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811.
by waps 13y ago
This list of things telco monopolies see as competition is nicely summarized by the blue part of this picture : http://toddbell.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Earthrise.jpg And they're getting reall
812.
by waps 13y ago
If that's the case, and it looks like it may be, then they should simply switch to https and things will work again. There's a million other reasons to use https as well.
813.
by waps 13y ago
Since animal's size is encoded in a few genes that are specifically marked to evolve very quickly, any ill effects (for non-extreme settings) would be extremely unlikely. Besides, mutations in those genes exist without manipulation too
814.
by waps 13y ago
The game is called "which is cheaper", and mobile wins.
815.
by waps 13y ago
Which apps exactly, aside from shopping and maybe encyclopaedias, have migrated to the web ? Desktop publishing ? Nope IDEs ? Nope CAD ? Nope 3D modeling ? Nope Mathematical tools ? Nope So which ones ?
816.
by waps 13y ago
Oh noes ! They're going to start ... well, euhm ... a radio station ?
817.
by waps 13y ago
I mean that these bugs only solve the "break out of the sandbox" issue. They do not get your code on to the machine to exploit. In other words these flaws are the equivalent of "I can upload code, how do I get to shell access
818.
by waps 13y ago
Please note that the only way to exploit these vulnerabilities is you've already got your code executing on the machine you intend to break. The only thing this allows you to do is to break out of the java sandbox, and keep in mind tha
819.
by waps 13y ago
Here's how you recognize "brave" people : they don't exist. There's 2 groups of people in Syria : those who have no choice, on both sides, and criminals hiding behind religion. Now why both sides have no choice is s
820.
by waps 13y ago
Even one would protect you for ~10 years. It would still have a profound positive effect. And yes, there are always better options in existence, and there is always a shortage of people wanting to pay for it.
821.
by waps 13y ago
First, there does not exist a known logical system that is more complex than first order logic. In order for such a system to exist, it would at the very least be able to prove it's own consistency, otherwise it's merely a wild gu
822.
by waps 13y ago
Viruses are the only way to change the DNA of a living human, and that's the only way you're ever going to cure cancer, or fix things like diabetes, or ... Plus it would allow for far more effective treatments for nearly any disea
823.
by waps 13y ago
Frankly, even if true, and they actually vaccinated the children, I'd still consider it a positive. I would also note that the taliban were against vaccination before this happened. So let's not pretend that this is the reason the
824.
by waps 13y ago
Actually, given that our star is a third-generation star, you could even ask the question : why wasn't there life in our very own solar system before earth even existed ? Before sol started burning or even coalesce ? The first generati
825.
by waps 13y ago
For the love of God, pick a movie about eastern Europe 30 years ago and watch it. You don't know what you're saying. The only way to arrive at an opinion like that is lack of perspective. Some people say that living as humans in t
826.
by waps 13y ago
Wow, if your mailbox is like mine, you must hate "reply to all" with equal passion.
827.
by waps 13y ago
Googlers, by far more left than most of the country, cannot fathom that they are part of "the rich" most of them rail against. Some of these people are getting kicked out of their apartment, can't find a new place that's
828.
by waps 13y ago
You're trying to change the topic. I'm not talking about unreliable hardware. The two main things I contend WILL happen to production haskell programs are : 1) OOM (both kinds : stack and heap). 2) functions taking longer than the
829.
by waps 13y ago
Did you miss the point about getting kicked out and getting forced to leave with nowhere to go ? That "might" be the violence and degradation they're talking about. Just saying.
830.
by waps 13y ago
Or they can get elected and introduce more rent control.
831.
by waps 13y ago
The point was that there is no real-word type system that can guarantee non-null pointers (not even Haskell's). You cannot do allocation reliably in the real world, and if your type system guarantees that, it is simply wrong.
832.
by waps 13y ago
I don't get that you want free wifi without being prepared to jump through a small hoop. Delivering that service is not free, so requiring you to do a little work for it, or pay (e.g. to verizon who'll happily provide data connect
833.
by waps 13y ago
This is the mathematician's argument. It boils down to the unfairness of having to execute programs on real hardware with real constraints. Well, that doesn't work in the real world obviously. Especially memory allocations WILL fa
834.
by waps 13y ago
Problems : 1) How do you get at the value itself ? (Casting ? That's bad) 2) How do you prevent in Maybe<Integer> x; x == null ? 3) How do you prevent someone from extending Maybe<T> ? e.g. public final class LetsHave
835.
by waps 13y ago
Really ? How would you even encode Maybe or Option in Java, if you can't use null anywhere ? The problem is that Maybe doesn't work without Algebraic Data Types.
836.
by waps 13y ago
An argument can be made that this merely masks the problem : it is certainly possible for a Haskell function to crash (and therefore not return anything), no matter it's declared type : reallyfun xs = reallyfun xs ++ [ 1 ] Note that th
837.
by waps 13y ago
How about we simply agree that OSI is a monstrous "designed by 99 committees" theory and accept that it is not used in practice ? Actual networking stacks do not follow it. Hell they don't even follow TCP/IP's layer
838.
by waps 13y ago
That's not what they say is the problem at all. Look, Google's great crime - according to the article presumably written by a tolerant person - is 1) trading a few commercials for the keystone oil pipeline for some other political
839.
by waps 13y ago
Only for unsolved problems, and only if you can actually afford it (both mostly mean competition is limited or non-existant). Otherwise, that won't work. It's a matter of time (decades, probably, but limited) until IT work turns i
840.
by waps 13y ago
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