I agree that there's a significant chance that this whole thing is a CIA smear campaign. But there's also a significant chance that he's actually guilty. Or that it's a smear campaign unrelated to the CIA. You know what they say about assumptions.
how do I know if something has been programmed in, made in, assembled in, or had any other part of its production process in North Korea
In this specific case, you do know, so I don't see what your point is.
If it is produced in North Korea, how do I *KNOW* what the funds it generates are used to support?
If it's produced in North Korea, then it's a pretty safe bet that the money is used to support the North Korean government. Otherwise, the government would have never agreed to export it.
assume that the size of the bureaucracy needed to enforce a given statute or regulation is correlated with the length of the statute or regulation. (I'd be interested to hear counterexamples.)
As far as I know, most of the US anti-drug laws are pretty short and straightforward. But enforcing them is a multi-billion dollar business.
Yes, the blind, irrational hatred of George W Bush was a sight to behold. What did he do to earn such enmity? Besides the two wars, the secret prisons, the torture, the illegal wiretaps, Katrina, and the collapse of the economy, what exactly did he do that was so bad?
things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days
I'm with you on the sun thing, but why do you think that nuclear war is off the menu? Sure, there's less nukes now than there were at the height of the Cold War, but there's also more people who have them. Mutually-Assured Destruction worked because the rulers of the US and USSR were rational actors. What if the nukes fall into the hands of someone like Kim Jong Il or Sarah Palin?
That seems about right. In this game, the investors are the only ones who "risk" anything. And ironically, they're also the ones with the least amount of power to decide how the money is managed.
I wouldn't worry about Java. It's open-source and very widely used. If Oracle cuts it loose, there are plenty of others to pick up the slack. Worst case: we'd have to make a fork and call it something other than Java.
Seems that your allergies are making your posting finger twitchy - or there's a glitch in Slashdot.
My great-grandmother grew up in a farming village. There was a group of people who would always get colds around harvest-time; they were widely suspected of being malingerers, but she realized much later that they just had seasonal allergies.
I don't think generics are a 'disaster'. More like 'potential disaster if you don't watch your ass'. And to date, I still haven't seen a better way to do it. (Your suggestion, "typing containers and letting it go at that", makes no sense; there was no way to do that without adding generics to the language, or something that works like generics.)
Anyway, it doesn't matter. There's no way in hell that they'll be removing a widely-used feature from future versions of the language. As long as we're coding in Java, we're stuck with generics.
I disagree. A checked exception in this case would do you absolutely no good; if your application encounters an error during a DB operation, then there's usually nothing you can do to recover, so it doesn't matter if you catch the exception yourself or let the container handle it.
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I agree that there's a significant chance that this whole thing is a CIA smear campaign. But there's also a significant chance that he's actually guilty. Or that it's a smear campaign unrelated to the CIA. You know what they say about assumptions.
When a low-profile person gets assassinated, it's not called assassination. It's called a "random act of violence".
how do I know if something has been programmed in, made in, assembled in, or had any other part of its production process in North Korea
In this specific case, you do know, so I don't see what your point is.
If it is produced in North Korea, how do I *KNOW* what the funds it generates are used to support?
If it's produced in North Korea, then it's a pretty safe bet that the money is used to support the North Korean government. Otherwise, the government would have never agreed to export it.
Cast it from thy sievelike books of memory, Sir Donald; thou art out of thy element.
Don't worry, it won't happen again.
Or Slashdot.
Actually, that's the Java solution, C# just copied it (and I'm not even sure that Java was the first one to do it that way.)
By the way: "if (x = y)" is perfectly legal Java/C# syntax when x and y are booleans. So it's better than C, but still not a perfect solution.
That's "ridiculous strawperson".
Carter had at least one tangible achievement to boast of, although he didn't get any credit for it until long after leaving office.
assume that the size of the bureaucracy needed to enforce a given statute or regulation is correlated with the length of the statute or regulation. (I'd be interested to hear counterexamples.)
As far as I know, most of the US anti-drug laws are pretty short and straightforward. But enforcing them is a multi-billion dollar business.
the near epileptic fit the left had over Bush
Yes, the blind, irrational hatred of George W Bush was a sight to behold. What did he do to earn such enmity? Besides the two wars, the secret prisons, the torture, the illegal wiretaps, Katrina, and the collapse of the economy, what exactly did he do that was so bad?
things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days
I'm with you on the sun thing, but why do you think that nuclear war is off the menu? Sure, there's less nukes now than there were at the height of the Cold War, but there's also more people who have them. Mutually-Assured Destruction worked because the rulers of the US and USSR were rational actors. What if the nukes fall into the hands of someone like Kim Jong Il or Sarah Palin?
I had no idea they were still around. What the hell do they do? Provide dial-up access?
That's called "code re-use".
OK, serves me right for not reading the article. I just assumed they were talking about a company that manages other people's investments.
That seems about right. In this game, the investors are the only ones who "risk" anything. And ironically, they're also the ones with the least amount of power to decide how the money is managed.
I wouldn't worry about Java. It's open-source and very widely used. If Oracle cuts it loose, there are plenty of others to pick up the slack. Worst case: we'd have to make a fork and call it something other than Java.
They had to take him to a pellet court.
You misspelled "Adam Weishaupt".
Seems that your allergies are making your posting finger twitchy - or there's a glitch in Slashdot.
My great-grandmother grew up in a farming village. There was a group of people who would always get colds around harvest-time; they were widely suspected of being malingerers, but she realized much later that they just had seasonal allergies.
Antarctica got robbed!
Actually, the site in question is no longer up, (it redirects to another one), so we can't tell whether or not the complaint is legitimate.
I don't think generics are a 'disaster'. More like 'potential disaster if you don't watch your ass'. And to date, I still haven't seen a better way to do it. (Your suggestion, "typing containers and letting it go at that", makes no sense; there was no way to do that without adding generics to the language, or something that works like generics.)
Anyway, it doesn't matter. There's no way in hell that they'll be removing a widely-used feature from future versions of the language. As long as we're coding in Java, we're stuck with generics.
I disagree. A checked exception in this case would do you absolutely no good; if your application encounters an error during a DB operation, then there's usually nothing you can do to recover, so it doesn't matter if you catch the exception yourself or let the container handle it.
The tools you're referring certainly didn't have production costs of millions of dollars. They're not very complex and a bit crappy.
Well, this is Oracle we're talking about.