Why shouldn't I be able to contribute a photo to Wiki without also granting people permission to sell it as a poster?
If I print a book, and then leave it on a park bench, someone is free to come along, collect it, and sell it, without me receiving any money. If I wish to control the distribution of my books so that I make money when they are sold, then I had better not leave them lying around on park benches.
OK, OK, let's clarify something. The UK Govt. did not send this waste to Brazil - if they had it would have ended up in Borneo, but I digress - a private company did.
Yes, there are rules about this sort of thing, but they are actually relatively difficult to enforce.
The fact is that some private company in Brazil, probably owned at least in part, by some very senior Brazilian officials, contracted to receive this waste, knowing full well what it contained. They got busted, and of course, claimed innocence.
"Medical waste, Oh, we thought it was Medical paste, WTF, send this stuff back !"
It's some kind of weird corruption of "may god grant you prosperity", and doesn't actually convey the common usage of "good luck, I hope you make it home", even though it's used that way now.
...I guess the insignificant problems of clean water and clean air, safe roads and reliable electricity can wait, as long as some idiotic solution to a non-extant problem can be pursued !
Sorry I can't be bothered to find the appropriate links to back me up, please see some of my previous posts on the miserable state of infrastructure in India.
Meaningful whitespace would make it easier to read.
My point about Python exactly.
I can add pleasant looking whitespace to this code, and change the way it behaves. If I choose to indent some parts, but not others, it doesn't do what I would expect. That's just dumb !
// iterate through y as long as y doesn't equal x, incrementing y with each iteration // if y equals x, (as a result of the last increment), decrement y, otherwise, continue the loop. // this is an infinite loop under c++ (I think, I might have had too much wine)
int x = 0;
int y = -1;
for( ; x != y;++y)
if( x == y )
y--;
continue;
Although I don't know Python well, I'm pretty sure this would not behave the way it would under c++.
"If you're like 99% of the decent programmers out there, whitespace is already meaningful in your code."
hmm... Let's see, here's a (somewhat) random snippet of a library I'm working on now, see all the significant whitespace ?
unsigned int exchange_id = a_response.getUInt16( fid_exchange_id ); const char* country = a_response.getChar( fid_country );
const Exchange* exchange = resolveExchange( exchange_id, country );
prod = new Product(name, currency, exchange, exchange_contract_id, Product::MNEMONIC);
The only meaningful whitespace is one space character between each token, all the other whitespace is there to make it easier to read, and not in any way meaningful to the compiler. I could just as easily formatted it with a single space between each token, and not put the constructor arguments on separate lines, but then it would me more difficult to read. The compiler would produce the exact same code, though.
Whitespace does indeed serve a purpose in my language, it separates tokens, nothing more. The amount of whitespace I use to separate tokens is completely up to me, and that's sensible, and gives me plenty of flexibility.
It depends on how you define !=. In Python, 1 == 1, and 1 == 1.0, but 1 != True, and 1 != "1". In PHP, however, 1 == 1, 1 == 1.0, 1 == True, and 1 == "1" (in fact, 0 == any string that can't be converted to an integer), but there is another pair of operators === and !== that strictly compare both value and type: 1 === 1, 1 !== True, and 1 !== "1" like in Python, but also 1 !== 1.0.
That's why Python sucks - well that and the asinine "significant white space" concept, and the other reasons too.
...I'm supposed to care about the comments of the guy who wrote Facebook ?
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah !At least google needed to actually engineer their solution, but Facebook, come on ! The next time I need to write a PHP script for displaying photos and text, I'll hire my 13 year old daughter.
Yes, the U.S. can learn sooo much from India; how to provide clean drinking water to the masses, how to feed and cloth the masses, how to provide reliable electricity to the masses.
I think Vineet Nayar would do well to begin with these issues in his home country before he makes stupid criticism of the U.S. education system, which while certainly having difficulties, is still the destination of choice for Indian undergraduate, and graduate students wishing to study abroad. Or is that just a coincidence ?
Besides, if it weren't for the Hi-B visa scams played out by many Indian companies, the US education system would still be producing plenty of top quality CS/IT grads, but as long as India continues to immorally take advantage of our generosity, and send their wage slaves over here to actually complete their education On-The-Job, at our expense, he can pretty much STFU.
I can't think of a single Indian I have worked with who knew shit when he arrived other than that he better work his ass off for crap wages before his visa expired in the hopes of learning enough to be able to stay here, rather than return home to his shit-hole of a country with little hope of getting anywhere near the same standard of living.
What a load of non-sense. I moved to Germany only three months ago, and have a cell phone, phone line, and high speed internet, all arranged within about a week of my arrival. I don't eat cereal, but if you go to the bigger supermarkets, they stock just about every brand of cereal I have seen in the US.
From the blurb: This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable.
They have found a bug in the protection mechanism which prevents the type of exploit of which you talk.
Slashdot Mirror
See where I'm going with this?
No
Yeah, right. The fact it shipped is proof that this is clearly NOT the case. Maybe, just maybe, the contents weren't accurately described.
.....
Hmm.. we're not allowed to ship medical waste. Maybe I'LL just describe what we're shipping, without referring to it's condition.
Shipping Manifest: 1.) Sanitary Napkins
2.) Disposable Diapers
3.) Prophylactics
4.) Hypodermic Syringes
Easy, eh ?
Why shouldn't I be able to contribute a photo to Wiki without also granting people permission to sell it as a poster?
If I print a book, and then leave it on a park bench, someone is free to come along, collect it, and sell it, without me receiving any money. If I wish to control the distribution of my books so that I make money when they are sold, then I had better not leave them lying around on park benches.
