Nope, the moral of the story is to NEVER go to the police in the first place.

Ok, am I the only one that's considering the fact that this guy committed murder? The moral of the story is primarily "do not kill others", and then "if you do kill others, don't go to the police to talk to them about it".

No, I do not just copy, paste, compile, test, deliver, done. If it's small then fair use applies, so no problem there

The Java implementation for BigInteger doesn't qualify as small? Or that 20-line algorithm from the paper? He was explicitly talking about copying little snippets of code, not full projects.

BTW, here's the definition of "a criminal" from the Collins English Dictionary:

criminal
n
1. (Law) a person charged with and convicted of crime
2. a person who commits crimes for a living

Also, you have some serious problems if you cant wait 30 seconds for anything. Seriously, people suffering from ADHD tend to have more patience than that. However as someone who sells high priced items that provide minimal gain, I like suckers like you.

Ok, you had good points until here.

Any (good) programmer, artist, writer, or anyone else who creates on a computer for a living will tell you that they hate unresponsive applications. Open a new file and wait 5 seconds before you can see it? It's distracting, and it breaks your train of thought.

It's not ADHD, it's the fact that we're used to, from the "real world", to have instant response to actions -- pull out a piece of paper and you can read it immediately. Put a brush to the paper, and the colour shows up instantly. The brain expects the computers, which are trying to model this real world interaction, to work the same way.

But we didn't have proof. Now we have proof.

Those cheesy powerpoint slides are the proof?

Every day you probably break dozens of laws without knowing it.

I call BS on that. Give us some examples of dozens of laws that a normal person might break every day.

Actually, quite a few do, at least in North America. Certainly just about every Acura, and probably many Hondas.

Even my few years old Altima has it...

BTW, Canada's murder rate went DOWN after we stopped executing people. Just sayin.

I think that has to do a lot with gun control, and not the death penalty. While the murder rate *with firearms* has been going down consistently, the overall murder rate has been stable for a while and has recently started going up. It's much harder to kill someone with a knife than with a gun.

If you look at the violent crime rate in Canada, I think that confirms my opinion. It has been steadily growing, at the same rate before and after the death penalty has been abolished.

Same here. I was 8 when I got it... I used FOR loops to write my name over and over in different colours. A friend of mine told me about RAND USR, and POKE... that was a fun time-waster.

Then, my mom got me a "write your own text adventure on ZX Spectrum" book, and I was off to the races...

If the anti-trust laws were enforced, S4's would cost about $150 and there would be no such thing as 2 year contracts for service.

No way on the $150 price. Just the parts that go into an S4 are more than $150. The S4 would still cost close to what it costs to buy it outright now, but the plans would end up being much more affordable, due to the competition and the lack of phone subsidy cost.

Global e-book reader shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012 will reach 4.57 million units, hiking 92% on quarter but dropping 49.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

Thus, 2012 global shipments will reach 9.82 million e-book readers, decreasing 57.3% from 2011. Amazon will be the largest vendor in 2012 accounting for 55% of global shipments, followed by Japan-based Kobo with 20%, Barnes and Noble with 10% and Sony with 6%.

http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2012/11/14&pages=VL&seq=200

That's not the ultimate purpose. The ultimate purpose is to solve problems.

The *ultimate* purpose of education in science is to solve problems we have no current solutions for. They are not solved by looking up the formula, but by developing your own formula based on your understanding of how things work.

I don't need to look up the formula that allows me to calculate the acceleration of a body of known mass when known force is applied to it, because I understand their relationship. I also understand the relationship between velocity, time, and acceleration, so I can create further formulas based on these two sets of relationships that might've not been obvious at first.

If I've just looked up the final formula, I've skipped the important steps that give me the underlying understanding of physics, which will allow me to create new formulas to solve new problems.

Are you saying someone gave you an iPhone and locked you into a contract? What a thoughtful gift! Here, I'll buy you this thing that you will have to pay for yourself for next two or three years, I hope you enjoy it!

I don't know what the ETFs are these days, but I'm sure sale of a new iPhone will cover it -- used iPhone 4s 16GB still fetches almost $400 on ebay.

You're on your own to get a phone that better suits your needs after that, though.

You cant in US. HR is not to help you work more efficient. HR is there to shield corporation from LAWSUITS. They can point a finger and say 'mister X was reprimanded by HR for grabbing women asses and ejaculating into water cooler".

Geez, what company do you work for? Around here, HR handles payroll, work permits/visas, arranges interviews, helps new hires move/settle in if needed, maintain personnel databases with vacations, sick days, etc. They are quite useful, and they do things that get in the way of engineering managers doing the engineering work.

But I guess we don't have many people around who are likely to ejaculate into the water cooler, so I guess things are different where you work.

Well, if they are giving them away for $50, then of course you'll upgrade every time you can. I'll upgrade three times a year at that price.

It's not that you don't have the money to replace your technology, it's that your carrier doesn't have the money to.

Your worry should only be what the contract premium you're paying is, and how much that is times 36 months vs. a brand new unlocked phone.

Professionalism is in the eye of the beholder, and when I see an expensive watch I think "more money than sense".

You're only hurting yourself by jumping to such conclusions. There is no way that you can accurately estimate the price of the watch you see on someone's arm. More often than not, expensive-looking watches are anything but.