Would they? Or would other insects just fill the space that mosquitoes were in? Nature abhors a vacuum. I think that you would just end up with frogs and spiders eating something else that had filled the ecological space.
I for one look forward to our new DMV styled medical overlords. I hope I don't have to visit a medical center with an artery spouting blood....and get put at the back of the line because my paperwork wasn't filled out quite right.
Yes, I am sure that is what is going to happen. The Tea Party called, and they want their hysterical idiocy back.
This is why the right wing comes off like a pack of retarded children. They take the perfectly acceptable point of view that government should be minimalistic and non-intrusive, and warp it until they look like a pack of asylum escapees.
You are correct in letter, but I disagree with your conclusion. Do you really have any control over how the house votes? Sure, you can try to influence them with letters and petitions, but since you are a step removed from the democratic process, you are kind of along for the ride. Supposing that the Republic stands the test of time, I will hazard a guess that most VPs that will be nominated over the years will be appointed with little to no objection, if for no other reason than to insure there is a VP ready to step in to the role of president should the need arise.
More to the point, what is really the difference between someone who was voted in by those you voted in, vs. those appointed by those you voted in? Both seem to be abstracted from the people that they represent and serve.
We really don't need all this extra layer of oversight here, the industry is capable of regulating itself
Yeah, we do. There are a lot of really stupid people out there that will fuck everything up for everybody if they think they can make a quick buck doing it. I like having as much freedom as possible, but this is yet another case that has already proven to to require the government to step in and tell the retarded children to quit playing with the gain knob and just focus on hawking their crap.
Sort of a moot point since, you don't really get to elect a vice-president, you just get who ever comes with the president you elected. Also, as demonstrated by Spiro Agnew's fuck up, VP's can be replaced without election. Why does it matter if the 10th in line isn't elected when you have no real control who the second in line is?
You should be far more worried about the people who are quite likely to become president (e.g. imagine if Dick Cheney has become president) then people who will only become president if a total 1 in a million catastrophe occurs.
In another way, at least Stuxnet and Flame have come to light, show us what's possible, and start us thinking about how to counter. Imagine a world where such capabilities had been kept in the dark until used on a public infrastructure attack.
You speak in the future tense. If you don't think this is being done by governments the world over already, you are fooling yourself. Consider that hacking IT is done relationally by relatively untrained teenagers as a daily occurrence, so the investment cost is very low. For the price of a single nuke, you could have thousands of professional hackers working 24/7 for years. Shit, I bet you Somalia has offensive hackers on the military payroll.
Second, I doubt that anyone will just dump destructive exploits on the public sector in another country unless it is a prelude to an incoming military attack. Why? If you find a vulnerable exploit that you can use to access or destroy secure assets, you don't waste it on the civilian sector. You save it and use it to get something really valuable. (Like their nuclear material refinement computers).
If you want to own screw.canada you'll have to get Canadian approval while now you could do screw.canada.com.
I'd reverse the syntax order so that it makes more sense to the average joe. Most people will understand biggest -> smallest domain ordering much better, e.g. Canada.Org.Fuckem.
This might make it easier for the non-techie to spot spoofed emails which in turn vastly makes everyone's life better. Less $ return on Spam == less spam.
DISAGREE! If you need to be told what's wrong, you were already a loser before.
While it is wise to look at your own plan and identify weaknesses, it is arrogant to assume that you can see all potential flaws and miss-steps. Also, why does there have to be something wrong for a VC to turn down an offer? Perhaps he/she has outside factors influencing the decision.
universal lossless compression could even compress its output, (if it existed) you can suddenly store infinite amounts of data on finite amounts of space for a finite budget.
Strictly speaking, this is probably not accurate, since there would likely be some metadata generated that would add to the size of the data stored. At some point, you would get each iteration adding n bits on to whatever the maximum compressed data set is, and you would either start to increase the size of the data set or be unable to compress it further.
You can see something similar happen if you alternately.zip and.rar a file about 10 or 15 times, like idiots used to do back in the early 90s when bandwidth was at a premium.
And there in lies the problem. If I develop code, on my own time, that I reuse at the workplace, whose code is it?
