Are you genuinely claiming to be too stupid to tell the difference between a curative and a vice? Here's a hint, on the tobacco label, there's generally a warning saying "Tobacco will kill you". On this zinc "medicine", there's no warning label saying "Warning: will permanently disfigure you", and the manufacturer peddles it as being both safe and effective.
If the election was fair, why did the government feel the need to announce results before counting a majority of the votes, certify the results before the mandatory 3-day waiting period, arrest the opposition, send the Basij out to beat up women and children, photoshop pro-Ahmadinejad rallies, block foreign reporters and filter the Internet?
Stop thinking with your testicles, and put down the war porn. War is a horrible thing, and it should never be your first response. Or can you seriously believe that it would be good for Iran to have thousands of their women and children murdered?
The Iranians apparently thought they deserved a fair election. This is not a tempest in a teapot, imagined up by the western world. Watch the videos, read the live feeds through twitter, listen to the chants of "Allaho Akbar" that shake the cities: it is very clear that Iran's leadership dramatically overstepped in this election.
It doesn't matter one single bit that the country is an effective dictatorship. The people were promised an election to choose their own president, and no sooner had they made their choice than the government yanked the promise away from them. It doesn't even matter if a fair counting of every vote cast does indicate a win for Ahmadinejad; the blatant fraud, police brutality, and the arresting of the opposition has ruined the people's trust in government. I truly hope that Iran doesn't descend into civil war.
Translation: The Wii is not hard, so I will not play with it. I play games so I can pwn noobs and show off. My mate is impressed by me blowing up punks in TF2.
You may want to change that. I remember seeing an article a few weeks back saying that L3 was going to implement some access restrictions on those to lower their traffic.
There's no guarantee that extraterrestrial life is carbon and water based. It's at least a fair possibility, given that it seems to work well on this planet, but assuming other life will follow our patterns closely seems like asking for more misunderstandings than would otherwise exist.
A lot of people(idiots) believe that there are two things their taxes pay for: 1) Minority single mothers on welfare with 27 kids 2) Roads
Obviously you can make every single road a toll road, or put a tax on gasoline to pay for roads. Also, they hate single mothers who don't(can't) work, for some poorly-explained reason.
Competent lawyers, would, at some point, stop acting the fool. That's why the RIAA refuses to hire them. They need, to put it nicely, uncouth slavering attack dogs. If they could abuse a bulldog into wearing a suit, they wouldn't even need human lawyers. Come on. Asking the judge to bar your opponent from participating in the court? What kind of sheep-brained idiocy is this? How could they even think that was a valid tactic to use? The only possible conclusion is that the RIAA lawyers are the victims of a full frontal lobotomy.
That's why this could be a big thing. If it's making actual testable predictions, you can almost call string theory a science. It's a massive breakthrough for the last decade of seemingly-pointless navel-gazing.
If you've taken the time to learn a language that doesn't, necessarily, "believe in" sentences as a grammatical structure, then I suspect you would find your opinions dramatically altered; at least, you would find it more reasonable to hold multiple concepts and ideas in your mind at the same time, much like is required to understand grammar such as, to provide an example, the Chinese "ba pattern", where the verb of a sentence could be a hundred words away from the subject, although the longest sentences are generally limited to scholarly works, which tend to be both excessively lengthy, but also quite eloquent in their use of idiom. Newspapers and novels have short sentences for the ADD public.
Well, I assumed you had just missed the entire meat of my comment. After all, you basically ripped apart the intro, ignoring about 75% of what I said. So I figured if I gave you the summary of what I had said, you couldn't help but actually read and reply to what I was trying to get through your thick skull. Apparently I was wrong. I applaud your powers of obliviousness and self-importance.
But please, I beg of you, tell me the name of the company you work for, own, contract with, are partner in, or otherwise produce programming code for. Shorting your stock will make me rich, I tell you! Filthy rich!
If that wall of text was too much for you to read, you should perhaps take a remedial English course. Most books written for adults are written with lengthy paragraphs and very few pictures.
