If police don't want people to print guns they should just fill Youtube with videos of plastic guns exploding.

Their current (idiotic) policy is just causing a Streisand effect.

Never mind that, I want to know who has enough money to buy 22 tons of LEGO. That stuff's more expensive than gold.

Logic 101:

All S-foils are wings. Not all wings are S-foils.

The clue is in the name "X-wing".

He's smoking crack now - it's the ultimate weight-loss plan!

If you can meet up to exchange a piece of glass you can also exchange USB drives (or whatever) full of random numbers. It's just as secure as this method.

The innovation here is that that nobody can make a copy of the piece of glass.

Or is it...? If Bob can create a OTP using the glass then so can Eve. All she does is sneak into his hotel room when he's asleep, generate his pad using his crystal and make a copy of it.

I fail to see how this is more secure than simply exchanging USB keys.

Nope. The OTP is truly unbreakable.

The only problem with it is that you need to secretly transmit the pad to the recipient. How do you do that? With a one-time-pad...?

Are you Scott Adams?

You may want to form part of the matrix and let the overlords manage you, not everybody does.

Everybody screws up when they're a teenager, it's all part of the deal.

This is the first generation that will have all their screw-ups stored in a cross-referenced database for future reference. A database that "connected" people will be able to manipulate/edit for their own benefit.

Not being in the database will be even worse - employers are already demanding access to people's Facebook accounts.

If you only use the internet for buying family groceries then that's probably a good thing, yes.

No, scratch that. I'm sure that even you don't want your medical-insurance company to know how many Cheetos you eat...

I live in Spain. You should see the amount of adverts/phone calls I get for English lessons. "Targeted", indeed.

They may be tracking people like never before but business intelligence is still an oxymoron.

I'm waiting for them to replace politicians with autists.

No religious beliefs, no desire to wield power over others, pragmatic, good at math, won't sleep until the economy is fully optimized ... it's all good.

What tolerances did you specify?

"Doesn't look crooked to passers-by" isn't really a specification that can be applied to software.

There's bugs where a program doesn't follow the specs (logic bugs) and there's bugs where the program crashes because you didn't check the return value of malloc() (or whatever).

I could argue that both of those are negligence on the part of the programmer, but at the end of the day we're arguing over whether there's such a thing as perfect software or not. Empirical evidence suggests there isn't (at least not at prices that normal people are willing to pay).

The only way to avoid conflict is to pre-agree a price for software maintenance that kicks in after a grace period. This makes both parties understand that all software is imperfect.

does not compute.

Throw an exception? Stack unwinding? RAII? Object construction/destruction?

I'd like to see a library that does all those easily/automatically.

A C++ compiler OTOH...now you're talking!

Judge Dredd's gun 'executes' anybody else who tries to fire it. Are they going to implement that feature, too?