The moment after a terrorist blows up a bomb hidden in his anus (on a plane or just while in the queue before security check), flying will become a whole lot worse...
He has to get caught, not succeed. Otherwise we won't know it was up his ass.
We need a guy sitting in a plane seat with his trousers down using a bic lighter to light a piece of string poking out of his ass. It's the best thing that could happen to the world right now because the TSA would have to admit in public that they're powerless and all those machines were a waste of money.
In jail the boredom is broken periodically by suffering.
"Suffering?"
The USA prison system glorifies prison rape, especially for young geeky types. 35 years as somebody's bitch while the guards joke about your 'suffering' isn't worth 20 years of freedom as an old man. Let's face it, he's not going to have a fancy retirement plan. He's looking at a miserable existence when he gets out.
Some people's stay in prison isn't much different from their normal life (gang-bangers). It may even be fun - you get your own prison bitch to help relieve the boredom.
Other people have a house, friends, outside interests, hobbies that are taken away (no Internet access, no gadgets, no Arduino+LEDs to play with... or whatever) and they end up as the gang-banger's bitch. These people lose everything if they get locked up. It's a thousand times more punishment than the gang-banger receives. This the real injustice of the system, and it's why he chose not to go there.
You want a big-name prosecutor to be soft on somebody or ask for less than the maximum sentence every time some body cries while they're in the lock-up? If we go down that road the country will be in anarchy in less than six months.
I was, however, also doing exercises like wrist curls, inverse wrist curls, wrist extensions with a 45 lb. bar at the gym from time to time. And I was also doing other exercises that probably inadvertently helped strengthen these same areas.
In other words... your anecdote is completely worthless.
"The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way here was public member variables."
I am puzzled by that as well.
Me too.
I guess his point is that: foo.setBar(foo.getBar()+3); is much more boring than foo.bar += 3; I somewhat understand it and I wish we had automatic calls to get and set in C++ like it exists in C# to make core more beautiful.
I can't see how he values less keypresses over encapsulation/inconsistency. a) Is he going to have half the variables in a class as public and the other half with accessor methods?
b) What's wrong with returning a reference to bar, ie. "foo.bar() += 3;"? That at least allows you to do something if "bar" has any other dependent variables.
Why do people get so concerned with what others do?
Maybe we should repeal all those anti-littering, anti-polluting laws. That's just people being people, right?
How about we let people drink and drive while texting. I guess we should leave them in peace to do their thing, right? We're safe in our houses so it can't affect us...
the people disrupting the movie won't care about this.
Even if they did, they'd still answer and say "I can't talk, I'm in the cinema... Really? No way, dude!! Haha. So what did he do next??? You're kidding me!!! " etc.
If the disabler mechanism can only disable the weapon and have no way to fire it off, then the worse that can happen is the gun wouldn't work or the disabler wouldn't work if hacked.
No, the worst that can happen is that the shooter gets himself a pre-idiocy gun, tapes a few photos of babies to himself, then goes on a rampage. Nobody else will be able to do a damn thing about it.
you have to admire the original skypes creator, 5+ years and still nobody has managed to crack the protocol
Why? Unbreakable encryption algorithms are widely published.
What takes talent is messing up as badly as something like WEP and still managing to get it past a committee who's supposed to know about stuff like that. I admire the people who managed that, it's industrial strength WTF.
it's more expressive in certain circumstances but definitely not more powerful. There is a reason C is the de-facto standard for embedded systems in that it is lightweight and the second most powerful language there is (Assembly or Machine Code being the most powerful).
I use C++ on a daily basis to program Atmel Tiny85s. With virtual functions and everything...
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A few million tons of concrete would just make a bigger bang when it goes off...
52% of Americans also said that downloading infringing content should be a punishable offense.
Most Americans when asked would like to see more healthy food choices at McDonalds.
Would they actually buy them? Nope, they'd just like to see them before ordering their bucket of mechanically recovered chicken chunks.
Bottle of skunk scent?
Having said that, what's the betting that it would be classified/covered up so the system could continue as normal...?
The moment after a terrorist blows up a bomb hidden in his anus (on a plane or just while in the queue before security check), flying will become a whole lot worse...
He has to get caught, not succeed. Otherwise we won't know it was up his ass.
We need a guy sitting in a plane seat with his trousers down using a bic lighter to light a piece of string poking out of his ass. It's the best thing that could happen to the world right now because the TSA would have to admit in public that they're powerless and all those machines were a waste of money.
She failed to see that 50 years in an American Federal Prison wasn't a fitting punishment for this person/crime.
