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Comment Re: Intent? (Score 1) 45

That's factual wrong. Manslaughter does not require intent, expect to spend a lengthy period of time behind bars if found guilty. It is common to hold people criminally responsible for the outcome of their actions even if there was no intent if the behaviour was reckless in nature. Dragging an anchor falls into that category IMHO

Comment Re:Last years battle (Score 1) 168

Just a couple hundred metres of forest along your border would make any land invasion extremely difficult. You would have to clear the forest first before moving vehicles through it and this makes them an immediate and easy target. Problem is that it takes ~20 years to get your trees to a suitable size.

Comment Re: Sure. (Score 1) 272

No TrueType is a security nightmare because someone decided that handling hinting by putting a byte code interpreter in the font specification was a good idea. This is not an issue in font formats that are not derived from TrueType, such as PostScript Type1. It is not an issue with font renderers.

Comment Re: so dumb (Score 1) 171

Germany was not attempting to build a nuclear bomb because Heisenberg had got his sums wrong. He thought you needed 150 tons of enriched Uranium to make a bomb, which was impractical. After the war he started claiming his mistake was deliberate to deny the Nazis a nuclear bomb.

The problem was that the Nazi's had expelled all the Jewish physicists, and a bunch of others had just left. Consequently, Heisenberg didn't have anyone to double-check his calculations or correct the mistake.

It is also doubtful that Germany could have actually produced the nuclear materials needed for a bomb. The heavy water plant in Norway was destroyed, not that you need a single drop of heavy water to make a bomb. So the idea that you could set up a nuclear pile somewhere in occupied Europe and then separation facilities under Allied bombing is frankly fanciful.

Comment Re:It's worse than you think (Score 1) 86

Britain did not rule more places over a longer period than any other empire. It was a very short-lived empire as things go. However, the main problem with immigration at the moment is the sheer numbers involved. For example, the housing shortage in the UK is entirely a consequence of the mass immigration in the last 20 years. Sure there are countries with higher population densities, but the native population of these islands didn't vote for and don't want to live in such a country. Then there is the issue of somewhere between 20% and 30% of Muslims in the UK who would like to see Shira Law implemented. You get obserdities like the barrister who was defending an immigrant who raped a 15-year-old girl, saying in his defence that it would have been acceptable were he came from.

Comment Re:Are not hidden cameras illegal in California? (Score 1) 62

In the UK, many laboratories, depending on what they handle, require security cameras for regulatory reasons. I am highly dubious that California is any different. The regulations exist for really good reasons that don't evaporate in California. So there must be some loophole that allows restricted laboratories to have security cameras.

I would then note that most data centres have security cameras everywhere.

You are not allowed to put it in a toilet or shower room, but anywhere else is pretty much fair game. It's not California, but the ECJ ruled that you basically have no right to privacy at your workplace.

Comment Re: Writer's Tricks (Score 1) 80

Numpy is a wrapper on a bunch of pre existing libraries primarily in C and Fortran. A language which lacks arrays cannot do serious scientific computation without engaging another language to do the heavy lifting. As such Python is a garbage choice though it seems to be popular but that does not change the fact it is a garbage choice. Sometimes the crowd is wrong.

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