a) Of course the rich will arrange for the laws to be written to their benefit. None of you are out in the streets, or in your rep's office complaining. We did *that* in the sixties and seventies, and it worked. b) Ten years later, everyone will. Direct example: GPS c) You might make better time *anyway*, since i) autodriving cars will move the fuck over out of the passing lane except to
pass, so that the idiot driving 5 mph *under* the speed limit in the left lane won't be there, and ii) they'll all be doing
the speed limit d) Politics: Obama, a bolshevik? ROTFLMAO!!!!! Sorry, had to pick myself up off the floor. Try "Eisenhower Republican".
And, of course, anyone who thinks he's a bolshevik is *obviously* a fascist, and since you probably want "illegal
aliens"* to be rounded up and put in internment camps, along with all Muslims and gays, your attitudes and opinions
are literally indistinguishable from Nazism. e) The political yelling may now end, thanks to Godwin's Law, and you may go back to discussing self-driving cars.
mark, actual leftist, and proud of it
* You'd send Mr. Spock to the camp, too, until Scotty beamed him out.
Wait - I thought Ayn Rand got Social Security and Medicare? And I thought she married someone so she could come to the US in the first place, then screwed him over?
Meanwhile, C doesn't screw you over - it does just what you tell it to do
Every time I see references to it, it all sounds like super-spiffy terminals connected to a mainframe. Got stuff on a cloud? There is *zero* difference between that and the corporate mainframe... and the people running it are not only more vulnerable to "requests" for info, but highly likely to sell that info to Big Corp (forget Big Brother).
Or get to the part where Madam MP Jonsdottir was advised by the Icelandic State Dept to not take a planned trip to the US, apparently for fear that the US would arrest her?
And that they were asking for all info from her, esp. her support of Assange and Manning? And that they wanted *everything*, including credit card numbers and bank account information?
And your point is? Are you arguing that we need to completely throw away all the Bush-era "chastity only", and all controls on selling condoms, and teach real sex ed in schools, including how to use birth control/STD control methods?
No, I thought not. You're a right wing hypocrite who wants to control everyone else's sexuality, because no one wants to lay you.
If you can't get into serious trouble in a language, you're also limited in the good stuff you can do.
Oh, I know, it's *so* old, it wasn't invented in the last five years. Oooh, cooties, it was invented last *century*: who'd want to use *that*... never mind it's fast, and can be clean and elegant, if you got past the crap you wrote when you first got out of school, with no error checking and handling, and whatever the professor who made the biggest impression on you's Favorite Tool was (i.e, I worked with a guy many years ago who seemed to think that *everything* should be done with recursion).
Easier to debug, too, when you don't have a stack of inherited increasingly complex stuff to write "hello, world".
I hope that y'all get something like, say, cancer, with this law repealed.
Let's offer one scenario: You get treated in 2001. You lose your job and go on COBRA ($$$) The insurance co jacks up the price until you can't afford it (FL, 2003-2005, 100% increase in premiums for folks who've rolled off COBRA to "individual plan") NOT ONE SINGLE INSURANCE CO IN THE US WILL TALK TO YOU OTHER THAN COBRA UNTIL AT LEAST 5 YEARS AFTER THE END OF TREATMENT (BC/BS REP, IN PHONE CALL, 2002). Years later, not one of 'em wants to offer you a policy (2008)
Great health care scheme, there. Any of you note that one of Ron Paul's top campaign officials DIED becuase he didn't have/couldn't afford health insurance?
mark "is there stupid being put into the water in the US?"
What benefit does this kind of trading provide to society, or even to the companies whose stock is being traded?
Seems to me that this is the kind of thing that's run up the price of oil, food, and a lot of other things, which hit me, personally (I don't expect a good percentage of slashdotters consider their wallet, the Freeness of the Market overriding their own "enlightened self-interest").
A real tax on assets held under, say, a week would provide a *lot* of money to provide social programs needed by the folks who've been screwed by the traders who engage in this.
And what's wrong with strncpy, which I started using heavily after a couple of years of working in C?
But there is an attitude problem with a lot of coders. For example, I almost *never* use while - 90+% of the time, I use for/next, so I have known limits.
Too bad so many schools DON'T teach error handling, and so much of upper management demands that programmers write what they want, when they want it, in the time they could wave their hands....
The US Air Force might prefer that people looking for them come to the right place? That no one mistakes a studio for the real thing? Governments tend to look down on that sort of thing....
