I think that, as far as evolution is concerned, religion as a social club was far more impactful than religion as a coping mechanism. It forced all the members of a community to come together once a week, even if they didn't want to. This gives an emerging society a huge competitive advantage. Even today, I believe that most people that go to church don't go because they are trying to strengthen their relationship with some god, they go because that's where their friends hang out, and the like being part of something bigger than themselves.
I would say Obama is more of a Canadian type Socialist.
In general, democrats want the US to be more like Canada (a government that takes care of the people), and republicans want the US to be more like Mexico (run by corporations, and negligible government oversight).
Female executives with no concept of work/life balance (living with cats) still get paid less than their male peers. Same thing for brown people, short people, and all sorts of minorities in the US (I am a tall white male that gets paid way more than my peers). The only way any of this will ever change is if companies start publishing payroll data publicly, or at least to their employees. Companies take advantage of the strange social stigma that it's somehow inappropriate to talk about salary with peers, and they use that to underpay as many of their employees as they can get away with.
We didn't do cursive in high school, although we were also told in elementary school that teachers in middle school and high school would only accept papers written in cursive. Some middle school teachers liked it, some only accepted print, and all my high school papers were typed (class of 2002).
I blame groups like slashdot and google that intentionally downgrade https connections, and get people used to the idea of logging in without ssl. If there weren't so many broken ass web deployments out there set up by people with zero understanding of https and security in general, then this would not even be an issue. Every browser would have proper https enforcement, and every web session would be secure.
Blaming the web browser for trying to educate users, and blaming the users for being dumb is a total cop out. Want to know how slashdot keeps getting owned? Because it is IMPOSSIBLE to log in securely. Seriously, an ssl cert is not that expensive. At least let those of us who care log in securely.
Free* Software is not the same as Free Software. I write Free Software, which means that I don't give a crap who uses it, forks it, or puts it into their propitiatory application. Because of this, I am not allowed to re-use code written by people who publish under GPL. It is downright ridiculous to even imply that public domain code is somehow "less free" than GPL code.
It should be a requirement for all esoteric programming language developers that they provide and IDE (or IDE extension) with support for syntax highlighting and auto-complete.
As a professional programmer who has worked on projects in all five of these languages, I can honestly say without bias that Java is the best programming language.
Hey, how are those implicit type conversions treating you? What? Different on every OS, architecture, and C implementation in existence?
How many C programmers do you think there are that really understand the difference between an int, a size_t, and a function pointer? THAT is what I call playing games behind the scenes, and in C it's fucking dangerous, because if you mess that up, it's straight to arbitrary code execution.
Actually, if you aren't going to any super malicious websites, having noscript installed, and enabling scripts globally will actually still give you a significant amount of protection.
How about driving while sleepy? Why not close off all the roads after 11pm? How about driving with an IQ under 100? Why allow people to drive at all if it's so damn dangerous? How about if you want to live in a nanny state, you move to a country like China or Ireland.
Plenty of people can drive just fine while talking on a cellphone, and often times it boosts productivity. In the USA we have a solid drivers license system, and if people suck at driving, they get their licenses taken away. Maybe law makers should focus on using that system to more effectively discourage reckless drivers, as opposed to extrapolating statistical quirks in a weak attempt to hinder those that might be reckless drivers in the future.
I don't allow my bank with noscript. I don't just white list every site I go to, I only enable scripts if things are epicly broken, like ajax heavy sites.
My point though was beyond javascript whitelists. Even if you have "allow scripts globally" enabled (bad idea) noscript will still block most attempts at xss, heapspray, plugin abuse, and sketchy redirection etc. In short, noscript is a ninja warrior.
"...there may be wisdom in offering a new kind of computer engineering degree targeted toward the student who is more interested in succeeding in industry than exploring computing theory."
Which is why many universities offer software engineering degrees as a more practical alternative to computer science degrees. Software engineering degrees were offered at many of the schools I was looking at back when I started my undergrad in 2002. I was actually annoyed at how many software engineering classes my university crammed into my computer science curriculum since I had no intention of becoming a cube monkey.
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I think that, as far as evolution is concerned, religion as a social club was far more impactful than religion as a coping mechanism. It forced all the members of a community to come together once a week, even if they didn't want to. This gives an emerging society a huge competitive advantage. Even today, I believe that most people that go to church don't go because they are trying to strengthen their relationship with some god, they go because that's where their friends hang out, and the like being part of something bigger than themselves.
