Did people know that in Lisp you can write a function the normal way, then alter it a tad so it can take not just a number, but another, unevaluated formula as an argument, and push it through itself and spit out not an evaluated value but another, new formula that is the old formula wrapped by the new formula, ready for use?
This kind of stuff gets lost as people re-re-re-invent yet another block-structured language where data and code are eternally on separate sides of the train tracks. I weep for humanity.
This is the kind of crap that leads to console-oriented MMO dominance.
There are jobs for people with wrenches in the auto industry.
I am reminded of an asinine scene in Peggy Sue Got Married...Or Did She? where Kathleen Turner's character goes back in time to her high school days and bitches that she never once needed to use the algebra she was learning in class.
Then proceeds to labor to tell the bright kid about computer chips or something so he can "invent" them
And labors to try to invent...panty hose.
The writers never connect it all.
Programming is about more than algebra. It's complex functions on symbols and ideas as well. If you have difficulty with the math, well, a math of idea-pushing might be harder still.
And there should be regulation to prevent all corporations, but not government, from surreptitiously reading your "alligator clip" ID because we have been trained, by government, to think of business as the Prime Evil of existance.
"Parents finally put a stop to it when one child told them it was pretty cool, and that the next day Mr. Johnston was going to show the boys how unique, like fingerprints, were stampings of their ball sac patterns."
Except that many if not most are more about hurting competition than actual concern.
Witness: Japan made importation of cheap rice difficult. Real reason? Protecting domestic farmers from competition by holding the entire population hostage to their higher prices.
The regulatory "reason"? Seriously, the rice wasn't right for the sensitive Japanese stomach.
In this case, these countries banning it claim unsafe. The real reason? The farmers don't wanna pay for it and want to keep cheaper competition out.
So, a prediction, write it down if you dare: When these patents expire, these countries will allow it, suddenly claiming it seems safe now. I.e. the domestic muscular economic interests can now use it without paying for it and thus gain the efficiencies it brings.
Quite probably, your brain will buy into that, that their Wise Leaders properly waited and only just then decided it was Safe.
I predict.
I do.
I do.
Write it down. If you dare. Politics is narratives, not science, only if you put blinders on.
As it's safe, it's only a temporary problem until the patent expires. Then everybody will switch to it and Monsanto will have to switch to something better.
Repeat ad nauseum. A couple of hundred years go by and suddenly Kirk is shipping quadra-trita-caelene to a starving planet. Meanwhilr, Slashdotters bitch that they should've shipped quadra-quinta-caelene, those god damned greedy corporations!
4. Engineered crops later found not suitable for human consumption 5. Famine.
You are probably completely on board laughing at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, UFO tinfoil hat wearers, illuminutties, etc. but buy into GMO scares, driven by lawyers and talking head book sellers looking for profit?
Make love, not war. Where are the sex bots that will roam around and make you orgasm unsupervised? Let's get some other automaton out of control kthxbie.
It's also against the rules to assassinate enemy leaders outside war, but ok to initiate a war with a full frontal assault killing hubdreds of thousands on both sides.
Ironically, that's less upsetting -- getting your nation's ass whooped -- than getting your Fearless Leader killed.
The incident in question was about 20 months ago, and the ruling, as OP says, was about a year ago. Some months back a congressman revealed the ruling existed, but nothing else since the ruling itself was classified.
It was the method of data collection that was important and ruled unconstitutional. Obviously, We The People want to know what the government did, specifically the method of spying that it abused, and not the persons or subject matter.
Summary: That such a ruling about unconstitutional activity exists is all that's publicly known. The methood of spying was ruled unconstitutional, but has not been revealed.
The EFF is currently suing to force revelation of the unconstitutional method. Next court step: government has until June 7 to respond why it should remain secret.
Note this is separate from the subject or topic of the spying.
With the smartphone/tablet model, publishers skip generic interfaces like browsers and just build apps directly. What they do internally for security and payments is their own business.
Browser/flash players that connect over the Internet and play as generic player's days may be numbered anyway.
Not saying this is a bad idea, but you reap the rewards via invented cures and whatnot. Government isn't the only one investing in most of this, and you may slow things down by eviscerating exclusivity.
