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Submission + - The Underhanded C Contest is back (xcott.com)

Xcott Craver writes: After several years of inactivity, the Underhanded C contest has returned. The object is to write a short, readable, innocent-looking computer program that nevertheless performs some evil function for reasons that are not obvious under code review. The prize is a $200 gift certificate to ThinkGeek.

Comment Re:Unlikely (Score 5, Interesting) 292

They'll just use corrupt business laws and politics to rape the "retirement accounts" for their own benefit. Then they'll leave the dangerous corpses of their businesses as a warning to future generations on the stupidity of trusting your future to lowest-common-denominator businessmen.

Yep.

It's situations like this, and the revelation of how costs were cut on Fukushima's seawall by omitting the datapoint of the big tsunami in the 1800s, that made me realize something that shocked me:

Nuclear power is perfectly safe, ideal, and awesome... but nuclear power built by humans is NOT. As a species we are short-sighted venal lying scammers, so there are many glorious technologies (nanotech anyone?) that become liabilities in our hands.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 2) 315

Look at the available evidence - if there was any psychic ability then the chances are that it would already be well documented.

No, that's backwards, because:

Even a slight statistical ability would have big impacts in warfare, commerce and many other areas of life.

Whatever real psychics are out there, they either a) are getting rich in the stock market (etc.) and not talking about it, or b) have all been sucked into various intelligence agencies.

The only way an ordinary member of the ballast like yourself would hear of proven psychic powers, is if they were so common that they could not be kept under wraps.

Comment Re:What a relief (Score 1) 566

I started reading the title of this thread and though "please don't be the US".

After all, we have - global climate change deniers - anti-vaccination groups - paleo diet followers - raw foodism - a museum that claims dinosaurs and cavemen lived together on the newly created 5 thousand year old Earth.

What a relief to know that the US is not the only developed country with a problem of people making up their own reality.

Your attempt at passing off a package deal has been detected by automatic scanners.

"One of these things is not like the other . . . one of these things does not belong . . . "

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