Comment 10 Years after widespread use... (Score 1) 73
...research will show it causes cancer.
...research will show it causes cancer.
You may wish to influence your children to choose a different university if they are planning on pursuing a Law degree.
Those that believe that Die Hard is a Christmas movie and those who are wrong.
Businesses were throwing wheel-barrels of money at Y2K conversions at that point.
First is to make the punishment fit the crime.
No, it's not. The crime is the crime and the punishment should be proportionate. Cutting off someone's hand for theft, killing someone who insulted you, or wiping out an entire family line because they killed a member of your clan are examples if disproportionate punishment.
Adding extra punishment for what the person was thinking when he did it is punishing thought, not the crime. Up until now it's gone all one way but cultures can swing abruptly - do you really want to live in a culture that legitimizes thought-punishment? You can't imagine it could ever happen to YOUR culture but neither could Russia, Germany or China.
This was no more invasive than the Amber alert for kidnapped children. I've gotten those at 4:30 AM, talk about invasive. I don't remember any lawsuits being filed on them.
Did you actually read the article? He proposes the programming equivalent of "trade school" education - which was pretty common 30-40 years ago.
On the other hand, he complained that nobody is going back and rewriting legacy code, just layering on top of it (that's the context for the "100k lines of documentation" comment). I understand his concerns, but this is as unattainable as expecting politicians to review and rewrite all the old laws. The vast majority of organizations can't afford the resources necessary to re-engineer, rewrite and re-validate ancient code.
"I don't think so Tim."
With deep fakes and this kind of "alternate reality" viewpoint - how much longer will it be until we cannot believe a digital image?
the remake, not the original. Sorry, it was the first thing that popped into my head.
Dammit. I never have mod points when I need them. Take a virtual +1
75000 IU twice a day starting when you first feel the symptoms. Continue for 2-3 more days. Stop colds dead, no lie.
For Black and White hat hacking? Uhhh, maybe not...
"I'm going to be grilled by congress next week and I need to be able to truthfully say we aren't using the mic to target ads....yeah, you can turn it back on when I leave D.C..... thanks guys."
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
