Its illegal for banks etc to require it yet they ask for it on a daily basis. What you discuss is interesting, but it won't stop the Feds from creating a police state around irrefutable data identification. The DNA police state is coming...because people have been cowed into a paranoid fear since 9/11 even though at this point their own govt may be more of a threat to their liberty than some Mullah or other nutjob.
It will be trivial for lawmakers and judges to route this around the 5th. They will likely start by saying that DNA alone is simply a "fact" and not a statement of action, therefore you are not incriminating yourself until you act. I am not in favor of this but if you think the Constitution will stop this, you're wrong.
The Supremes have become a mirror of the cultural tolerance of the nation...which of course is choosing security over freedom. Lawmakers will simply craft something that will be palatable enough to the Supreme Court and then the law will be in deed as well as fact.
The DNA of innocent people will almost certainly end up in the same database as the felons...maybe with a flag that this individual has not YET been charged with a crime...but being in the database itself will be something of a "lite" suspicious attribute.
We are moving towards a police state, and society has overwhelmingly chosen "safety" over privacy, liberty, and freedom. It is only a matter of time before the govt requires all residents and citizens to be in such databases.
Re:MENSA is not THAT smart..
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...and the top ten percent know they are smart, they don't need to join a support group to have other people tell them that.
Mensa is not really a society of smart people, it is a society of insecure people...who happened to pass a puzzle test.
The ultimate collection of smart losers, getting together to form a support group based loosely on the notion that although they have had sand kicked repeatedly in their faces, they will one day rule the earth because they can solve a word puzzle faster than their boss at work.
No, they will continue to be smart losers and nothing more, which is why you will rarely find Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, or generally succesful people skulking in their midst.
I would disagree with this advice, I don't think you can fully appreciate a pocket of empty time until you have worked your ass off or been really busy trying to accomplish something (work, family, charity, etc) for a long time, which excludes high school students.
I had a couple of those summers off and blew them because I had no concept of the value of having literally months to do whatever I wanted.
I think you're imposing the worldview of a wants-to-retire work-a-day guy (I'm one of them too) person onto a full-of-energy-but-fundamentally-dumb high school student
Why not exactly? If the default browser is good enough, why install a secondary browser?
Because 10% of the userbase has already installed it and people tend not to uninstall software. Because many people will always hate Microsoft and a new version of IE is not going to change that. Because not everyone uses Windows.
By the way IE will never eature a useful ad blocker because Microsoft does not want to offend MSN advertisers.
Don't get me wrong, I am not claiming that Firefox is going to "take over", simply that those people who use it now are likely to continue.
every version of IE in the past has changed how we code our pages and stylesheets, and you predict IE7, which was just announced to not have full support for CSS2, to somehow be different?
Because 99% of the webpages out there already severely limit the use of most DHTML features due to browser constraints. The exceptions (google maps etc) are well known. So 99% of the pages will contine to be lowest-common-denominator, nothing changes there.
People will use IE7 because windows update will automatically put it in place of IE6 one day. It will fix some bugs and create others. It will not change how web developers create sites, it will not derail Firefox, it will not make people salivate for Longhorn.
Google is great, but Google is not above the law of physics. People - just average users - have 20 or 30 or 40 or 80 gb of data on their PCs.
No, you are confusing people having 80GB hard drives with people having 80GB of data. How many average users have 20GB of data? 40GB? 80GB? I grant you the revolution in digital audio has created more data, but even then, how many CDs does the average person own and want to encode?
Why? Did browser detection stop working?
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Detect the user agent, and code as much browser-specific stuff as you want. Why again can't I engage a browser's advanced standards features?
But they've been rich for a decade...
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...and still the crap comes out. By the way, what makes you think rich companies can produce quality better than poor ones? Google was poor when it changed the search landscape. Kia was (relatively) poor when it started producing better quality (lower defect rate) cares than Mercedes...
Now that the Moz suite is apparent non-official, how will new code be tested? Will there be some sort of "beta" Firefox release for testing? Or a new very minimal piece of code that is a testbed yet not useful to consumers?
This is just a veiled "which distro is best" post (most of what poster asks is at application level, not distro level), this entire discussion will be a flamefest.
First of all, threading has always been a great way for programmers to get in over their heads, create very tough bugs, and generally waste development time.
But thats outside the point - in the new world of very many cheap rackmount servers clustered together, loose coupling has taken over. Maybe if the world had turned out differently and was dominated by big servers, threading would have caught on.
Users who have touched this software generally tend to hate it. The "groovespaces" that are used to exchange data don't cooperate with anything else, and are very annoying to manage. Really in a web-enabled environment where people have IM and collaborative editing (wiki), this product serves no purpose whatsoever. If MS did not buy them they would be dead in three years.
