Did you check the toilet? Or maybe the bread? No, because those things don't vibrate. Likewise, bombs don't vibrate either. Any normal person's expectations, in order, would be something like: phone, toothbrush, razor, massager, vibrator. If someone hears a vibration and hears a bomb, he/she should have that checked. After all, we deem people who look at a toothbrush and see a blood-stained knife clinically insane, no?
no water to respond to, whatever it is responding to.
Probably someone chugging nitroglycerin and throwing themselves against the lavatory wall. Apparently, someone didn't get the memo that that doesn't actually work.
It was only sleeping medicine, jesus... they acted like their kid and her friend slipped them cyanide. Why the hell would they have their child arrested? That is not exactly awesome for a kid's career and life... not exactly what I would do if she was my child.
I doubt their parents wanted to, but it's for their own good. If they were willing to drug their parents to go on the Internet, they'd be willing to murder and rob for extra spending money somewhere down the road. It's this kind of "oh, it's nothing big" lenient parenting that led to recent generations' general stupidity and lack of self-control.
Yeah no. I don't think the average dipshit would have any idea how to get ahold of that.
And any they WOULD get ahold of. Are not going to 'detect' any sleeping medication the average teen could even get ahold of.
Let alone who the hell keeps a milkshake around overnight.
Someone who was drugged after taking a couple sips? Being knocked out gets in the way of stuff like throwing away milkshakes. Pity the kids didn't have the foresight to throw it away themselves, but then again, what can you except from kids who drug their parents to check facebook after curfew?
This story sounds 100% made up. The media will eat it up tho. But not too much. It's too fake.
I predict that someone will come up with the bright idea of hooking up some medical device to Facebook. It will seem like a "good idea at the time" to someone for some reason only god knows. One of the guy's friends will submit a score challenge for a Facebook game, and trip some godforsaken undocumented bug in the API, causing the device to malfunction. All of a sudden, it will become a lot more important to have a high score in <insert game here>.
Legally, there is a license I think. It's an implied license that comes from ownership of the disc that allows you the basic rights (e.g. you can view the content privately and give the license, i.e. disc, to someone else, but not reproduce it or display the content publically. Basically everything that used to be on those FBI notices on VCR tapes back in the day). In theory you can rip the content off and give/sell the disc to someone else, but then you would no longer own the license to use it.
Now, of course, you could say the law is bullshit, and I would have to agree with you, but the fact is legally there is a license, so please don't mislead your fellow/.ers into commiting illegal activities.
Depends on what you mean by "require". Not everyone "needs" electricity, gas, telecommunication lines or water either. Hell, why don't we all go back to the days where everyone lives in cottages on a ranch with maybe a well and some farmland?
The point is, Internet access has an infrastructure dependency and provides a service which fits perfectly with the utility service model, so it makes no sense that we use a better model for gas and electricity and not for Internet. This is Economics 101, here, but the wikipedia page provides a good explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilities
Why would you ever use rm with -f? That is pretty much NEVER a good idea. It's like, you have this gun that destroys everything when you pull the trigger, but WAIT you can flip the --force switch and destroy everything by pulling the trigger halfway.
that punching was made for our fists instead? If we had evolved with swords for arms, no doubt this article would say our arms were made for swordfighting.
From the summary: It's just a matter of downloading an open-source app and changing an XML attribute from 'Trial' to 'Full.'
Er, what? Come again? I don't even know what to say, my mind has already been blown across the room. This is like Sony including the PS3 master key in a ROM chip in every console they've shipped. The mind, it boggles.
That is, when you navigate with a map, your instructions are in the style of "go straight for two intersections, then turn right to Main Street, then turn left towards Somewheretown."
So what happens when in fact two intersections down, there is no Main Street? Or if you head a couple hundred miles down the road on your map and find that City A is not in fact here? It's the same problem, isn't it?
GPS based navigation is far more fragile than the traditional style of map + road signs. That doesn't matter when you're in a city or someplace else where navigational errors amount to irritation and inconvenience, but if your life depends on finding there on time, you'll want a traditional map.
