Nadar was only a problem in Florida. If you live in a swing state, you should vote for the lesser evil. Anywhere else, you should vote for what you actually want.
I live in California, where Hillary has a double digit lead. So I will vote for Gary. If he gets over about 3% of the vote, it will send a message to the duopoly (especially the Republicans) that there is a significant constituency for less government and more personal freedom.
Please note that the claim that SDCs need "roadside sensors" is coming from some random journalist. Elon Musk isn't saying they are necessary, nor is Google nor anyone else actually building SDCs.
SDCs benefit from clear lane markings, just like HDCs do, but do not need any special technology embedded in the environment.
I know, ad hominem and all that, but nuclear is the only direct, carbon free, base load power source.
... except for hydro and geothermal.
Besides, the UK doesn't really need "base load", they need intermittent power that can be brought on-line quickly when there is a gap in wind and solar. Like gas turbines.
Fusion produces high levels of neutron flux, creating radioactive isotopes in the reactor structure. It is somewhat cleaner than fission, but the waste problem doesn't just magically go away.
the Russians aren't out to get us, and our ideologies are more similar than they are different.
There are some differences: 1. In Syria, America and Russia support factions that are ideologically at least several centimeters apart. 2. In Ukraine, Russia supported the democratically elected government, while America supported the military coup. 3. In Crimea, Russia only had the support of 90% of the people, while America supported (with words but not actions) the other 10%. 4. In America, Russians tell American voters the truths that American politicians were trying to hide.
How do you feel about Python as a language for beginners?
Python works well as a beginner language. I teach it to 5th and 6th graders who have some experience with Scratch, but no other experience with coding. It has good structure, and the whitespace rules teach good habits.
Disclaimer: I say this as a Python hater. I do not use the language professionally if I have any choice. But it is a good learning language.
The problem with Perl is that it is easy to "do it wrong". Unreadable code is still unreadable regardless of whose "fault" it is.
Also Perl scales just fine, i've don'e at least a hundred Perl project
If you have done 100 projects, then it is unlikely any of them were very big. Perl is great for a 10 line script. It is okay for a 100 line script. It is workable for a 1000 line script. But for a one million line project involving dozens of programmers, it will be a disaster.
Binding laws are inherently undemocratic. Voters today should not be able to impose policies and costs on future citizens against their will.
When binding laws have been allowed, they have generally been disastrous, with current voters giving themselves lots of goodies and pushing the cost off on future generations. This is what happened in Detroit.
I thought BMW had a few electric models too. Do I have that wrong?
BMW has the i3 and i8. But just having a few token over priced electric cars isn't enough. Car companies have to invest in R&D to make electric cars convenient enough, and cheap enough, that normal people will buy them. Progress is being made, but the crossover point, where electric cars actually make economic sense, is still 5 to 10 years away.
Disclaimer: I have an electric car, but it is not a BMW.
False. Large parts of large projects I've worked on are in perl.
That doesn't make it a good idea. Using any dynamically typed language in a large project is a bad idea. They are called "scripting" languages for a reason. They are for short scripts, not for large programs.
Because the interpreter is faster than most, it's actually better suited to larger programs than many other scripting languages.
"Execution speed" is about the dumbest reason to pick a language. Speed rarely matters, and when it does you should not be using any scripting language.
It's an ancient notion that you can write bad code in any language; this sounds like a claim about programmers, not perl.
If you pick a random Perl program and a random Python program, the Python program is much more likely to be readable by someone that didn't write it. You can write bad code in any language, but in some it is harder than others.
Disclaimer: I love Perl. It is my go-to language for scripting, precisely because it is so quick to whip up dense code using "tricks" with minimal typing. But the very things that make it such a great language for one-liners and short throw away scripts, make it a bad language for beginners, and an even worse language for big projects.
This would likely work to the CEO's advantage because most people really don't care about prostitution unless it is a streetwalker outside Chuckie Cheese.
I don't think this is true. There is a gender disparity in views about prostitution. Men tend to be more tolerant. Women tend to be overwhelmingly opposed. Conservative women are usually opposed because it is "immoral". Liberal women are opposed because they consider it degrading to women. From a purely utilitarian view, it makes sense for women to oppose legal prostitution, since an open and legal market for sex lowers their bargaining position in traditional relationships and marriages.
