Was the criminal intrested in my rights of freedom when he robbed me at gunpoint? Invaded my privacy when he broke into my house? Tortured through rape? No? Then I don't care about him.
I particularly hate the way that criminal pissed all over my rights when he lit a joint.
Here's another story. Liutprand, the Bishop of Cremona, writing to the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, who sent him to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission in 968AD:
To add to our calamity the Greek wine, on account of being mixed with pitch, resin, and plaster was to us undrinkable
Retsina? Anyway, Liutprand is a wonderful writer; he whinges and moans about everything.
Sometimes you have to pinch the cable tightly at one end and move your grip down the length of the cable to the other end to make sure you squeeze all of the data out of it.
IS IT JUST ME OR IS IT GETTING HOT IN HERE?
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Hi Tom. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that the 747 won't be completely full of water. I know what you're thinking -- that's crazy talk! But I have this funny feeling that just won't go away: maybe the people who think of this stuff have better things to do than make up stupid shit that doesn't work.
I'm just guessing, of course. It's quite possible that the plan involves filling a 747 up with water and watch it sit on the tarmac. That could also be fun.
Well, if you'd RTFA, you'd have found out that what they're describing has nothing in common with Choose Your Own Adventure books, except perhaps that both can be implemented on a computer.
I swear, every day Slashdot gets more and more like a bunch wanna-bes sitting in a circle watching somebody else do all the work, saying "that sucks" every five minutes.
(DEN does, in fact, suck. But at least I read the article to find out why)
If the government were to decided the standards, we'd all be writing programs in Ada.
My god, software would be delivered on time with less defects! Programmers would be more productive, because of the hours of debugging time saved, and because of the high-level expressiveness of the language, and the richness of the type system. Buffer overflows would be a thing of the past.
I can't bear to even think about it.
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We are playing with made up numbers, but it's fun. Personally, I think that the difference -- not counting P.R. and overall wow factor -- is very small if you have a robot with very high resolution imaging, and the ability to send rocks home.
Obviously, were somebody to tap me on the shoulder and say, "Blancolioni, we'd like you to go to Mars" I'd be there like a shot.
Or like a rocket. But you get the idea.
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If a human can send back 100 megabytes of scientific data as opposed to 10 from a robot, send the human.
Of course, sending twenty robots returns twice as much data as a human, and is still cheaper.
We use pair programming to a some degree in the small custom-development shop I'm part of, typically when we come up on a tough problem.
So whar you're saying is that when you come up against a tough problem, you talk it over with a colleague? Go through the code together, maybe discuss an implementation that fixes it?
I think that the problem with XP is that they take practices that everybody does anyway, give them fancy names, and insist that you do it all the time.
Gosh, Danny, I remember years ago popping into alt.fan.eddings for a laugh (honest) (I was really bored). I realised I'd struck gold when I came across a thread that was all about rounding up a posse to go beat you up for writing that review.
I'd personally rather see a DragonLance miniseries.
What a bizarre non-sequitur.
Earthsea is widely regarded as a classic, and not just within the genre. Dragonlance is somebody's D&D campaign written up with pedestrian prose, shallow characterisation and a corny plot.
Though I admit Ged doesn't roll nearly as many natural 20s as whoever those PCs were.
The thing about compulsory voting is that I am really split over it. I know it is my democratic right not to vote, yet I also know that making people vote gives you a much better outcome as everyone is represented.
Remember that you don't have to vote, you just have to turn up. The nice thing about compulsory voting is that if you want to exercise your democratic right not to vote, you have to make an effort. Which is as it should be.
I'm pathetically nice even to virtual people. I tried, I really tried to play Baldur's Gate evil, but I felt so bad about all the people I told to piss off instead of helping.
It's a serious character flaw. Perhaps I should get therapy.
It would be very useful if the police forces had well-publicised points of contact for reporting computer and internet crime.
Indeed. This morning, I received four copies of an "Update your paypal account" credit card number stealing scam email, and while it wasn't difficult to trace the people doing the collection (the ip address is 210.78.22.113, it's running Redhat 6.2 with a 2.2.17 kernel by the way), it's located in Shanghai and I have no idea how to take this further.
Even crashing their box would be satisfying, but alas I lack those skills.
Well, the name of the newly-born Dutch princess is being announced in about seven minutes, and the news stream can't handle the load, so multicasting would work really, really well in this situation.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I live in Utrecht, but Slashdot is mostly Americans, so what can I say?
It could be argued that sentencing is in general too lenient here, but I really don't see crime going up particularly.
Didn't Sisko say this in DS9?
Well, Virgil said it in 10BC, but he probably stole it from Sisko.
Was the criminal intrested in my rights of freedom when he robbed me at gunpoint? Invaded my privacy when he broke into my house? Tortured through rape? No? Then I don't care about him.
I particularly hate the way that criminal pissed all over my rights when he lit a joint.
