Canada does have software engineers. The difference is that you can't just decide to call yourself a software engineer without having the proper credentials. Just like you can't call yourself a doctor if you aren't a doctor.
First part right, analogy wrong. In Canada, the term "engineer" is an official mark and protected by the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers which require qualifications including a degree from an institution accredited by them. Doctoral degrees (i.e. PhD) need not be accredited by anyone, so anyone can issue degrees to people who can then call themselves "Doctor". For example, the Universal Life Church issues Doctorates for $35 if you read their book and pass a test on it.
As an ex-underage Leisure Suit Larry player, I've wondered whether the game was really adult oriented, or was just a subtle attempt to teach kids recent history.
I prefer the Quantum version, similar to the Quantum Bogosort Algorithm:
1. Initiate connection as usual 2. When it is time to download, you tell me how big the file is 3. I send you 64 KB of data. 4. You tell me if my guess (taken as a 64k digit binary number) is right or wrong.
1. If I'm right, we move on to the next block of data.
2.If I'm wrong, I destroy the universe. 5. Done!
A method of destroying the universe is left as an exercise for the reader.
Any one who believes religion is blocking science has clearly paid more attention to the 1% of the time when it has instead of the 99% of the time it hasn't.
Yeah, just like how the courts seem to pay more attention to the 1% of the time that the serial murderer was killing people, instead of the 99% of the time he wasn't.
And what, exactly, are you doing to help the situation that entitles you to drive him off the fucking road for doing his part and encouraging you to do yours? Based on your overly defensive response, I'd guess nothing.
P.S. I'd be interested to see a reference to support your claim that there isn't enough land to to eliminate OPEC imports. And that would ignores algae-based sources anyhow.
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The point is that for a behaviour to be ethical, it has to remain realistic if everyone in society did choose to act the same way.
Sorry, that definition of ethical is ridiculous. I don't want to be a garbageman, but it wouldn't be realistic if everyone in society also chose not to be a garbageman. Are you saying that my only ethical choice is to be a garbageman?
Almost everything you do would be unrealistic if everyone chose to do the same.
Is there a technical reason why there have never really been x86 microcontrollers? RISC chips are readily available at reasonable speeds for $1-$20. Even ignoring A/D functionality, why can't I buy a one-chip floating point x86 number-cruncher for my embedded applications that can match my laptop?
Secretary of State: We were thinking, what could be a bigger threat than aliens invading from space? General Panzer: Ooh boy! Scare the shit out of everyone. Even me, sir! U.S. President: Jesus, is this the best you could come up with? What about, ya know, international terrorism? General Panzer: Well, sir, we're not going to re-open missile factories just to fight some creeps running around in exploding rental cars, are we, sir?
many of this subset of JPL employees specifically elected years ago not to work with classified material because they didn't want to go through the clearance processes
I think we must demand that the government determine exactly what these obviously guilty people are hiding!
But No.6/Bunker-C is all the residual shit that can't be used for anything else. It'll get burnt somewhere, somehow. Refiners will find a way to sell it.
Right on. It's like people who drink milk but refuse to eat meat. Or won't use glue made from animal parts.
This is exactly what I would proclaim if I was able to decrypt the traffic and want users to think that I couldn't. Maybe not all whatever terrorists would fall for this but some would.
But then again, maybe they're smarter than this. Maybe they really can't break it. But they want you to think they can break it, so they tell you they can't, because they know terrorists (and slashdotters) always expect the government to try and mislead them. Great way to undermine confidence in Skype in circles of suspicious users, without causing problems for the regular users. You obviously fell for it:-)
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, only slightly less well known, is this: never go up against a German when encryption is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha -- thud
I have an almost-obsolete AP that I use for my public AP and a different (protected) one that I use for my own use that is connected to my LAN. I wouldn't be surprised if you could hack the almost-free Fon routers to do this in one unit, since they come with two separate SSIDs.
Communication between machines is not communication with their owners.
Do you have an case law to back this up? You may be technically correct that a non-person cannot give permission, but a non-person can certainly communicate this type of information. E.g. "Free" sign on the couch in the front lawn, proxy ebay bidding, form letters or faxes, automatic payroll, etc
And before you say, "but the owner didn't know what the machine was communicating," I think that would be a civil matter between the AP owner and the AP producer. An analogy would be a blind person who thought he was buying a "For Sale" sign for the couch on the lawn and the shopkeeper gave him a "Free" sign. If I loaded his couch up, I might have to give it back, but there would certainly be no criminal charges against me. And it wouldn't matter if I was out looking for free couches "in a neighborhood where you had no acquaintances, no obvious reason for being there".
P.S. My public AP is the basement of a private home.
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You can call yourself a doctor, but that doesn't mean you can perform surgery.
Here is a related cartoon.
As an ex-underage Leisure Suit Larry player, I've wondered whether the game was really adult oriented, or was just a subtle attempt to teach kids recent history.
I prefer the Quantum version, similar to the Quantum Bogosort Algorithm:
1. Initiate connection as usual
2. When it is time to download, you tell me how big the file is
3. I send you 64 KB of data.
4. You tell me if my guess (taken as a 64k digit binary number) is right or wrong.
1. If I'm right, we move on to the next block of data.
2.If I'm wrong, I destroy the universe.
5. Done!
A method of destroying the universe is left as an exercise for the reader.
That is 100% awesome. I wondered how many of those translations were wrong. Subtle humour is always better.
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P.S. I'd be interested to see a reference to support your claim that there isn't enough land to to eliminate OPEC imports. And that would ignores algae-based sources anyhow.
Almost everything you do would be unrealistic if everyone chose to do the same.
Yeah, this is the first Christmas I remember that no-one in my family gave or received a CD. I did get concert tickets, though...
Is there a technical reason why there have never really been x86 microcontrollers? RISC chips are readily available at reasonable speeds for $1-$20. Even ignoring A/D functionality, why can't I buy a one-chip floating point x86 number-cruncher for my embedded applications that can match my laptop?
I'd say that the employee should be fired AND the owner of the computer should be punished.
Secretary of State: We were thinking, what could be a bigger threat than aliens invading from space?
General Panzer: Ooh boy! Scare the shit out of everyone. Even me, sir!
U.S. President: Jesus, is this the best you could come up with? What about, ya know, international terrorism?
General Panzer: Well, sir, we're not going to re-open missile factories just to fight some creeps running around in exploding rental cars, are we, sir?
PETA must hear of this! This enslavement and torture of living organisms must end now!
Same on Matlab and Octave.
I'm surprised your neighbor noticed it at all. I'd assume (s)he would just connect to the remaining "linksys" network and not notice the difference.
I have an almost-obsolete AP that I use for my public AP and a different (protected) one that I use for my own use that is connected to my LAN. I wouldn't be surprised if you could hack the almost-free Fon routers to do this in one unit, since they come with two separate SSIDs.
And before you say, "but the owner didn't know what the machine was communicating," I think that would be a civil matter between the AP owner and the AP producer. An analogy would be a blind person who thought he was buying a "For Sale" sign for the couch on the lawn and the shopkeeper gave him a "Free" sign. If I loaded his couch up, I might have to give it back, but there would certainly be no criminal charges against me. And it wouldn't matter if I was out looking for free couches "in a neighborhood where you had no acquaintances, no obvious reason for being there".
P.S. My public AP is the basement of a private home.