Once again it depends. I've spent a large part of my life writing code for tiny little processors with limited memory. The general rule, especially for the military stuff, is that you are not allowed to run out of memory while executing. So either your binary image fits on your device after compilation or it doesn't. It must not fit, and then run out of memory days later during execution. The only way to ensure this in a formal manner is to have no malloc or equivalent calls.
For that, "no heap allocation" is necessary but not sufficient. You also need to prove that your stack doesn't overflow.
I bought at the end of 2010, so I also enjoyed an abnormal property value increase in the last 4 years (although my increase was probably closer to a 35% increase in value), but that's not normal. A 150% increase is really abnormal, even given the recent past.
17% annualized return in the stock market is abnormal too.
Now, I'm not trying to claim that my property will continue to match the stock market going forward, but even if it doesn't it should still return enough for me to consider it worthwhile (compared to investing in the stock market) since I can live in it. Besides, considering that a lot of my property's appreciation is due to actual gentrification rather than just the economy rebounding, it actually might continue to match the stock market going forward.
And also, you don't just count the $800 per month difference, you also need to count the 20% (or whatever % down payment). My mortgage is actually probably a little less expensive than what it would cost to rent my house, but the difference is in the 20% down payment.
No I don't. The city gave me a ~$20K grant for the down payment; I only had to supply $1500 in actual cash (because that was an FHA "minimum amount of skin in the game" kind of requirement).
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: when you consider the $8,000 federal first-time-buyer tax credit that I got a few months later, the net result is that my effective cash out-of-pocket was negative $6,500. In other words, the government paid me about $26,500 to take the house!
If I rented my old apartment during that time period and put the extra $1000 per month into my index fund I think I would be pretty close to being in the same financial position.
If I rented my old apartment during that time period, I would have been spending an extra $100/month for it.
There are tax breaks for owning a house but there is also property tax and maintenance which nearly even out.
That's true, but probably true in a different way for me. My [income] tax break for owning a house is $0 (because my mortgage isn't expensive enough for itemizing to exceed the standard deduction), but because the tax value of my house is small compared to my county's homestead exemption, my property tax is only about $200 per year. (No, that's not a typo; it really is two hundred. However, I admit that the tax bill also has a $460 flat fee for [mandatory] city trash pickup, but that's really a utility fee, not a tax.) It's not that big a house and I'm pretty handy, so maintenance is cheap too. So yes, they do mostly even out -- because both are close to zero. : )
I knew there was a housing market collapse, and I knew I wanted to get the most expensive house I could afford.
The house I bought was at the top end of my "comfortable budget" range, but in retrospect I would have had an even bigger win if I'd stretched. But I really wish that I had been smart enough to buy a du/tri/quad-plex and rent out the other units.
Buying a house is fucking expensive. If you took the difference in cost (between renting and buying the same property), and put that in an index fund, there is a pretty good chance that you will have a bigger pile of cash saved up after 15 or 30 years than what you would have from selling your house at the end of your loan.
For my house, if I rented it instead of owning it I'd be putting negative $800/month into that index fund. (That doesn't account for maintenance, but maintenance isn't anywhere near $800/month.)
Also, in the 5 years I've owned it, my house's value has increased about 150%. I'm not sure exactly how that compares to the annualized 17% VTI has returned over the same period (geometric mean, blah, blah, blah... I can't be bothered to look up the formulas right now), but it's certainly not bad!
I assume you must be in some kind of high-cost-of-living/rent-controlled area that skews your perspective...
No, the trick is not to sell every 5-7 years (and to buy right in the first place). You can move all you want, as long as the house you're moving out of and keeping makes a profitable rental.
We, the people, via public policy, made a choice. That choice kicked off a series of events that resulted in a massive system crash. As usual, nobody wants to take responsibility for it.
That's part of the problem you didn't fully account for: one party wanted loans to be easier for marginally-qualified people to get, and the other party wanted to deregulate the banks. Each party thought the other's idea was bad. So what did they do? Instead of making the sane compromise and rejecting both ideas as bad, they made the insane compromise and accepted both! And of course, these sorts of insane compromises have become standard operating procedure: "should we reduce spending or raise taxes?" (Correct answer: "both." Actual answer: "neither!").
And of course, we're completely and utterly failing to hold politicians accountable for the insane compromises. I wish I knew what the solution was...
You are being unreasonable. All modern operating systems put restrictions on what software can run on them and what it can do. On mobile operating systems you have to ask for permissions, and even on Linux your app doesn't get automatic root access and the ability to poke into the kernel just because you want it. You will have to build your own platform for that, an no-one will use it because it would be insanely insecure.
