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DiKKy Heartiez - Berlin, Norway

In a response to the U.S Armed Forces' new initiative to require Trusted Platform Modules to be standard in all new computers in order to better fight CYBERTERRORISM, the GNAA declares it will follow the initiative set by the U.S Army and do the same. President timecop of the GNAA said in a press conference in Gookyo, Japan this morning that "The war on CYBERTERRORISM is something we must take as seriously as Richard Stallman". This confirms the GNAA's new plans to become the most Secure provider of gay sex in CYBERSPACE, and beyond.

The Trusted Platform Modules will enable us to deliver AIDS free, HIV free, cancer free, poison free, battery acid free, radiation free, and most importantly juden-free and perfectly preserved Holy Gay Nigger Seed to our CYBER-Customers, while at the same time protecting them from Al Quaeda CYBERTERRORISM.

GNAA head of Internal Security, Mr supers, Kike, from Israel, commented in the same press conference that the Trusted Platform Module was originally developed in Israel, by jews and that he was very proud of what his fellow kikes could accomplish while under heavy fire from Hezbollah. He also added that "This is however nothing compared to the FACT that my fellow juden developed the Internet while being held captured in Auschwitz".

About U.S Army

The United States Army is the main supplier of bombs and grenades to the juden of Israel so they can kill and murder innocent cute arabic children and women wearing burkas. The U.S Army is also world known for its intervention in WW2, causing the defeat of the Third Free Reich and the liberation of thousands of judenschweine from happy camps all over Europe. The U.S Army has also killed lots of asian faggots in the 60's and 70's and also a small number of sandniggers in the 90's and in to the new millenium.

About Trusted Platform Module

The Trusted Platform Module started development in Israel by jews funded by the OSS in the year 2000. The project was a co-project between Jews and open source hippies and communists from all over the world. It was taken over by the Microsoft Corporation in the first quarter of 2000, as the jews and commies and faggots couldnt agree on anything and abandoned the project after only 4 days. Its current version varies a lot from the original OSS version.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.

In 2003 Steorn undertook a project to develop more efficient micro generators. Early into this project the company developed certain generator configurations that appeared to be over 100% efficient.
 
Has anyone seen Primer ? When reading the above I immediately thought of this film. A couple of guys are playing with magnetic fields in their garage and accidentally discover a positive gain energy source. Later it is discovered that the generator is actually a temporal shifting device (read: time machine), but a "realistic" one (you can only travel back to when the device was turned on). This story correlates heavily with the film's plot.
 
  "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy."
 
One of the characters in the film, Abe, describes the machine operation using a small diagram. The dialog is disjointed and overlapping , but the situation is the same as above:

"All right? We start the machine with the Weeble at the A end.

-It travels forward--
-You got to write this down.

-There's nothing to write down.
-I'll write it down.

It travels forward normally towards the B end.

When it gets there,the feed runs down parabolically...until it shouId stop, but it curves back around towards the A end.

When it gets back to the A end....Curve that around. The WeebIe...has experienced a total of two minutes, and again it curves--

-Back around. It curves parabolically.
-Right.

It comes back around and it does this about 567 times.

When it finaIIy exits on the B end...it's traveled an odd number of forward and backward trips.

What is so special about 567?
Why is it about 567? Why isn't it exact?

-This is not empiricaI.
-Here, give me that.

I don't know why it's not exact. There's some sort of probabiIity there.

Every time it hits the B end there's a chance...a small chance it won't curve back around towards the A end.

And for some reason, it takes about 567 trips before it finally does.

It does have to exit, or else we wouldn't be abIe to see it afterwards.

Okay, let's take a look at this.

Twenty-two hours, 26 minutes.

-26 minutes.
-Even.

Enter at the B end. Exit at the B end.

-I just want you to see it the way I saw it.
-I am trying, okay?

