The 4 hour group was (sorry to say this, but it's a fact) Black girls. Big loopy wires over the boards, and every time they tried to fix one connection, they broke another. Painful to watch.
Did they bend the jumper wires into little heart shapes?
The word 'cast' in your own 'argument' should tell you that iron has a liquid state. All you need to do is heat it up and it will sag and drop down into the sewer under gravity.
If there were only a way to capture and effectively store all that energy. 1-10 TW of DC voltage is huge. A few lightning bolts would be enough to power an entire city for awhile.
Energy can't be created or destroyed. Lightning energy is stored in the Earth. Billions and billions of terawatts of power accumulated over the eons.
All you need to be able to extract it is a suitable grounding point to connect the other end of your circuit to.
OTOH 20 amps is enough for a USB powered Tesla coil, which might kill you.
Can't wait!
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They've still got considerable assets which will take a long time to bleed out.
They basically get money for every PC sold. How is that an unhealthy situation?
People haven't rushed out in droves to replace their perfectly good PCs because of Windows 8. Tech mags love to make headlines out of that but it doesn't mean Microsoft is in trouble.
Our American society cares more about protecting the right to make mistakes and the belief in second chances than it does in any right to privacy or integrity.
So that's why there's more Americans in prison than any other society in history. Got it.
If you write a program in C++ and happen to write a buffer overflow, this quite easily can allow a remote exploit. The Java JVM protects against this kind of errors
Maybe you could try using std::vector/std::string instead of C arrays...
how is someone supposed to write secure C++ and then run it in someone else's browser accessed over the web without posing a security risk to the remote user?
Why is that ever necessary?
The whole premise of foreign code having direct access to my machine seems broken to me.
How many good programmers actually exist who are capable of writing secure code in C++? And out of them, how many will still make simple errors like an occasional buffer overrun? Even if you're a "good" programmer there will be lapses in judgement or things that are just overlooked.
If you're using std::vector then buffer overruns can't happen. Same for std::string, etc.
(nb. Modern C++ compilers enable range checking on operator[] by default...)
If you're using smart pointers then all pointers will either be valid or null (they also make garbage collection moot - two birds with one stone).
If you're not doing those two things in a security sensitive app. then you're doing it wrong.
Done right, C++ can be every bit as easy/safe as Java is claimed to be.
A substantial proportion of our core infrastructure is still written in error-prone, bug-friendly languages like C and C++
A good programmer can write secure code with C++.
A good programmer cannot write secure code with Java - he's at the mercy of the JVM.
Java was sold to the world as a secure platform and has completely failed to deliver. Only a handful of websites need it (usually unnecessarily, and mostly for basic things like authentication) yet the huge all-singing-and-dancing API exposes you on every single web site that you visit. Does anybody really need all those Java multimedia APIs, etc.?
It's become a cancer on the computing world, it needs:
a) To be removed (recommended). b) To be reduced - bank logins only need a subset of Java 1.1.
(PS: You can still use it for back-end work if you want, but keep it out of the browsers...)
Why your bank? They're using Java because it isn't going anywhere soon. It's highly integrated all over the place and is leading the way as the language of choice for everything
Sure... but is it necessary for me to install it in my machine just so I can log into their web site? (Thus exposing me to every other malicious site on the web)
Same for all those government web sites, etc., that require Java. Not necessary just for a login.
In reality I only access those web sites via IE and use Firefox for general surfing, but how many ordinary people do that?
Alright, let me rephrase it so that people who can only read literally have a chance:
Is there anything preventing google from allowing adverts in the future? eg. When sales have taken off and enough people have been suckered in by the promise of no adverts.
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The 4 hour group was (sorry to say this, but it's a fact) Black girls. Big loopy wires over the boards, and every time they tried to fix one connection, they broke another. Painful to watch.
Did they bend the jumper wires into little heart shapes?
I'll be very surprised if he isn't more worried about the rights of large media corporations.
* Worried that their bribes might to somebody else...
It'll be much simpler just to ban children from cafes.
They've got no business drinking coffee at their age anyway.
There is less of a concern to save battery power as its easier to buy more gas. Because of this they are less likely to turn off the headlights.
Its possible i am mistaken, but i don't believe they have any sort of "mandatory headlight" laws.
Good to see you only picked the lowest-hanging fruit in your reply.
The other two points on the list are at least as, if not more important...
At this point rational GPU operators will drop out.
There's rational bitcoin miners?
I can even set gamma to a value less than 1 on my netbook, forcing me to use the gamma correction from Windows (with some problems)
What happens when you don't do that?
