Wouldn't that be a sort of test of applying evolutionary principles to research funding?
step 1: sprinkle step 2: if it sprouts, feed step 3: profit!
If for nothing else, it would be funny to see how the 'hallowed halls' react to living within the competitive confines they have long espoused from tenured security.
A completely insane government spends your money to bolster their friends, wipes their asses with your rights and freedoms, and you blame some mythical movement of 'political correctness'. Is it willful blindness or a smokescreen?
And, no, 'tolerate all but intolerance' is how the rule goes. Chess has no explicit rule against shooting your opponent to win by default, but I doubt that strategy would make you a grand master. Less violent, but analogous strategies are often discovered by infants, and it is important that parents recognize and refute these attempts; lest they go on to become President of the US.
A little fact checking: Ezra Klein is a ultra conservative media whore; if he were pretty he would be a "Hilton". Mark Steyn is little better. A clever friend once said "wrong isn't controversial, its just wrong", but it does get puny ideas published (and blogged). Hate crime legislation is controversial. It directly addresses the paradox of 'tolerate all but the intolerant'; which is a tenuous balance. Some societies just prefer to dodge the problem all together; and that seems to have problems too.
The Klein and the Steyn exploit this issue rather than address it, which, considering they are self-proclaimed journalists or social critics, is mildly ironic. It is an issue which should be explored more in mass media, because mass media makes it more relevant. The ready ability to reach a wide audience with statements demands a greater clarity than ever before.
And, no, I haven't read Steyns piece of shit. Frankly that is a paradox too. In order to know exactly what is wrong with it, first hand, involves indirectly rewarding him; which I am not willing to do. If I were to risk jail for stealing a book, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be this one.
"how can I make these cameras work to fight crime better?" Try clubbing them with the cameras? Sell the cameras and use the money to do something useful?
Crime is a symptom, not a disease. Treating everyone like criminals - whether via surveillance or fencing in your neighbourhood - is a losing strategy because it discounts what you mean to preserve.
It has always been about trying to avoid making big systems. Unit tests have many of the limitations of spell checking; they are know replacement four vigorous review.
The problem with the C code is obvious, and easily caught by code review. C++, on the other hand has hidden the bug so well, only those with an intimate understanding of the class interfaces have a hope of catching it. Code is meant for reading; for everything else there is APL.
C. C++ is just awful. Stroustrup is whining. This could never be his fault; of course not. C++ must be perfect, just look at what he has said about it! It must be wonderful. If most C++ code is unreadable, happens-to-work-once swill, it must be the fault of the teachers. Even the examples in his own books can't give a convincing reason to use it. Line up the "white book" on C, with any of the blue or grey books on C++. Its not just because K&R were great writers (they were); it is because they were great language designers.
Of course, these are all implementation faults. The pure language, like any pure 'ism', is perfect, it just happens to be useless...
C++ isn't portable; not just across architectures or OSes, subsequent revisions of compilers typically involve a 'port' of your code to the latest redefinition. Binary compatibility is non-existant (unless you spec all your interfaces as extern "C":) C++ stinks for systems level programming. Trust me; done lots. The quickest solution when faced with C++ low level software is to quickly re-write it in C. Nice thing is, it usually ends up more concise, more reliable, and more maintainable. C++ may be ok for application programming that don't require portability. Not really sure of the point. C++ stinks for libraries - again, poor version control, dubious infrastructure, poorly specified system environment.
The action should come from customers of Bell-branded services. Bell has become a brand-outsourcing company over the past decade - they sell their name to satellite, internet and wireless companies because it is a known success. The slightest hint that the brand has 'gone south' (oblique reference to southern neighbour) will result in more action than 10 CRTCs, 9-RIAAs a leaping, 8-Royal commisssions.... and a pissed of drunken hoser....
Kudos to teksavvy; I have been a customer for 5 years, and couldn't be happier. Hopefully starchoice and fido will work out as well......
It bends the idea of church in the sense of 'catholic' or 'anglican', however the southern baptist convention, for example, makes it an article of faith that '...all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy...'.
