The part you're missing is selection. The harmful mutations either fail to reproduce altogether or they reproduce at a lower rate than the good ones. Actual experiments show that you can actually randomly mutate a program and if you have a good selection function, you can actually evolve new functionality.
The catch is that the evolution tends to 'find' really odd solutions.
I argue that they don't need it. They need it the way a 5 year old will claim that chocolate deficiency is an actual medical problem.
I could use a Ferrari but the price is too high. They could use the ability to snoop into people's phones and PCs but the price is too high.
Like your DUI analogy, we tried the ignition interlock, but they hot wired it and got another DUI. Now they will have to walk (get it? LEGWORK!). Back in the before time, they brought down notorious mobsters and bank robbers by pounding the pavement. Ness didn't hack Capone's PC. Capone kept his books locked in a safe in his office The office was guarded by men with Tommy guns. Many crooks kept the real books in code.
That kind of depends on the stylesheets, pre-compiler style enforcement routines, and the fact that a shit-ton of corporate code is often improved incrementally by multiple authors.
'course, there's still the comments that you could use, but who does that?
That's what "git blame" is for...
They were allowed to borrow the family car on weekends. Then one night Dad saw them drag racing and trenching yards in the family car. Now they are not allowed to borrow the family car.
This is just them whining that they can't go to work now (if they had a job, that is) or the library to study (The 4 Ds on the report card suggest that wasn't likely to happen anyway).
Perhaps one day, when they are behaving responsibly and have built up trust again, they might occasionally be allowed to borrow the car again, but they will be checked up on and it won't be this year.
And as a direct result, Adams lost the next election and 2 of the 4 (the most egregious ones) were expired the very next year.
Of course, I'm betting that if something fakes a screen locker in Windows, the user will obediently enter their user/pass to unlock it anyway. They won't press ctrl-alt-del unless instructed to by the lock screen.
Agreed - parts of downtown Portland were a huge clusterfsck for months after the first protests.
It started with somewhat of a goal - a protest against "the rich", and against a laundry list of financial predations against the masses. Then, it quickly devolved into one massive slack-fest/camp-out, with the last holdouts finally leaving months later.
No kidding... none of the mainline Linux distros use X11 anymore (that I know of), and they don't mention XOrg (X11's descendant) in TFA anywhere.
True, but the giant disk is just disk. A hit here or there won't degrade it much. The expensive precision part is much smaller.
Hang out at the club with Bill Gates do you? Is it true Barack tends to slice?
Retirement isn't quite the same as being born to it, though honestly, many people can't retire either.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
