And I can't possibly understand how anyone could argue otherwise,
That's because you seem to be a good example of a naive libertarian. If only everybody could see the world in your same neat and tidy little way, all of our problems would be solved.
Well, real life is more complicated than that. Most people realize this, and that's why libertarian politicians routinely receive at most low single-digit vote counts decade after decade.
The problem was not that the kid was injured was killed by the magnets.
No, this is exactly the problem. This is the outcome that needs to be avoided.
You didn't fix the parents by banning the magnets.
Irrelevant. Instead, the whole above stated problem is avoided by banning the magnets.
If you insist on government doing something, arrest the parents for criminal negligence.
But the parents aren't the only one responsible. The manufacturers of these dangerous toys share in the liability. They would need to be arrested, too. However, it's probably safe to assume that they'd rather just close that particular line of business than rot in prison.
Or maybe it's just because Lego blocks aren't actually all that sharp and dangerous, and kids who swallow them don't generally end up in the emergency room.
Where are these rules, and lawsuits, for Legos? Just as small. More prevelant. more pieces to "kill" the poor children.
Your apparent (and probably typical) ignorance of the difference between a piece of plastic and a high-powered magnet demonstrates the exact reason that the government felt compelled to act in this case.
It turns out there was some poor guy at United Airlines refreshing this web page for months:
Tracking results for order 18293387382484758342093837439382:
Seattle, WA 2012-07-02 13:43:23 In Transit.
The item has left the seller's facility.
Estimated delivery time: NA
No further information available, please check again later.
What's worse, when the plane finally arrived, it was packed in a giant welded plastic clamshell. It took two weeks for a crew at the airline to extract the aircraft without damaging it.
Change the default values to something sane (ie 2GB) and suddenly Eclipse is fast, responsive and useful.
Maybe they should rename Eclipse to be called "tgacs". This would bring consistency with how emacs was originally named for being "Eight megs and constantly swapping".
I disagree. First of all, if the OS were truly secure, it wouldn't allow such apps to install (at least without dire warnings to the user). As it happened, MS was all too willing to oblige those apps for many years. Like I said, it doesn't matter what the kernel people knew about security if the overall system shipped on the Windows CD didn't enforce it.
Moreover, the Windows system libraries were originally filled with numerous holes like the Windows Metafile vulnerability and various GDI window message attacks. Many of these were there to support features carried over for compatibility with apps that had code developed under Microsoft's earlier single-user OSes. These holes were exploitable even if you didn't install any 3rd party apps on the system.
Windows (and MS-DOS before it) was not originally designed to be network-aware
And how is that relevant?... The base of the Windows you are running today was designed to be similar to VMS from DEC, an operating system that actually had the "mainframe mentality".
It's relevant because for many years they shipped their OSes configured "out of the box" to bypass or hobble much of that wonderful-on-paper NT security model. This was so they could preserve the nonrestrictive DOS/Win95 the user experience that people were so used to. The security technology might as well not be there if nobody actually uses it.
This problem was compounded by a lack of quality control on much of the system code outside of the kernel itself. Remember when the half life to 0wnage of a fresh XP box connected to the Internet was measured in minutes?
The PLATO touch screens were only necessary in the first place because the system lacked a mouse. I'm sure that almost everyone would have preferred a halfway decent mouse for that application.
Not only would a mouse from that era be extremely clunky (the monitors themselves were built like battleships), but a mouse cursor would probably not have been technically feasible on the write-only plasma display which could only be erased by clearing the whole screen. (The neon grid points formed the display frame buffer memory; the terminals needed no RAM at all. In fact, the terminals were so dumb they probably couldn't track mouse motion anyway, and with up to 400 people sharing a CPU with the power of an 80286 in real time, the central mainframe wouldn't have been up to it either.)
The main thing I remember about PLATO's touch screens was the annoying parallax problem cause by using IR diodes and sensors embedded around the edge frame. It was often difficult to get your finger straight onto the correct grid point when the sensor beams were about 1cm above the screen itself. I'm also pretty certain that only a subset of the terminals had touch sensors at all.
So how is that increase of the 7% of the 0.04% of CO2 going to do anything again?
The 7% increase is incorrect. Its approximately 40%. Look it up.
How does a 40% of.04% increase do anything? It's undergraduate level thermodynamics. Do the math.
My mom used to tell me that she didn't like to fly because thought that airplanes were too big to get off the ground. Well, we all know that's bunk. Sometimes your "common sense" instincts are just plain WRONG.
we have enough to meet our needs of several centuries, using the most conservative efforts. Men like Sherrod Brown and Obama are determined to make its use impossible.
GOOD
Actually releasing those several centuries of carbon into the atmosphere would be an unmitigated disaster, dwarfing any conceivable so-called "economic calamity" caused by using energy sources that cost a little more.
As far as nuclear power's viability to solve the world's energy problems, I offer one word: Iran.
There are only Winners, Losers and being unwilling to put in the work to see which is which.
Much of the time, the "winner" of a close competition is clearly decided by nothing more than a tiny variation in a random bounce.
So obsessing over the distinction is rather pointless. It's like getting all uptight about a coin toss: "Oooh! It came up heads! The team from my geographic region rulezzz!"
The internal part of a solid pig muscle needs 145 degrees. The outside, potentially exposed to dangerous pig pathogens during butchering, is always cooked higher. Not so with fish.
I suppose you're welcome to sprinkle raw uncomposted pig shit on your own salad if you want. Go for it.
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Think about it this way: If it died of hardware failure instead, would you be so upset? Likely not.
But in this case, it's like the hardware failed only because the company sent a goon to your house to smash it.
An intranet reminds me of the good old days. Maybe NK should install Banyan Vines. Then they could have the B-mail snowball effect:
To: "*@*@*"
LUNCH BAG
Somebody left their lunch bag in the break room 2432.
To "*@*@*"
Re: LUNCH BAG
Don't send messages to *@*@*!
To "*@*@*"
Re: Re: LUNCH BAG
Hey you stupid people, never Reply All to *@*@*!!!
To "*@*@*"
Re: LUNCH BAG
I'm in the Singapore office. Where is this room 2432 you speak of?
To "*@*@*"
Re: LUNCH BAG
Hey you people, knock it off!
<strained 80286-based servers crash>
Not trolling. You just seemed to dumbfounded that anybody could possibly disagree with you, so I reiterated the reason why.
And I can't possibly understand how anyone could argue otherwise,
That's because you seem to be a good example of a naive libertarian. If only everybody could see the world in your same neat and tidy little way, all of our problems would be solved.
Well, real life is more complicated than that. Most people realize this, and that's why libertarian politicians routinely receive at most low single-digit vote counts decade after decade.
The problem was not that the kid was injured was killed by the magnets.
No, this is exactly the problem. This is the outcome that needs to be avoided.
You didn't fix the parents by banning the magnets.
Irrelevant. Instead, the whole above stated problem is avoided by banning the magnets.
If you insist on government doing something, arrest the parents for criminal negligence.
But the parents aren't the only one responsible. The manufacturers of these dangerous toys share in the liability. They would need to be arrested, too. However, it's probably safe to assume that they'd rather just close that particular line of business than rot in prison.
Or maybe it's just because Lego blocks aren't actually all that sharp and dangerous, and kids who swallow them don't generally end up in the emergency room.
Gee! How could these incompetent government pencil pushers have overlooked all those Lego mutilations for over 60 years?
OK, I see.
1. Kid injured or killed.
2. Hopefully, parents feel bad.
3. Problem solved.
Why the hell can't people take personal responsibility for their mistakes?
Because they don't.
They never have, and they never will. No matter how much naive libertarians wish for it.
Where are these rules, and lawsuits, for Legos? Just as small. More prevelant. more pieces to "kill" the poor children.
Your apparent (and probably typical) ignorance of the difference between a piece of plastic and a high-powered magnet demonstrates the exact reason that the government felt compelled to act in this case.
Waited 15 minutes in line and then voted electronically on a diebold machine with no apparent problems.
That's the biggest issue with those machines: Any problems with them aren't apparent.
That's the whole problem: Tanks that are destroyed will be spewing their contents.
No amount of shielding is going to guarantee safety against present and future developments in armor-piercing weapons.
It turns out there was some poor guy at United Airlines refreshing this web page for months:
What's worse, when the plane finally arrived, it was packed in a giant welded plastic clamshell. It took two weeks for a crew at the airline to extract the aircraft without damaging it.
