Why should you get a ride simply because you are rich?
Why should you get X because you have money to pay for X? Because supply of X is limited, while number of your friends who want X is linfinite, and that is why we invented money! If you don't like that, you can go to Soviet Russia, where all prices are fixed and everything is rationed. Only Communist Party members can "get a ride". Not because they are rich but because they have a moral high ground over you. Oh wait, you cannot go to Soviet Russia because it failed? I do believe Cuba and North Korea are still intact. And you you happen to be posting this from either, congrats on having access to internet!
Manning did not sell hardware, he released a video of mass execution of civilians from a helicopter by someone who sounded like a teenager... among other fascinating stuff
This is THE BEST STRATEGY for "keeping foreign powers from getting to the many greedy and gullible people", because now every time the "foreign powers" make their move, the gullible will think twice before selling out.
bait someone into hiring a hit man to kill their wife
While I agree that safeguarding national secrets is not entrapment, your example is. If you are really good at convincing and the person you are stalking is of low intellect/poor mental health -- you will always find some poor shlobs to agree to that -- a crime they would otherwise never commit. That IS entrapment....not to mention that some wives had it coming.
Both Snowden and Manning disclosed internal affairs of serious government institutions. In both cases the information was secret and in both cases affairs had been unethical. I fail to see why your personal preference so so skewed.
We had the same problem before web for millenia. We did fine. 99% of low grade websites that would dissapear due to lack of ad sales should not have existed in the first place. Anything of value will find means to stay afloat.
The whole point is to serve ads... think television...
Do not want. Neither television nor web becoming like television.
unless you are willing to pay for content directly.
Find a way to monetise it, post it free, or charge for it. No awesome works of art will be lost if some "content" posters quit to do something useful instead.
I would hold very little faith in tales told by military brass at a boot camp. They are too far and remote from actual military decision makers, and impossibly far from military historians. Being a boot camp they are also not very accountable for the shit they make up. Try to pull your head from your arse from time to time.
It will take more effort to squelch consumption than screwing free market: Once upon a time a Russian Tzar passed a law of selling vodka exclusiely in large bottles to prevent people getting drunk and passing out on the street. This gave birth to a tradition of buying a bottle for a group of three and passing out collectively. This tradition is still alive today.
Platform lock-in is the strangest feature of some languages that purposely defeat all the progress we made since Assembler. This is why I will never C#
All of lower Manhattan (south of 34th St) could not flush toilet for two weeks after an explosion at local power station (due to hurricane Sandy). Where have you been with your "large diesel generators"?
A friend of mine, a physics major, is using Python to do his finance math (he secretly prefers Matlab) -- managed to write same exact code in Python, since chaining statements with;'s is still allowed. All variable names are exactly one letter long, no spaces -- a wall of text margin to margin with no blank lines. His code will be dumpstered the moment he is not available to maintain it.
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My senior colleague also does not get it. The thing is, with C-syntax you need braces + indentation. So python halves your work out of the box. In C when indentation and braces are mismatched you read the code one way, but the computer interprets it differently. In Python: fixed.
Everything is relative. I admit that Perl is heaven compared to C or MASM. It is possible to write millions of lines of code in Perl. It is, however, a nightmare compared to Python: just the appearance of Perl code is an eyesore.
I see windows boxes at relatives houses and they are all infested with viruses and botnets, their browsers hijacked, mostly not from viruses but from "free" stuff they installed from the internet. By contrast, all the linux machines are pristine. Even two computers in the same household - one Linux and the other one Windows - there is no comparison.
You can downmod me all you want and tell stories how you managed to secure a Windows machine with your ninja IT skills, the average household's computer is like the "house" from TFA.
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Why should you get a ride simply because you are rich?
Why should you get X because you have money to pay for X? Because supply of X is limited, while number of your friends who want X is linfinite, and that is why we invented money! If you don't like that, you can go to Soviet Russia, where all prices are fixed and everything is rationed. Only Communist Party members can "get a ride". Not because they are rich but because they have a moral high ground over you. Oh wait, you cannot go to Soviet Russia because it failed? I do believe Cuba and North Korea are still intact. And you you happen to be posting this from either, congrats on having access to internet!
