In practise, fighter plane has to "see" the enemy plane in order to to attack it. If radar is jammed and optical sensors are blinded by using laser, the drones might lose even against World War II fighter planes. On theory, you could use laser to blind fighter pilot as well, although there is a treaty against deliberately causing permanent blindness using laser.
What is wrong/unpleasant in that video? I didn't watch the entire video as it is so long, I watched only random parts of it, but IMHO he sounded quite pleasant in it.
Maybe this is some kind of cultural thing, because I am Finnish. On the other hand, I find that sometimes he uses a bit too harsh language on mailing lists.
It will be interesting to see what the price will be for the tablet. I am quite interested having Linux on my devices instead of Android or Windows, which both have privacy issues and lack of total user control of the device.
Devices like this. is something that other continents need as well. It hope this starts new trend which helps to grow market share of (pure) Linux devices.
If the food doesn't have very high caloric "density", normal body should at some point start signalling that you have eaten enough. First hunger disappears and if you still force yourself to continue eating, you will start feeling nauseous and if you ignore that, at some point you start vomiting. However, some foods don't trigger that reactions fast enough compared to the calories they contain and there are sick people, like bulimics or persons with Prader-Willi syndrome, where this mechanism doesn't seem to work well enough, which cause them to eat extreme amounts.
And before eating anything else, you should start by eating vegetables with low amount of energy, like cucumber, lettuce etc. And do it without pouring enormous amounts of fatty salad dressings on top of them.
And you should stop eating before your stomach is full. It is enough to eat as much to take away the hunger. And you should use small drinking glasses, plates etc, because it helps to keep the amount of food you eat lower.
And if this doesn't help, start calculating calories and changing the content of food and drinks to something that has less calories (and take smaller amounts of them). Laws of nature guarantee that you lose weight if you just cut enough the amount of calories you get from your food and drinks. It is just question of making this more pleasant, by choosing right kind of food, that helps take away your hunger without a lot of calories.
Being obese or uneducated are things that people are typically able to change. Very poor people in third world countries might not have possibility of going to school, having libraries etc, but even they can choose to just eat less and lose weight.
Human body cannot get energy out of nothing. Human body has to maintain body temperature which is usually above the surrounding temperature and this takes constant energy. And if you eat nothing or just little, the body has no other choice than start getting the energy by burning fat and other human tissues.
However, it is worth to notice that excessive eating doesn't always has to cause obesity. For example, if you have malabsorption, a large portion of the energy that would have been available in the food, just goes directly through your intestine. That is not against laws of nature. However, getting energy out of nothing, is against laws of nature. You cannot store more energy as a fat, than the amount of energy your food has (and in reality your body has to create heat etc and cannot store all that energy as fat).
Nobody can get fat (or energy) out of nothing -- or almost nothing -- as it would be against laws of physics. Just count calories and lower drastically the amount of calories you eat on average day, until you start losing weight. It is as simple as that.
Cloning doesn't increase the risk of getting genetical diseases the same way as does inbreeding between close relatives. However, current cloning techniques can increase some other genetical risks, but techniques can be improved and many other things increase risk of genetical diseases as well -- like getting a child when you are nearer the age of 40 instead being about 20 years old.
Sometimes it is even desireable that clone wouldn't have the same memories. If the cloned person has had many traumatic events in life, it might be good idea not even try to transfer them somehow to the clone and just let the clone to have better life without all those negative memories.
As far as I know, identical twins don't typically have any serious mental problems even though they are genetically almost perfect copies. And many identical twins think they have very special and valuable relationship with their twin, which no other person can have.
What is so tough about that? I wouldn't be against cloning myself or being a clone myself -- although I don't insist of getting cloned. In my opinion, being a clone or a person who is cloned, is an honour. It is a proof that you are so special person that there are people want to clone you and not some disgusting person that nobody likes.
It seems that you nor the justice minister Lord McNally don't seem to understand the meaning of pardon. Pardon is forgiveness of a crime and the cancellation of the relevant penalty. It doesn't mean that law wasn't broken at the time. If a person is proven to be innocent after first being convicted, the more proper way of dealing with it, is overturning the conviction/retrial etc, instead of just pardoning.
