for me RPN, LISP and FORTH are the same in that regard: instead of coding, you built the parse tree explicitly the way you wanted it to be, not the way the interpreter/compiler decide to interpret your code. You do not think about operator precedence and evaluation order, you explicitly formulate it the way you want it to be evaluated and event tough it seems like that explicitation should increase the cognitive load its most good programmers that I know found that it decrease it... Now, rightfully, you could ask why... and to that question I have no answer.
It might be a bit more cognitive load, but there's no, "fuck, do I need parens here or not" to throw you off as with traditional notation.
Accusing somebody of rape when he did nothing is a very serious matter. It destroys that person's life forever! If you don't put the correction up high enough, people will miss that it was a false accusation, and a "urban legend"/meme type thing will form, that sticks to that person forever anyway.
Corrections just aren't enough when a person is accused of a crime. Even resigning, plenty of people will believe that Alistair did it and that shadowy right-wing operatives coerced him into resigning.
The only right answer is not to fuck it up in the first place.
As long as it's tax avoidance, rather than tax evasion, nothing illegal in this. Everyone (corporations included) want to pay as little tax as possible. It's the governments job to close the loopholes.
Yet Apple is a heavy user of the government-provided resources in my country that my taxes pay for, and is one of the organisations with far more frequent access to the very politicians you're suggesting should fix the problem.
Please cite these resources that they're using but not paying for.
I'm pretty libertarian and think there are far too many laws in this country but this is one of the cases which makes me favour some law over anarchy. This is one rare case where I'd feel justified in actually calling the police.... oh wait!
I used to be libertarian, so I'll give you the spiel. Libertarians accept basic criminal law (battery, theft, etc) and contract law (especially rules clarifying how to buy and sell) statutes. That's probably 70% of the laws that affect you on a daily basis, the other 30% being traffic laws. (It's worth noting that assault with a motor vehicle is a criminal offense.)
The laws libertarians disagree with are the special handouts in tax law, the heavy regulation of business, government dictating what people can do with their property, and certain criminal laws that try to regulate society, e.g. sodomy laws. In a libertarian country, you would see people behaving in the same law-abiding manner as you do here. You'd probably find that cities and such would be far more chaotic and eccentric since there would be much less central planning, but there'd be no anarchy to speak of.
I don't much like the litigious nature that has invaded our society But... I hope he sues their arses off.
I think it's fair to want people to resolve differences like reasonable adults.
And it's much better to hire a lawyer for preventative reasons, so that everyone understands their agreements and hopefully avoid disputes entirely.
But when it comes down to the decision to sue or not to sue, it should be based on what's in your best interests; your getting fucked won't make for a better society.
Emails can, at least, be digitally signed. If it's done with something like a CAC card, that's far more solid proof that you wrote it than anything paper based, as someone would have to steal the CAC and your PIN.
But most email accounts are routinely compromised, or even shared, just like accounts on Facebook and Twitter. And I'd love to have a service that could log my emails quietly so that if someone does claim I sent something, I can say, "nope, all emails were logged here, it's impossible for me to delete them, and that's not one of them." It wouldn't even have to store original emails, just hashes of them.
Time to update the Miranda warning to include: 'Anything you Tweet or post can and will be held against you in a court of law'?
Sorry but courts allow emails to be introduced as evidence so long as authenticity can be established. Why shouldn't this hold true for tweets and facebook posts? This has absolutely nothing to do with Miranda.
Someone must have a screenshot. That's incontrovertible evidence, right?
Yes a new adapter is going to harm the environment. People toss devices that use the old connector instead of reusing them.
Maybe people around you are greedy and lazy, but if I went to my apartment complex's mail room and left all my iPhone cables and whatnot there with a note saying "please take", they'd be gone in a few hours. People toss stuff?! Have you never seen a yard sale before?
If they had used a standard (USB) connector in the first place you could reuse chargers etc. from other phones. Not only that but you could you switch from iPhone to Android to Windows Phone without having to buy new devices. Also, realize that that is the only reason for all Apple proprietary connectors. So you can't easily switch to a competitors device.
What, is Apple preventing the competitor from selling you a cable? I have 2 iOS devices. I have four cables for them, and four chargers. I have docks for both. I have several bluetooth devices. I'd be out four cables and two docks if I decided to switch to Android.
So I keep the chargers, give away the docks and cables, and spend a few bucks to buy new cables, yet somehow Apple is "forcing" me to keep my devices.
