If you're going to quote Asimov, you should at least read some of his books.
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
Asimov's robots could only apply the laws in the last fraction of a second before harm occurred, and then only because they had a better than human understanding of the situation.
And there was a 0th law. R. Daneel Olivaw (sp? or did I get it completely wrong?) worked it out with the cop (Bailey?) from one of the early books. I forget the phrasing, but he basically generalized it to apply to all of humanity. In other words, it was okay to allow millions to die if it shortened a galactic Dark Age.
But Olivaw had access to another Asimov invention: psychohistory. That meant he could predict what was going to happen to the great mass of humanity and base his decisions on that.
For most of us, however, we can't see beyond immediate consequences. An engineer can't how a particular weapon will be used, beyond what kind of target it's best suited to. Even an individual can't tell, until it happens, whether he'll use a weapon to attack, defend or maintain a stalemate.
Ultimately, then, you have to have a little faith that the person holding the weapon is going to try to do the right thing. There aren't any robots to rescue us from ourselves.
Can you honestly say you feel safer because of the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism or the War on (insert political crap here)?
The "war on" isn't supposed to make you feel safe, terms like Social "Security" or Medi"care" are supposed to do that.
The "War on x" snowclone is supposed to imply that it is worth a significant sacrifice to get rid of X. It also implies that everyone agrees that X is the enemy.
So the War on Drugs implies that everyone agrees that mary j is bad while b33r and smokes are not. Now, if you called it the War on Organized Crime I think more people would concur, but then you couldn't justify pee pee tests and arbitrary lists of controlled substances.
Similarly, the War on Poverty assumes that everyone needs to acquire some arbitrary level of material wealth. I guess it sounds better than the Welfare State...
And the GWOT declares war on a set of strategies and tactics. The Islamofascists regularly hold hatefests saying that they're going to bring down the Great Satan and kill the Joooos. We could call that "their war on us," it just involves acknowledging that they're serious.
I've done this with C on Windows when I had one library that borked whenever you tried to use / in pathnames.
Pick unicode characters for your special strings, e.g. . Next, map some handy keystroke to that in your editor. Then write a script to replace that with a standard Java string. Since it's not standard java, give it a special extension and add the script and extension to your makefile or ant or whatever you use.
>I think for this to work (good idea) it would require a comapny like MS to "play ball"
Like hell it would.
USB keychain drives are a pefect example....
How do you explain the USB situation, otherwise?
Apologies for taking the sports metaphor further, but with USB MS *dropped* the ball. Apple made USB standard on their machines so device manufacturers were making USB devices that worked on Macs. MS had to play catch up. Now that there are tons of devices on the market, it's too late to screw with the standard.
I still remember ordering a USB hub and getting the Mac user treatment when I was asking about the specs...
Why not start a 500cc bolus of NS running so you can increase their BP and keep your access
Not sure about the jargon (and are other readers?), but I'm guessing this means giving them a saline lock (which allows you to swap different things into the catheter) and then starting them on an IV while you mix up the instant blood.
That's pretty much what I was thinking of in the latter half of my ramb^H^H^H^Hpost.
The biggest issue, I think is the durability of whatever you mix it in. Here's a thought: I can put a needle into an IV bag to pull some solution out. Why not make the instant blood premixed at a high concentration so I can simply put a needle into the IV bag, inject it in and shake it up? That way you're just carrying a plastic vial and you've already got the needles and IV bags.
The reason durability is such an issue is because getting someone out of a combat area is a long and arduous task.
Suppose someone gets hurt. Assume your people are able to get the patient to a reasonably safe place (without further injury) and they've ensured he can breathe and that blood loss is stemmed. In a serious case (where the patient needs a transfusion), the patient is already in shock from blood loss.
So you're setting up pretty much anywhere with cover, which means you don't have a nice flat surface to work on. You've only got whatever you brought with you so you don't have a lot of spares to work with.
Once you've got a clear route to the casualty evacuation point you're going to get the patient onto a litter. This could be a Skedco or a poncho wrapped around two sticks. A proper litter will have straps, otherwise you'd probably secure the person with your belts. So now you've got a few people, wearing gear, carrying the patient and his gear and holding the bag up, while the others are pulling security.
So you're going to have a little baggy with a sticker.
If they're smart, they'll make sure that blood has to go into containers with the blood type in big letters, so that even if they get mixed up you can look at your dog tags to be sure you're not getting the wrong type of blood.
Then you also need clean water...
