And yet they're generally first in line to remove the regulatory bodies that are there to prevent and reduce corporate abuse. Those regulatory bodies are the only thing standing between us and a market that slips the rest of the way into monopoly control over every economic activity.
Yes, commenting isn't a replacement for properly formatted concise code, but if you're commenting on what you're doing in the code then you're not doing it correctly. Comments are supposed to deal with the why of what the code is doing and hopefully hint at whatever didn't work previously so that the next programmer can hopefully understand what's going on.
Admittedly, no matter how well the code is structured and commented it's still going to be a pain, but it should be possible in some reasonable period of time if you aren't there to explain.
Primarily because consciousness exists during sleep, it just gets a bit differenty. If your consciousness didn't exist during ones sleep cycle there'd be phenomena like parasomnias that wouldn't happen and being awakened at the wrong point in the sleep cycle could have disastrous effects.
This is a much easier problem to deal with. Users who can't be bothered to learn to keep their computer secured shouldn't be permitted to own a HDD. If you boot from a CDROM, DVD or a read only thumb drive your chances of getting a virus is going to be quite low and the rewards for people to write them would be practically non-existent.
The way to win this in the long term is to remove the incentive to write the viruses in the first place.
They might not be anybody's sovereign territory, but you're still bound by the laws of the country of your citizenship or failing that the flag on the vessel. What's worse is that in international waters pretty much any navy can put a stop to the launch without having the same sort of international incident if you were launching from land.
On top of that sea based launches are incredibly tricky even for well funded outfits, Boeing had several of their attempts fail.
I'm not really sure that I would trust the PRC to keep my private information private, I mean the Chinese government isn't exactly known for respect of the individual.
Precisely what I was getting at. Personally I don't really care about other people when it comes to things like this. I might consider donating my consciousness to a robot to further my works, but a transfer is definitely not something that I would ever consider. Death is ultimately inevitable and even in the case of a transfer the essential bits of me would still be dead.
That's a bit like suggesting that because I've replaced the individual parts in my car that I no longer have the same car and that it's exactly the same as if I were to just buy a new car. I don't personally agree with that notion, at some point you do have to agree that replacing enough stuff quickly enough and you no longer have the original to work with.
That's not true, if you add medical to the product it has to go through much more strenuous testing for FDA approval. It has absolutely nothing to do with insurance companies and everything to do with the fact that medical devices are expected to do no harm under even fewer circumstances than normal devices and have to have a therapeutic or medical use as well.
That costs money and quite frankly you do get a more reliable and better built piece of hardware in virtually all cases.
I personally wouldn't upload my brain into a computer for the same reason that I'd never agree to use a Star Trek style transporter if one is ever invented. Both are essentially a method of suicide that gets covered up by a replacement that appears to be the original.
Nope, the GGP claimed that the Obama presidency looks exactly like the Bush presidency, if anything I went overboard going beyond just one example. One example is all I needed to debunk the GGP's assertion that Obama was doing everything exactly the way that Bush did.
The title implies that this is some sort of record and it's significantly less meaningful if AMD and Intel have both bested it by a couple gigahertz prior to the attempt.
If you really want to secure it, you'd weld the case shut and fill the jack you plug the power cable into with epoxy. Of course the computer won't be useful afterwards, but it will be secure.
Yeah, but you're forgetting that anti-war people are usually liberals and liberals aren't likely to vote for somebody with the kind of bigotry problem that Ron Paul has. On top of that they're probably not going to be much enthused by his fascist leanings that he tries to disguise as libertarianism.
At the end of the day he's less likely to get votes from liberals than Mitt or even Newt.
Yes, because Bush would have ended DADT, passed health care reform, banking reform and worked to close GITMO.
You do realize that it takes more than the President to decide that somethings going to happen for it to happen, right? Unless of course you're seriously suggesting that it's OK for him to just order the doors of GITMO thrown wide open and just allow the inmates to just go wherever they like without being tried.
So, in other words to save some number of other children we need to sacrifice some so that the pervs have something to wank off to? If they were talking about pseudo child porn or comics there might be some validity, but legalizing child porn would have the end result of legalizing the sexual abuse of minors. Basically there would be no reason for pedophiles to pretend like they weren't abusing minors as they could claim to be just producing child porn.
Bear in mind why the sexual abuse of minors is illegal in the first place, because children are not capable of informed consent to the extent necessary for them to consent to the activities. The real question in that regards is where precisely the line ought to go.
True, but how precisely do you get the OK from all those many developers some of whom may no longer be alive to change the licensing terms? Linus isn't perfect, but I think you'd have to be pretty arrogant to suggest that he should be allowed to change the license on other people's code.