Everything we're putting in that box comes ungrounded. And I don't mean grounded to the earth, I mean not tethered. We're blocking whatever keeps it moving forward, so they fIip-fIop. Inside the box, it's like a street, and both ends are cul-de-sacs. This isn't frame dragging or wormhole matching. It's basic mechanics and heat.
-This is not mechanics and heat.

-We can publish.
-Yeah, we can publish.

No, I mean we can really pubIish.

Aaron, the Weeble's stupid. It can't move.

Even if we were to put the Weeble in at point B...it's still going to bounce back and forth until it's kicked out at the B end. But if it were smart...it couId enter at the B end and exit at the A end before it flips back.

-You're talking about making a bigger one.

Freaking. Awesome. Film. Fingers crossed this energy source is real.

In a similar vein, Dian Fossey and Birut Galdikas would also be of interest. Especially with Gorillas in the Mist as a possible research "tool".

I anticipate in the future that lesbians will be able to have their partner's children through 'cloning'.

Interesting. There was a movie with Julie Bowen starring with this concept as a premise. Seems men were too aggressive to be allowed to continue in the species, so they decided to only allow women to survive. Decent movie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0193283/ - Last Man on Planet Earth

Well they did say it in a movie... And we all know that what we see in movies are real, don't we?

Of course, and the movies say short memory is not a big problem anyway.
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friskr.com - a Multi Search Engine

I think Agent Smith in "Matrix" gave a huge insight when he drawled - "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Smith) Perhaps biologists missed the wood for the trees when they classified humans as mammals. Perhaps we are better of being classified as viruses...

I wonder if anyone other than "The President" needs a proof of the serious shit we've led Earth to be in. In the documented human civilizational history, has the Earth's weather been ever as mercurial as it is now? Unprecedented heat waves in Europe and US, snowfwall in gulf, hugely erratic monsoon in Southeast Asia, and yes, a deluge of hurricanes in last couple of years! If the same trend persists, coupled with the anticipated oil and water wars, all the doomsday scenarios shown in so much nice detail by hollywood may soon be coming true, as we cross the tipping point of environmental change. Except that there may not really be an "American" next door to help America, (and Earth) out of the trouble.
The comment made by "Control Group" is bang on. I see the downfall of the human "civilization" starting sooner than later, if nothing is done right now. May be as early as a couple of centuries. Humans (or our gilled descendents :) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/) may well might rough it out for thousands of years to come, but civilzation as we know it, may soon be gone.

DiKKy Heartiez - Berlin, Norway

In a response to the U.S Armed Forces' new initiative to require Trusted Platform Modules to be standard in all new computers in order to better fight CYBERTERRORISM, the GNAA declares it will follow the initiative set by the U.S Army and do the same. President timecop of the GNAA said in a press conference in Gookyo, Japan this morning that "The war on CYBERTERRORISM is something we must take as seriously as Richard Stallman". This confirms the GNAA's new plans to become the most Secure provider of gay sex in CYBERSPACE, and beyond.

The Trusted Platform Modules will enable us to deliver AIDS free, HIV free, cancer free, poison free, battery acid free, radiation free, and most importantly juden-free and perfectly preserved Holy Gay Nigger Seed to our CYBER-Customers, while at the same time protecting them from Al Quaeda CYBERTERRORISM.

GNAA head of Internal Security, Mr supers, Kike, from Israel, commented in the same press conference that the Trusted Platform Module was originally developed in Israel, by jews and that he was very proud of what his fellow kikes could accomplish while under heavy fire from Hezbollah. He also added that "This is however nothing compared to the FACT that my fellow juden developed the Internet while being held captured in Auschwitz".

About U.S Army

The United States Army is the main supplier of bombs and grenades to the juden of Israel so they can kill and murder innocent cute arabic children and women wearing burkas. The U.S Army is also world known for its intervention in WW2, causing the defeat of the Third Free Reich and the liberation of thousands of judenschweine from happy camps all over Europe. The U.S Army has also killed lots of asian faggots in the 60's and 70's and also a small number of sandniggers in the 90's and in to the new millenium.

