... as related simulations that model the weather day to day. ie it'll work alright for the first week the earth was created then the next 4 billion years in the simulation will go so far off track that by 2010 it'll be telling us that australia is at the north pole and hawaii has appeared in lake victoria.
"Why would we want to do that? Drug dealing isn't like stealing or assault. No one is forced to be harmed as a result of selling a drug. Conflating crimes of force with victimless crimes is an error on your part."
Oh grow up and get a clue FFS.
"From a legitimate job."
If you're a crack or heroin addict holding down a job is nigh on impossible.
With NASAs supposed 60 years experience building something like the X15 should be a no brainer now so it would probably cost a lot less than 475K a flight.
This is nothing to do with furthering space technology and everything to do with the accountants being in charge.
Before we know it these advanced pioneers of space flight might even get to 50 miles like the X-15 managed.... 40 years ago.
Sorry , this whole nasa using private contractors launchers thing just makes me weep. Its like someone is rolling the clock backwards. What next - they proudly announce they're using private contactors to get them to 30,000 feet?
"Or we could legalize it and then those people wouldn't be "scum" any more."
Yeah, and while we're at it lets do the same for all criminals. Result - no more crime! Oh , well society might have fallen apart but you can't have everything eh?
"It's basic economics. How do you pay for an expensive drug addiction that costs more than you can make with legal activities? You turn to illegal activities, namely, crime."
So what do you suggest if its legalised then? Supply it to the junkies for free paid for out of taxes? Oh that'll go down well with the majority. Or perhaps make them pay - and where will they get the money for it from then? Get back to me on that one when you have a sensible answer.
"And so the problem was solved by making permanent outcasts of users and sellers who get caught? "
Yes. Tough. In the case of the sellering & dealing scum they should be executed IMO as they are in many arab and far eastern states.
"And what of the classic and obvious argument that prohibition of such things only leads to more crimes and more violence? "
Whats obvious about it? Wheres your evidence?
"Is it government's place to regulate morality? "
Yes. Unless you think there should be no laws and society should be a free for all.
"And what of societies where marijuana is legal? Are they filled with miserable souls lost in their own minds?"
In the netherlands its only legal in specified cafes.
You ever stopped to ask yourself why almost every country on earth bans drugs? No? Perhaps you should. Sounds to me you're just another druggy trying to justify his sad little habit.
Drugs such as opium and heroin WERE legal but they caused so much misery and strife that they were banned in almost all nations. People who thing legalising drugs will somehow make addicts and the problems they cause vanish are living in a dream world. Perhaps you might like to check out the number of deaths either through violence , drunk driving or liver disease from alcohol - that well known legal drug.
Open a web page with linux firefox that has an embedded flash app which has to connect back to a server to load some streaming data but in an enviroment where the port for the stream is blocked by a firewall. Wait a few seconds then click the back button and watch firefox lock up solid. Works for all versions of firefox 3.x. Haven't tried 4 yet.
"that's just how it is in the real world, I'm sure you'd agree"
I do. And all I was trying to point out is that it doesn't matter how professional you are, at some point over the course of your career you're going to have a bad day or illness or some personal problem combined with delaing with some obnoxious manager/customer/whatever and you're going to lose your cool. It happens to everyone eventually. We're not robots.
Well the first post was talking about lost lives including my cousins so I think swearing is a bit more appropriate there than talking about work. And point out where I was swearing in the second - I think you'll find I was quoting someone else and making a joke about it.
"it's how one reacts to such button-pushing that determines success."
I'm talking about working in the real world over the course of decades, not what they teach you in MBA class.
"f you are a mature person with a sense of, oh I dunno, fucking professionalism, you will never get *that* disgruntled no matter the working conditions."
Oh please, and you're telling OTHER people to grow up? Sounds to me like you've hardly had any work experience in the real world. It doesn't matter how professional you are - everyone has certain buttons that can be pushed and in a long working career believe me , someone WILL push them eventually.
Also you might disguise your young age a bit better if you didn't swear every paragraph.
I've noticed this. My PC clock can't even keep time as accurately as my cheap digital watch. It can lose 20 seconds in a week. Why is this? Surely they use the same sort of quartz crystal mechanism?
Considering it wasn't even our war thats 179 too many. And you might like to find out the percentages of total troop deployments those represent.
"I'm tired of my countrypeople doing the dirty work and getting yelled at for it."