Precisely, not only did we allow the Bush administration to set all sorts of new precedents we rewarded him with a second term even after it was obvious that he wasn't going to adhere to the law. Obama hasn't been as bad in that regards, but he definitely hasn't deviated anywhere near enough from the precedents set up in the Bush administration.
Ron Paul is a joke and yes he probably would keep to the constitutional limits, the problem is that he would more or less abolish not just the bad aspects, but the good ones and would in all likelihood shrink the government far more than what is required to bring things back into control.
Ultimately it's a moot point as he would one have to be elected and two convince enough Senators and Congressmen to go along with it, which is unlikely.
It's harder to read and requires that the officer be much closer to the vehicle. It's there for use during traffic stops. It isn't however a replacement for a license plate as you can't see it at all when a vehicle is in motion.
Honestly, it gets really complicated really quickly. There are some things where there's not much argument to be had, if you can't walk or are blind or require assistance to live there's not going to be much argument.
However, if you're just missing a hand or a finger or have hearing in only one ear, that gets a bit murkier as those are things that people can and do live without, granted they aren't going to do everything without some adjustments, but they should be able to manage without too much help.
That's not typically legal, you're supposed to have a temporary paper license in the back window until the license plates arrive. If you don't have even that I doubt very much that it's legal anywhere as the police have no way of identifying ownership of the car without examining the VIN.
I disagree with that. Handicap spots are not just a distance thing, they're also about having space for a wheel chair lift. So, rather than having one set of spaces reserved for wheel chairs and another set that are close for those that are unable to walk long distances they combine them and put them relatively close to the ramp.
You haven't, but the reason why there are multiple spots isn't necessarily that straightforward. The problem is that they're allocated based upon peak need rather than based upon the average need. There are solutions to that such as allowing businesses to have disabled spots which are only reserved at certain times of the day.
I used to manage a loading dock a while back and what I'd see time and time again was where there would be no trucks in and all of a sudden within minutes the entire dock would be full. Same thing often times happens with parking spots, granted with a larger number it's less dramatic, but if you have particular spots that are special, those are the ones that will fill first typically and it takes several spaces to ensure that one spot will be unused.
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And yet they're generally first in line to remove the regulatory bodies that are there to prevent and reduce corporate abuse. Those regulatory bodies are the only thing standing between us and a market that slips the rest of the way into monopoly control over every economic activity.
Remind me not to hire you.
Yes, commenting isn't a replacement for properly formatted concise code, but if you're commenting on what you're doing in the code then you're not doing it correctly. Comments are supposed to deal with the why of what the code is doing and hopefully hint at whatever didn't work previously so that the next programmer can hopefully understand what's going on.
Admittedly, no matter how well the code is structured and commented it's still going to be a pain, but it should be possible in some reasonable period of time if you aren't there to explain.
MS isn't giving away free upgrades and I'm not interested in paying for a really expensive copy or Windows just to play games.
When the security patches cease, I'll just uninstall XP and replace it with whatever the best version of Linux is at that point.
Primarily because consciousness exists during sleep, it just gets a bit differenty. If your consciousness didn't exist during ones sleep cycle there'd be phenomena like parasomnias that wouldn't happen and being awakened at the wrong point in the sleep cycle could have disastrous effects.
This is a much easier problem to deal with. Users who can't be bothered to learn to keep their computer secured shouldn't be permitted to own a HDD. If you boot from a CDROM, DVD or a read only thumb drive your chances of getting a virus is going to be quite low and the rewards for people to write them would be practically non-existent.
The way to win this in the long term is to remove the incentive to write the viruses in the first place.
They might not be anybody's sovereign territory, but you're still bound by the laws of the country of your citizenship or failing that the flag on the vessel. What's worse is that in international waters pretty much any navy can put a stop to the launch without having the same sort of international incident if you were launching from land.
On top of that sea based launches are incredibly tricky even for well funded outfits, Boeing had several of their attempts fail.
I'm not really sure that I would trust the PRC to keep my private information private, I mean the Chinese government isn't exactly known for respect of the individual.
Precisely what I was getting at. Personally I don't really care about other people when it comes to things like this. I might consider donating my consciousness to a robot to further my works, but a transfer is definitely not something that I would ever consider. Death is ultimately inevitable and even in the case of a transfer the essential bits of me would still be dead.
That's a bit like suggesting that because I've replaced the individual parts in my car that I no longer have the same car and that it's exactly the same as if I were to just buy a new car. I don't personally agree with that notion, at some point you do have to agree that replacing enough stuff quickly enough and you no longer have the original to work with.
