If a male wrote this drivel, he'd at the minimum. be fired, and there's a good chance he'd be sued for sexual harrasment as well.
But if a woman writes it? No penalties at all.
Seriously. What if a complete, bug-free Perl 6 implementation were released today (as opposed to the "early" version described in TFA)? Would anyone convert existing perl 5 scripts to perl 6? Would anyone write new scripts in perl 6 as opposed to Python or Ruby or Perl 5? Really, would anyone except the most diehard Perl addicts even notice or care about Perl 6?
My ideal these days would be to just buy a license (and I use the term deliberately) and for them to store the content in their cloud and for me (in a Steam type way) to then be able to activate that content on my various different devices.
You don't really want this because the content providers' notion of their "content" will certainly include stuff like those unskippable ads and other crap that drive you insane. With the content stored "in the could" as you propose, there's likely no way around this type of annoyance, and in fact with the content in the cloud they can change the ads, add additional ones, etc. whenever they like. And don't for a minute think they won't try to extract additional money from you by "licensing" you the stream for only a certain amount of time, after which you need to renew, etc.
The stores often change layouts within a single store and/or have different layouts at each of several stores on purpose. By forcing you to wander around looking for what you want, they're hoping you'll see some additional items you'll be willing to buy on impulse. Club stores (Sams Club and CostCo in the US, for example) are notorious for this practice.
Probably better explained as an example of Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") than outright intentional deception.
The Internet is fast becoming what electrical power was 50 years ago: It separates the people who are able to participate in the global economy from those who can't.
50 years ago? Electrical power IS STILL a huge separator today. Many "developing" countries have unreliable electrical service at best, and often NO electrical service to the poorest of their citizens. Added to all the other problems you said, OLPC should have realised that putting a damn computer in the hands of some country's kids is completely missing the point when the kids have probably no electricity, not even basic healthcare, no sanitation, little or no education, and perhaps barely enough food. Forget the computer ---- there are far bigger problems to solve first.
It's called "Controlled flight into terrain"
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It's an all-too-common occurrence in aviation. It even occurs to big, commercial flights. For example, Eastern Airlines flight 401 (in 1972).
By all accounts his plane was equipped with an ELT and a radio. Presumably he would have used one or both if an engine failure or other mechanical problem occurred and he had some time while gliding.
[...] mandating that a successful defense -- even if it comes from the RIAA's decision to voluntarily dismiss a case -- results in the record labels picking up the tab would even things out.
Just "picking up the tab" is woefully inadequate. Defending oneself against RIAA action requires a tremendous amount of time, requires one to front a whole bunch of money to an attorney, and places a huge amount of stress on the person being sued. None of these apply the the RIAA -- their attorneys are being paid to do the lawsuits as their regular day-to-day jobs, the expense of the lawsuits is inconsequential and part of expected, budgeted business expenses for the RIAA, and the lawsuits impose no particular stress on the RIAA or its attorneys.
What needs to happen in these situations -- that is, when $BIG_COMPANY sues an individual and drops the suit or loses -- is that substantial punative damages need to be assessed to compensate the individual for lost time, their savings being used unexpectedly (what if they were planning to use that money for a new car or needed home repairs? What if they had to stop contributing to their retirement savings to pay their lawyer?), and for the stress of the lawsuit on the individual. Only with substantial punative damages will the RIAA have enough disincentive to file poorly-researched "shotgun"-style lawsuits.
In my experience, the crashes in current Linux applications are due to in large part, to GCC Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're not a troll, can you elaborate on your "experience" from which you have concluded that crashes in current Linux apps are due to GCC? I'd say 99.99% of the crashes are due to bugs in the application code, not to bugs in GCC.
Compiling kernels has gotten easier over the years.
You're joking, right? I used to compile my own kernel.org kernel in 2.4 days. Starting with 2.6, there are so many options, many dependent on whether other options are selected or not, that I find it impossible to figure out what I need to check and what can be left out.
No, I'd say that 2.6 ushered in the age of relying on your distro to compile the latest kernel for you and provide it as an update. This is particularly true because the kernel.org 2.6 releases, IMHO, have not been nearly as stable on release as the 2.4 ones were, and so you also end up relying on your distro to apply whatever bugfixes-du-jour are needed.
Just not from a PC traceable to you. Use a library in a far-away town. Change your MAC address and use an open wireless net. Use an anon proxy. Use Tor. This situation is no different from, for example, Googling about a serious health condition you'd prefer your insurance company not know you have just yet, and many similar cases.
In addition, police said the couple's son said he overheard his parents arguing on the day Nina Reiser disappeared. The boy, who was playing video games in the basement at the time, said his father told him not to come up from the basement, police said.
The police interviewing Hans's son and then using what the son said against his own father is unbelievable. There's no accusation that Hans ever harmed his kids, and surely the kids are suffering enough without watching their own words possibly put their father into prison for the rest of his life. That's just sad.
OK, but even if we take your claim that the printing press manufacturer intentionally designed with several "weak points", then it stands to reason that there would be economic incentive (read: money to be made) for some other company to produce properly-designed replacement parts that you could use instead (presumably made of steel for your example). Also, there would be economic incentive for some other company to come out with a printing press that did not have weak points in its design. Were either of these options the case?
