Comment Re:You can pry my antibacterial soap (Score 1) 160
from my warm, well-sanitized hands.
You're happy for someone to take it away from you while you're still alive? Meaning, you won't put up a fight? Okay, no problem then.
from my warm, well-sanitized hands.
You're happy for someone to take it away from you while you're still alive? Meaning, you won't put up a fight? Okay, no problem then.
That's not what the study says. It says that the bacteria in these strains that are born resistant to triclosan are also resistant to certain antibiotics. This "sub-lethal" dose, as you described it, killed 999,999 out of 1,000,000 bacteria in those strains. It just so happened that the specific amino acid expression that allowed those mutants to survive not only made them able to survive the triclosan exposure, but also exposure to certain, named clinical antibiotics. What you're describing was just an implication of the study.
So by killing all the ones that are susceptible to triclosan, you leave a breeding pool of only those few individuals that happen to be antibiotic-resistant as well. How is that "just an implication of the study" and not "the exact outcome you really want to avoid" (a.k.a. "becom[ing] resistant to [some antibiotic] by being exposed [to] Triclosan")?
-the Orwellian 'department of statistics' has (and uses) the legal power to forcibly 'interview' any citizen, asking them the most intrusive and sickening questions about their sex lives and other personal issues.
Sorry, but what are you even talking about?
I can't find anything online called the Department of Statistics (except for in various universities, of course). Do you mean the Australian Bureau of Statistics?
They're the ones who send out a census form to be filled in and mailed back. I have never heard any suggestion that they send representatives to question people directly, let alone "physical inspection" or wielding the threat of jail time.
Do you have a source for this?
Am I just feeding a troll, here?
And also angry at the Departments in the Australian Public service that has been caught spying.
And also angry at the Departments in the Australian Public service that are spying but have not been caught.
I am a scholar and study parallel computing.
aka I'm a second year computer science student.
No, give the guy a break... English is not his first language. You can tell from the "what your compiler is doing in your back", instead of "behind your back", that sort of thing. From timezone, European seems most likely... from the sentence structure... French?
Indeed, godrik's English is quite fluent. It's just those few subtle points that give away that they're probably not a native speaker.
And well picked, AC: godrik has mentioned living in France in the past, so may very well be a French speaker.
Of course, we could just ask... but where's the fun in that?
You are an idiot.
NO U
No, _I_ am Idiotus!
I thought that was something people used back when MS-DOS was a popular OS was not even aware the product still existed.
I am talking about Watcom C++ of course.
It was open sourced some time ago. Now it supports Linux (to some extent) and some other CPU architectures.
It can still make DOS/4GW exes, though. Ahh, nostalgia.
You do realize that "eyewitness accounts" are considered one of the least reliable forms of evidence, right?
I know they are one of the least reliable forms of evidence, but if you're going to talk about how they are considered then you need to specify who is doing the considering. I don't know about the courts of any particular country, but laypeople often seem to consider eyewitness accounts as infallible.
Myers-Briggs test, and it's 'N' for intuitive.
Yep, the I is for introverted.
allowed to dereference it without first checking it for NULL?
dereferencing a NULL pointer is always undefined behavior
Dereferencing without checking for NULL is not the same as dereferencing NULL.
Just because the compiler may not be able to prove that you never call that function with a NULL pointer, that does not mean you can't prove it yourself. If that is the case, why check again?
"crows" = "crowd". Good grief...
Crows are also very detail oriented. I get them to help me with my tax returns.
What are you basing this prediction on?
Android.
Yeah, I remember that time that Valve embraced, extended and extinguished Android.
Oh wait...
Being a ward of the Bureau of Prisons is not the same as working for the fed.
Yeah, that's more like being a contractor than an employee.
Rubbish. There are a million things the user is may do to their machine that will be more likely to break software than this update to 8.1.
That's beside the point. The whole customer base won't be doing any of those things all at the same time.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
