Some terms can't be searched because Google still ignores all punctuation. "C", "C++", "C#", "C--", "%^#$, C!!!!" are all the same to google.
No, they aren't. Only "C" and "C!!!!" are identical; "C--" gives the same top results but then asks if you mean "C minus minus". The others are all distinct. (Research involved in this article consisted of 6 Google searches)
Why is it always vegetables and pain? I don't know if you'll live longer eating broccoli and distance running, but it'll sure feel longer. Especially if you really do improve your memory...
Anyway, he was saying how all the guys were really plain-looking, and the girls are hot as hell, and very seductive at that too. SO, what you should be looking out for at your work place are: plain-looking Chinese dudes and hot Chinese girls!
That only applies if they're "seductive". If they laugh haughtily at clumsy nerd advances and date only tall and/or rich guys, they're not spies. But hot Asian chicks apparently interested in Slashdotters are going to be one of two things... recruiters for the Moonies, or spies for the Chinese.
If copyright terms were greater, it'd be more likely many more copies would be made before the originals and first generation prints deteriorated due to age, _because it wouldn't be illegal to do so_.
high rent and people peeing on your front door, or $15/ gallon gasoline and lyme disease
Hmm. Let's see. $15/gallon * 12000 miles/year *1/25 gallons/mile = $7200. That'll pay for the rent for (generously) 4 months in a shoebox in Manhattan, and that's NOW. If high gas prices actually drove people into the city, rents would inevitably go up. And of course transportation costs in the city aren't zero either, unless you never go more than walking distance from your apartment.
and i am the future. as oil prices creep up inevitably, inexorably, and permanently, the suburbs will die. we'll live like our great granfathers: dense urban centers, lots of public transportation
My great grandfathers lived in little rural towns in Europe with no public transportation, you ignorant clod.
As oil prices go up, it will become MORE expensive to live in Manhattan vis-a-vis the suburbs, not less.
I think this is a very dangerous precedent all around.
No, this isn't dangerous precedent. The dangerous precedent was set when the Supreme Court approved state laws doing basically the same thing. This is way beyond that.
This is absolutely tossing out not one but two of the fundamental protections in the constitution. One is the bit about "ex post facto" laws -- which by one of the oldest Supreme Court precedents ever used to forbid increasing a person's sentence after the fact. The other is the bit about not being deprived of liberty without due process of law, which this pisses all over. The attorney general's say-so is NOT due process of law.
Thomas Jefferson, as president, signed his documents: "on this date 180x, in the year of our lord, Jesus Christ".
I love this one. Shows one of two things -- either the speaker is an idiot parroting others, or the speaker is trying to put one over us. A.D. 1776 = Anno Domini 1776 = The year of our lord 1776. The "lord" meant was indeed Jesus Christ, the one old Pope Gregory XIII (of Gregorian Calendar fame) would have recognized. It's just traditional formula.
Don't you see? The bias in the article is a prime example of reverse psychology. Notice how many people are already acepting the idea of nuking it.
This is Slashdot. At least a third were all for nuking it even before reading the earlier article. Another third were horrified at the thought, and the last third thought it was a really cool idea but were afraid (from bitter experience) they'd be thought of as nuts if they didn't act horrified.
Hyperbole much? How is this Logan's Run? My parents believe I'm possessed by a demon, so no help from them to get into college. I got used to waiting until they dropped off my FAFSA, so I'm currently saving up so I don't need massive loans and I'll probably be entering college when I'm 32 or 35 or so. Am I missing something?
Yes, there are full scholarships available for the possessed. Contrary to much popular lore, Satan does not want stupid servants; he needs well-educated minions to fill important positions in government and industry. Just call 1-866-666-FUND to learn about opportunities.
There is, of course, a catch. You'll probably be required to get an MBA. But as an undergraduate, such fields as engineering (petroleum engineering is particularly popular), finance (of course), and even mathematics will be open to you.
Even then, there's still records at your cell phone company that can be used to triangulate your last known position to at least tens of feet; usually better.
