Abortion: Spot on, man. Making abortion illegal has the direct result of teenagers in bathtubs with coathangers, which are far more of a burden on our health care system. Besides, there's supposed to be separation of church and state, and anti-abortion is a religious stance in most cases.
Taxes: Please read up on the FairTax initiative. My favorite part is that it taxes consumption rather than earnings, so those who reuse/recycle/buy used goods/consume less will end up paying less taxes.
Death Penalty: Abolish it. If even 0.001% of the criminals executed are innocent, it's too many. And statisticsshow that it costs less to keep a criminal in jail for the rest of their life, than it costs to execute them. From both a compassionate and fiscal stance, eliminating the death penalty makes sense.
Gun Control: This is a tough one. Why should someone be denied the ability (right?) to defend themselves and their family simply because of a mistake they made in their past? And requiring a license makes it easy to "round up the guns" which the Nazis did in taking over power. A disarmed populace is an easily controlled populace. The 2nd Amendment is important; however, there needs to be a balance because otherwise violence may get out of hand. Long story short I think I'd leave it the way it currently is, or perhaps put less restrictions on it.
Space Program: Another post had a quote from Jerry Pournelle with a great plan: the government would give a tax-free reward to the first American company to cross a specific finish line. Here's a link to that post.
Prayer in School: Your later response is correct: prayer should not be mandatory, led by school officials, or otherwise forced on students; and also, students should not be prevented from praying (as long as they don't do it out loud).
Education: Web cams in classrooms will go a long way toward bettering the teachers; if the teachers are graded by the students then teachers might "dumb down" their classes so the students like them better. But having the parents grade the teachers makes sense -- the parents can watch the teachers in action through the webcams, and can also judge how well their child is learning by asking their child questions. Funding should be increased, and by funding I mean teachers salaries should be doubled (or so). Give financial incentives to enter a teaching profession and we'll get better teachers. So we can finally do away with the old saying, "Those who can't do, teach. (And those who can't teach, teach gym.)"
War in Iraq: I'd like to say get out now, stop wasting money. We've spent $75 billion, and Bush is now asking for $87 billion more. Iraq oil could generate $12 billion next year and $20 billion/year for the next two years (can't find the article, I read it last week). Given this, we would need to appropriate 100% of Iraq's oil revenues for ourselves for 7-10 years in order to "pay for" our military action. I don't think we're going to see that money, which is why I recommend getting out fast and letting the UN clean it up.
War on Drugs: Pot should be legal, agreed -- then we'd spend far less money enforcing laws that a majority don't want in the first place; and we'd also enjoy increased tax revenue. Treat it just like alcohol: enjoy your body and mind on your own time, but if you're in
If you are able to provide documentation to support your complaint, please attach the file in either Word (.doc) or WordPerfect (.wpd) format below.
That just seems sad.
Not really -- Word has the greatest overall market share, and WordPerfect has the greatest market share among lawyers. Makes sense. (Of course,.txt format is more portable, but lacks bold and italics...)
How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
Back in the day (mid-90s) there was no animated internet porn; we had to make do with still images. I worked at a software company and we were developing a compression technique for sending images from a server to a client.
To make sure that the images came across correctly, we tested it with what we termed the "nipple pallette."
Many others have replied to you, so I'll be brief: we need to constantly improve technology, making bigger-and-better systems, so that we will reach the singularity as fast as possible.
Why? Because 50 million people will die this year. They don't have to die; once we reach the singularity our computers will be able to solve problems faster than our humans (and the rate of problem-solving will increase, as those machines build stronger and faster successors), eliminating old age and disease and the need to work for a living.
Yes, a faster game may not seem like it's on the path to world salvation, but it's a necessary part of it.
The overall economic damage in August from overt and covert attacks as well as viruses and worms stood at an all-time high of $28.2-billion, about as much as Cmdr Taco makes per year as a male prostitute.
Moderators, please read the comments before giving them points. ( know, I know...;-)
And from the article:
"Microsoft deserves credit for having reduced the proportion of successful on-line hacker attacks perpetrated against Windows servers."
Microsoft actually deserves credit for producing such shoddy software that a cottage industry in anti-virus and firewall software for Windows systems has grown. See, they're helping the economy! </sarcasm>
I had a neat coincidence just now: I was reading the/. home page headlines, and when I got to the headline for this article, I noticed the system tray had moved slightly. Looking down I saw that the Windows flag icon had appeared, letting me know there was a new update.
You might want to check out OpenMind Speech -- they are working on a GPLed speech recognition package.
The OpenMind project is also fascinating -- they plan to teach computers "common sense" items, to build up a human-type intelligence based on the inputs from thousands of Internet users. Obviously some people will put bogus data in, but they have verification steps as well to weed that out.