You can't have your cake and eat it too !
OK, OK, let's clarify something. The UK Govt. did not send this waste to Brazil - if they had it would have ended up in Borneo, but I digress - a private company did.
Yes, there are rules about this sort of thing, but they are actually relatively difficult to enforce.
The fact is that some private company in Brazil, probably owned at least in part, by some very senior Brazilian officials, contracted to receive this waste, knowing full well what it contained. They got busted, and of course, claimed innocence.
"Medical waste, Oh, we thought it was Medical paste, WTF, send this stuff back !"
It's some kind of weird corruption of "may god grant you prosperity", and doesn't actually convey the common usage of "good luck, I hope you make it home", even though it's used that way now.
Besides it sounds insincere, and schmaltzy.
... DO NOT POST a "God Speed" message.
This is one colloquialism that deserves to die.
Except that a lot of the sound comes from the propellers alone.
What pin-dick modded this as flame bait ?
...I guess the insignificant problems of clean water and clean air, safe roads and reliable electricity can wait, as long as some idiotic solution to a non-extant problem can be pursued !
Sorry I can't be bothered to find the appropriate links to back me up, please see some of my previous posts on the miserable state of infrastructure in India.
Meaningful whitespace would make it easier to read. My point about Python exactly.
I can add pleasant looking whitespace to this code, and change the way it behaves. If I choose to indent some parts, but not others, it doesn't do what I would expect. That's just dumb !
It is a breathtakingly awesome sport ...
Yawn.
Yep, it takes my breath away, and sends me to sleep, every time I see it or hear it mentioned.
// iterate through y as long as y doesn't equal x, incrementing y with each iteration
// if y equals x, (as a result of the last increment), decrement y, otherwise, continue the loop.
// this is an infinite loop under c++ (I think, I might have had too much wine)
int x = 0; int y = -1; for( ; x != y;++y)
if( x == y )
y--;
continue;
Although I don't know Python well, I'm pretty sure this would not behave the way it would under c++.
"If you're like 99% of the decent programmers out there, whitespace is already meaningful in your code."
hmm... Let's see, here's a (somewhat) random snippet of a library I'm working on now, see all the significant whitespace ?
unsigned int exchange_id = a_response.getUInt16( fid_exchange_id );
const char* country = a_response.getChar( fid_country );
const Exchange* exchange = resolveExchange( exchange_id, country );
prod = new Product(name,
currency,
exchange,
exchange_contract_id,
Product::MNEMONIC);
The only meaningful whitespace is one space character between each token, all the other whitespace is there to make it easier to read, and not in any way meaningful to the compiler. I could just as easily formatted it with a single space between each token, and not put the constructor arguments on separate lines, but then it would me more difficult to read. The compiler would produce the exact same code, though.
Whitespace does indeed serve a purpose in my language, it separates tokens, nothing more. The amount of whitespace I use to separate tokens is completely up to me, and that's sensible, and gives me plenty of flexibility.
It depends on how you define !=. In Python, 1 == 1, and 1 == 1.0, but 1 != True, and 1 != "1". In PHP, however, 1 == 1, 1 == 1.0, 1 == True, and 1 == "1" (in fact, 0 == any string that can't be converted to an integer), but there is another pair of operators === and !== that strictly compare both value and type: 1 === 1, 1 !== True, and 1 !== "1" like in Python, but also 1 !== 1.0.
That's why Python sucks - well that and the asinine "significant white space" concept, and the other reasons too.
Go ahead, flame me, I don't care.
...I'm supposed to care about the comments of the guy who wrote Facebook ?
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah !At least google needed to actually engineer their solution, but Facebook, come on ! The next time I need to write a PHP script for displaying photos and text, I'll hire my 13 year old daughter.
Just testing you. D'Oh ! I did know that, but I was still a bit hung over when I posted previously.
"English units"
Or you could refer to the US system by it's correct name, Avoirdupois
Nobody did
Yes, the U.S. can learn sooo much from India; how to provide clean drinking water to the masses, how to feed and cloth the masses, how to provide reliable electricity to the masses.
I think Vineet Nayar would do well to begin with these issues in his home country before he makes stupid criticism of the U.S. education system, which while certainly having difficulties, is still the destination of choice for Indian undergraduate, and graduate students wishing to study abroad. Or is that just a coincidence ?
Besides, if it weren't for the Hi-B visa scams played out by many Indian companies, the US education system would still be producing plenty of top quality CS/IT grads, but as long as India continues to immorally take advantage of our generosity, and send their wage slaves over here to actually complete their education On-The-Job, at our expense, he can pretty much STFU.
I can't think of a single Indian I have worked with who knew shit when he arrived other than that he better work his ass off for crap wages before his visa expired in the hopes of learning enough to be able to stay here, rather than return home to his shit-hole of a country with little hope of getting anywhere near the same standard of living.
That's a full time job ?
What do you do for the other 240 work days in the year ?
WTF is an image design Subject Matter Expert ?
Warning, Warning, a new Buzzword has been detected. Warning, Warning......
What a load of non-sense. I moved to Germany only three months ago, and have a cell phone, phone line, and high speed internet, all arranged within about a week of my arrival. I don't eat cereal, but if you go to the bigger supermarkets, they stock just about every brand of cereal I have seen in the US.
Stop your whining, and get a life.
Anything and everything POTUS does is business, not pleasure.
...your Democratic Republic of Germany; move along, nothing to see here.
From the blurb: This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable.
They have found a bug in the protection mechanism which prevents the type of exploit of which you talk.