And you are falsely equating user-imposed restrictions with third-party-imposed restrictions, which makes all the difference in the world.
And modifications performed by a service provider are done on behalf of the end user, if the service provider's fine print is to be believed. For example, the Opera Mini web browser relies on a proxy that modifies the HTML before sending it to the user.
That sounds like it's getting into a gray area to me, and that it's only been allowed to fly because (a) the "modification" was only for the purpose of data compression and was thus mechanical rather than creative (i.e., it did not change the nature of the work) so it could be considered Fair Use, and (b) copyright infringement is a tort, not a crime, so it requires the victim to sue and nobody's upset enough to do so.
By that measure, what Cox is doing is like paying someone $50 per month to scribble out stuff you don't want to see, unless I'm missing something fundamental.
No, inserting extra ads is modifying the content on behalf of someone other than the end user and doing so in a way that's arguably "creative," which makes all the difference.
No, it would not. Modifications of websites using Greasemonkey and Adblock are done by the end user, which means no distribution of the modified work has occurred and therefore copyright law does not apply. Using Greasemonkey or Adblock is conceptually no different than taking a black marker to (your own copy of) a magazine and scribbling out the stuff you don't want to see.
The only way to get LG to actually react would be for everyone affected to sue them individually in small-claims court (for the cost of the TV, plus court costs). Complaining anywhere other than a courtroom will get us nowhere, and going class-action just results in coupons for $10 off the next piece of privacy-destroying bullshit.
Maybe this is a harbinger of things to come where IoT devices in general would need firewalled due to privacy and security concerns.
Of course! That's why they're all designed to work with the "cloud." Making it easy for Joe Dumbass to use without having to teach him how to set up his own server is only the excuse they tell "consumers;" the real reason they do it is for that sweet, sweet Big Data.
Ethernet cables are bidirectional and full-duplex, so there is no separate "sender" and "receiver." Even if you do "only ground one side of the cable," then that means you need to ground half the wires on one end and the other half on the other. And even then, since Ethernet cables use TIA 568A on one side and 568B on the other, the "sending" wires occupy the same pins on each end, making the cable reversible.
My understanding is that most parallel construction (supposedly) isn't for the sake of using illegally obtained evidence but simply to protect the method or person by which the evidence was obtained.
Parallel construction is illegal even if there is a warrant, because the accused has a Constitutional right to face his accuser. Keeping the method of obtaining evidence secret is simply not allowed (at least, as long as the court itself is actually obeying the law).
Honestly, if you really want to be safe from arrest (at least for a while), move to Russia, pay off and/or befriend the right people, be a Putin supporter, and only do things that are a PITA to people in western countries. In the current political climate they're more likely to give you a medal than deport you.
Wouldn't it work the other way around, too? Stay in the US, but only do things that are a PITA to people in places like Russia or China?
Usually the native flora has been killed or seriously weakened by antibiotics first.
Speaking of which, have scientists ruled out the possibility that antibiotics killing off our "correct" gut flora caused the obesity in the first place?
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For that, "no heap allocation" is necessary but not sufficient. You also need to prove that your stack doesn't overflow.
Yep, that's why my implementation of malloc() calls free() before returning!
There are very few conditions more debilitating than being simultaneously ADD and a perfectionist.
17% annualized return in the stock market is abnormal too.
Now, I'm not trying to claim that my property will continue to match the stock market going forward, but even if it doesn't it should still return enough for me to consider it worthwhile (compared to investing in the stock market) since I can live in it. Besides, considering that a lot of my property's appreciation is due to actual gentrification rather than just the economy rebounding, it actually might continue to match the stock market going forward.
No I don't. The city gave me a ~$20K grant for the down payment; I only had to supply $1500 in actual cash (because that was an FHA "minimum amount of skin in the game" kind of requirement).
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: when you consider the $8,000 federal first-time-buyer tax credit that I got a few months later, the net result is that my effective cash out-of-pocket was negative $6,500. In other words, the government paid me about $26,500 to take the house!
If I rented my old apartment during that time period, I would have been spending an extra $100/month for it.
That's true, but probably true in a different way for me. My [income] tax break for owning a house is $0 (because my mortgage isn't expensive enough for itemizing to exceed the standard deduction), but because the tax value of my house is small compared to my county's homestead exemption, my property tax is only about $200 per year. (No, that's not a typo; it really is two hundred. However, I admit that the tax bill also has a $460 flat fee for [mandatory] city trash pickup, but that's really a utility fee, not a tax.) It's not that big a house and I'm pretty handy, so maintenance is cheap too. So yes, they do mostly even out -- because both are close to zero. : )
The house I bought was at the top end of my "comfortable budget" range, but in retrospect I would have had an even bigger win if I'd stretched. But I really wish that I had been smart enough to buy a du/tri/quad-plex and rent out the other units.
