burgerbrain

You seem to be pretty interested in being as bored as possible with this discussion.......

Weird. I just won it three times in a row without that happening. How reproducible is it for you?

Maybe he fixed this, but this doesn't seem to be the case as I am playing it right now.

Interesting tidbit from the announcement about this on SpaceX's website:

>In fact, Dragon has so much interior volume, that we could place an entire three-person Russian Soyuz capsule descent module inside Dragon’s pressure vessel.

That is just awesome.

Fair enough.

Is "javascript does it too" supposed to be a defence?

> "there's nothing illegal going on."

That's not what I asked, is it?

Or do you mean that only illegal activities are worthy of our attention?

Don't you think that there might be a difference between a person contemplating something, and an organization of people doing so?

Denial of service concerns seem to be at least briefly discussed in the paper (which I have not finished reading yet):

  2 We do not prevent against a denial-of-service attack where an ac-
  tive attacker intercepts packets and resends them under its own IP ad-
  dress to fool the server’s roaming detection. Such an attack would not
  compromise the confidentiality of the connection but would disrupt it.

(Not the same scenario as you are describing, but still.)

And even better, just turn on Vi style line editing in your shell. Vi was designed for editing over high latency connections.

I think this explains a lot really...

Isn't Go normally statically linked if cgo isn't being used? Would that mean that the DLL's in the virtual address space definitely shouldn't be there?

The flyback transformers in large CRT televisions generate several times more than 10kV.

Exactly how much power to you think a tesla coil uses...? O.o

Also, the primary reasons you cannot run (most kinds) of nuclear reactors in your garage have nothing to do with your power company (this said, if you do want to run your own powerplant and sell power back to the grid, you are more than free to do so... If you don't care about plugging yourself into the grid then you are even more free to do so). Similarly, FCC regulations on transmitter power are also questionably related.

"We're not even discussing the issue of free software anymore"

Thanks to your confused analogies, and what I'm not perceiving as some pretty fundamental misconceptions about basic electronics, yes... If you are going to attempt to argue your point with an analogy, and your analogy is broken, expect to be called out. That is just common sense.

No, it would not... Give me a break.

I pray that Poe's Law is in out in full force here.

>"Can't build a tesla coil in your garage either."

What the hell? You are joking, right?

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps

Yes, and then we see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

Give me a fucking break. You are clearly not worth engaging in discussion; I'm done.

Unless you are claiming that he is lying, I don't think that contrived means what you think it means.

Why do you get to say that what he does is contrived? What makes your usage patterns any less "contrived" than his?

The "clearing up ambiguity" thing is bullshit. Nobody is going to fail to use context clues to figure out what is meant by "Go" in this discussion. Where such disambiguation is actually needed, "Go (language)" or simply "go-lang"/"golang" is preferred. You know, since they are not incorrect.

"Frankly I fail to understand why this bothers you so much, as it clearly does."

It is annoying because it is incorrect, because you have been corrected multiple times, and because what you are attempting to do is transparent as hell. I, and I imagine many others, do not have a strong appreciation for botched attempts at subtlety.

The number of times people have needed to tell this guy this is staggering.

Targeting systems programming is. The existing languages used there are rather firmly entrenched.

>"Anyway, "systems" in this case includes daemons and server processes."

For that sense of "systems", Go excels and Java enjoys a great deal of popularity.

It's carbon neutral in the sense that the CO2 it puts in the air was taken out of the air a decade ago, not millions of years ago.

>Which you can do anyway.

Buying wood funds planting trees. Buying gas and oil do not.

frobozz is likely referring to this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense in response to this: 'Nobody is blamed for following the "rules"'

For the more traditional definitions of "systems programming", yes. I would agree with that.

However I don't think anybody is really marketing Go for that niche.

Hardly anything wrong with them as far as I can tell, provided you don't have neighbours. I would suspect that all the wood people burn in North America as fuel is greatly offset by all the forest fires people in North America put out. Large-scale adoption of course is not a bright idea, but that's not what this guy is doing.

(And it is carbon neutral, so if you're going to burn something, better wood than fossil fuels from that standpoint.)

I'm going to to off on a limb here and say that MU would not dare relaunch until after Kimble is released. If he is convicted I have a hard time believing they would/could relaunch even if they had the data.

So what the MPAA is basically arguing is that MU should not get their data back because in the event that they are unable to secure a conviction, they still want him punished.

Despicable, as usual. Also curious, that they think this might happen.

I know that you're not serious, but I just feel the need to reinforce that having to hide a portion of your identity does not in fact shield you from discrimination. The simple fact that you have to do so is discrimination itself.

Of course the idea is to eliminate a subset of discrimination, which arguably it does well, but to do so it introduces another sort.

Heh, I suppose so. Bills are just so much nicer than change though.