I am not familiar with it, and I assume that so are you. So, fantasies...

There might be nonces or other tokens attached to a vote that must remain secret (proof of voting only once, etc.). Another use of encryption is avoiding claims along the lines "The results published by authorities are false! Here is the true copy which cannot be validated because dem computors are broken! But everyone knows that the copy is REALLY TRUE!" With the present system, if dem computors are broken, there cannot be any alternative results.

The architecture, BTW, must be a public knowledge, otherwise it cannot be trusted. I believe that you can find it somewhere if this is a matter of interest to you.

Condition of type: UNBOUND-VARIABLE
The variable YEAH is unbound.

Please write a plan of a two-semester Advanced course of the English language...

... is a requirement for modern wars. Anti-swarm countermeasures. Imagine your AA system being overwhelmed by a coordinated simultaneous assault of 100+ AI-driven drones. Most of the drones are cheap fakes that carry no weapons. You have no idea which is which, you need to acquire and shoot down as many drones as you can, preferably all of them.

Allowing "those systems to help determine who lives and who dies" is never the goal.

Oh, come on. There are LOTS of people that do not fit your world view.

What would you tell my friend having asthma? The guy cannot ride a bicycle to save his life but otherwise he's a young professional having a family of his own and living a normal life.

What, Europeans are immune, for instance, to chronic pulmonary diseases?

Cities for the young and healthy. Talk to me when your dad cannot crank the shaft any more.

The Python code takes just three or four screenfuls on my phone (hold vertically). The game is intended by its author for entertainent of a two year old child. Come on, be serious.

Oh, that book has informally twice on the first page. Its writers, apparently, cannot tell a college textbook from a standard.

Minimal version is not the same as strict standard compliance. Sorry, but industry does not like surprises.

Just wondering, where I could obtain a copy of the standard definition of the language How can I command the compiler to adhere to a particular revision of such a standard?

The sudden death of one John Q. Public does not change the fact that he resided recently on Main St. 17 where his body was moved from to be buried somewhere else.

Please take care to find the definition of the value of a pointer in the document that you referred me to.

Do not treat standards, esp. a committee draft as Revelation for those are written by humans.

Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum.

Sometimes you just cannot escape someone else's mistakes. A case that I was called to deal with recently: GCC considers reading a pointer's value as `using' the pointer and starts yelling at the programmer as if the pointer is dereferenced. For instance, with that particular toolchain, invocation of free(3) followed by printing the address that was passed to free(3) triggered -Wuse-after-free.

It goes like this:
Slashdot: There's a hearing of Meta in the Senate, they cause harm to youth.
You: Meta is a U.S. company!
I: Everyone interested knows that Meta is a U.S. company and this information is irrelevant.
You: But U.S. shot up weddings in Afghanistan and targeted numerous villages in Vietnam! There is evidence!

There is no relation between U.S. wars (just or not)â"or its foreign policy in generalâ"and the questionable conduct of Meta unless one is absolutely sure that anything having any faintest connection to U.S., including its `common' civillian population of any background and walk of life, is inherently evil.

Do you honestly think that Israel and anything related to it is inherently evil? (I assume so.)

Now, by writing off any response of mine, before hearing it, as `excuses', you waived your right for any serious discussion with me. No problem, no response for you.

On the personal level, I give you a free advice (that you may or may not take, I do not care). Read up on cognitive bias (be prepared to read a lof, if you study the matter properly).

Bye-bye.

How about an attempt of keeping the discussion interesting and to the point while preventing turning comments into yet another shit creek --- by avoiding the attention of types that are easily triggered by the word `Israel', those that just cannot stand neutral or positive opinions about the country? You know, those that keep spreading unfounded, biased lies about it like `"targeting" doctors and journalists', `genocide' and other rubbish?

Slashdot readers that care about this item usually know quite well who NSO are. The word `Israeli' is simply noise to them. What about insisting that Microsoft must always be called `an American company Microsoft' or Apple `an American company Apple', huh? Slashdot readers also usually know quite well that NSO is a private enterprise and has no relation whatsoever to the government or to the people of Israel in general: the portion of Israelis that know at all who are NSO is below any significant resolution.

How? If you and I save a second each, I cannot transfer the second that I saved to you. I, personally, need to save the amount of seconds it takes to deliver a package so that the new hot tech would have *any* justification (well, assuming that I am not a slave and my hours on the job are limited). Does the tech offset its operational cost?

All right, all right: it was not that bad. The tower was not civillian. 'Told'ya, wait for the inquiery. It will be interesting.