Any argument that requires a strong majority of the populace to be an intelligent and rational actor is flawed. At least half of the human race falls below the mean intelligence level. When was the last time high school taught a course that detailed how to get a loan in a safe way, or how to sensibly manage credit? Many high schools don't even require civics courses, preferring instead a selection of "multicultural studies", "introduction to computers", and "remedial English grammar". Any argument that requires a strong majority of businesses to act in a completely ethical fashion, without external pressures, is flawed. Corporations exist only to extract wealth. Thanks to the de-regulation of the last couple of decades, businesses have been free to take any action that improves the bottom line. They loaned to people with no income verification, to people who were blatantly unable to repay the loans. Predictably, many of these people defaulted on their loans. The credit industry cannot function when the default rate erases any possible profits, and eats into capital besides. This is a case of individual businesses acting to harm the environment (the industry in which they work) for their own selfish gains, a true "tragedy of the commons". A rational and educated actor would have been able to see 5 years into the future, and know that their income would not suffice for them to manage the repayment. A rational and educated government would have been able to look back to 1929, and draw lessons from the boom time immediately before the crash that spawned the great depression.
There is no such thing, in Java, as allocating a chunk of memory. There is no such thing, in Java, as a pointer to memory. There is a thing called a reference, which may be one of two things: a pointer to a specific object instance (basically a vtable) or null. Vtables contain a reference counter. When the counter reaches zero, the bus explodes^W^Wobject is a candidate for GC, and means that there are no references left to the object. If the JVM is coded correctly--and this is a very critical piece of code, it's very thoroughly tested--there is no way to keep a reference to an object whose reference count is zero. The following code should be instructive:
BigAssArray foo = new BigAssArray (1000000000); int bar = 0; foo.populateWithRandomNumbers; bar = foo.getContentsOfArray(0); System.out.println(bar); foo = null; // NullPointerException will be thrown here bar = foo.getContentsOfArray(0); System.out.println(bar);
No matter how you obsfucate your code to hide it, you cannot confuse the compiler enough to let you continue using a null object in the way you are envisioning. GC in Java is completely orthogonal to security.
We can't kill botnets because of privacy law. We could very easily write a botnet hunter that could propagate through vulnerabilities in infected systems. It would, however, be illegal. The problem is, the intersection of "black hat hackers", "moral hackers", and "fearless hackers" is very small. We don't have anti-botnet hunter-killers for the same reason we don't have caped crusaders in every city.
ACORN is a red herring. The people out gathering voter registrations are payed per name. Federal regulations require ACORN to submit every single name they gather; they are not allowed to strike obvious forgeries before handing them to the government. It is the government's responsibility--because they've demanded the sole power--to strike invalid voters from the rolls. Moreover, you have to prove your identity when you vote. If there's a problem with people showing up with forged ID to prove they're someone who died 2 years ago, the fail is obvious. Voter registration drives hurt nobody. Voter disenfranchisement and lawsuits over hanging chads hurt everybody.
It would not be more robust. The more things you have to pay attention to at the nuts-and-bolts level, the fewer things you are able to pay attention to at the business logic level. The key difference between managed languages like Java and non-managed languages like C, is that the uninteresting grunt work is done for you by the compiler. A vast majority of security flaws are related to programmers thinking exactly like you do. Even if the programmer is very highly skilled, memory management is tedious and difficult, and it is impossible to never make a mistake. Mistakes in memory management lead to segfaults or remote exploits. Non-managed languages should be used only when the performance benefits outweigh the dangers.
Bloggers just cherry pick other peoples' hard work...
Just like Maureen Dowd is constantly having her hard work stolen by TPM. Wait...you mean it's the exact other way around? Hrm. That's some pretty professional research.
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Are you genuinely claiming to be too stupid to tell the difference between a curative and a vice? Here's a hint, on the tobacco label, there's generally a warning saying "Tobacco will kill you". On this zinc "medicine", there's no warning label saying "Warning: will permanently disfigure you", and the manufacturer peddles it as being both safe and effective.