No one is asking you to. Your country takes it upon itself to be world policeman. No one is fooling themselves that this is some sort of charitable work - the USA only does it when it has something to gain. Otherwise you'd have invaded Zimbabwe and deposed Mugabe - a despot just as bad as Saddam - years ago not to mention a dozen other tin pot african dictators.
"as we Americans paid (both in lives and in cash) for their oil."
I think you'll find plenty of europeans especially british died in Bush's middle eastern revenge tour of iraq and afghanistan so go fuck yourself you out of touch insular prick.
If it uses analogue signals internally then its an analog computer whatever those signals may represent at a higher level in the same way that a DSP is just as digital as a crypto chip even though the binary data is used for different things.
"Hell, even Quaternary Computing would be better than crappy Binary."
It would make no difference - the algorithms would be identical. All you'd gain would be saved storage space as each "bit" could represent 4 values instead of 2. You'd still be dealing with a system that could only handle discrete values.
"running as an admin or not isn't going to prevent you from getting owned,"
Yes it is. With root you can hide binaries and mod libraries, hack the kernel, install your own apps etc etc. Try doing that with a standard user account and see how long it takes to get spotted.
"Javascript exploits of an unprivileged user can still install a key logger that will get your root password, its not as quick, but its just as effective and will probably happen within a few days of the initial exploit anyway."
Key loggers dont work in X windows. Only the window manager can intercept key events before the app that owns them gets them. Cover the screen with an invisible window and apps underneath wont respond. You'd need to be root to swap the WM binary for your own hacked one. The best you could do would be to constantly call XQueryKeymap() in a tight loop but you could still miss some key presses and the 99% CPU usage would soon be spotted.
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Well I don't spell standardised the same way as you and I suspect you leave the 'u' out of "colour" too.
So much for that theory.
which has been around since the 70s and allows you to check if a remote host is alive. Why apple couldn't have picked a different name god knows.
... as related simulations that model the weather day to day. ie it'll work alright for the first week the earth was created then the next 4 billion years in the simulation will go so far off track that by 2010 it'll be telling us that australia is at the north pole and hawaii has appeared in lake victoria.
"Why would we want to do that? Drug dealing isn't like stealing or assault. No one is forced to be harmed as a result of selling a drug. Conflating crimes of force with victimless crimes is an error on your part."
Oh grow up and get a clue FFS.
"From a legitimate job."
If you're a crack or heroin addict holding down a job is nigh on impossible.
Yes , 50 , typo.
With NASAs supposed 60 years experience building something like the X15 should be a no brainer now so it would probably
cost a lot less than 475K a flight.
This is nothing to do with furthering space technology and everything to do with the accountants being in charge.
Before we know it these advanced pioneers of space flight might even get to 50 miles like the X-15 managed .... 40 years ago.
Sorry , this whole nasa using private contractors launchers thing just makes me weep. Its like someone is rolling the clock backwards. What next - they proudly announce they're using private contactors to get them to 30,000 feet?
"Or we could legalize it and then those people wouldn't be "scum" any more."
Yeah, and while we're at it lets do the same for all criminals. Result - no more crime! Oh , well society might have fallen apart but you can't have everything eh?
"It's basic economics. How do you pay for an expensive drug addiction that costs more than you can make with legal activities? You turn to illegal activities, namely, crime."
So what do you suggest if its legalised then? Supply it to the junkies for free paid for out of taxes? Oh that'll go down well with the majority. Or perhaps make them pay - and where will they get the money for it from then? Get back to me on that one when you have a sensible answer.
"See Prohibition: when it was illegal, you had the mob running alcohol with automatic weapons. Legal: Buy it at the corner store, no problem."
Funny , I don't notice "the mob" running illegal alcohol supply in the middle east. Perhaps because the penalties are severe enough to dissuade them.
"And so the problem was solved by making permanent outcasts of users and sellers who get caught? "
Yes. Tough. In the case of the sellering & dealing scum they should be executed IMO as they are in many arab and far eastern states.
"And what of the classic and obvious argument that prohibition of such things only leads to more crimes and more violence? "
Whats obvious about it? Wheres your evidence?
"Is it government's place to regulate morality? "
Yes. Unless you think there should be no laws and society should be a free for all.
"And what of societies where marijuana is legal? Are they filled with miserable souls lost in their own minds?"
In the netherlands its only legal in specified cafes.