Today, when soldiers are wounded in action and need a blood transfusion in the battlefield or out in the field, military medics and doctors usually give them a transfusion of water and salt.
I just got done with CLS yesterday. The IV bag we use is a 500 ml bag; works great for a hangover. I guess you could mix the saline solution with this stuff but you still need a container to mix it in.
But it's hard enough to give someone an IV... now, by the time you were doing the transfusion you'd already have a saline lock in them. But imagine having to mix this stuff up and get it into a practical container while someone's going into shock.
Ooh, I have a wireless regular mouse, so I'll add my complaint about the fact that it's powered by AA batteries.
* Mine is sitting upside down because the little bit of metal on the battery compartment popped off
* When it did work, the last five days before the batteries ran out the bluetooth icon would blink incessantly.
* You could turn it off... if you didn't want to use that menu for anything else.
That might not be an issue for most people. When I went to the store to get a battery charger and some rechargeables, I just bought a shiny new Logitech instead.
Honestly, if it weren't for the power source, Apple's wireless mouse would be a perfectly serviceable device. But I got a premium mouse for ten bucks more than what they're charging and that doesn't seem like a good deal to me.
It's not as if we have a true justice system here in America.
Uh, it's *because* we have a justice system that only innocent people are on the list. After all, by the time someone is legally guilty he's in jail or deported.
Greed then drives what we like to think of as justice.
Whose greed are you talking about? The officer who puts people on the list? Look, all he knows is that he's looking for a certain profile and maybe following some tips. And through the quota his boss is effectively saying, "based on what we know, cast your net this wide." And since security means you're always playing defense (apologies for the sports metaphor...) you usually don't know nearly as much as you'd like to.
e.g. officer's needing quotas for traffic violations & arrests and so caring more about their quota than justice
Dude, that's crap. I've gotten speeding tickets. I fucking hate them. But the reality is that lots of people need to share roads and the only way to get certain people to behave in a reasonably sociable manner is to penalize bad behavior. With limited manpower, the government has to, again, cast a net.
As to arrests... the injustice is almost never Joe street cop arresting poor minorities left and right. It's the poverty and crime they're living in.
John Romero, like many washed-up has beens, likes to refer to John Romero in the third person.
Oh, please. In context:
TE: How much of what is written about "John Romero"...
JR: [an entire paragraph of text] The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.
The interviewer introduced that idiom and Romero responded in kind. Bob Dole used third person in his campaign ads. (And while it happened soon after, he wasn't really washed up until he lost his presidential bid.)
It's a common misconception that a contract has to be in written form. In reality, any business transaction is at least one contract. If you drop 50cents on the counter, take a newspaper an leave, that's a contract, without even a single word spoken.
That's complete and utter nonsense. Simple transactions like that are covered by the Uniform Commercial Code (in 49 states, Louisiana which has something similar). A contract has to meet certain criteria, an important part of which is that you can actually read it and (at least theoretically) ammend it.
This was nothing more than a "protect the children" witch hunt!
Historically, the witches being hunted were usually spinsters, desperately poor and quite often schizophrenic or some similar affliction.
Comparing a modestly successful video game company (or a prominent politician as you usually here) being dragged through entirely nonviolent proceedings to a witch being pressed for a confession is as ridiculous as calling someone a pirate for downloading an MP3.
It's interesting that someone trying to feed his family through non-violent theft of an extravagant luxury (insured to the hilt through a homeowner's/renter's policy btw) is a "punk".
There is a pernicious meme that life is a zero-sum game and that if you got wealthy that it must have caused someone else's suffering. That's the root of this kind of thinking.
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If you're going to quote Asimov, you should at least read some of his books.
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
Asimov's robots could only apply the laws in the last fraction of a second before harm occurred, and then only because they had a better than human understanding of the situation.
And there was a 0th law. R. Daneel Olivaw (sp? or did I get it completely wrong?) worked it out with the cop (Bailey?) from one of the early books. I forget the phrasing, but he basically generalized it to apply to all of humanity. In other words, it was okay to allow millions to die if it shortened a galactic Dark Age.
But Olivaw had access to another Asimov invention: psychohistory. That meant he could predict what was going to happen to the great mass of humanity and base his decisions on that.
For most of us, however, we can't see beyond immediate consequences. An engineer can't how a particular weapon will be used, beyond what kind of target it's best suited to. Even an individual can't tell, until it happens, whether he'll use a weapon to attack, defend or maintain a stalemate.
Ultimately, then, you have to have a little faith that the person holding the weapon is going to try to do the right thing. There aren't any robots to rescue us from ourselves.
now claims that they were aiming for correctness instead of performance
But hey, let's hear it for correctness!