About Trusted Platform Module

The Trusted Platform Module started development in Israel by jews funded by the OSS in the year 2000. The project was a co-project between Jews and open source hippies and communists from all over the world. It was taken over by the Microsoft Corporation in the first quarter of 2000, as the jews and commies and faggots couldnt agree on anything and abandoned the project after only 4 days. Its current version varies a lot from the original OSS version.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.

madvirii - Afrociated Press, Nigeria. In what will go down as one of the largest inflation of niggernuts on this twisted zionist planet, GNAA art director JacksonBrown rotted the core of the Apple store early last week in front of a cumload of onlookers.

"So I goes to the Apple Sto' lookin' to mess shit up," JacksonBrown begins, still dehydrated from jerking off to the mp3 recording from the twit44 fagcast, "and Patrick Norton is a filthy liar, I did not have 20 windows open, and I sure as hell wasn't using vi." Brown has been pegged as a known hater of vi, the most Judenesque text editor in the long, near-sterile line of UNIX-like text editors.

"And for the records, hello.jpg was loaded 110 times in 15 minutes," Brown was quoted as saying. Apple tried to minimize their losses by fabricating details surrounding JacksonBrown's total annhiliation of their defenses. When asked about the show, Brown could only add, "it's boring, I know that...all I knew was they were going to be on my turf so I took advantage."

After viewing the glory of goatse, Patrick Norton literally could not see the light at the end of the tunnel, and furiously masturbated, and is still masturbating at this very moment. Apple has tried to downplay the incident by including goatse as the bootup splash screen in future versions of its amazingly inefficient failure of an operating system, in an attempt to make peace with the GNAA before facing total annhiliation.

About TWiT

TWiT (This Week in Tech) is a weekly fagcast showcasing Apple's latest failures in the world of technology. Featuring such personalities as "Blow" Jobs and Leo LaPorte, it is broadcast over the internet at www.lastmeasure.us.

About Apple

Apple Computer is the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members are Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve "Blow" Jobs and Steve "SuperElite(tm)" Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when "Blow" Jobs was reinstated. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? SUKI Profit(tm) model, and a 100% effort towards marketing towards black homosexuals. The two Steves got married, and eventually introduced Intel processors as a standard in Macs by the end of 2007.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your know

If Google can reverse the trend on some channels to move towards LARGE popups that move around and make noise on the bottom have of the screen DURING the actual show, completely ruining and interrupting it, than GREAT!

Those "popups" are called "swipes" and the little logo in the corner is called a "bug." Personally, I dislike both. If I were ever in a Stanley Kubrick* style complete control situation, I would forbid any additional content. That goes for bugs, swipes, and any alteration of the credits. (Everybody deserves that their name be legible.)

* Stanley Kubrick is known for maintaining total control over his later films including marketing and advertising

If Google can reverse the trend on some channels to move towards LARGE popups that move around and make noise on the bottom have of the screen DURING the actual show, completely ruining and interrupting it, than GREAT!

Those "popups" are called "swipes" and the little logo in the corner is called a "bug." Personally, I dislike both. If I were ever in a Stanley Kubrick* style complete control situation, I would forbid any additional content. That goes for bugs, swipes, and any alteration of the credits. (Everybody deserves that their name be legible.)

* Stanley Kubrick is known for maintaining total control over his later films including marketing and advertising

I mean that would be like having both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the same film!

My vote for a third party character would be Alex Kidd. He could start out the fight as being somewhat decent but as time goes on he would create a sucking vortex that no character could escape; just like his games!

On another note... Solid Snake is still allowed on a plane, right? What about his brother Liquid Snake?

The Ad comes from the 1990 movie Crazy People, starring Daryl Hannah.