They can only tell what cells your phone has been talking to recently, and the signal strength. The full-on TDoA based locate is only done on demand, and can't be done after the fact. I believe the AGPS-based phones are the same way; the pseudoranges aren't provided to the network except on-demand.
As I've explained above, this law does not criminalise the possession of information.
From your own post: - "a person is guilty of an offence if he:" [...] "collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or [...] possesses a document or record containing information of that kind."
Yes, that criminalizes the possession of information. Even if there is an affirmative defense to it.
Your knife example doesn't help, seeing how that law is commonly abused: Like this
How about making a high school diploma mean something again? The bachelor's degree has become the new high school diploma. Which only continues a very long process; used to be in the early part of last century that 8th grade was the end of the line for most students. This wouldn't be so bad if people were actually learning more, but I think in many cases they are not; they're just wasting time and effort.
Step one (and it's a doozy) is to get the primary and secondary education working in the many areas where it's simply broken, and to get it working better in the areas where it is not. Basic literacy and arithmetic by the end of elementary school, and the ability for nearly all students to pass something like today's GED by the end of 8th or 9th grade. Then the rest of high school can actually be used for some of the advanced academic stuff, or for training in trades. Do that, and convince the rest of society (particularly including employers) that it has been done, and people won't need the bachelor's degree.
I don't see it happening. Instead, we'll see the masters become what the bachelor's is today, a basic requirement -- it's already starting to happen in some fields. Which is too bad.
Yeah. Those identity thieves need to be put in prison for life at our expense, but Wall Street douchebags get bailed out with our taxes and allowed to enjoy their freedoms.
Who said anything about that? As far as I'm concerned the crooked douchbags can share a cell with the identity thieves.
The money collected from the meters may not amount to much, but the revenue from parking tickets for lapsed meters is spectacular.
Especially when the meters run fast (yes, Philadelphia, I mean you. If I put an hour in a meter and come back 58 minutes later and it says "expired", something crooked is going on. My watch isn't that slow)
If your car is sliding on gravel, rain or ice you want to steer INTO the slide, not in the opposite direction.
Most misleading advice ever given in a driver's ed course. Yes, you steer into the slide. If your rear wheels are sliding to the right, you turn the wheel to the right. But what does this look like from the driver's seat? You're driving along, and now your car is suddenly turning _left_. If you remembered only "steer into the slide", you then turn your wheel left... turning your slide into a spin. GP had it right -- you turn the wheel the way you want to go.
There is no need to write a single line of code so early in one's studies.
Algorithms without a language is like calculus without algebra; it just doesn't work. You can introduce some form of pseudocode, but IMO that's just a waste of time.
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No, they aren't. Only "C" and "C!!!!" are identical; "C--" gives the same top results but then asks if you mean "C minus minus". The others are all distinct. (Research involved in this article consisted of 6 Google searches)
Why is it always vegetables and pain? I don't know if you'll live longer eating broccoli and distance running, but it'll sure feel longer. Especially if you really do improve your memory...
That only applies if they're "seductive". If they laugh haughtily at clumsy nerd advances and date only tall and/or rich guys, they're not spies. But hot Asian chicks apparently interested in Slashdotters are going to be one of two things... recruiters for the Moonies, or spies for the Chinese.
I meant 'shorter' rather than 'greater' above... *sigh*.
If copyright terms were greater, it'd be more likely many more copies would be made before the originals and first generation prints deteriorated due to age, _because it wouldn't be illegal to do so_.
Hmm. Let's see. $15/gallon * 12000 miles/year *1/25 gallons/mile = $7200. That'll pay for the rent for (generously) 4 months in a shoebox in Manhattan, and that's NOW. If high gas prices actually drove people into the city, rents would inevitably go up. And of course transportation costs in the city aren't zero either, unless you never go more than walking distance from your apartment.
My great grandfathers lived in little rural towns in Europe with no public transportation, you ignorant clod.
As oil prices go up, it will become MORE expensive to live in Manhattan vis-a-vis the suburbs, not less.
No, this isn't dangerous precedent. The dangerous precedent was set when the Supreme Court approved state laws doing basically the same thing. This is way beyond that.
