Our constitution says:
(4) No one may be pronounced guilty of, or sentenced for, any act that was not considered a criminal offence under Hungarian law at the time it was committed. I think it's a nice touch.
As for saying never: the only circumstance I would consider accepting retroactive punishment is for those actively involved in the lawmaking process, but charging them with treason sounds more appropriate.
(and made retro-active in this case) Fuck that. No new law should be allowed to punish retroactively, EVER. No matter how you justify it, that's not a line you want to cross, especially not in a country where precedence is legally binding. The whole idea of being sent to jail for something that was legal when you did it...
I agree with you on those people deserving jail, but not at that price.
You get that with a well-formed password too. I can't type mine drunk, ever.
BTW, there's really nothing more easy/secure than a password. You even get to choose which end of a spectrum you want. I never cease to be amazed at the lenghts people go to make something better...
The big question is, would you trust a GNOME developer to distinguish you from your sister if you can't be bothered to make up a password she can't guess? Nevermind more serious issues.
...deserves his MBA revoked. Cut the middlemen. Cut DRM. Team up with a bunch of garage bands, make them famous. They have the popularity to do that, which is precisely what all those unseen talents need...
Email system: "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" You: "What do you mean? An African or European swallow?" Email system: "Huh? I... I don't know that." [email system explodes]
Keeping internet services online suffers from the problem of black swans. Nassim Taleb, who invented the term, defines it thus: "A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations." Almost all internet outages are unexpected unexpecteds: extremely low-probability outlying surprises. They're the kind of things that happen so rarely it doesn't even make sense to use normal statistical methods like "mean time between failure." What's the "mean time between catastrophic floods in New Orleans?"
The signal-to-noise ratio of the big places like Monster and Dice is terrible. We've had much better luck with (for example) the Joel on Software job boards, but that still doesn't generate enough volume. So, do you want volume or quality?
I can't think of a single situation where being an asshole toward someone is justified because the other person is getting paid. What about telemarketers?
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Remember, it's only paranoia if they're not out to get you!
What if I use OpenBSD, but don't have antivirus and antispyware?
was not considered a criminal offence under Hungarian law at the time it
was committed. I think it's a nice touch.
As for saying never: the only circumstance I would consider accepting retroactive punishment is for those actively involved in the lawmaking process, but charging them with treason sounds more appropriate.
IIRC, 3 Int is necessary to speak one language. Spot on for wisdom however.
Everyone who's ever had a hard drive already knows that.
I agree with you on those people deserving jail, but not at that price.
Amen to that. There's a difference between taking notes to easily remember the lecture and taking notes to try to understand it later.
You get that with a well-formed password too. I can't type mine drunk, ever.
BTW, there's really nothing more easy/secure than a password. You even get to choose which end of a spectrum you want.
I never cease to be amazed at the lenghts people go to make something better...
The big question is, would you trust a GNOME developer to distinguish you from your sister if you can't be bothered to make up a password she can't guess? Nevermind more serious issues.
...deserves his MBA revoked. Cut the middlemen. Cut DRM. Team up with a bunch of garage bands, make them famous. They have the popularity to do that, which is precisely what all those unseen talents need...
3 of the 4 major music labels? Make your own!
And give us some GOOD music, ferchrissake!
Sorry, it's a secret. Wireshark.org is slashdotted.
Email system: "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
You: "What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
Email system: "Huh? I... I don't know that."
[email system explodes]
Forced? All you had to do was click a checkbox.
Having it on by default, even offering Safari as an iTunes update was Bad(tm), but it wasn't really unavoidable, now was it?
Which is also not what the original writers of the laws intended. Sorry.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030919.html
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I hope you see the difference between "love sex" and "getting married".
They're kind of the opposite ends of the spectrum for me.
Seems like mobiles reached the "Best viewed with..." era.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html
Opera Mini kicks ass. Shame they don't release it for PC :(
Douglas Adams? Princess Diana?
Seriously, how can anyone take this seriously? If it's an attempt at humor, it's a really bad one.
First they need to actually provide bandwidth, not just throttle their heaviest users back.
+1, Insightful.
:)
You should call them fucktards more often
So you're South Korean?