Yeah, but common pathfinding applications nowadays isn't just GPS based navigation, they're maps that come bundled with automatic pathfinding software. Imagine a pure GPS navigation system that just gives directions with no map. Pretty stupid right? That's why they don't exist (or I haven't seen one, at least). Even if the GPS goes fuck-all crazy, there's still a (albeit electronic) good old-fashioned map to look at. It's when the map is flat-out wrong (or if it's easy to misinterpret) that you're SOL.
Reminds me of the killer carp from Dwarf Fortress. What'll we have next, stampeding hordes of elephant that can only be wiped out by flooding the surface with lava?
The 109887th person to state the obvious that "Campaign contributions in America constituion legal bribery" was shot in 15.6 seconds. This is a 0.3 second improvement over the 109886th person. In the previous event, the person's collegues apparently "fumbled when reaching for their weapons". Thankfully, their daily quick-draw practice sessions seem to be paying off.
Loans are a good thing? Did you not learn anything from the banking crisis? No wonder this country is going to hell.
Investments should be made when they are worth making, not just because stupid government policy forces people to do it, that's when human stupidity truly shines.
This is probably an odd one out, but: Touhou. Yes I know it works in Wine, but it's really wonky. It tends to break between Wine releases and some of them work while others don't.
The best way to describe Python is that it is a real tool. Quoting http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html [inria.fr], it is not a "homeowner's toy" like Java which holds your hand with type-checking, etc. but a drill that does the job you tell it to. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, Python's not going to lock itself and say to you in a calm, reassuring voice, "Hey, are you all right? I'm sure you didn't mean to do that." It's going to f*cking blow away your feet, because that's what it was designed to do and that's what you used it to do. Python doesn't tell you what you should do, it does what you tell it to do. If you decide to mix tabs and 2-spaces and 4-spaces and 2-space-tab-3space, Python lets you do that. Don't come crying to mommy if it blows up on you though.
Another thing is to use a proper IDE/text editor. Any competent IDE can easily replace tabs with spaces or vice versa, as well as highlight syntax errors. The fact that you have so much trouble with it suggest that you are not using such an IDE. I would suggest Vim with some of the very good available Python plugins and syntax highlighting, as well as Syntastic for syntax errors.
I have had no problems copy pasting code from sites I've found with google. Perhaps the problem is that you don't know how your web browser/OS's copy pasting works? Or that the code wasn't properly formatted properly in the first place, in which case I wouldn't copy paste without reformatting it anyway, no matter the language.
Learn to use the tool before blaming it: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
The best way to describe Python is that it is a real tool. Quoting http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html, it is not a "homeowner's toy" like Java which holds your hand with type-checking, etc. but a drill that does the job you tell it to. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, Python's not going to lock itself and say to you in a calm, reassuring voice, "Hey, are you all right? I'm sure you didn't mean to do that." It's going to f*cking blow away your feet, because that's what it was designed to do and that's what you used it to do.
Python doesn't tell you what you should do, it does what you tell it to do. If you decide to mix tabs and 2-spaces and 4-spaces and 2-space-tab-3space, Python lets you do that. Don't come crying to mommy if it blows up on you tough.
Another thing is to use a proper IDE/text editor. Any competent IDE can easily replace tabs with spaces or vice versa, as well as highlight syntax errors. The fact that you have so much trouble with it suggest that you are not using such an IDE. I would suggest Vim with some of very good Python plugins and syntax highlighting, as well as Syntastic for syntax errors.
I have had no problems copy pasting code from sites I've found with google. Perhaps the problem is that you don't know how your web browser/OS's copy pasting works? Or that the code wasn't properly formatted properly in the first place, in which case I wouldn't copy paste without reformatting it anyway, no matter the language.
Also, sometimes people are too lazy to log in. (I know I do that sometimes on my phone), and/. even GIVES users an option to post AC. Just because he's AC doesn't mean he doesn't have an account, and even if he doesn't how does that negatively impact him?
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Did you check the toilet? Or maybe the bread? No, because those things don't vibrate. Likewise, bombs don't vibrate either. Any normal person's expectations, in order, would be something like: phone, toothbrush, razor, massager, vibrator. If someone hears a vibration and hears a bomb, he/she should have that checked. After all, we deem people who look at a toothbrush and see a blood-stained knife clinically insane, no?
No, no, you misunderstand, the evacuations ARE the terrorist plots. Spreading FUD and all that.
no water to respond to, whatever it is responding to.
