Still, I think it would be in general better for the whole of society if people got more "moral" and we somehow found a way to instill in them the idea that stealing/killing/etc is just not ok.
I was thinking along those lines some time ago. Why not have kids play SimCity (or whatever the current 'simulated society' game is) to show them how a society can work only with some sets of rules, cops are necessary, not everybody can be rich, corporate corruption leads to failure of democracy, etc... Those who fail... might be harder to handle just failing at maths.
History is replete with examples of people converted to Christianity simply by reading the Bible on their own without outside influence.
Without outside influence ?!? I call bullshit on that. There HAS to be peer pressure involved in order for somebody to believe that a burning bush can talk, a horse can fly or similar ridiculous inventions. Not having somebody watching over your shoulder with a stick is not necessary if the reward is joining a group that eats better, or knowing they won't kill you when the next wave of pogroms will start.
There are far more people who convert the other way, they force-read their bible all their childhood, sick from some of its content, and as soon as they are adults they feel free to give it up. Otherwise there wouldn't be any atheist around, now would they ?
Indeed it would be interesting to know if beautiful women think that most men are dumb, vs ordinary/ugly ones. Or see if their opinion evolves as they age.
There are plenty of ugly symmetric people, and quite a few attractive asymmetric ones, so I'm not sure this argument really flies. It's just one more criterion, like having an unblemished skin, a healthy build, hair, etc, etc...
And since it's against ground targets, hardening them by coating them in mirrors would be like putting a pretty big and obvious bullseye on the buildings... Just look at all the big mirrors on the ground and blow them up with conventional means. Or drop a bucket of black paint on them and then lase them if you really want to use your new toy.
We were running 64 bit Windows NT on Alpha chips in 1994. When did Linux first provide 64 bit support?
The same day that Athlon64 processors came out, as if an obscure (albeit good, I've used it) processor without any software apps can count. When did Windows start supporting x86-64 fully ? Oh, yeah, they still don't to an extend (some drivers don't work and will never be updated).
Actually, some data is prohibited, e.g. child pornography. In any case, the claim is that they are looking for evidence that the owner of the laptop is a terrorist. The documents that constitute such evidence might well not be prohibited entry, but they would be useful in determining whether or not to admit the bearer.
So when your plane stops over in some arabian hellhole on its way from Europe to Australia, you are perfectly OK with the idea of them looking for 'prohibited data' on your laptop, and since they will find some family pictures of uncovered women (or, god forbid, actual smut); and also perfectly OK with them detaining you at this point. Right ?
I have Datacolor Spyder3 screen and print calibration devices. They are absolutely essential to get good screen color rendering and good prints no matter what price monitor/printer you have. Those devices are not supported in Linux.
I can create a monitor profile in Windows and use it in Linux with the command xcalib, but without being sure if it's correctly applied. And their monitor profile creation software doesn't run in Wine or even in VirtualBox. And I have found NO linux software that can apply a profile to a print. So I need a virtual XP just to create printer profiles and print !
Those issues have been bouncing around Linux mailing lists for a decade.
I don't understand this declaration syntax. What does it do ? Also &&a where a is a label. I can understand &a being the address of the label, but I've never seen && anywhere.
Whoah... Respect ! Was that a real CPU (what kind ?) or a microcontroller ?
TRASHY LITTLE SUBROUTINES
SPECIALIZED "PHASCHNG" SUBROUTINE
Isn't that spelled Phishing ?
I know there were several good suggestions to fix up my 'laziness', but here's why I haven't done it so far:
Deadlines zooming past, certainly no time to reimplement the wheel.
Use of variable format strings which precludes bound checking the arguments.
Portability: this current code has to work on Windows, Linux and embedded Linux; so grabbing the 1st snprintf source found on the net may not work.
Upgradability: the compiler makers have promised snprintf will be in the next version, so I don't feel like wasting my time right now only to reverse it later.
To be fair most works of philosophy make an attempt to define better axioms than "it's written in a book"
Well, I remember having had to study a Nietzche book that started with (from memory): "The greeks were the purest people on earth". I stopped reading past that point and successfully argued my point in class that a book based on bullshit arguments wasn't worth wasting my time over. BTW, I greatly admire the ancient greek civilization, but they had their lot of criminals, tyrants, pederasts, slavers, etc...
Anyone cares to tell me what the words 'christian' and 'science' are doing together ? I mean, do they live in a universe with different rules with different science or what ? No, I'm not thinking about the evolution denier idiots, I assume this refers to run of the mill christians. So why the specification ?
