Meanwhile, the belch from one unpronounceable volcano wipes out the cumulative effort from all of mankind over the past hundred years to purify the water and soil, and dwarfs all of our species' feeble, amateurish efforts to pollute them in the first place.
And once the atmosphere gets darkenes, we'll have global cooling, far better than all our efforts so far. Then we'll wish for some heat.
No disagreement with the rest of your comment; I agree that they'd have no reason to encode all that information in the barcode when they just need to encode a reference number to their database. I was ust noting that these more-modern barcodes (dotcodes?) are more advanced than the classics. And yeah, the really dense large 2D ones are used on mail.
In a city with a single provider, what would happen if that provider just disappeared one day, and nobody bought them? There'd be no Internet service at all. Surely some other provider would be formed quickly. So it is possible for another provider to be formed.
Now, what if everyone canceled their service to a provider. Surely that provider would also disappear, since it can't run without income. So like above, another provider could be formed to serve people.
So my real question, why can't everyone cancel their service with a monopolist provider, and sign on with whatever new provider came in its place? The only thing stopping this seems to be that most people are satisfied enough with their current service that they wouldn't want to be a part of this, and thus it does't happen.
Clearly you've never received a visit from "Mr. Goatse" on your cell. I had to soak mine in bleach for an hour, and Verizon wouldn't honor the warranty after that.
It wasn't because of the bleach that they wouldn't honor the warranty. There's no way to remove all traces of that image. Give up now.
I too am worried about my privacy, so I avoid coupons. In fact, I avoid buying anything myself. I anonymously hire people to buy everything for me, including groceries. They always pay cash, and wear different clothing each time. And if they ever get an odd look from the cashier or other suspect behavior, I have instructed them to immediately exit the store without purchasing anything. So far, I have maximum privacy. Another thing, I always make sure to post as anonymous coward.
It would be great if they could just see the future, and know whether open source would be profitable for them. Too bad there aren't any oracles around anymore.
You hear it all the time... "I am willing to take more time going through airport security, since it will make the skies safer."
It's because you missed a word they said: "seem", as in "I am willing to take more time going through airport security, since it will make the skies seem safer."
So if this predicts that Johnny will be a criminal later in life, we can keep him under constant watch and limit his activities. Then when all this mistreatment causes him to become a criminal, we can declare success. Reminds me of the way teachers see some students as gifted, and thus given them extra attention etc., ensuring their predictions come true, and validating their method.
Make the financial institutions solely liable for all identity theft. They're the only ones with the ability to stop it, and they should be the ones that bear the full economic incentive for managing fraud.
And let's stop calling it identity theft. It's really just a case of the bank mistaking person X for person Y, and thus mistakenly giving person Y's money to person X. It's the bank's error, yet the term implies that it was connected with you in some way, that you didn't protect something of yours well enough. Bullshit.
A gunshot wound is healthier than stepping on a landmine. I think what you meant to say is that even though a gunshot wound is healthier, it's still not healthy.
All you know is that the chiro likely did something that stopped the pain. It doesn't mean that what he thought he was doing is what helped.
For example, he might have done X, Y, and Z to your back, X and Y being what he considers chiropractice, and Z something that he happens to do but wasn't intentional. It might have been Z that helped, not necessarily X and Y. You might have gotten similar relief from a masseuse. Or not.
Just noting that your experience doesn't prove that chiropractors aren't quacks who make false claims.
So you're saying that in C++1x we'll be saying "Hey, did you get a null_ptr pointer again?" I imagine the ugly name was due to wanting to avoid conflict, since any code currently using that as the name of something will get broken. Unlike the new-style casts with ugly names to discourage unncessary use, I think the purpose of null_ptr was to get used as much as possible. But sheesh, I doubt I'll be using that in my code. I'll take NULL, and leave it to the implementers to make NULL expand into null_ptr if that satisfies the semantics of NULL.
A spammer has an established source of income that he profits from his operations. Let's say it's ten grand a month. Everything is going well--he kicks back and watches watches the money machine.
You implement a better spam blocking program or a better educate users or do something so that the five hundred clicks he gets a day drops to four hundred clicks a day.
The spammer now finishes at eight grand at the end of the month and notices something is wrong.