A friend of mine, Bro. Guy Consolmagno, teaches at Catholic colleges around the US half the year (the rest of the time, he curates the Vatican's meteorite collection). One of the classes he says he teaches is "science for non-science majors". He once went down the food chain of the majors that take his course: next to the bottom are the business majors, "who don't get it, but don't let that worry them". The bottom of the food chain are the communications majors, who "not only don't get it, but don't know that they don't get it".
So, you wondered why journalists and HR people were *so* ignorant....
Because they bought Sun, and I've had to deal with Sun/Oracle support on some servers.
Or, as I refer to calling support, self-abuse. ONE BLOODY MONTH to get someone to come on-site to repair a server. That includes two weeks emailing with an engineer in Chile (the country) who kept being put on other projects, so some days I wouldn't get a response to an email for several *days*. Then I got assigned an in-US engineer... WHO ONLY WORKED NIGHTS.
*THREE* managers, three days in a row, "took ownership" when I escalated the mess.
Hey, slashdot kiddies: you missed the story I just saw today, that noted that Bill the Gates rented ->all the hotel space- on the island for his wedding... which implies Larry got the hotels, too.
How 'bout I fly you to my Hawaian island, babe, since you want me to hire you? - Lex Ellison....
mark "he really needs to go bald, and change his last name to Luthor"
When I worked in the DP dept at Philly Community College in the early eighties, I, personally, was responsible for the tape exchange with the US federal government for the Pell Grants. I can therefor speak authoritatively, and tell you that 90% of the students were there on Pell Grants.
That's a *communtity* college. Not an Expensive, Big Name private college.
These days, with the massive cuts in Pell Grants in inflation-adjusted dollars, it's harder and harder to get to *anything*.
But Murdoch, of course, the rich foreign-born immigrant doesn't want a large and educated working class.
I mean, the last time that happened was the sixties and seventies, and look what happened then: uppity kids, women, workers, and ethnics. Didn't know when do defer to their betters, and wanted to keep a fair share of the wealth of the country.
Things are *so* much better, with folks like the Walmart heirs, whose top six own more wealth than the *entire* bottom 30% of the country, and there are so many jobs.....
What about Buddhist countries? Or China, with a quarter of the world's population? Or India, with more than another 1G? What "Creator's hell" is there? Just starting to skim the link leaves me wondering if they only studied countries that were primarily Judeo-Xian-Islamic.
How does it break down: how many of the "higher crime" countries are a) what used to be called Third World, that were conquered and ruled by westerners, and b) how many are in countries with huge unemployment (like Spain, right now, or Palestine)?
And how do they define it? When they say "hell", do the respondents think "purgatory", or are they thinking Christian infinite punishment for limited evil?
Seconded. Though I will note that US cities and states have *sometimes* worked around it reasonably (), while others are the idiots we know them to be (but you knew Florida was for sale). Making country code tlds would simplify a lot. For multinationals, they can use the one their home office is in, like a ship's country of origin.
mark, fighting with the US federal gov't, who won't accept a valid tld ending in.us as a valid email....
Otherwise why would they pay attention to humdreds of millions of dollar ads to vote for GOP (and other) candidates who are going to do things that will hurt them, personally?
For example, none of you slashdotters *ever* want to have sex except to reproduce legally, right?
I'm sure you don't have enough boxes. Consider this: rip the cushions off all the chairs and couches, and cover the floors. Actually, you should be able to get heavy blanketing for the floors. Rolls of bubble wrap are sold at UHaul, too. Cover the floor. Flatten your carboard boxes, then pack the mess on them. Save a box or three for the absolutly critical machines. Then more heavy blankets on the sides and top, and rope it down, tight - you don't want it all bouncing, I think.
PULL OUT THE DRIVES of anything that has hot-swap, and package them more carefully, and put them in your car.
Slashdot Mirror
a) Of course the rich will arrange for the laws to be written to their benefit. None of you are out in the streets, or in your rep's office complaining. We did *that* in the sixties and seventies, and it worked.
b) Ten years later, everyone will. Direct example: GPS
c) You might make better time *anyway*, since i) autodriving cars will move the fuck over out of the passing lane except to
pass, so that the idiot driving 5 mph *under* the speed limit in the left lane won't be there, and ii) they'll all be doing
the speed limit
d) Politics: Obama, a bolshevik? ROTFLMAO!!!!! Sorry, had to pick myself up off the floor. Try "Eisenhower Republican".
