There was a time at Slashdot when we would be congratulating the NSA for doing this stuff.
When was that? I've been here since before Echelon and general consensus here when Echelon was revealed was bomb nuclear jihad assault rifle terrorism explosion poison murder kill.
It would depend on the ability of the virus to infect them. Since viruses tend to destroy the host cells when they replicate (which would make the gene splicing useless since the fixed cell is now dead), I would assume that this particular virus would be engineered to not replicate, preventing it from spreading through the body.
When I break your law and buy things for my own consumption using fake reseller papers to avoid paying your tax, does that illustrate the stupidity of your tax plan?
Actually it's not. There's two required parts to the (standard) definition: that the list of items be exhaustive, which is correct here and (here's the big one) that the subject of the verb be the thing, and the object of the verb be the parts: The rail gun comprises these five parts. That second part is important, shit would be crazy if we started having cars driving people and men biting dogs.
that is still clintons fault for signing a law that allowed that kind of thing to happen
That's got to be some massive headache you've got there, what with hitting yourself in the head with a hammer all the time. You going to blame Clinton for not banning you from smacking yourself in the face?
That said, I'd be more sympathetic to the "regulations are bad" argument if it wasn't for the large numbers of companies that start swinging their hammers wildly whenever the regulations get removed and inevitably end up smashing something important.
Mail her a copy of TSA's backdoor key for luggage locks with a letter telling her that the TSA lost their backdoor that just protected luggage, and ask her how long she thinks the government can keep their encryption backdoor secret when it can open up bank accounts, military secrets, and so on.
Uber has a problem with calling its drivers "employees". That is to say, they don't.
Really, they shouldn't be calling them contractors either, but if they didn't employ the drivers one way or the other, how would they extract their profit from the drivers' work? They should have looked harder at ebay and other companies that manage to extract profits from their users without employing them. Nobody calls the guy selling random junk on ebay an employee or a contractor, do they?
the Supreme Court is so corporate friendly they won't overturn this blatantly unconstitutional practice.
Agreed. It's gotten so bad I'm fully expecting the SCOTUS to shit out a pretzel after it finishes the contortions necessary to explain why Dollar General should be allowed to ignore its contract with the Native American tribe that they signed, agreeing to subject itself to Native American court jurisdiction, without allowing every other "person" to ignore the jurisdiction-setting clause in every single contract in this country.
It'll probably involve something like claiming that because mere humans can only exist in one physical location they must be subject to a jurisdiction no matter where in that country that jurisdiction is, even if it has nothing at all to do with the physical location of the human, while Corporate People exist everywhere and nowhere at once and therefore cannot be subject to any jurisdiction at all except by Their whims and Their whims are allowed to change whenever They feel the jurisdiction They chose has become doubleplusungood, despite what any contract heretofore executed shall claim.
tl;dr: SCOTUS will find a way to justify letting Corporations out of their binding arbitration contracts while keeping the rest of the normal humans stuck in theirs.
Well, to start with we couldn't really find the gene that made the protein so we took a handful of genes from another animal that didn't have the protein and just threw them in the pot at random until we got a pig that didn't have the protein and survived for more than a few seconds out of the womb.
As a side effect, female pigs will now have to be slaughtered by extremely well trained butchers under precise conditions, since if the ovaries are nicked they will flood the rest of the body with a deadly neurotoxin.
Seriously, though, I don't have any beef (ha) with this, as they're not adding potentially allergy-triggering or genes that produce some sort of toxin.
and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
There's an entire crowd of people who think the First Amendment should be cancelled, while they cling tightly to the Second. It does not occur to them that whatever legal trick they use to eliminate the amendments they don't want will be used on the ones they do.
Ah thank you, from the complete quote it's clear that he doesn't want to just come in and take away our essential liberties for fun, he wants to take away our essential liberties for imagined security. Really cleared things up there.
Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people.
Just remember though, once you've decided some Amendments are optional, there's absolutely nothing standing in the way to make the rest of them optional. What are you going to say to the next Democratic president who says "Oh, right to bear arms, right to bear arms"?