I haven't tried their speech project so I can't say whether or how well it works, but it's a step in the right direction at the very least.
If I can help my country build a more effective defense such that an attack on our country is less probable or, if there is a need for war, that fewer of my fellow citizens (our soliders) are killed in combat
I saw a study recently which stated your odds of dying if you were in one of the major wars of the 20th century. WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, etc. were all hovering around 1 in 15 (some were 1 in 10, others 1 in 13, but in most wars, out of you and 14 others, one of you was going to die).
In the 1990s Iraq war, the US casualty rate was 1 in 15,000. A marked improvement, and one that was solely due to our advanced technology.
I haven't seen statistics for the current war, but given that over 150 have died since the end of the war and that's more than died during the war, we can say 300 out of ~ 250,000 have died. That gives you a 0.12% chance of dying, which is more than the first Iraq war -- this is 1 in 833. (And gives me pause; perhaps the article I read had its statistics off some, since I would imagine there was less loss of US lives in the 2003 war.)
As far as global warming goes, bring it on! We're overdue for an ice age so we need to fight it as much as we possibly can. See Larry Niven's "Fallen Angels".
Great idea! However there's a bug in your example. The first two lines of the example are (btw, the courier-formatting is done with the construct):
malloc(mp, size) struct map *mp;
The first two lines of your processed version are:
malloc(a,b) struct a *b;
However, there are three separate "entities" which you've reduced to two. It should read:
malloc(a,b) struct c *b;
You also reuse "a" since the original code had "register int a;" which you didn't change to "register int d;" and other errors cascading like this.
I like what one response said, which is that all variables and constants should be named the exact same thing. This would of course no longer compile, but it would eliminate variable-name issues. Of course, it also might find more false positives than another method, which wouldn't necessarily be bad as it might point to areas in which code was copied then obfuscated (but it would probably just create more work for the human(s) doing the double-checking).
I think this is a neat type of problem to solve. Years ago I wrote a utility to produce HTML-output from a Perl script; it first listed all subroutines in the order they appear (each sub is clickable, and goes to the place in the script that the sub is defined); then in alphabetical order; then it lists the entire script. It was very useful for helping to figure out someone else's code. I would imagine it could easily be modified to work with C, Java, or other languages.
I saw this done recently, and was able to do it in a/. post after View/Source-ing the post that did it. Let's see if I can find it...
Yep, there it is. It uses the same 'title="xxx"' format, but just inside a "A HREF" link. So, for instance, the acronym could link to the acronym site and also have the popup explaining it, to view quicker. (I also like boldfacing my links, it helps them stand out better.)
"It apparently has PVR capabilities as well as..."
Well, in testing all I'm getting for the "title" is "acronymfinder.com" so I guess/. strips it and puts their own title in. So it doesn't work as I had thought; please let the/. coders know that we'd like this feature. At any rate, code for the above is:
"It apparently has <b><a href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?St ring=exact&Acronym=pvr&Find=Find" title="Personal Video Recorder">PVR</a></b> capabilities as well as..."
Please elaborate. Also, if you know details as to the resolution of that court case (which was decades ago?), I'd love to hear it. (I tried googling for it but couldn't find anything on it, other than verbatim copies of the same story.)
200,000 million?
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Is it that much harder to write 200 billion?
And reading the article, we see that it's actually just 200 million.
What's weird is that there are no comments on that article. It says they've been archived and no new comments can be posted, but even at "-1" there were 0 comments.
I think it's okay to teach my kids to share. And I also think it's okay to teach my kids that unjust laws should be broken. The media cartels have given themselves way too much power by extending copyright, effectively breaking it as far as the Constitution intended. We the people have every right to take back the rights and freedoms which were once ours; if the corporations don't respect our rights, then we can ignore theirs as well. (Nothing after 1930-something will ever hit the public domain!)
As I replied to the other person who focused on my movie of choice instead of my message, please replace "Matrix Reloaded" with "Finding Nemo". You'll get the same search results in Kazaa, so my point stands: good parenting is essential and cannot be fobbed off on government.
The world is more screwed up because of lobbyists than because of individuals sharing files.
in other news, KaZaA users are searching for KaZaA Lite using KaZaA itself, installing it, and getting rid of KaZaA for good!
When I installed Kazaa Lite, it automatically copied the installer into My Shared Folder.
I think that's great, a sort of viral marketing.;-)
As to the AC replying to you, I tried a search of "kazaa lite" and I got many, many results. The top two had 107 and 108 people sharing them, took about 2 minutes to download (via DSL; one came at 35Kb/s, other at 13Kb/s), and were the latest version in English (well, one was 2.4.1, other was 2.4.2 -- more people were sharing the latter).