(Do user-choosable errors even count as problems?)
The word 'cast' in your own 'argument' should tell you that iron has a liquid state. All you need to do is heat it up and it will sag and drop down into the sewer under gravity.
If there were only a way to capture and effectively store all that energy. 1-10 TW of DC voltage is huge. A few lightning bolts would be enough to power an entire city for awhile.
Energy can't be created or destroyed. Lightning energy is stored in the Earth. Billions and billions of terawatts of power accumulated over the eons.
All you need to be able to extract it is a suitable grounding point to connect the other end of your circuit to.
Cancer causes LEDs!
I'm sure there was an xkcd with the proof...
... because right now they're leading in carbon emissions and unless it's changed recently, the RATE of emission growth is accelerating.
Get back to us when they overtake the USA, mmmmkay?
(not holding breath...)
How is any of that worse than scooters with two-stroke engines (which is what they'd be riding if they didn't have electric)?
I demand special privileges, dammit! I'm a special human being.
OTOH 20 amps is enough for a USB powered Tesla coil, which might kill you.
Can't wait!
They've still got considerable assets which will take a long time to bleed out.
They basically get money for every PC sold. How is that an unhealthy situation?
People haven't rushed out in droves to replace their perfectly good PCs because of Windows 8. Tech mags love to make headlines out of that but it doesn't mean Microsoft is in trouble.
Our American society cares more about protecting the right to make mistakes and the belief in second chances than it does in any right to privacy or integrity.
So that's why there's more Americans in prison than any other society in history. Got it.
First become fluent at harassing people in African-French and Filipino.
If you write a program in C++ and happen to write a buffer overflow, this quite easily can allow a remote exploit. The Java JVM protects against this kind of errors
Maybe you could try using std::vector/std::string instead of C arrays...
how is someone supposed to write secure C++ and then run it in someone else's browser accessed over the web without posing a security risk to the remote user?
Why is that ever necessary?
The whole premise of foreign code having direct access to my machine seems broken to me.
How many good programmers actually exist who are capable of writing secure code in C++? And out of them, how many will still make simple errors like an occasional buffer overrun? Even if you're a "good" programmer there will be lapses in judgement or things that are just overlooked.
If you're using std::vector then buffer overruns can't happen. Same for std::string, etc.
(nb. Modern C++ compilers enable range checking on operator[] by default...)
If you're using smart pointers then all pointers will either be valid or null (they also make garbage collection moot - two birds with one stone).
If you're not doing those two things in a security sensitive app. then you're doing it wrong.
Done right, C++ can be every bit as easy/safe as Java is claimed to be.
I think the main focus is on getting people to install the Ask Toolbar.
The more updates they can push out, the more chance there is of somebody slipping up and installing it by mistake.
A substantial proportion of our core infrastructure is still written in error-prone, bug-friendly languages like C and C++
A good programmer can write secure code with C++.
A good programmer cannot write secure code with Java - he's at the mercy of the JVM.
Java was sold to the world as a secure platform and has completely failed to deliver. Only a handful of websites need it (usually unnecessarily, and mostly for basic things like authentication) yet the huge all-singing-and-dancing API exposes you on every single web site that you visit. Does anybody really need all those Java multimedia APIs, etc.?
It's become a cancer on the computing world, it needs:
a) To be removed (recommended).
b) To be reduced - bank logins only need a subset of Java 1.1.
(PS: You can still use it for back-end work if you want, but keep it out of the browsers...)
Why your bank? They're using Java because it isn't going anywhere soon. It's highly integrated all over the place and is leading the way as the language of choice for everything
Sure ... but is it necessary for me to install it in my machine just so I can log into their web site? (Thus exposing me to every other malicious site on the web)
Same for all those government web sites, etc., that require Java. Not necessary just for a login.
In reality I only access those web sites via IE and use Firefox for general surfing, but how many ordinary people do that?
Google turned up a PDF of it here: http://gpnp.net/backshelves.gpnp.net/001%20scifi%20ebooks/scifi%20fav%20authors/heinlein%20ebooks/Robert%20A%20Heinlein%20-%20Take%20Back%20Your%20Government.pdf
Alright, let me rephrase it so that people who can only read literally have a chance:
Is there anything preventing google from allowing adverts in the future? eg. When sales have taken off and enough people have been suckered in by the promise of no adverts.
That's the problem with the American political system, the people are too lazy to do anything, but complain.
Do you have any idea of the personal time and energy needed to change things?
The rich people/corporations can pay somebody else to do it for them. The guy in the street can't. Hence the system.
(Robert Heinlein's "Take Back Your Government" is basically this).