The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
Diaspora has the benefit of being Open Source, much anticipated, and security aware. Thus, some number of security flaws have been found.
Diaspora is lucky in that regard. Bugs have lain dormant in even open source code for decades before being discovered. "Open Source" does not guarantee that bugs will become obvious. Open Source does not even guarantee that there will be people looking at the code, only that they CAN.
Exactly right.
What I don't understand is the current outcry about the bugs. It's a prealpha release. I'm betting that, as they got so much money from so many people on Kickstarter, they were feeling a lot of pressure to get something out the door, that people could talk about, and devs could start looking at to work on themselves.
I'd say that this move is mostly throwing the hungry dogs a bone - proof of concept, and a rough idea of the architecture; nothing more.
Government needs to get out of the way of business. If private companies want to own human genese, I'm sure that the benefits will trickle down to us.
The stupid thing about what you're saying is that the patent system itself is Government interference. If you want the Govt to stop interfering, remove the patent system.
I just bought an HTC Desire, which is running Android 2.1. It's absolutely fantastic to use.
I have but one complaint. The RSS reader is a PITA to put a feed into unless it's a predefined/preapproved feed.
Dear Google;
Please, can we have an icon/button somewhere on the browser that shows that there are RSS feeds associated with that web page, and an integrated way to subscribe to them?
But that's all I side issue anyway. The question is this: what were Apple tracking to enforce this limit? The name on the card? I doubt it - how many John Smiths are there, after all?
What is concerning is that they may have been using the CC number to enforce the limit. Yes, a non-bank entity, recording and storing your credit card details, in an online, searchable database.
Lots of Linux nerds wanting a shareholder certificate to burn?
Here's a grab I took on August 14 (our time), 2007 of what happened to SCOX for posterity. This was the 70% in SCO share prices following the decision that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.
Today I sit as an American watching the Europeans teach us a thing or two about Freedom.
I think the difference here is that the US Govt is happy to let big business create legislation, as long as the campaign contributions keep coming (see software IP patents, DMCA, etc).
The EU doesn't like companies (or other countries) trying to boss them around. If only our politicians in Australia had balls:(
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Protip: Windows is not a virus, because virii by definition are self-replicating. Computers do not spontaneously break out in Windows.
Windows fits better under the heading "malware" (or "crapware").
It's a total of $1,068,928,721.46 USD, which is about $83.45 CAD.
Completely different.
* Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
Amazing as it seems, FORTRAN was created to handle changing the value of Pi.
This is not the line that you are looking for.
*handwave*
Diaspora has the benefit of being Open Source, much anticipated, and security aware. Thus, some number of security flaws have been found.
Diaspora is lucky in that regard. Bugs have lain dormant in even open source code for decades before being discovered. "Open Source" does not guarantee that bugs will become obvious. Open Source does not even guarantee that there will be people looking at the code, only that they CAN.
Exactly right.
What I don't understand is the current outcry about the bugs. It's a prealpha release. I'm betting that, as they got so much money from so many people on Kickstarter, they were feeling a lot of pressure to get something out the door, that people could talk about, and devs could start looking at to work on themselves.
I'd say that this move is mostly throwing the hungry dogs a bone - proof of concept, and a rough idea of the architecture; nothing more.
I think the GP was saying that he was thinking of the children...
As soon as "intelligent" signals are detected, they destroy the source.
So as long as we keep broadcasting reality TV, we're safe?
We ended up getting an edited version of it. Woo.
This just in: Australian Government stupid. News at 11...
I thought Brosnan was better, due to his ability to deliver the dry humour. Craig Daniel Craig, OTOH, takes himself a little too seriously.
Then, as a fellow Aussie IT geek, I have a "whoosh" for you. The only thing that is "cringable" in this matter is Senator Conroy.
In Australia, we don't bother getting permission for security tests either. We just dress up as Bin Laden, and pretend to be Canadian...
Government needs to get out of the way of business. If private companies want to own human genese, I'm sure that the benefits will trickle down to us.
The stupid thing about what you're saying is that the patent system itself is Government interference. If you want the Govt to stop interfering, remove the patent system.
Hell No, We Don't Glow!
Hell yes, your hair's a mess.
If you don't read Bloom County, then you probably won't get it. That doesn't make it offtopic.
I just bought an HTC Desire, which is running Android 2.1. It's absolutely fantastic to use.
I have but one complaint. The RSS reader is a PITA to put a feed into unless it's a predefined/preapproved feed.
Dear Google;
Please, can we have an icon/button somewhere on the browser that shows that there are RSS feeds associated with that web page, and an integrated way to subscribe to them?
Thanks
-beav007
But that's all I side issue anyway. The question is this: what were Apple tracking to enforce this limit? The name on the card? I doubt it - how many John Smiths are there, after all?
What is concerning is that they may have been using the CC number to enforce the limit. Yes, a non-bank entity, recording and storing your credit card details, in an online, searchable database.
Standard PSTN is 2 wires per line, not 4.
In Australia, the standard lead-in (pit to house) is 3 pairs, but with only 1 pair live.
Personally, I think that identifying Windows services as harmful is right on the money...
If we're now stacking in 3d, why are we still using square (instead of cubic) measurements?
Lots of Linux nerds wanting a shareholder certificate to burn?
Here's a grab I took on August 14 (our time), 2007 of what happened to SCOX for posterity. This was the 70% in SCO share prices following the decision that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.
Doesn't that then make the assessment more likely?
Sounds great, but I think I'll wait for the Debian-approved version.
I came to post the same thing. Or, actually -
Today I sit as an American watching the Europeans teach us a thing or two about Freedom.
I think the difference here is that the US Govt is happy to let big business create legislation, as long as the campaign contributions keep coming (see software IP patents, DMCA, etc).
:(
The EU doesn't like companies (or other countries) trying to boss them around. If only our politicians in Australia had balls
The HTC HD2 has the capability to become a WIFI AP as standard.
How about everyone start searching for "Microsoft+how+to+destroy" on bing. Ah the irony if it has an accurate yield.
Especially as it would be the only accurate yield on Bing to date...