That's a load of shit. Even if your 35 vs 48 hours numbers aren't pulled out of your ass (and I think they are), it's still the case that people putting in way too many hours tend to burn out and not achieve more (in terms of actual meaningful output, even if they send lots of "look how busy I am" emails). People who stick to sensible working hours and maintain some work-life balance are more likely to calmly and thoughtfully look at the big picture before making decisions, compared to burnt-out stressheads.
Korans aren't useful weapons for committing mass murder. Guns, on the other hand, are pretty effective.
Both are constitutionally protected. If your point is you prefer one over the other, that's cool. Lots of people prefer lots of things.
Oh I don't particularly care to own either, but it's probably time to update that constitution to fix the bug which leads to thousands of deaths every year, and finally enact some sensible nationwide gun control. You do patch your software when fixes are available, don't you? I mean just look at this case -- the killer bought the weapon legally in San Diego. If you had gun laws making it harder (or, preferably, impossible) to buy guns in every state, then she couldn't have bought or carried it legally, and it would have made it much harder for her to shoot 3 employees in California.
The destruction of all morality and complete lack of any personal responsibility. Not to mention a culture that now values being a victim above all else. Zero discipline in schools or at home. The absence of two-parent homes. Etc, etc.
But please, tell us again how this is the fault of an inanimate object.
Indeed, it's not the "fault" of guns. As they say, guns don't kill people, *people* kill people. That's why shouldn't let people have guns.
They do, but since only some of your states have strict gun laws, they can be worked around by acquiring a gun from a state with weaker gun laws. In this case, the shooter brought a gun from San Diego (less strict) into California (more strict). You need to bring stricter gun laws into all the states for it to have a more meaningful effect -- hopefully you've already voted for such changes in your own state?
I hope we can someday learn not to scapegoat innocent gun owners when something bad happens, just like we learned not to scapegoat innocent Muslims after a terror attack. I don't think we want to see door to door searches for Korans or any other items innocent people might possess.
Korans aren't useful weapons for committing mass murder. Guns, on the other hand, are pretty effective.
In Ireland our drinks cans and bottles are labelled in mL (if less than a litre) or L. So a can of Coke is 330 mL. Nobody here uses cL. Although we do use cm more than mm, I think.
Americans see electric cars only from the time they are brand new until they no longer work.
They are blind to the fossil fuel input needed to mine, extract, refine, process, deliver raw materials for electric cars.
They fail; to account for fossil fuel's role in maintaining electric cars and they fail to factor in fossil fuel's part in disposing of or recycling the components of deceased electric cars.
And, it seems, you see petrol and diesel cars only from the time they are brand new until they no longer work.
You are blind to the fossil fuel input needed to mine, extract, refine, process, deliver raw materials for petrol and diesel cars.
You fail to account for fossil fuel's role in maintaining petrol and diesel cars and they fail to factor in fossil fuel's part in disposing of or recycling the components of deceased petrol and diesel cars.
There are plenty of native IRC clients available for basically every operating system. They waste less resources, and you can get them from sources that are probably much more trustworthy than some arbitrary web page.
Yes, and they also require the user to trust that the arbitrary code in their shiny native IRC client will be less harmful than the arbitrary *sandboxed* code, running in their web browser, with the ability to block known ad sites or restrict certain types of operation (like accessing the webcam or microphone, etc).
The current model of running native programs is indeed more powerful, but far, far less safe than running stuff in your browser's controller JavaScript sandbox. That's not to say that a superior alternative to both could exist -- maybe we could start integrating Docker (or similar LXC-type system) into the process of installing, running and deleting native-but-not-totally-trusted apps.
You claimed that he needed to prove a whole bunch of negatives before being able to draw any conclusions stronger than "we don't know". This is a little bit like the Bible thumpers' old favourite of "prove that there is no God, or you should assume one exists".
I go running in the park, I sometimes see kids playing it in groups. I usually give them a friendly hello and ask them if they've caught any yet as I pass. It's not inconceivable that a sex offender could strike up a more meaningful conversation, so I can see some kind of connection.
The fact that you often meet kids who are playing Pokémon Go in the park, despite you not playing Pokémon Go, just highlights how utterly pointless this kneejerk rubbish is. It would be more effective for them to ban children from playing the game, and of course even more effective to ban children from ever going outdoors.
But that would not only be stupid, it would also be obviously stupid and unfair to kids.
It's seen as socially acceptable to propose arbitrary limitations on the freedom of sexual offenders, because apparently being released doesn't imply any kind of rehabilitation has happened. This just further reinforces the message that being imprisoned in the first place was about punishment rather than rehabilitation. It's a shame that vengeance and judgement are still such a big part of modern society.
Just checked mine and both apps are using 475 megs of space. This is not counting cached data. Anything over that depends on what you send such as images and so on. Cached data depends on what the user does thus can't really place blame on the app.
Sure they can blame the app, if it doesn't manage the cached data properly. If you design programs that make use of a cache, one of the first steps you should take, especially on mobile devices, is to check that the cache doesn't grow beyond a certain limit.
completely immune to random internet-based attacks, at least ignoring user actions like launching an infected program or script
Or using a web browser to view a news article on Forbes triggering popunders with malware exploits, or looking at a page which happens to contain a PNG file designed to exploit a buffer overflow in the PNG parsing library, or running AV software which scans a ZIP file that happens to be crafted to exploit a vulnerability in the archive extraction library. Or really installing any software, ever.
If there's two things we could do to mitigate the damage caused by these exploits, it's:
1: Stop using C and C++ to write programs. People are still shooting themselves (and all users of their software) in the foot by accidentally introducing stack-smashing vulnerabilities and the like into their code in 2016, and that's embarrassing and unnecessary.
2: Figure out how to automatically use virtualisation containers like Docker to isolate every user program into a separate virtual environment that prevents them from accidentally destroying the system. Without the user needing to even know anything about it...
It is true... C64 "V2" Basic was my first taste of programming and I was pretty much hooked straight away, even though it was a fairly unpleasant dialect, with line numbers and no auto-renumbering function, only two significant characters in variable names (so "speed" and "spinning" were the same variable, leading to code with awful variable names) and the lack of any commands for controlling the audio hardware or doing anything with video other than writing characters and symbols.
The only way to make sound or create sprites (or even change the screen colours) was to use POKE commands to write to arbitrary memory locations (generally through trial and error, as a kid with no documentation, before the web existed).
Still, there was enough magic there that once you'd really gotten a taste for it, there was no going back. On the plus side, almost every programming language after that seemed really reasonable if not generous:)
Depending on when that code was written, it's possible that the machine's ALU was slower than doing a fetch from cache or even memory, so the ganky lookup table may have been faster then. Maybe.
I am sure the FBI has better things to do than spy on innocent people. From the sheer fact that they were monitoring him we can safely assume that he is a spy, and is guilty as sin.
He got away with it this time, but justice will be served eventually. And one thing's for sure, whether he got away with it or not, everybody knows he is a spy now so you can bet nobody will make the mistake of trusting him with that kind of power again!
Yes, because forget about "innocent until proven guilty", or even "innocent until a trial starts", let's just have "guilty if any government agency files any charges, even if they withdraw the charges later".
It's great that we have objective, rational people like you on juries to decide whether people spend life in jail, walk free or are executed. We can all sleep safely knowing that, thanks to objective, rational people like you, nobody will ever be wrongfully imprisoned or executed without the highest standards of evidence.
What kind of rational human being does this? Did you try to set fire to your schools property because of a bad grade? I'll look past the B&E and unauthorized access.
He is dangerous, to himself and others. If not juvie, then a psych eval and treatment.
He's a kid, not a rational human being. He needs emotional help, like lots of kids (and sadly, lots of adults). Do you honestly think he'll get that help by being thrown in "juvie", excluded and shunned from normal society?
He did the crime (actually several), he must do the time.
If he wants to play big boy games then he must accept big boy penalties. Fuck your PC "Oh but he's a kid with his whole life ahead of him!" bullshit, he's chosen his path, let him reap the consequences.
This medieval attitude is one reason why the US has the biggest prison population in the world and one of, if not the worst rates of recidivism.
What this kid needs is some help, not "big boy penalties", a.k.a. incarceration and a lifelong criminal record which marks him as "different" from normal people in a way that affects him negatively for the rest of his life. Stop doing that.
Disclaimer: Degree qualified computer scientist working as C/C++ software engineer for the last 25yrs.
That's not a disclaimer -- it's the appeal to authority fallacy. Try actually addressing his points, rather than dismissing them by asserting personal expertise.
One thing we've noticed is the other side: it's often cheaper to just buy the movie, watch it at home (home-popped popcorn) and throw away the disc afterwards than it is to watch it in the theatre.
Home movies have gotten so much cheaper than theatres that this is feasible for most movies. We still see the odd one in the theatre, but that has gotten quite rare over the years.
You actually have something there. HDTV's are relatively cheap compared to the original vacuum tube variety that was used for standard definition. Even if you want to buy a 4K HDTV over the now standard 2K (1080p) 15:9 aspect ratio HDTV's you may pay about 10% more. In fact it is possible to set-up a reasonable home theatre (includes HDTV, DVD/BD player, amplifier and speakers) system for under $2000. Of course you could spend ridicules amounts of money on a home theatre system as well.
If you are into watching movies it is actually cheaper to either rent or if you think you may want to watch the movie again then purchase the Blu-ray. Even if that movie is the latest release and costs say $30 it would still be cheaper to purchase and watch with friends and family than go to a movie theatre.
It probably would be cheaper over the long-haul, plus you don't have people standing up in front of you in the middle of the "closure" scene just to beat the queue to get out... argh, so inconsiderate! Also, you can pause it at any point to talk, make tea or go for a piss. And you don't have to spend time and money travelling to/from the theatre and parking. I'm poor so I neither go to the cinema nor have a big home cinema system, but that'll definitely be my preferred choice upon leaving poverty:D
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If I could fill in a survey about the quality of that comment I'd give you five stars. A+++, would read again.
That's a load of shit. Even if your 35 vs 48 hours numbers aren't pulled out of your ass (and I think they are), it's still the case that people putting in way too many hours tend to burn out and not achieve more (in terms of actual meaningful output, even if they send lots of "look how busy I am" emails). People who stick to sensible working hours and maintain some work-life balance are more likely to calmly and thoughtfully look at the big picture before making decisions, compared to burnt-out stressheads.
Korans aren't useful weapons for committing mass murder. Guns, on the other hand, are pretty effective.
Both are constitutionally protected. If your point is you prefer one over the other, that's cool. Lots of people prefer lots of things.
Oh I don't particularly care to own either, but it's probably time to update that constitution to fix the bug which leads to thousands of deaths every year, and finally enact some sensible nationwide gun control. You do patch your software when fixes are available, don't you? I mean just look at this case -- the killer bought the weapon legally in San Diego. If you had gun laws making it harder (or, preferably, impossible) to buy guns in every state, then she couldn't have bought or carried it legally, and it would have made it much harder for her to shoot 3 employees in California.
The destruction of all morality and complete lack of any personal responsibility. Not to mention a culture that now values being a victim above all else. Zero discipline in schools or at home. The absence of two-parent homes. Etc, etc.
But please, tell us again how this is the fault of an inanimate object.
Indeed, it's not the "fault" of guns. As they say, guns don't kill people, *people* kill people. That's why shouldn't let people have guns.
Strict gun laws don’t make us safe?
They do, but since only some of your states have strict gun laws, they can be worked around by acquiring a gun from a state with weaker gun laws. In this case, the shooter brought a gun from San Diego (less strict) into California (more strict). You need to bring stricter gun laws into all the states for it to have a more meaningful effect -- hopefully you've already voted for such changes in your own state?
I hope we can someday learn not to scapegoat innocent gun owners when something bad happens, just like we learned not to scapegoat innocent Muslims after a terror attack. I don't think we want to see door to door searches for Korans or any other items innocent people might possess.
Korans aren't useful weapons for committing mass murder. Guns, on the other hand, are pretty effective.
In Ireland our drinks cans and bottles are labelled in mL (if less than a litre) or L. So a can of Coke is 330 mL. Nobody here uses cL. Although we do use cm more than mm, I think.
Americans see electric cars only from the time they are brand new until they no longer work.
They are blind to the fossil fuel input needed to mine, extract, refine, process, deliver raw materials for electric cars.
They fail; to account for fossil fuel's role in maintaining electric cars and they fail to factor in fossil fuel's part in disposing of or recycling the components of deceased electric cars.
And, it seems, you see petrol and diesel cars only from the time they are brand new until they no longer work.
You are blind to the fossil fuel input needed to mine, extract, refine, process, deliver raw materials for petrol and diesel cars.
You fail to account for fossil fuel's role in maintaining petrol and diesel cars and they fail to factor in fossil fuel's part in disposing of or recycling the components of deceased petrol and diesel cars.
If you've skipped them, how do you know they were trash...?
This is not true. If true, I could take the entire mobility network down without consequences, because I have access to it.
So people wouldn't be able to move around so much anymore?
There are plenty of native IRC clients available for basically every operating system. They waste less resources, and you can get them from sources that are probably much more trustworthy than some arbitrary web page.
Yes, and they also require the user to trust that the arbitrary code in their shiny native IRC client will be less harmful than the arbitrary *sandboxed* code, running in their web browser, with the ability to block known ad sites or restrict certain types of operation (like accessing the webcam or microphone, etc).
The current model of running native programs is indeed more powerful, but far, far less safe than running stuff in your browser's controller JavaScript sandbox. That's not to say that a superior alternative to both could exist -- maybe we could start integrating Docker (or similar LXC-type system) into the process of installing, running and deleting native-but-not-totally-trusted apps.
You claimed that he needed to prove a whole bunch of negatives before being able to draw any conclusions stronger than "we don't know". This is a little bit like the Bible thumpers' old favourite of "prove that there is no God, or you should assume one exists".
Obviously the GUI *was* the hardest part, because that's what they broke.
I go running in the park, I sometimes see kids playing it in groups. I usually give them a friendly hello and ask them if they've caught any yet as I pass. It's not inconceivable that a sex offender could strike up a more meaningful conversation, so I can see some kind of connection.
The fact that you often meet kids who are playing Pokémon Go in the park, despite you not playing Pokémon Go, just highlights how utterly pointless this kneejerk rubbish is. It would be more effective for them to ban children from playing the game, and of course even more effective to ban children from ever going outdoors.
But that would not only be stupid, it would also be obviously stupid and unfair to kids.
It's seen as socially acceptable to propose arbitrary limitations on the freedom of sexual offenders, because apparently being released doesn't imply any kind of rehabilitation has happened. This just further reinforces the message that being imprisoned in the first place was about punishment rather than rehabilitation. It's a shame that vengeance and judgement are still such a big part of modern society.
Just checked mine and both apps are using 475 megs of space. This is not counting cached data. Anything over that depends on what you send such as images and so on. Cached data depends on what the user does thus can't really place blame on the app.
Sure they can blame the app, if it doesn't manage the cached data properly. If you design programs that make use of a cache, one of the first steps you should take, especially on mobile devices, is to check that the cache doesn't grow beyond a certain limit.
completely immune to random internet-based attacks, at least ignoring user actions like launching an infected program or script
Or using a web browser to view a news article on Forbes triggering popunders with malware exploits, or looking at a page which happens to contain a PNG file designed to exploit a buffer overflow in the PNG parsing library, or running AV software which scans a ZIP file that happens to be crafted to exploit a vulnerability in the archive extraction library. Or really installing any software, ever.
If there's two things we could do to mitigate the damage caused by these exploits, it's:
1: Stop using C and C++ to write programs. People are still shooting themselves (and all users of their software) in the foot by accidentally introducing stack-smashing vulnerabilities and the like into their code in 2016, and that's embarrassing and unnecessary.
2: Figure out how to automatically use virtualisation containers like Docker to isolate every user program into a separate virtual environment that prevents them from accidentally destroying the system. Without the user needing to even know anything about it...
It is true... C64 "V2" Basic was my first taste of programming and I was pretty much hooked straight away, even though it was a fairly unpleasant dialect, with line numbers and no auto-renumbering function, only two significant characters in variable names (so "speed" and "spinning" were the same variable, leading to code with awful variable names) and the lack of any commands for controlling the audio hardware or doing anything with video other than writing characters and symbols. The only way to make sound or create sprites (or even change the screen colours) was to use POKE commands to write to arbitrary memory locations (generally through trial and error, as a kid with no documentation, before the web existed).
:)
Still, there was enough magic there that once you'd really gotten a taste for it, there was no going back. On the plus side, almost every programming language after that seemed really reasonable if not generous
Depending on when that code was written, it's possible that the machine's ALU was slower than doing a fetch from cache or even memory, so the ganky lookup table may have been faster then. Maybe.
Hey FBI, where not all highschool drop outs like the bulk of your colleagues.
And some of us can even spell "we're" properly. Take that, FBI!
I am sure the FBI has better things to do than spy on innocent people. From the sheer fact that they were monitoring him we can safely assume that he is a spy, and is guilty as sin.
He got away with it this time, but justice will be served eventually. And one thing's for sure, whether he got away with it or not, everybody knows he is a spy now so you can bet nobody will make the mistake of trusting him with that kind of power again!
Yes, because forget about "innocent until proven guilty", or even "innocent until a trial starts", let's just have "guilty if any government agency files any charges, even if they withdraw the charges later".
It's great that we have objective, rational people like you on juries to decide whether people spend life in jail, walk free or are executed. We can all sleep safely knowing that, thanks to objective, rational people like you, nobody will ever be wrongfully imprisoned or executed without the highest standards of evidence.
Don't you just hate sentences that (while providing important background information)?
What kind of rational human being does this? Did you try to set fire to your schools property because of a bad grade? I'll look past the B&E and unauthorized access.
He is dangerous, to himself and others. If not juvie, then a psych eval and treatment.
He's a kid, not a rational human being. He needs emotional help, like lots of kids (and sadly, lots of adults). Do you honestly think he'll get that help by being thrown in "juvie", excluded and shunned from normal society?
He did the crime (actually several), he must do the time.
If he wants to play big boy games then he must accept big boy penalties. Fuck your PC "Oh but he's a kid with his whole life ahead of him!" bullshit, he's chosen his path, let him reap the consequences.
This medieval attitude is one reason why the US has the biggest prison population in the world and one of, if not the worst rates of recidivism.
What this kid needs is some help, not "big boy penalties", a.k.a. incarceration and a lifelong criminal record which marks him as "different" from normal people in a way that affects him negatively for the rest of his life. Stop doing that.
Disclaimer: Degree qualified computer scientist working as C/C++ software engineer for the last 25yrs.
That's not a disclaimer -- it's the appeal to authority fallacy. Try actually addressing his points, rather than dismissing them by asserting personal expertise.
One thing we've noticed is the other side: it's often cheaper to just buy the movie, watch it at home (home-popped popcorn) and throw away the disc afterwards than it is to watch it in the theatre.
Home movies have gotten so much cheaper than theatres that this is feasible for most movies. We still see the odd one in the theatre, but that has gotten quite rare over the years.
You actually have something there. HDTV's are relatively cheap compared to the original vacuum tube variety that was used for standard definition. Even if you want to buy a 4K HDTV over the now standard 2K (1080p) 15:9 aspect ratio HDTV's you may pay about 10% more. In fact it is possible to set-up a reasonable home theatre (includes HDTV, DVD/BD player, amplifier and speakers) system for under $2000. Of course you could spend ridicules amounts of money on a home theatre system as well.
If you are into watching movies it is actually cheaper to either rent or if you think you may want to watch the movie again then purchase the Blu-ray. Even if that movie is the latest release and costs say $30 it would still be cheaper to purchase and watch with friends and family than go to a movie theatre.
It probably would be cheaper over the long-haul, plus you don't have people standing up in front of you in the middle of the "closure" scene just to beat the queue to get out... argh, so inconsiderate! Also, you can pause it at any point to talk, make tea or go for a piss. And you don't have to spend time and money travelling to/from the theatre and parking. I'm poor so I neither go to the cinema nor have a big home cinema system, but that'll definitely be my preferred choice upon leaving poverty :D