Yea, if you're flying domestically, you shouldn't allow anyone to search your laptop. Period.
Bzzzzttt! Wrong! 2/3 of U.S. population live in the Border Zone. I agree that you shouldn't let them search your laptop, but they'll do it anyways. Your full disk encryption is the full-proof way of keeping your information private. And losing your ticket money is sad, but true. I'd like that to go to the courts for a decision.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I put together a lot of computers and always throw away all those Intel/AMD/Corsair/GSkill/NVidia/OCZ/etc stickers. Now I have a reason to keep them!!!!!
And you think you're any different, using a user ID which is obviously not your real name ?
Thanks for the laughs, you imbecile.
Are you demented? I posted as AC because I had modded the topic and still had mod points left. Then, after my mod points were done, when I commented, I used my real account. And I don't even know what you're arguing with. What I said as AC has nothing to do with your reply.
Are you demented? Are you saying it's actually better to have the key stored on a file system? Because, at the end, it all ends up in RAM anyways. It HAS to remain in RAM for the encryption to work.
Yeah, like the part about game programming. It's funny. I have volunteered a few times on career days at my wife's high school to talk about programming. Most kids said they want to program games. I say "Okay, then brush up on your math and physics." They asked why, to which I had to respond about all the physics and math that is involved from the moment a sniper in a game pulls the trigger to the moment that the bullet stops: Kind of gun, kind of bullet, wind speed, trajectory because of gravity, slowing down of the bullet because of air friction (which is dependent on air temperature and altitude), the material it first hits and the angle, once it passes the material, how much in the body of the enemy will it go before it comes to a halt, will it come out from the other side. I'm sure I'm missing some other parameters, but just try to figure out the details behind this simple thing in the game and you realize how much math and physics you'll need to have. Now add the complexity of translating all that into code and graphics.
And the hideous nonsense we perpetrate in the name of reusability, extensibility, and maintainability makes me nauseus.
Copy and paste much? I don't know if you were serious about what you wrote here, but if that's the case, I would truly hate to be maintaining code you wrote. There's nothing more painful than having to find the 5 different instances of the same buggy program you wrote and having to do the same fix 5 times.
A retailer with a fixed presence charges the state, county, municipal taxes due based on the retailer's physical location, not the delivery address of the customer.
South Dakota wasn't arguing about charging businesses in their own states selling to other states. They were arguing about all the other businesses selling to South Dakotans. From the text of the suit:
Concerned about the erosion of
its sales tax base and corresponding loss of critical funding for state
and local services, the South Dakota Legislature enacted a law requiring
out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax “as if the
seller had a physical presence in the State.”
That means each retailer will have to know what tax rate to collect on an item, not just for their own state, but for any of the other 49 and the provinces the imperialist U.S. government has sitting around its borders.
Great! Where's the repository so we can download your code?
Contrary to popular belief on this site, most business code is closed source. However, I am a solid middle of the pack developer and if I can do it just from the Avatax API docs, I'm sure you can too.
Woosh, dumbass! He's not talking about seeing your code to use it (because it's most likely shit), but so he can point out all the issues he can identify. Read the thread re: some of the nuances of calculating tax. Here are some you missed:
Who are you selling an IV bag to (war vet pays tax, MD doesn't)
What are you selling? (Candy with flour has one rate, candy without another, food another, sugary drinks another, books another, should I keep going?)
When are you selling? (holiday items not taxes)
This is not as easy as using a JAVA library to calculate tax and calling it aday.
From what I understand, they were a swat team, but that all being aside, in the call he says it's a one story house, but in the video it clearly shows a two story house. In the call she asks him his race, twice, which he just dismisses and doesn't answer. Sounds to me whoever made the call didn't know anything about the house or its occupants.
I know this is all hindsight, but come on!!!! So many guns trained on the victim and they couldn't wait until he pulled out a gun?
I'm probably going to get shot down over this and get -1 as troll, but IMAO you cannot make a great programmer unless you've taken some college courses specifically related to computer science. That is in addition to having a passion for problem solving and tinkering with anything and everything. This comes from mostly anecdotal instances of people I have ran into in my over 30 years as a computer programmer.
Taking courses at a college level teaches you the intricate programming concepts and algorithms. Without taking data structures, assembly, operating systems, OOP, and so on at a college level, you're already at a disadvantage. Can you program a Windows/GTK application without taking those courses? Most likely. Can you write device drivers and system routines? No. "How do I sort this list?" Well, that depends on how fast it needs to be sorted, how much memory you have available, how big the list is, etc. "I'm making a list." Does it need to be an array of structures? Does it need to be a linked list? Does it need to be a doubly linked list? Does it need to be a binary tree? Does it need to be a tree? Most programmers don't have to deal with any of this stuff, but then again most programmers aren't great programmers.
