OR, they're more worried about fiscal security at the end of their lives, and fear of things like being shoved in a crappy nursing home and having all their possessions sold off frightens them into taking risks they wouldn't otherwise consider.
Well, just as an anecdote...my Mom and Dad both retired circa 1999-2000. They moved most of their retirement funds out of stocks pretty much at the peak of dot-com bubble, which in retrospect was a brilliant move as they effectively cashed out just before the market tanked.
Fast-forward to 2007-2008, and they had a good portion of their funds in stocks and got burned quite a bit in the crash (they had a substantial holding in WaMu, which didn't help). When I asked my Dad why he didn't stay in more conservative investments, he simply replied "low interest rates...the safer investments yielded squat."
Why would seeing 'WTF' implicate the language...instead of the code itself?
Well, my nominee for the language that enforces a "WTF" syntax is DOS/Windows batch/command language (so WTF it doesn't even have an official name). There's been more than a few times I had to google to figure out how to script some seemingly simple functionality and upon finding the answer said "Really?!?! WTF?!?" It is pretty much impossible to make more-than-trivial batch scripts readable to someone not well versed in the black art of.bat, at least not without a boat load of rem statements.
Or (if you read the linked Nature article) it could be due the rat that he "smelt".
I don't know if that means he beat the rat with a small fish or heated it to separate its metallic constituents, but either one would be a motive for rat revenge, I'd think.
"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
âoeI have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' â" there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.â
â Frank Zappa
Yep. In a former job at a very large financial services firm, I worked on their source control/build/packaging/deployment systems, and I was stunned by the number of developers who not only resisted using source control, but actually would not even acknowledge the value of it. One time, I raised gasps in a meeting of several dozen devs by making the statement "If you have a problem using source control, you have no business being a professional software developer." Yes, that was a controversial statement in a room full of highly-paid developers. In fact, now that I recall it, the company standard source control tool was PVCS as VSS was too flaky to handle the 300+ projects we managed, yet we had to implement VSS-PVCS import tools because the devs insisted that it was too much trouble to have to use a command window or separate GUI tools to do their checkouts/commits when VSS was integrated into Visual Studio.
So as much as a sane person might think that this would be obvious to a group of developers, it really depends on the developers.
6. VSS - My experiences with it were not good. I hear it's improved. I'd look at it ONLY if I was in a Microsoft only shop.
VSS is a deprecated tool at this point, last updated in 2005, and only having extended support from Microsoft at this time. Team Foundation Server is Microsoft's current source control offering.
I just want to read about science and technology, interesting shit.
I feel your pain, but unfortunately, if the NSA/intelligence complex truly can not be reined in (and I'm not optimistic that it can be), I think you're looking at the dark ages for any science or tech that doesn't serve their purposes.
Someone posted the following citation at the New York Times yesterday, which really struck a nerve with me:
"The man who is compelled to live every minute of his life among others and whose every need, thought, desire, fancy or gratification is subject to public scrutiny, has been deprived of his individuality and human dignity. Such an individual merges with the mass. His opinions, being public, tend never to be different; his aspirations, being known, tend always to be conventionally accepted ones; his feelings, being openly exhibited, tend to lose their quality of unique personal warmth and to become the feelings of every man. Such a being, although sentient, is fungible; he is not an individual." Bloustein, Privacy as an Aspect of Human Dignity: An Answer to Dean Prosser, 39 N. Y. U. L. Rev. 962, 1003 (1964).
Don't think for one second that this is an intangible threat. The people who blissfully ignore or accept it are exactly the people who won't be doing the paradigm shifting science or creating disruptive technologies. The people who would do those things are stuck with the same choice you state: acknowledge a really sucky situation and face being miserable, or ignore it as 'intangible' and go about their day, and just focus on uncontroversial science and tech that won't get them in any trouble. Can that possibly be a good thing?