Also, while many people are tolerant of prostitution, the AG is trying to label this as "human trafficking" despite a total lack of evidence. Part of this may be a ploy to get "anti-trafficking" money from the federal government, but it might also help sway a jury.
There is an ooooold case where a guy who ran an answering service was convicted of pimping, and the appeals court overturned the conviction
So the jury voted for conviction, but some judges threw it out on a technicality? That does not seem to support your assertion that people don't care.
Granted I did some BASIC before I jumped into Perl
BASIC is about the worst possible language for a beginner, because it infects naive users with bad habits that are difficult to unlearn.
Perl is a great language for programs of one-line to one-page, but doesn't scale well beyond that. I don't think Perl is a good language for beginners because it encourages "tricky" and obscure syntax. Many Perl programmers are proud that their code is unreadable.
I work in an after-school program teaching programming and robotics to 4th-6th graders, and I have found that Scratch is the best languages for absolute beginners. Scratch enforces structure, and there are no syntax errors, so the kids can focus on logic and design. For the second year, they move up to Python.
Many high schools use Java, because that is the language used for the CS AP test.
This is true for home and auto insurance. It is NOT true for health insurance. Health insurance is a protection racket, and if you don't pay up, you will billed by your doctor or hospital from twice to ten times as much.
it's not terribly difficult to understand.
Yes it is. Ask most people what their insurance covers, and they will give you a wrong answer. Then give them their insurance bill and documents, and have them read them. Then ask them again, and they will still give you a wrong answer. Insurance documents are specifically designed to be confusing, because the last thing the insurance industry wants is for customers to be able to understand their coverage, find comparable policies, and shop around. That will just lead to meaningful competition, that will lower profits.
No they aren't. The hosts are offering free rooms. AirBNB is just running a website where those free rooms are listed (and is waiving their normal service fee).
Slashdot is a site for nerds. If you are not interested in geeky news about scientific research, then please go elsewhere and read about Kim Kardashian or whatever.
IoT devices have to be cheap to be even remotely attractive
It is not an issue of cheapness. Security is can be done in a few kilobytes of firmware, which is a negligible additional cost. It is about convenience. When a customer plugs in a smart lightbulb, they want it to "just work" and they don't want to spend five minutes configuring it.
Disclaimer: I have a Amazon Echo, a Wink Hub, and several connected IoT devices (lightbulbs, door locks, motion sensor, garage opener). Some features are useful, like opening the garage door with my cellphone, and using voice to control the kitchen light. But unless you are a geeky early adopter, I would recommend waiting a few years for the bugs to get ironed out.
And will probably care as much as if he'd been handed the documents in person, i.e. not at all.
It doesn't matter if he cares. The important thing is that, once he is served, the lawsuit can proceed. If he fails to show up in court, he loses by default, and the plaintiff can begin the process of seizing his assets, including accounts at two Kuwaiti banks that use American financial clearing networks.
According to TFA, that is not the primary goal. The real target is the assets of the bank itself. First, the plaintiffs need to win the case to have Al-Ajmi labeled a terrorist, then they can go after the banks that allowed him to funnel money to Nusra.
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Because Nadar worked out real well.....
Nadar was only a problem in Florida. If you live in a swing state, you should vote for the lesser evil. Anywhere else, you should vote for what you actually want.
I live in California, where Hillary has a double digit lead. So I will vote for Gary. If he gets over about 3% of the vote, it will send a message to the duopoly (especially the Republicans) that there is a significant constituency for less government and more personal freedom.
Please note that the claim that SDCs need "roadside sensors" is coming from some random journalist. Elon Musk isn't saying they are necessary, nor is Google nor anyone else actually building SDCs.
SDCs benefit from clear lane markings, just like HDCs do, but do not need any special technology embedded in the environment.
I know, ad hominem and all that, but nuclear is the only direct, carbon free, base load power source.
... except for hydro and geothermal.