The landing would only need short-lived, computer-controlled rockets, possibly just the same things as the jet packs from the 1950s, nased on hudrogen peroxide.
There's a ton of engineering that has to go into this first, so if they realize it, expect to see many, many test flights taking off from the ground first, and that it will work without a human inside.
Lessee, we've made fun of sponsors Seth Green and Bill Nye. Who's left?
Oooh, Richard Branson! You've started successful companies with more cachet than Apple and earned billions off them. You've nailed more pussy than the average 38 year old neckbeard has downloaded in his mom's basement. La HOOOOOOOZER!!!!!
I had a similar thought -- the governemnt could probably decrypt it if they wanted, but hoped not to lest they reveal that they have this ability.
Now they have revealed they can. There was another case (forget the subject) where the judge's attempt to force revealing the password suddenly became moot when the government "miraculously" decrypted it.
It would be nice to know the encryption so it can be improved, not because I wanna help criminals but because there are some very nasty people out there who have a lot more power than common crooks and asses.
> And people wonder why the average person hates the very idea of the stock market.
The average person does not hate it. Just your own little moral online tribal society hates it, where you reinforce to each other statements about the awfulness of this or that vis-a-vis politics, in support of a meme-based amalgam of people looking for power themselves.
There's a granularity to advancement as it is made of discrete units of advancement and invention.
Also, I wouldn't pooh pooh the use of other techniques to keep things moving. In the terms economists use to analyze advancement, this is called "substitution", and is the source of the counter-intuitive but powerfully predictive observation that, in a free economy, people can invent ahead of the curve faster than things become problems, like shortages.
Slashdot Mirror
> Confirmed: Water Once Flowed On Mars
I knew it! I knew those longboats with sails sailing across the dry sand were the product of someone's fevered imagination!
> "BT has had to hold off putting down the fiber"
No backup plan? Clearly the dumbasses didn't hedgehog their bets.
Did people know that in Lisp you can write a function the normal way, then alter it a tad so it can take not just a number, but another, unevaluated formula as an argument, and push it through itself and spit out not an evaluated value but another, new formula that is the old formula wrapped by the new formula, ready for use?
This kind of stuff gets lost as people re-re-re-invent yet another block-structured language where data and code are eternally on separate sides of the train tracks. I weep for humanity.
This is the kind of crap that leads to console-oriented MMO dominance.
There are jobs for people with wrenches in the auto industry.
I am reminded of an asinine scene in Peggy Sue Got Married...Or Did She? where Kathleen Turner's character goes back in time to her high school days and bitches that she never once needed to use the algebra she was learning in class.
Then proceeds to labor to tell the bright kid about computer chips or something so he can "invent" them
And labors to try to invent...panty hose.
The writers never connect it all.
Programming is about more than algebra. It's complex functions on symbols and ideas as well. If you have difficulty with the math, well, a math of idea-pushing might be harder still.
And there should be regulation to prevent all corporations, but not government, from surreptitiously reading your "alligator clip" ID because we have been trained, by government, to think of business as the Prime Evil of existance.
More from TFA:
"Parents finally put a stop to it when one child told them it was pretty cool, and that the next day Mr. Johnston was going to show the boys how unique, like fingerprints, were stampings of their ball sac patterns."
> Regulations are part of the market.
Except that many if not most are more about hurting competition than actual concern.
Witness: Japan made importation of cheap rice difficult. Real reason? Protecting domestic farmers from competition by holding the entire population hostage to their higher prices.
The regulatory "reason"? Seriously, the rice wasn't right for the sensitive Japanese stomach.
In this case, these countries banning it claim unsafe. The real reason? The farmers don't wanna pay for it and want to keep cheaper competition out.
So, a prediction, write it down if you dare: When these patents expire, these countries will allow it, suddenly claiming it seems safe now. I.e. the domestic muscular economic interests can now use it without paying for it and thus gain the efficiencies it brings.
Quite probably, your brain will buy into that, that their Wise Leaders properly waited and only just then decided it was Safe.
I predict.
I do.
I do.
