> Use c++ for encapsulation, for references, for the syntactic sugar - but not because the stl will make it run faster - it won't.
Seconded. Also:// looks nicer for comments than/* */
Regarding performance: recently I was asked to help with a memory bloat problem. On AIX the code was using more memory than on Linux. A new replacement was used to track all allocations and we found that the AIX STL implementation uses more memory. Not much one can do about it.
One more thing: delete() and free() should return the size of the freed area. The lack of that I consider the most unfortunate language design decision. Why could they not fix this with C++? This prevents effective memory use monitoring.
IANAL and I cannot claim understanding of all the details of the case. But could not those individuals start a (class action) lawsuit whose personal information was disclosed as you state? Is it government im(p)unity that prevents this from happening?
You were funny, but I still want to address a serious point.
If aliens come here from those star systems light years away, they figured out the energy problem. They are not going to want to take over our coal mines and natural gas deposits. I assume they have much better energy sources. I do not know anything else (as resource) that would not be found on other (uninhabited) planets than the fossil fuels.
Of course that still leaves the possibility that they just want the living space (oceans greens etc.) and/or would see us as food as delicacy. (Maybe the better meaning majority would make laws to declare us endangered, like we do with the whales, but some would still hunt us for fun/profit.
But if colonization is what drives the aliens, then they would surely find planets that can serve for that purpose without intelligent life and much closer to their origins. (There are billions of systems etc.) Why would they want Earth with an ecosystem damaged and being damaged by humanity? I just assume they would much rather have a clean planet...
The only issue I can see is if we are competition to these aliens colonization efforts of other planets. But we are not there yet, and when we get there, hopefully we will be able to protect ourselves.
But, it is an interesting question to ponder: Assume we were on our way to colonize other planets and got near to some prospective one. We notice that there is life there and may be intelligent (say on the level of the Neandertales which is what we would appear to aliens today I assume). What would we do? Keep looking further (cost) or eradicate them or enslave them (less cost, high moral cost)? Now go see Pocahontas or Avatar!!
> People email orders to her. > Not payment information, just name and delivery address+order.
^^^^^^ > But a name and address is personally identifiable. Does that mean she h
No it does not. Read the text of the law, it will relieve your anxiety!
Do you mean an OS upgrade? Since your encrypted volume is separate and backed up I fail to see the hardship.
The OS corrupting your data - due to a virus or bug - is more pain because you may not notice the corruption until recovering from backups means losing some of the latest data.
I think it would be even better if we mandate a security licence for designing, implementing and deploying operating systems/web browsers/etc that access the network.
For example, if you tried that for a couple of decades and could not get it right, then maybe your licence should be revoked and reinstated only after proving you code correct and only in a limited market first. (For example, desktops only, no laptops, no wireless etc.)
Actually, it seems a perfectly good idea to create those jobs to inspect the goods. Since WM brings it in WM pays for it. Those people who lost their jobs because of WM may get it back in the inspection sector.
Of course this will raise the WM prices, which is the right thing to do; today they can offer the low price because they are not bound buy the same safety regulations.
What is fascinating is how these discussions so soon turn towards political drivel. I am genuinely interested in finding out what makes people behave in such irrational manner. Lack of logic? Anchoring to a view and incapable of admitting the mistake?
- TV size is not regulated, power consumption is. - The household energy use issue is real for CA. Remember the rolling blackouts? - Legislation often happens in parallel. Homework assignment: how many laws they pass in a year? Would you want them to do it one at a time in order of importance?
Having said the last one, I also think some issues are just distraction, for sure.
As I understand, the 3 digit code you need to remember in order to verify later. Maybe they worried that more than 3 digits will be difficult to remember. It may not be preferred if people would need to write the number down.
Your engine will race to 8000RPM. Will that freak you out? Were you prepared for that when you wrote the above? Honestly? (When I taught my fiance to drive a manual she freaked out regularly at the beginning over the engine revving; until she learned to coordinate the clutch/gas/stick.)
You may need to turn off the engine *and* push out the clutch (to avoid the sudden jerky slowdown) and break in a controlled fashion. You may restart the engine in 4th or 5th too if you have the guts.
You put the car in neutral and the engine goes to 8000RPM. That will freak you out, I guarantee.