Obviously they never saw "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

Farva: Gimme a litre o' cola. Dimpus Burger Guy: What?
Farva: [Annoyed] A litre o' cola.
Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Litrecola? Do we sell litrecola?
Thorny: Will you just order a large, Farva?
Farva: I don't want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola!
Dimpus Burger Guy: [to Farva] I don't know what that is!
Farva: [slowly starts shouting] Litre is French for...
[grabs burger kid by shirt]
Farva: ... give me my fuckin' cola before I break VOUS FUCKIN' LIP!

Heart supertroopers

When I first read the posting (in my mind anyways) the name of the book was purported to be: "In my humble opinion, we have an unjustified polemic in the world of mathematics, yet again. My background is tertiary level mathematics..." In my opinion this would have been a much more entertaining title. Along the lines of the full Dr. Strangelove title.

Why am I reminded of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/

As soon as Google stops releasing a new beta for everyone to go gaga over once a month, they will no longer hold the spotlight, and people will take them for granted.

Or... (drum roll please) ... they'll have to advertise.

Maybe they avoid advertising elsewhere because their customers might ask why they shouldn't advertise elsewhere too. And if they advertise on their own network, that would be pretty weird. So by attracting news, they create the effect of advertising in a non-conventional way.

It's pretty clear that advertising has for years been specializing into submarkets wherein people made money on their advertising schemes. This includes things like "selling t-shirts that have your logo on them" so that people not only advertise your product, but pay you for it. Today I saw a DVD for Snakes on a Plane in the store, before the show is released. The ad said you could have it (the ad) free if you bought another DVD. It made me laugh because until now people have been almost forcing ads on you at the start of their DVDs, and here they were separating it and then offering it as a "reward" for buying something else.

Well, ok, that makes sense. Advertising isn't about the technique or medium--it's about what the ultimate effect. And as long as people behave in complex ways, advertising will seek to exploit those complex behaviors.

Besides, it's not just advertising: It's also a lottery ticket for them, and it's arguably got hugely better odds. Venture Capital (VC) might expect to fund ten companies and have one hit. Google is its own VC, and in the spirit of doing everything big, and I wouldn't be surprised if they would be thrilled to get one win in 1000 projects funded--as long as that win is anywhere near as huge as the original.

Not to mention the number of competitors they discourage from entry to various markets by showing that the area is already being prowled.

It's all great fun as long as the cash flow holds, but having endured the fall of some very smart high tech companies before myself, I'll go out on a limb and say that what ultimately brings down Google will be described this way:

"It had grown so big that it forgot that money mattered and had ceased accounting. When this happened, it came to believe that the world idolized it and would follow it anywhere. The rest of the market did have to do accounting, though, and had problems not dictated by Google. So increasingly, over time, there was a gap between the reality of what was needed by commerce and what Google was selling, such that it was easier for competitors who were working on tighter budgets and thereby obliged to listen more closely to the market to fill the needs of customers than Google could. By then, Google had built a culture around telling people that it didn't matter if they did what the market asked and its employees simply didn't know how to react to the idea that they had to pay attention to and respond to the market. They were confused by the apparent (though not actual) paradox that they were offering things people wanted but didn't want to buy, just as a rich person might be confused as to why a homeless person would reject the offer of a brand new Cuisinart, completely free, to help him with those dinners he was panhandling to afford. Faced with the need to tighten the financial belt, Google chose only to cut back from 2000 projects to 1500, and continued to burn vital cash. Then again, grudgingly, when shown the cash was still not balancing, it elected to "Focus on 500 (of its best secondary projects)". Vanity could not tolerate that the free lunch was over (both literally and figuratively), nor could they sell the concept internally to their employees."

Or maybe we'll all be surprised--but not really--when Google builds an AI system named Forbin and it decides to shut down the other projects "for safety". I wonder if history will record that as a success or a failure. I suppose it depends n whether Google--er,--Forbin itself (the sentient entity, I mean) writes the history.

This sounds like a plot to sap our vitality by adding Flourine to impurify our sacred bodily fluids ^H^H^H^H^H transistors.
Oh, for those who have never seen it, the silly reference is from Dr. Strangeglove.

