Sir (or Madam ?),
it is virtually impossible to invade another country by train, a train being one of the most easily stoppable vehicles in the world.
Captain J.
This is complete lunacy. Connection China to Europe's High Speed network ?? Through all of Russia, which has no high speed trains ?? In TEN years only ?? It took France 24 years to come where it is now, the Germans about as much time. And the Chinese want to bridge a humongously greater distance in TEN years ??
Propaganda, not more and not less.
"A government should be in fear of its citizens, not the citizens in fear of their government." Forgot who said it, but this is a beautiful real-world proof of it.
If I lived in a country where government does such things, I would seriously consider the question of revolution.
...scanning a person's ass cleavage for identity purposes ? Recent research has shown that ass cleavage is in shape, length and depth absolutely unique to any person. With the added advantage the ass cleavage has over the nose: it cannot break.
A possiblity no one seems to have thought of: what if the malware either hides inside the detection software, or poses AS the detection software ?
And, creepier even: what if there is malware capable of detecting a detection, leaving RAM during the detection, and then of coming back ?
Ha, right. The guy who invented semaphores and solved some of the most difficult theoretical problems in Computer Science was a "self-declared legend." Are you serious? Sure, Dijkstra was opinionated and arrogant
Genius is not necessarily in contradiction with being arrogant. What is your point ?
Yup. I'll always remember my first line of code. Some geeks on my high school were excited about writing games on a Commodore, that loaded its BASIC code from a tape recorder. I thought "mwah, so what". Until I discovered the PEEK and POKE commands. I was sold forever to computer programming.
Amen at your last phrase. If it takes Rebol to perform a certain task, then heck - let's use Rebol ! If the next assignment is best done in ADA - well, why not ?
I once had a boss, a very good manager, one of those who had crept up the scales from electronics engineer to vice-president. He had only one test to submit candidates for software engineering positions to. It was about designing an algorithm, and therefore language-independent. You could answer with pseudo-code, Java, C, or with an outline of your algorithm in French. Invariably, it would expose your ways of thinking. Still the best test for prospective programmers I've ever seen.
I concur on the Morse code. I learned it in the Navy, from a good and patient teacher, who basically insisted upon enormous amounts of exercise. Now, twenty-odd years later, it still sits so deeply in my brain that nothing can wash it out.
Dijkstra, who taught at Eindhoven Technical University - which is how I superficially came to know him - was mostly a self-declared legend. He cultivated his own myth, even going as far as publishing a little book with his own quotes.
Sheesh. Either am I becoming an old man at 40, or time goes by so fast I don't notice between coding, women and booze ( not necessarily in that order, though ).
In the Netherlands, having your fingerprints taken when applying for a new passport became obligatory last year. The government pretended that this was necessary in order to fight terrorism, although the measure is way more severre than what the European Union requires governments to do. There were and still are some civil rights organizations protesting against this security craze.
A very unfortunate side effect of this became visible at the latest elections. People were required to bring a passport along with their voter's registration card. 200,000 voters, a significant percentage of the country's registered voters, didnot have such an ID, for various reasons ( poverty, ignorance, laxism, protest ). Thus, they were excluded from the most fundamental mechanism underlying a democracy: voting.
Up to what degree should I consider, or not, the Pirate Party a one-issue party ? When I cast my vote for anyone or any party, I also take into consideration how they think about such varying and various issues as there are: economics, defence, justice, external relations. Do not take me wrong: I WOULD vote for the Pirate Party if and when they could convince me of having coherent stances on these topics. Thank you.
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is very bad news. Poor America, what have you come down to ?
Finally: some educators who have sound views upon how to educate our progeniture !
Sir (or Madam ?), it is virtually impossible to invade another country by train, a train being one of the most easily stoppable vehicles in the world. Captain J.
This is complete lunacy. Connection China to Europe's High Speed network ?? Through all of Russia, which has no high speed trains ?? In TEN years only ?? It took France 24 years to come where it is now, the Germans about as much time. And the Chinese want to bridge a humongously greater distance in TEN years ?? Propaganda, not more and not less.