I had a problem of the accelerator pedal sticking down when I floored it (car was getting old needed to floor to get the acceleration). Just press on the break, it will win over the gas pedal, eventually the engine will stop as the rpm drops. Once the engine stopped the gas pedal released.
Second time it happened I turned off the engine and pushed out the clutch the same time, gas pedal unstuck, and I restarted the engine in 5th!
Furthermore: (2^n - 1, 2^m - 1) = (2^(n,m) - 1), where (n,m) is the greatest common divisor of n and m. (Maybe in your high school they used the more verbose gcd(n, m).)
The above has a quite elementary, and beautiful proof. (Substitute n = ab, m = a: (2^ab -1, 2^a -1) = 2^a - 1, so the above is a more general theorem.)
Even further: (F_n, F_m) = F_(n,m), where F_1 = 1, F_2 = 1, F_{k+2} = F_{k+1} + F_k, the Fibonacci sequence. Then muse about M_1 = 1, M_{k+1} = 2*M_k + 1 defining the sequence 2^k - 1, and try to further generalize...
(If you need a proof just ask, I will check back tomorrow.)
> You forget that many times spammers are criminals using botnets composed of hijacked machines, whose innocent owners would wind up paying the price
I do not see this as a large problem. Yest it is a cost, but most importantly a reminder to the user that their system is compromised. Due to this compromise they could have suffered data loss, that now they may avoid.
It would make sense to prepay for email, that would cap your exposure.
Also your #3 suggestion can be easily abused: What will prevent the spamvertising of the competitior's product?
> seriously, would you want a tax on your home every year just because it went up in value even though you hadn't sold it?
I do not argue regarding investment income, but your example is fundamentally flawed. I pay tax on my house every year, about 2.5% of its value. When the house value goes up the tax goes up... Imagine the uproar if the US taxed wealth and not income!
"This review does not address contaminant content (such as herbicide, pesticide and fungicide residues) of organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs or the environmental impacts of organic and conventional agricultural practices."
Most people chose organic food because they are afraid that the herbicide, pesticide, rBST, estrogen etc. will poison them. It is not that they expect more calories, vitamins, fiber etc.
So while the original paper is ok per say, because it had the proper disclosure about the scope of the study, those who reported it were not truthful or were highly incompetent (did not read the paper).
If you read the original paper had you arrived to your above conclusion? Note that I do not claim that organic is healthier or not, just that this study does not even attempt to answer that question.
This story was picked up by BBC, CNN etc. On message boards flame wars occured, since noone got the right information. I had to spend time to hunt down the original study, because most "news" sites had no link to the pdf. I am losing complete faith in large commercial news outlets: they are wasting my time. Next time I will just assume that they did not do their homework and will not trust their conclusions. It would have been nice if the Slashdot editor would post the link to the pdf.
When you say: "...if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks." you give fuel to those who will immediately respond about their right to eat what they want, etc.
Better to insist on people paying the *real* costs of eating meat. Based on the conversion factor you mentioned (which I did not bother to check) getting the same nutrients from meat should cost a few times more.
The aggressive corn subsidy makes it cheap to feed it to animals (even cows, who would eat grass instead); I wish we were given subsidies (if at all) to other vegetables instead. Eating fresh vegetables and fruits is more expensive than eating mass produced meat...
Can iPhone users buy the app in another store? I hope so; buying a (smart?)phone for a couple hundred dollars which can *only* run apps from a single store is not very appealing to me.
Since you mention "solution". Could we intercept replies to spam somehow? Once we identified the idiots who reply to spam, cut their access to *send* email except to spamcop. To reestablish their email privileges they have to report 100 spam emails first.:}
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Watch House MD. You may like it.
> Use c++ for encapsulation, for references, for the syntactic sugar - but not because the stl will make it run faster - it won't.
Seconded. Also: // looks nicer for comments than /* */
Regarding performance: recently I was asked to help with a memory bloat problem. On AIX the code was using more memory than on Linux. A new replacement was used to track all allocations and we found that the AIX STL implementation uses more memory. Not much one can do about it.
One more thing: delete() and free() should return the size of the freed area. The lack of that I consider the most unfortunate language design decision. Why could they not fix this with C++? This prevents effective memory use monitoring.