Write it down. If you dare. Politics is narratives, not science, only if you put blinders on.
As it's safe, it's only a temporary problem until the patent expires. Then everybody will switch to it and Monsanto will have to switch to something better.
Repeat ad nauseum. A couple of hundred years go by and suddenly Kirk is shipping quadra-trita-caelene to a starving planet. Meanwhilr, Slashdotters bitch that they should've shipped quadra-quinta-caelene, those god damned greedy corporations!
You are probably completely on board laughing at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, UFO tinfoil hat wearers, illuminutties, etc. but buy into GMO scares, driven by lawyers and talking head book sellers looking for profit?
Make love, not war. Where are the sex bots that will roam around and make you orgasm unsupervised? Let's get some other automaton out of control kthxbie.
And now, the punch line.
.
Wait for it...
.
If you build it, they will...
It's also against the rules to assassinate enemy leaders outside war, but ok to initiate a war with a full frontal assault killing hubdreds of thousands on both sides.
Ironically, that's less upsetting -- getting your nation's ass whooped -- than getting your Fearless Leader killed.
The incident in question was about 20 months ago, and the ruling, as OP says, was about a year ago. Some months back a congressman revealed the ruling existed, but nothing else since the ruling itself was classified.
It was the method of data collection that was important and ruled unconstitutional. Obviously, We The People want to know what the government did, specifically the method of spying that it abused, and not the persons or subject matter.
Summary: That such a ruling about unconstitutional activity exists is all that's publicly known. The methood of spying was ruled unconstitutional, but has not been revealed.
The EFF is currently suing to force revelation of the unconstitutional method. Next court step: government has until June 7 to respond why it should remain secret.
Note this is separate from the subject or topic of the spying.
You...you don't wanna watch old Arnold Swartzenegger movies.
With the smartphone/tablet model, publishers skip generic interfaces like browsers and just build apps directly. What they do internally for security and payments is their own business.
Browser/flash players that connect over the Internet and play as generic player's days may be numbered anyway.
Not saying this is a bad idea, but you reap the rewards via invented cures and whatnot. Government isn't the only one investing in most of this, and you may slow things down by eviscerating exclusivity.
The cure is the reward.
The landing would only need short-lived, computer-controlled rockets, possibly just the same things as the jet packs from the 1950s, nased on hudrogen peroxide.
There's a ton of engineering that has to go into this first, so if they realize it, expect to see many, many test flights taking off from the ground first, and that it will work without a human inside.
Lessee, we've made fun of sponsors Seth Green and Bill Nye. Who's left?
Oooh, Richard Branson! You've started successful companies with more cachet than Apple and earned billions off them. You've nailed more pussy than the average 38 year old neckbeard has downloaded in his mom's basement. La HOOOOOOOZER!!!!!
No it just proves he's anal-retentive in categorizing his porn.
> "a software developer at Rockwell Automation,"
My first thought: ooh, a software job is opening up at Rockwell.
I had a similar thought -- the governemnt could probably decrypt it if they wanted, but hoped not to lest they reveal that they have this ability.
Now they have revealed they can. There was another case (forget the subject) where the judge's attempt to force revealing the password suddenly became moot when the government "miraculously" decrypted it.
It would be nice to know the encryption so it can be improved, not because I wanna help criminals but because there are some very nasty people out there who have a lot more power than common crooks and asses.
Well it's not much, but would the government give the fine to the victims, or would they just spend it on stuff three years ago?
> And people wonder why the average person hates the very idea of the stock market.
The average person does not hate it. Just your own little moral online tribal society hates it, where you reinforce to each other statements about the awfulness of this or that vis-a-vis politics, in support of a meme-based amalgam of people looking for power themselves.
Heree I am, send me to the west coast!
There's a granularity to advancement as it is made of discrete units of advancement and invention.
Also, I wouldn't pooh pooh the use of other techniques to keep things moving. In the terms economists use to analyze advancement, this is called "substitution", and is the source of the counter-intuitive but powerfully predictive observation that, in a free economy, people can invent ahead of the curve faster than things become problems, like shortages.
Well, if WoW is hemorrhaging players, then they timed this new game poorly. The time to release is soon.