Well that's fair, if they signed an agreement stating they would not do short term rentals than they are obligated not to and you don't need the state of NY to regulate that for you..

But keep in mind that that something like airbnb isn't necessarily a problem with maintaining a good quality of life since the renters are rated and those with poor (or no) reputation can be refused. It's the same as when I used to use ebay and certain products were only sold to people with good ratings.

But this is not a hotel and customers don't expect to be treated like they are in a hotel. If I'm in a Hotel I expect clean sheets and a level or service. If I'm borrowing someone's apartment I usually bring my own sheets and expect to clean up after myself.

And my grandmother started learning how to use a computer in her 60s and that was twenty years ago and I still get facebook birthday messages from her. Also during a slow period work wise, I made extra pocket money teaching retirees how to use the Internet.

It's really not an age thing.

Whether a spinning rust drive gives you warning depends entirely on the failure mode. I've had more than one die on me with no warning whatsoever thanks to problems with the drives electronics.

Keep in mind that they consider, North America and Europe as under Zionist control.

There are more recent examples such as Saudi Arabia accusing a condor of spying Or Egypt Blaming Isreal for shark attacks. The fact is that the Egyptian government wants to distract it's people from the latest military takeover of the government and finding something to blame on the "Zionists" is a time tested way to do that.

I used to have a Moroccan co worker who blamed Israel for everything bad in life down to his country's poor economy. It really is a weird how an otherwise intelligent person could miss the game of misdirection being played out repeatedly.

It's not so anecdotal when we went through them as a group. You need to keep in mind that Slashdot tends not to be filled with the "average student". Many of us were outcasts and disliked by both the other students and teachers. Personally, I intimidated my teachers and when the buggy as hell bargain basement 4 year old motherboards the school bought started losing their passwords, they assumed it was me doing it and I was banned from several computer labs for hacking for no other reason than the fact that I was assumed to be the only person who would know how to delete the passwords.

And then, of course, Colombine happened and the intelligent students who liked to game (the average Slashdot crowd) became a source of fear. Thankfully I was out of the system by then but some of my friends had some pretty off putting experiences and I got to read many more here.

Please don't assume that we hold our views for no reason.

Spain voted right because the country was broke and couldn't borrow more money without getting the money from Germany and Germany has at best, enough money to create a soft landing rather than a hard one.

Option A: Keep spending until the money runs out and then everything gets cut.
Option B: Make painful cuts but most of everything keeps running.

Unless you know of some third option?

Spain's problem is that the regulatory system makes it very hard to do business. I don't see how they expect to improve their economy while the bureaucracy actively fights anyone trying to make money or pay people.

I have a feeling that cellphone companies deliberately changed SOS to something else in order not to cause trouble. Unfortunately the result now is that most people have the wrong idea of what SOS in Morse code sounds like.

I agree about filtering outbound traffic but keep in mind that these attacks work best with open recursive mail servers and there are few reasons to configure them that way. Need a resolver for your network? Then lock it so only your network can make requests on it. I just did a quick look up of the ISPs with open recursive name servers and found a company my employer does a lot of business with has 31 open recursive name servers. There is just no excuse for that.

My thought is that we need to cause pain for people who are lazy and we could easily start blacklisting name servers because having domains stop resolving would be more painful than fixing the problem.

There are multiple ways these attacks could have been prevented but laziness and incompetence rule yet again. ISPs could add egress filtering, or they could limit the amount of open recursive resolvers on their network.

In the end, I suspect the only way to fix this will be the same way we fixed open mail servers: start blacklisting badly behaving ISPs.

Only Score:4? I think your pressure cooker joke kind of bombed.

Actually that won't work since Google is enabling forward secrecy Knowing the key will not be enough. The NSA would need to have an actual proxy server between you and Google to monitor the traffic.

I can't take it. I was just going to mod you down for the bad c99 syntax but I'll correct it instead.

First, it's bool not BOOL (no caps). Second, returning into a function returning bool is just redundant since you could save yourself having to include stdbool.h and just return int instead.

corrected function:
inline BOOL isAnonymousTroll()
{
            return true ;
}