And part of "the public interest" is tracking down the people who want to drop off a truck bomb at the shopping center I'm going to be at. And part of tracking those people down is monitoring their communications.
It's not clear that the guy didn't commit the murder, despite the claim that the Google map search was "planted" (which I find rather odd... would someone really "plant" a file vs simply doing the search in the browser???)
No. An expert may be an expert in an area, but until he's familiar with your code, he's not an expert in your system. I've spent way to much time deciphering code where a single sentence explaining what the hell the code was doing would have saved time. If you had enough time to write the system, you have enough time to document it. And if it's hard to document, that's a hint that it's a crappy system.
"The problem" is when using the Internet starts interfering with the rest of your life. When you missing work and losing your girlfriend because you'd rather kill virtual dragons all day than participate in reality. It's one thing to be passionate about a hobby, it's another thing to be unable to disconnect from that hobby long enough to keep yourself alive.
Yes, border patrol is intrusive. In all countries. I've had interesting experiences entering Canada (on a flight from the USA) and traveling in the UK. Welcome to the real world.
Ah, it's settled then, life MUST have originated on that warm, wet Mars. Even though we have no idea how long it was warm, how long it was wet, or even any form of life ever appeared there. Congratulations.
I RTFA. They didn't mention the part about how the sun was dimmer billions of years ago. Which makes Mars a much less likely spot for life to evolve than Earth. It's interesting speculation but needs way, way more evidence.
There was a story about 2 years ago about Space Adventures marketing a possible flight around the moon in a Soyuz. But the price they were quoting was way more than the flight to the ISS. There probably aren't more than another 30 people who could afford it, want to go, and psychologically could deal with being in a small space capsule for 8 or 9 days with a decent chance of dying during the trip.
Very funny. Reminds me of the stories how one of the Allies in WWI (I think England, might be wrong) was woefully unprepared in code breaking because of the sentiment that "Gentlemen do not read other gentleman's mail". Nuclear weapons and double agents are part of the real world. Deal with it.
So you think all the government files should be public? Somehow I'm thinking the lists of double agents and the nuclear weapons codes might be things we don't want to post. Just sayin...
True... much better to just type something that looks plausible and then run it and find out that you left out the 's' from the end and now you get to fix it. Not to mention spending all of your time googling because god forbid there would actually be real documentation.
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And part of "the public interest" is tracking down the people who want to drop off a truck bomb at the shopping center I'm going to be at. And part of tracking those people down is monitoring their communications.
I sure hope you don't fly then. One article said you get the equivalent of 1 to 2 chest x-rays on a long haul flight.
Yeah, god forbid someone would teach kids to read and write. Sure sounds like a leech to me.
It's not clear that the guy didn't commit the murder, despite the claim that the Google map search was "planted" (which I find rather odd... would someone really "plant" a file vs simply doing the search in the browser???)
No. An expert may be an expert in an area, but until he's familiar with your code, he's not an expert in your system. I've spent way to much time deciphering code where a single sentence explaining what the hell the code was doing would have saved time. If you had enough time to write the system, you have enough time to document it. And if it's hard to document, that's a hint that it's a crappy system.
Well, maybe people don't watch so much TV that it interferes with the rest of their lives?
It may be a symptom of another problem, but that doesn't mean that treating the symptom won't help.
"The problem" is when using the Internet starts interfering with the rest of your life. When you missing work and losing your girlfriend because you'd rather kill virtual dragons all day than participate in reality. It's one thing to be passionate about a hobby, it's another thing to be unable to disconnect from that hobby long enough to keep yourself alive.
Yes, border patrol is intrusive. In all countries. I've had interesting experiences entering Canada (on a flight from the USA) and traveling in the UK. Welcome to the real world.
Given that the NSA is violating the law, that's like saying that everyone in the USA supports car theft. It doesn't follow.
Ah, it's settled then, life MUST have originated on that warm, wet Mars. Even though we have no idea how long it was warm, how long it was wet, or even any form of life ever appeared there. Congratulations.
I RTFA. They didn't mention the part about how the sun was dimmer billions of years ago. Which makes Mars a much less likely spot for life to evolve than Earth. It's interesting speculation but needs way, way more evidence.
There was a story about 2 years ago about Space Adventures marketing a possible flight around the moon in a Soyuz. But the price they were quoting was way more than the flight to the ISS. There probably aren't more than another 30 people who could afford it, want to go, and psychologically could deal with being in a small space capsule for 8 or 9 days with a decent chance of dying during the trip.
Fakery is much more advanced now than in the 60's. It would be MUCH easier to fake a flight to moon today.
Nonsense. We are so much more capable now in space travel than we were in the 60's that there's just no comparison.
Security agency whose purpose is to decrypt communications of other nations successfully decrypted communications of other nations.
By the way, that's how Alan Turing helped win WW II.
Very funny. Reminds me of the stories how one of the Allies in WWI (I think England, might be wrong) was woefully unprepared in code breaking because of the sentiment that "Gentlemen do not read other gentleman's mail". Nuclear weapons and double agents are part of the real world. Deal with it.
So you think all the government files should be public? Somehow I'm thinking the lists of double agents and the nuclear weapons codes might be things we don't want to post. Just sayin...
No one was "abducted"
You decide to not watch streaming video because you don't like the technology the streamer uses. Sounds silly to me.
Easy solution: cut off your nose to spite your face.
True... much better to just type something that looks plausible and then run it and find out that you left out the 's' from the end and now you get to fix it. Not to mention spending all of your time googling because god forbid there would actually be real documentation.
I really miss auto-complete :(
Blackmailing the USA is probably not their best move at this point.
O please... not everything is the fault of the CIA / NSA / etc. If there was ANY evidence of that, Wikileaks would happily be spreading the news. I
Smoothness and responsiveness of application: web app, varies from ok to painful in jerky steps, depending on the Internet "weather", the load on the servers, etc. Native app usually be far faster and always smoother.
Chance that app will disappear forever: web app, may disappear any time the supplier isn't making enough $$$. Native app, it's on your machine indefinitely.