22 seconds to go into the house, get your shotgun, come back out and shoot down the drone? No way. He had the shotgun ready. Which means this isn't the first time Douchey McDronePilot had buzzed this guy's backyard. Ooooh, 22 seconds *this* time. But what about the minutes and hours before that? Hmmm?
Doesn't mean they were innocent, it just means there wasn't *quite* enough evidence to convict them. The standard (in the United States) for criminal prosecution is "beyond a reasonable doubt" which is something like you're 95% sure that they did it. For civil cases it's "based on the preponderance of evidence" which means you're at least 51% sure they did it. See for example OJ Simpson: not guilty criminally, found guilty civilly because of the difference in the burden of proof. So an 80% conviction rate is pretty reasonable and probably means most of those 20% were actually guilty it just wasn't totally provable.
That's the one I remember the most. Ran perfectly when compiled with a debug profile, broke to pieces when compiled in a release profile. Finally tracked it down to a complicated "if" statement that the optimizer failed to correctly account for. This was back in Visual Studio 6.0 though, it's been a good long while. I seem to remember fixing it by refactoring the if statement though, telling it not to optimize that section was too much of a performance hit.
Okay see, but killing people is illegal as well. Yet when we declare war on someone we declare that it is okay to kill them to further some grander strategic goal. The government could certainly do something similar here - declare war economically on ISIS and say it's okay to scam them out of whatever money you can, just report your scammed income here on this form and it's all well and good.
I've had the opposite experience with State Farm. My rates have stayed pretty stable at right around $700 per year. If anything they tend to drop slightly (just a few dollars, but hey) each year as my truck depreciates...
Not from a shotgun, unless you were firing a slug or possibly buckshot. Birdshot fired up in the air will never ever be lethal when it falls back down.
It varies much more by scenario. Drunk guy passed out on your couch? Not worthy of execution. Call the cops, have the cart him away. Guy grabbing your stuff, terrorizing your family and trying to make off with your valuables? Dangerous criminal. Execute away.
High powered lasers are basically the answer here. Burn out the CCD sensor and the drone is blind. Silent, no danger to others (because it never comes back down anyway) and it solves the whole peeping tom issue.
Interestingly, checkers is a solvedgame. It turns out, with perfect play, that it's a draw every time. So not only should a human never win against a decent computer checkers program, it's provable that it would be impossible to win if the computer played perfectly.
So now we get down to the meat here. Thanks so much for bringing it up. Issues of race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender are all real and provable human characteristics which are innate and immutable. I believe that homosexuality is a behavior that is learned and changeable, instead of inborn.
I believe you're probably a moron, and that even if it is a "choice", it's completely irrelevant.
In the same way that it's irrelevant if a mixed race couple choose to marry. Because the exact same stupid argument was made when people wanted that kept outlawed, and it was just as meaningless then.
Wait...back when mixed race marriage was illegal there was an argument that being black was a choice? Because that's what you just said right now whether you realize it or not.
The fundamental divide is that the left believes that homosexuality is an inborn characteristic and as such should be protected the same as all of the other inborn characteristics. The right believes that it is a choice that the individual makes and as such may be restricted like any other choice people may make. There is no common ground here because you two are not debating the same issue until there can be agreement on a starting point.
So in the end, the left believe that the right is full of heartless monsters and bigots who hate people for who they cannot help being, and the right believes the left is full of free love hippies who want to destroy society and live in the perpetual anarchy of moral relativism where everything you want to do is always okay and no one can tell you otherwise.
I had a friend sensitive to that. He could perceive things at just fast enough of a framerate to notice the flicker in old style fluorescent bulbs and projector flicker in old films (before digital) that used low frame rates.
It sounds like your friend was demonstrably able to tell the difference between magnetic fields in what could have been set up as a double blind study which makes it a scientifically provable ability to distinguish magnetic field intensities. This does not sound unreasonable.
What we're talking about with "electro-sensitive" people is some folks who vaguely say that electromagnetism makes them "feel bad" or "fatigued" or some other hard to pin down ailment which is not reproducible in any scientific setting and has never been shown to be an actual thing. Also no matter how much science you throw at them they willfully ignore you and keep on about how your methods are flawed or you're part of the conspiracy.