And, of course, anyone who thinks he's a bolshevik is *obviously* a fascist, and since you probably want "illegal
aliens"* to be rounded up and put in internment camps, along with all Muslims and gays, your attitudes and opinions
are literally indistinguishable from Nazism.
e) The political yelling may now end, thanks to Godwin's Law, and you may go back to discussing self-driving cars.
mark, actual leftist, and proud of it
* You'd send Mr. Spock to the camp, too, until Scotty beamed him out.
Ignorant. The Real Thor had many nicknames, of which a common one was Redbeard.
mark
Thor leaps on a horse, and cries, "Giddyap! I am Thor!"
Horse: Of course your thore, you forgot your thaddle, thilly.
Wait - I thought Ayn Rand got Social Security and Medicare? And I thought she married someone so she could come to the US in the first place, then screwed him over?
Meanwhile, C doesn't screw you over - it does just what you tell it to do
mark
Every time I see references to it, it all sounds like super-spiffy terminals connected to a mainframe. Got stuff on a cloud? There is *zero* difference between that and the corporate mainframe... and the people running it are not only more vulnerable to "requests" for info, but highly likely to sell that info to Big Corp (forget Big Brother).
mark
Or get to the part where Madam MP Jonsdottir was advised by the Icelandic State Dept to not take a planned trip to the US, apparently for fear that the US would arrest her?
And that they were asking for all info from her, esp. her support of Assange and Manning? And that they wanted *everything*, including credit card numbers and bank account information?
mark
And your point is? Are you arguing that we need to completely throw away all the Bush-era "chastity only", and all controls on selling condoms, and teach real sex ed in schools, including how to use birth control/STD control methods?
No, I thought not. You're a right wing hypocrite who wants to control everyone else's sexuality, because no one wants to lay you.
mark
...not Fox News tech briefs, or whatever crap they spew (I should say *additional* crap).
Or was this written by a Mac or M$ addict who fancies themselves a "power user"?
mark
If you can't get into serious trouble in a language, you're also limited in the good stuff you can do.
Oh, I know, it's *so* old, it wasn't invented in the last five years. Oooh, cooties, it was invented last *century*: who'd want to use *that*... never mind it's fast, and can be clean and elegant, if you got past the crap you wrote when you first got out of school, with no error checking and handling, and whatever the professor who made the biggest impression on you's Favorite Tool was (i.e, I worked with a guy many years ago who seemed to think that *everything* should be done with recursion).
Easier to debug, too, when you don't have a stack of inherited increasingly complex stuff to write "hello, world".
mark
I hope that y'all get something like, say, cancer, with this law repealed.
Let's offer one scenario:
You get treated in 2001.
You lose your job and go on COBRA ($$$)
The insurance co jacks up the price until you can't afford it (FL, 2003-2005, 100% increase in premiums for folks who've rolled off COBRA to "individual plan")
NOT ONE SINGLE INSURANCE CO IN THE US WILL TALK TO YOU OTHER THAN COBRA UNTIL AT LEAST 5 YEARS AFTER THE END OF TREATMENT (BC/BS REP, IN PHONE CALL, 2002).
Years later, not one of 'em wants to offer you a policy (2008)
Great health care scheme, there. Any of you note that one of Ron Paul's top campaign officials DIED becuase he didn't have/couldn't afford health insurance?
mark "is there stupid being put into the water in the US?"
And why didn't they have a Cheney head beside it?
mark
What benefit does this kind of trading provide to society, or even to the companies whose stock is being traded?
Seems to me that this is the kind of thing that's run up the price of oil, food, and a lot of other things, which hit me, personally (I don't expect a good percentage of slashdotters consider their wallet, the Freeness of the Market overriding their own "enlightened self-interest").
A real tax on assets held under, say, a week would provide a *lot* of money to provide social programs needed by the folks who've been screwed by the traders who engage in this.
mark
And what's wrong with strncpy, which I started using heavily after a couple of years of working in C?
But there is an attitude problem with a lot of coders. For example, I almost *never* use while - 90+% of the time, I use for/next, so I have known limits.