Then after everyone has spied on the "foreigners" who aren't protected by each nation's laws, they get together, exchange their data, and end up with the intel on their own citizens, all while claiming "but we don't spy on our own citizens."
When pundits refer to the USA as the dominant global superpower, I think they really mean the United Security Agencies.
I'm sorry but it clearly is excess calories. If you burn more than you eat, you will lose weight. It's basic thermodynamics.
Basic thermodynamics is exactly as applicable to normal human growth as it is to fattening. So if a child is suffering from giganticism, is it really just a matter of excess calories? Yes, thermodynamics dictates that if you starve such a child, they will not grow as much, just as inadequate nutrition will stunt the growth of a normal child. But is starvation or increased physical activity a cure for giganticism? Is overeating or sedentary behavior the cause? If the answer to those questions are "no, giganticism is a hormonal problem", then there is no reason to believe that obesity is merely a matter of willful energy conservation.
This misguided "fact" is a large part of why obesity research is in such a sorry state of affairs, because all too many researchers never questioned the idea that a simple law of physics that says nothing about causality is the final word on the causes and cures for a complex biological problem.
If you consume 100 units of sweetener daily, and change from one that has 50 units of fructose per 100 units (sucrose) to one that has 55 units of fructose (HFCS-55), are you not consuming 10% more fructose for the same quantity of sweetener?
Another area worth researching is pesticides and other chemicals in HFCS. Pesticides in HFCS have been linked to Colony Collapse Disorder in honeybees, of all things, as beekeepers commonly feed their bees HFCS. If that is the case, it could be a plausible reason why some studies show HFCS to be more harmful than plain sucrose.
The doomsayers have been doomsaying for thousands of years, and we've always figured out ways to avoid the doom they're saying.
The doomsayers have been telling me for all my life that I will die someday, yet I'm still alive and always figuring out ways to avoid this 'death' they speak of.
Considering that, and TFA, there's no reason to believe that I won't live forever.
There's a neat program called f.lux which smoothly cranks down your display's color temperature when the night comes. I'm not sure if it makes any big difference in terms of melatonin production, but it can create a bit more relaxing atmosphere to the evenings. Suits also yellowish indoor lighting.
Seconded. I just discovered f.lux about 6 weeks ago, and in addition I've made a point to only keep my lowest temp lighting on in the house. Prior I had been in a rut of trying force myself to bed at 12:30-1 AM because I didn't feel sleepy yet, and now I'm finding myself dozing off by 10:30-11PM and naturally waking earlier and feeling better. Of course YMMV, but I had my doubts as to whether it would have any effect at all and was surprised to find a noticeable difference.
Are you sure you understand what Rule of Law means? It is basically the concept that, in the words of John Adams, of being "a government of laws and not of men." In other words, that no one is above the law, and that is indeed a moral principle and not authoritarian.
I suspect you are reading the term as if it were synonymous with "Law and Order", which is indeed a battle cry of the authoritarian.
Is the vote of someone who doesn't take to the streets worth less than the vote of someone who does?
The former's *vote* may not be worth any less, but s/he will certainly have less of an actual voice in said democracy. Likewise will the person who does not participate in any other form of political activism (e.g., attending/following local government functions, actively volunteering for political candidates, supporting groups that protect one's interests) have less of a voice in a democratic government than those who do.
Bottom line, democracy is not just (or even primarily) about voting.
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It could easily be a device which shows up as an HID device and plays back a macro.
Could you use an HID device to steal PIN numbers from an ATM machine?
/pedant
OR, they're more worried about fiscal security at the end of their lives, and fear of things like being shoved in a crappy nursing home and having all their possessions sold off frightens them into taking risks they wouldn't otherwise consider.
Well, just as an anecdote...my Mom and Dad both retired circa 1999-2000. They moved most of their retirement funds out of stocks pretty much at the peak of dot-com bubble, which in retrospect was a brilliant move as they effectively cashed out just before the market tanked.
