COBOL lives by its DATA DIVISION. That's where the magic happens.
And good COBOL can be written like unix, small modules that do one thing well. It just needs a humungous job scheduler to lace them together into a production system.
Been there, done that, fixed it for Y2K. -- You can trust me -- I'm from the Internet.
You know, if Google routed all communications from the US government to be opened by employees of its Antiguan subsidiary, for security reasons, of course, they could be indexed and be searchable (using google.ag).
And archived on Wikileaks, although TPB would be good, too. -- Pray for Mercy, ask for Justice, experience Law. We're screwed.
There is every reason to expect them NOT to apply to real robots.
Each of Asimov's robot stories tells how scrupulous adherance to the three laws leads to an unplanned, unexpected, undesired effect. The real world is made up mostly of edge cases. -- Dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path.
CONSPIRACY to commit a no-no. -- Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu
100 watts at 5 Volts is 20 Amps. That requires a lot of copper. Well, not near a car engine, but it sure bulks up your laptop shoulder bag. -- You don't need fancy theories to explain why every other object in the universe is fleeing from us.
Welcome to the target rich environment. -- Sometimes it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
When the inventor can't easily explain what the best uses for their invention are, it's a safe bet there really aren't any THAT THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT.
Now all we need is genetically engineered plants using something 10 times as efficient as chlorophyll that yields ethanol instead of sugar. And lives/grows/propagates while drunk.
Cancel the 'plant' part. I might volunteer for the transmogrifying virus.
All hail Dionysus. Who thought HE would solve our energy crisis? -- What happened to Hope? Buried between her sisters, Faith and Charity.
This is actually a common things in academic journals. When I publish a paper, I have the "opportunity" of making the paper "open access" by paying some amount of money. It is a fairly standard practice.
Standard, yes. Fairly, not so much. Where does the word "thieves" best fit in here? -- Maybe this hell is another planet's heaven. Heaven help them.
You get paid to struggle with broken failing systems. All of the projects/systems I have ever been paid to struggle with have eventually failed. The managers went on the better, richer failing projects. I took the money and moved on.
In the long run almost everything fails. If the last invoice was paid and the cheque cleared, it was a personal victory.
Entropy is a nice word to stick in here somewhere. -- It was a dark and drunken night. Four shots called out -- drink me.
If the government really wanted to stop them, after SWAT failure, they could block their payment pathways. It might not stop the generators from powering the servers, but it would focus the attention of those who benefit financially from the activity. -- I have seen evil... in a mirror.
"I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'" -- Boswell: Life of Johnson -- You can trust me -- I'm from the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Put the data online. Let anyone search or copy it. That would give some hope of detecting modifications.
And end more that a few marriages.
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If you do nothing more than not take my advice, you will better your life almost immediately.
Ah, Google Glass -- what a boon to rhinoplasty!
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Eisenhower's nightmare has come true.
Yes, the PROCEDURE DIVISION looks clunky.
COBOL lives by its DATA DIVISION. That's where the magic happens.
And good COBOL can be written like unix, small modules that do one thing well.
It just needs a humungous job scheduler to lace them together into a production system.
Been there, done that, fixed it for Y2K.
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You can trust me -- I'm from the Internet.
Hi, Mom!
and don't forget to wave.
You know, if Google routed all communications from the US government to be opened by employees of its Antiguan subsidiary, for security reasons, of course, they could be indexed and be searchable (using google.ag).
And archived on Wikileaks, although TPB would be good, too.
--
Pray for Mercy, ask for Justice, experience Law. We're screwed.
There is every reason to expect them NOT to apply to real robots.
Each of Asimov's robot stories tells how scrupulous adherance to the three laws leads to an unplanned, unexpected, undesired effect. The real world is made up mostly of edge cases.
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Dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path.
CONSPIRACY to commit a no-no.
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu
Expecting people to read? In US state schools?
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That is the dumbest thing I've heard since breakfast, which puts it in with some stiff competition.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. -- Samuel Johnson
Just what we want to look forward to, fluorine to melt your bones before the radiation could damage them.
No radiation problem at all.
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Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
100 watts at 5 Volts is 20 Amps. That requires a lot of copper. Well, not near a car engine, but it sure bulks up your laptop shoulder bag.
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You don't need fancy theories to explain why every other object in the universe is fleeing from us.
Welcome to the target rich environment.
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Sometimes it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
and sleep with the sword?
[Hint: it's supposed to be a "Magic Goes Away" joke]
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The cloud is the new floppy disk.
Nothing new to see here. Move along, velocity unchanged.
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You don't need a PC to be a dog on the internet anymore.
Shirley, you mean rare ASTEROID minerals?
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Proudly posting from Lynx (not)
For large values of 'only'.
Perhaps the interviewees were being civil to a dyslexic pollster who clearly couldn't fill in a form, even for money.
When the inventor can't easily explain what the best uses for their invention are, it's a safe bet there really aren't any THAT THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT.
Just the thing I need when I almost need a tire changed.
Perhaps you might have meant:
Just the thing I need when I need a tire almost changed.
Or not.
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Maybe this hell is another planet's heaven. Heaven help them.
Now all we need is genetically engineered plants using something 10 times as efficient as chlorophyll that yields ethanol instead of sugar. And lives/grows/propagates while drunk.
Cancel the 'plant' part. I might volunteer for the transmogrifying virus.
All hail Dionysus. Who thought HE would solve our energy crisis?
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What happened to Hope? Buried between her sisters, Faith and Charity.
Traffic analysis. It isn't always what you say, just who you say it to.
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Maybe this hell is another planet's heaven. Heaven help them.
This is actually a common things in academic journals. When I publish a paper, I have the "opportunity" of making the paper "open access" by paying some amount of money. It is a fairly standard practice.
Standard, yes. Fairly, not so much. Where does the word "thieves" best fit in here?
--
Maybe this hell is another planet's heaven. Heaven help them.
You get paid to struggle with broken failing systems. All of the projects/systems I have ever been paid to struggle with have eventually failed. The managers went on the better, richer failing projects. I took the money and moved on.
In the long run almost everything fails. If the last invoice was paid and the cheque cleared, it was a personal victory.
Entropy is a nice word to stick in here somewhere.
--
It was a dark and drunken night. Four shots called out -- drink me.
If the government really wanted to stop them, after SWAT failure, they could block their payment pathways. It might not stop the generators from powering the servers, but it would focus the attention of those who benefit financially from the activity. ... in a mirror.
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I have seen evil
"I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'" -- Boswell: Life of Johnson
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You can trust me -- I'm from the Internet.