Who would want to flame in reply to a silly joke like that? Someone who felt hurt that I was mocking their belief that the Bible was written in English? Someone who is embarrassed that such people exist and would rather we didn't draw attention to them?
I do take offense to your calling Christians "know-nothings",
I didn't call Christians know nothings.
I called people who believe the bible was written in English know-nothings. Do you claim they are not?
Finally, if you truly believe that Christians are "know-nothings", I find it incredibly offensive that you would make a joke about them. If you truly believe that Christians are "know-nothings", then ridiculing them would be on par with making fun of the Special Olympics. Very low class of you.
People who believe untrue things for political reasons should not be compared to people who are disabled, It is incredibly insulting to the disabled.
No, Fortran and Algol are clearly evidence of separate evolution (I mean, Algol, the name isn't a clue?).
C is interesting, it's proof of the alien hybridisation conspiracy, after the catastrophe of PL/1 they finally came up with something thats almost viable.
First they've got the most incompetent rebel army in the world, now they're going to spend all their time on the phone boasting about their magnificent "victories".
It it has always interested me that the OpenBSD guys, whose work lacks the legal terms in favor of remaining open that the GPLed Linux team has, are nevertheless some of the most consistent supporters of fully-open systems outside of the core FSF people.
This is out-of-the-blue offtopic/trolling/flamebait.
Heh. The ARCEP (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes) don't sound too impressed by the project:
On a purely preliminary basis, The authority notes that the concepts of “creation of contents” or “the contents of the services which they are providing” are not defined at all, which leaves to the people in charge of the conservation of the data the responsibility to define themselves the extent of the data they must preserve.
and
The Authority, in comparison with the list of the data envisaged by the 1st article, can only question on the usefulness of them. Indeed, certain data have little report or even none with the identification of the person having created contents.
Turns out that the law was passed in 2004. This is about the "decret d'application", i.e. the note from the government that specifies exactly what the retention period is.
The complexity of the rules makes it sound like a telco billing system more than anything else - all about rating and charging lots and lots of events in close to real-time based on a hugely complicated rate-card. You'd be amazed how many software companies are sustained by this issue. It's expensive.
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Of course tungsten is also paramagnetic, so just stick it in a big magnetic field.
Whadaya know, looks like you're right, you could use iridium or osmium to increase the density.
Hum, off to fleece some gold bugs... :-)
Counterfeit gold? Tell us more.
It was modded "flamebait", not "I disagree".
Who would want to flame in reply to a silly joke like that? Someone who felt hurt that I was mocking their belief that the Bible was written in English? Someone who is embarrassed that such people exist and would rather we didn't draw attention to them?
No, to people who believe that the Bible was written in English, i.e. to people who don't believe in the Bible.
I didn't call Christians know nothings.
I called people who believe the bible was written in English know-nothings. Do you claim they are not?
People who believe untrue things for political reasons should not be compared to people who are disabled, It is incredibly insulting to the disabled.
How did you come up with this startling theory.
That'd be the green plants, you know, the ones that released huge quantities of a poisonous gas, destroying 98% of life on earth.
Humans are pathetic by comparison.
Levenez is a Johnny come lately.
Go back to the original scripture of Jean Sammet: "Computer Languages: History and Fundamentals" for the lowdown.
Notice that Levenez doesn't have Autocode (1952) in a spurious attempt to bolster the FORTRAN heresy.
No, Fortran and Algol are clearly evidence of separate evolution (I mean, Algol, the name isn't a clue?).
C is interesting, it's proof of the alien hybridisation conspiracy, after the catastrophe of PL/1 they finally came up with something thats almost viable.
Somebody modded this "flamebait".
Slashdot has reached a new low point, we have to pander to the feelings of the know-nothings.
Everybody knows the original language is English, as used by God to write the Bible.
First they've got the most incompetent rebel army in the world, now they're going to spend all their time on the phone boasting about their magnificent "victories".
Ah, how did you know I have an N900? :-)
People who wear glasses don't touch the lenses. If I get a finger smudge on my glasses I wash them at the earliest opportunity.
As for finger smudges on the phone, they come off when I stick it in my pocket.
(The dust/lint, now that's a problem).
Shit, I'm so slow I thought you were talking about the shitty touchscreen UI Nokia came up with for Symbian (one tap to select, one to open).
Duh.
So, how long does your battery last?
Score 3, funny.
But
This is out-of-the-blue offtopic/trolling/flamebait.
Just look at the replies.
Heh. The ARCEP (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes) don't sound too impressed by the project:
and
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do;jsessionid=49FC1B694A51971CA4575B3FA1FFE32B.tpdjo12v_2?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646852&dateTexte=&oldAction=rechJO&categorieLien=id
Nothing in the BBC story or the Slashdot submission gives a link to actual useful details.
There's nothing on the ASIC site, nothing on http://www.laquadrature.net/
All I can find online is http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/conservation-des-donnees-sur-internet-l-asic-se-fache-39759703.htm
Turns out that the law was passed in 2004. This is about the "decret d'application", i.e. the note from the government that specifies exactly what the retention period is.
Uh, ITYM inside. Not much growing on the outside.
No, but it's better than stating it as a fact. The reason I feel that way so far is because there is no hard evidence to prove otherwise.
I think you mean "I have seen no hard evidence".
(I don't claim that such evidence exists, I just find your unsupported claim that it doesn't exist unconvincing).
And your "I just don't see" is relevant how? Is "argument from lack of imagination" a valid scientific technique?
http://yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com/2011/04/scaling-and-scoping-nyt-paywall.html
Well, at least that means that you're not my dad.