Probably someone chugging nitroglycerin and throwing themselves against the lavatory wall. Apparently, someone didn't get the memo that that doesn't actually work.
It was only sleeping medicine, jesus... they acted like their kid and her friend slipped them cyanide. Why the hell would they have their child arrested? That is not exactly awesome for a kid's career and life... not exactly what I would do if she was my child.
I doubt their parents wanted to, but it's for their own good. If they were willing to drug their parents to go on the Internet, they'd be willing to murder and rob for extra spending money somewhere down the road. It's this kind of "oh, it's nothing big" lenient parenting that led to recent generations' general stupidity and lack of self-control.
"drug testing kit"
Yeah no. I don't think the average dipshit would have any idea how to get ahold of that. And any they WOULD get ahold of. Are not going to 'detect' any sleeping medication the average teen could even get ahold of.
Home drug tests are MADE to test for things the average teen could get ahold of. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+to+buy+home+drug+test
Let alone who the hell keeps a milkshake around overnight.
Someone who was drugged after taking a couple sips? Being knocked out gets in the way of stuff like throwing away milkshakes. Pity the kids didn't have the foresight to throw it away themselves, but then again, what can you except from kids who drug their parents to check facebook after curfew?
This story sounds 100% made up. The media will eat it up tho. But not too much. It's too fake.
Try harder.
I predict that someone will come up with the bright idea of hooking up some medical device to Facebook. It will seem like a "good idea at the time" to someone for some reason only god knows. One of the guy's friends will submit a score challenge for a Facebook game, and trip some godforsaken undocumented bug in the API, causing the device to malfunction. All of a sudden, it will become a lot more important to have a high score in <insert game here>.
Legally, there is a license I think. It's an implied license that comes from ownership of the disc that allows you the basic rights (e.g. you can view the content privately and give the license, i.e. disc, to someone else, but not reproduce it or display the content publically. Basically everything that used to be on those FBI notices on VCR tapes back in the day). In theory you can rip the content off and give/sell the disc to someone else, but then you would no longer own the license to use it.
Now, of course, you could say the law is bullshit, and I would have to agree with you, but the fact is legally there is a license, so please don't mislead your fellow /.ers into commiting illegal activities.
Depends on what you mean by "require". Not everyone "needs" electricity, gas, telecommunication lines or water either. Hell, why don't we all go back to the days where everyone lives in cottages on a ranch with maybe a well and some farmland?
The point is, Internet access has an infrastructure dependency and provides a service which fits perfectly with the utility service model, so it makes no sense that we use a better model for gas and electricity and not for Internet. This is Economics 101, here, but the wikipedia page provides a good explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilities
I thought the man died already. Are the dead allowed to own things now? Can they bring civil disputes to court? brb, raising some zombies
Nitpicking, but Apple is privately owned, and publicly held/traded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_held_company#Privately_owned_enterprise
Why would you ever use rm with -f? That is pretty much NEVER a good idea. It's like, you have this gun that destroys everything when you pull the trigger, but WAIT you can flip the --force switch and destroy everything by pulling the trigger halfway.
that punching was made for our fists instead? If we had evolved with swords for arms, no doubt this article would say our arms were made for swordfighting.
Also pointing out Sympy, which is useful for a variety of calculations
- http://sympy.org/en/index.html
From the summary: It's just a matter of downloading an open-source app and changing an XML attribute from 'Trial' to 'Full.'
Er, what? Come again? I don't even know what to say, my mind has already been blown across the room. This is like Sony including the PS3 master key in a ROM chip in every console they've shipped. The mind, it boggles.
That is, when you navigate with a map, your instructions are in the style of "go straight for two intersections, then turn right to Main Street, then turn left towards Somewheretown."
So what happens when in fact two intersections down, there is no Main Street? Or if you head a couple hundred miles down the road on your map and find that City A is not in fact here? It's the same problem, isn't it?
GPS based navigation is far more fragile than the traditional style of map + road signs. That doesn't matter when you're in a city or someplace else where navigational errors amount to irritation and inconvenience, but if your life depends on finding there on time, you'll want a traditional map.
