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by philipp-de 12y ago
Well if they do test this on humans, and if something goes wrong - they can easily fix it. Just apply a wetware update. Maybe we can even deploy wetware updates wirelessly soon. Just think of the possibilities. "Have you installed the
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by philipp-de 13y ago
No fear mongering going on here. As i wrote earlier, the incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in the german media. Also, the pilot of the drone was only briefly arrested for disturbing the rally and released hours later
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by philipp-de 13y ago
This was staged by the german pirate party. They wanted to "take pictures" / draw attention to the surveillance issue. The incident wasn't discussed in terms of being a threat in german media. Merkel was photographed sm
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by philipp-de 13y ago
I agree about the need to really strip out the bad stuff, not just deprecating. Wrt removal of language features: They seem to be in the process of cleaning up some there as well. For example in 5.4 they removed safe mode, register globals,
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by philipp-de 13y ago
(can't reply to your reply so here goes) I'd argue that PHP came out of the gate with some pretty powerful properties, too. They hit a sweet spot of * Being there at the right time (none of the "good" languages in your b
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by philipp-de 13y ago
Javascript, of all things, wasn't neatly "designed" either. The core language was hacked together in several weeks, by a few developer at Netscape. Javascript wasn't made for large applications. It was made for form chec
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by philipp-de 13y ago
They are doing it, though. For example they have now deprecated the dreaded mysql_, pgsql_ interfaces (including mysql_now_escape_the_string_for_real() and the like ;) for accessing the database in favor of PDO. They will be removed in the
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by philipp-de 13y ago
The terms of these initiatives (Fachkräfteinitiative, Blue Card) are so one sided and onerous that very few people from outside actually use them. These initiatives, started years ago, so far have flopped.
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by philipp-de 13y ago
Immigration is unpopular here in germany. Indeed, it is very unpopular among many people. German politicians, in the past (60s,70s,80s), have brought in many worker-immigrants mainly from turkey. They were badly needed to fill the many vaca
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by philipp-de 13y ago
In Germany,where i live, you get: * 2/3 of your last wage for 1 year on unemployment, free health care * After that expires you get your rent paid, free health care , and 400 euro per month for other expenses - indefinitely On top of t
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by philipp-de 13y ago
There's more. There's technical standards, procedures and laws accross europe for the storage, retrieval and processing of metadata and other information. it's called ETSI Lawful Interception see: * http://en.wikip
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by philipp-de 13y ago
germans generally like order very, very much. :)
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by philipp-de 13y ago
the last 2 polls also had only 2 options. so for comparisons sake it will be better to leave it at that, i think.
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by philipp-de 13y ago
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