I had a COMX-35. The CDP1802 was a very underrated CPU. 16-bit registers (16 of them!), any of which can contain the program counter, autoincrement operations... quite something.
Civil forfeiture in most places in Australia only applies to crimes with a commercial aspect or profit motive. This sometimes doesn't mean what people think it means, but nonetheless, in this case, there are no ill-gotten gains to forfeit.
There's nothing wrong with holding a portfolio of patents and then licensing them.
As long as the entity can be (counter-)sued in such a way that a loss hurts those responsible for trolling, there's nothing wrong with this in principle.
How much more would you be willing to pay for a "non-bumpable" ticket?
I have only visited the US once. When I was there, every flight was overbooked and they sought volunteers. This is not something that I had ever experienced (nor have I experienced since) on any flight anywhere else in the world.
I was speaking at conference. The last leg of my trip there (after about 25 hours of planes and terminals with essentially no sleep) was the last flight of the day to the conference destination, on the day before the conference started.
A later flight, or any of the offered modes of compensation (travel vouchers or a cheque in a foreign currency), wouldn't be worth much to me. And I didn't pay for the flight, my employer did.
As geeks, I hope we all know that an artificial neural net should never be allowed to control a safety-critical system without a more predictable layer which can override it.
And, that contract, in conjunction with government laws and regulations, allows them to boot you from a flight with minimum compensation requirements set by the government.
The question was not "is this legal". The question was "why do we allow this". Even after everything you said, that question still stands.
Historical reasons. If Walter Raleigh had visited Central Asia instead of the Americas, cannabis would be a legal health problem and tobacco would be a banned substance.
You seem to have forgotten why Rudd & Co were able to take the actions they did - there was a BIG pile of cash reserves, put there by the previous govt as they enjoyed the profits and royalties of selling our public infrastructure.
FTFY. That big pile of cash reserves is the reason why your gas and electricity bills have skyrocketed.
How would this help at all? The reason Scottish independence was rejected the first time around was because of the huge economic uncertainty it would cause plus being booted out the the EU and then being forced to rejoin.
I'm suggesting (and admittedly I know nothing) that the push for Scottish independence would have been weaker if England was seen as being on a more equal footing. I do fully realise that it's too late now.
That's a good question, and historians disagree on this.
Abortion was not illegal in the United States until the latter half of the 19th century. It wasn't talked about before that probably because it was associated with unmarried sex. It became illegal at around the same time that childbirth became medicalised, so one leading theory is that it may have been part of that push to get midwives out of the picture and replace them with doctors.
I absolutely do not understand this OBSESSION with fetuses, [...]
Sure, let me help you out.
Before the late 1970s, the obsession with fetuses was an entirely Roman Catholic thing. At the time of Roe v Wade, most evangelical Protestants in the US were fine with legal access to abortion at least for health reasons.
In the fallout from Watergate, conservatives got into bed with fundamentalists, taking over both the Republican Party and the evangelical church. The previous wedge issue, segregation, was no longer viable, so to get Catholics onside, abortion was chosen as the new wedge issue.
This is all quite recent history. The "traditional doctrine" that fetuses have the same moral value as a child is younger than the Happy Meal.
If this is news to you, look at what's now happening with contraception. In 20 years time, people may find it hard to believe that most American evangelical Protestants were fine with contraception at the turn of the 21st century.
A third trimester baby is viable, and yet can be legally aborted.
In almost every jurisdiction that I'm aware of (and that's around the world), late-term abortions are not legal unless the fetus is not viable or the mother's health is at significant risk, and almost always require prior medical ethics approval if it's not an emergency.
You need to understand that there are people here on Slashdot who voted [...] twice for Bush, [...]
The number of people still on Slashdot who voted twice for Bush can probably be counted on a small number of hands. Hell, most of the +5 voters probably aren't old enough to have voted for Clinton or even Bush the first time.
Besides, if anyone actually voted for Bush twice, I can only say this: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.
(Having said that, I'd give almost anything to have him back right now.)
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Knuth might prove it correct but he wouldn't test it.
I had a COMX-35. The CDP1802 was a very underrated CPU. 16-bit registers (16 of them!), any of which can contain the program counter, autoincrement operations... quite something.
Civil forfeiture in most places in Australia only applies to crimes with a commercial aspect or profit motive. This sometimes doesn't mean what people think it means, but nonetheless, in this case, there are no ill-gotten gains to forfeit.
There's nothing wrong with holding a portfolio of patents and then licensing them.
As long as the entity can be (counter-)sued in such a way that a loss hurts those responsible for trolling, there's nothing wrong with this in principle.
Australian Internet is so slow that nobody notices if something is firewalled off. We just figure someone took a backhoe to the local copper again.
How much more would you be willing to pay for a "non-bumpable" ticket?