And your life might be also in danger. For example, it is not unheard in many countries that Muslim family have killed their son/daughter if they have found out that he/she is not heterosexual or is having sex before marriage.
And there are many other issues that might more or less destroy you life/family even in western countries, if your name is connected to some things that you might want to discuss with a pseudonym. For example, some diseases, mental health problems, being victim of (sexual) abuse as a child etc might be problematics for many people.
Not working is relative. Raspberry Pi has some issues (for me the main issue seems to be the low powered USB port which in practise requires using it with a powered USB hub), but it seems to work better than I imaged it would work. And it might have some compatibility problems (sometimes I have had to remove and then re-insert an USB device to make it work) with some devices.
So far, I haven't tried any torture tests or used oscilloscope to check if I am able to detect stuttering when using USB sound card. However, I haven't heard/noticed any stuttering when I have used it to play something, if the load has been light.
Of course it is not perfect. For example, web browsing could work a bit faster. It would be nice if there would be good Android port for it. It would be nice, if the build in sound using 3.5 mm audio connector (instead of using HDMI or external USB sound card) would have better quality etc.
I guess that even NRA isn't insane enough to demand the right to bear nuclear weapons. Mentally unstable person with nuclear weapons can cause enormous damage and MAD doesn't work with insane persons. BTW, I heard that president Nixon used to order nuclear attacks when he was under influence of alcohol, but luckily the orders weren't ever followed.
Weapons have some valid uses. It is just unfortunate that weapons tend to draw nutters like some magnets.
This reminds me of so called missing white woman syndrome. When something similar or even worse happened in Iraq or Vietnam by US soldiers, the killers didn't usually even face any serious sentences (these are just two examples of the cases that news reporters bothered to report, but there has been countless other cases that were never reported):
I agree that he has far too simplictic view. In practise, error handling code should in many cases be much more complex than the code that is executed in normal cases, because errors can happen in quite many forms (and recovering from them may depend on the input) - like wrong input, out of memory, out of disk space, insufficient (file) permissions, filesystem/disk disappearing/corruption, problems in network connections, lack of some kind resources, hung transaction, user yanking usb device off etc. And these things can change during the execution of program, especially if the error condition is deliberably caused be malicious attacker - like changing file permissions, replacing files if links, renaming files etc. However, in most cases, error handling core isn't given much thought and typically it is not well tested.
And it depends a lot on the situation, what would be the best (but probably still not completely satisfactory) way of handling the error. Should everything but error log be cleaned? Should we clean something, but leave some kind of transaction log for trying the same thing later? What if we get new error during cleaning process? Is it better to try to save as much data as possible or is it better try to erase all temporary files etc? Should we try do the operation again automatically and if so, how soon and how many times should we try to repeat it? Is it possible to use some alternative method to do the same thing? How to get error message that is as meaningfull as possible to the user -- or should we be careful not to reveal too much information about internal state of the program to possible attacker? Should we wait for user input for handling the error?
The push to cloud is making me sick. I suspect that the cloud providers may be data mining the data and of course USA government has more or less free access to the data which I would like to keep as private.
Would prosecutors prosecute a woman who lies by saying that she is using pills and a man has sex with her on the condition that she is using pills? If not, this is a clear case of sexual discrimination of men, for which Sweden is notorious.
Even though the parent has been modded flamebait, I think population explosion is a huge problem which should be put under control as soon as possible. It makes malnutrition situations even worse and it will be difficult to create enough jobs, build homes, educate the children etc -- if the population is growing very fast. And at some point the population growth will hit a wall, because we live in world of limited resources.And even before hitting the wall, life will be quite miserable, because so many people are sharing the same limited resources.
And even though overpopulation is at the moment mainly problem of developing countries, if we run out of oil (or some other essential resource) soon, it could affect western countries as well -- even though we have little population growth nowadays. Modern farming technologies require cheap oil for fertilizers, shipping food etc -- and without cheap oil, we may face serious problems feeding the population. Without modern farming technologies we cannot produce as much food as we are growing at the moment.