My worst shortcut is to use fixed-sized strings with non size limiting functions, as in:
char Str[255];
sprintf(Str, "%s, %s", Lastname, FirstName);
I really wish snprintf was available on my C implementation.
Which reminds me, couple years ago I stopped briefly to talk with a friend in his store. He told me "I hope you paid the meter, they are always on the prowl in this street", to which I replied "No worries, my wife is in the car", so the car's stopped, not parked. When I came out, there was a ticket under the back windshield wiper. My wife had seen nothing. Assholes.
Not to diss on the article, but I have something to say about
BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public
A couple years ago I needed a specific version of Windows, in English, while being in a foreign country. It was not available for sale in said country, so I thought, I'll just go purchase it online. After a bit of googling, I was really surprised that I couldn't find it for sale as a downloadable ISO (I needed it on that very day). Finally on eBay I find an auction to "a link to a downloadable version of Windows with license". I instant pay and within one minute of each other I get 2 messages, one from the seller that gives me a link to a fake site with just written "download Windows with license" (and nothing else); and another one from eBay that states that the sale was pulled for breaking terms of service on software (what, after I pay ?!?), without even offering a refund.
Now call me naive, but on that day I learned 2 things: (1) Windows lost not only a sale but many customers since it was the very day that I started installing Linux on my customer's PCs because of their reluctance to sell online; (2) eBay actively encourages criminals and just do some handwaving to cover their ass.
Also thorium reactors didn't get any push during the cold war because you can't produce bomb making materials (plutonium) from them. So it didn't interest the military and at the time the military had a LOT of veto power in CIVILIAN reactor design. This is only now beginning to erode away.
addresses don't tend to get removed from spam lists - just added to. With time, the "send-to" lists would likely grow larger and larger
With the various honeypots generating random pages full of emails, how is it possible that spam reaches valid emails anymore ? There should be a 1:10^12 ratio of valid vs honeypot addresses, and even that should jam the biggest botnets since botnets can't wait for a returned "Invalid email" message to clean its list. Or am I missing something?
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Still, I think it would be in general better for the whole of society if people got more "moral" and we somehow found a way to instill in them the idea that stealing/killing/etc is just not ok.
I was thinking along those lines some time ago. Why not have kids play SimCity (or whatever the current 'simulated society' game is) to show them how a society can work only with some sets of rules, cops are necessary, not everybody can be rich, corporate corruption leads to failure of democracy, etc... Those who fail... might be harder to handle just failing at maths.
History is replete with examples of people converted to Christianity simply by reading the Bible on their own without outside influence.
Without outside influence ?!? I call bullshit on that. There HAS to be peer pressure involved in order for somebody to believe that a burning bush can talk, a horse can fly or similar ridiculous inventions. Not having somebody watching over your shoulder with a stick is not necessary if the reward is joining a group that eats better, or knowing they won't kill you when the next wave of pogroms will start.
There are far more people who convert the other way, they force-read their bible all their childhood, sick from some of its content, and as soon as they are adults they feel free to give it up. Otherwise there wouldn't be any atheist around, now would they ?
Indeed it would be interesting to know if beautiful women think that most men are dumb, vs ordinary/ugly ones. Or see if their opinion evolves as they age.
There are plenty of ugly symmetric people, and quite a few attractive asymmetric ones, so I'm not sure this argument really flies. It's just one more criterion, like having an unblemished skin, a healthy build, hair, etc, etc...
I love the insightful mod on you post. I don't know if it's 2nd degree humor or if it's real.
And since it's against ground targets, hardening them by coating them in mirrors would be like putting a pretty big and obvious bullseye on the buildings... Just look at all the big mirrors on the ground and blow them up with conventional means. Or drop a bucket of black paint on them and then lase them if you really want to use your new toy.
We were running 64 bit Windows NT on Alpha chips in 1994. When did Linux first provide 64 bit support?
The same day that Athlon64 processors came out, as if an obscure (albeit good, I've used it) processor without any software apps can count. When did Windows start supporting x86-64 fully ? Oh, yeah, they still don't to an extend (some drivers don't work and will never be updated).
Piece of tape on the battery contacts: "sorry, my battery's dead". Ooops, looks like the power supply is dead too...
Actually, some data is prohibited, e.g. child pornography. In any case, the claim is that they are looking for evidence that the owner of the laptop is a terrorist. The documents that constitute such evidence might well not be prohibited entry, but they would be useful in determining whether or not to admit the bearer.