Right. Let's put dozens of nuclear reactors in an urban battlezone.
What could possibly go wrong?
Change the default values to something sane (ie 2GB) and suddenly Eclipse is fast, responsive and useful.
Maybe they should rename Eclipse to be called "tgacs". This would bring consistency with how emacs was originally named for being "Eight megs and constantly swapping".
I disagree. First of all, if the OS were truly secure, it wouldn't allow such apps to install (at least without dire warnings to the user). As it happened, MS was all too willing to oblige those apps for many years. Like I said, it doesn't matter what the kernel people knew about security if the overall system shipped on the Windows CD didn't enforce it.
Moreover, the Windows system libraries were originally filled with numerous holes like the Windows Metafile vulnerability and various GDI window message attacks. Many of these were there to support features carried over for compatibility with apps that had code developed under Microsoft's earlier single-user OSes. These holes were exploitable even if you didn't install any 3rd party apps on the system.
Windows (and MS-DOS before it) was not originally designed to be network-aware
And how is that relevant? ... The base of the Windows you are running today was designed to be similar to VMS from DEC, an operating system that actually had the "mainframe mentality".
It's relevant because for many years they shipped their OSes configured "out of the box" to bypass or hobble much of that wonderful-on-paper NT security model. This was so they could preserve the nonrestrictive DOS/Win95 the user experience that people were so used to. The security technology might as well not be there if nobody actually uses it.
This problem was compounded by a lack of quality control on much of the system code outside of the kernel itself. Remember when the half life to 0wnage of a fresh XP box connected to the Internet was measured in minutes?
The PLATO touch screens were only necessary in the first place because the system lacked a mouse. I'm sure that almost everyone would have preferred a halfway decent mouse for that application.
Not only would a mouse from that era be extremely clunky (the monitors themselves were built like battleships), but a mouse cursor would probably not have been technically feasible on the write-only plasma display which could only be erased by clearing the whole screen. (The neon grid points formed the display frame buffer memory; the terminals needed no RAM at all. In fact, the terminals were so dumb they probably couldn't track mouse motion anyway, and with up to 400 people sharing a CPU with the power of an 80286 in real time, the central mainframe wouldn't have been up to it either.)
The main thing I remember about PLATO's touch screens was the annoying parallax problem cause by using IR diodes and sensors embedded around the edge frame. It was often difficult to get your finger straight onto the correct grid point when the sensor beams were about 1cm above the screen itself. I'm also pretty certain that only a subset of the terminals had touch sensors at all.
Just start the goddamn games on a totally different TTY. There, problem solved!
That's what I do to play games.
I usually just switch over to TTY1. Then I can load TREK73.BAS:
So how is that increase of the 7% of the 0.04% of CO2 going to do anything again?
The 7% increase is incorrect. Its approximately 40%. Look it up.
How does a 40% of .04% increase do anything? It's undergraduate level thermodynamics. Do the math.
My mom used to tell me that she didn't like to fly because thought that airplanes were too big to get off the ground. Well, we all know that's bunk. Sometimes your "common sense" instincts are just plain WRONG.
we have enough to meet our needs of several centuries, using the most conservative efforts. Men like Sherrod Brown and Obama are determined to make its use impossible.
GOOD
Actually releasing those several centuries of carbon into the atmosphere would be an unmitigated disaster, dwarfing any conceivable so-called "economic calamity" caused by using energy sources that cost a little more.
As far as nuclear power's viability to solve the world's energy problems, I offer one word: Iran.
There are only Winners, Losers and being unwilling to put in the work to see which is which.
Much of the time, the "winner" of a close competition is clearly decided by nothing more than a tiny variation in a random bounce.
So obsessing over the distinction is rather pointless. It's like getting all uptight about a coin toss: "Oooh! It came up heads! The team from my geographic region rulezzz!"
Although improvements can certainly be made, it's simply not possible to make a useful computer totally exploit proof,
This is because ultimately, the PEBKAC.
Surely, you can't be serious?
The internal part of a solid pig muscle needs 145 degrees. The outside, potentially exposed to dangerous pig pathogens during butchering, is always cooked higher. Not so with fish.
I suppose you're welcome to sprinkle raw uncomposted pig shit on your own salad if you want. Go for it.