Too bad so many schools DON'T teach error handling, and so much of upper management demands that programmers write what they want, when they want it, in the time they could wave their hands....
mark
The US Air Force might prefer that people looking for them come to the right place? That no one mistakes a studio for the real thing? Governments tend to look down on that sort of thing....
mark
A friend of mine, Bro. Guy Consolmagno, teaches at Catholic colleges around the US half the year (the rest of the time, he curates the Vatican's meteorite collection). One of the classes he says he teaches is "science for non-science majors". He once went down the food chain of the majors that take his course: next to the bottom are the business majors, "who don't get it, but don't let that worry them". The bottom of the food chain are the communications majors, who "not only don't get it, but don't know that they don't get it".
So, you wondered why journalists and HR people were *so* ignorant....
mark
I'd wonder if the real life USAF Space Command knows about this, and might want words with him....
mark
Because they bought Sun, and I've had to deal with Sun/Oracle support on some servers.
Or, as I refer to calling support, self-abuse. ONE BLOODY MONTH to get someone to come on-site to repair a server. That includes two weeks emailing with an engineer in Chile (the country) who kept being put on other projects, so some days I wouldn't get a response to an email for several *days*. Then I got assigned an in-US engineer... WHO ONLY WORKED NIGHTS.
*THREE* managers, three days in a row, "took ownership" when I escalated the mess.
The moral: don't buy Sun. Ever again.
mark
Hey, slashdot kiddies: you missed the story I just saw today, that noted that Bill the Gates rented ->all the hotel space- on the island for his wedding... which implies Larry got the hotels, too.
How 'bout I fly you to my Hawaian island, babe, since you want me to hire you? - Lex Ellison....
mark "he really needs to go bald, and change his last name to Luthor"
When I worked in the DP dept at Philly Community College in the early eighties, I, personally, was responsible for the tape exchange with the US federal government for the Pell Grants. I can therefor speak authoritatively, and tell you that 90% of the students were there on Pell Grants.
That's a *communtity* college. Not an Expensive, Big Name private college.
These days, with the massive cuts in Pell Grants in inflation-adjusted dollars, it's harder and harder to get to *anything*.
But Murdoch, of course, the rich foreign-born immigrant doesn't want a large and educated working class.
I mean, the last time that happened was the sixties and seventies, and look what happened then: uppity kids, women, workers, and ethnics. Didn't know when do defer to their betters, and wanted to keep a fair share of the wealth of the country.
Things are *so* much better, with folks like the Walmart heirs, whose top six own more wealth than the *entire* bottom 30% of the country, and there are so many jobs.....
mark
Let's see, where do I start?
What about Buddhist countries? Or China, with a quarter of the world's population? Or India, with more than another 1G? What "Creator's hell" is there? Just starting to skim the link leaves me wondering if they only studied countries that were primarily Judeo-Xian-Islamic.
How does it break down: how many of the "higher crime" countries are a) what used to be called Third World, that were conquered and ruled by westerners, and b) how many are in countries with huge unemployment (like Spain, right now, or Palestine)?
And how do they define it? When they say "hell", do the respondents think "purgatory", or are they thinking Christian infinite punishment for limited evil?
mark
I mean, if they're not offering me at *least* $25M USD, I know they're frauds, trying to cheat me out of my money.
mark "diss *me*, will they?"
An on-topic message link? And how is this different from any moderated usenet newsgroup?
Oh, right, it's still "tell me everything you know in 140 chars...."
mark
I've on a bunch of lists that run this way, some fairly large, though not in the thousands.
Or you *could* start a moderated newsgroup - I mean, usenet hasn't gone away....
mark
Seconded. Though I will note that US cities and states have *sometimes* worked around it reasonably (), while others are the idiots we know them to be (but you knew Florida was for sale). Making country code tlds would simplify a lot. For multinationals, they can use the one their home office is in, like a ship's country of origin.
mark, fighting with the US federal gov't, who won't accept a valid tld ending in .us as a valid email....
Otherwise why would they pay attention to humdreds of millions of dollar ads to vote for GOP (and other) candidates who are going to do things that will hurt them, personally?
For example, none of you slashdotters *ever* want to have sex except to reproduce legally, right?
mark
I'm sure you don't have enough boxes. Consider this: rip the cushions off all the chairs and couches, and cover the floors. Actually, you should be able to get heavy blanketing for the floors. Rolls of bubble wrap are sold at UHaul, too. Cover the floor. Flatten your carboard boxes, then pack the mess on them. Save a box or three for the absolutly critical machines. Then more heavy blankets on the sides and top, and rope it down, tight - you don't want it all bouncing, I think.
PULL OUT THE DRIVES of anything that has hot-swap, and package them more carefully, and put them in your car.
That's what I'd do.
mark