I have ran into many programmers that didn't get their degree in computer science and didn't take any computer science courses in college, and they all fall in the same level. Mediocre. Again, anecdotal and stereotypical, but I'd wager that it's correct almost all the time.
My suggestion to the OP would be to (since middle ages is still not too old to become a great programmer, as long as you meet the other criteria of being a tinkerer) take some college courses in computer science. Over 1700 languages doesn't mean shit if you don't understand the concepts of programming (although concepts of something like LISP would be completely different than OOP and other traditional languages). Once you learn the concepts, then the rest is just syntax and concepts specific to the language you're learning, but without the basic concepts, you have no ground to stand on.
I agree. And this is usually posted that they'll charge you for the food you don't eat. I've never seen them charge anybody that I've eaten with, even though we have left small quantities on our plates at times. It all comes down to preventing wastefulness.
This is a straw man argument. Obviously there are people in the U.S. that don't think this way, either, and there are people in the rest of the World who think this way. But that has nothing to do with what I said.
I completely agree with not wasting food. It's a different story if you take a piece of sausage, take a bite and decide you don't like it and leave it on your plate, but whole plates and doing it over and over is completely out of line.
Everything *within reason*. Returning every other item that you buy in a short amount of time is not within reason. It's like when you go to a buffet that says "All you can eat". It doesn't mean you get to empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. Or how "free refills" doesn't mean you get to come in every day and sit for hours having drink after drink.
Also, Amazon Prime doesn't apply to third party sellers, who often get shafted by buyers who do that.
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? When the buffet says "All you can eat", I can certainly empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. If they serve caviar, I can go and eat all the caviar they put out there, and then ask for some more after I've finished the container. It's ALL YOU CAN EAT. What part of that don't you get?
Anyone remember Binary Systems' Starflight? Required only 128K ram and fit on two 360K floppies that included your saved game and a galaxy to explore, with a story. It even remembered the planets you had visited and the resources you had already mined. Here's the link. It was written in Forth and Assembler.
believe it or not, I've been having a hard time finding a web site that hosts this picture! They just don't show up in any search engines! Thank you for bringing up a lost memory!
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Yea, if you're flying domestically, you shouldn't allow anyone to search your laptop. Period.
Bzzzzttt! Wrong! 2/3 of U.S. population live in the Border Zone. I agree that you shouldn't let them search your laptop, but they'll do it anyways. Your full disk encryption is the full-proof way of keeping your information private. And losing your ticket money is sad, but true. I'd like that to go to the courts for a decision.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I put together a lot of computers and always throw away all those Intel/AMD/Corsair/GSkill/NVidia/OCZ/etc stickers. Now I have a reason to keep them!!!!!
Looks to me the pot is calling the kettle black!
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And you think you're any different, using a user ID which is obviously not your real name ?
Thanks for the laughs, you imbecile.
Are you demented? I posted as AC because I had modded the topic and still had mod points left. Then, after my mod points were done, when I commented, I used my real account. And I don't even know what you're arguing with. What I said as AC has nothing to do with your reply.
Aha! So the key is in RAM. Thanks for the clue
Are you demented? Are you saying it's actually better to have the key stored on a file system? Because, at the end, it all ends up in RAM anyways. It HAS to remain in RAM for the encryption to work.
Looks to me the pot is calling the kettle black!
Yeah, like the part about game programming. It's funny. I have volunteered a few times on career days at my wife's high school to talk about programming. Most kids said they want to program games. I say "Okay, then brush up on your math and physics." They asked why, to which I had to respond about all the physics and math that is involved from the moment a sniper in a game pulls the trigger to the moment that the bullet stops: Kind of gun, kind of bullet, wind speed, trajectory because of gravity, slowing down of the bullet because of air friction (which is dependent on air temperature and altitude), the material it first hits and the angle, once it passes the material, how much in the body of the enemy will it go before it comes to a halt, will it come out from the other side. I'm sure I'm missing some other parameters, but just try to figure out the details behind this simple thing in the game and you realize how much math and physics you'll need to have. Now add the complexity of translating all that into code and graphics.
And the hideous nonsense we perpetrate in the name of reusability, extensibility, and maintainability makes me nauseus.
Copy and paste much? I don't know if you were serious about what you wrote here, but if that's the case, I would truly hate to be maintaining code you wrote. There's nothing more painful than having to find the 5 different instances of the same buggy program you wrote and having to do the same fix 5 times.
You're not wrong. A Tesla coil moves hundreds of thousands of volts through a very, very thin wire. It's all about amperage.
Try to make something fool proof and the universe will make a better fool.
Damn, am I reminded of that on a daily basis ... Can you tell I'm a programmer?
Jeff? Is that you?
Ken, me thinks you're mistaken ...
South Dakota wasn't arguing about charging businesses in their own states selling to other states. They were arguing about all the other businesses selling to South Dakotans. From the text of the suit:
That means each retailer will have to know what tax rate to collect on an item, not just for their own state, but for any of the other 49 and the provinces the imperialist U.S. government has sitting around its borders.
Great! Where's the repository so we can download your code?
Contrary to popular belief on this site, most business code is closed source. However, I am a solid middle of the pack developer and if I can do it just from the Avatax API docs, I'm sure you can too.
Woosh, dumbass! He's not talking about seeing your code to use it (because it's most likely shit), but so he can point out all the issues he can identify. Read the thread re: some of the nuances of calculating tax. Here are some you missed:
This is not as easy as using a JAVA library to calculate tax and calling it aday.
In most departments part of the qualification training to carry a taser includes experiencing being shot in the back with one.
Citation please.
From what I understand, they were a swat team, but that all being aside, in the call he says it's a one story house, but in the video it clearly shows a two story house. In the call she asks him his race, twice, which he just dismisses and doesn't answer. Sounds to me whoever made the call didn't know anything about the house or its occupants.
I know this is all hindsight, but come on!!!! So many guns trained on the victim and they couldn't wait until he pulled out a gun?
I'm probably going to get shot down over this and get -1 as troll, but IMAO you cannot make a great programmer unless you've taken some college courses specifically related to computer science. That is in addition to having a passion for problem solving and tinkering with anything and everything. This comes from mostly anecdotal instances of people I have ran into in my over 30 years as a computer programmer.
Taking courses at a college level teaches you the intricate programming concepts and algorithms. Without taking data structures, assembly, operating systems, OOP, and so on at a college level, you're already at a disadvantage. Can you program a Windows/GTK application without taking those courses? Most likely. Can you write device drivers and system routines? No. "How do I sort this list?" Well, that depends on how fast it needs to be sorted, how much memory you have available, how big the list is, etc. "I'm making a list." Does it need to be an array of structures? Does it need to be a linked list? Does it need to be a doubly linked list? Does it need to be a binary tree? Does it need to be a tree? Most programmers don't have to deal with any of this stuff, but then again most programmers aren't great programmers.
I have ran into many programmers that didn't get their degree in computer science and didn't take any computer science courses in college, and they all fall in the same level. Mediocre. Again, anecdotal and stereotypical, but I'd wager that it's correct almost all the time.
My suggestion to the OP would be to (since middle ages is still not too old to become a great programmer, as long as you meet the other criteria of being a tinkerer) take some college courses in computer science. Over 1700 languages doesn't mean shit if you don't understand the concepts of programming (although concepts of something like LISP would be completely different than OOP and other traditional languages). Once you learn the concepts, then the rest is just syntax and concepts specific to the language you're learning, but without the basic concepts, you have no ground to stand on.
Next thing you know, I'm getting emails with subjects like "Add 4 more inches"
I agree. And this is usually posted that they'll charge you for the food you don't eat. I've never seen them charge anybody that I've eaten with, even though we have left small quantities on our plates at times. It all comes down to preventing wastefulness.
This is a straw man argument. Obviously there are people in the U.S. that don't think this way, either, and there are people in the rest of the World who think this way. But that has nothing to do with what I said.
I completely agree with not wasting food. It's a different story if you take a piece of sausage, take a bite and decide you don't like it and leave it on your plate, but whole plates and doing it over and over is completely out of line.
Everything *within reason*. Returning every other item that you buy in a short amount of time is not within reason. It's like when you go to a buffet that says "All you can eat". It doesn't mean you get to empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. Or how "free refills" doesn't mean you get to come in every day and sit for hours having drink after drink.
Also, Amazon Prime doesn't apply to third party sellers, who often get shafted by buyers who do that.
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? When the buffet says "All you can eat", I can certainly empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. If they serve caviar, I can go and eat all the caviar they put out there, and then ask for some more after I've finished the container. It's ALL YOU CAN EAT. What part of that don't you get?
Anyone remember Binary Systems' Starflight? Required only 128K ram and fit on two 360K floppies that included your saved game and a galaxy to explore, with a story. It even remembered the planets you had visited and the resources you had already mined. Here's the link. It was written in Forth and Assembler.
Thanks for posting the link. My first time seeing it.
Obviously the OP hasn't read The Story of Mel
believe it or not, I've been having a hard time finding a web site that hosts this picture! They just don't show up in any search engines! Thank you for bringing up a lost memory!
"Uryjay Ullificationay"
lol. I had to look that up on Google and realized what it was when Google asked me if I meant "Jury Nullification"!