I just signed up for cable via live chat (Comcast). It was the most tedious process imaginable. Instead of just submitting a form, you go through and answer questions (slowly) with someone who claimed to be in Canada (more likely in India, judging by grammar). At the end, I had succeeded in passing ten words of information in about 15 minutes.
"Suppose 70 babies are born with a life expectancy of 70 years."
OK, they're born in 1900. I see some infant mortality, a cluster of "failures" during WWI, the flu epidemic and WWII. Then a tailing failure rate as the generic old-age diseases come into play. What was your point again?
Except that the US did sign the Geneva Convention. If you want to stand behind the technicality that it only applies if the other guy signed it, then you are welcome to your opinion. I believe that the purpose of that provision was that the signers would not be held to it while the other side violated it, not that they could do whatever they wanted if the other side hadn't signed. The Geneva Convention does give detainees the right to a fair trial.
Interpreted lisp or scheme have a couple of things going for them as introductory programming languages. There is no overhead: declarations, compiling, include files, paths, etc. Second, instead of having to think like a computer and write procedural code, you think like a mathematician and write functional code.
I was just talking to a service guy last week who said that when they go onsite, there is a strong tendency to replace Something, even if that isn't the problem. The service guy may have just made sure a sprung heatsink was clipped back in place, but replaced a card to make the customer feel good.
I'm publishing a DTD for expressing the human genome in XML. Then we can sit back and watch the patent fight between these guys and the gene patent guys.
They failed to warn you about the face getting scratched.
This just means that the 50-page book of safety instructions that noone reads will now have a 51st page stating that you should not place the unit next to or touching anything that can scratch it, deface it, mar the surface, or look at it crosseyed.
This would all be fine if the farmers could sue Monsanto for contaminating their crop with the GM seed. After all, it has reduced the value since they can't legally plant a second generation. So there are clear damages.
After reading the description of ORSN and the backing by Paul Vixie, author of bind, it looks like the whole discussion of whether US keeps control of "its" root servers is academic. There is already an EU alternative in place. I just downloaded the hints file. Seems to work.
The website got a legal form making this person the user's friend. Its not a website problem. The problem is that javascript can be injected which gets executed and does form entries without the user's knowledge. That's a browser problem.
Firefox is not necessarily immune to XSS attacks, see noscript.
Perhaps you are unaware that NIST certifies encryption libraries so you don't have to believe marketing people. I would not use a product that can't show NIST certs.
I write a useful program and post it on my website. How do I get it on this list? Now imagine that I'm a virus writer. What stops me from putting my program on the same list? Something or somebody has to decide whether a program is "good" or "bad". Who's going to do that and based on what criteria?
You work for MicroSoft throwing FUD? See the glibc README - its LGPL not GPL. LGPL allows linking with proprietary software to build proprietary applications. This has been discussed many times, many years ago. IBM believes that you can build proprietary apps with gcc, and their lawyers are better than yours.
Especially those who have enough money to pay for the best counsel available to them. As for average people defrauded by faulty software, too bad.
Lets carry your analogy a little further. I know a doctor who takes a trip to Latin America every year. His vacation is spent treating poor people for free. This is not uncommon for specialists in medecine. When have you seen a top corporate attorney doing volunteer work among poor people?
Now I feel old. ^S and ^Q are around since flow control for serial terminals, predating the net. A related command when some program has screwed up your terminal settings, and you need to restore without being able to see what you type is:
There's an inconsistency in strl* definitions, too. The size parameter DOES include space for the null, but the returned length DOES NOT include the null. So much for fixing the inconsistencies in strn*.
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I just signed up for cable via live chat (Comcast). It was the most tedious process imaginable. Instead of just submitting a form, you go through and answer questions (slowly) with someone who claimed to be in Canada (more likely in India, judging by grammar). At the end, I had succeeded in passing ten words of information in about 15 minutes.
I think that this article is the perfect context for Buy Nothing Day. Talk about excess and waste.
"Basically, if you can tell what the operator should do just by reading an example of it's usage, then overloading that operator makes sense."
Its a reasonable argument. The problem is the variable "you". As an example, what seems obvious to programmer A might not make sense to programmer 2.
"Suppose 70 babies are born with a life expectancy of 70 years."
