Am I supposed to be impressed by "a 4-line solution to a traveling salesman tour" when that 4 line solution calls a library function called "FindShortestTour()"?
That might be useful if your name is Martin Gardner, but...
If people would stop there hard lined views that border to be religious extremism. When it comes to everything science says has to be true. There are so many things that cause the planet to work, and have yet to be understood.
Trouble is... people will read that as "Science is wrong!"
(Or, worse "Science is just an opinion and I've got an opinion too!")
Does it? Allot of organized crime already has one or several buyers for whatever is stolen. And the buyer(s) are usually the ones who gave the information of what where and when it can be stolen.
You think they're going to start unloading containers from a moving ship?
Let me guess: Into their little speedboats, right? And before the navy arrives.
Will the pirates at least wave and say thank you to the crew when they take manual control of the ship?
What if there's no "manual control" when the ship is out at sea? Are they going to start unloading containers onto their little speedboat from a moving ship?
Screw that. The cops don't need to find the people who are actually on the lease. They don't need to find who paid the last rent check. That is not their job. All they have to do, and SHOULD have to do, is get approval from an occupant to enter the place to search.
Nope. They should have to get a warrant, or have reasonable suspicion that there was something illegal on the premises.
In this case they'd just arrested the owner on suspicion of robbery and taken him away. That's reasonable suspicion and should be given as the reason they entered the house, not because somebody else opened the door for them and let them in.
Result: The cops can now sit in a van waiting for the owner to go out for milk before they knock on the door and ask the remaining weak-willed/simpleton residents to search the house.
Sometimes it's better to let a guilty man go free than to pass bad (ie. abusable) laws to catch him.
That's basically what has happened over the last couple of days. After the joint statement on the insolvency of Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin price dove to ~$400, but started to recover not long after; it's now back up to ~$600, which isn't far from where it was before the most recent round of nonsense.
Mt. Gox is only the beginning. Once the script-kiddies get around to it then anything of value that can be stolen electronically from ordinary PCs is toast.
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What is a quart?
0.000254 libraries of congress I believe.
In other words, 0.037 football fields.
So all they need is to stick a maxipad on the inside of the helmet and it's fixed?
the question is did he know it was drinkable "water" and not something toxic.
Why would there be toxic liquids in a space suit? The only liquids in space suits are drinking water, condensed sweat and urine.
I'm not sure what unit of measurement is bigger than a barrel.
Furlongs. Several barrels would fit in a furlong.
Or was it a "chain"? No, a chain is the length of a cricket pitch. Americans wouldn't understand that.
I think that a smartphone mount should be mandatory so that the device isn't in your hand.
Even better: Make the navigation app stop responding to input whenever the phone is moving.
This kind of stuff is just stupid.
That's lawyers for you...
One law saying "don't drive like an ass" should be good enough, but nooooooo, we're lawyers.
(I know, I know... there are asses with far more road sense than many drivers around here... )
Am I supposed to be impressed by "a 4-line solution to a traveling salesman tour" when that 4 line solution calls a library function called "FindShortestTour()"?
That might be useful if your name is Martin Gardner, but...
Settlements do not set a precedent.
Which is why the corporations prefer them to losing in court.
Why new research into climate change? Haven't we been told the science was settled?
We still need to refine the climate models so we can predict exactly how big a disaster the idiots are going to create.
Summing up: "Science" may be wrong about some things but the scientific method is always correct (and *always* leads to the truth).
If people would stop there hard lined views that border to be religious extremism. When it comes to everything science says has to be true.
There are so many things that cause the planet to work, and have yet to be understood.
Trouble is... people will read that as "Science is wrong!"
(Or, worse "Science is just an opinion and I've got an opinion too!")
Does it? Allot of organized crime already has one or several buyers for whatever is stolen. And the buyer(s) are usually the ones who gave the information of what where and when it can be stolen.
You think they're going to start unloading containers from a moving ship?
Let me guess: Into their little speedboats, right? And before the navy arrives.
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/20...
When there are no crew members you can send in troops to kill all the pirates...
With no crew members you can place sentry guns everywhere, no need to send in troops.
"$10M or your $LARGESUM ship and cargo land at the bottom of the ocean".
Riiight. Because there's no possible way they could do that at the moment is there...?
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/20...
Will the pirates at least wave and say thank you to the crew when they take manual control of the ship?
What if there's no "manual control" when the ship is out at sea? Are they going to start unloading containers onto their little speedboat from a moving ship?
I'm going to start including this on all ./ replies: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/20...
Screw that. The cops don't need to find the people who are actually on the lease. They don't need to find who paid the last rent check. That is not their job. All they have to do, and SHOULD have to do, is get approval from an occupant to enter the place to search.
Nope. They should have to get a warrant, or have reasonable suspicion that there was something illegal on the premises.
In this case they'd just arrested the owner on suspicion of robbery and taken him away. That's reasonable suspicion and should be given as the reason they entered the house, not because somebody else opened the door for them and let them in.
Good for her.
Result: The cops can now sit in a van waiting for the owner to go out for milk before they knock on the door and ask the remaining weak-willed/simpleton residents to search the house.
Sometimes it's better to let a guilty man go free than to pass bad (ie. abusable) laws to catch him.
What's wrong with that outcome?
Nothing.
Nothing ... apart from the legal precedent it created as a side effect.
(Which will be abused, you can bet on that)
That's basically what has happened over the last couple of days. After the joint statement on the insolvency of Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin price dove to ~$400, but started to recover not long after; it's now back up to ~$600, which isn't far from where it was before the most recent round of nonsense.
Mt. Gox is only the beginning. Once the script-kiddies get around to it then anything of value that can be stolen electronically from ordinary PCs is toast.
The people inside are only cargo. That makes it a drone.
It's as if a million bitcoin owners suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Whoosh!
Sure it had lots of neat features...but nobody wanted it because the IBM PC was already doing the job (even though it was slower).
And microdrives...? They weren't serious.
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/20...
... until someone hacks into a carriers network, and deactivates and wipes EVERY PHONE on the carriers registry.
Gee ... if only there was a way to print a number on a card and cover it with silver stuff that scratches off.
If we had a technology like that available we could make phones that need a special secret number to brick them. Too bad it doesn't exist.