These folks are nutjobs. Your friend doesn't sound like a nutjob.
I love the XKCD on that. Playing conspiracies off of each other. The steel melted in 9/11 because the chemtrail chemicals burn way hotter than just plain jet fuel!
Java/C# = Automatic Transmission C/C++ = Manual Transmission Assembly = smelting and casting metals to create your own custom designed gearbox
For many applications Automatic is fine. You just care about making it work and performance is "good enough" that you don't sweat it. For performance sensitive applications you need finer tuned control and yeah, the safeties are off, but they're not slowing you down either.
The superconducting magnets need to be installed in a controlled environment. A "hover park" if you will. Then you can sell some no moving parts basically slick looking steel boards that hover over the surfaces in your hover park, but don't work anywhere else. Then you control the hard moving parts that need constant liquid nitrogen cooling and special magnets, and you only have to worry about one time installations, not mass production.
This. If we used an IDE we were on our own. The professors didn't care, but the results damn well better compile on the command line because that was how they were going to grade us.
C# is just straight up easy to use. If you are already familiar with Java and C++ you basically already know C#. For whatever you're trying to do, just Google around for the.NET libraries that support it and it's ridiculously simple to bring them in and get a functional project up and running quickly. Multithreading and network I/O made me feel like I was cheating they were so easy compared to the old school methods. I can't see it going away anytime soon.
Why stop there? If I get a file exception it should just write to syslog by default! If I have a null pointer it should just write to the last array I referenced! Array out of bounds exceptions should cycle back around to the start of the array so I never see that error either! I'm sure nothing bad would ever happen ever from implementing all of these!
Seriously son, it's called an error for a reason. Correct your invariants so it can't happen or monitor for the exceptions and handle them gracefully. It's bad enough that incrementing an integer past its max wraps it back around to its min. Let's not make coding even more treacherous, m'kay?
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22 seconds to go into the house, get your shotgun, come back out and shoot down the drone? No way. He had the shotgun ready. Which means this isn't the first time Douchey McDronePilot had buzzed this guy's backyard. Ooooh, 22 seconds *this* time. But what about the minutes and hours before that? Hmmm?
That's next. Anti-piracy in music was originally framed as "costing" the publishers money and then later framed as outright theft.
Inverse Square is with respect to point sources. Directional sources can carry much further.
Doesn't mean they were innocent, it just means there wasn't *quite* enough evidence to convict them. The standard (in the United States) for criminal prosecution is "beyond a reasonable doubt" which is something like you're 95% sure that they did it. For civil cases it's "based on the preponderance of evidence" which means you're at least 51% sure they did it. See for example OJ Simpson: not guilty criminally, found guilty civilly because of the difference in the burden of proof. So an 80% conviction rate is pretty reasonable and probably means most of those 20% were actually guilty it just wasn't totally provable.
That's the one I remember the most. Ran perfectly when compiled with a debug profile, broke to pieces when compiled in a release profile. Finally tracked it down to a complicated "if" statement that the optimizer failed to correctly account for. This was back in Visual Studio 6.0 though, it's been a good long while. I seem to remember fixing it by refactoring the if statement though, telling it not to optimize that section was too much of a performance hit.
Okay see, but killing people is illegal as well. Yet when we declare war on someone we declare that it is okay to kill them to further some grander strategic goal. The government could certainly do something similar here - declare war economically on ISIS and say it's okay to scam them out of whatever money you can, just report your scammed income here on this form and it's all well and good.
I've had the opposite experience with State Farm. My rates have stayed pretty stable at right around $700 per year. If anything they tend to drop slightly (just a few dollars, but hey) each year as my truck depreciates...
Not from a shotgun, unless you were firing a slug or possibly buckshot. Birdshot fired up in the air will never ever be lethal when it falls back down.
High powered laser to the camera. Burn the CCD into uselessness.
It varies much more by scenario. Drunk guy passed out on your couch? Not worthy of execution. Call the cops, have the cart him away. Guy grabbing your stuff, terrorizing your family and trying to make off with your valuables? Dangerous criminal. Execute away.
