It depends. I voted for Obama both times, but, really, the alternatives were McCain and Mittens. If there were a better alternative, I might have voted for that. And I don't consider a fringe candidate a better alternative. Until a third party can rival the GOP, a vote for a third party is as good as a vote for the GOP.
Granting the base premise, like a lot of other situations, it depends. Is this a syntax bug, or a semantic bug? A syntax bug should be caught in testing, unit or validation. A developer should be conscientious enough to avoid those. Semantic bugs are going to be more difficult. Did management or the customer change the spec after the code foundation was laid? If so, that can't be held against the developer.
I wouldn't say that adults are taught that play is bad, but more a combination of they forget that it's fun - they've lost their youthful spirit, if they ever had one - and/or they're lazy. I'm a relatively young grand-parent and I actively engage my grand-daughter just like I did my own son, meaning I chase her around on the playground, I tussle with her, I get on the floor and play when she wants something less energetic, and I can tell you, it's a lot of work. We both enjoy it, but it's exhausting for me, some days, and I'm in pretty good shape. Thankfully, I have only one grand-child.
Teachers, and most adults, I find, do not have the same mindset, or level of energy: typically, if it means doing anything more than standing around, talking with other adults, they don't want to do it. Just count the number of adults who actively engage the kids in games on the playground outside of school hours. If you find just one, I'd be surprised. And I don't mean a parent pushing a kid on the swings; that takes almost no energy. By extension, I think if teachers see kids getting a little too active, it threatens their comfort level because the teachers may actually have to do something other than stand around.
If you walk into the theater with a modern smart phone, you also have a video camera with you. Should you be interrogated by the FBI just because you carried your phone with you? I go everywhere with not one, but two pocket knives on me. I've never stabbed anyone or caused vandalism. Should I be arrested for carrying weapons, even when I've done nothing with them?
Car analogy: My speedometer goes to 150 mph, so I should be ticketed because I possibly can go that fast, even if I never do?
I'm a child of the Vietnam era; I saw the news reports every night until we left Saigon in '75. If you were drafted, you must've been part of the wrong demographic.
But guess why we don't have mandatory draft anymore? Because Boomers said, "Not my child!" and threatened any politician that dared suggest it. And who created the Millennials? That's right: Boomer parents. And they're narcissistic little shits because their Boomer parents hovered over them, coddling them, treating them as if they're "special" and God's gift to humanity - because, for God's sake, a Boomer created the precious little thing - preventing them from learning how hard life really could be, leading to spoiled, entitled kids. So if you want to bitch about how crappy the younger generations are, Boomers get the blame for that, too.
Who do you think created the Millennials? BTW, I'm not one - I was born right at the tail end of the Boomers, post '64. It was Boomers and their helicoptering, because God knows their kids had to be "special" and #1 in everything. After Boomers got to do whatever they wanted - smoke weed, drink booze, pull pranks in school, etc - they decided that it was no longer "harmless fun" to do any of that stuff, as if only THEY were allowed to live life a little, so they smothered everyone with that "zero tolerance" BS. And it isn't Millennials creating policy to invade privacy: it's Boomers.
I blame most, if not all, of our problems on baby boomers. Spoiled rotten little fuckin' brats. They had it great, and then they ruined it for the rest of us, trying to keep things great for themselves, because, of course, it's all about them. I wish they'd all just die already.
Ya know, people get arrested all the time, and their names and mug shots are available for all to see. Not all of those arrested are guilty; some of them are completely innocent. Doesn't stop the cops from releasing available information about these arrests, does it? Why should we show extra concern toward accused police, and not accused non-police?
Exactly. I can get a FreeScale FRDM-KL25Z for $13. For many in the hacker community, this is plenty. These other guys need to work on the pricing a little.
Your question after #3 is kind of the point: they never bothered to ask the guy. The whole thing is "shoot first, ask questions later," and that's what's wrong with it. Before destroying the guy's priceless instruments, couldn't they have at least asked about it?
As to your "mistake #1," since when is it not safe to assume that stuff you check in is going to be Ok? Lost luggage is one thing - shit happens, and he decided the risk was acceptable - but agents going through your stuff and actively destroying it? Since when is that Ok? Obviously, never, else this article wouldn't be news.