It's a tossup whether I'm more tired of articles that present speculation and innuendo as news, or people who complain about reading articles they obviously didn't.
just because you don't understand doesn't mean it's not accurate.. as I'm sure Sir Isaac would attest
The example he gave was stupid, but the point was valid. The law is generally specific only on what you can't do, since it works by declaring crimes and specifying punishments. To assess what you can do, you need to specify case law or advice from an agency or a lawyer.
So, ran into a similar problem ages ago, and I wrote a python script to handle it. If you can't follow some rather dense python, this won't be for you.
It's mostly the 'fdb' script, there's some other cruft in there.
My approach stores the filesystem data in a sqlite database. It's not fast, but it is reasonably recoverable, which wound up being the most important aspect. The traditional Unix convoluted pipeline approach simply doesn't scale much past 100,000 files, in my experience.
It does actually understand inodes, in fact, it is pretty much a relational model of an inode based file system. The usage model is basically: read a portion of a file system in to the database. Update unhashed inodes. Hard link identical inodes.
The catch is that I also wanted it to work over time, so I wanted a permanent volume identifier for devices, users, etc, which makes it a bit OS X centric. I don't think there's any reason it wouldn't port relatively easily to Linux: you just need to use the Linux way of looking up system information. Basically, POSIX doesn't guarantee much about device ids, uids or gids beyond "it's not going to change while the process is running," and there's no standard way to obtain a UUID.
Also, if you *do* have multiple devices, it will try to hash them on separate threads. This won't work so well if the multiple devices are simply separate partitions:-(
All you've really accomplished is you've taken the problem and pushed it behind layers of bureaucracy and declared yourselves civilized. It may look civilized, but a wrongfully convicted person is still basically fucked, except that in your system no one cares any more because they've fooled themselves into believing the problem is solved.
In a similar manner, leaving Sweden (after he had been requested to stay in Sweden by Swedish authorities) made him a criminal in Sweden (aside from being a suspect of rape and creating danger for another (sw: "Framkallande av fara", not sure what it is called in English legalise)). Sweden doesn't have a bail system, Swedish autorities just request criminal suspect to stay within reach (unless they believe the criminal is likely to commit new crimes), if the suspect doesn't accept the terms, he can choose to be put into arrest instead, at longest the time of the imprisonment for the crime he is suspected of have commited (in this case about 2-3 years for the rapes and, possibly, about 2 years for creating danger to another).
If Julian Assange had played by the (Swedish) rules, he would likely have been a free man within half a year from now. And Swedish authorities wouldn't have stopped him from continue his Wikileaks business during his time of imprisonment.
Bail systems only limit the movement of suspects with very limited monetary resources, which Assange haven't, he can ask his supporters for money to pay his bails.
In my opinion, Julian Assange is a paranoid fool (as well as an misogynic asshole). If he had stayed in Sweden, his life would have been a lot less complicated.
Interesting. In fairness to bail systems, they're not intended to restrict movement, they're there to keep honest people from being stupid and not showing up at court. If a judge thinks someone is a flight risk they simply don't get bail.
This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
So you're sentencing him to death by bureaucracy? How is this progress?
If it had been done by a regulated bank, the investors would be protected. Even the currently very weak banking regulations in the US would have protected investments in interest bearing accounts up to $100,000 if it had been a regulated bank.
Huh. I don't think I've ever heard of a scam where someone pretends to be a bank.
Plus, the bank would have been vetted and monitored to make sure it really had the money.
Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street "banks" have been able to work their way around some of the regulation and have purchased a bunch of our finest congresscritters to further weaken regulations.
In a Ponzi scheme, the scammer is deceiving people into giving him money by claiming to be taking it in when he's not. That's just plain old fraud and requires no elaborate regulations to prosecute. The SEC was warned about Madoff, and could have sent prosecutors after him, but due to bureaucratic incompetence, they didn't.
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for me RPN, LISP and FORTH are the same in that regard: instead of coding, you built the parse tree explicitly the way you wanted it to be, not the way the interpreter/compiler decide to interpret your code. You do not think about operator precedence and evaluation order, you explicitly formulate it the way you want it to be evaluated and event tough it seems like that explicitation should increase the cognitive load its most good programmers that I know found that it decrease it... Now, rightfully, you could ask why... and to that question I have no answer.
It might be a bit more cognitive load, but there's no, "fuck, do I need parens here or not" to throw you off as with traditional notation.
From TFA in big fucking letters:
Metal Toad Media is a digital strategy agency.
So, what the fuck is a "digital strategy agency"?
Consultants who are paid to write bullshit by the word.
Unless you have a degree in Software Engineering, it's both misleading and might be illegal to use the "Software Engineer" title in your country.