OK, they're born in 1900. I see some infant mortality, a cluster of "failures" during WWI, the flu epidemic and WWII. Then a tailing failure rate as the generic old-age diseases come into play. What was your point again?
Except that the US did sign the Geneva Convention. If you want to stand behind the technicality that it only applies if the other guy signed it, then you are welcome to your opinion. I believe that the purpose of that provision was that the signers would not be held to it while the other side violated it, not that they could do whatever they wanted if the other side hadn't signed. The Geneva Convention does give detainees the right to a fair trial.
Interpreted lisp or scheme have a couple of things going for them as introductory programming languages. There is no overhead: declarations, compiling, include files, paths, etc. Second, instead of having to think like a computer and write procedural code, you think like a mathematician and write functional code.
(print "Hello, World!")
I was just talking to a service guy last week who said that when they go onsite, there is a strong tendency to replace Something, even if that isn't the problem. The service guy may have just made sure a sprung heatsink was clipped back in place, but replaced a card to make the customer feel good.
What? You mean the Pittsburgh Zombie Attack preparations story isn't true? Get me George Romero on the phone!
Hold on, I think there's a '386 equivalent in my washing machine control panel. Does it have a driver for "spin cycle"?
I'm publishing a DTD for expressing the human genome in XML. Then we can sit back and watch the patent fight between these guys and the gene patent guys.
They failed to warn you about the face getting scratched.
This just means that the 50-page book of safety instructions that noone reads will now have a 51st page stating that you should not place the unit next to or touching anything that can scratch it, deface it, mar the surface, or look at it crosseyed.
This would all be fine if the farmers could sue Monsanto for contaminating their crop with the GM seed. After all, it has reduced the value since they can't legally plant a second generation. So there are clear damages.
After reading the description of ORSN and the backing by Paul Vixie, author of bind, it looks like the whole discussion of whether US keeps control of "its" root servers is academic. There is already an EU alternative in place. I just downloaded the hints file. Seems to work.
The website got a legal form making this person the user's friend. Its not a website problem. The problem is that javascript can be injected which gets executed and does form entries without the user's knowledge. That's a browser problem.
Firefox is not necessarily immune to XSS attacks, see noscript.
Or more likely:
1) Various govs. set up their own root servers. People in that country use their root servers.
2) The operators of the various root servers keep them synchronized with each other.
3) The internet continues to operate just fine.
Scroll down to Only on Fox - Open Document Debate.
Noone has mentioned the other big tech news story on the site:
Python Invasion in Florida
Also, are italics tags supposed to work in an html title? Doesn't work on FireFox.
You need a half-brain-dead monkey to code this? In that case, I would recommend Experts Exchange. They have lots.
Perhaps you are unaware that NIST certifies encryption libraries so you don't have to believe marketing people. I would not use a product that can't show NIST certs.
the seamy side.
Note: BERSERKER is a registered trademark of Fred Saberhagen and can not be used without permission.
OK. 50 different IP addresses just nominated my program, so it must be OK. Is it on the list now? Think about it some more.
I write a useful program and post it on my website. How do I get it on this list? Now imagine that I'm a virus writer. What stops me from putting my program on the same list? Something or somebody has to decide whether a program is "good" or "bad". Who's going to do that and based on what criteria?
You work for MicroSoft throwing FUD? See the glibc README - its LGPL not GPL. LGPL allows linking with proprietary software to build proprietary applications. This has been discussed many times, many years ago. IBM believes that you can build proprietary apps with gcc, and their lawyers are better than yours.
Especially those who have enough money to pay for the best counsel available to them. As for average people defrauded by faulty software, too bad.
Lets carry your analogy a little further. I know a doctor who takes a trip to Latin America every year. His vacation is spent treating poor people for free. This is not uncommon for specialists in medecine. When have you seen a top corporate attorney doing volunteer work among poor people?
Now I feel old. ^S and ^Q are around since flow control for serial terminals, predating the net. A related command when some program has screwed up your terminal settings, and you need to restore without being able to see what you type is:
stty sane
There's an inconsistency in strl* definitions, too. The size parameter DOES include space for the null, but the returned length DOES NOT include the null. So much for fixing the inconsistencies in strn*.