Actually a website that does this tricked someone I know recently. I was actually engaged in a card game when they came up to me exclaiming this website could do math with the numbers in her head, and it worked every time.

It took me about 20 seconds to figure out what was going on, and even despite suggesting "why don't you try again, write out each step" and then "try it again with X for your number, and write out each step", still more than 20 minutes to get them to see what was going on.

I found out while watching BSG (new series, not the old). It definitely explains a lot. In fact, really.... the new series is sci fi human origins story for mormons. You know the whole "all our old myths are really just forgotton lore of an ancient civilization sort.

That said, I really liked about 90% of the series and really hated the that very aspect of the story. Loved the journey, hated where they were going and what they did with it in the end; far to "God in the Machine" for me.

Its one of those ones I tell people to watch the entire series up to the last episode, then just imagine that everyone dies in a huge jump accident....it just works better.

Did you even read what GP posted? The money in his state goes tot he GENERAL FUND. So the gas taxes can go up, and they can STILL not fix the roads. These are entirely independent variables.

So if the money is from the general fund anyway, any claim that the gas tax being low is why the roads don't get fixed is also.... absolute bullshit. Its because they didn't consider it a priority and didn't want to do it.

Actually a good portion of that should come from other sources. As one of the early posters pointed out, commercial vehicles do far more damage to the road than simple passenger vehicles, but the cost of the gas tax hits all drivers. Yet, all people, drivers or not, benefit from commercial traffic since commercial traffic is what brings them their food and goods.....so why specifically target drivers?

I mean yes, gas taxes for the roads makes a lot of sense but, the idea that it should be the sole input for road funds seems to me to be asking the drivers of private passenger cars to subsidize everyone else's goods delivery.

I kind of do too, but that doesn't set it apart from many things. Tomorow is sunday, just wake up and go outside in the morning and you will see streams of people heading to big temples to worship retarded ideas.

rotfl of course you know, if they are counterfit, you might be able to take that as a good sign, since you know the people tampering with it were explicitly ripping you off for profit, those sticks probably don't contain any backdoors placed by a reputable internationally operating TLA who would want you to get the full size of the drive you paid for.

Interesting. I have been kicking around go on one of my side projects for a while now and I have come to REALLY LIKE the language. I never thought I would be happy to see typed variables again, but now, I like it so much, I get a bit annoyed at languages that don't have typed variables.

It doesn't surprise me that the lead developer has so much history, because the language feels like someone said "Ok what have we learned since C came out" and then reverted all the way back to there and built something new and clean from the lessons learned.

It reminds me a lot of the perl philosophy of "make it easy to do common things", no more fumbling around with memory allocation, it doesn't entirely do it for you, but it provides a very clean interface that makes sense for allocating what you need when you need it.

oh come on, to do that it would have to....um...be connected to the iner....fuck...oh well this could be amusing anyway.

It will still be easier to pull the fire alarm, and yet, that doesn't even happen terribly often. Every year some kids here and there get the bright idea... but seldom has it been a real issue, and dealing with it is hardly going to take anything new.

A kid could do the same thing right now with some fireworks and some creativity. Explosions or gunshots will be reported to the police as is, they will cause panic as is..... this system really does nothing new except reduce the time to report to the police.

So really, in terms of what mischief kids can cause, its nothing new.

Now, if this system calms people down about the risk then maybe it even makes sense. At least, maybe it does in contrast to most of the other short term proposals. Certainly more sense than posting armed gaurds, training teachers, or disarming society.

It certainly isn't a real solution to anything. However, I doubt there are any real short term ones when the real need is the revamping of mental health services that is unlikely to happen and have their desired impact in the time frames where people demand to see "something" be done.

Course, that assumes the whole system isn't just a money hole being used to milk the system....which....is a big assumption when it comes to the government and its contractors.

Clearly, they should have claimed this was merely an attempt at something new, a device to engage the reader. What do you think reader? Should we have cited the crappy Gabor paper here? Its a discussion point; not an error!

I don't know jack about their actual achitechture but, if they do it right, then the loss of any one group of nodes wont matter.

If that is the case, then this actually makes them highly resiliant to this problem. Lets say to actually shut them down meaningfully means shutting down 20 households. That is 20 warrants, at 20 properties, probably some number of jurisdictions, its a lot more work....and basically, wont happen accidentally because someone was an idiot.

Sure you do, you just phrase it slightly differently "That would be a violation of our security policy"..... the rest is all subtext that they can infer for themselves.

In terms of talking about the scale of the address space, there are approximately 1 mole of IPv6 addresses per square meter of the planet earth.

and...it makes perfect sense, GP said why it makes sense " just because ISPs want to make static IP addresses more expensive."... because they can and people will still pay them. I agree its sad and counterproductive, but, it still seems likely.

It has been about a decade since I worked at a university, but, I still remember hearing about the great debates. I wasn't part of them, but heard about them second hand from one of the people who was. At the time they were trying to push through email virus scanning and....

"But this is a university, its perfectly legitimate that someone researching viruses may want to get email with viruses, we can't do anything that would impede legitimate research!"

I am at about the same but, for some reason I don't think they seem any more idiotic than we were at their age. Pretty sure that by my standards today I was a moron at their age.

Which is why the old saying goes, "age and treachery will always beat youth and exhuberance".