This is absolutely tossing out not one but two of the fundamental protections in the constitution. One is the bit about "ex post facto" laws -- which by one of the oldest Supreme Court precedents ever used to forbid increasing a person's sentence after the fact. The other is the bit about not being deprived of liberty without due process of law, which this pisses all over. The attorney general's say-so is NOT due process of law.
I love this one. Shows one of two things -- either the speaker is an idiot parroting others, or the speaker is trying to put one over us. A.D. 1776 = Anno Domini 1776 = The year of our lord 1776. The "lord" meant was indeed Jesus Christ, the one old Pope Gregory XIII (of Gregorian Calendar fame) would have recognized. It's just traditional formula.
So which would you rather have... Google Car Beta, or Microsoft Car 1.0?
Great. So the oil is nicely contained in dense plumes. BP just needs to stick a giant straw into the plumes and suck that stuff right up :-)
This is Slashdot. At least a third were all for nuking it even before reading the earlier article. Another third were horrified at the thought, and the last third thought it was a really cool idea but were afraid (from bitter experience) they'd be thought of as nuts if they didn't act horrified.
Yes, there are full scholarships available for the possessed. Contrary to much popular lore, Satan does not want stupid servants; he needs well-educated minions to fill important positions in government and industry. Just call 1-866-666-FUND to learn about opportunities.
There is, of course, a catch. You'll probably be required to get an MBA. But as an undergraduate, such fields as engineering (petroleum engineering is particularly popular), finance (of course), and even mathematics will be open to you.
Let me break it down for you:
RFID RF ID
Yeah, it's an ID.
They can only tell what cells your phone has been talking to recently, and the signal strength. The full-on TDoA based locate is only done on demand, and can't be done after the fact. I believe the AGPS-based phones are the same way; the pseudoranges aren't provided to the network except on-demand.
Closer to 11 in 14. It might get implemented on a weekend, and there's way less chance they'll get around to abusing it before Monday.
From your own post: - "a person is guilty of an offence if he:" [...] "collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or [...] possesses a document or record containing information of that kind."
Yes, that criminalizes the possession of information. Even if there is an affirmative defense to it.
Your knife example doesn't help, seeing how that law is commonly abused:
Like this
Marx never achieved power, and Mao imprisoned and killed people for reading pretty much any book (except his own), pro-capitalist or not.
Ah, so that's where they got the idea for the Avatar vehicles.
How about making a high school diploma mean something again? The bachelor's degree has become the new high school diploma. Which only continues a very long process; used to be in the early part of last century that 8th grade was the end of the line for most students. This wouldn't be so bad if people were actually learning more, but I think in many cases they are not; they're just wasting time and effort.
Step one (and it's a doozy) is to get the primary and secondary education working in the many areas where it's simply broken, and to get it working better in the areas where it is not. Basic literacy and arithmetic by the end of elementary school, and the ability for nearly all students to pass something like today's GED by the end of 8th or 9th grade. Then the rest of high school can actually be used for some of the advanced academic stuff, or for training in trades. Do that, and convince the rest of society (particularly including employers) that it has been done, and people won't need the bachelor's degree.
I don't see it happening. Instead, we'll see the masters become what the bachelor's is today, a basic requirement -- it's already starting to happen in some fields. Which is too bad.
Who said anything about that? As far as I'm concerned the crooked douchbags can share a cell with the identity thieves.
Especially when the meters run fast (yes, Philadelphia, I mean you. If I put an hour in a meter and come back 58 minutes later and it says "expired", something crooked is going on. My watch isn't that slow)
Most misleading advice ever given in a driver's ed course. Yes, you steer into the slide. If your rear wheels are sliding to the right, you turn the wheel to the right. But what does this look like from the driver's seat? You're driving along, and now your car is suddenly turning _left_. If you remembered only "steer into the slide", you then turn your wheel left... turning your slide into a spin. GP had it right -- you turn the wheel the way you want to go.
Algorithms without a language is like calculus without algebra; it just doesn't work. You can introduce some form of pseudocode, but IMO that's just a waste of time.
Ever heard of two languages called ALGOL and Lisp?
(Probably not. *sigh*. Excuse me, I've got some kids to chase off my lawn.)