Yeah, but common pathfinding applications nowadays isn't just GPS based navigation, they're maps that come bundled with automatic pathfinding software. Imagine a pure GPS navigation system that just gives directions with no map. Pretty stupid right? That's why they don't exist (or I haven't seen one, at least). Even if the GPS goes fuck-all crazy, there's still a (albeit electronic) good old-fashioned map to look at. It's when the map is flat-out wrong (or if it's easy to misinterpret) that you're SOL.
Reminds me of the killer carp from Dwarf Fortress. What'll we have next, stampeding hordes of elephant that can only be wiped out by flooding the surface with lava?
The 109887th person to state the obvious that "Campaign contributions in America constituion legal bribery" was shot in 15.6 seconds. This is a 0.3 second improvement over the 109886th person. In the previous event, the person's collegues apparently "fumbled when reaching for their weapons". Thankfully, their daily quick-draw practice sessions seem to be paying off.
In Soviet Russia, mole whack YOU
What do you feel about claims that the restrictive and "viral" nature of GPL harms open source?
Loans are a good thing? Did you not learn anything from the banking crisis? No wonder this country is going to hell.
Investments should be made when they are worth making, not just because stupid government policy forces people to do it, that's when human stupidity truly shines.
This is probably an odd one out, but: Touhou. Yes I know it works in Wine, but it's really wonky. It tends to break between Wine releases and some of them work while others don't.
Title is self-explanatory for those that have seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjc0n4MiaUQ
Ugh, I keep forgetting that /. doesn't display newlines and there's no edit button. Here it is again in a more readable format.
Learn to use the tool before blaming it: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ [python.org]
The best way to describe Python is that it is a real tool. Quoting http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html [inria.fr], it is not a "homeowner's toy" like Java which holds your hand with type-checking, etc. but a drill that does the job you tell it to. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, Python's not going to lock itself and say to you in a calm, reassuring voice, "Hey, are you all right? I'm sure you didn't mean to do that." It's going to f*cking blow away your feet, because that's what it was designed to do and that's what you used it to do. Python doesn't tell you what you should do, it does what you tell it to do. If you decide to mix tabs and 2-spaces and 4-spaces and 2-space-tab-3space, Python lets you do that. Don't come crying to mommy if it blows up on you though.
Another thing is to use a proper IDE/text editor. Any competent IDE can easily replace tabs with spaces or vice versa, as well as highlight syntax errors. The fact that you have so much trouble with it suggest that you are not using such an IDE. I would suggest Vim with some of the very good available Python plugins and syntax highlighting, as well as Syntastic for syntax errors.
I have had no problems copy pasting code from sites I've found with google. Perhaps the problem is that you don't know how your web browser/OS's copy pasting works? Or that the code wasn't properly formatted properly in the first place, in which case I wouldn't copy paste without reformatting it anyway, no matter the language.
Learn to use the tool before blaming it: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ The best way to describe Python is that it is a real tool. Quoting http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html, it is not a "homeowner's toy" like Java which holds your hand with type-checking, etc. but a drill that does the job you tell it to. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, Python's not going to lock itself and say to you in a calm, reassuring voice, "Hey, are you all right? I'm sure you didn't mean to do that." It's going to f*cking blow away your feet, because that's what it was designed to do and that's what you used it to do. Python doesn't tell you what you should do, it does what you tell it to do. If you decide to mix tabs and 2-spaces and 4-spaces and 2-space-tab-3space, Python lets you do that. Don't come crying to mommy if it blows up on you tough. Another thing is to use a proper IDE/text editor. Any competent IDE can easily replace tabs with spaces or vice versa, as well as highlight syntax errors. The fact that you have so much trouble with it suggest that you are not using such an IDE. I would suggest Vim with some of very good Python plugins and syntax highlighting, as well as Syntastic for syntax errors. I have had no problems copy pasting code from sites I've found with google. Perhaps the problem is that you don't know how your web browser/OS's copy pasting works? Or that the code wasn't properly formatted properly in the first place, in which case I wouldn't copy paste without reformatting it anyway, no matter the language.
Also, sometimes people are too lazy to log in. (I know I do that sometimes on my phone), and /. even GIVES users an option to post AC. Just because he's AC doesn't mean he doesn't have an account, and even if he doesn't how does that negatively impact him?