Comment Re:names are so cool, not! (Score 1) 295
...Old Persian, a language that has not been spoken for 2000 years
And ic cyðe eow, æt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage...
...Old Persian, a language that has not been spoken for 2000 years
And ic cyðe eow, æt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage...
All electronic voting machines have the issue that they are a black box where votes go in, and results come out and mysterious stuff happens between which the company who makes them tries to prove that nothing untoward can happen
Putting a mark on a piece of paper and counting them works, has worked for many years, is at least as secure as any voting machine, and scales to electorates much much larger then the USA
Apple makes money selling the device, and from each App, and from the OS, and from any content you download
Amazon makes money only from the content
.NET is not a language C# is and is Java the Microsoft way
Ruby is Perl updated
ADA is what it is...
Lisp/Scheme is a good basis for a language in the same way that most systems are still actually complied in C/C++ regardless of what they are written in
Haskell - 22 years old and counting
Ruby - 17 years old and counting
Younger workers have not yet learned that long hours cause burn out that will not get them advancement, older workers have learnt that the people who do long hours are not the ones who get advancement anyway
Each new batch of younger workers are also the ones that make the same mistakes over and over that the older ones have learnt to avoid
An app that asks for access to your addressbook when it does need to does not get installed on Android, on Apple you install it then block it
I like the take it or leave it, an app that asks too much is not installed and so cannot do anything,
on Apple you install it ban it from some things, then much much later discover what else it was doing?
Software Patents are a US idea and a US problem, Patents are government granted and so can be taken away or invalidated easily
Walk or drive past an office building on the public highway and you are almost certainly being filmed, the cameras are not "authorised" by anyone by the company who use the building
Entering private land without a a lawful excuse is Trespass, someone delivering to your house, or visiting is implicitly given access
If you aren't doing anything illegal you are probably dead, you would be amazed what is illegal
Chernobyl : They experimented with a live reactor, turned off many of the safety systems, including many that cannot be disabled on most reactors
Fukushima : Ran 6 reactors beyond their design lifetimes, ignored recommendations to increase the height of the tsunami defences, ignored safety inspection failures, ignored recommendations to protect backup generators. The reactors survived largely intact a massive earthquake and mostly intact after a huge tsunami (unlike all the conventional power stations on the coast) they had already started to shut down safely but were prevented from completing this due to flooding of their diesel generators used to pump coolant
Conclusion : If a reactor has a design lifetime don't overrun this, if a reactor fails a safety inspection shut it down until it passes, don't play with a live reactor
Both sides have it wrong, the government should not encourage people to break the terms of service of a website, but they should accept that people should not put unnecessary information on public untrusted websites either
..the UK government does not have a good record for securing peoples data, there are numerous cases of officials leaving it on trains, sending it unencrypted through the post, etc
Facebook has only my absolute minimal details needed to register
Solution: Shoot them, this is still legal and the most efficient and humane way
Fox hunting as a sport is outdated and often cruel, gamekeeping is necessary to keep the fox population down, and if done properly will cull the correct individuals not just the easiest to catch, or the first found, dogs should not be necessary for a good gamekeeper because they will know where the local foxes live and where to find them
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
