As long as its not coal or oil, anything is an improvement.
In that case, I've got a suggestion: Burn people for energy! What? You don't think that's a good idea? But people are neither coal nor oil! Therefore you just said it's an improvement!
Bottom line: You're wrong. You have to evaluate the alternatives, and it may well turn out that your alternative is worse than coal and oil.
Does anyone remember "bubble memory"? Is was going to replace magnetic media. Optical drives were going to replace magnetic media. SSD were going to replace magnetic media.
One out of three isn't bad. Okay, so SSDs haven't completely replaced magnetic media, but in some contexts, they have. Nobody carries around floppies these days, and laptops are clearly heading in that direction, too.
So you're saying that soon people will not carry around laptops either?:-)
But aren't the employees actually employees of the town, not of the Sheriff? By supporting an opposing candidate to the Sheriff they do not oppose the town, do they?
the first amendment only bars congress and the government from making laws that limit free speech, it doesn't mean they can't fire you for what you say.
If they can punish you by firing you then why can't they punish you by locking you up or shooting you?
Because by working for them, you have a special relationship to them, giving extra rights and restrictions. There's no reason the government shouldn't be able to fire you for the exact same reason for which anyone else could fire you. Note that if you work for someone else, your employer is not allowed to lock you up or shoot you, either.
Of course you could ask whether anyone should be allowed to be fired for supporting someone competing with the boss, but that's a different question.
Sorry, you appear to be suggesting that it's reasonable for a boss to demand that his staff vote for him in an election for public office.
So now in the U.S you are voting using Facebook "Like" buttons?
The actual vote is secret, and that's exactly to ensure that it is free. You can vote against a candidate, and then publicly claim that you voted for him, and nobody can prove the opposite (well, unless all votes were against him, of course).
It's LaTeX, you moron. It's the Greek letter Xi with a "b" in the subscript and a "*" in the superscript. So just call it Xi-b-star or Xi-b-asterix. Simple.
You forget that there is no way to decide in polynomial time if the text you got is the plaintext. That's why the one-time pad is provably secure: Every text of the same length could be the plaintext, and without knowing the key, you cannot distinguish between "Attack tomorrow 10:00" and "We should surrender!!"
"In a world where P = NP... cryptography becomes meaningless."
Which of course is not true. The algorithm might still be O(n^100). While polynomial, this would still be practically intractable for moderately large n.
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Pluralis majestatis?
Ah, right, the customer is king (but as we believe in democracy, the king is allowed spend money, but otherwise must be completely disempowered).
Care to give a link?
Isn't specification/design part of engineering?
Do you happen to fly?
In that case, I've got a suggestion: Burn people for energy! What? You don't think that's a good idea? But people are neither coal nor oil! Therefore you just said it's an improvement!
Bottom line: You're wrong. You have to evaluate the alternatives, and it may well turn out that your alternative is worse than coal and oil.
My balls will be made available to market in 5 years as well. Complete with diamond tipped pubes.
Liar. Everyone knows that cowards have no balls. That includes anonymous ones.
That's what incremental backups are for.
One out of three isn't bad. Okay, so SSDs haven't completely replaced magnetic media, but in some contexts, they have. Nobody carries around floppies these days, and laptops are clearly heading in that direction, too.
So you're saying that soon people will not carry around laptops either? :-)
That's not a con argument, but an argument for thinking about the consequences first. The result of this thinking may be either way.
That sounds great - I always wanted to be hacked!
Well, we can arrange that. Just wait while I fetch the axe ... ;-)
For example? The Apple II OS did not have a UI beyond the command line.
So you think a command line UI doesn't need to be designed/implemented?
I'm fairly certain muslim porn is just regular porn, we all like the naked ladies.
I think Muslim porn has 40 of them. And all are virgins. :-)
Some people LIKE to stay logged in.
But for that you only need to send a cookie when logging in. Because if you are not logged in, you cannot stay logged in anyway.
AFAIU it means "You can't make it very different and still have it perform the same function."
This article is about copyright, not patents. Patent law is irrelevant here.
But aren't the employees actually employees of the town, not of the Sheriff? By supporting an opposing candidate to the Sheriff they do not oppose the town, do they?
If they can punish you by firing you then why can't they punish you by locking you up or shooting you?
Because by working for them, you have a special relationship to them, giving extra rights and restrictions. There's no reason the government shouldn't be able to fire you for the exact same reason for which anyone else could fire you. Note that if you work for someone else, your employer is not allowed to lock you up or shoot you, either.
Of course you could ask whether anyone should be allowed to be fired for supporting someone competing with the boss, but that's a different question.
So now in the U.S you are voting using Facebook "Like" buttons?
The actual vote is secret, and that's exactly to ensure that it is free. You can vote against a candidate, and then publicly claim that you voted for him, and nobody can prove the opposite (well, unless all votes were against him, of course).
Judging from your comment, I'm not surprised that she left you.
For those who want to learn about that book instead of just buying it, here's a better link.
It's LaTeX, you moron. It's the Greek letter Xi with a "b" in the subscript and a "*" in the superscript. So just call it Xi-b-star or Xi-b-asterix. Simple.
And how would you write Xi-b-obelix? ;-)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/travelling
You forget that there is no way to decide in polynomial time if the text you got is the plaintext. That's why the one-time pad is provably secure: Every text of the same length could be the plaintext, and without knowing the key, you cannot distinguish between "Attack tomorrow 10:00" and "We should surrender!!"
However it does not say "the world's four smartest mathematicians." It says "four of the world's smartest mathematicians."
The trailer is:
"In a world where P = NP... cryptography becomes meaningless."
Which of course is not true. The algorithm might still be O(n^100). While polynomial, this would still be practically intractable for moderately large n.