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Comment: I find it takes a week or two (Score 2) 189

by WillAffleckUW (#44035469) Attached to: Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home

I find that turning on a second (or third, or in my case fifth) language usually takes anywhere from 3 to 5 days in the location where the other language is used before you gain fluency, if you don't use it all the time. Accents usually only take a day.

When I was working at Century 21 in Richmond BC most of my colleagues in the office next to mine were French, so when I coded in French, I would mostly just speak French the whole day.

Even having someone with you who is not very good at the other language will slow you down, as you have to keep switching how you think to translate for them. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems to make it take longer to access those portions of your brain/memory.

Comment: It would be possible to speculate, actually (Score 1) 6

by WillAffleckUW (#43991001) Attached to: Not enough paranoia around here, I see.

Look, I've known for decades the spying that has been going on both in Canada and the US, and was even in the Yakima listening center that you all didn't know about until it just closed.

And, coincidentally, through my work at Boeing and local Seattle wireless and telephone providers, I also know how to use the metadata to figure out things about people.

But we do live in a Police State. It's just you all pretended we didn't.

The fun part for me is, as a result of the discussion on this topic, realizing that the data could easily be used (and probably is being used) to track who goes to gun shows and stores and what they are buying, or probably have.

Comment: Re:Eric Schultz (Score 1) 351

by WillAffleckUW (#43990727) Attached to: Your License Is Your Interface

Well put. Lawyers are like internet trolls, basically parasites which feed on attention. If enough people start ignoring them, or doing as much as possible evade litigous douchebags instead of fighting them on their terms, eventually they will start dying off.

Exactly. No matter what you do, you break five laws every day just existing, so who cares?

Comment: Who cares? They will just steal it anyway. (Score 0) 351

by WillAffleckUW (#43990717) Attached to: Your License Is Your Interface

I see all these "older" programmers saying stuff like this, but I just don't think they get that everyone who isn't a fossil knows that people will just jack your code anyway.

And then patent it and sell it to some patent troll in the US.

The system is broken. Licenses are for old people.

Comment: Good thing the NSA database tracks gun shows (Score 1) 584

As we all know, the NSA metadata, combined with their other data collection methodology, easily allows them to track all interactions by people at gun shows and gun stores, based on your cell location and interfaced with video feeds.

What second amendment?

Comment: Re:Double-speak (Score 1) 262

According to other news stories, PRISM is the name of the analysis side and the collection/wiretap side, which is presumably much more expensive, is called BLARNEY. You can't assume that the slides are indicating the entire costs of the entire NSA dragnet system.

Additionally, we're only talking the NSA component. The FBI and the other TLD mil-side agencies have their own programs, which are not included. But they do share data.

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