"And if they were actually knowingly murdering innocent people then they should be condemned. But the fact is that you dont have all the facts, and yet you want desperately to see them all hanged along with the entire US military establishments. You casually ignore the attrocities commited around the world, many of which we have military might in place to help prevent."
And many of which US military helped to create in the first place.
"One day truly serious info will be released and cause the bad sort of trouble that will make the Rosenbergs look like common gossips."
Any half-competent engineer can build a gun-type nuclear weapon. Should we censor all information about U-235 neutron cross-section because of this? Or maybe require a government-issued license to read particle physics journals?
The fact of life: you need large industrial base to use any advanced technology. And only state-level actors have it.
"Only in the mind of someone who is an evil, selfish, deluded coward would shooting at people who are trying to help one's enemies be considered wrong."
You need to be shot, since you're helping terrorists. Seriously.
"The additional cost of code review for outsourced work also doesn't cover the cost of giving away your source code for free. That outsourced company also has a free copy of your code that they can now incorporate in other projects and on sell."
This usually is not true. I'm the owner of a small outsourcing company in Ukraine. Most of our customers have widely different requirements, so code reuse is fairly small. I don't recall reusing ANY code between outsourced projects (apart from small additions to our utility libraries).
"Plus tech workers are well informed workers, underpaid third world tech workers, know full well they are dramatically underpaid third world tech workers, this does not put them in the right frame of mind for declaring and cleaning up all possibly exploitable security faults. "
That's not correct as well. I pay my workers a fair salary, and they know it. We also have a code review policy and we even can give you a guarantee that there won't be major security flaws in our software (and you're welcome to ask a third-party of your choice to audit our code).
We're a bit more OCD about security and quality than most of other outsourcing companies here, but still you'll generally get a fair deal if the price is OK. Of course, if you pay $5 per hour - you'll get exactly what you pay for.
Also, I know a bit about Georgia and now I really think about relocating there. Corruption there has lowered dramatically since the 2000-s. Their president might chew ties and try to wage a land war in Asia, but at least he knows how to fight corruption.
"Historical allegory aside, my intent was actually more to point out the fallacy of couchslug's professing to have a handle on the "true Muslim character". What is the "true Muslim character"?"
A Muslim who is in the process of beheading an infidel?
"What is the "true Christian character"? "
A Christian who is in the process of burning a heretic?
Look, the problem is not that Christianity is somehow better. The problem is that Christianity has learned (somewhat) to live in peace with the modern civilization. Islam has not learned it and actively drags everything back into the stone age.
"I'm not saying what they did was right, only that it was a mistake (and thus not 'murder')."
No way it was a mistake.
I served in the military and I know these type. I can assure you that they did not think about Geneva conventions or if the civilians were insurgents. They just wanted to get a few kills.
This mindtype is pretty typical. For example, I've encountered it in streetracers. They won't hit pedestrians intentionally (i.e. won't shoot civilians), but moving at 200km/h on the streets is criminal in itself (shooting without taking precautions to reliably ID civilians) and quite likely to cause deaths of innocent people.
"I'm pretty sure the Geneva convention allows for the shooting of enemy combatants (which the guys with AK47s and RPGs seemed to be), while civilians who are interspersed with armed combatants aren't able to be distinguished quickly or easily without something saying "Press" or similar, which they didn't have."
Interfering with evacuation of wounded most certainly conflicts with the Geneva convention. As well as shooting non-uniformed people.
US army keeps telling that militants do not receive POW treatment because they are not uniformed. Yet they do not treat non-uniformed people as civilians and shoot first.
So, pilots have not shot everybody in sight. They should get a medal! And while you're at it, let's also give this award to Osama bin-Laden, because he haven't killed anyone since the 9/11.
In fact, I should get one too because I'm not shooting anyone.
"All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by the."
HTML5 doesn't have support for good animated vector graphics. Sorry, you won't be able to replicated BadgersBadgers in HTML5 without horrendous CPU consumption.
"Um, what? The whole point of GC is that you don't have to mark references as used or unused, you simply either have them or not. The only way that could fail is if you held a pointer pointing directly to a table entry or something."
Wrong. You have to mark a reference as 'used' if it's passed to a non-GC-aware code.
For example, if you attach a reference to a GC-ed structure to an object which is not scanned by a GC you'll definitely get an error when GC collects this object.
And there are other more subtle failure modes (like saving a last reference to the object on a stack variable and triggering GC by allocating another object).
And there's even more fun if you use a compacting GC:)
In practice, a lot of garbage collectors collect _some_ unreferenced memory depending on a lot of factors.
Also, don't forget about bugs caused by improper GC usage (like failing to mark reference as used). This has nothing to do with GC but detection of these bugs might be greatly complicated by a non-deterministic GC.
Some parts of ID can be treated as real scientific theories. For example, ID makes a prediction that large irreducibly complex systems can't be created by evolution.
This prediction, of course, is not correct - it's quite possible to evolve irreducibly complex systems from reducibly complex systems.
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"And if they were actually knowingly murdering innocent people then they should be condemned. But the fact is that you dont have all the facts, and yet you want desperately to see them all hanged along with the entire US military establishments. You casually ignore the attrocities commited around the world, many of which we have military might in place to help prevent."
And many of which US military helped to create in the first place.
"Subterfuge prevents outright war"
And what if it turns out that US is actively fomenting wars? Would it be OK to reveal US spy networks in this case?
"One day truly serious info will be released and cause the bad sort of trouble that will make the Rosenbergs look like common gossips."
Any half-competent engineer can build a gun-type nuclear weapon. Should we censor all information about U-235 neutron cross-section because of this? Or maybe require a government-issued license to read particle physics journals?
The fact of life: you need large industrial base to use any advanced technology. And only state-level actors have it.
