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Slashback: Games, Goats, Galileo
Make sure you slip this into the fine print of your consulting contracts. Adn writes "Newsbytes is reporting in a story that David McOwen, who was facing some pretty serious charges will be let go with a fine as against a much harsher fate. If utilizing so called "unused cycles" for the greater good is a crime (I know he was not charged for that per se... but bear with me here) then makes you consider uninstalling all those SETI@Home Screensavers doesnt it? Also a larger question...If the law (in these kinds of cases) operates on the 'intent' of the accused, what is the justification for even considering it a crime?"
Playing games builds your mind and your hand-eye coordination. Bill Kendrick writes: "The results are in for the SDL Game Contest held by No Starch Press, Linux Journal and Loki Games.
First place was awarded to LBreakout by Michael Speck. Second place went to Tower Toppler by Andreas Roever. My own game, Vectoroids just barely made third place over another asteroids-style game, Rock Dodgers by Paul Holt.
Congratulations! The full list of games is listed on No Starch's results page."
Guaranteed not to be your average Slashdot book review! Alex Chiu writes "Hello. This is alex chiu. I have written an online book at http://superiching.com Teaching people how to communicate with God using I-Ching. This online book is free for everyone to read. It's at least 5 times bigger than alexchiu.com. If interested, please release this news."
You may remember Alex from the interview we did with him a little while ago -- truly a unique individual.
Flying blind and a long way from home. Vertigo01 writes: "According to this article on CNN.com, galileo has encountered some technical problems on its flyby of Io and "for unknown reasons, went into safe mode" ... (sounds like my last Win98 install) ... flight engineers hope to restore normal operation for the duration of Galileo's life, but it looks like we won't get any more pictures of Io out of her."
Victoria's Secret probably won't put this on the box. FortKnox writes "Spider Silk is long known to be one of the strongest biological structure made (5 times stronger than steel by weight). Biologists have already genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk in their milk. Now, they have successfully extracted the protein and "spun" the silk. The next, and final step, is to mass produce the silk to be available commercially. Move over kevlar, here comes something better! I want to have the first biologically built house! I wonder how insulated spider silk is...."
They'll sue you for installing WindowsXP on company hardware. It wastes far more "unused" cycles than a mere distributed.net challange...
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
If you know somebody is going to die, then why don't you give him an immortality device. Hmm, buf if you give him that, he won't die anymore, your prediction becomes fraud and the universe will then collapse into a singularity with infinite impropability.
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If code was hard to write, it should be hard to read
Heh. I initially read superiching.com as superitching.com, and I was just wondering what the market was for prank itching powder e-commerce.
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Hmmm... now that I think about it... (goes off to register superitching.com)
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Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
At least Super I-Ching doesn't charge by the minute. Unfortunately, I never seem to get through to God - I always seem to reach some joker named Gord, and he's none too happy about the bad listing in the directory.
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Alex is one fuckin' awesome web designer, but I know at least one of his tricks: How to get those awesome flaming gifs. Check it out at http://www.flamingtext.com/ !
``The spiders unfortunately are territorial carnivores. They eat each other, and this has caused them to resist all forms of domestication,'' Turner said.
I can see it now, "Heel boy, now sit, stand. Now spin some silk into a shirt for me!"
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Oh bother.
i can't wait to see the bullet proof spider silk bra in the local Contrampo or Wet Seal.
Bertha shouldn't be-e-e-e! Bertha shouldn't be-e-e-e!
Imagine what would happen if a goat fed her offsprings. The silk could end up passing through through them, creating the first ever animal made leash! Since that would count as tool usage, would that mean that we'd have species competition? :)
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Why don't you include some more kooks and kook science for us. I'm sure Ludwig Plutonium is eager for an interview.
Means that, at 100km high, perhaps one of those bigger volcanos it was going to look at took offense?
Goat cheese is pretty tasty. Although this milk might make better string cheese.
You mean, as opposed to all the wooden houses that we currently live in, all produced from 100% inorganic trees?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
"I have written an online book at http://superiching.com Teaching people how to communicate with God using I-Ching. "
Great, now God's going to get slashdotted.
speak for yourself, I still gag on spider silk too.
ratty.
One scam to... oh nevermind.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I can see it now. There's going to be some horrible accident, and the genetic alterations will get out of control, and then we'll have eight-limbed goats clambering all over our metropolisesisesesises. Massive got-webs woven from one building to another! Enormous throbbing goat egg-sacks, from whence come countless tiny goat-spiders which will invade everything and everywhere!
There will be all kinds, just like with spiders! We'll have daedly black-widow goats, which kill with a single bite! Wolf-goats (there's an irony!) that stalk about on their massive hairy legs! Jumping goats! Goats that, you know, dig those little holes with the fake top thingies and jumpout at their prey... maybe they'll use sewers.
The web-spinning goats will feast on large birds - the raptor population will be decimated. Mexico and Canada would dig massive moats to keep them in the States, and Britain will patrol our waters and airspace to preserve the quarantine, but the goats will weave parachute thingies and fly across the waters on the winds.
The goatspiders will soon cover the entire planet. They will adapt to every environment, forcing humanity into underground fortresses. The goatspiders will improve upon our technology and colonize the solar system, being contacted by the Culture, who don't even notice humanity. Soon our kind will be nothing more than few highly isolated communities deep beneath the planet's surface. At that point, it's only a matter of time before humanity's flame is exitnguished entirely.
But we'll have lots of really comfortable lingerie!
Karma: T-rexcellent.
Big disadvantage with this, though, is that the thinner it gets, the trickier it is to get into your quickdraw. I had length-matched 'draws with BD 'hotwire' krabs on them in the crux section so I wouldn't fumble the clip. A 3mm spider-silk rope wuld be very tricky to clip with - like using prussik cord. perhaps you could stiffen a section in the manner of the Beal program ropes to make clipping easier and the sheath more durable?
Damn.
Babelfish just looks at me funny when I feed it this.
--Blair
the phrase:
`That's where the goats come in'
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"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley