If he displayed chronic and excessive amounts of self-targeted humor, and I'd agree. But I didn't detect it here. Maybe you and I just have different thresholds for that sort of thing.
Really. He writes eloquently. He can laugh at himself. He may (or may not) have a beef with Berman and Co., but doesn't put them down in a public forum. Signs of maturity in my book.
I challenge every poster who wants to tell us about all the problems inherent in a national ID card, to instead suggest alternative solutions that increase national security while protecting personal liberties and freedoms (or at least not infringing upon them).
Are you suggesting that, if we cannot come up with an idea that protects personal liberties, we should then go to plan B, and scrap them?
Because if so, I have a counter-challenge: dare to stand up for your freedoms, and speak out for them, even though the world is a dangerous place.
I thought the big deal about Bose-Einstein condensates was their indeterminate size. Since cooling matter down to nearly absolute zero halts motion, and since zero motion is a very measurable quantity, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that the actual location of the electrons becomes indeterminate, and therefore the size of the atomic shell grows bigger. Not sure what implications this fact has, though, but it's kinda neat. If anything ever were to be cooled to absolute zero, it would be of infinite size.
...that's why the phrase "empty rhetoric" is an insult. No, the terrorists weren't even very successful, according to your criteria. They showed themselves to be backstabbing jackals, galvanized world opinion against them (even lessening their support in the Middle East), and look like they've pretty much guaranteed their exit from power.
I'll grant that a U.S. military response was one of their objectives. But I'm pretty sure this is not the kind of action they planned for. So no, we haven't given them what they wanted. I understand that you desperately want to believe that avoiding military conflict is the way to go, but you haven't put forth anything like a convincing case for it.
most of all, encouraging a polarizing and inflamatory response from the US that will get them more support and more terrorists.
It seems to me that they were completely successful in every one of these goals.
Then you say:
The only thing they have to be unhappy about right now is that the US actually made a stab at presenting evidence, got some support from Islamic nations, and is not killing more innocent people in air strikes than we already are.
When people use all this language about the "War on Terrorism", I can't help thinking of how similar it is to the "War on Drugs"
No. This war is not the war on drugs. There is a constand demand for drugs, hence a constant demand for drug suppliers. Many dealers get exactly what they want--a lot of money--and so their expectations of success are reasonably higher than someone who wants to bring down the United States. Nobody has done that, and, in the foreseeable future, nobody will.
But for every terrorist we kill, ten will rise to take their place.
Ten, eh? Care to supply any evidence for this statistic, or are you talking out of your ass?
We need to figure out what turns people into terrorists...
Well, at least one of the necessary ingredients seems to be the belief that you can strike with impunity, and these strikes really will lessen that delusion.
So your argument seems to be one (1) false analogy, one (1) made-up statistic, and several unfounded assumptions...and I'm supposed to believe you because...why, exactly?
Co-operative projects are something that would work well in an advanced class. Beginning classes are there to assure that you, the individual, know how the basics of programming work. The kind of assignments I remember from 280 (which was the intro class at Michigan back in the day) involved C language rudiments and some basic data structures, the kind of thing that, even if you were on a team, you'd work on alone for the most part.
In an advanced course, I could see team projects. But I would also expect the project to be much, much longer than 1000 LOC projects you see in intro classes.
I've always been a little skeptical of St. John's. I know of nobody who has gone there, so I'm only saying why I turned them down: you get, IIRC, one or two electives for the entire four years.
It just struck me as incongruous, a college that trains independent thinkers wouldn't trust them with making more decisions about their own curricula.
Some people seem to be saying that, if West had merely poked around searching for security holes (without being asked) and informed the company, that he wouldn't have done something wrong. Is this what I'm hearing?
If it is, how is that different from someone going around testing people's front doors at night, coming upon the sleeping residents, and telling them their door wasn't locked? I think most of us would agree that's criminal behavior. Face it, even if he didn't enter, "testing" the doors on other people's property is trespassing, plain and simple.
I just skimmed the bill, but I could find no mention of retroactively changing the statute of limitations. As far as I know, (and I maybe am not a lawyer), you cannot retroactively change any law. A person can only be tried under the law as it stood at the time the crime was committed.
...is how you spell it, although I've never actually seen anyone use the adverbial form of the word "sycophant." Better to say, "obsequiously." Or even better, "ass-kissingly."
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I, for one, would be happy to mail terrorists across the country in several, small packages...
All Hoyle said was that life didn't originate on Earth. While I think that's a little far-fetched, there's nothing infinitely regressive about his theory.
It's like saying humans didn't pop up all of a sudden in North America, but that the species began somewhere else. Most anthropologists believe that "somewhere else" is Africa. Reasoning by your line of argument, since life in Africa had to have come from yet another place, scrap anthropology and say we've been in North America all along.
In order to exercise these freedoms, you need only have access to the source, not the right to distribute it without compensating the developer. MFC meets these requirements...
