The thing is, once we get to this point I don't think a lot of people will be on the internet anymore... We'll have invented something better and moved on to that.
There have been several cases of parents of children with diabetes who refused to follow conventional medicine, "treated" their children with prayer and diet, and the children died.
I've met people like this in churches. One woman with cancer requested an "annointing" (where oil was poured over her head) rather then go with Chemo. Despite being a practicing Christian myself, I think this is patently ridiculous, and harmful to the faith-It's just another reason that so many of the "washed masses" (see what I did there;) ) think that all Christians are idiots.
and also I believe them when they say no human will see my stuff
I'm increasingly unsure of that. We know they scrape the contents of your emails to decide what ads to show you. We know they keep track of your browsing history as much as they can, and aggregate it across sites.
You do know what a scraper is, right? It's a script. An automated script. One that no human generally deals with (unless it's broken).
Just in case you're not trolling:
C is a high-level programming language (yes I know I could give a better description but my brain is fried this late in the day). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
I can see why you might think that, but I strongly suspect that Google has already put their own programmers to work finding bugs. This is their attempt to "crowdsource" the bug-finding. The more eyes on the code, the more bugs that can be found. Also they realize that not all the brilliant minds work for them, and some might decide to exploit a bug for monetary gain rather then turn it in. The bounty is to give those people a bit more of a reason to turn the bug in.
This. I can't even count how many people I went to school with in the CS major who only were on programming because they played video games, or they thought it would be a good idea. They now struggle to find jobs. The few who actually enjoyed it are fairly well off.
I absolutely agree with you on that. But that's not the reason I don't approve of this action. It's a form of government oversight that I don't particularly want to have.
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds.
The boiling point of water is 212 degrees. (Both degrees are in F). Coffee is generally made from boiling water. So I can totally see someone getting a fresh cup of coffee and getting a third degree burn from it. Now, I do think that McDonalds employees should have known that the coffee was that hot (if it was fresh) and warned the lady, but I would fully expect a hot cup of coffee to be hot enough to cause third (3rd not 3th) degree burns.
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds.
The boiling point of water is 212 degrees. (Both degrees are in F). Coffee is generally made from boiling water. So I can totally see someone getting a fresh cup of coffee and getting a third degree burn from it. Now, I do think that McDonalds employees should have known that the coffee was that hot (if it was fresh) and warned the lady, but I would fully expect a hot cup of coffee to be hot enough to cause third (3rd not 3th) degree burns.
We had a class, intro to assembly, it was called, where first they started us out learning how a transistor works, then how logic gates work (with a few lessons on boolean algebra), then we finally moved to assembly language, learning first how each instruction got interpreted by the CPU and how it all fit together. We never went into it in the class, but the book eventually went on to C, explaining what ASM instructions make up various C commands and constructs. Not only did it help me actually understand why the hell ASM looks the way it does (and why some of the commands are so strange), but it also, I imagine, would help a C programmer write more optimized code, since they would have a better understanding of what machine code gets generated. This was a computer engineering course, though, focused more on practicably applications (as opposed to the more theoretical computer science degree) so I suspect that had something to do with it. Incidentally, it was after taking this course that I actually started to understand pointers, since we did cover the basics of how the CPU allocates memory.
Agreed. When I first learned C I had a lot of "wait, why on earth does this work at all?" Wasn't until I got to college that I actually started to understand how pointers worked and all the little intricacies in the language. Though on the other hand it was the fact that I already knew the basics that allowed me to learn the little things that the instructors probably didn't even intend to be teaching us. Little things that just came out in their code and make me think "whoa that's pretty cool", when the rest of the class was focusing more on the primary lesson. So it's a mixed bag. Definitely the exposure early on helps tremendously.
Who cares? This is slashdot, "news for nerds", not "news for people who are scared of every new technology or government project". A robot that can do all those things seems pretty newsworthy for a site like this.
Just pick a side (doesn't matter which one) and work your ass off in someone's campaign. There you go, i guarantee your odds would be far better than someone who just walks away from it all.
it's the second step (work your ass off) that most people seem to have trouble with.
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The thing is, once we get to this point I don't think a lot of people will be on the internet anymore... We'll have invented something better and moved on to that.
They are fantastic for google efficiency.
Eh. To be honest I usually just google the version number. I can't remember the code names (And I damn sure won't be able to remember this one).
and there are healthy populations that traditionally go 6-9 months with no fats except animals fats.
Bear in mind these populations probably also get a good amount of exercise... Here in 'merica we want to have our fat and eat it too.
I love this, why is this not modded higher?
There have been several cases of parents of children with diabetes who refused to follow conventional medicine, "treated" their children with prayer and diet, and the children died.
I've met people like this in churches. One woman with cancer requested an "annointing" (where oil was poured over her head) rather then go with Chemo. Despite being a practicing Christian myself, I think this is patently ridiculous, and harmful to the faith-It's just another reason that so many of the "washed masses" (see what I did there ;) ) think that all Christians are idiots.
