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Then why was there so much bickering on the Enterprise? McCoy and Spock regularly argued with each other over petty differences,

They both clearly enjoyed it. Spock never complained. As the series progressed into the movies, their relationship was revealed as friendship and their rivalry good-natured.

Mr. Scott has admitted he LIED regularly to his own Captain,

Shock, amazement. It's normal to manage expectations. What if your estimates go badly, sadly awry? The estimates on fixed-rate auto repair jobs have some fudge factor in them, too.

Kirk himself was a reckless and arrogant narcissist with a sex addiction problem

While I recently read an article which disagrees with you on that point, even if you accept it as a given, he also always carried the day. That's the decider, right?

Wait a second...is TOS supposed to be a Genius level then?

Essentially, yes. Everyone on the Enterprise in TOS is from the top of their class, or the equivalent. That generally remains the formula throughout the series; you can probably count on one hand the number of protagonists who are described as a discipline problem, and most of them were on Voyager.

Haven't you been reading the LKML? There is a bug in the 3.x kernel code that makes booting Linux on dogs fail, and Linus dropped support.

I personally would go for a security Badger, preferably a dead one so as not to have to feed it. The old install method found here can still be adapted to a modern kernel and userland with a few easy compiles, with several open source drivers available for modern networking hardware as well.

Badgers are also much more vicious than non specialized dogs.

As there are already instructions on the internet how to install Linux on a dead badger, I think it would be perfectly feasible ... oh, well, I mean, it would be interesting to see Linux installed on live breasts!

This guy's got it running on a dead badger.

I'd say this is pretty weird. Had to shoot it in the head to turn it off though.

http://www.strangehorizons.com...

Steganography, not stenography.

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20081110/crispin-a.shtml

They aren't ready for prime time, but the day is coming.

Or have you never heard of a Predator Drone firing a Hellfire missile?

Wait, there's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuH_X3lFMU

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuH_X3lFMU

Yea, they look silly today, but then so did the first tanks and airplanes in 1914.

It won't happen in 5 years, but it will happen within 50 years. Give or take...

This is nothing new—Linux has long since successfully been ported to a dead badger.

I'd start my research here. :-)

Polish up your BASH-fu, it may come in handy...

Heh, if you think that is vile, try reading Bacigalupi's 'People of Sand and Slag'. He's a brilliant writer, but he always gets under my skin and makes me sad for human nature. For a real fun treat, read Vicker's 'The Featherless Chicken'. http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20051024/featherless-f.shtml

What's a "Blackberry Bold 9700"? Is this some new Android phone I haven't heard of, or are you installing Android on a dead badger?

To provide out an ever-faithful computer analogy, he basically installed Gentoo on some Mycoplasma genitalium. It wasn't that exciting

I dunno, even *that* doesn't sound particularly exciting given that someone already managed to
install VuDu Linux on a dead badger several years ago.

But with the badger, at least you can run Linux on it!

>You can basically stick a DVD drive in a badger and get its best possible picture out the other end.

Obligatory badger-related link:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

Here's an interesting link about many of the nuclear propulsion systems over the years: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040112/nuclear.shtml

Ignorant prick. Since this is news for nerds (think Linux and everything), dead badgers indeed do matter.

I'd run gentoo on it but I run gentoo on everything, including my dead badger ( http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml ) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml

Imagine just a few hundred thousand different ips associated with the query "child bestiality porn" entered into the logs each day.

Hmmm...Sounds like the perfect job for a botnet, or three....
*grabs Windows install cd*

What? A Beowolf Cluster of badgers?!?!!!!!?