Yours, but only if you take proper steps to make sure that they know it is yours. I would suggest offering the code to the company to use in perpetuity for the golden license fee of $.01 if you really have some re-usable code you want to give them. They won't balk at the price, and you can whip out a simple little contract that says you own the code but they can do whatever they like with it internally. Then there is never a legal question over who created it later.
I find that the real trick in listening to music to get things done lies in picking the right music.
1) Pick music you are completely familiar with. If you know a song well, you won't be listening closely to the words or music, they way you do when you first hear a song. The more you have listened to it the better, because you are likely to tune it out consciously.
2) Pick music without lyrics. Even if you hit point #1, every now and then your brain might find a vocal phrase to latch on to. No lyrics, nothing to think about.
I find that movie scores and video game soundtracks work very well. Techno and industrial is also good, because it is very rhythmic. Oh, and ditch those shitty ear buds, and get some good noise cancelling headphones. The music sounds better with a good bass driver, and they keep out distracting outside noise much better. For just $50 you can get some great earphones that will last for years. When I get in the zone with some music to drown out outside noise, I can crank out code for hours.
Well put. I am a senior level coder, and I would walk right out of any interview that even mentioned security clearances. Unless I am paid considerably more than other work, it just isn't worth the hassle. If you are trying to recruit people for tech jobs, you had best realize that a security clearance requirement is a huge wart on your job offer and adjust the compensation and other benefits accordingly.
I was unaware that straight people could post all the sex tapes they want without repercussion.
If you are a celebrity and you 'leak' a sex tape, you get a considerable amount of attention. If you are a nobody, you might get some funny looks at work. If you are gay, it is entirely possible that someone will try to beat you to death. There are repercussions in all cases, but they are hardly comparable.
By the wall, bullshit comparison. No sex tape was released in this case.No rebuttal for the unequal protection
You are arguing semantics. My point is just that there isn't an equality between sexual orientations, and that what isn't really a big deal for one group is a huge deal for another. If someone ran up and down the street yelling that I was hetrosexual, I wouldn't care in the least. If that same person when to a small, conservative rural town and 'outted' a gay teenager, they are going to freak out. Nobody cares about being 'outted' when they are straight. If I told people you slept with 5 girls last night, you would probably buy me a beer.
You are basically giving extra protection to some people - but not all. I'm not cool with that.
If someone killed themselves because a straight sex tape were released, I would have the same reaction, but that is really never going to happen, because society doesn't have a problem with it. Yes, some people are getting extra protection, because they need it. Straight people don't need protection, because nobody is attacking them for it.
You might have skipped out on your HS history, but back in the 1960s, the military was called out to protect black kids when integrated schooling was forced upon the south. You have a problem with that? Perhaps those black children would have been fine without armed soldiers to keep the screaming racists from attacking and perhaps lynching a few.
It is regrettable that we as a society are not past the point where something like sexual orientation determines how someone is treated. But until we are, we need to protect those who would be marginalized and abused by sending a strong message to aggressors that this is not acceptable.
but that's 99% lazy, lazy programmers using the built in MS-SQL (which will bite them hard in the ass in a few years when in high cost of maintaining SQL DBs running over TCP/IP vs el-cheapo access DBs on network shares becomes apparent).
...I can think of all sorts of arguments for not using MS SQL that you could adopt for valid reasons, but I would have never dreamed I would hear someone advocating shitty access dbs on network shares as a replacement for a proper db.
The point is that there is a double standard for sexuality, and anyone not conforming to the expected behavior is demonized. Filming straight sex isn't a big deal because that is expected behavior. Filming his roommate is basically exposing his roommate to all the hate and bile spewed from people who don't understand they don't have the right to abuse people who don't hold their values.
Why prepare to have your sons and daughters Id when they die in war? If you have 18+ years to prepare for something, why not work on diplomacy? You have the time....
It's no different than secretly filming your roommate having straight sex.
Really? When was the last time you heard about people who had straight sex being murdered for it? Know any straight people who cannot get married because they are straight? How about, straight people who cannot get health insurance for their partner because they are straight? Straight people who are fired for being straight?
