Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease is tantamount to implying they will be having sex.
I actually heard that claim from a hyperuptight acquaintance. I told her that I was having my daughters vaccinated so that they wouldn't die as the result of being date raped. This actually made sense to her and changed her mind on the matter.
Note that this isn't the real reason I'd vaccinate my girls. I just knew it'd shut up this one particular loudmouth.
while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner.
Furthermore, the study finds find that gasoline isn't always as fast as motorcycles.
HTML5 is a standard with multiple implementations, none being particularly mature as it's not a finalized standard yet. Flash is a specific implementation of one technology from one vendor. They're just not the same class of object and you can't directly compare them.
The funny thing (to me) is that the upgrade process looks a lot harder than it actually turns out to be. On our servers, it usually amounts to running the installer, running patch to update files in/etc, running a single command to upgrade all the installed 3rd-party software, and rebooting a last time to make sure it comes back up cleanly.
In practice, the things that OpenBSD doesn't automatically upgrade with the above steps are the kinds of things you wouldn't want a script to attempt, such as upgrading the firewall configuration to use new features. The process certainly isn't slick or pretty, but it does the job well and safely.
OK, that's literally true. I think, though - no, I hope - that he was using the quotes as sarcasm. That is, he meant "reimbursement" to mean "giant cash payout".
It has been a central principle of legal systems world-wide, for several thousand years, that if one is wronged or harmed, one can expect to receive recompense from the perpetrator.
He didn't say otherwise. What he said was that the parents shouldn't be entitled to get rich off the deal. They should be compensated for a whole list of things, such as any and all medical treatments, special care needs, lost income, etc. No one has ever disputed that. But none of that adds up to the multi-tens-of-millions amounts that some people are suing for.
My dad's idea - that I still haven't found fault with - is that you should be able to sue for all the punitive damages you want, but that you shouldn't be able to collect them. If you want to punish a manufacturer for $25,000,000 then go right ahead, but the judgment should go to the state or federal general fund. That maintains the purpose of punitive damages as, well, punishment, while removing all profit motive.
If you ever want to look at or shoot a gun, ask me. It's no big deal. I'll get one out of storage, we'll look at it together, you can try shooting it, then it goes back into storage. Guns aren't a taboo, or an exciting forbidden fruit. They're just another tool, like a hammer or saw.
If you ever touch a gun without an adult present, in my house or anywhere else, you will regret the day you were born. If you find a gun, tell an adult immediately and do not touch it or try to move it.
That's it. They have unlimited gun privileges in my presence, so there's no fascination. As a result, none my kids are particularly interested in them.
I'll take both sides here. OpenBSD + pf + ftp-proxy does work as advertised if it's set up right. That said, I agree completely that FTP is a freakin' mess and needs to be taken out back and shot. We have an FTP server for clients to upload certain documents to us, but we've adamantly deprecated it for new customers and are setting them all up with WebDAV over HTTPS. The new system wins over the old in every way imaginable.
No, and the fan was running fast enough. I took it off, cleaned off the stock paste, reapplied a thin layer - and still got high 50s. I eventually got an Arctic Cooling Freezer and saw it drop to low 30s, or mid 40s if I'm loading up both cores. This was with a Gigabyte motherboard, good RAM, and everything running at factory speeds.
Some of us like the mouse and window for code editing.
Some of us probably like getting punched in the nuts, but that doesn't make it reasonable or painless.
It's all about the context switches. When you're typing along productively, then have to stop to get the mouse, find the pointer on the screen, get it to where you want it, perform whatever action, then pop back to the keyboard to continue, you've had to bounce your attention across several distinct actions. That just isn't productive.
Are they saying a picture of a fan does not provide the same level of cooling as a real fan?
It's at least as good as the fan that came with my retail boxed E8400. 59C in a cool basement server room isn't exactly optimal for a non-overclocked system.
And don't even get me started on the "Sieko" watches they had for sale.
When faceguards for watches were popular in the 80s, we saw an ASeikon watch on sale at JC Penney's, with the parallel vertical bands of the guard hiding the "A" and "n" when viewed from straight above.
If you build your skills around Python, you'll hit serious trouble if you ever end up needing decent performance or unwrappered OS functionality. If you build your skills around C, whole new possibilities open up to you.