Can you honestly say you feel safer because of the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism or the War on (insert political crap here)?
The "war on" isn't supposed to make you feel safe, terms like Social "Security" or Medi"care" are supposed to do that.
The "War on x" snowclone is supposed to imply that it is worth a significant sacrifice to get rid of X. It also implies that everyone agrees that X is the enemy.
So the War on Drugs implies that everyone agrees that mary j is bad while b33r and smokes are not. Now, if you called it the War on Organized Crime I think more people would concur, but then you couldn't justify pee pee tests and arbitrary lists of controlled substances.
Similarly, the War on Poverty assumes that everyone needs to acquire some arbitrary level of material wealth. I guess it sounds better than the Welfare State...
And the GWOT declares war on a set of strategies and tactics. The Islamofascists regularly hold hatefests saying that they're going to bring down the Great Satan and kill the Joooos. We could call that "their war on us," it just involves acknowledging that they're serious.
This is how we lose Mars landers, after all...
People will take you a lot more seriously if you got 15% last election instead of 1.5%.
And those parties, almost invariably, have a one-issue platform that never appeals to more than a few percent of people.
The exception being parties like Perot's party which was built around Ross Perot and fell apart once he was discredited.
Does anyone know a simple way around this?
I've done this with C on Windows when I had one library that borked whenever you tried to use / in pathnames.
Pick unicode characters for your special strings, e.g. . Next, map some handy keystroke to that in your editor. Then write a script to replace that with a standard Java string. Since it's not standard java, give it a special extension and add the script and extension to your makefile or ant or whatever you use.
>I think for this to work (good idea) it would require a comapny like MS to "play ball"
...
Like hell it would.
USB keychain drives are a pefect example.
How do you explain the USB situation, otherwise?
Apologies for taking the sports metaphor further, but with USB MS *dropped* the ball. Apple made USB standard on their machines so device manufacturers were making USB devices that worked on Macs. MS had to play catch up. Now that there are tons of devices on the market, it's too late to screw with the standard.
I still remember ordering a USB hub and getting the Mac user treatment when I was asking about the specs...
Why not start a 500cc bolus of NS running so you can increase their BP and keep your access
Not sure about the jargon (and are other readers?), but I'm guessing this means giving them a saline lock (which allows you to swap different things into the catheter) and then starting them on an IV while you mix up the instant blood.
That's pretty much what I was thinking of in the latter half of my ramb^H^H^H^Hpost.
The biggest issue, I think is the durability of whatever you mix it in. Here's a thought: I can put a needle into an IV bag to pull some solution out. Why not make the instant blood premixed at a high concentration so I can simply put a needle into the IV bag, inject it in and shake it up? That way you're just carrying a plastic vial and you've already got the needles and IV bags.
The reason durability is such an issue is because getting someone out of a combat area is a long and arduous task.
Suppose someone gets hurt. Assume your people are able to get the patient to a reasonably safe place (without further injury) and they've ensured he can breathe and that blood loss is stemmed. In a serious case (where the patient needs a transfusion), the patient is already in shock from blood loss.
So you're setting up pretty much anywhere with cover, which means you don't have a nice flat surface to work on. You've only got whatever you brought with you so you don't have a lot of spares to work with.
Once you've got a clear route to the casualty evacuation point you're going to get the patient onto a litter. This could be a Skedco or a poncho wrapped around two sticks. A proper litter will have straps, otherwise you'd probably secure the person with your belts. So now you've got a few people, wearing gear, carrying the patient and his gear and holding the bag up, while the others are pulling security.
Hey, see my response to the other post.
So you're going to have a little baggy with a sticker.
If they're smart, they'll make sure that blood has to go into containers with the blood type in big letters, so that even if they get mixed up you can look at your dog tags to be sure you're not getting the wrong type of blood.
Then you also need clean water...
Today, when soldiers are wounded in action and need a blood transfusion in the battlefield or out in the field, military medics and doctors usually give them a transfusion of water and salt.
I just got done with CLS yesterday. The IV bag we use is a 500 ml bag; works great for a hangover. I guess you could mix the saline solution with this stuff but you still need a container to mix it in.
But it's hard enough to give someone an IV... now, by the time you were doing the transfusion you'd already have a saline lock in them. But imagine having to mix this stuff up and get it into a practical container while someone's going into shock.
Ooh, I have a wireless regular mouse, so I'll add my complaint about the fact that it's powered by AA batteries.
