Comment Re:Almost as if (Score 4, Funny) 127
Jetpacks make sense if you can get them to work.
As would many, many other things, like Warp Drive and the G Spot.
Jetpacks make sense if you can get them to work.
As would many, many other things, like Warp Drive and the G Spot.
Geo Networks runs the cables along the roof of the sewers, avoiding any 'waste' issues
The Internet is a series of tubes sending digital crap to your home, that runs through a series of tubes sending physical crap away from your home.
The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.
On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...
I had three cars totaled while they were parked by cell phone users
That's what you get for letting cell phone users park your cars.
Wayland waylaid; now way late.
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language.
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure.
...instead of "special-purpose scripting languages" like Emacs
One of the least informed statements I've ever read on
Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.
"Peggy" or "Pegging" the programmer? Given the current job market, either seems plausible.
How did Nissan get a list of Tesla owners and their email addresses?
Fire department.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Thanks Buckaroo.
- out with soap!
It seems that Watson learned some bad words when IBM turned it on to the Urban Dictionary.
The alternative would be Watson talking about things like "The Shocker" (Google it, but not at work) - which would probably creep most of us out.
I wanna live forever!!!
Even if your eternal existence is as a glorified chatbot doomed to bulk Google+'s userbase for unbounded time?
I thought Google+ is where things go to die.
Time/money/value decisions are something you make dozens of every day.
Exactly. As noted in the movie Volunteers
Most CEO's do not make $20,000,000. Only a sliver of the very best and top bankers who have proven to make 10x that to their employers.
While certainly not "most", I'm having trouble defining Jamie Dimon as "the very best":
Fined Billions, JPMorgan Chase Will Give Dimon a Raise
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...
Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.
Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...
"Survey says..." -- Richard Dawson, weenie, on "Family Feud"