If you really think that being gay is no big deal, perhaps you should take it up with the other 48% or so of the country that is still ignorant and hateful.
When dealing with digital inputs, too much accuracy in the audio stream produces harshness and digital fatigue.
Citations, Please. This sounds very much like analog fan boy bullshit. "Too much accuracy", really? I have seen quite a bit idiotic pseudoscience used to explain why analog is better than digital. If you just like vinyl over CDs that is fine, just say so, but don't try to snow job me with some jargon filled statement in an effort to back up your personal tastes.
The simple truth of the matter is that we can never prove it either way.
Uh, why not? There is no evidence for an omnipotent sky bully, but there is plenty of evidence just sitting around waiting for clever monkeys to notice it, suggesting a natural creation method.
In odds, it's an exact 50/50 split. There either is, or is not a creator.
No, there are not 50/50 odds. There are 2 (or more) possible explanations for the creation of existence. That does not mean that they have equal probability. In fact, given existing evidence, the big bang seems about 99% likely, other scientific explanations about 1% likely, and an invisible sky ghost about 0% since there is in fact, no actual proof of its existence.
Considering the price of education has risen, er, 270% in the last 15 years... it would seem to indicate a concerted effort to turn an informed citizenship into mindless zombies...
"The price of education is rising therefore it is a plot to subjugate the population", and you people edit this up to +5 Interesting? WTF, Slashdot!?! You people are truly as dumb as the paranoid parent post suggests....
Aside from the single data point (if it is even correct) having nothing to connect it to the conclusion, how could you even think that a single entity or cohesive group could manipulate the national educational costs effectively over a 15 year period to achieve such an end? Your conclusion is so illogical it just makes my head hurt. Your post is a perfect example of the very irrational thought you are enumerating.
Torchlight, better game less money.
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Check out torchlight 2, It looks really good and will allow multi-player without all the hassle.
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In the event of my untimely demise,
Untimely? As opposed to timely? I am pretty sure when I die, it will be untimely from my point of view whenever it happens.
The frog and spider population would plummet.
Would they? Or would other insects just fill the space that mosquitoes were in? Nature abhors a vacuum. I think that you would just end up with frogs and spiders eating something else that had filled the ecological space.
I for one look forward to our new DMV styled medical overlords. I hope I don't have to visit a medical center with an artery spouting blood....and get put at the back of the line because my paperwork wasn't filled out quite right.
Yes, I am sure that is what is going to happen. The Tea Party called, and they want their hysterical idiocy back.
This is why the right wing comes off like a pack of retarded children. They take the perfectly acceptable point of view that government should be minimalistic and non-intrusive, and warp it until they look like a pack of asylum escapees.
You are correct in letter, but I disagree with your conclusion. Do you really have any control over how the house votes? Sure, you can try to influence them with letters and petitions, but since you are a step removed from the democratic process, you are kind of along for the ride. Supposing that the Republic stands the test of time, I will hazard a guess that most VPs that will be nominated over the years will be appointed with little to no objection, if for no other reason than to insure there is a VP ready to step in to the role of president should the need arise.
More to the point, what is really the difference between someone who was voted in by those you voted in, vs. those appointed by those you voted in? Both seem to be abstracted from the people that they represent and serve.
We really don't need all this extra layer of oversight here, the industry is capable of regulating itself
Yeah, we do. There are a lot of really stupid people out there that will fuck everything up for everybody if they think they can make a quick buck doing it. I like having as much freedom as possible, but this is yet another case that has already proven to to require the government to step in and tell the retarded children to quit playing with the gain knob and just focus on hawking their crap.
Sort of a moot point since, you don't really get to elect a vice-president, you just get who ever comes with the president you elected. Also, as demonstrated by Spiro Agnew's fuck up, VP's can be replaced without election. Why does it matter if the 10th in line isn't elected when you have no real control who the second in line is?
You should be far more worried about the people who are quite likely to become president (e.g. imagine if Dick Cheney has become president) then people who will only become president if a total 1 in a million catastrophe occurs.