Manning did not sell hardware, he released a video of mass execution of civilians from a helicopter by someone who sounded like a teenager... among other fascinating stuff
This is THE BEST STRATEGY for "keeping foreign powers from getting to the many greedy and gullible people", because now every time the "foreign powers" make their move, the gullible will think twice before selling out.
Not to mention China probably already has all the plans through some simple hacking of DOD Windows networks.
bait someone into hiring a hit man to kill their wife
While I agree that safeguarding national secrets is not entrapment, your example is. If you are really good at convincing and the person you are stalking is of low intellect/poor mental health -- you will always find some poor shlobs to agree to that -- a crime they would otherwise never commit. That IS entrapment. ...not to mention that some wives had it coming.
Both Snowden and Manning disclosed internal affairs of serious government institutions. In both cases the information was secret and in both cases affairs had been unethical. I fail to see why your personal preference so so skewed.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/financial-review/balance-sheets/index.html
Based on this discussion I gather that the optimal solution is to send midget women without legs.
there would be a serious web monetization problem
We had the same problem before web for millenia. We did fine. 99% of low grade websites that would dissapear due to lack of ad sales should not have existed in the first place. Anything of value will find means to stay afloat.
The whole point is to serve ads ... think television ...
Do not want. Neither television nor web becoming like television.
unless you are willing to pay for content directly.
Find a way to monetise it, post it free, or charge for it. No awesome works of art will be lost if some "content" posters quit to do something useful instead.
- No annoying pop-ups that normally plague Windows.
- No trojans and self-installing crap to speak of
- Adblock? (or his stricter brother Noscript)
- I still grant admin access because there are some cases where a simple command needs to be run
- Remote SSH admin access can be routed through any unblocked port
I would hold very little faith in tales told by military brass at a boot camp. They are too far and remote from actual military decision makers, and impossibly far from military historians. Being a boot camp they are also not very accountable for the shit they make up. Try to pull your head from your arse from time to time.
It will take more effort to squelch consumption than screwing free market: Once upon a time a Russian Tzar passed a law of selling vodka exclusiely in large bottles to prevent people getting drunk and passing out on the street. This gave birth to a tradition of buying a bottle for a group of three and passing out collectively. This tradition is still alive today.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Platform lock-in is the strangest feature of some languages that purposely defeat all the progress we made since Assembler. This is why I will never C#
All of lower Manhattan (south of 34th St) could not flush toilet for two weeks after an explosion at local power station (due to hurricane Sandy). Where have you been with your "large diesel generators"?
Judging by the map it is mostly Iraq and some Syria so far. Thanks, Bush Jr!
I have to manually adjust indentation because the editor can't figure it out
Try using a Python editor? I don't want to start the next "emacs vs vi" round, but seriously...
...and my editor will correct the formatting. For python, I would also have to manually...
Just like a C editor "corrects the formatting" for C, a Python editor "corrects the formatting" for Python.
A friend of mine, a physics major, is using Python to do his finance math (he secretly prefers Matlab) -- managed to write same exact code in Python, since chaining statements with ;'s is still allowed. All variable names are exactly one letter long, no spaces -- a wall of text margin to margin with no blank lines. His code will be dumpstered the moment he is not available to maintain it.
My senior colleague also does not get it. The thing is, with C-syntax you need braces + indentation. So python halves your work out of the box. In C when indentation and braces are mismatched you read the code one way, but the computer interprets it differently. In Python: fixed.
What? US has middle class? ...not really
Everything is relative. I admit that Perl is heaven compared to C or MASM. It is possible to write millions of lines of code in Perl. It is, however, a nightmare compared to Python: just the appearance of Perl code is an eyesore.
I see windows boxes at relatives houses and they are all infested with viruses and botnets, their browsers hijacked, mostly not from viruses but from "free" stuff they installed from the internet. By contrast, all the linux machines are pristine. Even two computers in the same household - one Linux and the other one Windows - there is no comparison.
You can downmod me all you want and tell stories how you managed to secure a Windows machine with your ninja IT skills, the average household's computer is like the "house" from TFA.
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