There's little point in using a TOP500 machine for pw cracking. PW cracking is embarassingly parallel and has almost no communication -- you'd likely get better performance by just farming out a portion of the search space to each of N normal PCs (say, on your campus network) and have each report the results back to a central coordinator. TOP500 machines are best when used for applications that need coordination among all the processing nodes, and/or that do lots of data sharing among the processing nodes.
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Why not leave the IPv6 support on? Is there some reason the IPv6 support developed and enabled for World IPv6 Day needs to be disabled tomorrow?
If a male wrote this drivel, he'd at the minimum. be fired, and there's a good chance he'd be sued for sexual harrasment as well. But if a woman writes it? No penalties at all.
Seriously. What if a complete, bug-free Perl 6 implementation were released today (as opposed to the "early" version described in TFA)? Would anyone convert existing perl 5 scripts to perl 6? Would anyone write new scripts in perl 6 as opposed to Python or Ruby or Perl 5? Really, would anyone except the most diehard Perl addicts even notice or care about Perl 6?
You don't really want this because the content providers' notion of their "content" will certainly include stuff like those unskippable ads and other crap that drive you insane. With the content stored "in the could" as you propose, there's likely no way around this type of annoyance, and in fact with the content in the cloud they can change the ads, add additional ones, etc. whenever they like. And don't for a minute think they won't try to extract additional money from you by "licensing" you the stream for only a certain amount of time, after which you need to renew, etc.
The stores often change layouts within a single store and/or have different layouts at each of several stores on purpose. By forcing you to wander around looking for what you want, they're hoping you'll see some additional items you'll be willing to buy on impulse. Club stores (Sams Club and CostCo in the US, for example) are notorious for this practice.
Probably better explained as an example of Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") than outright intentional deception.
The Internet is fast becoming what electrical power was 50 years ago: It separates the people who are able to participate in the global economy from those who can't.
50 years ago? Electrical power IS STILL a huge separator today. Many "developing" countries have unreliable electrical service at best, and often NO electrical service to the poorest of their citizens. Added to all the other problems you said, OLPC should have realised that putting a damn computer in the hands of some country's kids is completely missing the point when the kids have probably no electricity, not even basic healthcare, no sanitation, little or no education, and perhaps barely enough food. Forget the computer ---- there are far bigger problems to solve first.
It's an all-too-common occurrence in aviation. It even occurs to big, commercial flights. For example, Eastern Airlines flight 401 (in 1972).
By all accounts his plane was equipped with an ELT and a radio. Presumably he would have used one or both if an engine failure or other mechanical problem occurred and he had some time while gliding.
Just "picking up the tab" is woefully inadequate. Defending oneself against RIAA action requires a tremendous amount of time, requires one to front a whole bunch of money to an attorney, and places a huge amount of stress on the person being sued. None of these apply the the RIAA -- their attorneys are being paid to do the lawsuits as their regular day-to-day jobs, the expense of the lawsuits is inconsequential and part of expected, budgeted business expenses for the RIAA, and the lawsuits impose no particular stress on the RIAA or its attorneys.
What needs to happen in these situations -- that is, when $BIG_COMPANY sues an individual and drops the suit or loses -- is that substantial punative damages need to be assessed to compensate the individual for lost time, their savings being used unexpectedly (what if they were planning to use that money for a new car or needed home repairs? What if they had to stop contributing to their retirement savings to pay their lawyer?), and for the stress of the lawsuit on the individual. Only with substantial punative damages will the RIAA have enough disincentive to file poorly-researched "shotgun"-style lawsuits.
Perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the use of DNA as "incontrovertable" evidence in criminal cases?
You're joking, right? I used to compile my own kernel.org kernel in 2.4 days. Starting with 2.6, there are so many options, many dependent on whether other options are selected or not, that I find it impossible to figure out what I need to check and what can be left out.
No, I'd say that 2.6 ushered in the age of relying on your distro to compile the latest kernel for you and provide it as an update. This is particularly true because the kernel.org 2.6 releases, IMHO, have not been nearly as stable on release as the 2.4 ones were, and so you also end up relying on your distro to apply whatever bugfixes-du-jour are needed.
Just not from a PC traceable to you. Use a library in a far-away town. Change your MAC address and use an open wireless net. Use an anon proxy. Use Tor. This situation is no different from, for example, Googling about a serious health condition you'd prefer your insurance company not know you have just yet, and many similar cases.
The police interviewing Hans's son and then using what the son said against his own father is unbelievable. There's no accusation that Hans ever harmed his kids, and surely the kids are suffering enough without watching their own words possibly put their father into prison for the rest of his life. That's just sad.
And this is different from any other job, how?
OK, but even if we take your claim that the printing press manufacturer intentionally designed with several "weak points", then it stands to reason that there would be economic incentive (read: money to be made) for some other company to produce properly-designed replacement parts that you could use instead (presumably made of steel for your example). Also, there would be economic incentive for some other company to come out with a printing press that did not have weak points in its design. Were either of these options the case?
There's little point in using a TOP500 machine for pw cracking. PW cracking is embarassingly parallel and has almost no communication -- you'd likely get better performance by just farming out a portion of the search space to each of N normal PCs (say, on your campus network) and have each report the results back to a central coordinator. TOP500 machines are best when used for applications that need coordination among all the processing nodes, and/or that do lots of data sharing among the processing nodes.
That's what these people tried. Didn't work so well, though.
You don't mean cache coherency , you mean cache locality .
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