So it's essentially a throttle? You can use however little power you have time for? So my netbook can render a big Blender animation on a single battery charge, I'd just have to wait for a few weeks? Sounds very useful indeed.
Agreed, although the one's I've met (about six of them on Embassy duty in Kathmandu c.1995) wouldn't enjoy it any more than they would enjoy killing an opposing soldier. They'd just do what they were ordered to and get on with it.
Good idea, but to nitpick many of these services are now insisting on your real name and details when you sign up. Yes, you can put fake details on, but try explaining it to the boss when your account is deleted for breaking the T&C. I use a fake Facebook account for work purposes, but I'm self employed so I can't get fired if it gets taken down, I just make another. If my employer insisted on me handing over my personal data to a third party I'd simply refuse outside of work bio, email and phone number. Facebook and the like collect a LOT more data than that, including people contacting me on non-work matters - you can tell them not to because it's your work account, but your employer (in the UK at least) isn't allowed to view incoming messages like that, let alone a third party (court orders aside).
That did cross my mind, the best I can think of is to go for an arm, and from what I've heard of modern assault rifles you'd probably lose the arm entirely?
My first act as President of the United States will to be shot. That’s right, SHOT. With a high-powered assault rifle. Immediately after taking the oath of office, I will be escorted about twenty yards away and be shot publicly in a non-lethal area of my body by a highly trained Navy SEAL sniper. It will hurt like fuck. Why would I do this? Because I will now be commander-in-chief of the armed forces. This means that during my term I will probably have to make some tough decisions affecting the survival of other men. And as commander-in-chief, I shouldn’t expect anyone in our military to do anything I’m not willing to do myself. That includes getting shot. Me being shot will be broadcast live world-wide via satellite, with no bleeping out of the incredible string of curse words I will undoubtably let fly with. I will be required to walk/limp/crawl on my own power a minimum of 50 yards through the mud to an ambulance that will take me away to patch me up. If I can’t make it on my own, I’m not tough enough to be your President.
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Hey, if there's open source comedy out there why bother bootstrapping your own gags?
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To write that post you had to have a bunch of silicon doped to recreate basic logic gates, a kernal to pass it instructions, an OS to let you interact with the kernal, a browser to connect it to a worldwide network and so on. This is cheating. Real Slashdotters use a butterfly.
So the trick is to encrypt stuff that would lead to a >2 year sentence, then you're essentially in profit. Yeah, that sounds like progress to me. What would happen if you encrypted a random pseudoencrypted string and then gave them the password I wonder?
In the UK we have clockwise roundabouts because we drive on the left. I fail to see why the rotation (either way, left or right hand drive) would feel "foreign". This isn't your usual snarky Slashdot reply, I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean. As somebody who's "done" roundabouts since birth and driven them from age 17 I really don't get what you mean.
You mean in PRECISELY the same way that temporary traffic lights have worked for decades? A motion sensor on the light picks up cars a hundred metres away and works the same system? And it doesn't require new hardware in cars, RF communication, or professors. It's there, it works, you're welcome.
[wild theorising]
There's a lag between the bad applications of a technology and the widespread knowledge of that technology nullifying it's usage. For example, if vaccines had been covered up then they'd have made a great weapon, just vaccinate your soldiers and send them in with carriers of whatever bug you've chosen. However, as soon as vaccines are widely available this stops working.
[/wild theorising]
Given the current debates about publishing weaponisable biotechnology this would suggest that ALL technologies should be open sourced, worldwide, as soon as possible.
That's OK, don't worry. I get some psychedelic meringue things from the same sort of organisation, and I can't stand them. I think the sushi was a random false positive.
The ironic thing is that if I search for a company it's generally because they've screwed up and I need to find out how to fix it, so most of the ads I get are for companies I've already decided I'm not going to spend money with again (I'm looking at you EA). So my ads seem to be custom designed to be of no interest to me, which saves me quite a lot of time in glancing at them.
Eh? In the UK at least apple juice is the fluid you get when you squeeze an apple. It's considered healthy. Sure, you can add apple flavouring and sugar to water, and that's not healthy, but it's not apple juice either, it's an apple flavoured soft drink. It's like saying milk isn't healthy because you drink Krusty-Partially-Gelatinated-Non-Dairy-Gum-Based-Beverage.
You don't need FTL or extended lifespans, special relativity is your friend! The subjective flight time for the crew decreases the closer they get to the speed of light, and you can get as close as you like if you have enough thrust. Take a 100 light year journey - here's the time the crew will experience at various velocities (as a % of the speed of light):
I love 1943, it's one of the best computer games ever written in my opinion (up there with E.L.I.T.E in my book), and BC2 was pretty damned good, the only patch I downloaded was a couple of meg, and that was the Vietnam material. There's the irony....the Vietnam material was clearly on the disc, the download was simply something to activate it. That's sensible, hell, I'd go so far as to say clever.
Good point, but the artist is allowed to sell the rights to a second party within their lifetime. It's called a record deal. Until recently (the advent of broadband essentially) that was the only way an artist could make significant amounts of money from recording rather than live performance.
I had a go at this once - within the realistic boundaries of human hearing and western musical composition, and using Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" as the benchmark for the longest son allowed, we have approximately 10^1643 times the current age of the universe before it runs out. (Wildly hand wavy figure, it's just a Fermi problem) The Day The Music Dies
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According to I Write Like you're H.P. Lovecraft. Ha, take that!
