Obviously waves of COBOL nostalgia caused your brain to shut down.
APL would be Scientology - There are many people who claim to follow it, but you've always suspected that it's a huge and elaborate prank that got out of control.
Poor MS, what with Vista they have been having a bad time of it recently.
I don't know that that is completely true. IIRC Microsoft have always had a pretty bad time of it.
The difference now is that there are real alternatives.
Take Linux, for example, I've been using it for about 10 years now, but it really is only recently that I can show off - most hardware works and there aren't really any applications that are beyond the OS (other than games).
Apple is also far more acceptable as an alternative - I would imagine because of iPod, iPhones and iTunes etc.
(And as we all know XP is also a real alternative to Vista).
Same with Firefox, because "broken" websites that could only work with IE5.5 were all the rage, Firefox failed (even though it was the better product). But more and more websites are aware of its 20%-40% market share and the IE specific websites are less prevalent. And Firefox is really shining.
Is this kind of carry on not just asking for a "useful" virus? (Not proposing it)
There are plenty of smart people out there who are for net neutrality and a number of them might consider it lawful (or even their duty) to exploit the infection vectors that have served botnets for so long, to provide an "inoculation" that reverses the effect of this unrequested distortion of the network - "stealing from the rich" so to speak, which will inevitably "give to the poor".
I think you'll find that they are already defined as "User is cat in the dark with Mushroom on Head" and "User is ninja cat in the dark about to perform Sumarai attack", respectively.
I love PHP, it's a cool language - but there is no way I would recommend it for learning programming. There's too much freedom in it and the problem with that is that it doesn't bite back when you do bad things.
It's fine if you want to learn PHP or even web based programming...
But if these are "bright kids" then they should be trained well from the ground up, the need to learn how to program, a skill that is language independent - and as a Java programmer, I have to say that there is only one language that can teach them this properly: C.
No we shouldn't teach Latin - because, let's be honest, the old Romans really haven't made much of an effort to promote it.
Come to think of it Science isn't great a promoting itself either. It's pretty much either you accept than gravity exists or you don't.
Religion - now that's a good one. They're big into promotion. That should be taught in schools.
Facetiousness aside: teachers have a responsibility to educate themselves first and the pass that knowledge on to other. There are lot of organizations in the world (past and present) that have big budgets, but that doesn't make them right and a good teacher has an obligation to know the difference.
How exactly does someone who writes about "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy" become an expert in history? Hey, he's entitled to his musings just as much as the next person - but it's hardly newsworthy.
What's next? An insightful review of "War and Peace" by Nobel physics winner: "It's a big book".
You can be sure that this "amazing" discovery will be touted in the newspapers as "using the breakthrough technique of Genetic Algorithms that uses human DNA to make computer think" (or some similar BS).
And when this guy actually does put together a proper GA, it will be ignored - because on the outside it's the same thing. Even though it will actually be interesting.
That may be correct - but what would they do? Destroy the economy using computers? We do seem to be doing that rather well without the need for any outside help.
When my daughter was born, my wife and I were very adamant that she wouldn't have any cultural stereotypes imposed on her. Everything was very gender neutral, but she still ended up being obsessed with Barbie and pink stuff.
Some years later we had a son, and treated him with the same neutrality (and he had an older sister who was always dressing him in pink) - his first word was 'digger'.
You may be right - but you'll have a hard time convincing me.
By restricting all those people doing legitimate business, maybe those of us hiding behind Tor etc will get better bandwidth and be able to commit our crimes in peace and at speed.
But Human Rights/Ethics don't work like that - which is why, as I said, "Gun ownership" is neither an ethics issue or anything to do with human rights. It may be that you feel that you have some form of entitlement there - maybe you do, maybe you don't - but it is not a human right.
Where are these countries with "historically strict gun control" you talk of - because the places I'm thinking of only introduced gun control in the last 50 years and have seen reduced levels of gun crime as a consequence, for example, the UK.
We strongly believed in gun ownership then because we just won an armed rebellion against a colonial power.
And I wouldn't argue with that, in fact I'd say that's exactly what the second amendment was for. But given that the effective fire power of the United States is many billions of times greater than it was at the end of the 18th century, which particular colonial power are you so concerned about? And how is an armed militia of geriatrics going to help in this coming war?
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I think you'll find that that particular issue got a good airing in Dawkins' (et al) last book - he even went so far as to describe it as child abuse.
You are a sick sick puppy.
More to the point, religions are programming languages.
Obviously waves of COBOL nostalgia caused your brain to shut down.
APL would be Scientology - There are many people who claim to follow it, but you've always suspected that it's a huge and elaborate prank that got out of control.
