> Feet first into the mulcher is too good a fate for this ass clown. Shooting old men and children and women. In the back. I'm having a hard time coming up with suitable retribution...
I'd go for ordinary imprisonment. Sure, this and lots of other crimes merit worse, but unfortunately our "justice" system is actually a "conviction" system, and doesn't appear to be batting too high an average on hanging the right guy.
> However, now media is writing extensively about the software and the algorithms involved. A shrewd killer could use such information. He could think again about where to act, perhaps selecting sites at random, or selectively so that they would mislead the program.
I think picking random sites would actually provide more information, though I can imagine other spoofs that (might) work.
> They aren't losing any money from these switches.
No, I'm talking about the very predictable "good will visit", where BG or one of his top officers will visit India and throw lots of money around in order to buy off the government and deep six this program.
> Yeah, it is disgusting how rampant corruption is in some third world countries. In some places a powerful family will control elections making certain that they remain in power for generations. It is even possible for a president to sucede his father and for brothers to retain power at the same time despite gross incompetence.
Makes you proud to live in a country where everything is done on the up-and-up, donit.
> There are certain things that shouldn't be put to a simple majority vote.
The world's first democracy, Athens, was nothing short of an evil empire. Among other abuses, the Athenian democracy voted genocide against the citizens of one island that wanted to leave what was supposedly a voluntary alliance of peers. (Fortunately the Athenians reversed their vote on the next day and dispatched a fast boat to belay the orders of the previous day before they were carried out.)
Pedantic note: the USA isn't a democracy anyway; the citizens don't get to vote on laws, constitutional amendments, wars, or genocides. Instead, we vote on representatives to manage the res publica; we are a republic.
> C gives you lots of rope to hang yourself with > OCAML, on the other hand lets you expressivly designate the contitions under which the rope will hang you.
For hanging you prefer instant oblivion.
I'm undecided as to whether that part of the analogy applies to choice of programming languages.
Usually, being a professional student isn't the kind of thing you run to brag about on Slashdot. There are always others who've been there, done that, and for longer.
Call your nearest Federal prison and ask about hiring some cheap trustee labor - and maybe they'll send Martha Stewart over to arrange everything for you.
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> Sounds like a new primetime soap opera...
It was a typo; he meant to say tupped by a virus. (Doesn't change your story line much, though.)
> Of course, if the algorithm is 'a random place within 10 miles of my house', then it does not work, because then the locations are not very random.
Precisely. And s/he can hardly operate without some such constraint, eh?
Attempts at randomness might not yield anything more than a false sense of security.
> but don't brag about it until/unless it helps you crack the case.
Supposedly in another recent case it yeilded a point across the street from the perpetrator's residence.
> Feet first into the mulcher is too good a fate for this ass clown. Shooting old men and children and women. In the back. I'm having a hard time coming up with suitable retribution...
I'd go for ordinary imprisonment. Sure, this and lots of other crimes merit worse, but unfortunately our "justice" system is actually a "conviction" system, and doesn't appear to be batting too high an average on hanging the right guy.
> However, now media is writing extensively about the software and the algorithms involved. A shrewd killer could use such information. He could think again about where to act, perhaps selecting sites at random, or selectively so that they would mislead the program.
I think picking random sites would actually provide more information, though I can imagine other spoofs that (might) work.
Think of it as an optimization problem.
> I hate that weather-balloon that keeps ubducting Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain.
Your Aunt Laura told me a different version of the story.
> They aren't losing any money from these switches.
No, I'm talking about the very predictable "good will visit", where BG or one of his top officers will visit India and throw lots of money around in order to buy off the government and deep six this program.
The popularity of these "special offers" must be getting expensive for Microsoft.
> Hating RMS is a religion.
For agnustics?
> This site has become so boring and predictable.
Bet nobody saw that coming.
> Yeah, it is disgusting how rampant corruption is in some third world countries. In some places a powerful family will control elections making certain that they remain in power for generations. It is even possible for a president to sucede his father and for brothers to retain power at the same time despite gross incompetence.
Makes you proud to live in a country where everything is done on the up-and-up, donit.
> There are certain things that shouldn't be put to a simple majority vote.
The world's first democracy, Athens, was nothing short of an evil empire. Among other abuses, the Athenian democracy voted genocide against the citizens of one island that wanted to leave what was supposedly a voluntary alliance of peers. (Fortunately the Athenians reversed their vote on the next day and dispatched a fast boat to belay the orders of the previous day before they were carried out.)
Pedantic note: the USA isn't a democracy anyway; the citizens don't get to vote on laws, constitutional amendments, wars, or genocides. Instead, we vote on representatives to manage the res publica; we are a republic.
> C gives you lots of rope to hang yourself with
> OCAML, on the other hand lets you expressivly designate the contitions under which the rope will hang you.
For hanging you prefer instant oblivion.
I'm undecided as to whether that part of the analogy applies to choice of programming languages.
Usually, being a professional student isn't the kind of thing you run to brag about on Slashdot. There are always others who've been there, done that, and for longer.
4) post-Napster music bootlegging
> I gotta love slashdot, just before I decided to cave in and do homework, theres a post on slashdot involving downloading, irc AND encryption!
Tell your mom to turn off the nanny filter - a couple of goatse links will have you back on your homework in no time.
and that ad lib was the best he could do on short notice.> Linux 8.0?
> Retard.
Don't come down on him too hard. His consulting script read -
> I'm going to initially recommend that they look at using Linux 8.0...
> Wagner LLC Consulting Co. - Getting it right the first time
What is wrong with this picture?
>
One suspects that that's the kind of thing that motivated the split into two separate lists.
> Bart has to be Han Solo, Milhouse is good enough for Luke. Just my opinion
LMAO.
> Never thought I'd see a score of 3 to a post of "Blaaah! Blaah! Blululululululu badoo boo! BOO!"
At least it wasn't modded as "insightful".
Call your nearest Federal prison and ask about hiring some cheap trustee labor - and maybe they'll send Martha Stewart over to arrange everything for you.
You know, you could make an absolutely hilarious parody of the Star Wars saga using the Simpson family.
> Version 1.0? I thought all linices had to be 8.x now? What the ?
This is one of the stylish new "mod 7" distros.
> I was going to post the same joke - but I guess you'll get to take the karma hit instead. I'll join you when my reply gets modded Offtopic.
You should at least get a (+1, Accurate Prediction).
Some days the moderators just aren't in the mood for jokes, I suppose.