But do you really need an explosion to destroy a plane? How about burning it, in the middle of the Atlantic where the nearest airport is hours away? You can do that with a newspaper, which airlines supply to you, and a fire source, which could be two sticks rubbed together.

It is often the case that reading of the sciences is the critical thing, and a book chosen by a youngster is more likely to be read by the youngster.

plane full of snakes?

I'll see your Bruce WIllis and Pauly Shore, and raise you a Bruce Dern and a Maximilian Schell.

I'll see your Bruce WIllis and Pauly Shore, and raise you a Bruce Dern and a Maximilian Schell.

There was a UK reality show based around a bunch of people thinking they were off in to space. I wonder if this is the US version? You have been warned!

As you'd expect with a reality show, they all went a bit loopy pretty quickly. I do wonder what it is with the modern world that makes people flip out so badly under unusual conditions. If we had something like WW2 now I suspect everyone would just run around waving their arms mumbling 'wibble'. It just makes you appreciate what a level headed bunch our parents/grandparents were.

How about Ice T? He could hold his own and help Fox Mulder solve any 'mysterious probing' type situations.

How about Ice T? He could hold his own and help Fox Mulder solve any 'mysterious probing' type situations.

Wasn't this already tried in 1991? And wasn't the 1996 followup only slightly less disasterous?

Things will all go smoothly until Matthew McConaughey demands to know whether the candidates believe in God.

I also wonder what (if any) medical requirements they will have for the pretend crew. On the space shuttle one of the astronauts has to have an advanced medical license and they carry a first aid kit that would probably make your local ambulance company drool (I'm a rookie EMT so I'm very interested in this aspect).

This reminds me of the movie (Rocket Man?) where they had isolation testing on the ground and the main charector almost drove everyone else to madness by singing loudly and off key.

This is the real question.

For example: Do you think that the original Battlestar Galactica TV show constituted theft of the ideas in Star Wars? Did Lucas steal the plot of Kurusawa's Hidden Fortress?

The problem with your interpretation is that plot ideas, characters, and so on do not spring from a whole cloth out of the author's mind, unaided by the culture and society in which the author lives. James Joyce couldn't have written Ulysses were it not for Homer's Odyssey. How could schools of artistic expression spring up unless one artist was taking and expanding upon the ideas of others? Placing inordinate barriers on creativity ultimately thwarts economic growth as well as the vitality of a culture.

I don't have a problem with copyright. I do have a problem with the persistent belief that creative works are the same as tables or bicycles or computers. They are not. The Constitution created copyright as a spur to creativity, *not* as a means of equating the intellectual property inherent in a creative work with the real property in a plot of land. Copyright is an artificial, legal construct.

Copyright exists "To Promote the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts" not to serve as a perpetual income machine for writers and artists.

You have never watched Phone, have you?

The real point is that there are people out there who will never be good in a particular field no matter how much work they put into it!

And anyone who doesn't believe that should watch Rudy.

Punk'd? It's the owner of the site saying this. I really really doubt he fooled himself into posting this... Unless he had access to a timemachine or possibly a short-term memory eraser... Or he was tattooing himself with notes because he had no short-term memory at all.

The Englishman Who Landed On A Planet But Lifted-Off From a Pluton

I do not know if I remember correctly but in Orvell's 1984 there has been (and again: IIRC) "thought crime".

But it is not important how it is called. Important is the principle and whether and how it is applied in a society.

That being said, pedophile or not, if someone do something bad to my doughter I will either kill him or hurt him badly.

And here I am, maybe now I've became criminal by having a doughter and expressing my willingness to protect (and avenge, if necessary) her.