No. The MFCs specify the interface, but not the implementation, of Microsoft code. For the purposes you cite (notably checking against backdoors), that is not enough. You need all of the code.
The survey also found that 77.2 percent of the developers surveyed chose Red Hat Linux as the distribution for use with a Web server or Web application server. This is more than three times the 21.8 percent who selected SuSE Linux or Mandrake. Caldera OpenLinux and FreeBSD followed, with 21.4 percent and 20.4 percent, respectively, the data showed.
That totals 140.8 percent, if my hand-addition is right. I presume there's overlap, but you can't really tell the way the paragraph's written.
I use LinOS/360, a batch-oriented mainframe Linux. No bloatware here--GUIs just interfere with the interns loading the punchcards. And I don't even waste my time with newbies who are afraid to walk into their machine and change the vacuum tubes themselves.
Seriously, though, why do people have an issue with a distro that focuses on ease of use? I thought the whole idea of technology was to make life easier--make the machine work for us, not the other way around.
Now, I know, once you've got the hang of it, the command line actually speeds things up, and I've fiddled with--and broke--my hardware as well, but the whole notion of a newbie distro is to get it up and running with minimum effort. As long as it doesn't interfere with learning more advanced methods, why the hostility?
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True. I was, however, responding more to the original poster, loki4eng:
Is what happens when you code your OS in C++. Sorry all you C++ dudes, but you know it's true.
--in my rush to defend the language, I got suckered into responding to someone who's either a script kiddie or a troll, or both.
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--in short, I'm dressed as someone who gives a fsck.
Remove that "and" from the first sentence in the parent post.
If he displayed chronic and excessive amounts of self-targeted humor, and I'd agree. But I didn't detect it here. Maybe you and I just have different thresholds for that sort of thing.
What makes you say immature?
Because if so, I have a counter-challenge: dare to stand up for your freedoms, and speak out for them, even though the world is a dangerous place.
I thought the big deal about Bose-Einstein condensates was their indeterminate size. Since cooling matter down to nearly absolute zero halts motion, and since zero motion is a very measurable quantity, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that the actual location of the electrons becomes indeterminate, and therefore the size of the atomic shell grows bigger. Not sure what implications this fact has, though, but it's kinda neat. If anything ever were to be cooled to absolute zero, it would be of infinite size.
I'll grant that a U.S. military response was one of their objectives. But I'm pretty sure this is not the kind of action they planned for. So no, we haven't given them what they wanted. I understand that you desperately want to believe that avoiding military conflict is the way to go, but you haven't put forth anything like a convincing case for it.
Then you say:
So which one is it? 'Cause it ain't both.
Funny, "Mein Kampf" translates to "My Struggle," too....
So your argument seems to be one (1) false analogy, one (1) made-up statistic, and several unfounded assumptions...and I'm supposed to believe you because...why, exactly?
In an advanced course, I could see team projects. But I would also expect the project to be much, much longer than 1000 LOC projects you see in intro classes.
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It just struck me as incongruous, a college that trains independent thinkers wouldn't trust them with making more decisions about their own curricula.
If it is, how is that different from someone going around testing people's front doors at night, coming upon the sleeping residents, and telling them their door wasn't locked? I think most of us would agree that's criminal behavior. Face it, even if he didn't enter, "testing" the doors on other people's property is trespassing, plain and simple.
I just skimmed the bill, but I could find no mention of retroactively changing the statute of limitations. As far as I know, (and I maybe am not a lawyer), you cannot retroactively change any law. A person can only be tried under the law as it stood at the time the crime was committed.
Wow! Do we get skins that look like Cokie Roberts, or Click and Clack from "Car Talk?" Cool!
...is how you spell it, although I've never actually seen anyone use the adverbial form of the word "sycophant." Better to say, "obsequiously." Or even better, "ass-kissingly."
I, for one, would be happy to mail terrorists across the country in several, small packages...
It's like saying humans didn't pop up all of a sudden in North America, but that the species began somewhere else. Most anthropologists believe that "somewhere else" is Africa. Reasoning by your line of argument, since life in Africa had to have come from yet another place, scrap anthropology and say we've been in North America all along.
There's really nothing wrong with it, it's just a kind of operator overloading that's built into the English language (as well as others).
Doesn't this seem to imply that FreeBSD is a Linux distro?
Seriously, though, why do people have an issue with a distro that focuses on ease of use? I thought the whole idea of technology was to make life easier--make the machine work for us, not the other way around.
Now, I know, once you've got the hang of it, the command line actually speeds things up, and I've fiddled with--and broke--my hardware as well, but the whole notion of a newbie distro is to get it up and running with minimum effort. As long as it doesn't interfere with learning more advanced methods, why the hostility?
--in my rush to defend the language, I got suckered into responding to someone who's either a script kiddie or a troll, or both.