Not only that - if the law isn't so fucking convoluted and obtuse and hidden away...
That's what you get when you allow private industry and corporatist groups like ALEC to write the laws.
The reason we have laws that are "fucking convoluted and obtuse and hidden away" is because there's somebody who is profiting from those laws being that way. There is no other reason.
You get corporations with such an interest in the law because the law started having such a heavy hand in how you do business. If you can't open a simple food stand without getting 5 permits and inspections from 3 agencies you can bet that the entire industry is going to start seeing that as a cost of doing business and start using their lobbying power to either reduce that cost or make that cost profitable.
I was (am?) the generation who learned to code in the mid-90s. I hate to sound lazy, but once we got over that hungarian nonsense, every team I've worked on just agreed (or had dictated) an autoformatter for our IDE and just made sure to run it before we committed. Hell one team had it setup as a pre-commit hook in SVN. It mooted many of the style arguments and let us focus on solving real problems.
Hell the more modern IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ, and VisualStudio even suggest variable names and hint for proper case. As programmers and software engineers should we not use software tools to do tedious and mundane work for us?
Marriott claims the incident cost the company between $400,000 and $1 million in salaries, consultant expenses and other costs
Reminds me of Kevin Mitnick. He was convicted for stealing a manual (that could be purchased for a few hundred dollars) AND for the costs to plug all the holes he found.
The difference here is that the hacker in this case seems to be outright guilty of extortion. Why not bust him for that out of the gate?
1. What is an 'essential task'? Travel for work? That vacation I planned and booked a year ago? 2. Where have you been? People stopped travelling in droves after 9/11. You recall what happened? We bailed out the airlines.
I share the sentiment, but its an oligolpoly at best. There are no alternatives to air travel.
Issa has actually done a pretty good job. He has become well known for exposing important issues that others would ignore or actively hide. His hearings on SOPA are to the tech community as his hearings on Gunwalker/Fast and Furious are to the right to keep and bear arms community.
With 3D printing there is little to no waste. That's why it's called additive manufacturing.
The bigger issue is finishing, most 3D printed parts will need some. I'm sure they don't want metal or plastic filings floating around in the ISS, so that could be tricky.
Just do what I do when I don't want to cleanup sawdust or shavings in my house, just pop outside.... oh right.
I do have several friends who have served and many more who have family members serving now and I resent hearing people I respect and like called government murderers. I think in this case I responded hastily to a troll. I do have concerns about how, why, and where politicians deploy my friends.
"I know nothing I say will change your beliefs." You'd be surprised. I struggle with this, I don't want a government that represents me abusing the military but I do recognize that having a force like the US does is sometimes necessary. I know the job that my friends do in the Army sucks and I want to understand what they do in the vain hope that I can make is suck less.
Ok. I'll stick to having them build roads, schools, kill oppressive dictators, kill terrorists, and make the world a better place. I'd rather that we didn't have to kill to accomplish these goals, but thats what it takes.
This is EXACTLY like when my brother and I used to fight over a toy. Mom or dad would come in and declare that if we couldn't figure it out nicely, then neither one of us would get it.
I actually commend Facebook for this. They probably don't want to deal with these disputes at all and this is really a good policy to have.
Why tell potential targets how big a bomb you have and how deep it will penetrate? They can just go deeper and pour more concrete. What happened to surprise?
I have a friend who served in the Gulf War (the first one) and drove one of the missile systems. He often said, "The range *that we were allowed to know about* was 50km". I forget the exact numbers, the point is that frequently what the published capabilities and what the real capabilities of a weapons system is are often significantly different.
Japan has a folkloric reverence for raccoon dogs as mischievous shapeshifters. It's just a silly suit Mario is wearing, and there's no implication that Mario killed and skinned a human-sized raccoon dog to wear its fur and fly in it.
So you have evidence that Mario is indeed very tiny and skinned a normal-sized raccoon dog to wear its fur and fly in it? Stop holding out! LIES BY OMISSION!:D
All in all, if it had been a real emergency, losing the 2 major news channels would have been real motivation to start loading ammo and supplies and gassing up the bug out mobile.;)
If your mags aren't already loaded and your bug-out-buggy isn't gassed up, you're already doomed.
There was a great short story about this, the gist was that robots made everything and made more than people needed. So poor people were forced to consume. They had to eat so much food, live in big houses, make sure they wore out pants and things. Rich people had modest homes.
No one had to work, except the poor, who had to work to consume the unbalanced output from the robot factories.
The difference is Border Patrol agents are real law enforcement officers. They are also not doing a 'search' per se, rather seeing what can be observed from the outside of the vehicle.
The TSA agents are not law enforcement officers and they perform invasive searches without probable cause or a warrant.
Teleportation's easy, just redirect the location mid-transport. Imagine your surprise when instead of your girlfriend's house, you find yourself in an unspecified location that looks vaguely like Cuba.
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That's what you get when you allow private industry and corporatist groups like ALEC to write the laws.
The reason we have laws that are "fucking convoluted and obtuse and hidden away" is because there's somebody who is profiting from those laws being that way. There is no other reason.
You get corporations with such an interest in the law because the law started having such a heavy hand in how you do business. If you can't open a simple food stand without getting 5 permits and inspections from 3 agencies you can bet that the entire industry is going to start seeing that as a cost of doing business and start using their lobbying power to either reduce that cost or make that cost profitable.
