and the issue of optimisation has meant that game AI is generally coded very close to the metal (C++, quite often).
I'd beg to differ. Most game AI is now scripted so that the high cost engine devs can go work on the next project while the low cost monkeys program the a.i, the interaction mechanics, and integrate content.
"You may throttle based on protocol (e.g. http, ftp, sip, bittorrent) but not by packet origin or destination."
This is the recipe of an idiot that isnt capable of foreseeing the vast amounts of inefficiency that will happen when everyone begins to use whatever packet type has the highest priority, rather than what is the most efficient. Disguising packets as HTTP has already been suggested as the "solution" to bittorrent throttling.
represents the group who's unfairly burdened by the original requirement.
I would say that the group is fairly burdened by the requirement. Burdens arent unfair just because you dont want to be burdened.
Now if they would only take those four lenses, put them in a tube and 'cloak' an absorber around the focal point to remove stray light, they would have a marvelous invention. I suggest calling it a telescope.
It really only requires 2 lenses, but in both a 4-lens (do such refractors exist? seems overly complicated) or 2 lens telescope the "cloaking" is only one direction and relies on the fact that the thing being "cloaked" is out of focus.
Anyone with a big aperture telescope can see this effect quick clearly without any fancy staging/setup at all. Simply look through the telescope at a distant object and then put your finger in front of the objective aperture. The only thing you will see is a very slight dimming as your finger passes in front of the aperture, and this includes the finger being right in the middle.
So why do we have the situation now, that internet services are calling bash scripts to run as root with data input from the internet without proper validation?
Because everyone forgot how insecure unix-likes were when windows joined the internet.
Take a look at the old CERT advisories and you will see exploit after exploit specifically via command-line shenanigans.
It's not lack of balls, but a combination of regulatory capture and (generally legal) bribery.
Translation: The federal government is very corrupt.
I have an idea.. lets give these corrupt sons of bitches more authority.
Keep going until your thumb matches the angle of that guy's thumb...see how it goes.
The thumbs in the video? They are barely bent. My thumbs bend more without pressing on anything. Full 90 degrees.
Now go collect that astroturfing check and buy a samsung.
"But wait," I hear you cry, "that trillion dollars would still be spent by the people who wouldn't have been taxed!" Oh, that's partially true.
Its completely true unless you subscribe to the under-the-mattress fallacy.
Understand that 40% of that money would go to multi-millionaires who's purchasing habits generally are not affected by their income.
I see. You are a subscriber. Yes, rich people when they get money stick it under mattresses in order to deny the money from the economy, and this is believable in spite of the fact that rich people are rich because they dont do stupid shit like that.
Regarding the "state" part, State of Palestine is also considered to be a state by many countries.
Of course it is, because when Israel was created so was the state of Palestine. November 29, 1947. U.N. Resolution 181, aka the Partition Resolution.
If Israel is legitimate, then so is Palestine. You can't have it both ways. The fact that the resolution caused a civil war in the region in no way obviates this fact, nor does the fact that with the help of select friends in the west Israel was armed to the level of a 1st world super-power so that it easily claimed through force all the lands of Palestine.
This is the a catch-22 of the region.
It seems the main concern is figure reuse. Some are in different papers with the same caption: would it be that bad as long as it is clear it's old data that's being reintrepreted ?
Looked a bit worse than that to me. Looked like he/they took figures and then manipulated them via image editor to appear to be unique, such as re-ordering elements
Even if there is a perfectly valid reason for doing that, its still a shady obscure as fuck reason.
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The parts of the "countryside" that do not get federal water subsidy fall into 2 categories: (a) places with water already, and (b) places that arent populated.
Now lets not confuse cause and effect. It is only through water subsidy that the unpopulated areas, such as deserts, will ever become populated. There does not exist a need for water subsidy in places where there has never been water subsidy before. It is only in places that have previously received water subsidy that now have a need for it, such as the arid regions of the midwest that are now in perpetual water shortage mode.
So the federal water subsidy is harmful. It alone creates the need for itself.
Why are any other subsidies different? If you decide to build your house a hundred miles from the nearest electricity, why do you expect anyone else to foot the bill to hook your dumb ass up to electricity? If you expect that, fuck you. People that expect that are fucking assholes that dont deserve any respect at all from anyone, certainly not respect from the people that these assholes so selfishly and greedily expect should have to pay.
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