Did you know if the holes were made before leaving the foreign port, or during the trip? If not, you're just like the knee-jerk agents in this article. Did you check with the owner of the vehicle? If not, why not? That's kind of the point to this article: some faceless bureaucrat, who will never be held responsible, just decided to trash someone's property. Couldn't they have asked the guy about it before assuming the worst and destroying something priceless? Don't you see a problem with that?
What's the likelihood that something like this will happen? Are we to fear China sending a crack team of commandos to disable our power grid? Someone could knock down high-tension power lines, too. Do we fence off every last one of those?
Wouldn't it have been better for him to show up, presumably on whatever topic he originally planned, and then give a presentation on why RSA was wrong to capitulate to the NSA? Sure, a number of us have seen this on/., but I think way more people would've come across this if the other major news outlets picked it up when he was escorted out of the building. Of course, there's the possibility that he would've been held up trying to get home.
I'm curious what you would suggest for my wife, then. She's 47 and within the last 18 months somehow damaged her C4-C5 vertebrae and needed surgical fusion to minimize the pain from a pinched nerve. However, the surgery has also limited her mobility: she can walk, up to a point, but running is out of the question. Cycling for more than a few minutes leaves her leg numb. We haven't tried swimming; she gets debilitating ear infections unbelievably easy. The end result is that she's gained some weight - maybe 20 pounds - and I can attest that she really doesn't eat much: typically toast & tea in the morning; a sandwich for lunch, if we eat lunch, and then a reasonable dinner; almost never any snacks or candy; she drinks tea or water, typically, with a Pepsi once or twice a week. I was going to bring these pills up with our doctor, but if you think they're only a short-term fix, what would you suggest?
Cochlear brand cochlear implants do have on/off switches. My early model, the one I got in 1997 and still use because the later models suck ass in terms of sound quality - sounds like they're not sampling fast enough; it's robotic, even after lots of tweaking - has a mode that attenuates constant noises such as road noise, loud conversations in crowded rooms, etc, but it's not that good. In those cases, I plug in an external mic that I give to the person to whom I want to listen, often my wife, so the sound is picked up mostly from a discrete point. It helps greatly.
On the other hand, and this will address MikeBabcock, below, as well, there are times when I take off my CI - like when exercising, where sweat might short things out, or sleeping, where it gets in the way - but I'm at the mercy of whatever I can see or feel, which is risky. In the event of a fire, I'd be toasted, if my wife was out of town and I was by myself. Sure, there are alarms that flash brightly, but I don't have those; I kind-of depend on my wife for that. I probably should get some. My alarm watch buzzes, which is great to tell me when it's time to get up, but not useful in terms of fire protection or intruder detection. When riding my bike, I don't hear cars coming from behind. I've had a few close calls, but have never been hit, fortunately. I have lost my grown son off the back and had to turn around to find him with a flat about a quarter mile back, which sucked. So, in general, unless I have to take it off, I wear it. Sometimes, like on an airplane, I'll just turn it down, or plug in my iPod, which cuts out everything else but my music. In department meetings, I'd plug in and no one would know I wasn't paying attention to the PHB, unless I was obviously jammin' away. That was an enjoyable bonus. Except for those times when people would talk to me, and I didn't even know it until they tapped me. Oops.
I faked it through some early interviews like that. However, some people are easier to read than others. For example, my son and I can carry on a conversation, while running, with me not wearing my cochlear implant. He grew up having to speak so I could understand him, so even if I'm not wearing my CI, I get about 95% of what he says. In some cases, he'll speak without making noise so I can understand him without having other people in the room any the wiser. On the other hand, my wife is way more difficult to read. It's frustrating. Guys with beards? Forget it. Thankfully, I get pretty good coverage with my CI, so I don't have to depend so much on lip reading. With some people, I'll use both, just to be sure. And then, with a rare few, there's the classic, "I'm deaf, but I'm ignoring you, anyway."
Nice idea and I'd fully consider it. Heck, nowadays, I'd be able to hack my own system to flash LEDs, or similar. But this was nearly 30 years ago. Fortunately, in spite of my difficulties, he grew up without too many issues. I have a cochlear implant, now, and can hear him quite well.
It depends on how bad the tinnitus is. In my case, when I take off my cochlear implant, it's low-grade. It's not that bad. It almost disappears completely when I attach and turn on my cochlear implant, except in cases when I'm really tired. Then, I notice it a little more, but it's still not debilitating, or even overwhelming.