In another way, at least Stuxnet and Flame have come to light, show us what's possible, and start us thinking about how to counter. Imagine a world where such capabilities had been kept in the dark until used on a public infrastructure attack.
You speak in the future tense. If you don't think this is being done by governments the world over already, you are fooling yourself. Consider that hacking IT is done relationally by relatively untrained teenagers as a daily occurrence, so the investment cost is very low. For the price of a single nuke, you could have thousands of professional hackers working 24/7 for years. Shit, I bet you Somalia has offensive hackers on the military payroll.
Second, I doubt that anyone will just dump destructive exploits on the public sector in another country unless it is a prelude to an incoming military attack. Why? If you find a vulnerable exploit that you can use to access or destroy secure assets, you don't waste it on the civilian sector. You save it and use it to get something really valuable. (Like their nuclear material refinement computers).
If you want to own screw.canada you'll have to get Canadian approval while now you could do screw.canada.com.
I'd reverse the syntax order so that it makes more sense to the average joe. Most people will understand biggest -> smallest domain ordering much better, e.g. Canada.Org.Fuckem.
This might make it easier for the non-techie to spot spoofed emails which in turn vastly makes everyone's life better. Less $ return on Spam == less spam.
DISAGREE! If you need to be told what's wrong, you were already a loser before.
While it is wise to look at your own plan and identify weaknesses, it is arrogant to assume that you can see all potential flaws and miss-steps. Also, why does there have to be something wrong for a VC to turn down an offer? Perhaps he/she has outside factors influencing the decision.
universal lossless compression could even compress its output, (if it existed) you can suddenly store infinite amounts of data on finite amounts of space for a finite budget.
.zip and .rar a file about 10 or 15 times, like idiots used to do back in the early 90s when bandwidth was at a premium.
Strictly speaking, this is probably not accurate, since there would likely be some metadata generated that would add to the size of the data stored. At some point, you would get each iteration adding n bits on to whatever the maximum compressed data set is, and you would either start to increase the size of the data set or be unable to compress it further.
You can see something similar happen if you alternately
And there in lies the problem. If I develop code, on my own time, that I reuse at the workplace, whose code is it?
Yours, but only if you take proper steps to make sure that they know it is yours. I would suggest offering the code to the company to use in perpetuity for the golden license fee of $.01 if you really have some re-usable code you want to give them. They won't balk at the price, and you can whip out a simple little contract that says you own the code but they can do whatever they like with it internally. Then there is never a legal question over who created it later.
I find that the real trick in listening to music to get things done lies in picking the right music.
1) Pick music you are completely familiar with. If you know a song well, you won't be listening closely to the words or music, they way you do when you first hear a song. The more you have listened to it the better, because you are likely to tune it out consciously.
2) Pick music without lyrics. Even if you hit point #1, every now and then your brain might find a vocal phrase to latch on to. No lyrics, nothing to think about.
I find that movie scores and video game soundtracks work very well. Techno and industrial is also good, because it is very rhythmic. Oh, and ditch those shitty ear buds, and get some good noise cancelling headphones. The music sounds better with a good bass driver, and they keep out distracting outside noise much better. For just $50 you can get some great earphones that will last for years. When I get in the zone with some music to drown out outside noise, I can crank out code for hours.
Well put. I am a senior level coder, and I would walk right out of any interview that even mentioned security clearances. Unless I am paid considerably more than other work, it just isn't worth the hassle. If you are trying to recruit people for tech jobs, you had best realize that a security clearance requirement is a huge wart on your job offer and adjust the compensation and other benefits accordingly.
I was unaware that straight people could post all the sex tapes they want without repercussion.
If you are a celebrity and you 'leak' a sex tape, you get a considerable amount of attention. If you are a nobody, you might get some funny looks at work. If you are gay, it is entirely possible that someone will try to beat you to death. There are repercussions in all cases, but they are hardly comparable.