That's going to require lots of zombies....
Hmmmmmm...Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notesv

[...]Step 8: Invocation/boot procedures. Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked. Turn off all cell phones and pagers, and cease using all other unapproved electronic devices. Using the badger's blood, smear a foot-wide pentagram around its body. Place origami code-badger at the top point of pentagram, and light paper while making the boot incantation:

                Suse vivo vixi victum reduco is ea id creatura absit decessus a facultas Linux! Dev root, dev root!
        *
            The paper should burn with green flames. Black or gray means the herbs were improperly prepared. Purple flames indicate kernel panic; douse the flames with the bucket of holy water and abandon installation site immediately. Seek shelter at the nearest church or other consecrated area. You may need to enlist the assistance of an exorcist if you cannot reach shelter in time.
        *
            When you produce green smoke, it should flow over the badger and into its mouth and nose. The badger will awaken as a Linux-powered zombie. Enjoy your new undead badger.
Common Problems
        *
            Reanimation puts most creatures in a foul mood, and the test badger woke up murderously angry, requiring a hasty launch of FleshGolem to get the beast under control. It is highly recommended to have the computer close at hand during the incantation.
        *
            If the badger isn't responding correctly, you may need to make some configuration adjustments via Telnet; instructions are in the VüDü manual.
        *
            If the badger does not respond at all to the boot incantation, call Twisted Faces' tech support. Make sure to try all other troubleshooting options first. After two free calls, tech support will cost you an arm and a leg . . . and they'll only accept fresh, gangrene-free limbs.

Is there anything Linux can't do?!?1 *eleventy one* 11!?

Note:
my emphasis in quote above

That's too easy. How about Linux on a dead badger?

People have already installed Linux on badgers.

And badgers suddenly get the desire for freezing cold weather and doing strange belly movements!!

People have already installed Linux on badgers.

I thought you were going to link to this.

From the Strange Horizons website, oldie but still a goodie: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050606/hunter-1-a.shtml. It comes in 2 parts and there is a link to it at the end of the article. Also, while you're there, this is my favourite (off-topic) article: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml.

From the Strange Horizons website, oldie but still a goodie: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050606/hunter-1-a.shtml. It comes in 2 parts and there is a link to it at the end of the article. Also, while you're there, this is my favourite (off-topic) article: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml.

Not sure about the squirrels, but others have great success putting Linux on dead badgers. That may be cross-compilable to squirrels, but you'd definitely need the memory stick version, just from space concerns.

but you can install linux on a dead badger! http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

These techniques should work-- provided the only data in the files that are being compared is the image data. If other data has been overlaid on an image by steganography, then that is likely to confuse any attempt to identify the image with the greatest fidelity to the original.

I can't think of any way to assess how often steganography is currently being used on the web. Its use is growing; the number of downloads of steganographic software is increasing. There is software available that can test for the presence of a steganographic overlay in a suspected jpeg file with some reliability. But if the problem is determining whether one of the 250 snapshots taken at the Company Picnic and being uploaded to Flikr is also loaded with the recipe for the Company's Secret Sauce... I don't think there is any effective way to do that kind of screening.

Is Original Poster actually looking for a way to bulk scan for the use of steganography? It seems to me that this an emerging problem in corporate espionage.

Get badgers coding on a linux terminal installed on a dead badger.. that would be a neat trick!

Amateurs!

I have installed Debian Zombie on my dead badger: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

...any badgers where you are? if so you could use this howto to get a real rugged down linux box: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

He might be burned for linuxcraft if they find the dead badger he installed VüDü Linux on.

This reminds me of The Machine , by Joey Comeau. It's a short story about a world where a historian has made a machine which records the position of every molecule on earth, continuously. One can go back and view historical events. It gets awkwardly recursive, though, when you go back to view times when you were viewing previous times.

Suppose, for instance, that you are trying to put together that thing you just took apart, and a spring flies off. You can't find it, so you rewind to see whether it flew off to the left or the right. At that point, though, you were looking at the video -- which was playing backwards -- of yourself taking the thing apart in the first place! How confusing could it get?

Interesting. I didn't know that you could get the three digest-format magazines electronically.