When I lost my hearing at 17 from spinal meningitis, I was out for a week - lost consciousness from the pain and nearly died - and when I woke up, it was just tinnitus. I saw people moving their lips, so I knew they were talking, but no sound. It was weird, but I got used to it quickly enough. What took longer to get used to was the social isolation. Though not intentional, I basically lost my friends. Only one person in my group of school friends bothered to learn sign language to communicate with me. Only one family member out of seven bothered to learn sign language. Two others tried, but butchered any attempt at it. Really, it's not that hard to learn or use. Lack of sound - not a big deal. Lack of communication? Much bigger deal.
When I got my cochlear implant, we worked on improving the sound quality for a period of about six weeks, and at the end of the sessions, my hearing was about as good as I remembered, except in noisy situations, where comprehension drops greatly because I don't have the filtering ability anymore: it all comes as one block of sound and the CI can't adapt like our brain does, automatically. Other than that, I had no problem adjusting to hearing again. In fact, it was like a new lease on life. But, I know of congenitally deaf people, as you describe, that reject CIs because they don't know what to do with the new sensory input. That, plus growing up deaf, learning things through sign language instead of speech, it makes it a bizzaro world transition: they don't know how to handle our "normal." I feel bad for those folks.
Love to experience it? Just no. Imagine going to an interview for a job you really, really need - young family depends on you for food and shelter - and you can't even understand the small chat from the interviewer - "How was the trip here?" "Um, I... I... didn't understand the question, sir." "Oh, uh, never mind. Wasn't important." - let alone the substantive parts. People constantly think you're "stupid" because you're missing a source of input. You're never a part of a conversation; if you're lucky, someone will give you bits and pieces afterwards. You see everyone laughing, and maybe the joke wasn't that funny, but you never get to be a part of it, and if someone does bother to sign it to you, after the fact, it loses a lot in the retelling. Holiday get-togethers become the most dreaded occasions of the year: the isolation effect is amplified, and you end up playing with the dog, instead. You put your child down for a nap, and he ends up crying for 45 minutes, right in the next room, because you're busy working on something, and don't hear him. And on and on. Again, just no.
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They're onto something, there. This country would be so much safer if we kicked everybody out. Stands to reason, right?
It depends. I voted for Obama both times, but, really, the alternatives were McCain and Mittens. If there were a better alternative, I might have voted for that. And I don't consider a fringe candidate a better alternative. Until a third party can rival the GOP, a vote for a third party is as good as a vote for the GOP.
Granting the base premise, like a lot of other situations, it depends. Is this a syntax bug, or a semantic bug? A syntax bug should be caught in testing, unit or validation. A developer should be conscientious enough to avoid those. Semantic bugs are going to be more difficult. Did management or the customer change the spec after the code foundation was laid? If so, that can't be held against the developer.
I don't make my living off of it, but gcc on my AVR stuff has worked pretty well. No complaints here.
Currently caffeine is a free-for all. Highly addictive.
Where do you get this? How do you define "highly addictive"? Are you reading stories of people sucking dick for caffeine?
I wouldn't say that adults are taught that play is bad, but more a combination of they forget that it's fun - they've lost their youthful spirit, if they ever had one - and/or they're lazy. I'm a relatively young grand-parent and I actively engage my grand-daughter just like I did my own son, meaning I chase her around on the playground, I tussle with her, I get on the floor and play when she wants something less energetic, and I can tell you, it's a lot of work. We both enjoy it, but it's exhausting for me, some days, and I'm in pretty good shape. Thankfully, I have only one grand-child.
Teachers, and most adults, I find, do not have the same mindset, or level of energy: typically, if it means doing anything more than standing around, talking with other adults, they don't want to do it. Just count the number of adults who actively engage the kids in games on the playground outside of school hours. If you find just one, I'd be surprised. And I don't mean a parent pushing a kid on the swings; that takes almost no energy. By extension, I think if teachers see kids getting a little too active, it threatens their comfort level because the teachers may actually have to do something other than stand around.
If you walk into the theater with a modern smart phone, you also have a video camera with you. Should you be interrogated by the FBI just because you carried your phone with you? I go everywhere with not one, but two pocket knives on me. I've never stabbed anyone or caused vandalism. Should I be arrested for carrying weapons, even when I've done nothing with them?
Car analogy: My speedometer goes to 150 mph, so I should be ticketed because I possibly can go that fast, even if I never do?
I'm a child of the Vietnam era; I saw the news reports every night until we left Saigon in '75. If you were drafted, you must've been part of the wrong demographic.