High powered lasers are basically the answer here. Burn out the CCD sensor and the drone is blind. Silent, no danger to others (because it never comes back down anyway) and it solves the whole peeping tom issue.
Actually a 1 or 2 Watt laser would be ideal. If you hit the camera it's perma-fried. Good luck flying your drone back home blind asshole.
Interestingly, checkers is a solved game. It turns out, with perfect play, that it's a draw every time. So not only should a human never win against a decent computer checkers program, it's provable that it would be impossible to win if the computer played perfectly.
Whoooosh
I believe you're probably a moron, and that even if it is a "choice", it's completely irrelevant.
In the same way that it's irrelevant if a mixed race couple choose to marry. Because the exact same stupid argument was made when people wanted that kept outlawed, and it was just as meaningless then.
Wait...back when mixed race marriage was illegal there was an argument that being black was a choice? Because that's what you just said right now whether you realize it or not.
The fundamental divide is that the left believes that homosexuality is an inborn characteristic and as such should be protected the same as all of the other inborn characteristics. The right believes that it is a choice that the individual makes and as such may be restricted like any other choice people may make. There is no common ground here because you two are not debating the same issue until there can be agreement on a starting point.
So in the end, the left believe that the right is full of heartless monsters and bigots who hate people for who they cannot help being, and the right believes the left is full of free love hippies who want to destroy society and live in the perpetual anarchy of moral relativism where everything you want to do is always okay and no one can tell you otherwise.
I'll just kick back and grab me some popcorn.
I had a friend sensitive to that. He could perceive things at just fast enough of a framerate to notice the flicker in old style fluorescent bulbs and projector flicker in old films (before digital) that used low frame rates.
It sounds like your friend was demonstrably able to tell the difference between magnetic fields in what could have been set up as a double blind study which makes it a scientifically provable ability to distinguish magnetic field intensities. This does not sound unreasonable.
What we're talking about with "electro-sensitive" people is some folks who vaguely say that electromagnetism makes them "feel bad" or "fatigued" or some other hard to pin down ailment which is not reproducible in any scientific setting and has never been shown to be an actual thing. Also no matter how much science you throw at them they willfully ignore you and keep on about how your methods are flawed or you're part of the conspiracy.
These folks are nutjobs. Your friend doesn't sound like a nutjob.
I love the XKCD on that. Playing conspiracies off of each other. The steel melted in 9/11 because the chemtrail chemicals burn way hotter than just plain jet fuel!
Java/C# = Automatic Transmission
C/C++ = Manual Transmission
Assembly = smelting and casting metals to create your own custom designed gearbox
For many applications Automatic is fine. You just care about making it work and performance is "good enough" that you don't sweat it. For performance sensitive applications you need finer tuned control and yeah, the safeties are off, but they're not slowing you down either.
The superconducting magnets need to be installed in a controlled environment. A "hover park" if you will. Then you can sell some no moving parts basically slick looking steel boards that hover over the surfaces in your hover park, but don't work anywhere else. Then you control the hard moving parts that need constant liquid nitrogen cooling and special magnets, and you only have to worry about one time installations, not mass production.
This. If we used an IDE we were on our own. The professors didn't care, but the results damn well better compile on the command line because that was how they were going to grade us.
Because it's harder to tell if the cheating little bastards copied off of each other.
Only on Slashdot will you find the Linux sysadmin who is a blacksmith in his spare time. Great post btw =)
C# is just straight up easy to use. If you are already familiar with Java and C++ you basically already know C#. For whatever you're trying to do, just Google around for the .NET libraries that support it and it's ridiculously simple to bring them in and get a functional project up and running quickly. Multithreading and network I/O made me feel like I was cheating they were so easy compared to the old school methods. I can't see it going away anytime soon.
Why stop there? If I get a file exception it should just write to syslog by default! If I have a null pointer it should just write to the last array I referenced! Array out of bounds exceptions should cycle back around to the start of the array so I never see that error either! I'm sure nothing bad would ever happen ever from implementing all of these!
Seriously son, it's called an error for a reason. Correct your invariants so it can't happen or monitor for the exceptions and handle them gracefully. It's bad enough that incrementing an integer past its max wraps it back around to its min. Let's not make coding even more treacherous, m'kay?