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Not quite a 3-letter domain, but this one is provably real: milk.com.

Here's a good story about the kind of trouble you can get into in Texas wearing a BSD shirt.

It was reprinted in The Complete FreeBSD and do you know why? So people would LAUGH at these uneducated rednecks, at the sheer absurdity that anyone could actually believe the mascot has anything to do with Satanism.

I mean, really... It's like believing Casper the Friendly Ghost is an endorsement of the occult!

http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/polytron.html

Why did they choose the Java language? Because they needed a safe, statically typed, garbage collected language that people had experience with and that there were tools for. There is little else out there that fits the bill (C# wasn't an option at the time they started).

Dan Bornstein, the designer of Dalvik, has been with Google since October 2005.
C# was standardized by ECMA (ECMA-334) in December 2001, updated to version 3 in June 2005; and by ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2003) in 2003, similarly updated in 2006.

Whatever the reasons for not choosing C# were, I doubt availability was one of them.

In truth, the NSA is hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to cryptography.

More likely an alien invasion.

Yep, and they also miss out the BSD Daemon, and Hexley the Platypus - which beat the corporate Windows and OS X logos any day. And lacking BSD, they miss the story of the two Texans reacting to the BSD daemon T-shirt, one of the best stories in BSD history.

Don't forget to wear your daemon shirt to the school.

Not counting this guy.

The real reason the astronauts didn't fly away is because they were wearing heavy boots.

I just hope he and Teri Smith Tyler are never allowed together; the resultant concretion of raving lunacy might go supernova and destroy the Earth.

Chopping up mice is old school -- this is how a real man prepares his mice.

It also contains this, which rules. Waterproof everything, now free with purchase of flying car.

Naw, more like this

http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/polytron.gif

Of course it will -- just scale up one of these.

You could use one of these (scroll down), for starters.

If you believe this guy, they've probably already done that and quite a bit more.

The bigger question is does this "Roswell Technology" all ready exist and is being held captive by our governments in the name of national security?

Yes.

That, and of course they were wearing the famous heavy boots.

Gravity generators? Why bother, why not just give them Heavy Boots to wear?

Well, since the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in theoretical maths, I'd say their capabilites are significantly greater than those of the Open Source/Free Software community, unless we have some little gray men of our own to help us out.

The National Security Agency is the largest employer of degreed mathematicians in the world. They are not stupid people.

Plus, thanks to the little gray men, they're 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory.

Well, they are about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory, so you just might be onto something.

Well, the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in theoretical maths.

Schneier obviously read this.

Or just go to this website or any of the other myriad barcode CGIs and print them out.

I even used to have a little barcode generator program for my graphing calculator. Pity that the pixel size was too big for the generated barcodes to be scannable directly from the screen.

AC post burried - best part (barcode generator)

Just scale up one of these bad boys, or pre-slice the human into chunks the blender can handle.

Reminds me of the old Heavy Boots Story...

http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/heavy_boots.html

Far out.

Humane and economical!

Nor should you drink any mouse shakes.

(And yeah, that's a real example.)

Here's my favorite example. I have five, soon to be six kids. I need this now!

It's already happened.

Only $5!!!

Well, the NSA is 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in maths theory.

You just have a strange way of expressing it I guess. I mean, if we were talking about tricycles here would you say "Don't you think we should teach our kids to walk first?"?

As for the ethicality, I don't see how anyone, anywhere, could ever see presenting scientific reality(DNA exists, you can do things with it) to a child as unethical. Sure a complex topic might confuse a child, but complexity may confuse an adult too, with a child you get more time to correct any misunderstandings. You also get a "compound interest" type effect. The more you understand, the more you can understand. And the earlier you start, the greater total comprehension you will achieve. So you're much better off teaching early, and not just letting the kid stay ignorant. Cause they won't just stay ignorant, they'll form their own misconceptions. This is how we end up with a populace that thinks astronauts didn't fly off the moon because they wore heavy boots.

Well, encryption devices were at one time (and may still be, for all I know) considered to be munitions under US law. The ATF has some interest in munitions, especially when they're not in the hands of the military.

Well, the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory.

I've wondered about this for years. In some circles they talk of the near mystical powers the NSA must have and how they must be like 20 years more advanced than the private sector.

You mean stuff like this, right?

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Let's see who can make the guy in the Honda go from 60 to 5mph the fastest!
30 secs = +100 points
20 secs = +200 points
10 secs = +500 points
5 secs = Dude! Where's your car?!

On an another note, it would be funny if the automatic doors at your local Walmart would cause these cars to slow down involuntarily every time they drive by the entrance.

Put it in one of these, add an appropriate amount of rum, and enjoy.

Typical of uneducated Canadians to think only their country has ever had the $2

Perhaps you missed this link that some AC was kind enough to post.
I'm Canadian and I knew that the USA has a few two dollar bills in circulation.

Bad troll! No biscuit!

A nice story about a man's misadventures trying to pass a $2 bill

Well, the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory.

More like 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in maths theory.

Reminds me of this

Bob: Hey Frank, you remember where the XSLT information is in this XML book?

Frank: Yea, it's in chapter 7... page 125 I believe.

Really, how is ANY different and how is this not (yet) illegal as well?

On another note... exactly how does this effect web developers/authors/etc in other countries? Will I never be allowed to go to Denmark if I deep link?