If encryption gets banned, there is an ally that the bought-and-paid-for Congresscritters *will* listen to.
Go to the NRA. Seriously. Strong crypto was classified as a munition, making crypto a Second Amendment issue. Congress doesn't give a shit about the ACLU or the EFF or any of those types, but they will listen to the NRA.
I'm new to programming myself, but I've always felt the need to learn more about the computer than just the high-level language. That's why I want to take up PERL.
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This possibly the most hysterically unintentionally funny thing I've read in a long time.
You had Roman numerals? You lucky, jammy, bastard! I'd have killed for Roman numerals. We had to use tally marks. And if we didn't put the slash to mark the fifth, the compiler got confused and core dumped on us!
Go ahead and volunteer outside of your comfort area. You might find that you like doing something "different". At a bare minimum you'll learn something new.
It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to move to an area serviced by a different cable company. How do you expect most people to be able to afford this?
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If encryption gets banned, there is an ally that the bought-and-paid-for Congresscritters *will* listen to.
Go to the NRA. Seriously. Strong crypto was classified as a munition, making crypto a Second Amendment issue. Congress doesn't give a shit about the ACLU or the EFF or any of those types, but they will listen to the NRA.
I'm new to programming myself, but I've always felt the need to learn more about the computer than just the high-level language. That's why I want to take up PERL.
(emphasis mine)
This possibly the most hysterically unintentionally funny thing I've read in a long time.
You had Roman numerals? You lucky, jammy, bastard! I'd have killed for Roman numerals. We had to use tally marks. And if we didn't put the slash to mark the fifth, the compiler got confused and core dumped on us!
This.
My sister found out the hard way what happens when in irresistable force meets an immovable object.
She was in a '77 Regal, and got broadsided by a '65 Chevy.
They both walked away.
And creating a public nuisance.
Mod parent up.
I think it was because Nortel valued them at $328M, so even though MicroApple bid $4B, Canada thought they were worth $328M.
RIAA Math
Stephen Baxter's Titan has an asteroid being used as a KE weapon.
Turn in your geek card.
The monolith was in Tycho, which is on Nearside, not Farside.
I doubt Symantec or McAfee store for the purpose of infecting other computers.
No, their regular products do that quite nicely, thank you.
Dude, this is Arizona. In the middle of a desert. How, pray tell, is a hurricane going to hit there?
Go ahead and volunteer outside of your comfort area. You might find that you like doing something "different". At a bare minimum you'll learn something new.
Dude, that wasn't summer day camp... that was SUMMER SCHOOL.
Good point. For some reason -- probably because I have to pay my mortgage next week -- I had a mental block to the possibility of renting.
Some of us own our houses (OK, we share ownership with a bank).
It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to move to an area serviced by a different cable company. How do you expect most people to be able to afford this?
There FTFY.
As long as pop quizzes exist, there will be prayer in schools.
And when the first person wearing a pacemaker gets EMP'ed because a cop doesn't want to be filmed, the wrongful death suit will be fun to watch.
NOW you're going to choose to call it a 'dwarf planet'?
Please. Pluto prefers the term "Gravitationally Challenged Planet"
Shouldn't that be a Hurd of GNUs?
n/t
No, then they'll have an incentive to issue more bogus patents!
"Go ahead and approve that, Joe. Once it's invalidated, the office will get a crapload!".
That is all.
Who'd have thought that ad networks wouldn't give up their source of revenue?