So when your plane stops over in some arabian hellhole on its way from Europe to Australia, you are perfectly OK with the idea of them looking for 'prohibited data' on your laptop, and since they will find some family pictures of uncovered women (or, god forbid, actual smut); and also perfectly OK with them detaining you at this point. Right ?
That's LabWindows/CVI for Windows/Linux. Next version should be C99 compliant. Current version is only partial and I have to use the previous one.
I have Datacolor Spyder3 screen and print calibration devices. They are absolutely essential to get good screen color rendering and good prints no matter what price monitor/printer you have. Those devices are not supported in Linux.
I can create a monitor profile in Windows and use it in Linux with the command xcalib, but without being sure if it's correctly applied. And their monitor profile creation software doesn't run in Wine or even in VirtualBox. And I have found NO linux software that can apply a profile to a print. So I need a virtual XP just to create printer profiles and print !
Those issues have been bouncing around Linux mailing lists for a decade.
void *f() {...}
I don't understand this declaration syntax. What does it do ? Also &&a where a is a label. I can understand &a being the address of the label, but I've never seen && anywhere.
Whoah... Respect ! Was that a real CPU (what kind ?) or a microcontroller ?
TRASHY LITTLE SUBROUTINES
SPECIALIZED "PHASCHNG" SUBROUTINE
Isn't that spelled Phishing ?
To be fair most works of philosophy make an attempt to define better axioms than "it's written in a book"
Well, I remember having had to study a Nietzche book that started with (from memory): "The greeks were the purest people on earth". I stopped reading past that point and successfully argued my point in class that a book based on bullshit arguments wasn't worth wasting my time over. BTW, I greatly admire the ancient greek civilization, but they had their lot of criminals, tyrants, pederasts, slavers, etc...
Anyone cares to tell me what the words 'christian' and 'science' are doing together ? I mean, do they live in a universe with different rules with different science or what ? No, I'm not thinking about the evolution denier idiots, I assume this refers to run of the mill christians. So why the specification ?
My worst shortcut is to use fixed-sized strings with non size limiting functions, as in:
char Str[255];
sprintf(Str, "%s, %s", Lastname, FirstName);
I really wish snprintf was available on my C implementation.
Often, goto is the best solution to given problem.
When coding state machines in C, I don't see too many ways around gotos but I'd be curious to hear them.
8pm on a sunday, and still had to drive 2 hours to get home. I wrote a complaint letter and the answer was basically 'suck it up, dude'.
Which reminds me, couple years ago I stopped briefly to talk with a friend in his store. He told me "I hope you paid the meter, they are always on the prowl in this street", to which I replied "No worries, my wife is in the car", so the car's stopped, not parked. When I came out, there was a ticket under the back windshield wiper. My wife had seen nothing. Assholes.
BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public
A couple years ago I needed a specific version of Windows, in English, while being in a foreign country. It was not available for sale in said country, so I thought, I'll just go purchase it online. After a bit of googling, I was really surprised that I couldn't find it for sale as a downloadable ISO (I needed it on that very day). Finally on eBay I find an auction to "a link to a downloadable version of Windows with license". I instant pay and within one minute of each other I get 2 messages, one from the seller that gives me a link to a fake site with just written "download Windows with license" (and nothing else); and another one from eBay that states that the sale was pulled for breaking terms of service on software (what, after I pay ?!?), without even offering a refund.
Now call me naive, but on that day I learned 2 things: (1) Windows lost not only a sale but many customers since it was the very day that I started installing Linux on my customer's PCs because of their reluctance to sell online; (2) eBay actively encourages criminals and just do some handwaving to cover their ass.
Also thorium reactors didn't get any push during the cold war because you can't produce bomb making materials (plutonium) from them. So it didn't interest the military and at the time the military had a LOT of veto power in CIVILIAN reactor design. This is only now beginning to erode away.
Oh, I get it, kdawson must be the cure against /. addiction...
addresses don't tend to get removed from spam lists - just added to. With time, the "send-to" lists would likely grow larger and larger
With the various honeypots generating random pages full of emails, how is it possible that spam reaches valid emails anymore ? There should be a 1:10^12 ratio of valid vs honeypot addresses, and even that should jam the biggest botnets since botnets can't wait for a returned "Invalid email" message to clean its list. Or am I missing something?
I don't know about that, but as a european with a personal mail server in the US I get and awful lot of spam in russian and quite a bit in chinese.