The spammer is certain that he can grab back those clicks and all he (did you ever notice how spammers are always men?) has to do is crank up the volume whether it be by getting more e-mails to spam or sending more frequent spams or revolutionizing his spamming tactic and adding new templates and variables to trick people or get around blocks.
In the end we see spam rise.
Excellent analysis, and the solution is clear: we all need to start reading all our SPAM and buying the products, then we'll get less SPAM and it won't be such a problem. Genius!
Think of NULL as more of a symbol than a word. It represents an idea that goes beyond the simple meaning of the word null when used in programing contexts.
I'll grant you that when the term is used alone. "Did you get NULL again?" Still, when paired with pointer, the capitalization seems redundant, sort of like writing PIN number, cold temperature, and the like.
Sounds like you're the idiot then if you cross KNOWING YOUR ROUTE IS BLOCKED AS WELL.
Bwahahaha you got me fair and square there. My immediate excuse is "well, I'm not going to wait a few minutes for another cycle of the light" which just shows that I'm in a hurry. But one reason I still cross is so I can yell at the driver/give him a hand signal/dirty look, because otherwise I'm just totally giving in to his stupidity and putting no pressure for him to stop. I want to bring a pad of sticky notes with a message already written on it and stick it on his window, but then again I'd rather not have to watch my back when I'm out around town.
I often have a bicycle and am walking it across on my right side, and have been strongly tempted to walk close enough to the car that the bike's pedal hits their fender or license plate. "Oh, sorry, I guess you were pulled so fucking far up into my walkway that I bumped into your car. You can avoid that next time by stopping at the thick white line that's before the two lines around the crosswalk.
I guess the above is a different issue, which I encounter much more often, where people stop way beyond the thick white line. I just don't see what their problem is, as when I'm driving, I always stop before it, which is several feet before the crosswalk. Even whem I'm with my father, I keep pointing out how he's gone way past the thick white line. Pay attention to driving and you'll easily stop at the correct line.
My favorite is "password may be no longer than X characters" - why arbitrarily limit the length of them? It's especially great when X is something small like 4 (pin #s) or 8.
Do they also limit the PINs to 4 characters, or just the PIN #s? It's really bad when both those and the PIN ##s are limited to 4 characters, though in combination they total 12 characters.
No, I cannot, since both require Flash to be installed, and both present interactive graphical elements through which you have to interact to get at the site's content.
The correct term is null pointer (no all-caps). It's a combination of the words null and pointer. In the C and C++ languages, a few of the standard headers define a macro named NULL to a value that can be used as a null pointer in those languages.
On a related note, I sometimes see people talking about a MACRO. Same thing, the word is macro, and there's a common convention of naming macros in all-caps; the term macro itself shouldn't be in all-caps. Same goes for camel case and all-caps; even though these refer to fooBar and FOOBAR, the terms themselves aren't written that way, otherwise the word invisible would have to be written as , and the word enormous would have to be written as... well, I don't have enough room to write it as big as it would need to be.
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The video will conveniently have technical problems at every stop sign and red light.
And once the atmosphere gets darkenes, we'll have global cooling, far better than all our efforts so far. Then we'll wish for some heat.
No disagreement with the rest of your comment; I agree that they'd have no reason to encode all that information in the barcode when they just need to encode a reference number to their database. I was ust noting that these more-modern barcodes (dotcodes?) are more advanced than the classics. And yeah, the really dense large 2D ones are used on mail.
Now, what if everyone canceled their service to a provider. Surely that provider would also disappear, since it can't run without income. So like above, another provider could be formed to serve people.
So my real question, why can't everyone cancel their service with a monopolist provider, and sign on with whatever new provider came in its place? The only thing stopping this seems to be that most people are satisfied enough with their current service that they wouldn't want to be a part of this, and thus it does't happen.
It wasn't because of the bleach that they wouldn't honor the warranty. There's no way to remove all traces of that image. Give up now.
The GS1 Databar codes I've seen in the past year or two appear to hold quite a bit more info. That little strip between the right-hand two barcodes seems to hold around 384 bits of information.
I too am worried about my privacy, so I avoid coupons. In fact, I avoid buying anything myself. I anonymously hire people to buy everything for me, including groceries. They always pay cash, and wear different clothing each time. And if they ever get an odd look from the cashier or other suspect behavior, I have instructed them to immediately exit the store without purchasing anything. So far, I have maximum privacy. Another thing, I always make sure to post as anonymous coward.