But guess why we don't have mandatory draft anymore? Because Boomers said, "Not my child!" and threatened any politician that dared suggest it. And who created the Millennials? That's right: Boomer parents. And they're narcissistic little shits because their Boomer parents hovered over them, coddling them, treating them as if they're "special" and God's gift to humanity - because, for God's sake, a Boomer created the precious little thing - preventing them from learning how hard life really could be, leading to spoiled, entitled kids. So if you want to bitch about how crappy the younger generations are, Boomers get the blame for that, too.
Who do you think created the Millennials? BTW, I'm not one - I was born right at the tail end of the Boomers, post '64. It was Boomers and their helicoptering, because God knows their kids had to be "special" and #1 in everything. After Boomers got to do whatever they wanted - smoke weed, drink booze, pull pranks in school, etc - they decided that it was no longer "harmless fun" to do any of that stuff, as if only THEY were allowed to live life a little, so they smothered everyone with that "zero tolerance" BS. And it isn't Millennials creating policy to invade privacy: it's Boomers.
I blame most, if not all, of our problems on baby boomers. Spoiled rotten little fuckin' brats. They had it great, and then they ruined it for the rest of us, trying to keep things great for themselves, because, of course, it's all about them. I wish they'd all just die already.
Ya know, people get arrested all the time, and their names and mug shots are available for all to see. Not all of those arrested are guilty; some of them are completely innocent. Doesn't stop the cops from releasing available information about these arrests, does it? Why should we show extra concern toward accused police, and not accused non-police?
Exactly. I can get a FreeScale FRDM-KL25Z for $13. For many in the hacker community, this is plenty. These other guys need to work on the pricing a little.
Your question after #3 is kind of the point: they never bothered to ask the guy. The whole thing is "shoot first, ask questions later," and that's what's wrong with it. Before destroying the guy's priceless instruments, couldn't they have at least asked about it?
As to your "mistake #1," since when is it not safe to assume that stuff you check in is going to be Ok? Lost luggage is one thing - shit happens, and he decided the risk was acceptable - but agents going through your stuff and actively destroying it? Since when is that Ok? Obviously, never, else this article wouldn't be news.
Did you know if the holes were made before leaving the foreign port, or during the trip? If not, you're just like the knee-jerk agents in this article. Did you check with the owner of the vehicle? If not, why not? That's kind of the point to this article: some faceless bureaucrat, who will never be held responsible, just decided to trash someone's property. Couldn't they have asked the guy about it before assuming the worst and destroying something priceless? Don't you see a problem with that?
What's the likelihood that something like this will happen? Are we to fear China sending a crack team of commandos to disable our power grid? Someone could knock down high-tension power lines, too. Do we fence off every last one of those?
Wouldn't it have been better for him to show up, presumably on whatever topic he originally planned, and then give a presentation on why RSA was wrong to capitulate to the NSA? Sure, a number of us have seen this on /., but I think way more people would've come across this if the other major news outlets picked it up when he was escorted out of the building. Of course, there's the possibility that he would've been held up trying to get home.
If you write an iOS apps for yourself, you don't need to pay the annual developer's fee. Only if you want to publish to iTunes.
I'm curious what you would suggest for my wife, then. She's 47 and within the last 18 months somehow damaged her C4-C5 vertebrae and needed surgical fusion to minimize the pain from a pinched nerve. However, the surgery has also limited her mobility: she can walk, up to a point, but running is out of the question. Cycling for more than a few minutes leaves her leg numb. We haven't tried swimming; she gets debilitating ear infections unbelievably easy. The end result is that she's gained some weight - maybe 20 pounds - and I can attest that she really doesn't eat much: typically toast & tea in the morning; a sandwich for lunch, if we eat lunch, and then a reasonable dinner; almost never any snacks or candy; she drinks tea or water, typically, with a Pepsi once or twice a week. I was going to bring these pills up with our doctor, but if you think they're only a short-term fix, what would you suggest?
Cochlear brand cochlear implants do have on/off switches. My early model, the one I got in 1997 and still use because the later models suck ass in terms of sound quality - sounds like they're not sampling fast enough; it's robotic, even after lots of tweaking - has a mode that attenuates constant noises such as road noise, loud conversations in crowded rooms, etc, but it's not that good. In those cases, I plug in an external mic that I give to the person to whom I want to listen, often my wife, so the sound is picked up mostly from a discrete point. It helps greatly.