That's the dumbest thing I will have read today. I built my skills around 6502 assembler, written inside a monitor because I didn't know that real assemblers existed. I did my senior thesis on interfacing hardware to an embedded controller. I'm content writing memory-managing, bit-twiddling software in C. At the end of the day, though, I'd much rather write complicated stuff in Python than in anything else. Furthermore, I don't have any problem getting great performance out of it. The fact that you do says a lot more about the way you tried to write software in Python than it does about the language itself.
Commodore Basic taught me to love programming, have fun making little games and all important binary operations and encoding for sprites and font
Preach it. My first exposure to binary was working through the examples in the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide (still the best manual I've ever read). Sprites were 8x8 images stored as a 8 bytes, each byte representing a row, and each bit representing a pixel. I probably went through that section 15 times before I truly understood and believed that binary math works, but the lesson paid off in spades. Back then, it was figuring out how to peek and poke a memory location to make a single pixel blink. Now it's loading and storing a memory location to toggle a serial control line on an embedded controller. That little machine gave me a good start.
For all the anti-European sentiment here in the United States, specifically against France
In all seriousness, is there an anti-European sentiment? OK, so we tell "France surrenders" jokes. Do you mean to tell me that the UK doesn't? Or that they don't both tell "stupid American" jokes? Among my peers, we tease our friends much more than we'd tell jokes about someone we don't like. So, jokes among friends aside, I don't recall hearing any real dislike of our pals across the ocean.
What I do hear often is contempt for the commonly espoused idea that given two ways of doing something, the European way is automatically better than the American way. Yeah, so the metric system is clearly superior and I wish we used it more, but we get tired of hearing how our cars / diets / healthcare / politics / schools / clothes / industries / everything else are inherently inferior to their European counterparts.
So on the one hand an efficient engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 13:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 25:1 compression ratios, and polluting the crap out of everything. On the other hand, a "green" engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 9:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 17:1, and wasting energy efficiency like an ice rink in Dubai.
Per mile driven, which one ends up polluting less?
New in the News....gas companies announce a 50% INCREASE in gas prices....
Umm, so what? Any technology that doesn't increase the cost per mile driven (even if the fuel prices were raised to compensate for decreased consumption) means we're having to import much less fuel. Leftists are happy because we're dumping less CO2. Rightists are happy because we're decreasing dependency on unsavory oil-producing countries. Consumers are happy because they can drive more miles between stops. Suppliers are happy because they can get the same revenue from less work. Unless you're in OPEC or South America, I see your exact scenario as good for all involved.
I'd be perfectly happy to pay $30 a gallon if I only used 1/10th the gallons and it meant we could tell Saudi Arabia to eat sand.
Unless you really meant you have a team of people chipping away at the Windows machines (and advocates) with hammers to accelerate their loss of monetary value?
At work, I have syslogd on every public-facing SSH server set to forward auth messages to the firewall. That machine runs sshguard, which looks at those logs for attacks against all machines and handles them centrally. For that level of functionality, yeah, it's pretty automatic.
Use public key authentication. It's super easy and much more secure, unless your random passwords happen to be over 300 characters long (ssh-keygen makes 2048-bit keys by default; assume 6 bits per character in a random password if each character is in the base64 set). Also, sshguard is your friend. After a small number of invalid logins - 4 by default - that IP gets firewalled for a short period of time.
but seriously people who figure these things out and make them work... i question their sanity, brilliant but you have to be a mad scientist to achieve these things
You're in the wrong place, and your attitude sucks. Consider yourself lucky to live in a world with people who are this driven by their curiosity.
They hadn't been to a party in a little while. You will discover that in real life, many adults enjoy social gatherings. A justification that gives them an excuse to get together with friends and strangers of common interests is as good as any other.
In a week or so, you'll see a lot of people of all nationalities wearing green and drinking colored beer. This is a waste of time by your standards, particularly for the celebrants who are not of Irish descent. The happy partygoers will probably not be interested in your opinion.
I wish they'd stay focused on usability and 'ergonomic' issues, and not waste time on colors and wallpapers and other bubblegum that half of the user base will be guaranteed not to like anyway.
I bet the kernel team isn't taking a break to debate the shades of purple.
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Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease is tantamount to implying they will be having sex.