Even the injured party didn't think so but she bullied them into pressing full charges.
Just to make herself look good.
In jail the boredom is broken periodically by suffering.
"Suffering?"
The USA prison system glorifies prison rape, especially for young geeky types. 35 years as somebody's bitch while the guards joke about your 'suffering' isn't worth 20 years of freedom as an old man. Let's face it, he's not going to have a fancy retirement plan. He's looking at a miserable existence when he gets out.
Some people's stay in prison isn't much different from their normal life (gang-bangers). It may even be fun - you get your own prison bitch to help relieve the boredom.
Other people have a house, friends, outside interests, hobbies that are taken away (no Internet access, no gadgets, no Arduino+LEDs to play with ... or whatever) and they end up as the gang-banger's bitch. These people lose everything if they get locked up. It's a thousand times more punishment than the gang-banger receives. This the real injustice of the system, and it's why he chose not to go there.
You want a big-name prosecutor to be soft on somebody or ask for less than the maximum sentence every time some body cries while they're in the lock-up? If we go down that road the country will be in anarchy in less than six months.
Dreamliners are made of diamond?
"Dreamliner, Screamliner..."
I thought criminals mostly use hand guns...
I was, however, also doing exercises like wrist curls, inverse wrist curls, wrist extensions with a 45 lb. bar at the gym from time to time. And I was also doing other exercises that probably inadvertently helped strengthen these same areas.
In other words ... your anecdote is completely worthless.
"The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way here was public member variables."
I am puzzled by that as well.
Me too.
I guess his point is that: foo.setBar(foo.getBar()+3); is much more boring than foo.bar += 3;
I somewhat understand it and I wish we had automatic calls to get and set in C++ like it exists in C# to make core more beautiful.
I can't see how he values less keypresses over encapsulation/inconsistency.
a) Is he going to have half the variables in a class as public and the other half with accessor methods?
b) What's wrong with returning a reference to bar, ie. "foo.bar() += 3;"? That at least allows you to do something if "bar" has any other dependent variables.
One might suggest that every good programmer, if they spend enough time improving, eventually moves toward a more functional programming style.
One might suggest that ... but one would be wrong.
The very best programmers use the right idiom for the job. Sometimes a global variable is the right idiom.
Why do people get so concerned with what others do?
Maybe we should repeal all those anti-littering, anti-polluting laws. That's just people being people, right?
How about we let people drink and drive while texting. I guess we should leave them in peace to do their thing, right? We're safe in our houses so it can't affect us...
Don't feel forced to use gadgetry. There's something called "life" that doesn't require much of it to be enjoyed.
The problem is that 'life' is full of people who buy all those gadgets. Second-hand gadgetry is almost as bad as the real thing.
the people disrupting the movie won't care about this.
Even if they did, they'd still answer and say "I can't talk, I'm in the cinema... Really? No way, dude!! Haha. So what did he do next??? You're kidding me!!! " etc.
if some fibre allowed permanently enduring clothes they would still want new ones; there will always be a desirable new ironic slogan for a t-shirt.
...except you wouldn't be able to print it on the shirt.
This sounds like a great way to make sure only the real lunatics email him. Filter out all the people with only a low/medium hatred.
I dunno...but it will weed out the pretenders/bullshitters.
If the disabler mechanism can only disable the weapon and have no way to fire it off, then the worse that can happen is the gun wouldn't work or the disabler wouldn't work if hacked.
No, the worst that can happen is that the shooter gets himself a pre-idiocy gun, tapes a few photos of babies to himself, then goes on a rampage. Nobody else will be able to do a damn thing about it.
you have to admire the original skypes creator, 5+ years and still nobody has managed to crack the protocol
Why? Unbreakable encryption algorithms are widely published.
What takes talent is messing up as badly as something like WEP and still managing to get it past a committee who's supposed to know about stuff like that. I admire the people who managed that, it's industrial strength WTF.
Does skype allow you to paste images/screenshots like MSN does?
C++ is no more powerful than C
Rubbish
it's more expressive in certain circumstances but definitely not more powerful. There is a reason C is the de-facto standard for embedded systems in that it is lightweight and the second most powerful language there is (Assembly or Machine Code being the most powerful).
I use C++ on a daily basis to program Atmel Tiny85s. With virtual functions and everything...
..What is the C++ compiler written in ... probably C
what is C++ compiled via in this compiler, probably C
Simply not true.
(It's in Bjarne's FAQ....try reading it instead of regurgitating 1992's anti-C++ rant)