Fast-forward to 2007-2008, and they had a good portion of their funds in stocks and got burned quite a bit in the crash (they had a substantial holding in WaMu, which didn't help). When I asked my Dad why he didn't stay in more conservative investments, he simply replied "low interest rates...the safer investments yielded squat."
I suspect that story is far from unique.
Actually, my joke was to simply move one spot down the periodic table...
Congress Reaches Agreement...On Lithium
...and clearly that's what it would take for the lot of megalomaniacs to agree on anything.
I like looking at naked women, I will admit.
So do I, but man, there's a whole lot of much easier and cheaper ways to look at digital images of naked women, even in real time.
Hell, redirect that kind of effort, and who knows, he might have even been able to get laid by a flesh and blood woman.
Stories like this certainly seem to confirm the notion that sex crimes are more about power than about sex.
Why would seeing 'WTF' implicate the language...instead of the code itself?
Well, my nominee for the language that enforces a "WTF" syntax is DOS/Windows batch/command language (so WTF it doesn't even have an official name). There's been more than a few times I had to google to figure out how to script some seemingly simple functionality and upon finding the answer said "Really?!?! WTF?!?" It is pretty much impossible to make more-than-trivial batch scripts readable to someone not well versed in the black art of .bat, at least not without a boat load of rem statements.
Or (if you read the linked Nature article) it could be due the rat that he "smelt".
I don't know if that means he beat the rat with a small fish or heated it to separate its metallic constituents, but either one would be a motive for rat revenge, I'd think.
ouch, guess I should've previewed..
"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
-- Frank Zappa
âoeI have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' â" there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.â â Frank Zappa
"Simple calculations suggest..."
Beware when the simple start calculating. It never ends well.
But it's NOT treason for the NSA to share their (illegally obtained?) information with other countries.
Right, because there's no N, S, or A in treason. Oh, wait....
Yep. In a former job at a very large financial services firm, I worked on their source control/build/packaging/deployment systems, and I was stunned by the number of developers who not only resisted using source control, but actually would not even acknowledge the value of it. One time, I raised gasps in a meeting of several dozen devs by making the statement "If you have a problem using source control, you have no business being a professional software developer." Yes, that was a controversial statement in a room full of highly-paid developers. In fact, now that I recall it, the company standard source control tool was PVCS as VSS was too flaky to handle the 300+ projects we managed, yet we had to implement VSS-PVCS import tools because the devs insisted that it was too much trouble to have to use a command window or separate GUI tools to do their checkouts/commits when VSS was integrated into Visual Studio.
So as much as a sane person might think that this would be obvious to a group of developers, it really depends on the developers.
6. VSS - My experiences with it were not good. I hear it's improved. I'd look at it ONLY if I was in a Microsoft only shop.
VSS is a deprecated tool at this point, last updated in 2005, and only having extended support from Microsoft at this time. Team Foundation Server is Microsoft's current source control offering.
I just want to read about science and technology, interesting shit.
I feel your pain, but unfortunately, if the NSA/intelligence complex truly can not be reined in (and I'm not optimistic that it can be), I think you're looking at the dark ages for any science or tech that doesn't serve their purposes.
Someone posted the following citation at the New York Times yesterday, which really struck a nerve with me:
"The man who is compelled to live every minute of his life among others and whose every need, thought, desire, fancy or gratification is subject to public scrutiny, has been deprived of his individuality and human dignity. Such an individual merges with the mass. His opinions, being public, tend never to be different; his aspirations, being known, tend always to be conventionally accepted ones; his feelings, being openly exhibited, tend to lose their quality of unique personal warmth and to become the feelings of every man. Such a being, although sentient, is fungible; he is not an individual." Bloustein, Privacy as an Aspect of Human Dignity: An Answer to Dean Prosser, 39 N. Y. U. L. Rev. 962, 1003 (1964).