It's true. Every asshole and his grandmother thinks he's an "Engineer."
Unless you make engines or drive a fucking train* for a living, forwards and backwards, you have no business calling yourself an engineer.
I'm going to call myself something equally irrelevant, like a Software Musketeer.
* Train may include freight locomotive, passenger rail, light rail, subway, but not the Soul Train.
Accusing somebody of rape when he did nothing is a very serious matter. It destroys that person's life forever!
If you don't put the correction up high enough, people will miss that it was a false accusation, and a "urban legend"/meme type thing will form, that sticks to that person forever anyway.
Corrections just aren't enough when a person is accused of a crime. Even resigning, plenty of people will believe that Alistair did it and that shadowy right-wing operatives coerced him into resigning.
The only right answer is not to fuck it up in the first place.
How nice to see old school trolling alive and well on /.
As long as it's tax avoidance, rather than tax evasion, nothing illegal in this. Everyone (corporations included) want to pay as little tax as possible. It's the governments job to close the loopholes.
Yet Apple is a heavy user of the government-provided resources in my country that my taxes pay for, and is one of the organisations with far more frequent access to the very politicians you're suggesting should fix the problem.
Please cite these resources that they're using but not paying for.
I'm pretty libertarian and think there are far too many laws in this country but this is one of the cases which makes me favour some law over anarchy. This is one rare case where I'd feel justified in actually calling the police. ... oh wait!
I used to be libertarian, so I'll give you the spiel. Libertarians accept basic criminal law (battery, theft, etc) and contract law (especially rules clarifying how to buy and sell) statutes. That's probably 70% of the laws that affect you on a daily basis, the other 30% being traffic laws. (It's worth noting that assault with a motor vehicle is a criminal offense.)
The laws libertarians disagree with are the special handouts in tax law, the heavy regulation of business, government dictating what people can do with their property, and certain criminal laws that try to regulate society, e.g. sodomy laws. In a libertarian country, you would see people behaving in the same law-abiding manner as you do here. You'd probably find that cities and such would be far more chaotic and eccentric since there would be much less central planning, but there'd be no anarchy to speak of.
I don't much like the litigious nature that has invaded our society But... I hope he sues their arses off.
I think it's fair to want people to resolve differences like reasonable adults.
And it's much better to hire a lawyer for preventative reasons, so that everyone understands their agreements and hopefully avoid disputes entirely.
But when it comes down to the decision to sue or not to sue, it should be based on what's in your best interests; your getting fucked won't make for a better society.
It shouldn't even be allowed for emails.
Emails can, at least, be digitally signed. If it's done with something like a CAC card, that's far more solid proof that you wrote it than anything paper based, as someone would have to steal the CAC and your PIN.
But most email accounts are routinely compromised, or even shared, just like accounts on Facebook and Twitter. And I'd love to have a service that could log my emails quietly so that if someone does claim I sent something, I can say, "nope, all emails were logged here, it's impossible for me to delete them, and that's not one of them." It wouldn't even have to store original emails, just hashes of them.
Time to update the Miranda warning to include: 'Anything you Tweet or post can and will be held against you in a court of law'?
Sorry but courts allow emails to be introduced as evidence so long as authenticity can be established. Why shouldn't this hold true for tweets and facebook posts? This has absolutely nothing to do with Miranda.
Someone must have a screenshot. That's incontrovertible evidence, right?
Oh, god, not another Android circle-jerk.
Yes a new adapter is going to harm the environment. People toss devices that use the old connector instead of reusing them.
Maybe people around you are greedy and lazy, but if I went to my apartment complex's mail room and left all my iPhone cables and whatnot there with a note saying "please take", they'd be gone in a few hours. People toss stuff?! Have you never seen a yard sale before?
If they had used a standard (USB) connector in the first place you could reuse chargers etc. from other phones. Not only that but you could you switch from iPhone to Android to Windows Phone without having to buy new devices. Also, realize that that is the only reason for all Apple proprietary connectors. So you can't easily switch to a competitors device.
What, is Apple preventing the competitor from selling you a cable? I have 2 iOS devices. I have four cables for them, and four chargers. I have docks for both. I have several bluetooth devices. I'd be out four cables and two docks if I decided to switch to Android.
So I keep the chargers, give away the docks and cables, and spend a few bucks to buy new cables, yet somehow Apple is "forcing" me to keep my devices.
It's a tossup whether I'm more tired of articles that present speculation and innuendo as news, or people who complain about reading articles they obviously didn't.