Come on, you'd be in the same boat if you were inheriting someone's lisp or java or whatever. Ineriting code sucks! Everyone knows this. This is why good coders demand "new code" positions when they interview.
your articles over the years have really improved my perl coding, and there are many code samples you provided that made it practically verbatim into production code where i work.
This is the only book I recommend along with Programming Perl. There really is a lot of great stuff in there, and the book is short enough that you will actually read it. The Schwartzian Transform has appeared in my code many times and it wouldn't had I not read this book.
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Its illegal for banks etc to require it yet they ask for it on a daily basis. What you discuss is interesting, but it won't stop the Feds from creating a police state around irrefutable data identification. The DNA police state is coming...because people have been cowed into a paranoid fear since 9/11 even though at this point their own govt may be more of a threat to their liberty than some Mullah or other nutjob.
It will be trivial for lawmakers and judges to route this around the 5th. They will likely start by saying that DNA alone is simply a "fact" and not a statement of action, therefore you are not incriminating yourself until you act. I am not in favor of this but if you think the Constitution will stop this, you're wrong.
The Supremes have become a mirror of the cultural tolerance of the nation...which of course is choosing security over freedom. Lawmakers will simply craft something that will be palatable enough to the Supreme Court and then the law will be in deed as well as fact.
Ubuntu linux worked flawlessly "out of the box" for me, distros are getting better.
We are moving towards a police state, and society has overwhelmingly chosen "safety" over privacy, liberty, and freedom. It is only a matter of time before the govt requires all residents and citizens to be in such databases.
Mensa is not really a society of smart people, it is a society of insecure people...who happened to pass a puzzle test.
No, they will continue to be smart losers and nothing more, which is why you will rarely find Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, or generally succesful people skulking in their midst.
I had a couple of those summers off and blew them because I had no concept of the value of having literally months to do whatever I wanted.
I think you're imposing the worldview of a wants-to-retire work-a-day guy (I'm one of them too) person onto a full-of-energy-but-fundamentally-dumb high school student
Because 10% of the userbase has already installed it and people tend not to uninstall software. Because many people will always hate Microsoft and a new version of IE is not going to change that. Because not everyone uses Windows.
By the way IE will never eature a useful ad blocker because Microsoft does not want to offend MSN advertisers.
Don't get me wrong, I am not claiming that Firefox is going to "take over", simply that those people who use it now are likely to continue.
Because 99% of the webpages out there already severely limit the use of most DHTML features due to browser constraints. The exceptions (google maps etc) are well known. So 99% of the pages will contine to be lowest-common-denominator, nothing changes there.
People will use IE7 because windows update will automatically put it in place of IE6 one day. It will fix some bugs and create others. It will not change how web developers create sites, it will not derail Firefox, it will not make people salivate for Longhorn.
No, you are confusing people having 80GB hard drives with people having 80GB of data. How many average users have 20GB of data? 40GB? 80GB? I grant you the revolution in digital audio has created more data, but even then, how many CDs does the average person own and want to encode?
Detect the user agent, and code as much browser-specific stuff as you want. Why again can't I engage a browser's advanced standards features?
...and still the crap comes out. By the way, what makes you think rich companies can produce quality better than poor ones? Google was poor when it changed the search landscape. Kia was (relatively) poor when it started producing better quality (lower defect rate) cares than Mercedes...
Now that the Moz suite is apparent non-official, how will new code be tested? Will there be some sort of "beta" Firefox release for testing? Or a new very minimal piece of code that is a testbed yet not useful to consumers?
I thought not.
This is just a veiled "which distro is best" post (most of what poster asks is at application level, not distro level), this entire discussion will be a flamefest.
But thats outside the point - in the new world of very many cheap rackmount servers clustered together, loose coupling has taken over. Maybe if the world had turned out differently and was dominated by big servers, threading would have caught on.
Not long, I figure, even for the CEO of the company.
Afghanistan has held elections with US aid (hence by definition we are no longer at war with them).
The US is not at war, I don't know why intelligent people continue to say this.
Users who have touched this software generally tend to hate it. The "groovespaces" that are used to exchange data don't cooperate with anything else, and are very annoying to manage. Really in a web-enabled environment where people have IM and collaborative editing (wiki), this product serves no purpose whatsoever. If MS did not buy them they would be dead in three years.
Come on, you'd be in the same boat if you were inheriting someone's lisp or java or whatever. Ineriting code sucks! Everyone knows this. This is why good coders demand "new code" positions when they interview.
your articles over the years have really improved my perl coding, and there are many code samples you provided that made it practically verbatim into production code where i work.
This is the only book I recommend along with Programming Perl. There really is a lot of great stuff in there, and the book is short enough that you will actually read it. The Schwartzian Transform has appeared in my code many times and it wouldn't had I not read this book.
you got owned, just deal with it.