I'm confused, I thought the US was proud of its ability to make "surgical strikes".
Strikes on a surgeon? Strikes on a surgery room? Strikes that open a person up and rearrange their insides into the desired state (dead)? All I know is, it was definitely an operation.
Parallel construction doesn't mean using a word wrongly.
However, whenever an incredible "trust me, I found this by coincidence" occurs, it's quite possible that they actually found it from a source they don't care to admit.
On a similar note, we should provide food and housing to the homeless. It shouldn't cost more than $10,000 to feed and house a person, probably much less. I've heard that the current system costs $250,000 per homeless person, so doing this would save $240,000 per person helped. We do already provide free food and housing, although through a very complicated and expensive and inconvenient system: * Free ride to the nearest hospital: just call an ambulance. In many places, they can't refuse. Cost to us, $1,000. * Free short term food and housing: a hospital stay, must go through Emergency Room. $500-$1,000 for the visit, more if they stay. Also, they'll be ahead of you and you'll have to wait half an hour to get treated. Some of them will actually injure themselves instead of faking it, and that costs even more. See here for ER folks venting to stay sane, a lot of them are about homeless people. * Free long-term food and housing: Commit crime, go to jail, get food and warm bed. Cost ~$100,000 per year, plus court costs. Decent winter accommodations. * Petty crime to acquire food and accommodations (see if anyone would hire a homeless person).
Note that you're already paying for all this, whether you like it or not -- through taxes, through higher hospital bills, through crime and its results. Man up and cut out the middleman, and everyone will be happier.
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down?
The wizard would instantly cause multiple power vacuums, which will be immediately and violently exploited. Suddenly, the police, the army, security guards, and rival gangs would no longer have guns. Feeble people switch from "probably defenseless" to "definitely defenseless". Assuming the power vacuum resolves to a similar situation as we have now, the rate of homicide would increase because being robbed at knifepoint is far more dangerous than being robbed at gunpoint.
Put those four out of business and you've pretty much solved the problem of patent trolls.
Put those four out of business, and all you do is postpone fixing our clearly broken patent system. You want to solve patent trolling, stop the patent office from rubber-stamping the stupidest most general patents.
If the NSA cared, they'd already have a much more accurate database of people's opinions of each other/events/proposals, by running automated algorithms for positive/negative opinions of those mentioned in Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Bah, I'll use the opportunity to slander the Queen of England, her PR manager, and her lawyer. And rate the Prophet Mohammad, Jesus, and black people in general. Using the name of someone I don't like as a pen name. If Peeple can't handle a simple thing like that, they won't be able to handle the much subtler (and much much worse) abuse that will be endemic to that system.
(And finally, for the sake of all the wannabe lawyers, I never actually made that review, I only said that it would be my first review. It's like saying "I'd like to rob that bank over there and someday I'll do it." As far as I know those aren't actionable statements.)
Go on, advance from libel/slander to conspiracy to rob a bank. Would you like a backhoe so you can dig faster?
To play devil's advocate, what's the legal basis for "crucifying" an app like this?
To me it seems like the perfect time to deny a request to incorporate into a "we'll suck a boatload of cash out of this and escape with no personal liability once the inevitable lawsuits commence" corporation.
Also, virtually guaranteed that the website gets corrupt, probably something along the lines of allowing bad reviews to expire after a year if you pay them (but not the good ones). Decent odds that the creator participates in the corruption only "indirectly" by selling the rights for $BIGNUM without including a restriction against corruption as part of the sale (because that would ruin the price).
Adblock doesn't block all ads, bribed to let ads thru from Microsoft, Google, Amazon not doing the 1 job it had anymore by default and the advertisers behind it know most people won't change that default setting.
1) That's AdblockPlus, which is made by a different group 2) There's plenty good reasons to allow "acceptable" ads by default, and if you don't like it turn it off.
One of the great strengths of GNU/Linux is its diversity. Like biological life, it is constantly changing, morphing and becoming something new. And also like biological life, constantly changing helps protect against "bad stuff".
You're confusing evolution with Intelligent Design. Constantly changing, even randomly, is a valid way to outwit a slowly evolving creature -- but for software, it means constantly risking the introduction of new flaws. In biology, just about any change means the enemy has to slowly evolve to take advantage of it -- but for software, you face intelligent attackers. Software has an advantage compared to biology -- well-made software provides an impermeable defense, that can't be breached unless you convince the idiot at the gate to let in a trojan horse. Although apparently no one can be bothered to actually write secure code, we certainly can patch any flaws found, which is almost as good if done in a timely manner.
As for diversity, the analogy holds more closely; a flaw in one need not mean a flaw in the other, and any exploit is less valuable, but it is more likely that one or the other is exposed. However, in software it also means that developer time is split up among the diversity, besides causing compatibility problems.
What we need is a fork with proper permissions management, which will be unpopular for advertisers and need-to-read-your-contacts-list flashlight apps.
Presumably so they can study it, do their teardown, prepare their materials etc, and then wait until the product is released before publishing their results.
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I'm confused, I thought the US was proud of its ability to make "surgical strikes".
Strikes on a surgeon? Strikes on a surgery room? Strikes that open a person up and rearrange their insides into the desired state (dead)? All I know is, it was definitely an operation.
surgical air strikes
I think you could have chosen a better phrase here.
Surgical nukes?
Most countries haven't given much thought to how their people will protect themselves against a future corruption of their government.
Parallel construction doesn't mean using a word wrongly.
However, whenever an incredible "trust me, I found this by coincidence" occurs, it's quite possible that they actually found it from a source they don't care to admit.