* Mine is sitting upside down because the little bit of metal on the battery compartment popped off
* When it did work, the last five days before the batteries ran out the bluetooth icon would blink incessantly.
* You could turn it off... if you didn't want to use that menu for anything else.
That might not be an issue for most people. When I went to the store to get a battery charger and some rechargeables, I just bought a shiny new Logitech instead.
Honestly, if it weren't for the power source, Apple's wireless mouse would be a perfectly serviceable device. But I got a premium mouse for ten bucks more than what they're charging and that doesn't seem like a good deal to me.
Put another way: if there were no Godwin, the Nazis would have found it useful to invent him.
But we don't need to trot anything else out because you just invoked Godwin's law on yourself. YHL. HAND.
But please, enough of the Ayn Rand already.
You've got to love it when quoting Ayn Rand has become a substitute for independent thought...
It's not as if we have a true justice system here in America.
Uh, it's *because* we have a justice system that only innocent people are on the list. After all, by the time someone is legally guilty he's in jail or deported.
Greed then drives what we like to think of as justice.
Whose greed are you talking about? The officer who puts people on the list? Look, all he knows is that he's looking for a certain profile and maybe following some tips. And through the quota his boss is effectively saying, "based on what we know, cast your net this wide." And since security means you're always playing defense (apologies for the sports metaphor...) you usually don't know nearly as much as you'd like to.
e.g. officer's needing quotas for traffic violations & arrests and so caring more about their quota than justice
Dude, that's crap. I've gotten speeding tickets. I fucking hate them. But the reality is that lots of people need to share roads and the only way to get certain people to behave in a reasonably sociable manner is to penalize bad behavior. With limited manpower, the government has to, again, cast a net.
As to arrests... the injustice is almost never Joe street cop arresting poor minorities left and right. It's the poverty and crime they're living in.
John Romero, like many washed-up has beens, likes to refer to John Romero in the third person.
...
Oh, please. In context:
TE: How much of what is written about "John Romero"
JR: [an entire paragraph of text] The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.
The interviewer introduced that idiom and Romero responded in kind. Bob Dole used third person in his campaign ads. (And while it happened soon after, he wasn't really washed up until he lost his presidential bid.)
It's a common misconception that a contract has to be in written form. In reality, any business transaction is at least one contract. If you drop 50cents on the counter, take a newspaper an leave, that's a contract, without even a single word spoken.
That's complete and utter nonsense. Simple transactions like that are covered by the Uniform Commercial Code (in 49 states, Louisiana which has something similar). A contract has to meet certain criteria, an important part of which is that you can actually read it and (at least theoretically) ammend it.
That's why: there is too much eye-candy!
That reminds me of when I wanted to bring my iBook into a library to use their network connection.
The woman said, "you have to have AV software installed to use our network connection."
So I fired up XCode, put together a dialog with a big SCAN button and a progress bar that slowly filled up.
It still said "MyApplication" in the menu bar...
This was nothing more than a "protect the children" witch hunt!
Historically, the witches being hunted were usually spinsters, desperately poor and quite often schizophrenic or some similar affliction.
Comparing a modestly successful video game company (or a prominent politician as you usually here) being dragged through entirely nonviolent proceedings to a witch being pressed for a confession is as ridiculous as calling someone a pirate for downloading an MP3.
"City crime rate increasing for 10th straight year; homicide biggest crime increase"
Funny you shouldn't mention that, because all our gun grabbers and thug huggers are running the cities.
It's interesting that someone trying to feed his family through non-violent theft of an extravagant luxury (insured to the hilt through a homeowner's/renter's policy btw) is a "punk".
You are a fucking moron.
Sounds like the work of terrorists....
Great, you're comparing dumping tea in the river to suicide bombings in crowded marketplaces. Moron.
Actually, considering the density of London (10mn people?) I would say we are pretty safe from being murdered by gun related crimes.
But not safe enough that you can have a simple freedom like being able to wear the kind of headphones you want.
Suppose you weren't able to go out at night because the government decided to impose a curfew. You'd be outraged, right? How is this any different?
How many people outside of collectors have a gun that isn't at least semi-automatic any more?
Most people get revolvers for self defense because semi-autos have to be cleaned carefully to prevent jamming.
There is a pernicious meme that life is a zero-sum game and that if you got wealthy that it must have caused someone else's suffering. That's the root of this kind of thinking.
So it's our jobs' fault for giving us money that can be stolen?
Yup. You're no better than a woman wearing a short skirt to make men rape her.