"Only in the mind of someone who is an evil, selfish, deluded coward would shooting at people who are trying to help one's enemies be considered wrong."
You need to be shot, since you're helping terrorists. Seriously.
[citation needed]
It's working. Battery capacity is increasing, albeit slowly.
It doubles every 5-7 years.
"The additional cost of code review for outsourced work also doesn't cover the cost of giving away your source code for free. That outsourced company also has a free copy of your code that they can now incorporate in other projects and on sell."
This usually is not true. I'm the owner of a small outsourcing company in Ukraine. Most of our customers have widely different requirements, so code reuse is fairly small. I don't recall reusing ANY code between outsourced projects (apart from small additions to our utility libraries).
"Plus tech workers are well informed workers, underpaid third world tech workers, know full well they are dramatically underpaid third world tech workers, this does not put them in the right frame of mind for declaring and cleaning up all possibly exploitable security faults. "
That's not correct as well. I pay my workers a fair salary, and they know it. We also have a code review policy and we even can give you a guarantee that there won't be major security flaws in our software (and you're welcome to ask a third-party of your choice to audit our code).
We're a bit more OCD about security and quality than most of other outsourcing companies here, but still you'll generally get a fair deal if the price is OK. Of course, if you pay $5 per hour - you'll get exactly what you pay for.
Also, I know a bit about Georgia and now I really think about relocating there. Corruption there has lowered dramatically since the 2000-s. Their president might chew ties and try to wage a land war in Asia, but at least he knows how to fight corruption.
Easy solution: store entrails of the last king/priest (whichever comes first) in liquid nitrogen and thaw them before use.
That is an example of a very unfocused laser :)
WTF? 40 watt CO2 laser will instantly make a hole in you.
Unless it was VERY unfocused.
" If the problem was with nudity every person shown in an app should be wearing a burqa."
Don't worry, that's going to be added to the next update of the Little Red Book of the restrictions.
"Historical allegory aside, my intent was actually more to point out the fallacy of couchslug's professing to have a handle on the "true Muslim character". What is the "true Muslim character"?"
A Muslim who is in the process of beheading an infidel?
"What is the "true Christian character"? "
A Christian who is in the process of burning a heretic?
Look, the problem is not that Christianity is somehow better. The problem is that Christianity has learned (somewhat) to live in peace with the modern civilization. Islam has not learned it and actively drags everything back into the stone age.
"I'm not saying what they did was right, only that it was a mistake (and thus not 'murder')."
No way it was a mistake.
I served in the military and I know these type. I can assure you that they did not think about Geneva conventions or if the civilians were insurgents. They just wanted to get a few kills.
This mindtype is pretty typical. For example, I've encountered it in streetracers. They won't hit pedestrians intentionally (i.e. won't shoot civilians), but moving at 200km/h on the streets is criminal in itself (shooting without taking precautions to reliably ID civilians) and quite likely to cause deaths of innocent people.
"I'm pretty sure the Geneva convention allows for the shooting of enemy combatants (which the guys with AK47s and RPGs seemed to be), while civilians who are interspersed with armed combatants aren't able to be distinguished quickly or easily without something saying "Press" or similar, which they didn't have."
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Article_3
Interfering with evacuation of wounded most certainly conflicts with the Geneva convention. As well as shooting non-uniformed people.
US army keeps telling that militants do not receive POW treatment because they are not uniformed. Yet they do not treat non-uniformed people as civilians and shoot first.
Disgusting.
So, should we give a get-of-the-jail-free card to anyone who don't shoot children?
WTF is wrong with you, people? Since when following Geneva conventions is considered anything but normal?
So, pilots have not shot everybody in sight. They should get a medal! And while you're at it, let's also give this award to Osama bin-Laden, because he haven't killed anyone since the 9/11.
In fact, I should get one too because I'm not shooting anyone.
That's not an exact BSD license...
Advertising clause looks like:
"All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software ."
must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by the
You're thinking about the 3-clause BSD license. Which is not used in this case.
Also 3-clause BSD is compatible with GPL3.
How so?
AMD's offer is real, it uses a real performant GPU, not a GMA joke. Larrabee is stil vapourware, and it will be for a long time.
HTML5 doesn't have support for good animated vector graphics. Sorry, you won't be able to replicated BadgersBadgers in HTML5 without horrendous CPU consumption.
Waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting. Done!
Hm. HTML5 sites are still slow.
Flash has really good model for _animated_ vector graphics. HTML5 Canvas doesn't even come close, no matter how you optimize it.
"Um, what? The whole point of GC is that you don't have to mark references as used or unused, you simply either have them or not. The only way that could fail is if you held a pointer pointing directly to a table entry or something."
Wrong. You have to mark a reference as 'used' if it's passed to a non-GC-aware code.
For example, if you attach a reference to a GC-ed structure to an object which is not scanned by a GC you'll definitely get an error when GC collects this object.
And there are other more subtle failure modes (like saving a last reference to the object on a stack variable and triggering GC by allocating another object).
And there's even more fun if you use a compacting GC :)
In theory.
In practice, a lot of garbage collectors collect _some_ unreferenced memory depending on a lot of factors.
Also, don't forget about bugs caused by improper GC usage (like failing to mark reference as used). This has nothing to do with GC but detection of these bugs might be greatly complicated by a non-deterministic GC.
Yes, I completely agree.
I can't really remember other testable predictions of ID (aside from 'bunnies in Devonian layer').
Playing devil's advocate.
Some parts of ID can be treated as real scientific theories. For example, ID makes a prediction that large irreducibly complex systems can't be created by evolution.
This prediction, of course, is not correct - it's quite possible to evolve irreducibly complex systems from reducibly complex systems.