...unless it turns out that it's actually NOT a US spy satellite, and in fact belongs to China. At which point your career prospects become veeery dubious.
I'd guess you lock the props horizontal and perform a water landing? Something that light has got to float. Hell, it could probably land on wet grass with no damage.
Faster than daylight is quite a trick.;) Good point about the latitude, at 45 degrees you only have to travel about 0.7 times as fast to keep up with sunlight. Also, remember that when a plane is taking off, the altitude gain can cause the sun to re-rise even if the forward motion of the plane would be too slow to produce such an effect on its own.
"I read it on a blog" does not in any way imply truth.
"I read it on many blogs" doesn't really make it much better. The first is plagiarism. The second, research. Capiche?;)
Oh ye gods... so basically this whole thing is !science. Why did they even bother? Oh, I know, because it's easier to make sensationalist statements when you deliberately avoid disproving them.
More importantly, did they mention what percentage of mice that weren't implanted with RFID tags but were still scanned with an RFID scanner as frequently got cancer? And anyway, research causes cancer in mice.
Yeah... A guy who is already under investigation is going to STEAL SOMETHING FROM THE POLICE???? Are you on crack? He didn't steal it. They gave it to him. And I'd imagine that you can change the number it reports its location to by changing the SIM or something.
Am I the only one that's annoyed by the Crusade Too Stop Bad Speelers and Jihad Too Correct There Misused Words? Of course you are! Everyone else obviously supports the Institute For Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want To Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.
So, now mod me flamebait and let's go on with our lives as long as we can. Sorry for the rant, but I'm really getting fed up. For every crappy thing in life you need some license, some test, some qualification, or at least you're liable if you turn out to be too stupid to operate it safely. But on the 'net... Why? Personally, I think you're 100% on target. Fifteen years ago, loss of internet connectivity was a nuisance at worst. Now, it could be the difference between your business turning a profit or folding. The 'net is central to many businesses, and if if an entire country can be taken offline, it'd be trivial to do it to, say, a rival corporation. Most banks are pushing their online banking systems for all they're worth - I can easily see a bank taking out a hit on their opposition's website, complete loss of online facilities could easily cost a few % market share.
I thought it was to piss off the virus writers. Apparently later versions had some text in the executable saying "It's skynet, morons, not netsky" or something.:P
And all administrative, software engineering, and other personal; including the janitor at night. And don't forget the social security of the firm. A simple "Hi, [Security Firm] here, we're doing an audit of your systems and [..bla bla stuff..] we're checking for insecure or easily crackable passwords, may I have yours?" is a hell of a lot quicker than cracking some 2048-bit public key.
Ahhh hah ha ha... what an awesome spoof of... wait.. WAIT.. *eyes fall out* OMFG THEY'RE SERIOUS!
So, the fact that some dude this one time opened a jar of peanut butter and it didn't have spontaneous new life forms in it is PROOF that evolution doesn't happen?
Good God! Should such a fellow exist, he'd be nauseated by such retarded ingenuousness.
*scoops most of brain out with a rusty spoon*
Guess what? Nope. Still sounds like it was thought up by the same person that did "My uncle is not a monkey. Therefore evolution doesn't exist." I know some people have semi-believable arguments against evolution (usually of the form "well explain XXX") - these people go so far to discredit such actual thinking debaters as to make it not funny.
Funny but true. Well, back in the day Netscape did used to take a while to render... but in the last 5 years I don't think I've been seriously irritated by the speed (or lack thereof) of any web browser I've used. So while snappier, more responsive software is always better, rendering speed is not the massive selling point that it used to be for browsers.
You drive on a road, you agree to stay under the speed limit and obey the rules of the road. If not, you are free to walk. Erm, I'm pretty sure there's no consent required wrt. road rules. That's because they're enforced by law. The crap on the back of a CD isn't, however. If I go to a CD shop and grab a CD off the shelves, without reading the case, go up to the counter and say "I'd like to buy this" they don't make you sign a form or anything of the sort. They say 'sure', take your money and give you the CD. It doesn't matter WHAT is written on the box, because you didn't agree to it. The only things you can't do with the contents of that CD are things verboten by your local copyright laws.
