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>what malloc is

There is no reason someone who never programmed C would (or should) know what function is used to allocate memory in C.

Try putting quotes around popleft in your query. That works in this case to get rid of the results that don't specifically include the word.

The Outer Space Treaty specifically says that no country can claim sovereignty over outer space or celestial objects, that countries retain ownership of anything they launch into space, and that they are liable for damage they cause to any other countries space objects (or people on them). The treaty has been signed and ratified by all major space faring nations, including the US, Russia, China, and all major European countries.

>That's been proven a million times.

Then you should be able to provide at least one citation.

Stargate does mostly avoid that issue, but it falls down on the fact that the Goa'uld are ridiculously incompetent at both a strategic and tactical level. The most obvious being the fact that they never developed the iris that humans managed to develop almost immediately.

During a demo for a group bittorrent client project in college, the person running the demo chose to use the link on the piratebay with the most seeders (because we had some bugs that made it not work reliably with non-seeders). The file? A windows keygen program. Fortunately, the prof didn't notice what we were downloading.

>So it isn't pixie dust, it isn't innate ability, it isn't being smart. It is all fucking work.

No, it isn't. I knew a girl in high school who worked far harder than I ever did, and had far worse grades (particularly in math and science). She literally spent 2-3 hours every day doing homework and studying, while I spent 15-30 minutes. If you talked to her, she seemed perfectly normal, she just had tremendous difficulty with academic work. While hard work is important, natural gifts make a huge difference.

The ideas in the rules cannot be copyrighted, but the specific text of the rules can be (see http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html). Also, game mechanics can be patented.

The article shows the "credit cards" results page with (at his resolution) 4 top ads, 4 full and 1 partial side ad, and 1 partial result shown. If 9 ads to 1 line of content isn't top-heavy with ads according to google's standards, then their standards are worthless.

>Only many days later did I learn, If Microsoft wanted they could stop piracy easily.

Microsoft spends millions fighting piracy. What is this magical way that Microsoft could "easily" stop piracy?

There are other problems with remote workers. You can't have a face-to-face conversation. A remote worker can't go into a coworkers office and help track down a tricky bug. These issues can be alleviated to some extent by email, phones, and video-conferencing, but those things require a fair amount of work to set up and still aren't the same as having the person in the office.

I agree that they aren't plotting against freedom, but not for the same reason as you. I think that they want to make money, and think that controlling content is best the way to do that.

A car can kill a pedestrian/bicyclist/motorcyclist at surprisingly low speeds. It's almost impossible to kill someone in a car at under 25 MPH or so (unless they drive off a cliff or something), but pedestrians can be killed by cars going as slowly as 10 MPH (they get knocked off their feet and hit their heads, usually). I read a very interesting paper by the NTSB or IIHS about that, but can't find it now.

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.

The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

This article (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5in1T5nvGNc...) mentions previous results and that they were thought to be due to measurement error, but claims that these readings had a speed of c + 60 nS, with a measurement margin of error of +-10 nS.

It would mean that the theory of relativity is not 100% correct (in much the same way as Newtonian physics are not 100% correct). It wouldn't have any direct impact on anything (because relativity still makes correct predictions the vast majority of the time), but it would create the opportunity for new theories which can explain everything that relativity does plus this new experiment to be created. That new theory could have significant ramifications, or it could be a minor adjustment to current theory that changes nothing.

They randomly assigned names to places on a map (and then reconciled the names with each other so all the robots were using the same names). Which is impressive, but nothing like what the article claims.

I was disappointed not to see any of the real classics (20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc.) on the list.

[NATO deployed AWACS](http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/10/12/ret.nato.awacs/index.ht...) in the US after 9/11.

As is "windows".

Most viruses kill the host cell, or at least render it incapable of performing its normal function, so if most of the cells of a type are infected you are in trouble anyway.

That's a whole lotta words to say "Because they can easily be spoofed".

Its a false comparison due to different legal systems. In the US Breivik would be facing multiple life sentences or the death penalty.

I'm holding out for the giant cloud of beer.

They have (or at least had) troops in Afghanistan and participated in the NATO campaign against Libya.

So you support the News of the World phone hacking? The only difference between them and anonymous/wikileaks/etc. is that NOTW is using it to support politics you don't like, while the others are using it to support politics you do.

Because only governments and big corporations do bad things, of course.

When you are in a brick and mortar casino you know what jurisdiction it is in. When on a website, you don't know if it is in the UK (good) or Somalia (bad).

Brick and mortar casinos are heavily regulated and inspected to ensure that they are fair. While all the games have a house edge, they are ultimately probabilistic. The concern with an online casino is that its blackjack game won't just rely on the house X% edge, but will fix the deals so that the house always comes out ahead after some set number of deals.