It's a fancy toaster, guys, get over yourselves. It's like having a symbiotic relationship with a swiss army knife.
After extensive investigation we've discovered that the symbiotic relationship with the toaster is only slightly painful, as long as the toaster is turned off. No results with the swiss army knife for lack of voluntaries.
I do wonder what their 'final aim' really is. Colonisation of mars? Or is all of this just prep work so we're ready when (if) we eventually make a breakthrough to interstellar travel? I think it's more of a "defensive stance". They are keeping the space travel technology on a reasonable level to be able to react quickly if another country suddenly reveals a huge breakthrough.
If China suddenly starts to prepare a Mars colonization mission the USA will still have some people and enough infrastructure to keep the option of running for it.
If nobody makes a move, they can wait until a less expensive investigation route produces a result that makes missions cheap enough.
"The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor recently returned to Earth as ambassadors, harbingers of a new era of space exploration. Scientists at NASA are saying that the recent assembly of the Dextre bot is the first step in a long-term space-based man/machine partnership. '"The work we're doing now -- the robotics we're doing -- is what we're going to need to do to build any work station or habitat structure on the moon or Mars," said Allard Beutel, a spokesman for NASA. "Yes, this is just the beginning." Further joint human-robot projects will "be a symbiotic relationship. It's part of a long-term effort for us to branch out into the solar system. We're going to need this type of hand-in-robotic-hand [effort] to make this happen. We're in the infancy of space exploration. We have to start somewhere and this is as good a place as any."'"" Am I paranoid or you too feel some dismissal of previous work.
Dude, if we could convince "The Man" that a revolution would start during the commercial break, he'd be so scared there wouldn't be any more commercials! Actually, to avoid the break, there would be nothing but commercials.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
It can lock the screen, play a sound file (I picked the extremely annoying high-pitched beep) when it is jiggled ever so slightly (adjustable sensitivity), take a pic of who/whatever's in front of it and ftp it to a server of your choosing and a few other options. But can it explode like a Dell?
Sure I can turn the channel but how long before we have live murders being broadcasted? How long before we see homosexual sex on TV I had so many things to reply to that... But I've decided to not even care.
And then, you read the top of the report and discover that all this is old news, that you've been only reading spam for the last two years.
For a second, you think that humanity may not be the mass of morons you thought. That patching the bug will let you access the real, intelligent, acute comments of human forums.
Then, as the patch starts to work, you see those comments; the beauty of human forums brings a tear to your eye. As you start posting, you feel unable to write, your keyboard doesn't seem to work.
You then understand you were just another spam generator, and the patch is killing you.
Unfortunately, this article, like many which abound in the security theatre online media, is long on consequences and short on details. Someone knows how the attack spreads, but they aren't sharing the means of stopping the attack.
I always thought the news were to report news, and that the knowledge itself was stored somewhere else.
I'd like to report another case then. Last week I read news about a new book, and the book was not printed in the papers. Actually, the news didn't even tell me where to buy the book.
If someone takes the time to create music, they have the right to decide on what terms it is sold, What?! Why?
just like my local plumber has the right to turn down work, or my local store has the right to set its own opening hours.
So if all the plumbers in your area decide that whenever they work for you, you've got to pay a yearly "X fee" or else they won't work... You don't need the plumbing to live, you could learn to do it yourself.
Then the mechanics decide they're going to insert a mechanism that makes your car stop after a year, unless you go to the mechanic again. Resetting the device for another year now costs 1% of your car's price.
After all the mechanics have the right to choose on what terms their work is sold. And if you don't like it, you can always buy a bike. Oh, did I tell you about the new "bike non-sharing laws" and the bike pirates who use their friend's bike?
Actually, the electron loss is very useful in the production of ChargedMilk(tm).
ChargedMilk(tm) has between twice and three times the electrons of normal milk. A single 10ml bottle ($69.99) will cover 13% of your daily intake of electrons.
