Since 0/0 is undefined, it could just replace it with a random number or a default. In a few limited contexts this might be better than crashing. Of course, that option shouldn't be enabled during development and testing. If this were available, the result would be well-defined: the managers will insist to enable the hide-divide-by-zero, and patch it in the sequel.
I wonder, if I were to make a bunch of money selling placebo pills claiming they have "unlimited health benefits", over several years, what sort of trouble would I be in? Somehow I doubt they'd investigate, then eventually tell me that I shouldn't confuse "limited" with "unlimited" from now on, then when I ignore them only fine me about 1% of my revenue from when they told me to stop.
1) Cigarettes - I completely agree with. Ban it or don't. Taxing something to oblivion to compensate for the harm being done by it is pure money-making on people's deaths.
No, that was a totally awesome choice. Better that the money goes to the government and industry, than to criminals and the enormous infrastructure required to deal with criminals and illicit drug use (jail, courts, lawyers, hospitals for the impurities that would be inevitably added, social workers for the people who can't get a job due to their criminal record, and the massive amount of taxes required to pay for it all). Combined with making it "uncool" to smoke, it seems to be doing fine. I'll be glad to see marijuana treated the same way. (I myself don't smoke, neither tobacco nor marijuana.)
As for trans fats, I'll be glad to see them banned. I don't expect to see anyone going to some shady dealer in a dark alley to buy their fix of trans fats. Though I'd prefer if trans fat foods could still be sold, but had to have a nice big scary label like cigarettes do. That would have most of the effect of a ban, but without some of the complications.
Applications requiring higher reflectivity or greater durability, where wide bandwidth is not essential, use dielectric coatings, which can achieve reflectivities as high as 99.999% over a narrow range of wavelengths.
That sounds like something I'd use for lasers. Beats a crummy 99.7%.
50% would be good enough for Hubble mirrors if it were half the price. A telescope cares little about such a small change in light intensity, what makes a good telescope really expensive is avoiding all the distortions. 99.7% is 10 to 100 times better than your standard telescope mirror, but that bit about reflecting based off of wavelengths is what would be the problem.
Given their behavior in the past is it wise to assume that corporate interests have turned over a new leaf and won't secretly collaborate with government spies?
No, but it is wise to use free market forces to force corporate interests to offer encryption, to be seen as encryption friendly, and eventually to even be friendly to end-to-end user-controlled encryption.
How does his restaurant make money if they can't regally take money from people in exchange for food and service?
The restaurant doesn't take their money. The customers give the restaurant money. You can bet we'd all have a different opinion on restaurants if they took your money by threat of force whether you wanted to buy something from them or not, even if they then gave you food.
>>> “I don’t talk to the judges. I don’t talk to anybody. I just don’t want to talk to any of these people, because it’s illegal to try and take money from people,” he insists.
I wish there were more people like him. I hope they spend tons of money trying to get him to pay up, and fail.
Step 1: Increase the security of the software development activity, by allowing programmers to do their job without being overworked and overstressed and rushed to ship their code now now now don't worry we'll patch it later.
To be fair though, missing just one component might be enough to make the satellite nothing more than an expensive paperweight. It's not really a question of what percentage of components come from the US, only whether any necessary components come only from the US.
France finally decided to get rid of Google with "Right to be forgotten" in France. (If you can't comply with part of a rule, why comply with any of it.)
are the last vestige of the place congresscritters respect the will of their voters
No, it's not because they respect the voters. It's because it's time to nerf the boss's power in case we don't like the next one, or perhaps because they want to make a whole bunch of "it's in the interests of our people, honest" amendments to the treaty. When Congress votes themselves more power, I don't automatically think it's for altruistic purposes.
Did they have an actual engineer check the statics, weight durability, corosion and weather/temperature resistance/durability? I'd rather ask before I break my neck and drown crossing one of these.
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Since 0/0 is undefined, it could just replace it with a random number or a default. In a few limited contexts this might be better than crashing. Of course, that option shouldn't be enabled during development and testing. If this were available, the result would be well-defined: the managers will insist to enable the hide-divide-by-zero, and patch it in the sequel.
Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
Looks like the answer to that is undefined.
Just implant yourself with an RFID tag. As a bonus, it will also reduce the chance that a surveillance camera misidentifies someone as you.