If the election was fair, why did the government feel the need to announce results before counting a majority of the votes, certify the results before the mandatory 3-day waiting period, arrest the opposition, send the Basij out to beat up women and children, photoshop pro-Ahmadinejad rallies, block foreign reporters and filter the Internet?
Stop thinking with your testicles, and put down the war porn. War is a horrible thing, and it should never be your first response. Or can you seriously believe that it would be good for Iran to have thousands of their women and children murdered?
The Iranians apparently thought they deserved a fair election. This is not a tempest in a teapot, imagined up by the western world. Watch the videos, read the live feeds through twitter, listen to the chants of "Allaho Akbar" that shake the cities: it is very clear that Iran's leadership dramatically overstepped in this election.
It doesn't matter one single bit that the country is an effective dictatorship. The people were promised an election to choose their own president, and no sooner had they made their choice than the government yanked the promise away from them. It doesn't even matter if a fair counting of every vote cast does indicate a win for Ahmadinejad; the blatant fraud, police brutality, and the arresting of the opposition has ruined the people's trust in government. I truly hope that Iran doesn't descend into civil war.
Translation:
The Wii is not hard, so I will not play with it. I play games so I can pwn noobs and show off. My mate is impressed by me blowing up punks in TF2.
You may want to change that. I remember seeing an article a few weeks back saying that L3 was going to implement some access restrictions on those to lower their traffic.
Good, you probably got the last one. Stupid GM's stupid bankruptcy. MY FAVORITE (CHEAP) CAR!
Yeah, I know, offtopic. I'll take my beating.
There's no guarantee that extraterrestrial life is carbon and water based. It's at least a fair possibility, given that it seems to work well on this planet, but assuming other life will follow our patterns closely seems like asking for more misunderstandings than would otherwise exist.
A lot of people(idiots) believe that there are two things their taxes pay for:
1) Minority single mothers on welfare with 27 kids
2) Roads
Obviously you can make every single road a toll road, or put a tax on gasoline to pay for roads. Also, they hate single mothers who don't(can't) work, for some poorly-explained reason.
This needs modding up, it's probably the most insightful comment in here.
Competent lawyers, would, at some point, stop acting the fool. That's why the RIAA refuses to hire them. They need, to put it nicely, uncouth slavering attack dogs. If they could abuse a bulldog into wearing a suit, they wouldn't even need human lawyers.
Come on. Asking the judge to bar your opponent from participating in the court? What kind of sheep-brained idiocy is this? How could they even think that was a valid tactic to use? The only possible conclusion is that the RIAA lawyers are the victims of a full frontal lobotomy.
That's why this could be a big thing. If it's making actual testable predictions, you can almost call string theory a science. It's a massive breakthrough for the last decade of seemingly-pointless navel-gazing.
Not only am I quitting Slashdot, I'm forming a massive and poorly-written network of interlinking blogs all supporting this exact story!
If you've taken the time to learn a language that doesn't, necessarily, "believe in" sentences as a grammatical structure, then I suspect you would find your opinions dramatically altered; at least, you would find it more reasonable to hold multiple concepts and ideas in your mind at the same time, much like is required to understand grammar such as, to provide an example, the Chinese "ba pattern", where the verb of a sentence could be a hundred words away from the subject, although the longest sentences are generally limited to scholarly works, which tend to be both excessively lengthy, but also quite eloquent in their use of idiom. Newspapers and novels have short sentences for the ADD public.
Well, I assumed you had just missed the entire meat of my comment. After all, you basically ripped apart the intro, ignoring about 75% of what I said. So I figured if I gave you the summary of what I had said, you couldn't help but actually read and reply to what I was trying to get through your thick skull. Apparently I was wrong. I applaud your powers of obliviousness and self-importance.
But please, I beg of you, tell me the name of the company you work for, own, contract with, are partner in, or otherwise produce programming code for. Shorting your stock will make me rich, I tell you! Filthy rich!