It's not like moray eels are an unknown species. I'd have thought SOME research into their basic biology would have been done, if only to classify them. And while they may not be as glam as sharks, they're still some of the biggest freakin' eels around, surely that's cause enough?
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...unless it turns out that it's actually NOT a US spy satellite, and in fact belongs to China. At which point your career prospects become veeery dubious.
Cuz if I were going to put a spy satellite up, I'd totally put a flag on it so they knew whose spy satellite it was.
The euphemism treadmill sucks.
If it didn't, there'd be a lot less single slashdotters... >.>
I seem to recall that she addressed one of the SIGGRAPH conventions, back around '01 or '02 I think it was.
;P
How many image processing and computer vision nerds' dreams were shattered that day? She was in her 60s!
I'd guess you lock the props horizontal and perform a water landing? Something that light has got to float. Hell, it could probably land on wet grass with no damage.
Faster than daylight is quite a trick. ;) Good point about the latitude, at 45 degrees you only have to travel about 0.7 times as fast to keep up with sunlight. Also, remember that when a plane is taking off, the altitude gain can cause the sun to re-rise even if the forward motion of the plane would be too slow to produce such an effect on its own.
Thank god SOMEONE got the reference. :P
One does not simply SSH into Mordor!
You're saying there isn't a zeroth article?
Oh and wow, the Firefox spell checker thinks 'zeroth' is a word. Score one for Asimov (or did he not coin it? Whoever it was then, colour me curious!)
"I read it on many blogs" doesn't really make it much better. The first is plagiarism. The second, research. Capiche?
Silicone != boobs.
Boobs = boobs. Silicone = !boobs, although can feel booblike.
Mmmmmmm booobs.
Oh ye gods... so basically this whole thing is !science. Why did they even bother? Oh, I know, because it's easier to make sensationalist statements when you deliberately avoid disproving them.
More importantly, did they mention what percentage of mice that weren't implanted with RFID tags but were still scanned with an RFID scanner as frequently got cancer? And anyway, research causes cancer in mice.
Where's the forum going to gestate? In a box?
I thought it was to piss off the virus writers. Apparently later versions had some text in the executable saying "It's skynet, morons, not netsky" or something. :P
Why in God's name would you search for such a thing in the first place? Unless your caution is simply the gender of the person with the goat...
:P
Of course, you could just mean 'with' as in 'next to', not as in 'getting with'. But this is the interweb, so I doubt it.
Ahhh hah ha ha... what an awesome spoof of... wait.. WAIT.. *eyes fall out* OMFG THEY'RE SERIOUS!
So, the fact that some dude this one time opened a jar of peanut butter and it didn't have spontaneous new life forms in it is PROOF that evolution doesn't happen?
Good God! Should such a fellow exist, he'd be nauseated by such retarded ingenuousness.
*scoops most of brain out with a rusty spoon*
Guess what? Nope. Still sounds like it was thought up by the same person that did "My uncle is not a monkey. Therefore evolution doesn't exist." I know some people have semi-believable arguments against evolution (usually of the form "well explain XXX") - these people go so far to discredit such actual thinking debaters as to make it not funny.
Funny but true. Well, back in the day Netscape did used to take a while to render... but in the last 5 years I don't think I've been seriously irritated by the speed (or lack thereof) of any web browser I've used. So while snappier, more responsive software is always better, rendering speed is not the massive selling point that it used to be for browsers.
So you're trying to tell me that, in the Kaled language, "exterminate" and "destroy" translate as "right" and "left"?
It's not like moray eels are an unknown species. I'd have thought SOME research into their basic biology would have been done, if only to classify them. And while they may not be as glam as sharks, they're still some of the biggest freakin' eels around, surely that's cause enough?