I actually heard that claim from a hyperuptight acquaintance. I told her that I was having my daughters vaccinated so that they wouldn't die as the result of being date raped. This actually made sense to her and changed her mind on the matter.
Note that this isn't the real reason I'd vaccinate my girls. I just knew it'd shut up this one particular loudmouth.
while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner.
Furthermore, the study finds find that gasoline isn't always as fast as motorcycles.
HTML5 is a standard with multiple implementations, none being particularly mature as it's not a finalized standard yet. Flash is a specific implementation of one technology from one vendor. They're just not the same class of object and you can't directly compare them.
The funny thing (to me) is that the upgrade process looks a lot harder than it actually turns out to be. On our servers, it usually amounts to running the installer, running patch to update files in /etc, running a single command to upgrade all the installed 3rd-party software, and rebooting a last time to make sure it comes back up cleanly.
In practice, the things that OpenBSD doesn't automatically upgrade with the above steps are the kinds of things you wouldn't want a script to attempt, such as upgrading the firewall configuration to use new features. The process certainly isn't slick or pretty, but it does the job well and safely.
OK, that's literally true. I think, though - no, I hope - that he was using the quotes as sarcasm. That is, he meant "reimbursement" to mean "giant cash payout".
It has been a central principle of legal systems world-wide, for several thousand years, that if one is wronged or harmed, one can expect to receive recompense from the perpetrator.
He didn't say otherwise. What he said was that the parents shouldn't be entitled to get rich off the deal. They should be compensated for a whole list of things, such as any and all medical treatments, special care needs, lost income, etc. No one has ever disputed that. But none of that adds up to the multi-tens-of-millions amounts that some people are suing for.
My dad's idea - that I still haven't found fault with - is that you should be able to sue for all the punitive damages you want, but that you shouldn't be able to collect them. If you want to punish a manufacturer for $25,000,000 then go right ahead, but the judgment should go to the state or federal general fund. That maintains the purpose of punitive damages as, well, punishment, while removing all profit motive.
We have two simple gun rules in my house:
That's it. They have unlimited gun privileges in my presence, so there's no fascination. As a result, none my kids are particularly interested in them.
I'll take both sides here. OpenBSD + pf + ftp-proxy does work as advertised if it's set up right. That said, I agree completely that FTP is a freakin' mess and needs to be taken out back and shot. We have an FTP server for clients to upload certain documents to us, but we've adamantly deprecated it for new customers and are setting them all up with WebDAV over HTTPS. The new system wins over the old in every way imaginable.
No, and the fan was running fast enough. I took it off, cleaned off the stock paste, reapplied a thin layer - and still got high 50s. I eventually got an Arctic Cooling Freezer and saw it drop to low 30s, or mid 40s if I'm loading up both cores. This was with a Gigabyte motherboard, good RAM, and everything running at factory speeds.
Some of us like the mouse and window for code editing.
Some of us probably like getting punched in the nuts, but that doesn't make it reasonable or painless.
It's all about the context switches. When you're typing along productively, then have to stop to get the mouse, find the pointer on the screen, get it to where you want it, perform whatever action, then pop back to the keyboard to continue, you've had to bounce your attention across several distinct actions. That just isn't productive.
Are they saying a picture of a fan does not provide the same level of cooling as a real fan?
It's at least as good as the fan that came with my retail boxed E8400. 59C in a cool basement server room isn't exactly optimal for a non-overclocked system.
And don't even get me started on the "Sieko" watches they had for sale.
When faceguards for watches were popular in the 80s, we saw an ASeikon watch on sale at JC Penney's, with the parallel vertical bands of the guard hiding the "A" and "n" when viewed from straight above.
God, Logo is the worst pile of crap to force on a child ever.
Really? Most programmers respect Lisp, even if they don't use it themselves.
Disclaimer: I am now an EE, not a CS.
Ah, OK. Here's your cookie and a warm blanket.
If you build your skills around Python, you'll hit serious trouble if you ever end up needing decent performance or unwrappered OS functionality. If you build your skills around C, whole new possibilities open up to you.
That's the dumbest thing I will have read today. I built my skills around 6502 assembler, written inside a monitor because I didn't know that real assemblers existed. I did my senior thesis on interfacing hardware to an embedded controller. I'm content writing memory-managing, bit-twiddling software in C. At the end of the day, though, I'd much rather write complicated stuff in Python than in anything else. Furthermore, I don't have any problem getting great performance out of it. The fact that you do says a lot more about the way you tried to write software in Python than it does about the language itself.
Commodore Basic taught me to love programming, have fun making little games and all important binary operations and encoding for sprites and font
Preach it. My first exposure to binary was working through the examples in the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide (still the best manual I've ever read). Sprites were 8x8 images stored as a 8 bytes, each byte representing a row, and each bit representing a pixel. I probably went through that section 15 times before I truly understood and believed that binary math works, but the lesson paid off in spades. Back then, it was figuring out how to peek and poke a memory location to make a single pixel blink. Now it's loading and storing a memory location to toggle a serial control line on an embedded controller. That little machine gave me a good start.
I know this sounds trollish, but my gods, why would anyone have bought Windows before Win 95?
"Buy"?
For all the anti-European sentiment here in the United States, specifically against France
In all seriousness, is there an anti-European sentiment? OK, so we tell "France surrenders" jokes. Do you mean to tell me that the UK doesn't? Or that they don't both tell "stupid American" jokes? Among my peers, we tease our friends much more than we'd tell jokes about someone we don't like. So, jokes among friends aside, I don't recall hearing any real dislike of our pals across the ocean.
What I do hear often is contempt for the commonly espoused idea that given two ways of doing something, the European way is automatically better than the American way. Yeah, so the metric system is clearly superior and I wish we used it more, but we get tired of hearing how our cars / diets / healthcare / politics / schools / clothes / industries / everything else are inherently inferior to their European counterparts.
So on the one hand an efficient engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 13:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 25:1 compression ratios, and polluting the crap out of everything. On the other hand, a "green" engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 9:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 17:1, and wasting energy efficiency like an ice rink in Dubai.
Per mile driven, which one ends up polluting less?
New in the News....gas companies announce a 50% INCREASE in gas prices....
Umm, so what? Any technology that doesn't increase the cost per mile driven (even if the fuel prices were raised to compensate for decreased consumption) means we're having to import much less fuel. Leftists are happy because we're dumping less CO2. Rightists are happy because we're decreasing dependency on unsavory oil-producing countries. Consumers are happy because they can drive more miles between stops. Suppliers are happy because they can get the same revenue from less work. Unless you're in OPEC or South America, I see your exact scenario as good for all involved.
I'd be perfectly happy to pay $30 a gallon if I only used 1/10th the gallons and it meant we could tell Saudi Arabia to eat sand.
Unless you really meant you have a team of people chipping away at the Windows machines (and advocates) with hammers to accelerate their loss of monetary value?
How would that decrease their value?
At work, I have syslogd on every public-facing SSH server set to forward auth messages to the firewall. That machine runs sshguard, which looks at those logs for attacks against all machines and handles them centrally. For that level of functionality, yeah, it's pretty automatic.
Use public key authentication. It's super easy and much more secure, unless your random passwords happen to be over 300 characters long (ssh-keygen makes 2048-bit keys by default; assume 6 bits per character in a random password if each character is in the base64 set). Also, sshguard is your friend. After a small number of invalid logins - 4 by default - that IP gets firewalled for a short period of time.
but seriously people who figure these things out and make them work... i question their sanity, brilliant but you have to be a mad scientist to achieve these things
You're in the wrong place, and your attitude sucks. Consider yourself lucky to live in a world with people who are this driven by their curiosity.
Thanks for the long condescending response.
Any time!
If you enjoy standing in a cemetery, pretending you're at a funeral than I guess you're in luck.
The venue is a bar.
What's wrong with these people?
They hadn't been to a party in a little while. You will discover that in real life, many adults enjoy social gatherings. A justification that gives them an excuse to get together with friends and strangers of common interests is as good as any other.
In a week or so, you'll see a lot of people of all nationalities wearing green and drinking colored beer. This is a waste of time by your standards, particularly for the celebrants who are not of Irish descent. The happy partygoers will probably not be interested in your opinion.
I wish they'd stay focused on usability and 'ergonomic' issues, and not waste time on colors and wallpapers and other bubblegum that half of the user base will be guaranteed not to like anyway.
I bet the kernel team isn't taking a break to debate the shades of purple.