Besides, the UK doesn't really need "base load", they need intermittent power that can be brought on-line quickly when there is a gap in wind and solar. Like gas turbines.
Call back when we have viable fusion power.
Fusion produces high levels of neutron flux, creating radioactive isotopes in the reactor structure. It is somewhat cleaner than fission, but the waste problem doesn't just magically go away.
the Russians aren't out to get us, and our ideologies are more similar than they are different.
There are some differences:
1. In Syria, America and Russia support factions that are ideologically at least several centimeters apart.
2. In Ukraine, Russia supported the democratically elected government, while America supported the military coup.
3. In Crimea, Russia only had the support of 90% of the people, while America supported (with words but not actions) the other 10%.
4. In America, Russians tell American voters the truths that American politicians were trying to hide.
How do you feel about Python as a language for beginners?
Python works well as a beginner language. I teach it to 5th and 6th graders who have some experience with Scratch, but no other experience with coding. It has good structure, and the whitespace rules teach good habits.
Disclaimer: I say this as a Python hater. I do not use the language professionally if I have any choice. But it is a good learning language.
If your Perl is unreadable, your doing it wrong.
The problem with Perl is that it is easy to "do it wrong". Unreadable code is still unreadable regardless of whose "fault" it is.
Also Perl scales just fine, i've don'e at least a hundred Perl project
If you have done 100 projects, then it is unlikely any of them were very big. Perl is great for a 10 line script. It is okay for a 100 line script. It is workable for a 1000 line script. But for a one million line project involving dozens of programmers, it will be a disaster.
I guess it's fitting that he doesn't realize patting someone on the head is a condescending gesture.
That is culture dependent. In some cultures patting, or even touching, someone's head is offensive. In other cultures, it means nothing.
I have met Linus a few times on a person-to-person level, and he was always friendly and considerate. Tove is also a very nice person.
The nearest bus stop from me is EIGHT KILOMETERS away.
Eight km is only five miles. In America, we have driveways longer than that.
RTFS, which notes that this isn't binding.
Binding laws are inherently undemocratic. Voters today should not be able to impose policies and costs on future citizens against their will.
When binding laws have been allowed, they have generally been disastrous, with current voters giving themselves lots of goodies and pushing the cost off on future generations. This is what happened in Detroit.
I thought BMW had a few electric models too. Do I have that wrong?
BMW has the i3 and i8. But just having a few token over priced electric cars isn't enough. Car companies have to invest in R&D to make electric cars convenient enough, and cheap enough, that normal people will buy them. Progress is being made, but the crossover point, where electric cars actually make economic sense, is still 5 to 10 years away.
Disclaimer: I have an electric car, but it is not a BMW.
False. Large parts of large projects I've worked on are in perl.
That doesn't make it a good idea. Using any dynamically typed language in a large project is a bad idea. They are called "scripting" languages for a reason. They are for short scripts, not for large programs.
Because the interpreter is faster than most, it's actually better suited to larger programs than many other scripting languages.
"Execution speed" is about the dumbest reason to pick a language. Speed rarely matters, and when it does you should not be using any scripting language.
It's an ancient notion that you can write bad code in any language; this sounds like a claim about programmers, not perl.
If you pick a random Perl program and a random Python program, the Python program is much more likely to be readable by someone that didn't write it. You can write bad code in any language, but in some it is harder than others.
Disclaimer: I love Perl. It is my go-to language for scripting, precisely because it is so quick to whip up dense code using "tricks" with minimal typing. But the very things that make it such a great language for one-liners and short throw away scripts, make it a bad language for beginners, and an even worse language for big projects.
This would likely work to the CEO's advantage because most people really don't care about prostitution unless it is a streetwalker outside Chuckie Cheese.
I don't think this is true. There is a gender disparity in views about prostitution. Men tend to be more tolerant. Women tend to be overwhelmingly opposed. Conservative women are usually opposed because it is "immoral". Liberal women are opposed because they consider it degrading to women. From a purely utilitarian view, it makes sense for women to oppose legal prostitution, since an open and legal market for sex lowers their bargaining position in traditional relationships and marriages.