That's not true, if you add medical to the product it has to go through much more strenuous testing for FDA approval. It has absolutely nothing to do with insurance companies and everything to do with the fact that medical devices are expected to do no harm under even fewer circumstances than normal devices and have to have a therapeutic or medical use as well.
That costs money and quite frankly you do get a more reliable and better built piece of hardware in virtually all cases.
I personally wouldn't upload my brain into a computer for the same reason that I'd never agree to use a Star Trek style transporter if one is ever invented. Both are essentially a method of suicide that gets covered up by a replacement that appears to be the original.
Nope, the GGP claimed that the Obama presidency looks exactly like the Bush presidency, if anything I went overboard going beyond just one example. One example is all I needed to debunk the GGP's assertion that Obama was doing everything exactly the way that Bush did.
The title implies that this is some sort of record and it's significantly less meaningful if AMD and Intel have both bested it by a couple gigahertz prior to the attempt.
Nice to see more racist support for Ron Paul. I guess Newt and Mitt aren't white enough.
If you really want to secure it, you'd weld the case shut and fill the jack you plug the power cable into with epoxy. Of course the computer won't be useful afterwards, but it will be secure.
Yeah, but you're forgetting that anti-war people are usually liberals and liberals aren't likely to vote for somebody with the kind of bigotry problem that Ron Paul has. On top of that they're probably not going to be much enthused by his fascist leanings that he tries to disguise as libertarianism.
At the end of the day he's less likely to get votes from liberals than Mitt or even Newt.
Yes, because Bush would have ended DADT, passed health care reform, banking reform and worked to close GITMO.
You do realize that it takes more than the President to decide that somethings going to happen for it to happen, right? Unless of course you're seriously suggesting that it's OK for him to just order the doors of GITMO thrown wide open and just allow the inmates to just go wherever they like without being tried.
So, in other words to save some number of other children we need to sacrifice some so that the pervs have something to wank off to? If they were talking about pseudo child porn or comics there might be some validity, but legalizing child porn would have the end result of legalizing the sexual abuse of minors. Basically there would be no reason for pedophiles to pretend like they weren't abusing minors as they could claim to be just producing child porn.
Bear in mind why the sexual abuse of minors is illegal in the first place, because children are not capable of informed consent to the extent necessary for them to consent to the activities. The real question in that regards is where precisely the line ought to go.
True, but how precisely do you get the OK from all those many developers some of whom may no longer be alive to change the licensing terms? Linus isn't perfect, but I think you'd have to be pretty arrogant to suggest that he should be allowed to change the license on other people's code.
Precisely, not only did we allow the Bush administration to set all sorts of new precedents we rewarded him with a second term even after it was obvious that he wasn't going to adhere to the law. Obama hasn't been as bad in that regards, but he definitely hasn't deviated anywhere near enough from the precedents set up in the Bush administration.
Ron Paul is a joke and yes he probably would keep to the constitutional limits, the problem is that he would more or less abolish not just the bad aspects, but the good ones and would in all likelihood shrink the government far more than what is required to bring things back into control.
Ultimately it's a moot point as he would one have to be elected and two convince enough Senators and Congressmen to go along with it, which is unlikely.
It's harder to read and requires that the officer be much closer to the vehicle. It's there for use during traffic stops. It isn't however a replacement for a license plate as you can't see it at all when a vehicle is in motion.
Honestly, it gets really complicated really quickly. There are some things where there's not much argument to be had, if you can't walk or are blind or require assistance to live there's not going to be much argument.
However, if you're just missing a hand or a finger or have hearing in only one ear, that gets a bit murkier as those are things that people can and do live without, granted they aren't going to do everything without some adjustments, but they should be able to manage without too much help.
That's not typically legal, you're supposed to have a temporary paper license in the back window until the license plates arrive. If you don't have even that I doubt very much that it's legal anywhere as the police have no way of identifying ownership of the car without examining the VIN.
I disagree with that. Handicap spots are not just a distance thing, they're also about having space for a wheel chair lift. So, rather than having one set of spaces reserved for wheel chairs and another set that are close for those that are unable to walk long distances they combine them and put them relatively close to the ramp.
You haven't, but the reason why there are multiple spots isn't necessarily that straightforward. The problem is that they're allocated based upon peak need rather than based upon the average need. There are solutions to that such as allowing businesses to have disabled spots which are only reserved at certain times of the day.
I used to manage a loading dock a while back and what I'd see time and time again was where there would be no trucks in and all of a sudden within minutes the entire dock would be full. Same thing often times happens with parking spots, granted with a larger number it's less dramatic, but if you have particular spots that are special, those are the ones that will fill first typically and it takes several spaces to ensure that one spot will be unused.