Comment Re:Ask an old person? (Score 1) 311
The babylonians and God's favourite people thought that pi=3. Hey, it's good enough for government work, and probably for fighting zombies.
The babylonians and God's favourite people thought that pi=3. Hey, it's good enough for government work, and probably for fighting zombies.
Google's self-driving cars have gone 300,000 miles without an accident. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 30–42 average-teen-driver-years worth of driving. Statistically, about 1 in five teenagers reports having an accident in any given year. So we would expect that the same number of miles driven by teenagers would have resulted in, on average, 6–8 accidents—more if we're talking about teenagers in their first year of driving.
In other words, Google's self-driving cars are already at least an order of magnitude safer than teen drivers. That's probably a statistically significant difference.
You missed one major technical rule: all browsers on iOS that support local rendering are required to use the system rendering engine.
Actually, no, I'm pretty sure they're just not allowed to use any JavaScript engine other than the built-in JavaScriptCore. And as of iOS 7, it's theoretically possible to actually do so without using WebKit.
It's not willful ignorance. It's actually a legitimate question. From everything I've read, there are roughly two types of revenge porn:
I suspect that the real revenge porn, if it even exists, is just about lost in the noise caused by the two forms listed above.
... the homeowner does NOT automatically gain the right to record the guest WITHOUT permission.
If that were true, then "NannyCam" footage would be inadmissable. Different states have different laws that carve out specific places where recording is not allowed—most forbid recording in bathrooms, for example—but as a rule, if you're in someone else's home, you should generally assume that you have little or no right to privacy.
Cut tree down, cut tree up, stack it in a shed for two years to dry, burn it, spread the resultant ash on the garden. That's processing, I suppose, And there's labour involved, which you might consider costly. But you don't need caustic chemicals, and the only high temperatures involved go to heating your house, which is what fuel is all about.
Why not go out and invent something actually useful?
I was referring to normal traffic lights that lack any indication of when the light is about to change, not the rare lights with countdown timers or the hypothetical lights with a dashboard assist. The split-second decision to floor it or slam on the brakes is a bigger problem when you're accelerating from a stop as the light changes to yellow, not when you're going way over the speed limit, for two reasons: A. there may not be any choice that doesn't result in either getting rear-ended or being in the middle of the light when it turns green in the other direction, and B. your foot is on the wrong pedal to stop, adding critical latency to that decision, should you choose to stop.
Actually, it's the opposite. The worst speed to be entering a traffic light is near zero. You've slowed down to a low speed because of someone slowing to turn right ahead of you. The traffic behind you collapses to be nearly bumper to bumper at 15 MPH in a 40 zone. The light is timed for 40 MPH. You don't realize that the light is about to turn yellow, so rather than just coming to a stop, you decide to enter the intersection. Then the light turns yellow and you're moving at a speed that will put you and the two cars behind you in the middle of the intersection when it turns green in the other direction. Whether you floor it to get through the light legally or slam on the brakes and get rear-ended, the car behind you is screwed.
Just keep banging the rocks together, guys.
I will gladly contribute money to the election campaign of any otherwise-electable congressional candidate who makes this one of his or her campaign promises.
Well, it is kind of an April Fools story. It says he came out against Prop 8 (a gay marriage ban), which would mean that he was in favor of gay marriage. Unless all the previous stories I've read were wrong, I'm pretty sure they got that backwards.
There's nothing wrong with JavaScript, language-wise. I mean, sure, I'd prefer for closures to be explicit rather than implicit, in part because it tends to confuse the newbies a bit, but otherwise, it's a reasonable language. The problems mostly stem from:
None of those things would improve with a different language except possibly the first one.
What do you call someone who goes around saying things that they know are untrue?
A politician.
In real capitalism, where the government doesn't prevent the development of monopolies, there is no competition to go to when you get fucked over.
It wasn't a bad episode, though in retrospect, it kind of felt like a ripoff of Enemy Mine in a lot of ways (the book, that is).
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.