Here's another story. Liutprand, the Bishop of Cremona, writing to the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, who sent him to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission in 968AD:
...
To add to our calamity the Greek wine, on account of being mixed with pitch, resin, and plaster was to us undrinkable
Retsina? Anyway, Liutprand is a wonderful writer; he whinges and moans about everything.
Reminds me of a certain website
Sometimes you have to pinch the cable tightly at one end and move your grip down the length of the cable to the other end to make sure you squeeze all of the data out of it.
IS IT JUST ME OR IS IT GETTING HOT IN HERE?
I'm a vegetarian and a cyclist.
You may kneel.
Hi Tom. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that the 747 won't be completely full of water. I know what you're thinking -- that's crazy talk! But I have this funny feeling that just won't go away: maybe the people who think of this stuff have better things to do than make up stupid shit that doesn't work.
I'm just guessing, of course. It's quite possible that the plan involves filling a 747 up with water and watch it sit on the tarmac. That could also be fun.
Well, I suppose you're marginally better than doing all of the above and sniffing coke.
Actually, that would at least keep his weight down.
"However, the open source strategy is a triple-edge sword..."
Maybe he was thinking about this.
I knew watching crap movies would come in handy one day.
Well, it's a long article. I assume everybody is off reading it.
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Oh, hang on
Every hard drive I've ever bought has been larger than all my previous hard drives combined. And this is without even trying.
The storage problems I have these days are almost entirely organisational.
Han solo was the first to mention it:
Greedo mentioned it first.
Well, if you'd RTFA, you'd have found out that what they're describing has nothing in common with Choose Your Own Adventure books, except perhaps that both can be implemented on a computer.
I swear, every day Slashdot gets more and more like a bunch wanna-bes sitting in a circle watching somebody else do all the work, saying "that sucks" every five minutes.
(DEN does, in fact, suck. But at least I read the article to find out why)
If the government were to decided the standards, we'd all be writing programs in Ada.
My god, software would be delivered on time with less defects! Programmers would be more productive, because of the hours of debugging time saved, and because of the high-level expressiveness of the language, and the richness of the type system. Buffer overflows would be a thing of the past.
I can't bear to even think about it.
We are playing with made up numbers, but it's fun. Personally, I think that the difference -- not counting P.R. and overall wow factor -- is very small if you have a robot with very high resolution imaging, and the ability to send rocks home.
Obviously, were somebody to tap me on the shoulder and say, "Blancolioni, we'd like you to go to Mars" I'd be there like a shot.
Or like a rocket. But you get the idea.
If a human can send back 100 megabytes of scientific data as opposed to 10 from a robot, send the human.
Of course, sending twenty robots returns twice as much data as a human, and is still cheaper.
We use pair programming to a some degree in the small custom-development shop I'm part of, typically when we come up on a tough problem.
So whar you're saying is that when you come up against a tough problem, you talk it over with a colleague? Go through the code together, maybe discuss an implementation that fixes it?
I think that the problem with XP is that they take practices that everybody does anyway, give them fancy names, and insist that you do it all the time.
Gosh, Danny, I remember years ago popping into alt.fan.eddings for a laugh (honest) (I was really bored). I realised I'd struck gold when I came across a thread that was all about rounding up a posse to go beat you up for writing that review.
It's a classic.
I'd personally rather see a DragonLance miniseries.
What a bizarre non-sequitur.
Earthsea is widely regarded as a classic, and not just within the genre. Dragonlance is somebody's D&D campaign written up with pedestrian prose, shallow characterisation and a corny plot.
Though I admit Ged doesn't roll nearly as many natural 20s as whoever those PCs were.
The thing about compulsory voting is that I am really split over it. I know it is my democratic right not to vote, yet I also know that making people vote gives you a much better outcome as everyone is represented.
Remember that you don't have to vote, you just have to turn up. The nice thing about compulsory voting is that if you want to exercise your democratic right not to vote, you have to make an effort. Which is as it should be.
I'm pathetically nice even to virtual people. I tried, I really tried to play Baldur's Gate evil, but I felt so bad about all the people I told to piss off instead of helping.
It's a serious character flaw. Perhaps I should get therapy.
It would be very useful if the police forces had well-publicised points of contact for reporting computer and internet crime.
Indeed. This morning, I received four copies of an "Update your paypal account" credit card number stealing scam email, and while it wasn't difficult to trace the people doing the collection (the ip address is 210.78.22.113, it's running Redhat 6.2 with a 2.2.17 kernel by the way), it's located in Shanghai and I have no idea how to take this further.
Even crashing their box would be satisfying, but alas I lack those skills.
Ada
Well, the name of the newly-born Dutch princess is being announced in about seven minutes, and the news stream can't handle the load, so multicasting would work really, really well in this situation.
Other than that, fair point.
Is paranoia about Indonesia getting a bit passe these days?