They also had the following languages (although shared by fewer people, in some cases one): German, French, "Netherlands" (Dutch?), Norwegian, "Brazil" (Portuguese I presume), Swedish, German, Czech, Spanish, and Italian. And I only let the search run for about a minute.
However, I'm not sure whether Kazaa Lite will actually clean up the damage done by Kazaa -- you may need Ad-Aware or similar software to remove the spyware.
Re:Semantics, maybe, but...
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In the end, it seems like the smart choice would be for everybody to toss their hat in with x86-64 (which means Intel would have to, as well, and essentially concede defeat and lose face); it probably won't happen, though, because Intel is Intel.
Does this remind anyone else of the trick IBM tried to pull in creating the MCA specification? The industry moved on and created PCI, leaving MCA in the dust.
AMD appears to be doing the same thing to Intel now, and Intel's MCA is IA64. Intel wants to radically change things; however, the industry prefers evolution to revolution.
Has this guy even seen Kazaa? Doesn't he know you have to type in what you are looking for?
Well, I tried to get Matrix Reloaded when it first came out in theaters, and some people had renamed other movies to it (why, I'm not sure; perhaps to boost their "share rating" but they should have just gotten Kazaa Lite).
I downloaded 7 different movies before finding it at a BitTorrent site (most of the torrents are correct). I got I Spy, Almost Famous, Joy Ride, Saving Private Ryan among others -- and one of them was Swedish porn with money shots and everything: Lustgarden.
I don't have kids, but I wouldn't want my kids searching for Matrix Reloaded and getting porn instead. Yeah, it's not the kiddie porn that this idiot is blathering about, but the point is you've got to parent your children! You can't sit them in front of a box, any box, and ignore them. You need to work through issues with them, watch what they're doing, offer advice and corrections, and lock down the computer so they can't install software (if you want to shelter them).
They'll get to an age where they don't need sheltering, but until then it's the parents' responsibility to shelter them the way the parents see fit -- and it is most definitely not the government's responsibility.
1. Make Feynman your friend (so his posts are visible to you; or, just keep clicking on his user details to see all his posts).
2. Submit the parent post after every post Feynman makes.
3. Profit!!!
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I would like to help solidify your platform.
Al Gore: he's more than meets the eye...
It's funny, if you speak "apple corps" it sounds like "apple core." I wonder if they did that intentionally? ;-)
Not really -- Word has the greatest overall market share, and WordPerfect has the greatest market share among lawyers. Makes sense. (Of course, .txt format is more portable, but lacks bold and italics...)
Back in the day (mid-90s) there was no animated internet porn; we had to make do with still images. I worked at a software company and we were developing a compression technique for sending images from a server to a client.
To make sure that the images came across correctly, we tested it with what we termed the "nipple pallette."
Ah, the 90s...
Why? Because 50 million people will die this year. They don't have to die; once we reach the singularity our computers will be able to solve problems faster than our humans (and the rate of problem-solving will increase, as those machines build stronger and faster successors), eliminating old age and disease and the need to work for a living.
Yes, a faster game may not seem like it's on the path to world salvation, but it's a necessary part of it.
Fourth-from-last paragraph:
Moderators, please read the comments before giving them points. ( know, I know... ;-)
Microsoft actually deserves credit for producing such shoddy software that a cottage industry in anti-virus and firewall software for Windows systems has grown. See, they're helping the economy! </sarcasm>And from the article:
Turns out it was this one!
The OpenMind project is also fascinating -- they plan to teach computers "common sense" items, to build up a human-type intelligence based on the inputs from thousands of Internet users. Obviously some people will put bogus data in, but they have verification steps as well to weed that out.
I haven't tried their speech project so I can't say whether or how well it works, but it's a step in the right direction at the very least.
I saw a study recently which stated your odds of dying if you were in one of the major wars of the 20th century. WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, etc. were all hovering around 1 in 15 (some were 1 in 10, others 1 in 13, but in most wars, out of you and 14 others, one of you was going to die).
In the 1990s Iraq war, the US casualty rate was 1 in 15,000. A marked improvement, and one that was solely due to our advanced technology.
I haven't seen statistics for the current war, but given that over 150 have died since the end of the war and that's more than died during the war, we can say 300 out of ~ 250,000 have died. That gives you a 0.12% chance of dying, which is more than the first Iraq war -- this is 1 in 833. (And gives me pause; perhaps the article I read had its statistics off some, since I would imagine there was less loss of US lives in the 2003 war.)
As far as global warming goes, bring it on! We're overdue for an ice age so we need to fight it as much as we possibly can. See Larry Niven's "Fallen Angels".
I like what one response said, which is that all variables and constants should be named the exact same thing. This would of course no longer compile, but it would eliminate variable-name issues. Of course, it also might find more false positives than another method, which wouldn't necessarily be bad as it might point to areas in which code was copied then obfuscated (but it would probably just create more work for the human(s) doing the double-checking).
