And the point of submarines with nuclear missiles is to make a nuclear capable enemy more convinced that MAD is really MAD. They can't wipe out all your nuclear missile silos and survive because you have enough hidden "nuclear missile silos" aka submarines in the ocean to wipe them out.

The oceans are big places, you might be able to locate submarines that you already know the rough location of. But how are you going to bounce laser light off a hull if you're not even within 50km of the submarine?

Wake detection could work better, however if the submarines don't move that fast and if they are deep underwater they won't leave as big wakes.

Troubleshooting is a skill applicable to, and learned in, far more than the narrow domain of coding. Your experience is biased by the crowd you hang out with in your chosen profession.

But any good mechanic (taking that as a generic term for electrician, plumber, etc also) is a good troubleshooter/problem solver, ditto any other expert in their chosen field (doctors, lawyers, salespeople, etc). It's a skill you need to be a good programmer, but it's a skill you need to be good at anything. How do I isolate the symptom? What is the real problem? What can I do to fix it? What can I substitute or change if I don't have the right part (library, API) to fix it as is?

I've seen plenty of coders who weren't that hot at troubleshooting (especially if it required some out-of-the-box thinking). I don't think coding teaches that skill, but it may well exercise it and make it stronger if it's already there.

First step is to get kids to have fun developing critical thinking and logical analysis skills. Some of those will go on to want to learn coding and related topics, while the fundamentals will help anyone faced with that sort of problem.

Give grade school kids games like The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis to play, don't force them to memorize the particulars of a programming language that will be obsolete by the time they graduate high school.

More toppings!

But I am going to pay for it. I've made certain my check will clear 70 years after the death of the author. Who could complain about that?

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There, you just participated in a web forum used for illicit purposes, and so are also guilty of criminal copyright infringement and criminal conspiracy.

Hope to see you in cell block six for the traditional fuck-beta gathering!

Or have a "deadman switch" trigger a script to update it with preset/random stuff, or have some prankster update it for you: http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

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My hovercraft is full of eels
*Runs google translate*

Ooh, why of course. *hands ranger some matches*

It's great that it worked out for them, but sometimes translations don't come out quite right.
*Runs google translate*

Wait, you want WHAT to come out of my nipples?!?

Plus a lot of the calculations don't take into account a finite lifetime and low social mobility.

If you're some poor guy stuck in some minimum wage job, your odds of ending up with > $100 million are near zero. Now if you started your own business there's a higher chance of you becoming a millionaire or multimillionaire but the odds of getting >$100 million still are low plus the effort is much higher. There are also other risks involved- there are lots of people with failed businesses, just fewer of them sell books or give interviews on how they failed and failed again and still haven't succeeded.
Yes there are people who won the "genetic lottery" and have the energy and endurance to work 2 or more jobs and NOT die/break, but for the rest - what really are their odds of going from burger flipper to having hundreds of millions?

So if you're poor and wanted to be merely normal "rich" don't bother with lottery tickets - just try to invest what little you earn. But if you want to be swimming in hundreds of millions of dollars within your lifetime, buying a powerball ticket is a rational decision (especially when the jackpot gets big).

If you want philosophical, it could be something we might never know for sure.

For example, in theory we could create a simulation of a steady state universe with rules that we decide on. And inside that universe, by that universe's rules the "before" could have gone on for an infinity, and there's no way to know that wasn't the case.

But by our universe's rules we could have started up that simulation 10 seconds ago and taken a week to design it. Or we could even have made copies of it and started up slightly different versions, or even have a few big bang versions. How old would these universes be? Billions of years old? 10 seconds? Depends on your perspective doesn't it?

And how would those "inside" know what's going on for sure? Unless perhaps somehow told by those "outside".

You can run monofilament cables to orbital satellites

No we can't. The technology to manufacture mile-long monofilament (I assume you're talking something like buckytubes, nothing else has the strength) cables isn't available yet, let alone manufacturing 23,000+ mile cables.

Now, people might argue about risks, but until the technology is actually availabe -- which it is not -- the point is moot.

Come back when they're building suspension bridges out of the stuff.

Is that an African unicorn or a European unicorn?

That's because Google Authenticator app is nothing more than a bog standard RFC6238 TOTP client.
It's an open standard with many server and client implementations.

My home Debian server uses the TOTP PAM module to require two-factor auth for OpenSSH, and I use Google's Authenticator app as my main client, with a Yubico hardware token as a backup.

Other than Google creating their app, Google has NO other involvement in my authentication process.
I run my own PKI "in house", so no need to even use Google services to avail yourself of their (mighty nice IMHO) TOTP client.

Just remember this next you attempt to complain about your works being pirated.
It isn't OUR doing, you have only the government to blame.

If you refuse to pay for copyright protection for 70 years after your death, then don't bitch when I say my check for your work won't clear for 70 years after your death either.

It sounds like you're describing what it's like to browse the Internet on the older iDevices which have 512MB of RAM. If you're dead-set on sticking to iOS, it's time to open your wallet up and make a generous donation to Apple. Or, as suggested by the rest of the peanut gallery, switch to Android.