Programmers communicate among each other using documentation (at least in theory).
This is a big mistake. The primary means of detailed communication within a project should be the code itself. Code should be as readable and clearly organised as possible. Just add comments where un-obvious things are going on. New techniques like aspect-oriented programming allow source code to be even more expressive.
By that moronic logic, since the states have different rules for presidential elections, the US should suspend presidential elections and become a dictatorship until such time as the rules are made "uniform" accross all states, to prevent any perception of unfairness.
This is a problem with rational choice as well (although it's much less severe). Your business needs 10,000 FooBarWidgets. Mission-critical purchase. You could buy some from Wilkos, but how do you know they are good enough for what you need them for? They're popular, right? Well that's no guarantee, lots of people eat at McDonalds. You could employ someone to do some research, but how do you know that they will do their job properly? Ask for two references and ask them. But how do you know they're telling the truth? Or give your potential employees aptitude tests. But how do you know that the aptitude tests are not just a load of bunk? Etc. etc.
Of course some of these problems are largely theoretical, but some of them are very real.
Infinite regression of information gathering. How do you know your information gatherers are doing their job correctly, and how do you know how important the information you're going to gather is going to be before you've gathered it? Not always easy to answer.
That's completely besides the point. Qt for Windows isn't free as in speech or as in beer. So, no surprise that no-one seems to be distributing KDE programs for Windows.
might as well setup more social assistance programs to help "refugees" setup a few more terror cells.
Stop with the snide racism! That's like saying you should go around shooting Muslims just in case any of them are terrorists. The vast majority of asylum seekers and refugees are not terrorists. Let's not forget that whites and US citizens can be terrorists and can fund terrorism too.
No, talking about the security flaws in previous versions of the Kernel could be seen as "trafficking in a circumvention device". At a stretch. After all, Felten was threatened, and he only wrote a scholarly paper.
Basically, this dichotomy boils down to the issue of "does the end justify the means?" Most people do not think so, and our legal code is set up that way.
Nope. There's lots of examples: just war. Killing or bodily harm is ok if it's necessary in self-defense. Police officers are allowed to kill suspects if the suspect is about to shoot someone. In British law defendants have successfully been found innocent of criminal damage, even though they admitted to it, because they were doing it to try to prevent a greater crime (in one case the use of Trident nuclear weapons submarines).
In fact, if you really get down to it, most of our society is based on the idea that the means justify the end.
Huh??? What the hell does "the means justify the end" mean? Does that mean if I do a lot of good things with an intent to murder children, that justifies murdering children???
My advice to you: if you want to philosophise about social norms, you need to think before you speak.
That's like saying "PhDs are too hard - you should just set a test in single-digit arithmetic!"
Shuffling symbols around is not necessarily intelligent. The Turing Test being so hard is what's so good about it - it's almost impossible for fraudulent lack-of-intelligence to go undetected.
I'll grant you this: they are irrelevant in the sense that no-one has the faintest idea how to win the silver medal, let alone the gold medal (and the bronze medal is light-years away from the silver medal).
They can't stand it because they can't stand the fact that it's such a good test. No AI program in existence can understand English - they all do Eliza-like lame tricks. I agree that it's a bit unfair to expect AIs to behave exactly like a human, but the Turing Test really does expose the fact that Artificial Intelligence is akin to Artificial Grass. The latter isn't grass, and the former isn't intelligent.
Surely not. Congress is empowered to amend the Constitution to override the Supreme Court, right? Whether that would ever happen in this case is another matter, however.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment or diversion, [without planning] a conspiracy against the public, or some contrivance to raise prices."
See
http://www.sparc.bc.ca/sparc_news_archive/sn16_3_i nvisible_hand.htm
for more details. As Noam Chomsky pointed out in a hilarious essay, the defenders of modern capitalism frequently point to Adam Smith whilst ignoring what Adam Smith actually said, which was quite different to today's libertarian-style economic theories.
Quite a chilling statement. This clearly isn't true, otherwise you, twit, wouldn't be posting to/.
If someone is smoking dope and harassing people, there are already laws against harassment. People shouldn't be penalised for using something if there are uses for it which do not infringe on the rights of others.
I believe exactly the same thing can be achieved with native methods (for compiled languages) and/or BeanShell (for interpreted languages) in Java. Correct me if I'm wrong.
If I did something that would really load them down ie a load average above about 20 the systems would essentially freeze for 20 minutes or so and sometimes just never come back.
Same problems here. Maybe I am just superstitious, but I found banging on the keyoboard and waving the mouse around a bit gradually brought it back to life. Perhaps the keyboard/serial interrupts got the kernel out of an infinite loop.:-)
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Your argument amounts to: if evolution wanted us to fly it would have given us wings, therefore it is unfeasible to create a flying machine.
This is a big mistake. The primary means of detailed communication within a project should be the code itself. Code should be as readable and clearly organised as possible. Just add comments where un-obvious things are going on. New techniques like aspect-oriented programming allow source code to be even more expressive.
#include rtfa.h
Of course some of these problems are largely theoretical, but some of them are very real.
Infinite regression of information gathering. How do you know your information gatherers are doing their job correctly, and how do you know how important the information you're going to gather is going to be before you've gathered it? Not always easy to answer.
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Stop with the snide racism! That's like saying you should go around shooting Muslims just in case any of them are terrorists. The vast majority of asylum seekers and refugees are not terrorists. Let's not forget that whites and US citizens can be terrorists and can fund terrorism too.
1) It runs on Linux
2) No registration
3) Never seen any "not supported" messages
Nope. There's lots of examples: just war. Killing or bodily harm is ok if it's necessary in self-defense. Police officers are allowed to kill suspects if the suspect is about to shoot someone. In British law defendants have successfully been found innocent of criminal damage, even though they admitted to it, because they were doing it to try to prevent a greater crime (in one case the use of Trident nuclear weapons submarines).
In fact, if you really get down to it, most of our society is based on the idea that the means justify the end.
Huh??? What the hell does "the means justify the end" mean? Does that mean if I do a lot of good things with an intent to murder children, that justifies murdering children???
My advice to you: if you want to philosophise about social norms, you need to think before you speak.
Shuffling symbols around is not necessarily intelligent. The Turing Test being so hard is what's so good about it - it's almost impossible for fraudulent lack-of-intelligence to go undetected.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment or diversion, [without planning] a conspiracy against the public, or some contrivance to raise prices."
See http://www.sparc.bc.ca/sparc_news_archive/sn16_3_i nvisible_hand.htm
for more details. As Noam Chomsky pointed out in a hilarious essay, the defenders of modern capitalism frequently point to Adam Smith whilst ignoring what Adam Smith actually said, which was quite different to today's libertarian-style economic theories.
Quite a chilling statement. This clearly isn't true, otherwise you, twit, wouldn't be posting to /.
If someone is smoking dope and harassing people, there are already laws against harassment. People shouldn't be penalised for using something if there are uses for it which do not infringe on the rights of others.
Adam Smith.
Same problems here. Maybe I am just superstitious, but I found banging on the keyoboard and waving the mouse around a bit gradually brought it back to life. Perhaps the keyboard/serial interrupts got the kernel out of an infinite loop. :-)