I think this is a neat type of problem to solve. Years ago I wrote a utility to produce HTML-output from a Perl script; it first listed all subroutines in the order they appear (each sub is clickable, and goes to the place in the script that the sub is defined); then in alphabetical order; then it lists the entire script. It was very useful for helping to figure out someone else's code. I would imagine it could easily be modified to work with C, Java, or other languages.
Excellently worded. Another I really liked: "Never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake."
This will blow up in their faces, big-time: "Won't somebody please think of the children?!?!!?!?"
Yep, there it is. It uses the same 'title="xxx"' format, but just inside a "A HREF" link. So, for instance, the acronym could link to the acronym site and also have the popup explaining it, to view quicker. (I also like boldfacing my links, it helps them stand out better.)
"It apparently has PVR capabilities as well as ..."
Well, in testing all I'm getting for the "title" is "acronymfinder.com" so I guess /. strips it and puts their own title in. So it doesn't work as I had thought; please let the /. coders know that we'd like this feature. At any rate, code for the above is:
"It apparently has <b><a href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?St ring=exact&Acronym=pvr&Find=Find" title="Personal Video Recorder">PVR</a></b> capabilities as well as ..."
Check out the chick in that ad: hot at first, but when you look at her face you see it's kinda old and wrinkled and not-so-hot.
Just like Microsoft products.
Please elaborate. Also, if you know details as to the resolution of that court case (which was decades ago?), I'd love to hear it. (I tried googling for it but couldn't find anything on it, other than verbatim copies of the same story.)
And reading the article, we see that it's actually just 200 million.
Did the /. database lose data?
As I replied to the other person who focused on my movie of choice instead of my message, please replace "Matrix Reloaded" with "Finding Nemo". You'll get the same search results in Kazaa, so my point stands: good parenting is essential and cannot be fobbed off on government.
The world is more screwed up because of lobbyists than because of individuals sharing files.
And yes, I would probably not want my pre-teens watching Matrix Reloaded.
When I installed Kazaa Lite, it automatically copied the installer into My Shared Folder.
I think that's great, a sort of viral marketing. ;-)
As to the AC replying to you, I tried a search of "kazaa lite" and I got many, many results. The top two had 107 and 108 people sharing them, took about 2 minutes to download (via DSL; one came at 35Kb/s, other at 13Kb/s), and were the latest version in English (well, one was 2.4.1, other was 2.4.2 -- more people were sharing the latter).
They also had the following languages (although shared by fewer people, in some cases one): German, French, "Netherlands" (Dutch?), Norwegian, "Brazil" (Portuguese I presume), Swedish, German, Czech, Spanish, and Italian. And I only let the search run for about a minute.
However, I'm not sure whether Kazaa Lite will actually clean up the damage done by Kazaa -- you may need Ad-Aware or similar software to remove the spyware.
Does this remind anyone else of the trick IBM tried to pull in creating the MCA specification? The industry moved on and created PCI, leaving MCA in the dust.
AMD appears to be doing the same thing to Intel now, and Intel's MCA is IA64. Intel wants to radically change things; however, the industry prefers evolution to revolution.
Well, I tried to get Matrix Reloaded when it first came out in theaters, and some people had renamed other movies to it (why, I'm not sure; perhaps to boost their "share rating" but they should have just gotten Kazaa Lite).
I downloaded 7 different movies before finding it at a BitTorrent site (most of the torrents are correct). I got I Spy, Almost Famous, Joy Ride, Saving Private Ryan among others -- and one of them was Swedish porn with money shots and everything: Lustgarden.
I don't have kids, but I wouldn't want my kids searching for Matrix Reloaded and getting porn instead. Yeah, it's not the kiddie porn that this idiot is blathering about, but the point is you've got to parent your children! You can't sit them in front of a box, any box, and ignore them. You need to work through issues with them, watch what they're doing, offer advice and corrections, and lock down the computer so they can't install software (if you want to shelter them).
They'll get to an age where they don't need sheltering, but until then it's the parents' responsibility to shelter them the way the parents see fit -- and it is most definitely not the government's responsibility.
1. That sounded an awful lot like Gilbert Gottfried.
2. On the left menu, Clippy has a "speech bubble" saying "All your base are belong to us." A cool geek reference, but what is Microsoft really saying?
1. Make Feynman your friend (so his posts are visible to you; or, just keep clicking on his user details to see all his posts).
2. Submit the parent post after every post Feynman makes.
3. Profit!!!
Perhaps Dell knows that Microsoft is going down, and wants to rake in as much cash as possible before they can't any more?
I see it as a good thing.