It is typical of evangelical christian sects to hold biblical infallibility as a basic tenet, which, transitively means that creation is in, evolution is not.
The creationist/evolution thing is more like a sideshow. The way in which they want to help bring about the apocalypse is truly frightening, especially considering the influence they have with western governments.
"No more being chained to your computer. This frees us as much as the mouse/gui freed us..." by which you mean "further enslaved us". Go outside without any electronics at all and experience webIII - real life. It is even better than the shows about it....
ohhh its encryption you want. How about a mail client that actually worked? Wouldn't that be nice? Delivered, read and displayed mail. Oh, and did it without going nuts, taking all ram+swap, generating 100000/tmp/tmp_rules-*.dat files, etc.. Its f-in email, I've had it since 1985, and wish you could get a half decent, non-text mode client without having to jump to OS X. ahem, but encrypting a shitty email client would be nice too....
It would be great if someone came up with a way to attach a little bit of executable to the data/reference that could activate an object within an application. That way, you would merely access the data, and it would appear like an active object inside your program, or OS if appropriate.
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> I doubt the CTO or CIO of a giant firm suggested DDOSing...
That isn't the role of the CxO; the CxO could be punished for saying such a thing. The CxO has a carefully selected team which correctly interprets "we NEED to hush this up" into the appropriate action, without regard for ethics or laws. Building such a team is the critical competency of an executive. The result is a highly effective and resilient organization that is capable of anything from fraud to torture.
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> What happens if you try to fund *all* of them?
Wouldn't that be a sort of test of applying evolutionary principles to research funding?
step 1: sprinkle
step 2: if it sprouts, feed
step 3: profit!
If for nothing else, it would be funny to see how the 'hallowed halls' react to living within the competitive confines they have long espoused from tenured security.
A completely insane government spends your money to bolster their friends, wipes their asses with your rights and freedoms, and you blame some mythical movement of 'political correctness'. Is it willful blindness or a smokescreen?
And, no, 'tolerate all but intolerance' is how the rule goes. Chess has no explicit rule against shooting your opponent to win by default, but I doubt that strategy would make you a grand master. Less violent, but analogous strategies are often discovered by infants, and it is important that parents recognize and refute these attempts; lest they go on to become President of the US.
A little fact checking: Ezra Klein is a ultra conservative media whore; if he were pretty he would be a "Hilton". Mark Steyn is little better. A clever friend once said "wrong isn't controversial, its just wrong", but it does get puny ideas published (and blogged).
Hate crime legislation is controversial. It directly addresses the paradox of 'tolerate all but the intolerant'; which is a tenuous balance. Some societies just prefer to dodge the problem all together; and that seems to have problems too.
The Klein and the Steyn exploit this issue rather than address it, which, considering they are self-proclaimed journalists or social critics, is mildly ironic. It is an issue which should be explored more in mass media, because mass media makes it more relevant. The ready ability to reach a wide audience with statements demands a greater clarity than ever before.
And, no, I haven't read Steyns piece of shit. Frankly that is a paradox too. In order to know exactly what is wrong with it, first hand, involves indirectly rewarding him; which I am not willing to do. If I were to risk jail for stealing a book, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be this one.
"how can I make these cameras work to fight crime better?"
Try clubbing them with the cameras? Sell the cameras and use the money to do something useful?
Crime is a symptom, not a disease. Treating everyone like criminals - whether via surveillance or fencing in your neighbourhood - is a losing strategy because it discounts what you mean to preserve.
The drug import businesses will love this. This guy must be worth millions; if only he would shut up....
Do you really think the 'absorbed radar' will be hotter than the planes engines? mod -1 clueless.
It has always been about trying to avoid making big systems. Unit tests have many of the limitations of spell checking; they are know replacement four vigorous review.
The problem with the C code is obvious, and easily caught by code review. C++, on the other hand has hidden the bug so well, only those with an intimate understanding of the class interfaces have a hope of catching it. Code is meant for reading; for everything else there is APL.
