Why not use a unfeasibly massive cloud of Internet grid connected next generation aspect oriented sensors instead? Spam everyone on the Internet, and ask them in which direction gravity is manifesting itself in their part of the world. I think most respondents will reply "down."
Maybe something free on the iPhone App Store could help the gravity folks out? You get a pop-up: "Please drop your iPhone from exactly one meter to the ground. We will now measure the impact time. Thank you."
Brown Recluse venom isn't neurotoxic, it's necrotic.
. . . for my family's great aunt's mobility problem: She can't move an inch without telling everyone in earshot, who doesn't want to hear, a complete medical history of her bowels and various other organs.
If I can convince her that a bunch of spider bites are the solution to her real and imagined medical problems, that should have that problem sorted.
Maybe AIG should give these spiders out, instead of bonuses?
is actually really easy and has only two really simple rules:
Everything is spelled as it is pronounced.
Everything is pronounced as it is spelled.
How can you beat that? If you can hear it, you can spell it, and if you can spell it you can speak it. I am fluent in German, although it is a foreign language for me. I never make a spelling mistake in German, but in English, my native language, I am error prone.
And folks wonder why they can build such great cars.
And you can build great sentences, with the same word six times in a row:
"Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fleigen, Fliegen fliegen Fliegen nach." (When flies fly behind flies, flies fly after flies)
Well, gee, that's good news . . . I thought women avoided such careers because of all the geeky males that tend to gravitate towards math/science careers.
... the companies that will do the best will be the ones that can maximize their profit with a minimum amount of debt.
. . . that would normally be a very economically sound business plan. However, governments are now in the process of bailing out businesses that have minimized profit, with maximum debt, and are "too big to fail."
So who gets to pay for that?
"Ah, Mr. Bond, I was expecting you. I see that you have again made a tidy profit. I will forgo any unfeasible sharks-with-lasers-aimed-at-your-crotch death machines. Instead, I will simply tax you to death."
. . . will probably make folks look worse than a botched Botox job. I guess the device will come with a warning and legal disclaimer: "If you can no longer hold your eyelid open, discontinue the winking process."
The pirates' naming convention was itself, pirated, from Monty Python's "The Piranha Brothers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirahna_Brothers):
The server was associated with a pirate scene, which they called, "The Scene." They formed a gang, which they called "The Gang." They ran operations, known as "The Operation, The Other Operation, and The Other Other Operation."
After becoming bored with Monty Python, they pirated the name of their network ring from "Buffy", calling it "Sunnydale."
In order for this to track us at all, we'd need an ID to buy a ticket, need to show ID to get into the theater, have assigned seats, and they would have to change the audio slightly on every showing.
No, the theater industry will implant a life-long RFID tracking device in your neck, like in "Escape From New York." When you enter the theater, all your movements will be tracked, and you are ok.
However, if you do not renew the lease on the implant often enough, the device will explode, blowing your head off. Just like in "Escape From New York."
Please go out to the lobby, and buy some popcorn . . . and we mean that seriously. Thank you, enjoy the film.
How about a wind up power supply instead? I read that the US Military was actually considering procuring and deploying these to combat the "battery problem."
Oh, wind up power supplies are powered themselves by . . . MREs.
When ads come on that I don't like, I have a reason to get off the sofa, take a leak, and grab another beer. If they show ads that are interesting for me, I am liable to wet the sofa, and go thirsty.
testing a new project in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and some areas of New Jersey
So what ads do they show to Tony Soprano's crew? New concrete overshoes? Brass knuckles half off at Thugs'R'Us?
Yeah, like, what happened to that concept of "Checks and Balances" that Founding Fathers thought up in a steamy room in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia?
So now the agency in charge of breaking security, and spying on people, should now be in charge of guaranteeing security?
I better check the latest release notes, it seems that "Checks and Balances" has now been deprecated.
That's why I like film "Liquid Sky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky)." Instead of coming to the Earth to help us or destroy us, the aliens came to Earth looking for drugs.
Certainly a welcome break from the usual Hollywood dichotomy.
Yep . . . this would provide transparency in government . . . and all politicians will scatter away like cockroaches, when you turn on the light in the room.
No more secret reciprocal vote tradings, secret deals (my spotted owls, for your unneeded dam), etc.
This thing will get quietly scuttled for . . . "technical" reasons.
Be thankful for that. In another 1,000 years, someone will post simple instructions on how to create a supernova in your basement on the InterGalacticNextGenerationNet (powered by IPv9). And someone will download it, do it, and, for whomever is alive at that time, things will not be very pleasant.
I'd personally hold out for the Gamma Ray Burst recipe. Now *that* would be cooler than an M80 flushed down the toilet, but equally unpleasant, if you happen to be in the path of the gamma rays.
Although this is intended on the lighter side, try to imagine a time in the future, where we can safely pull of stuff like this.
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IBM: Around 400,000 employees. Sun: 33,000 employees.
How come I have this sneaky feeling, that after the merger is complete, IBM will have less than 400,000 + 33,000 employess?
Why not use a unfeasibly massive cloud of Internet grid connected next generation aspect oriented sensors instead? Spam everyone on the Internet, and ask them in which direction gravity is manifesting itself in their part of the world. I think most respondents will reply "down."
On the serious side, serious scientists have proposed using laptop accelerometers to detect earthquakes: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/03/quake_network
Maybe something free on the iPhone App Store could help the gravity folks out? You get a pop-up: "Please drop your iPhone from exactly one meter to the ground. We will now measure the impact time. Thank you."
Brown Recluse venom isn't neurotoxic, it's necrotic.