It's never a slow news day when you can just make shit up.
just because you don't understand doesn't mean it's not accurate.. as I'm sure Sir Isaac would attest
The example he gave was stupid, but the point was valid. The law is generally specific only on what you can't do, since it works by declaring crimes and specifying punishments. To assess what you can do, you need to specify case law or advice from an agency or a lawyer.
Mice and critters are only an issue if you eat your food inside the tent and leave crumbs everywhere. But there are always a few people who are messy.
Let's panic.
Nah, we're good. Just don't be wearing a school-girl outfit next month when the season for tentacle hantavirus begins.
So, ran into a similar problem ages ago, and I wrote a python script to handle it. If you can't follow some rather dense python, this won't be for you.
https://github.com/scooby/fdb
It's mostly the 'fdb' script, there's some other cruft in there.
My approach stores the filesystem data in a sqlite database. It's not fast, but it is reasonably recoverable, which wound up being the most important aspect. The traditional Unix convoluted pipeline approach simply doesn't scale much past 100,000 files, in my experience.
It does actually understand inodes, in fact, it is pretty much a relational model of an inode based file system. The usage model is basically: read a portion of a file system in to the database. Update unhashed inodes. Hard link identical inodes.
The catch is that I also wanted it to work over time, so I wanted a permanent volume identifier for devices, users, etc, which makes it a bit OS X centric. I don't think there's any reason it wouldn't port relatively easily to Linux: you just need to use the Linux way of looking up system information. Basically, POSIX doesn't guarantee much about device ids, uids or gids beyond "it's not going to change while the process is running," and there's no standard way to obtain a UUID.
Also, if you *do* have multiple devices, it will try to hash them on separate threads. This won't work so well if the multiple devices are simply separate partitions :-(
All you've really accomplished is you've taken the problem and pushed it behind layers of bureaucracy and declared yourselves civilized. It may look civilized, but a wrongfully convicted person is still basically fucked, except that in your system no one cares any more because they've fooled themselves into believing the problem is solved.
In a similar manner, leaving Sweden (after he had been requested to stay in Sweden by Swedish authorities) made him a criminal in Sweden (aside from being a suspect of rape and creating danger for another (sw: "Framkallande av fara", not sure what it is called in English legalise)). Sweden doesn't have a bail system, Swedish autorities just request criminal suspect to stay within reach (unless they believe the criminal is likely to commit new crimes), if the suspect doesn't accept the terms, he can choose to be put into arrest instead, at longest the time of the imprisonment for the crime he is suspected of have commited (in this case about 2-3 years for the rapes and, possibly, about 2 years for creating danger to another).
If Julian Assange had played by the (Swedish) rules, he would likely have been a free man within half a year from now. And Swedish authorities wouldn't have stopped him from continue his Wikileaks business during his time of imprisonment.
Bail systems only limit the movement of suspects with very limited monetary resources, which Assange haven't, he can ask his supporters for money to pay his bails.
In my opinion, Julian Assange is a paranoid fool (as well as an misogynic asshole). If he had stayed in Sweden, his life would have been a lot less complicated.
Interesting. In fairness to bail systems, they're not intended to restrict movement, they're there to keep honest people from being stupid and not showing up at court. If a judge thinks someone is a flight risk they simply don't get bail.
This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
So you're sentencing him to death by bureaucracy? How is this progress?
Okay, I've broken the Slashdot rule and read the article.
Can anyone tell me why ...
No, because we didn't break the damned rule! Now, do you see why we have it?
Who needs Windows when Windows can be broken?
Not broken, but feature enhanced to improve air flow.
It's a cool technology, but the iPod shuffle can run for a billion years plugged into a potato. Can we get some actual performance data please?
Thing is, potato is not bendable.
Pretty sure MacDonald's can figure that one out.
If it had been done by a regulated bank, the investors would be protected.
Even the currently very weak banking regulations in the US would have protected investments in interest bearing accounts up to $100,000 if it had been a regulated bank.
Huh. I don't think I've ever heard of a scam where someone pretends to be a bank.
Plus, the bank would have been vetted and monitored to make sure it really had the money.
No, banks explicitly do not have your money. That's why in bad times you see bank runs. And, in fact, during the recent crisis, even the FDIC came close to running out of funds.
Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street "banks" have been able to work their way around some of the regulation and have purchased a bunch of our finest congresscritters to further weaken regulations.
In a Ponzi scheme, the scammer is deceiving people into giving him money by claiming to be taking it in when he's not. That's just plain old fraud and requires no elaborate regulations to prosecute. The SEC was warned about Madoff, and could have sent prosecutors after him, but due to bureaucratic incompetence, they didn't.