Comment Re:opportunity for backdoors? (Score 1, Informative) 209
Who can sight read assembly anymore?
Anyone who reasonably calls themselves a programmer.
Who can sight read assembly anymore?
Anyone who reasonably calls themselves a programmer.
Yeah, they had a great R&D department, winning Nobel Prizes, inventing the transistor, discovering the cosmic background radiation. And they did NOTHING with all that knowledge to provide innovative services to their customers.
Are you kidding? You need to read The Idea Factory and get a clearer view of the issue. You're getting outraged over something you don't even understand.
Though come to think of it, most of the time people get outraged it's over things they don't understand.
I actually got that positive impression of Gingrich watching his interview with Ali G heh.
Yeah, I think most politicians have a good side. Gingrich was good at thinking on his feet in that interview. Bush was a decent guy except his weird obsession with invading countries.
Flood irrigation with water from where? There is no surface water left.
There will be next year, or maybe the year after. It's just a matter of prioritizing it.
I don't care about 'fully'. In the short term, I care about the technology that's already at our fingertips: a robot with a machine-gun that is able to assess a situation and then 'decide' (without human intervention) to shoot the people it deems to be the enemy.
OK, that's not really much more interesting than land mines, is it?
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson