Actually that labelling on the fruit must be a US thing. They don't do it here in Denmark.
Here in Luxembourg, they do label fruit, but only one apple out of ten, or so. Or only one banana per hand.
Although lately this has changed: we're seeing more and more apple crates where every single apple has a label, or hands of bananas where each finger has its own label...
I think the laser etching would be ok for stuff like oranges, grapefruit and bananas (fruits where the skin is typically not eaten)..
I once met a banana that insisted that I eat it with skin! I found that odd as well, because usually it's the eaters that would insist on skin, not the other way round.
Yes, that's why you can't take a bite out of it. Before the bite, it doesn't infringe the logo (that's why the grocery shop could sell you it...), it's only by biting it that you infringed the trademark!
Why is it that if I butcher a human being, it's possible to get out of prison in a few years if I show that it was done in a mad emotional state or attributable to some psychosis driving me to attack, but if I butcher a book for a page or a CD for a song in a mad emotional state or neurotic urge to share, I'm likely to be fined into bankruptcy, and potentially imprisoned for *longer* than if I'd attacked a person?
Same reason why Bush attacked Iraq:
Because they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Else he would never have dared (see North Korea).
And that's your solution to the book butchering as well: butcher whatever expert witness which will testify against you, whatever lawyer will represent the MAFIAA, and their case will collapse. You will be sent to prison for butchering these lowlifes, but as you said, you eventually will walk free.
If more people realized this, we wouldn't be in the current mess.
We had a similar problem with an Aegis design, and it was a major headache for us Hardware engineers to try to convince the Systems Engineers that counting in Binary time was more logical than counting in 0.1 second increments. The SEs kept insisting that their computers at home accurately count in seconds and we hardware engineers should be able too.
And the software engineers would have been right. The error was not about counting in 0.1 second increments versus 1 second increments or whatever, but it was in using floating point representation where fixed point (basically, scaled integer) would have been more appropriate.
And come to think of it, that is more or less what most desktop and server OSes do: they count number of milli, micro, or nanoseconds, and store that as an integer.
Similar issue arises in finance: you don't encode dollar amounts as floating point. Instead you store number of cents (or mils) as integer. Every programmer of financial software knows about this (... or should know about this...)
Floating point is really only appropriate to represent values which are not known precisely anyways (measurement results), where the little additional rounding error wouldn't matter. For all else, used fixed-point.
The fiendish prof announced that he will run that code through itself. Whatever letter grade it spits out will be his thesis grade.
The even more fiendish student submits the following code:
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("A\n");
}
Of course, with lots of fluff around it to make it less obvious...
A friend of mine had a cat (Billy) who became incontinent due to its age.
He would still feel the urge, but if too far away from the litter box, he wouldn't quite make it in time...
So, once he was upstairs near my friend's bedroom/home office, the litter box was downstairs, and then came that sudden urge. Billy knew full well that there'd be no way that he'd make it downstairs in time. So, quick thinking as he was, he picked the next best spot: a Micro$oft Word manual, carelessly lying on the floor...
i know about at least 1 person for 100% sure he works for secret intelligence
Only one? I know 3:
one is an ex-colleague. Officially he just works for "the State", but "everybody" knows which part of the State he works for, even though he never stops denying it (especially once our local CCC chapter started spreading the same rumor...).
Another one is the boy scouts chieftain of a friend from our local LUG. He's pretty open (to us) about it.
And the third is the brother of my ex who sank a certain ship, and then was foolish enough to brag about it to his family after he came back from that mission...
Ok, so how long until the subpoenas will start raining in on Slashdot?
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Well, technically, their answer was not that useless. After all, it allowed them to safely fly back to SEATAC airport...
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In addition, most fruits here don't even have a sticker. We're quite capable of distinguishing between a banana and an apple without sticker. :D
Well, you've never met my wife
You usually call them nuts, not apples, you braggard!
Actually that labelling on the fruit must be a US thing. They don't do it here in Denmark.
Here in Luxembourg, they do label fruit, but only one apple out of ten, or so. Or only one banana per hand.
Although lately this has changed: we're seeing more and more apple crates where every single apple has a label, or hands of bananas where each finger has its own label...
Maybe now we can get around to tackling cancer.
So, let's start by transforming dull apple skin into nicely charred carcinogens!