Also, while many people are tolerant of prostitution, the AG is trying to label this as "human trafficking" despite a total lack of evidence. Part of this may be a ploy to get "anti-trafficking" money from the federal government, but it might also help sway a jury.
There is an ooooold case where a guy who ran an answering service was convicted of pimping, and the appeals court overturned the conviction
So the jury voted for conviction, but some judges threw it out on a technicality? That does not seem to support your assertion that people don't care.
Granted I did some BASIC before I jumped into Perl
BASIC is about the worst possible language for a beginner, because it infects naive users with bad habits that are difficult to unlearn.
Perl is a great language for programs of one-line to one-page, but doesn't scale well beyond that. I don't think Perl is a good language for beginners because it encourages "tricky" and obscure syntax. Many Perl programmers are proud that their code is unreadable.
I work in an after-school program teaching programming and robotics to 4th-6th graders, and I have found that Scratch is the best languages for absolute beginners. Scratch enforces structure, and there are no syntax errors, so the kids can focus on logic and design. For the second year, they move up to Python.
Many high schools use Java, because that is the language used for the CS AP test.
It is about time the the USA started using standard units, and gave up on the old Imperial System!!!
Wouldn't it be simpler for the British to just rename their currency?
Insurance is for limiting your exposure to risk
This is true for home and auto insurance. It is NOT true for health insurance. Health insurance is a protection racket, and if you don't pay up, you will billed by your doctor or hospital from twice to ten times as much.
it's not terribly difficult to understand.
Yes it is. Ask most people what their insurance covers, and they will give you a wrong answer. Then give them their insurance bill and documents, and have them read them. Then ask them again, and they will still give you a wrong answer. Insurance documents are specifically designed to be confusing, because the last thing the insurance industry wants is for customers to be able to understand their coverage, find comparable policies, and shop around. That will just lead to meaningful competition, that will lower profits.
AirBNB offering free rooms.
No they aren't. The hosts are offering free rooms. AirBNB is just running a website where those free rooms are listed (and is waiving their normal service fee).
It's gonna be brutal for both sides.
That is a good thing. It is better to get all the crap out in the open before the election rather than after.
Spying is perfectly fine. Releasing the info you got from spying in an attempt to sway a foreign election is not.
Why not? Why is it wrong for the Russians to tell the truth to American voters?
... when they actually have a working product.
Slashdot is a site for nerds. If you are not interested in geeky news about scientific research, then please go elsewhere and read about Kim Kardashian or whatever.
I remember the same promises were made ...
No "promises" are being made.
When your metric of success is arrest numbers and not reduction in crime a deterrent does not matter.
Neither of those are important metrics. The metric that matters to most PDs is the number of civil forfeitures.
IoT devices have to be cheap to be even remotely attractive
It is not an issue of cheapness. Security is can be done in a few kilobytes of firmware, which is a negligible additional cost. It is about convenience. When a customer plugs in a smart lightbulb, they want it to "just work" and they don't want to spend five minutes configuring it.
Disclaimer: I have a Amazon Echo, a Wink Hub, and several connected IoT devices (lightbulbs, door locks, motion sensor, garage opener). Some features are useful, like opening the garage door with my cellphone, and using voice to control the kitchen light. But unless you are a geeky early adopter, I would recommend waiting a few years for the bugs to get ironed out.
He can also just ignore that judge since he will probably never set foor on US soil. Unless he is illegally kidnapped by the CIA.
This is a civil lawsuit. It isn't about arresting him, it is about going after his assets, and (more importantly) the assets of his co-defendants.
And will probably care as much as if he'd been handed the documents in person, i.e. not at all.
It doesn't matter if he cares. The important thing is that, once he is served, the lawsuit can proceed. If he fails to show up in court, he loses by default, and the plaintiff can begin the process of seizing his assets, including accounts at two Kuwaiti banks that use American financial clearing networks.
we can take their us bank accounts
According to TFA, that is not the primary goal. The real target is the assets of the bank itself. First, the plaintiffs need to win the case to have Al-Ajmi labeled a terrorist, then they can go after the banks that allowed him to funnel money to Nusra.