These are hoaxes of course. But your willingness to believe them proves how far we came...
Real ones:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/06/frivolous_lawsu.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/14pants.html (because he was offered 15k.)
List:
http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/2010/04/the-7-most-absurd-lawsuits-of-all-time/
The coffee spillers, the penis manglers and other similar litigants sigh relief now: a bigger fish stepped up.
But seriously, the problem is that these lawsuits sometimes work:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_stella_awards_for_the_most_absurd_lawsuits/
Or just post plain old text.
Like me.
IANAL and I cannot claim understanding of all the details of the case. But could not those individuals start a (class action) lawsuit whose personal information was disclosed as you state? Is it government im(p)unity that prevents this from happening?
You were funny, but I still want to address a serious point.
If aliens come here from those star systems light years away,
they figured out the energy problem. They are not going to
want to take over our coal mines and natural gas deposits.
I assume they have much better energy sources. I do not know
anything else (as resource) that would not be found on other
(uninhabited) planets than the fossil fuels.
Of course that still leaves the possibility that they just
want the living space (oceans greens etc.) and/or would see us
as food as delicacy. (Maybe the better meaning majority would
make laws to declare us endangered, like we do with the whales,
but some would still hunt us for fun/profit.
But if colonization is what drives the aliens, then they would
surely find planets that can serve for that purpose without
intelligent life and much closer to their origins. (There are
billions of systems etc.) Why would they want Earth with an
ecosystem damaged and being damaged by humanity? I just assume
they would much rather have a clean planet...
The only issue I can see is if we are competition to these aliens
colonization efforts of other planets. But we are not there yet,
and when we get there, hopefully we will be able to protect
ourselves.
But, it is an interesting question to ponder: Assume we were on our
way to colonize other planets and got near to some prospective
one. We notice that there is life there and may be intelligent
(say on the level of the Neandertales which is what we would appear
to aliens today I assume). What would we do? Keep looking
further (cost) or eradicate them or enslave them (less cost, high
moral cost)? Now go see Pocahontas or Avatar!!
> People email orders to her.
> Not payment information, just name and delivery address+order.
^^^^^^
> But a name and address is personally identifiable. Does that mean she h
No it does not. Read the text of the law, it will relieve your anxiety!
Do you mean an OS upgrade? Since your encrypted volume is separate and backed
up I fail to see the hardship.
The OS corrupting your data - due to a virus or bug - is more pain because you may not
notice the corruption until recovering from backups means losing some of the latest data.
I think it would be even better if we mandate a security licence for designing, implementing and deploying operating systems/web browsers/etc that access the network.
For example, if you tried that for a couple of decades and could not get it right, then maybe your licence should be revoked and reinstated only after proving you code correct and only in a limited market first. (For example, desktops only, no laptops, no wireless etc.)
I really hope this will get traction!
Actually, it seems a perfectly good idea to create those jobs to inspect the goods.
Since WM brings it in WM pays for it. Those people who lost their jobs because of WM
may get it back in the inspection sector.
Of course this will raise the WM prices, which is the right thing to do; today they
can offer the low price because they are not bound buy the same safety regulations.
It was well said already, I do not repeat:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1451590&op=Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&mode=nested&pid=30172042
What is fascinating is how these discussions so soon turn towards political drivel. I am genuinely interested in finding out what makes people behave in such irrational manner. Lack of logic? Anchoring to a view and incapable of admitting the mistake?
- TV size is not regulated, power consumption is.
- The household energy use issue is real for CA. Remember the rolling blackouts?
- Legislation often happens in parallel. Homework assignment: how many laws they pass in a year? Would you want them to do it one at a time in order of importance?
Having said the last one, I also think some issues are just distraction, for sure.
As I understand, the 3 digit code you need to remember in order to verify later. Maybe they worried that more than 3 digits will be difficult to remember. It may not be preferred if people would need to write the number down.
Your engine will race to 8000RPM. Will that freak you out? Were you prepared for that when you wrote the above? Honestly? (When I taught my fiance to drive a manual she freaked out regularly at the beginning over the engine revving; until she learned to coordinate the clutch/gas/stick.)