As a programmer my favorite features are all nonstandard SQL stuff. For instance: arrays, array operators, and literal array notation.
No more whiny devs complaining about how they can't prepare foo IN ($1) so fuck prepared statements and security:
PREPARE getuser AS SELECT * FROM user WHERE level = ANY ($1);
EXECUTE getuser ( '{administrator,manager}' );
(This works way better from a program than from the psql console - only problem is that if you're doing arbitrary strings, the escaping challenge moves from apostrophes to commas, but messing up a comma doesn't let a malicious user drop a table)
Second most favorite is DISTINCT ON () which makes an awesome poor man's window function for a very specific case. You want to see every customer's most recent invoice?
SELECT DISTINCT ON (customerid) * FROM invoice ORDER BY customerid, date DESC;
Which is about half as much work to write as
SELECT subq.* FROM (SELECT *, rank() OVER (PARTITION BY customerid ORDER BY date DESC) AS rank FROM invoice) subq WHERE subq.rank = 1;
It might even be half as much work for the database to process since there's no subquery, but I've never benchmarked it to see.
Such a practice greatly helps one to reduce the agitating impact of the "infinite phenomena" data stream. That is to say, to reduce its volume, or make it quiet.
I find your nonsense deep and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
You will always save money when there are hundreds of companies offering a product over when there is only one product available.
If you're 20 and healthy then yeah, getting a personal policy all by your lonesome will be cheaper than joining a risk pool of employees of all ages and health levels.
If you're 60 then getting a personal policy all by your lonesome will never be cheaper than joining a risk pool padded out by the 20 somethings buying the company plan. Unless you're talking about buying high-deductible ER-only coverage, in which case your tricycle doesn't even rank with the Ferrari's everyone else is getting and you should feel bad for claiming it's a better deal because it's cheaper.
Unless you've had a history of cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or any of a number of other "preexisting conditions". In that case, it's never been the case since Obamacare kicked in.
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Fuck PDFs of blurry pictures that you can't even copy the text out of.
So, for anybody who wants a link to the actually usable patent application text: Here's the actual text of the application.
When was that? I've been here since before Echelon and general consensus here when Echelon was revealed was bomb nuclear jihad assault rifle terrorism explosion poison murder kill.
It would depend on the ability of the virus to infect them. Since viruses tend to destroy the host cells when they replicate (which would make the gene splicing useless since the fixed cell is now dead), I would assume that this particular virus would be engineered to not replicate, preventing it from spreading through the body.
When I break your law and buy things for my own consumption using fake reseller papers to avoid paying your tax, does that illustrate the stupidity of your tax plan?
Actually it's not. There's two required parts to the (standard) definition: that the list of items be exhaustive, which is correct here and (here's the big one) that the subject of the verb be the thing, and the object of the verb be the parts: The rail gun comprises these five parts. That second part is important, shit would be crazy if we started having cars driving people and men biting dogs.
Slashdot has been randomly logging me out today.
That's got to be some massive headache you've got there, what with hitting yourself in the head with a hammer all the time. You going to blame Clinton for not banning you from smacking yourself in the face?
That said, I'd be more sympathetic to the "regulations are bad" argument if it wasn't for the large numbers of companies that start swinging their hammers wildly whenever the regulations get removed and inevitably end up smashing something important.
Have you seen a language that includes it's own native login system?
Well, you can start with Trump running to the courts to have the government force other people to stop what they're doing on their property.
People who "break a few eggs to make an omelette" then refuse to pay for the eggs aren't innovators, they're petty thieves.
Man, I bet those city officials must have a serious headache what with the state regulators not telling them not to hit their head with hammers.
Mail her a copy of TSA's backdoor key for luggage locks with a letter telling her that the TSA lost their backdoor that just protected luggage, and ask her how long she thinks the government can keep their encryption backdoor secret when it can open up bank accounts, military secrets, and so on.
Uber has a problem with calling its drivers "employees". That is to say, they don't.
Really, they shouldn't be calling them contractors either, but if they didn't employ the drivers one way or the other, how would they extract their profit from the drivers' work? They should have looked harder at ebay and other companies that manage to extract profits from their users without employing them. Nobody calls the guy selling random junk on ebay an employee or a contractor, do they?
