Darths & Droids makes a much better job of making sense of 1 and 2 I've long thought that TPM played like an OK RPG campaign FX the whole podracing thing happened because the GM had picked up some racing boardgame and was itching to use it.
Reading through the comments, it stroke me the same. Van Eck phreaking can't be a problem because it provides literally the same information as exit polls.
What again is not a problem if one votes in densely populated area: emission from many voting machines would mix making it hard to differentiate a vote on a single machine.
It might be the problem with VIPs. But for the case one can really go extra mile and install proper shielding.
Sir, your attitude is a breath a fresh air. Any programmer who doesn't submit a formal and rigorous proof of every algorithm they write to a peer reviewed academic research journal is an incompetent hack who couldn't program his way out of a cardboard box.
Are you *seriously* trying to equate the ability to understand one's own code with "a formal and rigorous proof"? Really? To that, all I can really say is: Wow. Please, get out of the industry. Now.
The "Terrorists" were actually Burger King workers. America has a grudge because Buger King stopped selling the Angery Whopper. Those Bastards!
My colon declared *me* a terrorist, after I ate one of those Angry Whoppers.
No it, it doesn't. Cuban was only musing with some Microsoft lust, he wasn't serious...unless he has a thing for Uncle Fester look-a-likes. Okay, so maybe he was serious, lusting after Uncle Fester would come under Intent to Engage in Deviant Behavior.
MWAHAA! Forget the LHC, move over 2012. I am going to destroy the earth by creating a paradox that sucks up the entire internet and moves us back to the stone ages of about two decades ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth!
They were a key element in the financial rise of Marcus Licinius Crassus - which certainly doomed the Republican government of Rome - concentrating power in Crassus and those he favoured which included the financing Caesar Julius.
Crassus ran real estate, insurance and fire-brigade services. He was at an intersection to extort huge amounts of money from people at the point of catastrophic loss.
It was hugely successful for him, in terms of a market.
You can find a picture of a "4-D" Mandlebrot set in a mid/late 80's issue of Scientific American. I was generating pictures of this on a 286 pc. (with EGA graphics) 15 years ago, and the pictures in TFA of z^2 look *nothing* like that did.
Hah, I can beat that! I used a Compaq portable with an 8088 processor, 256 K of RAM and 2 floppies! I wrote a C program based on that original Scientific American article, and then had a Basic program read the results and display it. I think the C program took a week to run.
The joke, of course, is that the Compaq didn't have a color screen—it had a small grayscale monitor built in. But I still thought it was really cool.
At a Java con I went to a talk by Dave Thomas, one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. The line that stuck with me was "A comment is a lie waiting to be believed."
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room. -- W. Bossert