"liquidated"
Here we have a contestant for the most innocuous-sounding word used in 2009 to describe mass slaughter. I'll be in the corner, puking.
If that wall of text was too much for you to read, you should perhaps take a remedial English course. Most books written for adults are written with lengthy paragraphs and very few pictures.
Any argument that requires a strong majority of the populace to be an intelligent and rational actor is flawed. At least half of the human race falls below the mean intelligence level. When was the last time high school taught a course that detailed how to get a loan in a safe way, or how to sensibly manage credit? Many high schools don't even require civics courses, preferring instead a selection of "multicultural studies", "introduction to computers", and "remedial English grammar".
Any argument that requires a strong majority of businesses to act in a completely ethical fashion, without external pressures, is flawed. Corporations exist only to extract wealth. Thanks to the de-regulation of the last couple of decades, businesses have been free to take any action that improves the bottom line. They loaned to people with no income verification, to people who were blatantly unable to repay the loans. Predictably, many of these people defaulted on their loans. The credit industry cannot function when the default rate erases any possible profits, and eats into capital besides. This is a case of individual businesses acting to harm the environment (the industry in which they work) for their own selfish gains, a true "tragedy of the commons".
A rational and educated actor would have been able to see 5 years into the future, and know that their income would not suffice for them to manage the repayment.
A rational and educated government would have been able to look back to 1929, and draw lessons from the boom time immediately before the crash that spawned the great depression.
Three words for you, you pompous and ill-informed windbag:
NULL POINTER EXCEPTION.
There is no such thing, in Java, as allocating a chunk of memory.
There is no such thing, in Java, as a pointer to memory.
There is a thing called a reference, which may be one of two things: a pointer to a specific object instance (basically a vtable) or null.
Vtables contain a reference counter. When the counter reaches zero, the bus explodes^W^Wobject is a candidate for GC, and means that there are no references left to the object. If the JVM is coded correctly--and this is a very critical piece of code, it's very thoroughly tested--there is no way to keep a reference to an object whose reference count is zero. The following code should be instructive:
No matter how you obsfucate your code to hide it, you cannot confuse the compiler enough to let you continue using a null object in the way you are envisioning. GC in Java is completely orthogonal to security.
I've never made such a mistake, not in 20 years of coding.
Please, what company do you work for? I want to short your clients.
We can't kill botnets because of privacy law. We could very easily write a botnet hunter that could propagate through vulnerabilities in infected systems. It would, however, be illegal. The problem is, the intersection of "black hat hackers", "moral hackers", and "fearless hackers" is very small. We don't have anti-botnet hunter-killers for the same reason we don't have caped crusaders in every city.
ACORN is a red herring. The people out gathering voter registrations are payed per name. Federal regulations require ACORN to submit every single name they gather; they are not allowed to strike obvious forgeries before handing them to the government. It is the government's responsibility--because they've demanded the sole power--to strike invalid voters from the rolls. Moreover, you have to prove your identity when you vote. If there's a problem with people showing up with forged ID to prove they're someone who died 2 years ago, the fail is obvious. Voter registration drives hurt nobody. Voter disenfranchisement and lawsuits over hanging chads hurt everybody.
It would not be more robust.
The more things you have to pay attention to at the nuts-and-bolts level, the fewer things you are able to pay attention to at the business logic level. The key difference between managed languages like Java and non-managed languages like C, is that the uninteresting grunt work is done for you by the compiler. A vast majority of security flaws are related to programmers thinking exactly like you do. Even if the programmer is very highly skilled, memory management is tedious and difficult, and it is impossible to never make a mistake. Mistakes in memory management lead to segfaults or remote exploits.
Non-managed languages should be used only when the performance benefits outweigh the dangers.
Bloggers just cherry pick other peoples' hard work...
Just like Maureen Dowd is constantly having her hard work stolen by TPM.
Wait...you mean it's the exact other way around? Hrm. That's some pretty professional research.