Like anything else, a large majority of people can easily shift from fantasy to reality and maintain a reasonable and healthy social morale. If you take a sample size from a pool of kids who have been bullied and constantly picked-on you're going to find a propensity to act out whether it be video games, TV or learned behavior from their environment.
The constant "Does too!" and "Does Not!" debates from both sides of the gaming==evil_people debate are pointless because both arguments have some truth to them yet aren't directed at fixing the actual underlying problem. All this debate does is perpetuate the rising cost of games, or end up in stupid regulation which falls short of fixing anything.
All the amazing programmers I've ever known started out self taught. They all have a back-story about how they had "this old machine.." or they would "go into computer lab on study hall.." or "..spent hours typing in the code out of the magazine..".
I don't think you can effectively "Teach" programming as a large portion of it is right-brained, but making some sort of CS syllabus available is a great idea for kids that actually want it. With all the action to abolish public education, I am dubious about any suggestions founded by capitalist juggernauts.
So.. if this is anything like a real Debit/Cred card, the same security holes would seem to apply. Holes you wouldn't have with paper check or direct deposit. When my paycheck has been spent and I didn't make the withdrawl, who is going to believe me?
I don't know how you expect to keep things in sequence and accommodate dropped packets without implementing a sequencing and transmission protocol. With that in mind, you've just recreated TCP.
What's more likely is Google will create a TCP protocol (you must accept the EULA) which forwards a copy of everyone's session to Google. When you make a request to, say weather.com, Google will then serve you cached results from previous cached sessions to make things faster by eliminating network hops to weather.com. Muhahahahaha...
perhaps another race has sent a probe at us? And if so, how would we spot it?
Most likely the probe would contain simple life forms which would try to blend in with society by assuming places of privileged power. The kind of power to pass legislation or create policies to give them better leverage over the populace as a whole.
It would not be difficult to spot, however it would be difficult to extricate them once they become resident as they would almost certainly ascertain some control over local and national media in order to sway public opinion in places where rhetoric and ignorance can easily give them political footholds in which to extend their residence.
Corpratists. Crony Capitalism. we are being fleeced.
fleeced is too light of a term. We need a better term for allowing corporate welfare yet still enabling millions of jobs to simply pack up and leave the US soil. A term which represents the state of the US job market, yet still captures the core values which every industry is striving for: cheap labor, cheap service, lax regulations, and low operating overhead. I know, let's just call it nafta.
Slashdot Mirror
But being that this is Slashdot I'm sure a mildly accurate, yet ludicrous, diagnoses can be reached without any actual input from the Japanese guys.
Like anything else, a large majority of people can easily shift from fantasy to reality and maintain a reasonable and healthy social morale. If you take a sample size from a pool of kids who have been bullied and constantly picked-on you're going to find a propensity to act out whether it be video games, TV or learned behavior from their environment.
The constant "Does too!" and "Does Not!" debates from both sides of the gaming==evil_people debate are pointless because both arguments have some truth to them yet aren't directed at fixing the actual underlying problem. All this debate does is perpetuate the rising cost of games, or end up in stupid regulation which falls short of fixing anything.
A system put in place to spy on terrorists will only be legal to spy on the people it was supposed to protect.
All the amazing programmers I've ever known started out self taught. They all have a back-story about how they had "this old machine.." or they would "go into computer lab on study hall.." or "..spent hours typing in the code out of the magazine..".
I don't think you can effectively "Teach" programming as a large portion of it is right-brained, but making some sort of CS syllabus available is a great idea for kids that actually want it. With all the action to abolish public education, I am dubious about any suggestions founded by capitalist juggernauts.
French designed black-and-white-and-flattened handbags are coming.
http://noscript.net/
It is in the best interest of the citizens on this country to get people back to work.
That all depends on who's interests you are invested in.
"The Emergency Bra that doubles as a facemask"
What was TFA about now?
So.. if this is anything like a real Debit/Cred card, the same security holes would seem to apply. Holes you wouldn't have with paper check or direct deposit. When my paycheck has been spent and I didn't make the withdrawl, who is going to believe me?
Seems google is inventing Gemacs?
I don't know how you expect to keep things in sequence and accommodate dropped packets without implementing a sequencing and transmission protocol. With that in mind, you've just recreated TCP.
What's more likely is Google will create a TCP protocol (you must accept the EULA) which forwards a copy of everyone's session to Google. When you make a request to, say weather.com, Google will then serve you cached results from previous cached sessions to make things faster by eliminating network hops to weather.com. Muhahahahaha...
Microsoft's version of Seri.
He would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling printer. Such a perfect plan.
the obese engineer wearing a t-shirt and ripped jeans who smells like he hasn't bathed in a week.
Yeah, but this dude is going to know where the best Taco joint is. That convention food sucks!
"I had incorporated some sophisticated regular expression pattern-matching.."
So many simple projects turn the corner of complexity, and never look back, right about at that statement.
select name,address from PRISM.maildata where body like '%plane%' and body like '%explosive%' and header like '%.tn%';
perhaps another race has sent a probe at us? And if so, how would we spot it?
Most likely the probe would contain simple life forms which would try to blend in with society by assuming places of privileged power. The kind of power to pass legislation or create policies to give them better leverage over the populace as a whole.
It would not be difficult to spot, however it would be difficult to extricate them once they become resident as they would almost certainly ascertain some control over local and national media in order to sway public opinion in places where rhetoric and ignorance can easily give them political footholds in which to extend their residence.
Corpratists. Crony Capitalism. we are being fleeced.
fleeced is too light of a term. We need a better term for allowing corporate welfare yet still enabling millions of jobs to simply pack up and leave the US soil. A term which represents the state of the US job market, yet still captures the core values which every industry is striving for: cheap labor, cheap service, lax regulations, and low operating overhead. I know, let's just call it nafta.
1) The law in the US is becoming above the law
2) You poor bastard.
3) all other questions refer to #1
because they deorbit naturally.
Otherwise known as the "Duck and Cover" de-orbiting method.
Because phillips heads are easily damaged when screwing and unscrewing them. And pentalobe aren't.
Apple couldn't have used a Torx screw to hold things together? They seems to be good enough for all those tiny screws in everyone's hard drive.
Welcome back, Type II Diabetes. We have missed you.
It would be nice to use plastic wrap to make walls impenetrable by sounds of penetration.
Now if we only had a radio made of coconuts.
Gilligan would manage to trash it somehow. Let's face it. You're never getting off that island.
Soon it will be everyone.
You mean, Soon we will find it has been everyone.