I think the laser etching would be ok for stuff like oranges, grapefruit and bananas (fruits where the skin is typically not eaten)..
I once met a banana that insisted that I eat it with skin! I found that odd as well, because usually it's the eaters that would insist on skin, not the other way round.
The media might not have picked up on it, but the American pharma industry is hurting pretty badly right now,
The pharma industry? Hurting?
When the pharma industry hurts, pigs will fly!
Yes, that's why you can't take a bite out of it. Before the bite, it doesn't infringe the logo (that's why the grocery shop could sell you it...), it's only by biting it that you infringed the trademark!
Even though people will undoubtedly claim it changes the taste of the food,
Well, the laser kinda burns the apple at that spot, so conceivably it could change its taste.
But let me ask this : who would ever require SSL renegotiation in practice?
I mean seriously -- changing the cipher in the middle of an SSL session?? -- no mainstream scenario would ever do this.
A question comes to mind why renegotiation was ever supported in the first place.
Client certificates need this.
And his cookbook probably shows a chocolate factory instead of a banana split...
Why is it that if I butcher a human being, it's possible to get out of prison in a few years if I show that it was done in a mad emotional state or attributable to some psychosis driving me to attack, but if I butcher a book for a page or a CD for a song in a mad emotional state or neurotic urge to share, I'm likely to be fined into bankruptcy, and potentially imprisoned for *longer* than if I'd attacked a person?
Same reason why Bush attacked Iraq:
Because they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Else he would never have dared (see North Korea).
And that's your solution to the book butchering as well: butcher whatever expert witness which will testify against you, whatever lawyer will represent the MAFIAA, and their case will collapse. You will be sent to prison for butchering these lowlifes, but as you said, you eventually will walk free.
If more people realized this, we wouldn't be in the current mess.
Just run your own mail server and now the warrant needs to go to you, so you get notified.
The ISP could still read most mails, as the data transitions via their network in order to reach your server.
My point about (decimal) fixed point still stands.
We had a similar problem with an Aegis design, and it was a major headache for us Hardware engineers to try to convince the Systems Engineers that counting in Binary time was more logical than counting in 0.1 second increments. The SEs kept insisting that their computers at home accurately count in seconds and we hardware engineers should be able too.
And the software engineers would have been right. The error was not about counting in 0.1 second increments versus 1 second increments or whatever, but it was in using floating point representation where fixed point (basically, scaled integer) would have been more appropriate.
And come to think of it, that is more or less what most desktop and server OSes do: they count number of milli, micro, or nanoseconds, and store that as an integer.
Similar issue arises in finance: you don't encode dollar amounts as floating point. Instead you store number of cents (or mils) as integer. Every programmer of financial software knows about this (... or should know about this...)
Floating point is really only appropriate to represent values which are not known precisely anyways (measurement results), where the little additional rounding error wouldn't matter. For all else, used fixed-point.
What's happening? Are Microsoft's astromoderators on strike?
The fiendish prof announced that he will run that code through itself. Whatever letter grade it spits out will be his thesis grade.
The even more fiendish student submits the following code:
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("A\n");
}
Of course, with lots of fluff around it to make it less obvious...
black panthers hunting in their neighborhoods
Hei ee Lëtzebuerger!
He would still feel the urge, but if too far away from the litter box, he wouldn't quite make it in time...
So, once he was upstairs near my friend's bedroom/home office, the litter box was downstairs, and then came that sudden urge. Billy knew full well that there'd be no way that he'd make it downstairs in time. So, quick thinking as he was, he picked the next best spot: a Micro$oft Word manual, carelessly lying on the floor...
Smart cat!
i know about at least 1 person for 100% sure he works for secret intelligence
Only one? I know 3:
Ok, so how long until the subpoenas will start raining in on Slashdot?
And here in Europe, we have farmer's EU subsidies online. So now each farmer can browse and see how much his neighbor gets! Groovy!
It could be worse, you could be forced to use Lotus Notes or Plumbtree,
It could be even worse: rather than your company forcing you to use Plumtree, it could be your country.
pain-in-the-ass coaxial cables.
Those cables weren't that thick...
Reality check: Token ring would only be successful if swine flew.
How does this work?
Like a giant frisbee on steroids...
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Well, technically, their answer was not that useless. After all, it allowed them to safely fly back to SEATAC airport...
When have you ever seen /. in a URL?
Sure: click here