They'd also need retinal scans for anyone who opens the fridge so that you could track what little bugger left that mostly empty juice container in there......then you could peg him with the Internet-enabled toaster.
Respect and common decency towards your fellow human being is just plain wrong. Competition is what it's all about. Get as much as you can for as little as you can.:P
What's interesting about Linux and what Windows can not copy currently is its many flavors. As long as a system provides a standard outside and many varieties of internal workings, it will be hard to hack. The most secure system, like the population of creatures least likely to die out, is one that is the most varied.
This, of course, comes with its set of "incompatibility" headaches. So I, of course, believe in standardization. But even strict standardization governs the format of the input or output of a program or set of programs, not necessarily the inner workings, usually. That is one of the most powerful things about open source software. You can change it and no one can predict how you will change it. And no one can really stop you.
Well, I think you're right about systems that are "completely secure". They do so by brute force, kinda. Completely cutting off communication somewhere or bogging down the system with encrypting/decrypting all the time (picking extereme cases here, of course).
Something more selective, something that thinks and adapts would not only be easier to work around, but also prevent unexpected threats.
Leave the network admin to the strategy and the computer programs to the details:)
It'd be a disturbing-looking machine with all that flesh straining against metal parts, I think. Plus, if you have muscle-powered batteries, they would start being attacked by pathogens. I'm not sure all that would have market appeal.
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You can tell it's by Mad magazine because it's not even remotely funny or clever.
One day they will come down Mount Nukem, ala Moses, and present the Duke commandments. ...but we will be blasphamously worshipping an Unreal Gold god.
Yeah, this whole connectivity thing is only going half-way. It's more of a nuisance than a help at this point.
When the toast is done, the toaster should just put it on a plate for you.
Also, when the wash is done, the dryer should take it, dry it, fold it and put it in your closet or whatever.
No need for computer monitoring...
They'd also need retinal scans for anyone who opens the fridge so that you could track what little bugger left that mostly empty juice container in there... ...then you could peg him with the Internet-enabled toaster.
Iron-fisted political power. All hail our infrared galaxy overlords!
Might be a bit too much latency, no?
But, cap'n, she can't take no more!
American Mecha-Monkey Marines, the most potent weapon in the fight against terrorism!
"Run! They've mastered tool use!"
Or, for the grossly negligent parent:
/heroin
+1 Pizza Skill!
You are taken to a special chat room where you are suddenly embroiled in a heated roundtable discussion on the quality of pizza.
They should just have an actual Pizza Hut in the game.
Respect and common decency towards your fellow human being is just plain wrong. Competition is what it's all about. Get as much as you can for as little as you can. :P
Breadbowl Soup Nation, represent! :P
What's interesting about Linux and what Windows can not copy currently is its many flavors. As long as a system provides a standard outside and many varieties of internal workings, it will be hard to hack. The most secure system, like the population of creatures least likely to die out, is one that is the most varied.
This, of course, comes with its set of "incompatibility" headaches. So I, of course, believe in standardization. But even strict standardization governs the format of the input or output of a program or set of programs, not necessarily the inner workings, usually. That is one of the most powerful things about open source software. You can change it and no one can predict how you will change it. And no one can really stop you.
Well, I think you're right about systems that are "completely secure". They do so by brute force, kinda. Completely cutting off communication somewhere or bogging down the system with encrypting/decrypting all the time (picking extereme cases here, of course).
:)
Something more selective, something that thinks and adapts would not only be easier to work around, but also prevent unexpected threats.
Leave the network admin to the strategy and the computer programs to the details
Bah. Biological evolution is so unpredictable and slow.
Evolve the computer, not the man. That's the simplest solution.
One day, my computer will also be my network administrator and it _will_ be better at it than I could ever be. *dreams of a better tomorrow*
Well, there's a certain amount of capacity in each creature to adapt, that's true. And, certainly, in a human being.
But, still, it's the simplest and easiest solution that always gets selected... and everyone turning into computer experts isn't a simple solution.
That's not really how evolution works. Not unless these Windows users die or become sterile due to lack of security...
If anything, it works the opposite way, with people who don't care to get too deeply into computers and technical stuff having far more sex.
You probably chose the "scenic route" option. ;)
Topography? What, are you gonna use the data to fire a cruise missle?
All of Slashdot is one big tin foil factory. Hehe.
It'd be a disturbing-looking machine with all that flesh straining against metal parts, I think. Plus, if you have muscle-powered batteries, they would start being attacked by pathogens. I'm not sure all that would have market appeal.
You also need to submerge them in water for that to work, I believe. Osmosis and all that jazz.
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