIT.
Yeah. I bet you also disregard claims that you have a tumor in your brain because an MRI is just a bunch of nonsense. Hey, if they didn't CUT YOU OPEN and take a look, how can they really know?
If you don't understand something as basic as spectroscopic evidence, you are in no position to make claims about the veracity of real research.
Try pressing Ctrl-V followed by backspace. Ctrl-V is a control escape which disables the special handling of whatever key follows it. Works for newline too. I don't know if it will work for ssh's prompt, but you could try.
It will be useless and only aggravate the life of the consumer
How will it aggravate my life? I buy a DVD, they make the chip transparent, I go home. My disk works, and will work forever. How is this any different than removing an anti-theft device from a leather jacket before I walk out the door with my purpose? Aggravation my ass.
"Go someplace else" rarely works against harassment, whether online or in real life. That's why it's called "harassment."
I'm fairly certain that getting up and walking into another room is a very effective tool against online harassment.
Again, these are real human beings (otherwise nobody would be online) performing real antisocial behaviors with the sole intent of causing the other person harm.
What harm? It's as much harm as watching a gruesome movie. If you don't want that particular emotional experience, turn the fucking television off. Or get up from the computer.
"It's a very clever approach," says Philippe Fauchet, an applied physicist at the University of Rochester in New York State. "I did not expect it at all, which is always a nice surprise."
An applied physicist "didn't expect" that an electric field would move the free electrons out of the way?
Since what we're talking about is somebody actually imposing their will on their intended victim (regardless of the venue), this isn't a "thought crime," this is "sexual assault" (though perhaps not "rape" per se).
No. This is a blob of pixels moving a certain way on a display device. A person who so identifies with an imaginary character that assaults against that CHARACTER cause them emotional harm is a person in need of immediate psychological help.
If your enjoyment of this GAME is disrupted by the characters of other players committing certain acts against other players, in other words, certain blobs of pixels appearing to "do" things to certain other blobs of pixels, you can either go somewhere these characters are not present, or, if their behavior is a violation of game policy, have them removed from the game.
The failure to distinguish between fantasy and reality is known as PSYCHOSIS.
The world doesn't owe you a particular feature - if you want it, write it. If you can't/won't write it, then pay someone to write it for you. If you are not prepared to do that, then quit bitching and uninstall it.
Who writes the features is not the point. You can not seriously claim to be a full-featured chat client while you have huge holes in your feature set. Yes, it's an open source product, and nobody is obligated to contribute to it. It's still arrogant to tout a product as a major competitor to other products when it CLEARLY ISN'T.
A common generally accepted use of goto that happens to be functionally equivalent to switch?
You can debate its "goodness" if you like, but you can't debate the fact that it is widely used. I think it is obfuscatory to invent some "deinitialization state" variable to switch on, and then fall into a series of fall-through case statements (which some people might call obscure in and of themselves). And besides, how are you going to get out of the initialization code and over to the switch? You could wrap things in tens of confusing conditions, inventing failure variables left and right just in order to avoid goto, or you could just... goto it. There is nothing inherently unclear about jumping into a chain of deinitializers.
There code of conduct talks about an agreement signed by the students. If they violate this agreement they should be punished.
Yeah, right. You can't attend school if you don't sign it. "Okay, then don't sign it." Then you can't attend school. But wait. Attending school is legally mandated. So refusing to sign the agreement means you are breaking the law. Which means it is not an agreement, it is an ultimatum.
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What will happen when technology allows any attendee at any function to transmit information (multimedia, for example) to anywhere s/he wants to?
Why would that even matter? The fact remains that if you are FOUND OUT, you will be removed from the premises. I fail to see how the technical details of the communication bear at all on this.
Wouldn't the motion of electrons in a CPU be considered a moving part? Look ma, I've proven that "solid state" is a myth!
Changing the shape of a lens doesn't adjust its refraction, it just... changes the shape of the lens. Refractivity is a property of the material, not the geometry of the lens.
Here's my question. When are router manufacturers going to start requiring people to use WPA security?
Hopefully never. Who the hell are they (and you, for that matter) to tell me I can't run an open network? Making it impossible for me to do so is a good way to guarantee I'll be going with another vendor.
I find it amazing that people are leaving their connections open when setting up a secure connection is so easy.
I similarly find it amazing how fucking chickenshit some people are. Secure your home machines, put them behind another layer of firewall, whatever. Encrypted wireless is not a magic bullet, nor is it even wanted in some cases.This is a pretty good point. I comment heavily not only because it's policy but because the kind of code we write is by nature pretty obscure and it's hard to find people who are already heavily versed in the particular field. Typically I'll write comments before I write the code that does what the comment says. And if I begin to modify a piece of code, the first thing I do is insert the letters "XXX" at the beginning of the appropriate comment. Once my changes are stabilized, I go back, update the comment, and remove the XXX. This makes it trivial to find comments that have gotten out of sync with reality -- just search for XXX.
When I code for myself I never write comments. If the code needs comments it means it isn't clear enough. I've come back to personal projects that have languished for years and had no problem getting back into them. Picking good names for things and using appropriate structures goes a long way.
