Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 572
The means do not always justify the ends.
Or vice-versa.
The means do not always justify the ends.
Or vice-versa.
Any dumbass can do stuff in a GUI, but real BAMFs rock a terminal.
I've always thought of it as the difference between watching TV and reading a book. Try doing this with a GUI:
less `find . -type f -exec grep -il "useful information" {} \;`
Research examining the causes of climate change in the northern hemisphere over the past 1000 years has shown that until the year 1800, the key driver of periodic changes in climate was volcanic eruptions.
the taxes can go up even if your property stayed exactly the same just because a bunch of people around you overpaid.
California's state constitution sharply limits increases, the result of the 1978 Proposition 13, or as I've always thought of it, the "make the new guys pay for everything" amendment.
The bad news is that 2 million passwords have been compromised.
The good news is that they're all "123456".
What value is there in having a low limit on password lengths?
When they store it in clear text on a laptop, it takes up less disk space.
James Howells mined the virtual currency on his laptop in 2009 when it was trading for pennies, but today, one Bitcoin is valued at more than $1000. The hard drive containing this sizeable fortune has been tracked to a landfill in Newport, where it lies buried under four feet of rubbish. However, according to experts, the storage device is pretty much impossible to retrieve.
Perhaps difficult, but not impossible, if somebody is determined. How many people would be willing to sift through garbage for a year looking for a few million bucks?
It's supposed to burn.
It's easy to let somebody else's house burn, but when it's your own property going up it's a different story.
The really big, destructive fires here in Colorado the past few years have all been exaggerated by drought and short-term weather conditions. "Letting it burn" doesn't work in these situations; if you don't stop fires quickly, you wind up losing hundreds of houses, as we've been through several times recently.
When was the last time you actually counted as high as 507? I'm not talking about counting to 100 five times and then another seven, but actually counting each number from 1 to 507?
I tried it just now, but around 30 I got bored and started browsing the web instead.
Some of us are not sheep, and are incapable of reacting as sheep.
90% of Americans think that 90% of Americans are sheep.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