Poor MS, what with Vista they have been having a bad time of it recently.
I don't know that that is completely true. IIRC Microsoft have always had a pretty bad time of it.
The difference now is that there are real alternatives.
Take Linux, for example, I've been using it for about 10 years now, but it really is only recently that I can show off - most hardware works and there aren't really any applications that are beyond the OS (other than games).
Apple is also far more acceptable as an alternative - I would imagine because of iPod, iPhones and iTunes etc.
(And as we all know XP is also a real alternative to Vista).
Same with Firefox, because "broken" websites that could only work with IE5.5 were all the rage, Firefox failed (even though it was the better product). But more and more websites are aware of its 20%-40% market share and the IE specific websites are less prevalent. And Firefox is really shining.
<sarcasm>Really?</sarcasm>
Is this kind of carry on not just asking for a "useful" virus? (Not proposing it)
There are plenty of smart people out there who are for net neutrality and a number of them might consider it lawful (or even their duty) to exploit the infection vectors that have served botnets for so long, to provide an "inoculation" that reverses the effect of this unrequested distortion of the network - "stealing from the rich" so to speak, which will inevitably "give to the poor".
You've got serious problems mate. ;-)
OCD much?
I think you'll find that they are already defined as "User is cat in the dark with Mushroom on Head" and "User is ninja cat in the dark about to perform Sumarai attack", respectively.
I love PHP, it's a cool language - but there is no way I would recommend it for learning programming. There's too much freedom in it and the problem with that is that it doesn't bite back when you do bad things.
It's fine if you want to learn PHP or even web based programming...
But if these are "bright kids" then they should be trained well from the ground up, the need to learn how to program, a skill that is language independent - and as a Java programmer, I have to say that there is only one language that can teach them this properly: C.
No we shouldn't teach Latin - because, let's be honest, the old Romans really haven't made much of an effort to promote it.
Come to think of it Science isn't great a promoting itself either. It's pretty much either you accept than gravity exists or you don't.
Religion - now that's a good one. They're big into promotion. That should be taught in schools.
Facetiousness aside: teachers have a responsibility to educate themselves first and the pass that knowledge on to other. There are lot of organizations in the world (past and present) that have big budgets, but that doesn't make them right and a good teacher has an obligation to know the difference.
M'kay.
Never mind.
(D'oh)
Does Linux run on it?
(Prompting a possibly valid "In Soviet Russia" gag).
How exactly does someone who writes about "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy" become an expert in history? Hey, he's entitled to his musings just as much as the next person - but it's hardly newsworthy.
What's next? An insightful review of "War and Peace" by Nobel physics winner: "It's a big book".
You can be sure that this "amazing" discovery will be touted in the newspapers as "using the breakthrough technique of Genetic Algorithms that uses human DNA to make computer think" (or some similar BS).
And when this guy actually does put together a proper GA, it will be ignored - because on the outside it's the same thing. Even though it will actually be interesting.
Lagrangian Interpolation?!
He was only fined A$3000 and required to behave himself, and no costs were awarded. So there isn't really a heavy hand here.
However, I do think the resources could be far better spent.
That may be correct - but what would they do? Destroy the economy using computers? We do seem to be doing that rather well without the need for any outside help.
When my daughter was born, my wife and I were very adamant that she wouldn't have any cultural stereotypes imposed on her. Everything was very gender neutral, but she still ended up being obsessed with Barbie and pink stuff.
Some years later we had a son, and treated him with the same neutrality (and he had an older sister who was always dressing him in pink) - his first word was 'digger'.
You may be right - but you'll have a hard time convincing me.
Maybe not...
By restricting all those people doing legitimate business, maybe those of us hiding behind Tor etc will get better bandwidth and be able to commit our crimes in peace and at speed.
I'm delighted for you.
But Human Rights/Ethics don't work like that - which is why, as I said, "Gun ownership" is neither an ethics issue or anything to do with human rights. It may be that you feel that you have some form of entitlement there - maybe you do, maybe you don't - but it is not a human right.
Human right/Ethics are not reciprocal arrangements.
Do you only grant free speech to those that respect your right to it?
Where are these countries with "historically strict gun control" you talk of - because the places I'm thinking of only introduced gun control in the last 50 years and have seen reduced levels of gun crime as a consequence, for example, the UK.
We strongly believed in gun ownership then because we just won an armed rebellion against a colonial power.
And I wouldn't argue with that, in fact I'd say that's exactly what the second amendment was for. But given that the effective fire power of the United States is many billions of times greater than it was at the end of the 18th century, which particular colonial power are you so concerned about? And how is an armed militia of geriatrics going to help in this coming war?