The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. Informally speaking, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer.
It was essentially first mentioned in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. Gödel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper "The complexity of theorem proving procedures" and is considered by many to be the...
@Seth Actually, only 2.5 if we count from the time I started actually being active. Feel free to edit my comment on my nomination page to reflect that if you want. I had miscounted.
I read this article, http://donovanbrown.com/post/2016/05/29/Installing-NET-Core-RC2-on-Ubuntu-1604, 10 minutes ago.
I was curious what are the benefits of installing .NET Core RC2 on Ubuntu 16.04 versus the status quo where we auto-start Apache Server and XSP on port 9000 at login time.
I was...
@Serg Do we know that? Last I heard we just knew he had an Muslim-sounding name. How'd we get to "radical Islamist" as opposed to your run-of-the-mill bigot?
@Rinzwind Sure. Now you're going to be obliged, by law, to be armed when going to night clubs. Because, of course, if everyone there had been armed, the tragedy would have been avoided.
@Terrance problem is not with guns, problem with the society. I've been in China for 3 weeks, walking at night all by myself. Not a single time i got mugged or intercepted by thugs, and there's no such easy way to have a gun there as in the US
@Rinzwind Yeah, tell that to Trump. He actually made just that suggestion after the Paris shootings. he said that things would have been different if France allowed guns like.
@Terrance Sure. But a toddler is a hell of a lot less likely to kill anyone if there aren't guns in the home. It takes a very special dedication to manage to stab someone when you're smaller than the knife.
Can we just forget about that toddler crap for a moment ? We're talking about grown up man who walked into a night club and shot up 50 and some more people
@terdon If you have a toddler in your home and you own guns, they should be locked up in a safe at all times. People that don't show respect for owning weapons are asking for trouble to begin with.
@Terrance Yeah. Even better if you have a toddler, don't keep a bleedin gun in the house! It's no use for "protection" if it's locked up anyway. Jim Jeffries has a nice skit about that one: youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
@Terrance Huh? Who said anything about "taking away freedoms"? I'm just talking about common sense: it's not a good idea to have a tool designed for killing stuff in the same environment as a child.
@terdon You sure made it sound like if you have a toddler that you shouldn't own one. If that is a law, then it would be taking away freedoms. To me it is all about responsibility of the person. If you can't be responsible, don't own one.
@Terrance I never said anything about law. I, personally, would consider someone who had both a gun and a toddler a person I wouldn't want to have anything to do with. That's me though, I never said it should be legislated. I wouldn't mind if it were, but I doubt it would work. Legislation rarely does.
@Rinzwind As far as I know, it's legal to own a gun in most countries in Europe if you have a permit. It's just that most people have no desire to own one and choose not to.
x-p-w.tk is CNAMEd to xpw.zyns.com, which is a DDNS setup to my DSL modem. mc.x-p-w.tk is CNAMEd to xpw1.zyns.com, which is a DDNS setup to my cable modem.
@Rinzwind port 80 incoming is blocked on the cable ISP, so I can't use it, but DSL is fine. 25565 isn't blocked on either so I have it on the faster connection. But I can't just point to IPs, because they're both dynamic, AFAIK
@Rinzwind Even better, you can got into the army at 18 (so you're responsible enough to be given firearms and sent to kill people) but you can't drink until you're 21.
@Rinzwind No you can't. You need to be 16. In Greece, there's no legal drinking age I know of. It's just that nobody will serve you a vodka if you ask for one at 13. We're not that stupid.
@Zacharee1 no.. " As of January 1, 2010, fifteen states and the District of Columbia ban underage consumption outright, seventeen states do not ban underage consumption, and the remaining eighteen states have family member or location exceptions to their underage consumption laws. "
@WildMan That is correct that in the military they can drink younger than 21. They are exempt from State and County drinking laws as long as they are full time or retired military.