Agreed. It's gotten so bad I'm fully expecting the SCOTUS to shit out a pretzel after it finishes the contortions necessary to explain why Dollar General should be allowed to ignore its contract with the Native American tribe that they signed, agreeing to subject itself to Native American court jurisdiction, without allowing every other "person" to ignore the jurisdiction-setting clause in every single contract in this country.
It'll probably involve something like claiming that because mere humans can only exist in one physical location they must be subject to a jurisdiction no matter where in that country that jurisdiction is, even if it has nothing at all to do with the physical location of the human, while Corporate People exist everywhere and nowhere at once and therefore cannot be subject to any jurisdiction at all except by Their whims and Their whims are allowed to change whenever They feel the jurisdiction They chose has become doubleplusungood, despite what any contract heretofore executed shall claim.
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tl;dr: SCOTUS will find a way to justify letting Corporations out of their binding arbitration contracts while keeping the rest of the normal humans stuck in theirs.
What makes your tricycle... sorry, "Major Medical" real insurance? If I have it and get cancer, will it make me whole again?
Well, to start with we couldn't really find the gene that made the protein so we took a handful of genes from another animal that didn't have the protein and just threw them in the pot at random until we got a pig that didn't have the protein and survived for more than a few seconds out of the womb.
As a side effect, female pigs will now have to be slaughtered by extremely well trained butchers under precise conditions, since if the ovaries are nicked they will flood the rest of the body with a deadly neurotoxin.
Seriously, though, I don't have any beef (ha) with this, as they're not adding potentially allergy-triggering or genes that produce some sort of toxin.
Fun fact: In Republican stronghold Texas, you are not allowed to buy certain beakers and flasks without a license. "Conservatives" at their finest - the freedom to do what they want you to do, because otherwise you might do the wrong thing.
There's an entire crowd of people who think the First Amendment should be cancelled, while they cling tightly to the Second. It does not occur to them that whatever legal trick they use to eliminate the amendments they don't want will be used on the ones they do.
Ah thank you, from the complete quote it's clear that he doesn't want to just come in and take away our essential liberties for fun, he wants to take away our essential liberties for imagined security. Really cleared things up there.
Just remember though, once you've decided some Amendments are optional, there's absolutely nothing standing in the way to make the rest of them optional. What are you going to say to the next Democratic president who says "Oh, right to bear arms, right to bear arms"?
This morning when I logged in, I got a dialog "Upgrade Now" or "Download Now" but it had the X button to close the dialog so I did.
I'm sure when I come to visit on Christmas, my mother will have windows 10 ("but it didn't give me a choice!")
As a programmer my favorite features are all nonstandard SQL stuff. For instance: arrays, array operators, and literal array notation.
No more whiny devs complaining about how they can't prepare foo IN ($1) so fuck prepared statements and security:
(This works way better from a program than from the psql console - only problem is that if you're doing arbitrary strings, the escaping challenge moves from apostrophes to commas, but messing up a comma doesn't let a malicious user drop a table)
Second most favorite is DISTINCT ON () which makes an awesome poor man's window function for a very specific case. You want to see every customer's most recent invoice?
Which is about half as much work to write as
It might even be half as much work for the database to process since there's no subquery, but I've never benchmarked it to see.
Low port, you mean. Ports below 1024 can only be opened by root. The server can (and should) change users after creating the socket.
I find your nonsense deep and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If you're 20 and healthy then yeah, getting a personal policy all by your lonesome will be cheaper than joining a risk pool of employees of all ages and health levels.
If you're 60 then getting a personal policy all by your lonesome will never be cheaper than joining a risk pool padded out by the 20 somethings buying the company plan. Unless you're talking about buying high-deductible ER-only coverage, in which case your tricycle doesn't even rank with the Ferrari's everyone else is getting and you should feel bad for claiming it's a better deal because it's cheaper.
Unless you've had a history of cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or any of a number of other "preexisting conditions". In that case, it's never been the case since Obamacare kicked in.