. . . for my family's great aunt's mobility problem: She can't move an inch without telling everyone in earshot, who doesn't want to hear, a complete medical history of her bowels and various other organs.
If I can convince her that a bunch of spider bites are the solution to her real and imagined medical problems, that should have that problem sorted.
Maybe AIG should give these spiders out, instead of bonuses?
is actually really easy and has only two really simple rules:
How can you beat that? If you can hear it, you can spell it, and if you can spell it you can speak it. I am fluent in German, although it is a foreign language for me. I never make a spelling mistake in German, but in English, my native language, I am error prone.
And folks wonder why they can build such great cars.
And you can build great sentences, with the same word six times in a row:
"Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fleigen, Fliegen fliegen Fliegen nach." (When flies fly behind flies, flies fly after flies)
Talk to the animals? Talk to the Web? Same difference.
How come I associate blood-sucking insects with that pitifully poor insurers' executives?
Methinks I would like to also be a Darth Vader of this product lasers having, and get Medieval with them.
Well, gee, that's good news . . . I thought women avoided such careers because of all the geeky males that tend to gravitate towards math/science careers.
... the companies that will do the best will be the ones that can maximize their profit with a minimum amount of debt.
. . . that would normally be a very economically sound business plan. However, governments are now in the process of bailing out businesses that have minimized profit, with maximum debt, and are "too big to fail."
So who gets to pay for that?
"Ah, Mr. Bond, I was expecting you. I see that you have again made a tidy profit. I will forgo any unfeasible sharks-with-lasers-aimed-at-your-crotch death machines. Instead, I will simply tax you to death."
Was he taking a piss?
It depends. Did he shake it any more than three times?
In either case, you've put me off eating out for a week.
What the hell does that mean, anyway?
That means that, whoever wrote it, is free of intelligence.
a computer that actually answers factual questions
I've never seen a politician who has been able to do that. But I guess they don't want to either.
Become an "affiliate or agent" of Verizon, and you won't need to use ruses like "pretexting" to get the phone records of your targets.
Good for employers, too, who want to check up on the private calls that its employees make with their own phones.
. . . will probably make folks look worse than a botched Botox job. I guess the device will come with a warning and legal disclaimer: "If you can no longer hold your eyelid open, discontinue the winking process."
The pirates' naming convention was itself, pirated, from Monty Python's "The Piranha Brothers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirahna_Brothers):
The server was associated with a pirate scene, which they called, "The Scene." They formed a gang, which they called "The Gang." They ran operations, known as "The Operation, The Other Operation, and The Other Other Operation."
After becoming bored with Monty Python, they pirated the name of their network ring from "Buffy", calling it "Sunnydale."
Definitely a pattern of pirate behaviour.
Yes, they should have an ad campaign against television, as well . . . and run it on television, of course:
TURN OFF THIS TELEVISION! NOW!
Possibly the submitter is German.
No, if the submitter was German, he would be complaining about the lack of recognition for Konrad Zuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse.
And no, I had never heard of him either, until I visited Germany.
In order for this to track us at all, we'd need an ID to buy a ticket, need to show ID to get into the theater, have assigned seats, and they would have to change the audio slightly on every showing.
No, the theater industry will implant a life-long RFID tracking device in your neck, like in "Escape From New York." When you enter the theater, all your movements will be tracked, and you are ok.
However, if you do not renew the lease on the implant often enough, the device will explode, blowing your head off. Just like in "Escape From New York."
Please go out to the lobby, and buy some popcorn . . . and we mean that seriously. Thank you, enjoy the film.
How about a wind up power supply instead? I read that the US Military was actually considering procuring and deploying these to combat the "battery problem."
Oh, wind up power supplies are powered themselves by . . . MREs.
When ads come on that I don't like, I have a reason to get off the sofa, take a leak, and grab another beer. If they show ads that are interesting for me, I am liable to wet the sofa, and go thirsty.
testing a new project in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and some areas of New Jersey
So what ads do they show to Tony Soprano's crew? New concrete overshoes? Brass knuckles half off at Thugs'R'Us?
Yeah, like, what happened to that concept of "Checks and Balances" that Founding Fathers thought up in a steamy room in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia?
So now the agency in charge of breaking security, and spying on people, should now be in charge of guaranteeing security?
I better check the latest release notes, it seems that "Checks and Balances" has now been deprecated.
That's why I like film "Liquid Sky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky)." Instead of coming to the Earth to help us or destroy us, the aliens came to Earth looking for drugs.
Certainly a welcome break from the usual Hollywood dichotomy.
Git? Too good for a government.
Giv'em tarballs and patches.
Yep . . . this would provide transparency in government . . . and all politicians will scatter away like cockroaches, when you turn on the light in the room.
No more secret reciprocal vote tradings, secret deals (my spotted owls, for your unneeded dam), etc.
This thing will get quietly scuttled for . . . "technical" reasons.
Press: "When will we send a man to our new planet Pluto?
Illinois legislature: "As soon as Rod Blagojevich has his bags packed."
Be thankful for that. In another 1,000 years, someone will post simple instructions on how to create a supernova in your basement on the InterGalacticNextGenerationNet (powered by IPv9). And someone will download it, do it, and, for whomever is alive at that time, things will not be very pleasant.
I'd personally hold out for the Gamma Ray Burst recipe. Now *that* would be cooler than an M80 flushed down the toilet, but equally unpleasant, if you happen to be in the path of the gamma rays.
Although this is intended on the lighter side, try to imagine a time in the future, where we can safely pull of stuff like this.
Yo.