But even without including those, there are quite a few electronic-only magazines that pay professional rates of $.05/word or more. The Science Fiction Writers of America maintains a list of approved pro markets. The main criterion is that they have to pay 5 cents a word, but they also won't list them unless they have a regular publication schedule and a decent circulation. The following is a list of pro markets for SF (not fantasy or horror) short stories, omitting publications whose main focus isn't fiction:

1. Asimov's (print)
2. Analog (print)
3. F&SF (print)
4. Baen's Universe (electronic only)
5. Strange Horizons (electronic only)
6. Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (electronic only)
7. Chizine (electronic only)
8. Subterranean Magazine (electronic only)

I don't think there's any big difference in quality between the electronic and print markets. I write SF, and the list of magazines that I've managed to sell to is about evenly distributed between the print and electronic markets. The main differences aren't differences between electronic and print, they're differences in style. JBU specializes in action-adventure and military SF. Asimov's does mostly character-based SF. Strange Horizons publishes a lot of fiction that isn't as commercially oriented. There are also lots of differences in terms of business model. JBU is electronic, with a subscription model; they let you read the first half of each story without a subscription, but you have to pony up to read the rest. Strange Horizons is a nonprofit foundation, free to read online. Card's won't let you read anything without a subscription.

"If your cat mittens died, its dead, you grieve, and you get a new pet. You don't go around trying to reanimate your dead cat do you? \"

No, wrong answer....Turn in your geek card at the door on the way out.

The true geek would just install Linux on the dead cat, using this protocol. (note: you may have to hack a script or two due to the differences between a dead cat and a dead badger...YMMV)

I'm more of a fan of the laser launcher concept myself. Problem is, it takes a lot of energy to make one of these work right, so we're probably looking at a couple geosync power sats feeding microwaves to the site. Talk about bootstrapping. Development costs would be a helluva lot lower than 'magic materials' to build a loop or a fountain, I'd think, and if something screwed up, you've still got a nice shirtsleeve environment to work on...

China did it: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060102/surfing-hell-a.shtml

I did see an article once about installing Linux on a dead badger. Where was it? Oh, there it is. Very funny.

"You could bring a dead badger, but they'll get you for importing unauthorized meat."

And yes, it even runs Linux!!!

How to install Linux on a dead badger:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

Just build the thing in space! You get 1/2 hour down time once a year.

From Google-fu with Space Based Solar Power
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/ssp-03b.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_satellite

Problem is we'll need a space fountain to put it up there.

I prefer badgers... http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

That's nothing. I've seen it installed on a dead badger.

A variation on the Dead Badger Linux instructions would probably work for getting Linux running on a carnivorous plant. The real question is... does this count as green computing?

No, the first manned missions landed on land.

Linux on the Toaster Oven? Is that anything like Linux on a dead badger?

Egads!.....You FOOL!!
What a can of worms you you have burst open here.!
The world may implode! We are DOOMED!

*obligatory*

'I was just upgrading to KDE 4.0, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia/N.Korea/USA,a Beowulf Cluster of e-mails will run your Vista on *nix', even on a dead badger http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml, and of course...CowboyNeal said:

"....'Daddy!'
Daddy?
DADDY!
Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters!."http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/
    (very bad paraphrase from the movie : 'Big Jake'-John Wayne, and the Dog...in case this gets fsck'ed somehow)'

Ahh! I'm shocked at what has transpired here!

"does it run on Vista?" Uhmmmm....not sure, but I'll give you a running start of 20 seconds, and if you can reach your Vista before my 50 cal. 'reaches out and touches someone', then by all means run it on towards the Vista.

*have penguins, will travel...with RPG's*

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

HASTOL stands for Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch. This was studied by NASA. We currently have a hard time with a winged craft that can make it to orbit. Space elevators also require "Unobtanium" with unattainably high tensile strengths. But if we combine the two, we get something which is both technically feasible and capable of dirt-cheap earth to orbit. Basically, have an aircraft capable of very high altitude, and about half orbital velocity rendevous with a rotating tether (Rotovator) that can take a cargo the rest of the way to orbit.

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Actually, Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com/), which published Benjamin Rosenbaum's Hugo nominee short story, is an excellent online weekly magazine - not a print journal. They even pay pro rates for fiction and poetry authors, and have published a new issue every week for seven years - not a small accomplishment. So, while most of the nominees (for short fiction, at least) are still from traditional sources, it's nice that venues like Strange Horizons are getting some recognition as well.

Absolutely not!

It was in fact the invention of running Linux on a dead badger, in 2004, that introduced the Web 2.0 age!

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badge r.shtml