I, for one, welcome our 20 anonymous overlords...
"If my employer..." was a hypothetical, but thanks for the tip!
So it's essentially a throttle? You can use however little power you have time for? So my netbook can render a big Blender animation on a single battery charge, I'd just have to wait for a few weeks? Sounds very useful indeed.
Agreed, although the one's I've met (about six of them on Embassy duty in Kathmandu c.1995) wouldn't enjoy it any more than they would enjoy killing an opposing soldier. They'd just do what they were ordered to and get on with it.
Good idea, but to nitpick many of these services are now insisting on your real name and details when you sign up. Yes, you can put fake details on, but try explaining it to the boss when your account is deleted for breaking the T&C. I use a fake Facebook account for work purposes, but I'm self employed so I can't get fired if it gets taken down, I just make another. If my employer insisted on me handing over my personal data to a third party I'd simply refuse outside of work bio, email and phone number. Facebook and the like collect a LOT more data than that, including people contacting me on non-work matters - you can tell them not to because it's your work account, but your employer (in the UK at least) isn't allowed to view incoming messages like that, let alone a third party (court orders aside).
That did cross my mind, the best I can think of is to go for an arm, and from what I've heard of modern assault rifles you'd probably lose the arm entirely?
Hey, if there's open source comedy out there why bother bootstrapping your own gags?
To write that post you had to have a bunch of silicon doped to recreate basic logic gates, a kernal to pass it instructions, an OS to let you interact with the kernal, a browser to connect it to a worldwide network and so on. This is cheating. Real Slashdotters use a butterfly.
So the trick is to encrypt stuff that would lead to a >2 year sentence, then you're essentially in profit. Yeah, that sounds like progress to me. What would happen if you encrypted a random pseudoencrypted string and then gave them the password I wonder?
In the UK we have clockwise roundabouts because we drive on the left. I fail to see why the rotation (either way, left or right hand drive) would feel "foreign". This isn't your usual snarky Slashdot reply, I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean. As somebody who's "done" roundabouts since birth and driven them from age 17 I really don't get what you mean.
You mean in PRECISELY the same way that temporary traffic lights have worked for decades? A motion sensor on the light picks up cars a hundred metres away and works the same system? And it doesn't require new hardware in cars, RF communication, or professors. It's there, it works, you're welcome.
Well if you're not prepared to buy a microscope so you can appreciate it then it's your loss, sucker!
[wild theorising]
There's a lag between the bad applications of a technology and the widespread knowledge of that technology nullifying it's usage. For example, if vaccines had been covered up then they'd have made a great weapon, just vaccinate your soldiers and send them in with carriers of whatever bug you've chosen. However, as soon as vaccines are widely available this stops working.
[/wild theorising]
Given the current debates about publishing weaponisable biotechnology this would suggest that ALL technologies should be open sourced, worldwide, as soon as possible.
That's OK, don't worry. I get some psychedelic meringue things from the same sort of organisation, and I can't stand them. I think the sushi was a random false positive.
The ironic thing is that if I search for a company it's generally because they've screwed up and I need to find out how to fix it, so most of the ads I get are for companies I've already decided I'm not going to spend money with again (I'm looking at you EA). So my ads seem to be custom designed to be of no interest to me, which saves me quite a lot of time in glancing at them.
"many tools can be used for malevolent purposes, does that mean we shouldn't have them around for the good purposes?"
Not at all, but it's important to be aware of the malevolent purposes. It's important to consider all the implications of new technologies.
Old gag:
Q: What do you get if you cross an octopus with a monkey?
A: An immediate cessation of funding and a stern rebuke from the ethics committee.
You have to wonder about the other applications of this technology - targeting specific genetic groups with a vaccine or even a weapon for example.
"The vast majority if store clerks wouldn't be able to round up or down to the nearest nickel."
They would, however, be able to spell "of" properly.
Eh? In the UK at least apple juice is the fluid you get when you squeeze an apple. It's considered healthy. Sure, you can add apple flavouring and sugar to water, and that's not healthy, but it's not apple juice either, it's an apple flavoured soft drink. It's like saying milk isn't healthy because you drink Krusty-Partially-Gelatinated-Non-Dairy-Gum-Based-Beverage.
You don't need FTL or extended lifespans, special relativity is your friend! The subjective flight time for the crew decreases the closer they get to the speed of light, and you can get as close as you like if you have enough thrust. Take a 100 light year journey - here's the time the crew will experience at various velocities (as a % of the speed of light):
99% - 14 yrs 99.9% - 4.5 yrs 99.99% - 1.4yrs 99.99999% - 16 days
Can you rename the folders?
I love 1943, it's one of the best computer games ever written in my opinion (up there with E.L.I.T.E in my book), and BC2 was pretty damned good, the only patch I downloaded was a couple of meg, and that was the Vietnam material. There's the irony....the Vietnam material was clearly on the disc, the download was simply something to activate it. That's sensible, hell, I'd go so far as to say clever.
Good point, but the artist is allowed to sell the rights to a second party within their lifetime. It's called a record deal. Until recently (the advent of broadband essentially) that was the only way an artist could make significant amounts of money from recording rather than live performance.
I had a go at this once - within the realistic boundaries of human hearing and western musical composition, and using Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" as the benchmark for the longest son allowed, we have approximately 10^1643 times the current age of the universe before it runs out. (Wildly hand wavy figure, it's just a Fermi problem)
The Day The Music Dies