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In practise, fighter plane has to "see" the enemy plane in order to to attack it. If radar is jammed and optical sensors are blinded by using laser, the drones might lose even against World War II fighter planes. On theory, you could use laser to blind fighter pilot as well, although there is a treaty against deliberately causing permanent blindness using laser.
What is wrong/unpleasant in that video? I didn't watch the entire video as it is so long, I watched only random parts of it, but IMHO he sounded quite pleasant in it.
Maybe this is some kind of cultural thing, because I am Finnish. On the other hand, I find that sometimes he uses a bit too harsh language on mailing lists.
It will be interesting to see what the price will be for the tablet. I am quite interested having Linux on my devices instead of Android or Windows, which both have privacy issues and lack of total user control of the device.
Devices like this. is something that other continents need as well. It hope this starts new trend which helps to grow market share of (pure) Linux devices.
If the food doesn't have very high caloric "density", normal body should at some point start signalling that you have eaten enough. First hunger disappears and if you still force yourself to continue eating, you will start feeling nauseous and if you ignore that, at some point you start vomiting. However, some foods don't trigger that reactions fast enough compared to the calories they contain and there are sick people, like bulimics or persons with Prader-Willi syndrome, where this mechanism doesn't seem to work well enough, which cause them to eat extreme amounts.
And before eating anything else, you should start by eating vegetables with low amount of energy, like cucumber, lettuce etc. And do it without pouring enormous amounts of fatty salad dressings on top of them.
And you should stop eating before your stomach is full. It is enough to eat as much to take away the hunger. And you should use small drinking glasses, plates etc, because it helps to keep the amount of food you eat lower.
And if this doesn't help, start calculating calories and changing the content of food and drinks to something that has less calories (and take smaller amounts of them). Laws of nature guarantee that you lose weight if you just cut enough the amount of calories you get from your food and drinks. It is just question of making this more pleasant, by choosing right kind of food, that helps take away your hunger without a lot of calories.
Being obese or uneducated are things that people are typically able to change. Very poor people in third world countries might not have possibility of going to school, having libraries etc, but even they can choose to just eat less and lose weight.
Human body cannot get energy out of nothing. Human body has to maintain body temperature which is usually above the surrounding temperature and this takes constant energy. And if you eat nothing or just little, the body has no other choice than start getting the energy by burning fat and other human tissues.
However, it is worth to notice that excessive eating doesn't always has to cause obesity. For example, if you have malabsorption, a large portion of the energy that would have been available in the food, just goes directly through your intestine. That is not against laws of nature. However, getting energy out of nothing, is against laws of nature. You cannot store more energy as a fat, than the amount of energy your food has (and in reality your body has to create heat etc and cannot store all that energy as fat).
Nobody can get fat (or energy) out of nothing -- or almost nothing -- as it would be against laws of physics. Just count calories and lower drastically the amount of calories you eat on average day, until you start losing weight. It is as simple as that.
Cloning doesn't increase the risk of getting genetical diseases the same way as does inbreeding between close relatives. However, current cloning techniques can increase some other genetical risks, but techniques can be improved and many other things increase risk of genetical diseases as well -- like getting a child when you are nearer the age of 40 instead being about 20 years old.
Sometimes it is even desireable that clone wouldn't have the same memories. If the cloned person has had many traumatic events in life, it might be good idea not even try to transfer them somehow to the clone and just let the clone to have better life without all those negative memories.
As far as I know, identical twins don't typically have any serious mental problems even though they are genetically almost perfect copies. And many identical twins think they have very special and valuable relationship with their twin, which no other person can have.
What is so tough about that? I wouldn't be against cloning myself or being a clone myself -- although I don't insist of getting cloned. In my opinion, being a clone or a person who is cloned, is an honour. It is a proof that you are so special person that there are people want to clone you and not some disgusting person that nobody likes.
It seems that you nor the justice minister Lord McNally don't seem to understand the meaning of pardon. Pardon is forgiveness of a crime and the cancellation of the relevant penalty. It doesn't mean that law wasn't broken at the time. If a person is proven to be innocent after first being convicted, the more proper way of dealing with it, is overturning the conviction/retrial etc, instead of just pardoning.