On a similar note, we should provide food and housing to the homeless. It shouldn't cost more than $10,000 to feed and house a person, probably much less. I've heard that the current system costs $250,000 per homeless person, so doing this would save $240,000 per person helped. We do already provide free food and housing, although through a very complicated and expensive and inconvenient system:
* Free ride to the nearest hospital: just call an ambulance. In many places, they can't refuse. Cost to us, $1,000.
* Free short term food and housing: a hospital stay, must go through Emergency Room. $500-$1,000 for the visit, more if they stay. Also, they'll be ahead of you and you'll have to wait half an hour to get treated. Some of them will actually injure themselves instead of faking it, and that costs even more. See here for ER folks venting to stay sane, a lot of them are about homeless people.
* Free long-term food and housing: Commit crime, go to jail, get food and warm bed. Cost ~$100,000 per year, plus court costs. Decent winter accommodations.
* Petty crime to acquire food and accommodations (see if anyone would hire a homeless person).
Note that you're already paying for all this, whether you like it or not -- through taxes, through higher hospital bills, through crime and its results. Man up and cut out the middleman, and everyone will be happier.
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down?
The wizard would instantly cause multiple power vacuums, which will be immediately and violently exploited. Suddenly, the police, the army, security guards, and rival gangs would no longer have guns. Feeble people switch from "probably defenseless" to "definitely defenseless". Assuming the power vacuum resolves to a similar situation as we have now, the rate of homicide would increase because being robbed at knifepoint is far more dangerous than being robbed at gunpoint.
and what about the "well regulated Militia" part?
How can the pool of males of fighting age be expected to be trained in the use of firearms, if they don't have guns?
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Cliche to whom?
Cliche to people who haven't heard of Parallel Construction.
Put those four out of business and you've pretty much solved the problem of patent trolls.
Put those four out of business, and all you do is postpone fixing our clearly broken patent system. You want to solve patent trolling, stop the patent office from rubber-stamping the stupidest most general patents.
If the NSA cared, they'd already have a much more accurate database of people's opinions of each other/events/proposals, by running automated algorithms for positive/negative opinions of those mentioned in Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Bah, I'll use the opportunity to slander the Queen of England, her PR manager, and her lawyer. And rate the Prophet Mohammad, Jesus, and black people in general. Using the name of someone I don't like as a pen name. If Peeple can't handle a simple thing like that, they won't be able to handle the much subtler (and much much worse) abuse that will be endemic to that system.
(And finally, for the sake of all the wannabe lawyers, I never actually made that review, I only said that it would be my first review. It's like saying "I'd like to rob that bank over there and someday I'll do it." As far as I know those aren't actionable statements.)
Go on, advance from libel/slander to conspiracy to rob a bank. Would you like a backhoe so you can dig faster?
To play devil's advocate, what's the legal basis for "crucifying" an app like this?
To me it seems like the perfect time to deny a request to incorporate into a "we'll suck a boatload of cash out of this and escape with no personal liability once the inevitable lawsuits commence" corporation.
The thing about litigators is, they don't stop coming after you when you decide to "walk away".
They do if you're a bankrupt corporation, and they can't come after the billions the owners siphoned off either.
Of all the accused crack-smoking child molesters, Bennet Hasselton is by far the best!
I rated Bennet Hasselton 5 stars in Professional "delivered crack to children in a professional and timely manner"
Which kind of crack?
I bet it's sponsored by libel lawyers.
Also, virtually guaranteed that the website gets corrupt, probably something along the lines of allowing bad reviews to expire after a year if you pay them (but not the good ones). Decent odds that the creator participates in the corruption only "indirectly" by selling the rights for $BIGNUM without including a restriction against corruption as part of the sale (because that would ruin the price).
Adblock doesn't block all ads, bribed to let ads thru from Microsoft, Google, Amazon not doing the 1 job it had anymore by default and the advertisers behind it know most people won't change that default setting.
1) That's AdblockPlus, which is made by a different group
2) There's plenty good reasons to allow "acceptable" ads by default, and if you don't like it turn it off.
One of the great strengths of GNU/Linux is its diversity. Like biological life, it is constantly changing, morphing and becoming something new. And also like biological life, constantly changing helps protect against "bad stuff".
You're confusing evolution with Intelligent Design. Constantly changing, even randomly, is a valid way to outwit a slowly evolving creature -- but for software, it means constantly risking the introduction of new flaws. In biology, just about any change means the enemy has to slowly evolve to take advantage of it -- but for software, you face intelligent attackers. Software has an advantage compared to biology -- well-made software provides an impermeable defense, that can't be breached unless you convince the idiot at the gate to let in a trojan horse. Although apparently no one can be bothered to actually write secure code, we certainly can patch any flaws found, which is almost as good if done in a timely manner.
As for diversity, the analogy holds more closely; a flaw in one need not mean a flaw in the other, and any exploit is less valuable, but it is more likely that one or the other is exposed. However, in software it also means that developer time is split up among the diversity, besides causing compatibility problems.
What we need is a fork with proper permissions management, which will be unpopular for advertisers and need-to-read-your-contacts-list flashlight apps.
Presumably so they can study it, do their teardown, prepare their materials etc, and then wait until the product is released before publishing their results.
Patent trolls agree not to ruin their arsenal, save it for innovators.
If it's so obvious, how come it took them so long to figure it out? Not to mention, how much longer until the actual schools figure it out?
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There's always the standard "Laws are for the little people" loophole. And if that fails, you can always pull out "It was the underling's fault."
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