Alcoa has always been known for its aggressive investigation and then pushing of new technologies.
"A government should be in fear of its citizens, not the citizens in fear of their government." Forgot who said it, but this is a beautiful real-world proof of it. If I lived in a country where government does such things, I would seriously consider the question of revolution.
...scanning a person's ass cleavage for identity purposes ? Recent research has shown that ass cleavage is in shape, length and depth absolutely unique to any person. With the added advantage the ass cleavage has over the nose: it cannot break.
A possiblity no one seems to have thought of: what if the malware either hides inside the detection software, or poses AS the detection software ? And, creepier even: what if there is malware capable of detecting a detection, leaving RAM during the detection, and then of coming back ?
If the rest of the software, i.e. the actual voting system, is not open source, the move is for the worse.
Ha, right. The guy who invented semaphores and solved some of the most difficult theoretical problems in Computer Science was a "self-declared legend." Are you serious? Sure, Dijkstra was opinionated and arrogant
Genius is not necessarily in contradiction with being arrogant. What is your point ?
Yup. I'll always remember my first line of code. Some geeks on my high school were excited about writing games on a Commodore, that loaded its BASIC code from a tape recorder. I thought "mwah, so what". Until I discovered the PEEK and POKE commands. I was sold forever to computer programming.
Amen at your last phrase. If it takes Rebol to perform a certain task, then heck - let's use Rebol ! If the next assignment is best done in ADA - well, why not ?
I once had a boss, a very good manager, one of those who had crept up the scales from electronics engineer to vice-president. He had only one test to submit candidates for software engineering positions to. It was about designing an algorithm, and therefore language-independent. You could answer with pseudo-code, Java, C, or with an outline of your algorithm in French. Invariably, it would expose your ways of thinking. Still the best test for prospective programmers I've ever seen.
Kewl sig !
Man - back in MY day, we wished we'd had zeroes ! We used empty animal skulls for zeroes.
I concur on the Morse code. I learned it in the Navy, from a good and patient teacher, who basically insisted upon enormous amounts of exercise. Now, twenty-odd years later, it still sits so deeply in my brain that nothing can wash it out.
Dijkstra, who taught at Eindhoven Technical University - which is how I superficially came to know him - was mostly a self-declared legend. He cultivated his own myth, even going as far as publishing a little book with his own quotes.
Sheesh. Either am I becoming an old man at 40, or time goes by so fast I don't notice between coding, women and booze ( not necessarily in that order, though ).
Sheesh.
Finally. One daring little company, and we finally move forward. Thumbs up for the Colorado mavericks.
In the Netherlands, having your fingerprints taken when applying for a new passport became obligatory last year. The government pretended that this was necessary in order to fight terrorism, although the measure is way more severre than what the European Union requires governments to do. There were and still are some civil rights organizations protesting against this security craze.
A very unfortunate side effect of this became visible at the latest elections. People were required to bring a passport along with their voter's registration card. 200,000 voters, a significant percentage of the country's registered voters, didnot have such an ID, for various reasons ( poverty, ignorance, laxism, protest ). Thus, they were excluded from the most fundamental mechanism underlying a democracy: voting.
Americans, beware !
Buying computers is soooooo 2009 !
One muses whether or not this also is the upcoming end of the Xeon line ?
Powering up the hype. Great to see how the next internet bubble grows, and grows...
I just KNEW there was a third guy involved in there. Bob was never going to satisfy Alice all by himself, all these years.
Sir,
Up to what degree should I consider, or not, the Pirate Party a one-issue party ? When I cast my vote for anyone or any party, I also take into consideration how they think about such varying and various issues as there are: economics, defence, justice, external relations. Do not take me wrong: I WOULD vote for the Pirate Party if and when they could convince me of having coherent stances on these topics. Thank you.
Prolly both, knowing the average slashdot public