Something in the HoL statement makes sense:
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No Pardon For Turing
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rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times
This train of thought is not so stupid at all. "Pardoning" Turing would help no one, and would not increase his glory. The glory he has, he has in our minds.
The system has much lower abu
The aliens over there have prolly gone back to sleeping in trees and dragging their knuckles on the ground, as they saw that inventing computers was going to be impossible.
and only 100 stars ? One star, on average, per 55 cubic lightyears ? That is 2..37 lightyears on average between two neighbouring stars... That says something about the challenges awaiting interstellar travel.
...besides there being the possibility of molecules, in that stuff, we do not ( yet ) know. This stuff may, indeed, be more important than cynics deign to think.
I take a problem, sketch together a rough solution using the appropriate CS algorithms, and then code something up (using a lot of prints to debug). I do some basic testing and then go with it
That is exactly how we, "engineers", often do it.
How do you get out of the 'hacker' mindset?
You don't. The "hacker mindset" is precious. Never lose it. Illustration: not earlier than yesterday I presented a Proof of Concept to a client. The guys were thrilled. Basically, all I had done was hacking an IBM tool, to make it do something it does, out-of-the-box, badly. Don't change, dude !
Although you are anonymous and idipso et ergo a coward, I shall deign to respond. That is not the same vikingpower. Which you could have checked, did however not take the pains to do.
...there seems to be some common sense left in the Netherlands; "common sense" taking, in these sad days of ours, the place "bravery" once had. ( Don't peck on me for pecking on the Dutch; I am one myself. Nobody is perfect. )
If it takes as high a power consumption as that of an entire US county to let all these non-grown-ups post their weekend pics in order to make eachother even more envious, then that is one more solid argument against the whole Facebook craze. Down and away with it.
Funny that you should mention "the complete human tragedy". Reminds me of Barbara Tuchman's "The march of folly", on how humans repeat the same moronic behaviour through all of history.
I do agree. Still, imagine your most basic Ajax app, and the doors it opens to this sort of exploits. "The horror. The horror" ( Col. Kurtz, "Apocalypse Now" )
Yes. But on which side is the ridiculosity residing ? The law-enforcement's, as they can't do anything ? The engineering side ? Our side ? Yours, for making the more-than-obvious statement ?
Old-fashioned. Use *no tech*. Write all the invites by hand, put them into hand-written and tongue-licked envelopes, bring them to the post office. You'll be astounded at the response.
Optionally, throw in a code-cracking contest ( also hand-written ) that is not TOO hard to crack.
Please excuse the typo, and read: ".....but still a very viable and respected one, the sea was and is a free space, for all to use and peruse and navigate, to be claimed and colonized by none."
In 1609, Hugo Grotius published "Mare Liberum", that became the basis for international naval law as we know it. His treatise was born out of conflict, a conflict of interests between England and Holland. Basically, it states that beyond the three-mile limit, now more of a 12-mile limit, but still a very viable and respected one.
What we urgently need is an equivalent corpus of international law, protecting the rest of the world against USA interference with and encroachment upon both national and individual liberties. The situation is rapidly becoming intolerable.
how in the US political system, national and transnational space exploration interests are, every 4 years, at the potential mercy of not-so-potential morons running for office. The moon ?? A permanent base there ?? WTF ???
I am v e r y concerned about this, too. We seem to assist at the emergence of a new sort of state: the control state. A democratic-looking, "soft" police state. Your use of the word "obscene" is justified. It will either end in sheer apathy, or in uprising / revolution, these also of a new kind. "Principiis obsta !" / "Resist the beginnings !"
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rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times
This train of thought is not so stupid at all. "Pardoning" Turing would help no one, and would not increase his glory. The glory he has, he has in our minds.
QFD
I just scanned through the Javadoc for the Java part. It looks horrible ( I mean the set-up & architecture, not the javadoc ). Binspam + dupe.
The system has much lower abu The aliens over there have prolly gone back to sleeping in trees and dragging their knuckles on the ground, as they saw that inventing computers was going to be impossible.
and only 100 stars ? One star, on average, per 55 cubic lightyears ? That is 2..37 lightyears on average between two neighbouring stars... That says something about the challenges awaiting interstellar travel.
for stating the bloody obvious. I dont have a single certification, yet a "successful" career since 1993.
...besides there being the possibility of molecules, in that stuff, we do not ( yet ) know. This stuff may, indeed, be more important than cynics deign to think.
...leads even scientific circles astray, to do things modern science would not have lowered itself to do as litte as a mere decade ago. How sad.
An in-depth feature in Wired
Don't make me laugh !
I take a problem, sketch together a rough solution using the appropriate CS algorithms, and then code something up (using a lot of prints to debug). I do some basic testing and then go with it
That is exactly how we, "engineers", often do it.
How do you get out of the 'hacker' mindset?
You don't. The "hacker mindset" is precious. Never lose it. Illustration: not earlier than yesterday I presented a Proof of Concept to a client. The guys were thrilled. Basically, all I had done was hacking an IBM tool, to make it do something it does, out-of-the-box, badly. Don't change, dude !
That is not too far from where I live. Might give it a go if my pending patent application is refused.
Although you are anonymous and idipso et ergo a coward, I shall deign to respond. That is not the same vikingpower. Which you could have checked, did however not take the pains to do.
...there seems to be some common sense left in the Netherlands; "common sense" taking, in these sad days of ours, the place "bravery" once had. ( Don't peck on me for pecking on the Dutch; I am one myself. Nobody is perfect. )
If it takes as high a power consumption as that of an entire US county to let all these non-grown-ups post their weekend pics in order to make eachother even more envious, then that is one more solid argument against the whole Facebook craze. Down and away with it.
/dupe
Funny that you should mention "the complete human tragedy". Reminds me of Barbara Tuchman's "The march of folly", on how humans repeat the same moronic behaviour through all of history.
I do agree. Still, imagine your most basic Ajax app, and the doors it opens to this sort of exploits. "The horror. The horror" ( Col. Kurtz, "Apocalypse Now" )
Yes. But on which side is the ridiculosity residing ? The law-enforcement's, as they can't do anything ? The engineering side ? Our side ? Yours, for making the more-than-obvious statement ?
One more, in fact, there were already so many...
Still - learning Drupal sounds sensible, the most sensible suggestion I read among all these comments.
**idle**
Old-fashioned. Use *no tech*. Write all the invites by hand, put them into hand-written and tongue-licked envelopes, bring them to the post office. You'll be astounded at the response.
Optionally, throw in a code-cracking contest ( also hand-written ) that is not TOO hard to crack.
Please excuse the typo, and read: ".....but still a very viable and respected one, the sea was and is a free space, for all to use and peruse and navigate, to be claimed and colonized by none."
In 1609, Hugo Grotius published "Mare Liberum", that became the basis for international naval law as we know it. His treatise was born out of conflict, a conflict of interests between England and Holland. Basically, it states that beyond the three-mile limit, now more of a 12-mile limit, but still a very viable and respected one.
What we urgently need is an equivalent corpus of international law, protecting the rest of the world against USA interference with and encroachment upon both national and individual liberties. The situation is rapidly becoming intolerable.
how in the US political system, national and transnational space exploration interests are, every 4 years, at the potential mercy of not-so-potential morons running for office. The moon ?? A permanent base there ?? WTF ???
I am v e r y concerned about this, too. We seem to assist at the emergence of a new sort of state: the control state. A democratic-looking, "soft" police state. Your use of the word "obscene" is justified. It will either end in sheer apathy, or in uprising / revolution, these also of a new kind. "Principiis obsta !" / "Resist the beginnings !"