For my house, if I rented it instead of owning it I'd be putting negative $800/month into that index fund. (That doesn't account for maintenance, but maintenance isn't anywhere near $800/month.)
Also, in the 5 years I've owned it, my house's value has increased about 150%. I'm not sure exactly how that compares to the annualized 17% VTI has returned over the same period (geometric mean, blah, blah, blah... I can't be bothered to look up the formulas right now), but it's certainly not bad!
I assume you must be in some kind of high-cost-of-living/rent-controlled area that skews your perspective...
No, the trick is not to sell every 5-7 years (and to buy right in the first place). You can move all you want, as long as the house you're moving out of and keeping makes a profitable rental.
That's part of the problem you didn't fully account for: one party wanted loans to be easier for marginally-qualified people to get, and the other party wanted to deregulate the banks. Each party thought the other's idea was bad. So what did they do? Instead of making the sane compromise and rejecting both ideas as bad, they made the insane compromise and accepted both! And of course, these sorts of insane compromises have become standard operating procedure: "should we reduce spending or raise taxes?" (Correct answer: "both." Actual answer: "neither!").
And of course, we're completely and utterly failing to hold politicians accountable for the insane compromises. I wish I knew what the solution was...
$ sudo emerge mozilla-firefox
That was pretty easy...
And you are falsely equating user-imposed restrictions with third-party-imposed restrictions, which makes all the difference in the world.
Like in little-league sports these days, that contest can have many "winners."
The Google Fit app on my smartphone can track my bicycling as well as my walking, so even if you roll it'll work!
That sounds like it's getting into a gray area to me, and that it's only been allowed to fly because (a) the "modification" was only for the purpose of data compression and was thus mechanical rather than creative (i.e., it did not change the nature of the work) so it could be considered Fair Use, and (b) copyright infringement is a tort, not a crime, so it requires the victim to sue and nobody's upset enough to do so.
No, inserting extra ads is modifying the content on behalf of someone other than the end user and doing so in a way that's arguably "creative," which makes all the difference.
No, it would not. Modifications of websites using Greasemonkey and Adblock are done by the end user, which means no distribution of the modified work has occurred and therefore copyright law does not apply. Using Greasemonkey or Adblock is conceptually no different than taking a black marker to (your own copy of) a magazine and scribbling out the stuff you don't want to see.
The only way to get LG to actually react would be for everyone affected to sue them individually in small-claims court (for the cost of the TV, plus court costs). Complaining anywhere other than a courtroom will get us nowhere, and going class-action just results in coupons for $10 off the next piece of privacy-destroying bullshit.
Of course! That's why they're all designed to work with the "cloud." Making it easy for Joe Dumbass to use without having to teach him how to set up his own server is only the excuse they tell "consumers;" the real reason they do it is for that sweet, sweet Big Data.
So the bare minimum of transparency required by FOIA is fine, but we should vilify people for going above and beyond? Fuck that noise!
Transparency is good; more transparency is better; and complete transparency is best.
I think publishing all the emails is fantastic! However, I think he needed to redact PII and notify senders that their message will be published.
Ethernet cables are bidirectional and full-duplex, so there is no separate "sender" and "receiver." Even if you do "only ground one side of the cable," then that means you need to ground half the wires on one end and the other half on the other. And even then, since Ethernet cables use TIA 568A on one side and 568B on the other, the "sending" wires occupy the same pins on each end, making the cable reversible.
Parallel construction is illegal even if there is a warrant, because the accused has a Constitutional right to face his accuser. Keeping the method of obtaining evidence secret is simply not allowed (at least, as long as the court itself is actually obeying the law).
Wouldn't it work the other way around, too? Stay in the US, but only do things that are a PITA to people in places like Russia or China?
Had the NSA not COMMITTED TREASON, Snowden would have never felt the need to blow the whistle.
So go fuck yourself. Or better yet, GTFO of the US and go to some fascist shithole where you belong.
Yes... but you should be doing your taxes with a spreadsheet and a PDF reader anyway, just because it works better.
Unless the name ends in an "r" without a vowel immediately proceeding it, nobody cares.
You sound like you're trying to defend the cybersquatter, but all you're really doing is condemning boards of directors too.
Speaking of which, have scientists ruled out the possibility that antibiotics killing off our "correct" gut flora caused the obesity in the first place?