You ever stopped to ask yourself why almost every country on earth bans drugs? No? Perhaps you should. Sounds to me you're just another druggy trying to justify his sad little habit.
Err, thats why you have prisons for different offense levels.
Drugs such as opium and heroin WERE legal but they caused so much misery and strife that they were banned in almost all nations. People who thing legalising drugs will somehow make addicts and the problems they cause vanish are living in a dream world. Perhaps you might like to check out the number of deaths either through violence , drunk driving or liver disease from alcohol - that well known legal drug.
Open a web page with linux firefox that has an embedded flash app which has to connect back to a server to load some streaming data but in an enviroment where the port for the stream is blocked by a firewall. Wait a few seconds then click the back button and watch firefox lock up solid. Works for all versions of firefox 3.x. Haven't tried 4 yet.
"that's just how it is in the real world, I'm sure you'd agree"
I do. And all I was trying to point out is that it doesn't matter how professional you are, at some point over the course of your career you're going to have a bad day or illness or some personal problem combined with delaing with some obnoxious manager/customer/whatever and you're going to lose your cool. It happens to everyone eventually. We're not robots.
Well the first post was talking about lost lives including my cousins so I think swearing is a bit more appropriate there than talking about work. And point out where I was swearing in the second - I think you'll find I was quoting someone else and making a joke about it.
"it's how one reacts to such button-pushing that determines success."
I'm talking about working in the real world over the course of decades, not what they teach you in MBA class.
"I'm 33 and cuss in writing all the time, does that make me immature for doing it "
Do you really want an answer to that?
"f you are a mature person with a sense of, oh I dunno, fucking professionalism, you will never get *that* disgruntled no matter the working conditions."
Oh please, and you're telling OTHER people to grow up? Sounds to me like you've hardly had any work experience in the real world. It doesn't matter how professional you are - everyone has certain buttons that can be pushed and in a long working career believe me , someone WILL push them eventually.
Also you might disguise your young age a bit better if you didn't swear every paragraph.
"Computer clocks are so crude anyway "
I've noticed this. My PC clock can't even keep time as accurately as my cheap digital watch. It can lose
20 seconds in a week. Why is this? Surely they use the same sort of quartz crystal mechanism?
"179 brits died. 4400 americans died. "
Considering it wasn't even our war thats 179 too many. And you might like to find out the percentages of total troop deployments those represent.
"I'm tired of my countrypeople doing the dirty work and getting yelled at for it."
No one is asking you to. Your country takes it upon itself to be world policeman. No one is fooling themselves that this is some sort of charitable work - the USA only does it when it has something to gain. Otherwise you'd have invaded Zimbabwe and deposed Mugabe - a despot just as bad as Saddam - years ago not to mention a dozen other tin pot african dictators.
"as we Americans paid (both in lives and in cash) for their oil."
I think you'll find plenty of europeans especially british died in Bush's middle eastern revenge tour of iraq and afghanistan so go fuck yourself you out of touch insular prick.
Those BSOD jokes were old 10 years ago. Did your time machine take a wrong turn and you ended up in 2010 instead of 1995?
Ergo its an analog system. What those signals represent is irrelevant.
If it uses analogue signals internally then its an analog computer whatever those signals may represent at a higher level in the same way that a DSP is just as digital as a crypto chip even though the binary data is used for different things.
"Hell, even Quaternary Computing would be better than crappy Binary."
It would make no difference - the algorithms would be identical. All you'd gain would be saved storage space as each "bit" could represent 4 values instead of 2. You'd still be dealing with a system that could only handle discrete values.
... you'd just lengthen the first syllable so you'd have "Gooooogle".
Hey , the Muppet Show taught me all I need to know about language! Though admittedly some of
its facts were a bit fozzy around the edges.
"running as an admin or not isn't going to prevent you from getting owned,"
Yes it is. With root you can hide binaries and mod libraries, hack the kernel, install your own apps etc etc. Try doing that with a standard user account and see how long it takes to get spotted.
"Javascript exploits of an unprivileged user can still install a key logger that will get your root password, its not as quick, but its just as effective and will probably happen within a few days of the initial exploit anyway."
Key loggers dont work in X windows. Only the window manager can intercept key events before the app that owns them gets them. Cover the screen with an invisible window and apps underneath wont respond. You'd need to be root to swap the WM binary for your own hacked one. The best you could do would be to constantly call XQueryKeymap() in a tight loop but you could still miss some key presses and the 99% CPU usage would soon be spotted.