Since then we have had to rewrite a lot of that to use far more boring errors.
Why didn't you rewrite the code to not produce the errors in the first place?
I was (am?) the generation who learned to code in the mid-90s. I hate to sound lazy, but once we got over that hungarian nonsense, every team I've worked on just agreed (or had dictated) an autoformatter for our IDE and just made sure to run it before we committed. Hell one team had it setup as a pre-commit hook in SVN. It mooted many of the style arguments and let us focus on solving real problems.
Hell the more modern IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ, and VisualStudio even suggest variable names and hint for proper case. As programmers and software engineers should we not use software tools to do tedious and mundane work for us?
Marriott claims the incident cost the company between $400,000 and $1 million in salaries, consultant expenses and other costs
Reminds me of Kevin Mitnick. He was convicted for stealing a manual (that could be purchased for a few hundred dollars) AND for the costs to plug all the holes he found.
The difference here is that the hacker in this case seems to be outright guilty of extortion. Why not bust him for that out of the gate?
1. What is an 'essential task'? Travel for work? That vacation I planned and booked a year ago?
2. Where have you been? People stopped travelling in droves after 9/11. You recall what happened? We bailed out the airlines.
I share the sentiment, but its an oligolpoly at best. There are no alternatives to air travel.
Issa has actually done a pretty good job. He has become well known for exposing important issues that others would ignore or actively hide. His hearings on SOPA are to the tech community as his hearings on Gunwalker/Fast and Furious are to the right to keep and bear arms community.
The people passing on the shoulder, tailgating, yakking on phones. putting on make-up, shaving, picking noses...
They should be pointed outside the car!
With 3D printing there is little to no waste. That's why it's called additive manufacturing.
The bigger issue is finishing, most 3D printed parts will need some. I'm sure they don't want metal or plastic filings floating around in the ISS, so that could be tricky.
Just do what I do when I don't want to cleanup sawdust or shavings in my house, just pop outside.... oh right.
Your assessment is correct. I have not served.
I do have several friends who have served and many more who have family members serving now and I resent hearing people I respect and like called government murderers. I think in this case I responded hastily to a troll. I do have concerns about how, why, and where politicians deploy my friends.
"I know nothing I say will change your beliefs." You'd be surprised. I struggle with this, I don't want a government that represents me abusing the military but I do recognize that having a force like the US does is sometimes necessary. I know the job that my friends do in the Army sucks and I want to understand what they do in the vain hope that I can make is suck less.
Ok. I'll stick to having them build roads, schools, kill oppressive dictators, kill terrorists, and make the world a better place. I'd rather that we didn't have to kill to accomplish these goals, but thats what it takes.
This is EXACTLY like when my brother and I used to fight over a toy. Mom or dad would come in and declare that if we couldn't figure it out nicely, then neither one of us would get it.
I actually commend Facebook for this. They probably don't want to deal with these disputes at all and this is really a good policy to have.
Because when I think "manly", "make my penis bigger", and "attract women" I think of a little rinky dink eco-friendly compact car....
Why tell potential targets how big a bomb you have and how deep it will penetrate? They can just go deeper and pour more concrete. What happened to surprise?
I have a friend who served in the Gulf War (the first one) and drove one of the missile systems. He often said, "The range *that we were allowed to know about* was 50km". I forget the exact numbers, the point is that frequently what the published capabilities and what the real capabilities of a weapons system is are often significantly different.
Japan has a folkloric reverence for raccoon dogs as mischievous shapeshifters. It's just a silly suit Mario is wearing, and there's no implication that Mario killed and skinned a human-sized raccoon dog to wear its fur and fly in it.
So you have evidence that Mario is indeed very tiny and skinned a normal-sized raccoon dog to wear its fur and fly in it? Stop holding out! LIES BY OMISSION! :D
All in all, if it had been a real emergency, losing the 2 major news channels would have been real motivation to start loading ammo and supplies and gassing up the bug out mobile. ;)
If your mags aren't already loaded and your bug-out-buggy isn't gassed up, you're already doomed.
There was a great short story about this, the gist was that robots made everything and made more than people needed. So poor people were forced to consume. They had to eat so much food, live in big houses, make sure they wore out pants and things. Rich people had modest homes.
No one had to work, except the poor, who had to work to consume the unbalanced output from the robot factories.
Of course. It's 9-1-1 backwards. Duh.
No because its 9/11 in Europe!
Well I'm the man with the gun.
If that doesn't work, you always save one bullet for yourself.
Thats 167 rounds per minute, which isn't really that fast of a cyclic rate for a modern automatic weapon.
The trick is getting them to stand still while you reload.
Go on, name names. http://www.kctcs.edu/Colleges_and_Campuses.aspx
The difference is Border Patrol agents are real law enforcement officers. They are also not doing a 'search' per se, rather seeing what can be observed from the outside of the vehicle.
The TSA agents are not law enforcement officers and they perform invasive searches without probable cause or a warrant.
Teleportation's easy, just redirect the location mid-transport. Imagine your surprise when instead of your girlfriend's house, you find yourself in an unspecified location that looks vaguely like Cuba.
My girlfriend is Cuban you insensitive clod!
Whats the chemical formula for driveway salt? Kosher salt? Sea salt?
Imagine how much we could store in the big granules of road salt when winter rolls around!
Go jerk off somewhere else; preferably using powdered glass as a lube.
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Blackjack and hookers.