Don't think for one second that this is an intangible threat. The people who blissfully ignore or accept it are exactly the people who won't be doing the paradigm shifting science or creating disruptive technologies. The people who would do those things are stuck with the same choice you state: acknowledge a really sucky situation and face being miserable, or ignore it as 'intangible' and go about their day, and just focus on uncontroversial science and tech that won't get them in any trouble. Can that possibly be a good thing?
#slanegirl, is that you?
Then after everyone has spied on the "foreigners" who aren't protected by each nation's laws, they get together, exchange their data, and end up with the intel on their own citizens, all while claiming "but we don't spy on our own citizens."
When pundits refer to the USA as the dominant global superpower, I think they really mean the United Security Agencies.
I'm sorry but it clearly is excess calories. If you burn more than you eat, you will lose weight. It's basic thermodynamics.
Basic thermodynamics is exactly as applicable to normal human growth as it is to fattening. So if a child is suffering from giganticism, is it really just a matter of excess calories? Yes, thermodynamics dictates that if you starve such a child, they will not grow as much, just as inadequate nutrition will stunt the growth of a normal child. But is starvation or increased physical activity a cure for giganticism? Is overeating or sedentary behavior the cause? If the answer to those questions are "no, giganticism is a hormonal problem", then there is no reason to believe that obesity is merely a matter of willful energy conservation.
This misguided "fact" is a large part of why obesity research is in such a sorry state of affairs, because all too many researchers never questioned the idea that a simple law of physics that says nothing about causality is the final word on the causes and cures for a complex biological problem.
If you consume 100 units of sweetener daily, and change from one that has 50 units of fructose per 100 units (sucrose) to one that has 55 units of fructose (HFCS-55), are you not consuming 10% more fructose for the same quantity of sweetener?
Another area worth researching is pesticides and other chemicals in HFCS. Pesticides in HFCS have been linked to Colony Collapse Disorder in honeybees, of all things, as beekeepers commonly feed their bees HFCS. If that is the case, it could be a plausible reason why some studies show HFCS to be more harmful than plain sucrose.
High fructose corn syrup is anywhere between like 60 to 80 percent fructose.
Actually, high fructose corn syrup is almost always one of two standard formulations: HFCS-55 and HFCS-42 (55% and 42% fructose, respectively).
The doomsayers have been doomsaying for thousands of years, and we've always figured out ways to avoid the doom they're saying.
The doomsayers have been telling me for all my life that I will die someday, yet I'm still alive and always figuring out ways to avoid this 'death' they speak of.
Considering that, and TFA, there's no reason to believe that I won't live forever.
There's a neat program called f.lux which smoothly cranks down your display's color temperature when the night comes. I'm not sure if it makes any big difference in terms of melatonin production, but it can create a bit more relaxing atmosphere to the evenings. Suits also yellowish indoor lighting.
Seconded. I just discovered f.lux about 6 weeks ago, and in addition I've made a point to only keep my lowest temp lighting on in the house. Prior I had been in a rut of trying force myself to bed at 12:30-1 AM because I didn't feel sleepy yet, and now I'm finding myself dozing off by 10:30-11PM and naturally waking earlier and feeling better. Of course YMMV, but I had my doubts as to whether it would have any effect at all and was surprised to find a noticeable difference.
Are you sure you understand what Rule of Law means? It is basically the concept that, in the words of John Adams, of being "a government of laws and not of men." In other words, that no one is above the law, and that is indeed a moral principle and not authoritarian.
I suspect you are reading the term as if it were synonymous with "Law and Order", which is indeed a battle cry of the authoritarian.
Welcome to the United States!
Is this the Year of Linux on the Dashboard?
Is the vote of someone who doesn't take to the streets worth less than the vote of someone who does?
The former's *vote* may not be worth any less, but s/he will certainly have less of an actual voice in said democracy. Likewise will the person who does not participate in any other form of political activism (e.g., attending/following local government functions, actively volunteering for political candidates, supporting groups that protect one's interests) have less of a voice in a democratic government than those who do.
Bottom line, democracy is not just (or even primarily) about voting.