The facts of this story have been "everywhere" for about 5 days, now, and yet it's just made it to Slashdot? Perhaps more Slashdot readers need to step away from Slashdot more often?
Indeed!:-)
Alas, I can't find it now, but I can remember a similar 'proposal' for a single bit to be reserved to support a female-only USENET group.
One more for the confected *gate community.
You don't need to shut down trucks overnight - they don't shut down planes while pilots sleep, they have pilots on shifts. And, before that, the Pony Express! Large trucking companies could have drivers on shifts.
> If you can change it, or overload it, or rename it, or macro-ise it as you like, than it doesn't matter either.
But please make sure that when you change it, that you change it in a portable way, so that I don't need any extra software/front-ends just to compile your software.
The contraceptive pill.
It's saved trillions of dollars, saved trillions of hours of work, reduced poverty, childhood deaths, and the threat of countries being invaded for their land.
I'm not stating that it's isolated (how's your comprehension skills?); I'm in academia, and I'm stating that it's sufficiently rare to not tar the whole academic community with it.
Why is this a Slashdot article, today? Yes, it was interesting when the book was released, and when the documentaries aired, but if Slashdot ran an article each time a reader rediscovered history....
Great - no need to worry, any more, about butt-dialing your phone. Now, with butt-apping (TM-pending), who knows what we'll be able to achieve, or order!
The real question is why this isn't a win-win for their customers anyway?
It's not a win-win for customers unless the price goes down.
It may be just a win if there's a reduced likelihood of NSA surveillance, but there's no guarantee of that.
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So anyone without an account on any of the childish social media sites will be now regarded with suspicion?
The facts of this story have been "everywhere" for about 5 days, now, and yet it's just made it to Slashdot? Perhaps more Slashdot readers need to step away from Slashdot more often?
Good thing they didn't have to prove that humans caused that warming.
Unusual distinction that you make. So where do you stand on the languages Python, the Unix shell, Tcl/Tk, ..... ?
Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?
Be still my beating heart!
I believe that you're thinking of the DES controversy.
How many near consecutive broken records does it take for weather extremes to no longer be called 'anomalies'?
Or just duplicated themselves?
Indeed! :-)
Alas, I can't find it now, but I can remember a similar 'proposal' for a single bit to be reserved to support a female-only USENET group.
One more for the confected *gate community.
You don't need to shut down trucks overnight - they don't shut down planes while pilots sleep, they have pilots on shifts. And, before that, the Pony Express! Large trucking companies could have drivers on shifts.
Compared to what? The over 30,000 deaths annually in the US?
> If you can change it, or overload it, or rename it, or macro-ise it as you like, than it doesn't matter either.
But please make sure that when you change it, that you change it in a portable way, so that I don't need any extra software/front-ends just to compile your software.
The contraceptive pill.
It's saved trillions of dollars, saved trillions of hours of work, reduced poverty, childhood deaths, and the threat of countries being invaded for their land.
I'm not stating that it's isolated (how's your comprehension skills?); I'm in academia, and I'm stating that it's sufficiently rare to not tar the whole academic community with it.
Agreed; why does all of academia get tarnished by citing this single case? Wither Science.
Why is this a Slashdot article, today? Yes, it was interesting when the book was released, and when the documentaries aired, but if Slashdot ran an article each time a reader rediscovered history....
See: http://dilbert.com/search_resu...
Have you seen the depreciation rate on supercomputers? If it's a race between the market price and the oil, my money's on the market.
Great - no need to worry, any more, about butt-dialing your phone. Now, with butt-apping (TM-pending), who knows what we'll be able to achieve, or order!
Hater's gonna hate.
Shouldn't we call this Brillio Beta, so that we can all invest heavily in it for 2 years before Google changes their mind and withdraws it?
The real question is why this isn't a win-win for their customers anyway?
It's not a win-win for customers unless the price goes down. It may be just a win if there's a reduced likelihood of NSA surveillance, but there's no guarantee of that.
Gendames can serve anywhere in France. Time for you to grow up?
Really? Have gendarmes only been trained to recognise odd numbers, and learning two sets of numbers is beyond their training?