C. C++ is just awful. Stroustrup is whining. This could never be his fault; of course not. C++ must be perfect, just look at what he has said about it! It must be wonderful. If most C++ code is unreadable, happens-to-work-once swill, it must be the fault of the teachers. Even the examples in his own books can't give a convincing reason to use it. Line up the "white book" on C, with any of the blue or grey books on C++. Its not just because K&R were great writers (they were); it is because they were great language designers.
:)
Of course, these are all implementation faults. The pure language, like any pure 'ism', is perfect, it just happens to be useless...
C++ isn't portable; not just across architectures or OSes, subsequent revisions of compilers typically involve a 'port' of your code to the latest redefinition. Binary compatibility is non-existant (unless you spec all your interfaces as extern "C"
C++ stinks for systems level programming. Trust me; done lots. The quickest solution when faced with C++ low level software is to quickly re-write it in C. Nice thing is, it usually ends up more concise, more reliable, and more maintainable.
C++ may be ok for application programming that don't require portability. Not really sure of the point.
C++ stinks for libraries - again, poor version control, dubious infrastructure, poorly specified system environment.
The action should come from customers of Bell-branded services. Bell has become a brand-outsourcing company over the past decade - they sell their name to satellite, internet and wireless companies because it is a known success. The slightest hint that the brand has 'gone south' (oblique reference to southern neighbour) will result in more action than 10 CRTCs, 9-RIAAs a leaping, 8-Royal commisssions .... and a pissed of drunken hoser....
Kudos to teksavvy; I have been a customer for 5 years, and couldn't be happier. Hopefully starchoice and fido will work out as well......
leave gene alone. Hasn't he been through enough?
| What's this ? The Canadian version of American Idol ?
with much trashier judges....
I don't know if your new here, but usually "+1 Insightful" is how you indicate rudeness :)
It bends the idea of church in the sense of 'catholic' or 'anglican', however the southern baptist convention, for example, makes it an article of faith that '...all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy...'.
It is typical of evangelical christian sects to hold biblical infallibility as a basic tenet, which, transitively means that creation is in, evolution is not.
The creationist/evolution thing is more like a sideshow. The way in which they want to help bring about the apocalypse is truly frightening, especially considering the influence they have with western governments.
"No more being chained to your computer. This frees us as much as the mouse/gui freed us..."
by which you mean "further enslaved us". Go outside without any electronics at all and experience webIII - real life. It is even better than the shows about it....
That the patent laws are flawed is, well, patently obvious.
Software patents have contributed to making these flaws obvious enough for anyone to see.
In spirit, patent laws serve the greater good; unfortunately, in letter they fail. The same has been said about most of the 'isms' and 'anities'.
mod -1:drunk.
I believe the master, Bruce Lee, used this technique. He could reach in, pull out your heart, and show it to you, still beating, before you died.
ohhh its encryption you want. How about a mail client that actually worked? Wouldn't that be nice? Delivered, read and displayed mail. Oh, and did it without going nuts, taking all ram+swap, generating 100000 /tmp/tmp_rules-*.dat files, etc.. Its f-in email, I've had it since 1985, and wish you could get a half decent, non-text mode client without having to jump to OS X.
ahem,
but encrypting a shitty email client would be nice too....
It would be great if someone came up with a way to attach a little bit of executable to the data/reference that could activate an object within an application. That way, you would merely access the data, and it would appear like an active object inside your program, or OS if appropriate.
> I doubt the CTO or CIO of a giant firm suggested DDOSing...
That isn't the role of the CxO; the CxO could be punished for saying such a thing. The CxO has a carefully selected team which correctly interprets "we NEED to hush this up" into the appropriate action, without regard for ethics or laws. Building such a team is the critical competency of an executive. The result is a highly effective and resilient organization that is capable of anything from fraud to torture.
Take another draw on the bong, and maybe you can tell us...
They will need someone to hold the video cameras...
Mod -1, Investor
and oddly you only sometimes only think you are going crazy....