It would be great if they could just see the future, and know whether open source would be profitable for them. Too bad there aren't any oracles around anymore.
It's because you missed a word they said: "seem", as in "I am willing to take more time going through airport security, since it will make the skies seem safer."
Sure, if I replace the word "identical" with "very different".
So if this predicts that Johnny will be a criminal later in life, we can keep him under constant watch and limit his activities. Then when all this mistreatment causes him to become a criminal, we can declare success. Reminds me of the way teachers see some students as gifted, and thus given them extra attention etc., ensuring their predictions come true, and validating their method.
I think I know another figure this cartoonist will be ridiculing in the near future.
And let's stop calling it identity theft. It's really just a case of the bank mistaking person X for person Y, and thus mistakenly giving person Y's money to person X. It's the bank's error, yet the term implies that it was connected with you in some way, that you didn't protect something of yours well enough. Bullshit.
A gunshot wound is healthier than stepping on a landmine. I think what you meant to say is that even though a gunshot wound is healthier, it's still not healthy.
Rachel: "Do you like our cigarette?"
Decker: "It's artifical?"
Rachel: "Of course it is."
Decker: "Must be hated by the ALA."
Rachel: "Very. I'm Rachel."
Hey, it could have happened that way.
For example, he might have done X, Y, and Z to your back, X and Y being what he considers chiropractice, and Z something that he happens to do but wasn't intentional. It might have been Z that helped, not necessarily X and Y. You might have gotten similar relief from a masseuse. Or not.
Just noting that your experience doesn't prove that chiropractors aren't quacks who make false claims.
So you're saying that in C++1x we'll be saying "Hey, did you get a null_ptr pointer again?" I imagine the ugly name was due to wanting to avoid conflict, since any code currently using that as the name of something will get broken. Unlike the new-style casts with ugly names to discourage unncessary use, I think the purpose of null_ptr was to get used as much as possible. But sheesh, I doubt I'll be using that in my code. I'll take NULL, and leave it to the implementers to make NULL expand into null_ptr if that satisfies the semantics of NULL.
Excellent analysis, and the solution is clear: we all need to start reading all our SPAM and buying the products, then we'll get less SPAM and it won't be such a problem. Genius!
Obviously it's a project really funded by the DOD, the highest quality source of entropy yet for cryptography.
I'll grant you that when the term is used alone. "Did you get NULL again?" Still, when paired with pointer, the capitalization seems redundant, sort of like writing PIN number, cold temperature, and the like.
Bwahahaha you got me fair and square there. My immediate excuse is "well, I'm not going to wait a few minutes for another cycle of the light" which just shows that I'm in a hurry. But one reason I still cross is so I can yell at the driver/give him a hand signal/dirty look, because otherwise I'm just totally giving in to his stupidity and putting no pressure for him to stop. I want to bring a pad of sticky notes with a message already written on it and stick it on his window, but then again I'd rather not have to watch my back when I'm out around town.
I guess the above is a different issue, which I encounter much more often, where people stop way beyond the thick white line. I just don't see what their problem is, as when I'm driving, I always stop before it, which is several feet before the crosswalk. Even whem I'm with my father, I keep pointing out how he's gone way past the thick white line. Pay attention to driving and you'll easily stop at the correct line.
Do they also limit the PINs to 4 characters, or just the PIN #s? It's really bad when both those and the PIN ##s are limited to 4 characters, though in combination they total 12 characters.
No, I cannot, since both require Flash to be installed, and both present interactive graphical elements through which you have to interact to get at the site's content.
The correct term is null pointer (no all-caps). It's a combination of the words null and pointer. In the C and C++ languages, a few of the standard headers define a macro named NULL to a value that can be used as a null pointer in those languages.
On a related note, I sometimes see people talking about a MACRO. Same thing, the word is macro, and there's a common convention of naming macros in all-caps; the term macro itself shouldn't be in all-caps. Same goes for camel case and all-caps; even though these refer to fooBar and FOOBAR, the terms themselves aren't written that way, otherwise the word invisible would have to be written as , and the word enormous would have to be written as... well, I don't have enough room to write it as big as it would need to be.