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24 is a much better example than Fringe. If Fringe depicts torture as a tool, it also depicts time travel as a tool and wacky science as a tool, but I don't see the author taking umbrage.

Fringe, like 24, is a work of fiction. The problem is not the series' content. The real problem is letting politicians and media use a work of fiction as an actual situation. Using "Jack Bauer" in the debate about torture is like using Planet of the Apes in the debate about space exploration.

And suddenly, people like Richman Stallman seem much less crazy when they ask for free (as in libre) hardware, free BIOS, free everything.

Professional basketball, football, concertist, etc... Professions where only the very best can succeed. Maybe you can learn piano at 21 and go on to become a renowned performer, but there's usually a correlation with learning things early. Might have something to do with the 10,000 hours thing.

Don't worry, your reclassification request has been duly archived to /dev/null for later review.

They are probably going to receive tens of thousands of requests so I wouldn't expect them to be read by a human. If that's the case they'll just prioritize by frequency of report. Obviously it's all conjecture on my part.

Indeed, and the title is incorrect too. Function names were not renamed to end up different buckets; Their names were picked that way.

You'd have to qualify what "poorly designed" means or even what language you're talking about. In that mail, Lerdorf recounts his time writing PHP/FI nearly twenty years ago. It's like judging the current Linux kernel based on the early version Linus Torvalds was using in his lab around the same time.

Your comment reads like you're living in the 60s. I don't think that modern families have the kind of "ritualistic" meals you're describing.

The "mold" part of the title feels especially disingenuous.

If you can't articulate your point without resorting to personal attacks, please refrain.

> IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings. > Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists".

That's the solution posted in that thread. It's an IE problem.

It's about the intention. Banksy's intention was to create art. The other guy's intention was to destroy.

You can see art in destruction if you want, but the guy's intention clearly was to vandalize.

Same reason why Jackson Pollock's pieces sell for millions and I couldn't sell the stain in my garage for a dollar. Even though one could see art in that stain (just like one can see art in nature) having a car with a leaky exhaust doesn't make me an artist.

Ideally, I'd want every store to reject minified code but at the same time I'd want them to automatically minify extensions while making their full sources available as a separate download.

So to sum it up: the dad uses a computer at work and drives a 2010 car, but his son wears a mullet and can't have video games. Why are they (minus dad) living like it's '86 again?

> Earlier this year, Blair says, he was hanging out outside the house, and he asked his 5-year-old son Trey to join him. Trey refused. He was too busy with his iPad.

Oh, that explains it.

> Mr. Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line for what appeared to be unusual behaviours.

Well I'm sold. Serves you right for looking suspicious in front of the Looking-suspicious Detection Officer!

Interesting. I wonder how much of it comes from officers being more self-conscious and from people being less likely to file a claim they know would be easily disproved.

It's like saying you wouldn't use cars that run on water because you'd have to change your car fleet.

It's an investment. The question is not how much you save this year, it's when will you actually save money.

Non-rhetorical question: is your team concerned that not paying out a bounty for this report may be exploited by anti-semitic groups?

I can already picture people saying "of course, Mark Zuckerberg would refuse to acknowledge the work of a Palestinian." (regardless of the fact that Mark Zuckerberg describes himself as an atheist)

You can get decent savings (~90-95% of the optimized size) with some brute force at the encoder level, more time spent testing different filters and rearranging the palette, but it takes a lot of CPU for little gain. At some point, you might spend minutes to save bytes.

This service is much faster than that, so they probably don't use brute force at all.

Indeed, if searching for pressure cookers and backpacks really get law enforcement to your door (assuming this article is factual) then you definitely don't want them to look into your garage/toolshed where you may have some fertilizer, gasoline, metal canisters, bolts, nails, etc...

Not sure whether your comment is sarcastic. Having to use a VPN to read about Tiananmen is not exactly my definition of freedom.

Also, people who walk around at night, shirtless and with an open beer in the hand are usually drunks/douches looking for trouble, that's why people will give you the stink eye. But last I checked, it wasn't illegal.

I didn't realize that you could respond with image macros on HN.

Ok, so it's a complicated image. The first thing I thought is it looks like the schema of a simple arithmetic operation in a processor. Meaning that it looks complicated, but it doesn't tell us anything. I see dots and lines and pretty colors, but I don't see an argument.

But if you do that you have to configure your server for it, and your server still has to handle the request. The file is 2KB gzipped; Serving the file or a redirection is basically the same thing.

Placebos are great for things you can do nothing about. If you caught the common cold and a placebo makes you feel better then great. But if you have Repetitive Strain Injury (emphasis on repetitive and injury) and your cure is placebo then you're setting yourself up for something nasty.

I'll quote the article:

> I can type as much as I want, in whatever unergonomic position I want, on any keyboard, without any pain. The amazing thing about this recovery is that the changes I implemented were entirely psychological.

Sounds great, but I'd rather recommend to not buy the book and invest in a good chair with a comfortable desk instead. Also, breaks, stretching and yadda yadda.

> A single search can now land you on a government list of accused pedophiles.

The other day I used Google to find info about a movie called "How to Make Money Selling Drugs"[1]. As I typed the words, I thought to myself "I hope that doesn't get me on a government list." I can't imagine having to think twice before Googling "Lolita"[2].

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/reference [2]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/reference

Most law enforcement agencies have something of that sort. From what I understand, what they distribute is a database of hashes to identify files. I don't know if the original material is preserved.

It's nice to see a library use Closure Compiler's advanced compilation mode.

You could also injure a pedestrian. Do you realize that you can hurt an elderly person on the sidewalk with a bike as much as a car can hurt you on the road?

Oh that AGPL cash cow... Damn you Richard Stallman and your capitalistic ways!

What hurts me is that people are acting surprised that spy agencies are spying on people. Their job is to collect intelligence. If they can read your emails, they will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

It's an automatic translation, so wording may be haphazard. I note that "offenbar" (from the original article) can also mean "obvious", as in "It was apparent that the authorities had read her correspondence."

Edit: just noticed you had written "my translation", not "the translation". My German is nowhere good enough to translate the article, I'm just working off Google's.