On the other hand, and this will address MikeBabcock, below, as well, there are times when I take off my CI - like when exercising, where sweat might short things out, or sleeping, where it gets in the way - but I'm at the mercy of whatever I can see or feel, which is risky. In the event of a fire, I'd be toasted, if my wife was out of town and I was by myself. Sure, there are alarms that flash brightly, but I don't have those; I kind-of depend on my wife for that. I probably should get some. My alarm watch buzzes, which is great to tell me when it's time to get up, but not useful in terms of fire protection or intruder detection. When riding my bike, I don't hear cars coming from behind. I've had a few close calls, but have never been hit, fortunately. I have lost my grown son off the back and had to turn around to find him with a flat about a quarter mile back, which sucked. So, in general, unless I have to take it off, I wear it. Sometimes, like on an airplane, I'll just turn it down, or plug in my iPod, which cuts out everything else but my music. In department meetings, I'd plug in and no one would know I wasn't paying attention to the PHB, unless I was obviously jammin' away. That was an enjoyable bonus. Except for those times when people would talk to me, and I didn't even know it until they tapped me. Oops.
I faked it through some early interviews like that. However, some people are easier to read than others. For example, my son and I can carry on a conversation, while running, with me not wearing my cochlear implant. He grew up having to speak so I could understand him, so even if I'm not wearing my CI, I get about 95% of what he says. In some cases, he'll speak without making noise so I can understand him without having other people in the room any the wiser. On the other hand, my wife is way more difficult to read. It's frustrating. Guys with beards? Forget it. Thankfully, I get pretty good coverage with my CI, so I don't have to depend so much on lip reading. With some people, I'll use both, just to be sure. And then, with a rare few, there's the classic, "I'm deaf, but I'm ignoring you, anyway."
Nice idea and I'd fully consider it. Heck, nowadays, I'd be able to hack my own system to flash LEDs, or similar. But this was nearly 30 years ago. Fortunately, in spite of my difficulties, he grew up without too many issues. I have a cochlear implant, now, and can hear him quite well.
It depends on how bad the tinnitus is. In my case, when I take off my cochlear implant, it's low-grade. It's not that bad. It almost disappears completely when I attach and turn on my cochlear implant, except in cases when I'm really tired. Then, I notice it a little more, but it's still not debilitating, or even overwhelming.
When I lost my hearing at 17 from spinal meningitis, I was out for a week - lost consciousness from the pain and nearly died - and when I woke up, it was just tinnitus. I saw people moving their lips, so I knew they were talking, but no sound. It was weird, but I got used to it quickly enough. What took longer to get used to was the social isolation. Though not intentional, I basically lost my friends. Only one person in my group of school friends bothered to learn sign language to communicate with me. Only one family member out of seven bothered to learn sign language. Two others tried, but butchered any attempt at it. Really, it's not that hard to learn or use. Lack of sound - not a big deal. Lack of communication? Much bigger deal.
When I got my cochlear implant, we worked on improving the sound quality for a period of about six weeks, and at the end of the sessions, my hearing was about as good as I remembered, except in noisy situations, where comprehension drops greatly because I don't have the filtering ability anymore: it all comes as one block of sound and the CI can't adapt like our brain does, automatically. Other than that, I had no problem adjusting to hearing again. In fact, it was like a new lease on life. But, I know of congenitally deaf people, as you describe, that reject CIs because they don't know what to do with the new sensory input. That, plus growing up deaf, learning things through sign language instead of speech, it makes it a bizzaro world transition: they don't know how to handle our "normal." I feel bad for those folks.
Love to experience it? Just no. Imagine going to an interview for a job you really, really need - young family depends on you for food and shelter - and you can't even understand the small chat from the interviewer - "How was the trip here?" "Um, I... I... didn't understand the question, sir." "Oh, uh, never mind. Wasn't important." - let alone the substantive parts. People constantly think you're "stupid" because you're missing a source of input. You're never a part of a conversation; if you're lucky, someone will give you bits and pieces afterwards. You see everyone laughing, and maybe the joke wasn't that funny, but you never get to be a part of it, and if someone does bother to sign it to you, after the fact, it loses a lot in the retelling. Holiday get-togethers become the most dreaded occasions of the year: the isolation effect is amplified, and you end up playing with the dog, instead. You put your child down for a nap, and he ends up crying for 45 minutes, right in the next room, because you're busy working on something, and don't hear him. And on and on. Again, just no.