Superstition is also the step right before scientific verification.
The awesome thing about understanding women is that you really only need to figure out one of them.
I would say Obama is more of a Canadian type Socialist.
In general, democrats want the US to be more like Canada (a government that takes care of the people), and republicans want the US to be more like Mexico (run by corporations, and negligible government oversight).
Female executives with no concept of work/life balance (living with cats) still get paid less than their male peers. Same thing for brown people, short people, and all sorts of minorities in the US (I am a tall white male that gets paid way more than my peers). The only way any of this will ever change is if companies start publishing payroll data publicly, or at least to their employees. Companies take advantage of the strange social stigma that it's somehow inappropriate to talk about salary with peers, and they use that to underpay as many of their employees as they can get away with.
We didn't do cursive in high school, although we were also told in elementary school that teachers in middle school and high school would only accept papers written in cursive. Some middle school teachers liked it, some only accepted print, and all my high school papers were typed (class of 2002).
I blame groups like slashdot and google that intentionally downgrade https connections, and get people used to the idea of logging in without ssl. If there weren't so many broken ass web deployments out there set up by people with zero understanding of https and security in general, then this would not even be an issue. Every browser would have proper https enforcement, and every web session would be secure.
Blaming the web browser for trying to educate users, and blaming the users for being dumb is a total cop out. Want to know how slashdot keeps getting owned? Because it is IMPOSSIBLE to log in securely. Seriously, an ssl cert is not that expensive. At least let those of us who care log in securely.
Every AV is donkey shit. AVG happens to be the only free one.
Free* Software is not the same as Free Software. I write Free Software, which means that I don't give a crap who uses it, forks it, or puts it into their propitiatory application. Because of this, I am not allowed to re-use code written by people who publish under GPL. It is downright ridiculous to even imply that public domain code is somehow "less free" than GPL code.
optics::"visible light", not
english::"visible" english::"light"
It should be a requirement for all esoteric programming language developers that they provide and IDE (or IDE extension) with support for syntax highlighting and auto-complete.
As a professional programmer who has worked on projects in all five of these languages,
I can honestly say without bias that Java is the best programming language.
Skynet will be written in java.
Hey, how are those implicit type conversions treating you? What? Different on every OS, architecture, and C implementation in existence?
How many C programmers do you think there are that really understand the difference between an int, a size_t, and a function pointer? THAT is what I call playing games behind the scenes, and in C it's fucking dangerous, because if you mess that up, it's straight to arbitrary code execution.
Hey! No debate forking!
C is not a major programming language.
Nothing interesting has been done in C since the early 90's, when many of today's top programmers were just learning to walk.
FLAME ON!
The java spec is SIGNIFICANTLY more mathematically sound than the C spec will ever be!
Russia and Kazakhstan are both in Asia.
Actually, if you aren't going to any super malicious websites, having noscript installed, and enabling scripts globally will actually still give you a significant amount of protection.
How about driving while sleepy? Why not close off all the roads after 11pm? How about driving with an IQ under 100? Why allow people to drive at all if it's so damn dangerous? How about if you want to live in a nanny state, you move to a country like China or Ireland.
Plenty of people can drive just fine while talking on a cellphone, and often times it boosts productivity. In the USA we have a solid drivers license system, and if people suck at driving, they get their licenses taken away. Maybe law makers should focus on using that system to more effectively discourage reckless drivers, as opposed to extrapolating statistical quirks in a weak attempt to hinder those that might be reckless drivers in the future.
I don't allow my bank with noscript. I don't just white list every site I go to, I only enable scripts if things are epicly broken, like ajax heavy sites.
My point though was beyond javascript whitelists. Even if you have "allow scripts globally" enabled (bad idea) noscript will still block most attempts at xss, heapspray, plugin abuse, and sketchy redirection etc. In short, noscript is a ninja warrior.
That's what the noscript is for. It does more than just blocking javascript these days.
distributed filesystem != storage cloud
a storage cloud is closer to what freenet etc was trying to pull off
Nationalism is not patriotism, it's a superset of racism.
"...there may be wisdom in offering a new kind of computer engineering degree targeted toward the student who is more interested in succeeding in industry than exploring computing theory."
Which is why many universities offer software engineering degrees as a more practical alternative to computer science degrees. Software engineering degrees were offered at many of the schools I was looking at back when I started my undergrad in 2002. I was actually annoyed at how many software engineering classes my university crammed into my computer science curriculum since I had no intention of becoming a cube monkey.