You may need to turn off the engine *and* push out the clutch (to avoid the sudden jerky slowdown) and break in a controlled fashion. You may restart the engine in 4th or 5th too if you have the guts.
You put the car in neutral and the engine goes to 8000RPM. That will freak you out, I guarantee.
I had a problem of the accelerator pedal sticking down when I floored it (car was getting old needed to floor to get the acceleration). Just press on the break, it will win over the gas pedal, eventually the engine will stop as the rpm drops. Once the engine stopped the gas pedal released.
Second time it happened I turned off the engine and pushed out the clutch the same time, gas pedal unstuck, and I restarted the engine in 5th!
Furthermore: (2^n - 1, 2^m - 1) = (2^(n,m) - 1), where (n,m) is the greatest common divisor of n and m. (Maybe in your high school they used the more verbose gcd(n, m).)
The above has a quite elementary, and beautiful proof. (Substitute n = ab, m = a:
(2^ab -1, 2^a -1) = 2^a - 1, so the above is a more general theorem.)
Even further: (F_n, F_m) = F_(n,m), where F_1 = 1, F_2 = 1, F_{k+2} = F_{k+1} + F_k, the Fibonacci sequence. Then muse about M_1 = 1, M_{k+1} = 2*M_k + 1 defining the sequence 2^k - 1, and try to further generalize...
(If you need a proof just ask, I will check back tomorrow.)
> If the SEC did put a mandatory ownership for a number of days it would seriously harm the market,
Agreed. However, a mandatory ownership of 1 second(!) would take care of the problem.
> You forget that many times spammers are criminals using botnets composed of hijacked machines, whose innocent owners would wind up paying the price
I do not see this as a large problem. Yest it is a cost, but most importantly a reminder to the user that their system is compromised. Due to this compromise they could have suffered data loss, that now they may avoid.
It would make sense to prepay for email, that would cap your exposure.
Also your #3 suggestion can be easily abused: What will prevent the spamvertising of the competitior's product?
> seriously, would you want a tax on your home every year just because it went up in value even though you hadn't sold it?
I do not argue regarding investment income, but your example is fundamentally flawed. I pay tax on my house every year, about 2.5% of its value. When the house value goes up the tax goes up... Imagine the uproar if the US taxed wealth and not income!
In http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6732520.ece there is link to the pdf report.
Qoute:
"This review does not address contaminant content (such as herbicide, pesticide and fungicide residues) of organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs or the environmental impacts of organic and conventional agricultural practices."
Most people chose organic food because they are afraid that the herbicide, pesticide, rBST, estrogen etc. will poison them. It is not that they expect more calories, vitamins, fiber etc.
So while the original paper is ok per say, because it had the proper disclosure about the scope of the study, those who reported it were not truthful or were highly incompetent (did not read the paper).
If you read the original paper had you arrived to your above conclusion? Note that I do not claim that organic is healthier or not, just that this study does not even attempt to answer that question.
This story was picked up by BBC, CNN etc. On message boards flame wars occured, since noone got the right information. I had to spend time to hunt down the original study, because most "news" sites had no link to the pdf. I am losing complete faith in large commercial news outlets: they are wasting my time. Next time I will just assume that they did not do their homework and will not trust their conclusions. It would have been nice if the Slashdot editor would post the link to the pdf.
Note that today's cows in the US are eating corn and not grass.
When you say: "...if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks." you give fuel to those who will immediately respond about their right to eat what they want, etc.
Better to insist on people paying the *real* costs of eating meat. Based on the conversion factor you mentioned (which I did not bother to check) getting the same nutrients from meat should cost a few times more.
The aggressive corn subsidy makes it cheap to feed it to animals (even cows, who would eat grass instead); I wish we were given subsidies (if at all) to other vegetables instead. Eating fresh vegetables and fruits is more expensive than eating mass produced meat...
Indeed, *chose* a non-DRM and non-patent encumbered format!
I get all my tunes in ogg vorbis.
Can iPhone users buy the app in another store? I hope so; buying a (smart?)phone for a couple hundred dollars which can *only* run apps from a single store is not very appealing to me.
Since you mention "solution". Could we intercept replies to spam somehow? Once we identified the idiots who reply to spam, cut their access to *send* email except to spamcop. To reestablish their email privileges they have to report 100 spam emails first. :}