While on the one end, such draconian measures may scare some pedophiles (or terrorists), on the other hand they transform a lot of ordinary people (a lot of them parents) into suspects (or worse: criminals right away) without actualy eradicating all (or at least majority) of realy bad people. So, I hope that a lot of people, because they are patents, will at the end realize that and cease chasing ghosts (in the form of "preventing crime done by potential criminals" ala Minority Report) and concentrate on technique proven by time: to catch people who actualy realy did something bad and kick the hell out of them (proportionaly to the seriousness of what they did) so that:

1. they will have strong incentive not to do it again and
2. others too will be given example and incentive to not do it.

That being said, I should also emphasize that know, non-anonymous, concrete victims (or their relatives and friends) should be catching culprits (with the help of all the neighbours who want to help and also set the examle; and in coordinantion with elected officials). Not some electorate which is far too removed from the "ordinary" people and if it is not outright servings its our interests, at least it looks like it is from the point of view of "ordinary" people.

I'm not proposing anarchy and self-justice - I do believe in cooperation. But for me such laws (too vaugue, too draconian, too complex, too full of unspoken assumptions, ...) are indication, that those who wrote them are far too removed (either willingly or by some mistake) from those whom they should serve.

I could get behind that. Let me know if you find ones that look like Sam or Tabitha.

I could get behind that. Let me know if you find ones that look like Sam or Tabitha.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Civil disobedience is when you publicly violate the law and accept or even invite punishment for it. Using a file sharing network to share copyrighted materials is not civil disobedience; it is breaking the law and hoping not to get caught. Big difference.

>Really, nobody has a problem with buying music, just the price.

What does this mean? People don't have problems buying things that are free?

>The market is speaking, adopt or die. Laws fail when the fly in the face of what the majority want.

What makes you think that a majority of people (not just Slashdot users, the rest of society) want file sharing of copyrighted materials to be legal? What is preventing the majority from acting?

The article says it was oats

Space... oats? Space wheat? Corn? Space corn?

I'm just beginning to think that space oats isn't the answer.

...by uninstalling IE they've shown to everyone in orbit that finally this world is ready."

Maybe that's how Jeff Goldblum uploaded the virus to the mothership...

They therefore conclude that there must be MORE [deuterium] than what they expect, but in a place/form that is invisible.

Please, don't let it be in the form of deuterium ore.

But you didn't count on John Spartan being released from suspended animation to save us!

Damn! That's MY luggage! Is it funny?

Well, it is (sort-of) if you saw this movie.

Apparently, 'certifed ethical hacker' is an actual cert one can get. But I don't think I would the term 'hacker' to appear anywhere on my resume. Unless I was trying to get a job with some black hat pseudo legal firm...that'd been sweet.

I've never heard of any certification for ethical hackers before reading this article. What organization issues the cert? Once upon a tyme I read about the Model Railroad Club at MIT, the WOZ, and others and I wanted to be a hacker like them. Alas back then adjective "ethical" wasn't needed, but reporters and the mass media has bastardized the word. When I read where a reporter goes on about how hackers are bad I want to ask "so why are you a hacker?" Many people may not recall or know it but "hackers" is what reporters were once called. Though I'm not sure I think they are referred to as hackers in "Citizen Kane" made in 1941.

Oh, will the tragedy of number theft never end? Milton Sirotta's leaches^Wdescendants can kiss my untrademarked butt.

The kid was only nine years old when he "invented" the term. Along those lines, maybe I should trademark the word and concept "pootbutt" and "10^2001" in honor of my son and the year he was born.

The real issue in this case is political, not scientific or technological. (See how the concept of a "suitcase bomb" is made fun of at "Wag the Dog" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/). This is the british part in the leatest Israeli-Arab disturbance. Israelis took over the military part, Americans took over the diplomatic part, and the poor British had to settle for the PsycOPs, the psycological operations. They have to spread FUD to make killings of innocent civilians (more then 800 were the children only) go down easily on world public opinion's throats. Has it been succesfull? Not really. The ceasefire restored the old status. Shame on them for the poor peoples' lives and damages they inflicted.

That didn't work very well for Con Air, now did it?