I have only visited the US once. When I was there, every flight was overbooked and they sought volunteers. This is not something that I had ever experienced (nor have I experienced since) on any flight anywhere else in the world.
I was speaking at conference. The last leg of my trip there (after about 25 hours of planes and terminals with essentially no sleep) was the last flight of the day to the conference destination, on the day before the conference started.
A later flight, or any of the offered modes of compensation (travel vouchers or a cheque in a foreign currency), wouldn't be worth much to me. And I didn't pay for the flight, my employer did.
So I guess I'm not the right person to ask.
We also forgot that the whole point is to stop entities "like us" being in control of 2 tonne death machines.
As geeks, I hope we all know that an artificial neural net should never be allowed to control a safety-critical system without a more predictable layer which can override it.
Err... no. That article was about dark energy, which isn't the same thing as dark matter.
And, that contract, in conjunction with government laws and regulations, allows them to boot you from a flight with minimum compensation requirements set by the government.
The question was not "is this legal". The question was "why do we allow this". Even after everything you said, that question still stands.
I don't know, but lots of likely reasons:
The laws around phreaking tools may have been inadequate at the time.
They were not caught before the statute of limitations expired.
There may never have been evidence of a specific crime.
Historical reasons. If Walter Raleigh had visited Central Asia instead of the Americas, cannabis would be a legal health problem and tobacco would be a banned substance.
I use my holodeck every day.
Or, to put it another way: You don't live in the city, you have a software developer's income, and you have no kids.
It's either that or rich parents.
You seem to have forgotten why Rudd & Co were able to take the actions they did - there was a BIG pile of cash reserves, put there by the previous govt as they enjoyed the profits and royalties of selling our public infrastructure.
FTFY. That big pile of cash reserves is the reason why your gas and electricity bills have skyrocketed.
And the C++17 and hopefully 20 bring even more goodies which make even exception avoiding code easier to write and read.
This is a nice way of saying that the main job of each new C++ standard is to fix the glaring usability problems introduced in the previous standard.
How would this help at all? The reason Scottish independence was rejected the first time around was because of the huge economic uncertainty it would cause plus being booted out the the EU and then being forced to rejoin.
I'm suggesting (and admittedly I know nothing) that the push for Scottish independence would have been weaker if England was seen as being on a more equal footing. I do fully realise that it's too late now.
That's a good question, and historians disagree on this.
Abortion was not illegal in the United States until the latter half of the 19th century. It wasn't talked about before that probably because it was associated with unmarried sex. It became illegal at around the same time that childbirth became medicalised, so one leading theory is that it may have been part of that push to get midwives out of the picture and replace them with doctors.
For the purpose of this discussion, it doesn't matter.
Google Earth is a sphere. Google Maps is a sphere unwrapped into a cylinder. Actual Earth is not a sphere.
I believe I used the precise words "an entirely Roman Catholic thing".
We're talking about American conservatism, which has never been dominated by Catholicism.
The RC Church has formally opposed abortion since the 2nd Century AD.
Yes it has. OTOH, the Protestant church and conservative America never did until just a few decades ago.
The objective of ISIS is actually to bring on the apocalypse. My point is that their first task is to dominate Islam by force.
I absolutely do not understand this OBSESSION with fetuses, [...]
Sure, let me help you out.
Before the late 1970s, the obsession with fetuses was an entirely Roman Catholic thing. At the time of Roe v Wade, most evangelical Protestants in the US were fine with legal access to abortion at least for health reasons.
In the fallout from Watergate, conservatives got into bed with fundamentalists, taking over both the Republican Party and the evangelical church. The previous wedge issue, segregation, was no longer viable, so to get Catholics onside, abortion was chosen as the new wedge issue.
This is all quite recent history. The "traditional doctrine" that fetuses have the same moral value as a child is younger than the Happy Meal.
If this is news to you, look at what's now happening with contraception. In 20 years time, people may find it hard to believe that most American evangelical Protestants were fine with contraception at the turn of the 21st century.
A third trimester baby is viable, and yet can be legally aborted.
In almost every jurisdiction that I'm aware of (and that's around the world), late-term abortions are not legal unless the fetus is not viable or the mother's health is at significant risk, and almost always require prior medical ethics approval if it's not an emergency.
Obviously, privacy of police officers is less equal than that of Planned Parenthood officials.
I understood that what they filmed was basically a counselling session, which is pretty much assumed to be private.
BTW, is "Planned Parenthood official" a real thing, or is that a made-up term?
You need to understand that there are people here on Slashdot who voted [...] twice for Bush, [...]
The number of people still on Slashdot who voted twice for Bush can probably be counted on a small number of hands. Hell, most of the +5 voters probably aren't old enough to have voted for Clinton or even Bush the first time.
Besides, if anyone actually voted for Bush twice, I can only say this: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.
(Having said that, I'd give almost anything to have him back right now.)