As someone who has been burned by new technology multiple times, I can certainly appreciate this approach. [...] Live by the sword, die by the sword. We've moved way past the musquet, it's much harder to get burned now.
I think it's time for you to move "the gun" out of your "new technology" list.
Am I the only one who immediately thought of the computer scientist in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency? Yes. No. Yes and No. 42.
All the responses are wrong, including this one and excluding the next.
Yeah, finally anal people can bitch about the length of the grass with the help of Google. Jeeez, get a life. Not length, but apparent shabbiness. There's quite a difference.
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After extensive investigation we've discovered that the symbiotic relationship with the toaster is only slightly painful, as long as the toaster is turned off. No results with the swiss army knife for lack of voluntaries.
We just need to learn to travel faster than our wake of destruction.
If China suddenly starts to prepare a Mars colonization mission the USA will still have some people and enough infrastructure to keep the option of running for it.
If nobody makes a move, they can wait until a less expensive investigation route produces a result that makes missions cheap enough.
1 - Dismantled cyclotron.
2 - Catapult.
3 - Orbital assembly robot.
4 - More catapult.
5 - ???
6 - Profit!!!
Proving once more that if your problem can't be solved by extensive use of catapults, it probably doesn't deserve being solved at all.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
"Retort extracted, sir."
"Any subversive material?"
"We don't know yet, sir. There's something about fooling people and shame, but the analyst put to the translation just shot himself."
We don't need to read your retort citizen. Knowing your recently confessed ability of writing one made us extract it from your brain.
Please wait patiently for our transport services to go pick you up.
Err, where did you live exactly?
Five hundred years ago, the minute of science would consist on latest scientist burning on the stake.
Oh God, how I miss medieval tv. Closest we get now is a Thich Quang Duc impersonator, and monthly, at best.
You are a really disgusting person.
And then, you read the top of the report and discover that all this is old news, that you've been only reading spam for the last two years.
For a second, you think that humanity may not be the mass of morons you thought. That patching the bug will let you access the real, intelligent, acute comments of human forums.
Then, as the patch starts to work, you see those comments; the beauty of human forums brings a tear to your eye. As you start posting, you feel unable to write, your keyboard doesn't seem to work.
You then understand you were just another spam generator, and the patch is killing you.
Fade to black.
I always thought the news were to report news, and that the knowledge itself was stored somewhere else.
I'd like to report another case then. Last week I read news about a new book, and the book was not printed in the papers. Actually, the news didn't even tell me where to buy the book.
And where would the Neanderthals find a computer? Let alone the means to connect it to the internet.
Btw, is the cat alright? They said there was a pretty good chance of him being dead by the time the box was opened.
So if all the plumbers in your area decide that whenever they work for you, you've got to pay a yearly "X fee" or else they won't work... You don't need the plumbing to live, you could learn to do it yourself.
Then the mechanics decide they're going to insert a mechanism that makes your car stop after a year, unless you go to the mechanic again. Resetting the device for another year now costs 1% of your car's price.
After all the mechanics have the right to choose on what terms their work is sold. And if you don't like it, you can always buy a bike. Oh, did I tell you about the new "bike non-sharing laws" and the bike pirates who use their friend's bike?
I swear I heard Nelson's "Ha Ha!" upon reading that (Redundant) mod.
Yes, I had to. Burning karma warms my winter nights.
What about when you're neither? Obviously:
When you're neither, where should you compromise?
When you're both, when should you compromise?
And finally, when you're both and neither, you shouldn't ever not uncompromise.
Actually, the electron loss is very useful in the production of ChargedMilk(tm).
ChargedMilk(tm) has between twice and three times the electrons of normal milk. A single 10ml bottle ($69.99) will cover 13% of your daily intake of electrons.
I think it's time for you to move "the gun" out of your "new technology" list.
All the responses are wrong, including this one and excluding the next.
Who better to make the ads than the customers? This is an interesting idea that has probably been already investigated by many marketing corporations.