And your life might be also in danger. For example, it is not unheard in many countries that Muslim family have killed their son/daughter if they have found out that he/she is not heterosexual or is having sex before marriage.
And there are many other issues that might more or less destroy you life/family even in western countries, if your name is connected to some things that you might want to discuss with a pseudonym. For example, some diseases, mental health problems, being victim of (sexual) abuse as a child etc might be problematics for many people.
Not working is relative. Raspberry Pi has some issues (for me the main issue seems to be the low powered USB port which in practise requires using it with a powered USB hub), but it seems to work better than I imaged it would work. And it might have some compatibility problems (sometimes I have had to remove and then re-insert an USB device to make it work) with some devices.
So far, I haven't tried any torture tests or used oscilloscope to check if I am able to detect stuttering when using USB sound card. However, I haven't heard/noticed any stuttering when I have used it to play something, if the load has been light.
Of course it is not perfect. For example, web browsing could work a bit faster. It would be nice if there would be good Android port for it. It would be nice, if the build in sound using 3.5 mm audio connector (instead of using HDMI or external USB sound card) would have better quality etc.
I guess that even NRA isn't insane enough to demand the right to bear nuclear weapons. Mentally unstable person with nuclear weapons can cause enormous damage and MAD doesn't work with insane persons. BTW, I heard that president Nixon used to order nuclear attacks when he was under influence of alcohol, but luckily the orders weren't ever followed.
Weapons have some valid uses. It is just unfortunate that weapons tend to draw nutters like some magnets.
This reminds me of so called missing white woman syndrome. When something similar or even worse happened in Iraq or Vietnam by US soldiers, the killers didn't usually even face any serious sentences (these are just two examples of the cases that news reporters bothered to report, but there has been countless other cases that were never reported):
Haditha killings
My Lai Massacre
And how do you clean the files or other similar resources the killed thread has created or partially modified before getting killed?
I agree that he has far too simplictic view. In practise, error handling code should in many cases be much more complex than the code that is executed in normal cases, because errors can happen in quite many forms (and recovering from them may depend on the input) - like wrong input, out of memory, out of disk space, insufficient (file) permissions, filesystem/disk disappearing/corruption, problems in network connections, lack of some kind resources, hung transaction, user yanking usb device off etc. And these things can change during the execution of program, especially if the error condition is deliberably caused be malicious attacker - like changing file permissions, replacing files if links, renaming files etc. However, in most cases, error handling core isn't given much thought and typically it is not well tested.
And it depends a lot on the situation, what would be the best (but probably still not completely satisfactory) way of handling the error. Should everything but error log be cleaned? Should we clean something, but leave some kind of transaction log for trying the same thing later? What if we get new error during cleaning process? Is it better to try to save as much data as possible or is it better try to erase all temporary files etc? Should we try do the operation again automatically and if so, how soon and how many times should we try to repeat it? Is it possible to use some alternative method to do the same thing? How to get error message that is as meaningfull as possible to the user -- or should we be careful not to reveal too much information about internal state of the program to possible attacker? Should we wait for user input for handling the error?
I tried using habanero and it didn't work with our dog either.
The push to cloud is making me sick. I suspect that the cloud providers may be data mining the data and of course USA government has more or less free access to the data which I would like to keep as private.
Would prosecutors prosecute a woman who lies by saying that she is using pills and a man has sex with her on the condition that she is using pills? If not, this is a clear case of sexual discrimination of men, for which Sweden is notorious.
Don't believe the propaganda.
Even though the parent has been modded flamebait, I think population explosion is a huge problem which should be put under control as soon as possible. It makes malnutrition situations even worse and it will be difficult to create enough jobs, build homes, educate the children etc -- if the population is growing very fast. And at some point the population growth will hit a wall, because we live in world of limited resources.And even before hitting the wall, life will be quite miserable, because so many people are sharing the same limited resources.
And even though overpopulation is at the moment mainly problem of developing countries, if we run out of oil (or some other essential resource) soon, it could affect western countries as well -- even though we have little population growth nowadays. Modern farming technologies require cheap oil for fertilizers, shipping food etc -- and without cheap oil, we may face serious problems feeding the population. Without modern farming technologies we cannot produce as much food as we are growing at the moment.
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