By the wall, bullshit comparison. No sex tape was released in this case.No rebuttal for the unequal protection
You are arguing semantics. My point is just that there isn't an equality between sexual orientations, and that what isn't really a big deal for one group is a huge deal for another. If someone ran up and down the street yelling that I was hetrosexual, I wouldn't care in the least. If that same person when to a small, conservative rural town and 'outted' a gay teenager, they are going to freak out. Nobody cares about being 'outted' when they are straight. If I told people you slept with 5 girls last night, you would probably buy me a beer.
You are basically giving extra protection to some people - but not all. I'm not cool with that.
If someone killed themselves because a straight sex tape were released, I would have the same reaction, but that is really never going to happen, because society doesn't have a problem with it. Yes, some people are getting extra protection, because they need it. Straight people don't need protection, because nobody is attacking them for it.
You might have skipped out on your HS history, but back in the 1960s, the military was called out to protect black kids when integrated schooling was forced upon the south. You have a problem with that? Perhaps those black children would have been fine without armed soldiers to keep the screaming racists from attacking and perhaps lynching a few.
It is regrettable that we as a society are not past the point where something like sexual orientation determines how someone is treated. But until we are, we need to protect those who would be marginalized and abused by sending a strong message to aggressors that this is not acceptable.
but that's 99% lazy, lazy programmers using the built in MS-SQL (which will bite them hard in the ass in a few years when in high cost of maintaining SQL DBs running over TCP/IP vs el-cheapo access DBs on network shares becomes apparent).
...I can think of all sorts of arguments for not using MS SQL that you could adopt for valid reasons, but I would have never dreamed I would hear someone advocating shitty access dbs on network shares as a replacement for a proper db.
You sir, are a goon.
The point is that there is a double standard for sexuality, and anyone not conforming to the expected behavior is demonized. Filming straight sex isn't a big deal because that is expected behavior. Filming his roommate is basically exposing his roommate to all the hate and bile spewed from people who don't understand they don't have the right to abuse people who don't hold their values.
His actions were basically a hate crime.
Rhetoric, not really looking for an answer.
And the English county of Hampshire is named after the Shire.
Why prepare to have your sons and daughters Id when they die in war? If you have 18+ years to prepare for something, why not work on diplomacy? You have the time....
It's no different than secretly filming your roommate having straight sex.
Really? When was the last time you heard about people who had straight sex being murdered for it? Know any straight people who cannot get married because they are straight? How about, straight people who cannot get health insurance for their partner because they are straight? Straight people who are fired for being straight?
If you really think that being gay is no big deal, perhaps you should take it up with the other 48% or so of the country that is still ignorant and hateful.
When dealing with digital inputs, too much accuracy in the audio stream produces harshness and digital fatigue.
Citations, Please. This sounds very much like analog fan boy bullshit. "Too much accuracy", really? I have seen quite a bit idiotic pseudoscience used to explain why analog is better than digital. If you just like vinyl over CDs that is fine, just say so, but don't try to snow job me with some jargon filled statement in an effort to back up your personal tastes.
The simple truth of the matter is that we can never prove it either way.
Uh, why not? There is no evidence for an omnipotent sky bully, but there is plenty of evidence just sitting around waiting for clever monkeys to notice it, suggesting a natural creation method. In odds, it's an exact 50/50 split. There either is, or is not a creator.
No, there are not 50/50 odds. There are 2 (or more) possible explanations for the creation of existence. That does not mean that they have equal probability. In fact, given existing evidence, the big bang seems about 99% likely, other scientific explanations about 1% likely, and an invisible sky ghost about 0% since there is in fact, no actual proof of its existence.
Considering the price of education has risen, er, 270% in the last 15 years... it would seem to indicate a concerted effort to turn an informed citizenship into mindless zombies...
"The price of education is rising therefore it is a plot to subjugate the population", and you people edit this up to +5 Interesting? WTF, Slashdot!?! You people are truly as dumb as the paranoid parent post suggests....
Aside from the single data point (if it is even correct) having nothing to connect it to the conclusion, how could you even think that a single entity or cohesive group could manipulate the national educational costs effectively over a 15 year period to achieve such an end? Your conclusion is so illogical it just makes my head hurt. Your post is a perfect example of the very irrational thought you are enumerating.
Check out torchlight 2, It looks really good and will allow multi-player without all the hassle.