I wonder, if I were to make a bunch of money selling placebo pills claiming they have "unlimited health benefits", over several years, what sort of trouble would I be in? Somehow I doubt they'd investigate, then eventually tell me that I shouldn't confuse "limited" with "unlimited" from now on, then when I ignore them only fine me about 1% of my revenue from when they told me to stop.
There's an app for that.
Surespot, a free and open source encrypted messaging app for Android and iOS. Such users include, but are hardly limited to, Islamic State militants.
Endorsed by people who trust it with their lives.
He was just going for a vacation.
But how dangerous could an AI really be, if it were just given a simple task like making paperclips.
AI will obsolete your job before it obsoletes humanity.
1) Cigarettes - I completely agree with. Ban it or don't. Taxing something to oblivion to compensate for the harm being done by it is pure money-making on people's deaths.
No, that was a totally awesome choice. Better that the money goes to the government and industry, than to criminals and the enormous infrastructure required to deal with criminals and illicit drug use (jail, courts, lawyers, hospitals for the impurities that would be inevitably added, social workers for the people who can't get a job due to their criminal record, and the massive amount of taxes required to pay for it all). Combined with making it "uncool" to smoke, it seems to be doing fine. I'll be glad to see marijuana treated the same way. (I myself don't smoke, neither tobacco nor marijuana.)
As for trans fats, I'll be glad to see them banned. I don't expect to see anyone going to some shady dealer in a dark alley to buy their fix of trans fats. Though I'd prefer if trans fat foods could still be sold, but had to have a nice big scary label like cigarettes do. That would have most of the effect of a ban, but without some of the complications.
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Applications requiring higher reflectivity or greater durability, where wide bandwidth is not essential, use dielectric coatings, which can achieve reflectivities as high as 99.999% over a narrow range of wavelengths.
That sounds like something I'd use for lasers. Beats a crummy 99.7%.
Is 99.7% enough for Hubble mirrors and all that?
50% would be good enough for Hubble mirrors if it were half the price. A telescope cares little about such a small change in light intensity, what makes a good telescope really expensive is avoiding all the distortions. 99.7% is 10 to 100 times better than your standard telescope mirror, but that bit about reflecting based off of wavelengths is what would be the problem.
Given their behavior in the past is it wise to assume that corporate interests have turned over a new leaf and won't secretly collaborate with government spies?
No, but it is wise to use free market forces to force corporate interests to offer encryption, to be seen as encryption friendly, and eventually to even be friendly to end-to-end user-controlled encryption.
How does his restaurant make money if they can't regally take money from people in exchange for food and service?
The restaurant doesn't take their money. The customers give the restaurant money. You can bet we'd all have a different opinion on restaurants if they took your money by threat of force whether you wanted to buy something from them or not, even if they then gave you food.
>>> “I don’t talk to the judges. I don’t talk to anybody. I just don’t want to talk to any of these people, because it’s illegal to try and take money from people,” he insists.
I wish there were more people like him. I hope they spend tons of money trying to get him to pay up, and fail.
Step 1: Increase the security of the software development activity, by allowing programmers to do their job without being overworked and overstressed and rushed to ship their code now now now don't worry we'll patch it later.
Forgot to add, "I'll bet I get modded flamebait for this..."
If you're not very careful with your security, you might get burned.
To be fair though, missing just one component might be enough to make the satellite nothing more than an expensive paperweight. It's not really a question of what percentage of components come from the US, only whether any necessary components come only from the US.
France finally decided to get rid of Google with "Right to be forgotten" in France. (If you can't comply with part of a rule, why comply with any of it.)
are the last vestige of the place congresscritters respect the will of their voters
No, it's not because they respect the voters. It's because it's time to nerf the boss's power in case we don't like the next one, or perhaps because they want to make a whole bunch of "it's in the interests of our people, honest" amendments to the treaty. When Congress votes themselves more power, I don't automatically think it's for altruistic purposes.
Obviously it's for reasons which have nothing to do with the truth being embarrassing.
His next research project is to make an AI that defends against copyright infringement lawsuits.
Moms all over the country return to find their nail polish splattered against their basement walls.
Just kidding -- most of the nerds already left /.
Did they have an actual engineer check the statics, weight durability, corosion and weather/temperature resistance/durability?
I'd rather ask before I break my neck and drown crossing one of these.
I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.