I'm increasingly unsure of that. We know they scrape the contents of your emails to decide what ads to show you. We know they keep track of your browsing history as much as they can, and aggregate it across sites.
You do know what a scraper is, right? It's a script. An automated script. One that no human generally deals with (unless it's broken).
Yeah! And what does 'C' stand for?
Just in case you're not trolling:
C is a high-level programming language (yes I know I could give a better description but my brain is fried this late in the day).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
I can see why you might think that, but I strongly suspect that Google has already put their own programmers to work finding bugs. This is their attempt to "crowdsource" the bug-finding. The more eyes on the code, the more bugs that can be found. Also they realize that not all the brilliant minds work for them, and some might decide to exploit a bug for monetary gain rather then turn it in. The bounty is to give those people a bit more of a reason to turn the bug in.
It does help that I love what I do.
This. I can't even count how many people I went to school with in the CS major who only were on programming because they played video games, or they thought it would be a good idea. They now struggle to find jobs. The few who actually enjoyed it are fairly well off.
You can't fire people when you don't have anyone to hire to fill their spot.
I'm pretty sure companies do this anyway... They just expect under-qualified people to pick up the slack.
I absolutely agree with you on that. But that's not the reason I don't approve of this action. It's a form of government oversight that I don't particularly want to have.
Why did SallieMae call YOU? Seems like they'd call your employee, wouldn't they?
From http://www.accuratebuilding.com/services/legal/charts/hot_water_burn_scalding_graph.html:
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds.
The boiling point of water is 212 degrees. (Both degrees are in F). Coffee is generally made from boiling water. So I can totally see someone getting a fresh cup of coffee and getting a third degree burn from it. Now, I do think that McDonalds employees should have known that the coffee was that hot (if it was fresh) and warned the lady, but I would fully expect a hot cup of coffee to be hot enough to cause third (3rd not 3th) degree burns.
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds.
The boiling point of water is 212 degrees. (Both degrees are in F). Coffee is generally made from boiling water. So I can totally see someone getting a fresh cup of coffee and getting a third degree burn from it. Now, I do think that McDonalds employees should have known that the coffee was that hot (if it was fresh) and warned the lady, but I would fully expect a hot cup of coffee to be hot enough to cause third (3rd not 3th) degree burns.
I think you mean the "iSmug"
We had a class, intro to assembly, it was called, where first they started us out learning how a transistor works, then how logic gates work (with a few lessons on boolean algebra), then we finally moved to assembly language, learning first how each instruction got interpreted by the CPU and how it all fit together. We never went into it in the class, but the book eventually went on to C, explaining what ASM instructions make up various C commands and constructs. Not only did it help me actually understand why the hell ASM looks the way it does (and why some of the commands are so strange), but it also, I imagine, would help a C programmer write more optimized code, since they would have a better understanding of what machine code gets generated. This was a computer engineering course, though, focused more on practicably applications (as opposed to the more theoretical computer science degree) so I suspect that had something to do with it. Incidentally, it was after taking this course that I actually started to understand pointers, since we did cover the basics of how the CPU allocates memory.
Agreed. When I first learned C I had a lot of "wait, why on earth does this work at all?" Wasn't until I got to college that I actually started to understand how pointers worked and all the little intricacies in the language. Though on the other hand it was the fact that I already knew the basics that allowed me to learn the little things that the instructors probably didn't even intend to be teaching us. Little things that just came out in their code and make me think "whoa that's pretty cool", when the rest of the class was focusing more on the primary lesson. So it's a mixed bag. Definitely the exposure early on helps tremendously.
there's no function to read a single key without reading a whole line?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conio.h, specifically the getch function
No function for changing the text color or drawing stuff?
If you're programming windows you can always use SetConsoleTextAttribute. I'm sure NIX systems have comparative functions.
I do agree it's not for beginners though.
People don't forget having their credit card information stolen.
People don't forget about being without service for over a month.
Sadly enough, yes they do.
Xcode is a security tool? Man I've been using it totally wrong-I thought it was a development environment.
A lot of server farms at major companies run linux/unix operating systems. So some pretty important entities care.
Heh, I dunno why I'm even bothering to reply to a troll... Must be bored.
Who cares? This is slashdot, "news for nerds", not "news for people who are scared of every new technology or government project". A robot that can do all those things seems pretty newsworthy for a site like this.
He's a pretty well-known conservative commentator in the US, one of those "let me tell you like it is" types.
I think you mean "let me tell you like I think it is" types. I've never met anyone who doesn't put their own spin on what they say.
To be fair, it sounds like OP is talking about classism rather then racism.
Just pick a side (doesn't matter which one) and work your ass off in someone's campaign. There you go, i guarantee your odds would be far better than someone who just walks away from it all.
it's the second step (work your ass off) that most people seem to have trouble with.