Let's see, we have some "not exactly sane" people who "break every law/commandment each day by lunch" and we deal with this by writing their names down on a list? How about PRISON? Why the hell are people like this OUT OF PRISON in the first place?
Damn. It would be pretty depressing if, for ANY given name, there is a sex offender somewhere with that name.
Anyway, I find the whole idea of registering sex offenders to be ridiculous -- as if their crime is somehow worse than ANY other crime. It's despicable, but murder is worse, and we don't have "murderer registries."
What wise words. Why don't you write a book and then vanish into obscurity? I hear it's trendy.
Once again I say, "it's only a million dollars." How much money will it cost to get the government to change its policies? Probably more than the million you'd gain by doing it. Why not go after the multiple BILLIONS in waste in other areas?
Million here, million there, and before too long it starts to become real money.
Exactly, but when you're trying to clean up a pile of dog shit you pick up the nice big hard pieces first instead of scraping the goop with a trowel. Let's start with the real waste and move on from there, shall we?While this is probably not a proper thing for the government to do (and in my opinion it is despicable), stay real. This is only a million bucks. This is hardly a standout example of government waste.
Indeed. And in case the child decides he/she will use deception and concealment to hide their activities from me, I make it quite clear that I will use deception and concealment "right back at ya!" Don't want dad sneaking around watching you? Then YOU stop fucking sneaking around.
What the hell is "spying?" Is watching a toddler while he plays on a swing set spying? How about supervising when they are learning to drive a car? How about monitoring what they do on the internet?
I think you're just a kid who's pissed off that it's difficult to conceal things from your parents. TOUGH SHIT.
Yeah. I bet you also disregard claims that you have a tumor in your brain because an MRI is just a bunch of nonsense. Hey, if they didn't CUT YOU OPEN and take a look, how can they really know?
If you don't understand something as basic as spectroscopic evidence, you are in no position to make claims about the veracity of real research.
"Polarized current?" I simply can't stop laughing.
And you're burning biodiesel in it, right?
Try pressing Ctrl-V followed by backspace. Ctrl-V is a control escape which disables the special handling of whatever key follows it. Works for newline too. I don't know if it will work for ssh's prompt, but you could try.
It will be useless and only aggravate the life of the consumer
How will it aggravate my life? I buy a DVD, they make the chip transparent, I go home. My disk works, and will work forever. How is this any different than removing an anti-theft device from a leather jacket before I walk out the door with my purpose? Aggravation my ass.
"Go someplace else" rarely works against harassment, whether online or in real life. That's why it's called "harassment."
I'm fairly certain that getting up and walking into another room is a very effective tool against online harassment.
Again, these are real human beings (otherwise nobody would be online) performing real antisocial behaviors with the sole intent of causing the other person harm.
What harm? It's as much harm as watching a gruesome movie. If you don't want that particular emotional experience, turn the fucking television off. Or get up from the computer.
An experiment with one control and one variation? Impressive. Remind me how you do a T-test for sample size 1?
"It's a very clever approach," says Philippe Fauchet, an applied physicist at the University of Rochester in New York State. "I did not expect it at all, which is always a nice surprise."
An applied physicist "didn't expect" that an electric field would move the free electrons out of the way?
Since what we're talking about is somebody actually imposing their will on their intended victim (regardless of the venue), this isn't a "thought crime," this is "sexual assault" (though perhaps not "rape" per se).
No. This is a blob of pixels moving a certain way on a display device. A person who so identifies with an imaginary character that assaults against that CHARACTER cause them emotional harm is a person in need of immediate psychological help.
If your enjoyment of this GAME is disrupted by the characters of other players committing certain acts against other players, in other words, certain blobs of pixels appearing to "do" things to certain other blobs of pixels, you can either go somewhere these characters are not present, or, if their behavior is a violation of game policy, have them removed from the game.
The failure to distinguish between fantasy and reality is known as PSYCHOSIS.
The world doesn't owe you a particular feature - if you want it, write it. If you can't/won't write it, then pay someone to write it for you. If you are not prepared to do that, then quit bitching and uninstall it.
Who writes the features is not the point. You can not seriously claim to be a full-featured chat client while you have huge holes in your feature set. Yes, it's an open source product, and nobody is obligated to contribute to it. It's still arrogant to tout a product as a major competitor to other products when it CLEARLY ISN'T.A common generally accepted use of goto that happens to be functionally equivalent to switch?
You can debate its "goodness" if you like, but you can't debate the fact that it is widely used. I think it is obfuscatory to invent some "deinitialization state" variable to switch on, and then fall into a series of fall-through case statements (which some people might call obscure in and of themselves). And besides, how are you going to get out of the initialization code and over to the switch? You could wrap things in tens of confusing conditions, inventing failure variables left and right just in order to avoid goto, or you could just... goto it. There is nothing inherently unclear about jumping into a chain of deinitializers.
There code of conduct talks about an agreement signed by the students. If they violate this agreement they should be punished.
Yeah, right. You can't attend school if you don't sign it. "Okay, then don't sign it." Then you can't attend school. But wait. Attending school is legally mandated. So refusing to sign the agreement means you are breaking the law. Which means it is not an agreement, it is an ultimatum.