And what, exactly, is stopping MS from sending out a worm with security bugs? Given Microsoft's current security track record, I think this would be a bad idea.
Not only is this an old idea, it was dismissed long ago as a bad idea. I'm amused that Microsoft is only now discovering it.
The people who "designed the enclosure"? It was (IIRC) a WPA project from the 1930's. It wasn't designed, it was built.
The crazy part was that the people who ran the zoo had no idea of its height, or lack thereof. And when inspectors came through the zoo a couple of years ago, nobody mentioned to the zoo that the height was below standard. In other words, it's not a design problem (the height was fine when it was built, back when nobody was stupid enough to taunt tigers like that), it's a maintenance problem, as in keeping up to standards, or even knowing that you aren't.
Or the last two elections suggest that exit polling was rigged. For instance, the exit pollers could have primarily been polling during times of the day when Democrat voters were more likely to be voting.
Here is a USB 100Mbit Ethernet adapter which is $13 at Fry's, sometimes on sale for $4 (I got two extra that day) and for which OS X drivers can be found on the chipset manufacturer site if you google for the chipset ID that shows in System Profiler when you plug it in.
At this point, even with favorable orbits, and a payload already loaded and ready for launch, you still couldn't get there in time. The fast orbit to Mars still takes six months. The slow orbit takes two years. I don't think they even knew about this event six months ago.
I can remember being in a couple of interviews for potential new-hires where the guy who was obviously taught with Java completely fell apart with the whiteboard coding test. (candidate writes two selected programs, one on files and the other on linked lists, on whiteboard while many of us talk among ourselves, thus simulating a "normal work environment")
I've already heard on usenet that they expire after 90 days. If you don't think you'll buy a box (or even be able to find one) within 90 days, then WAIT before asking for coupons!
In the worst case you could always "make a run for the border" and buy incandescents in Canada. This law has no effect there. (Yes, I know that it's less than convenient to get to Canada from Chicago. But it's a lot easier than getting there from Texas or Florida.)
Whereas the radioactive waste going up the chimney from coal-fired power plants is very cheap and easy to dispose of, right into our atmosphere. (along with bonus mercury, too!)
The real problem with "nuclear waste" is that the long-lived components are reusable as fuel, but that moron Jimmy Carter decided that reprocessing is too good for us.
...because Chuck Norris won't stand for people making money off of other people's jokes! I'm sure the author(s) tracked down the origin of every one of those jokes and gave each one of them a crisp twenty dollar bill in payment.
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We just wiggled the power plugs loose from the back of the Apple II power supplies. They looked plugged in, but they weren't. Cheap easy lulz.
And what, exactly, is stopping MS from sending out a worm with security bugs? Given Microsoft's current security track record, I think this would be a bad idea.
Not only is this an old idea, it was dismissed long ago as a bad idea. I'm amused that Microsoft is only now discovering it.
Remind me what we can do with helium-3, exactly? And I mean any time in the NEAR FUTURE, not fifty years from now.
Helium-3 isn't even as easy as the other fusion recipes that we still haven't yet made work yet.
That is why we have the relative terms "higher" and "lower".
Maybe Asimov was right after all?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac
Except that this was a dupe on digg yesterday. Oops! So much for the "automated submission comparison"!
Maybe if the submitters (and /. editors) would actually pay attention to URLs with obvious dates in them?
Maybe the physicist can calculate the trajectories of the lawsuits too.
The people who "designed the enclosure"? It was (IIRC) a WPA project from the 1930's. It wasn't designed, it was built.
The crazy part was that the people who ran the zoo had no idea of its height, or lack thereof. And when inspectors came through the zoo a couple of years ago, nobody mentioned to the zoo that the height was below standard. In other words, it's not a design problem (the height was fine when it was built, back when nobody was stupid enough to taunt tigers like that), it's a maintenance problem, as in keeping up to standards, or even knowing that you aren't.
Or the last two elections suggest that exit polling was rigged. For instance, the exit pollers could have primarily been polling during times of the day when Democrat voters were more likely to be voting.
$ man spoon
No manual entry for spoon
There is no spoon.
...wanna fork()?
Here is a USB 100Mbit Ethernet adapter which is $13 at Fry's, sometimes on sale for $4 (I got two extra that day) and for which OS X drivers can be found on the chipset manufacturer site if you google for the chipset ID that shows in System Profiler when you plug it in.
That would be because it isn't bricked. It's powdered.
Ruri: "Baka, baaaaka."
Do you waaaaant ... do you waaaaaant ... to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?
...treatment for Alzheimers or for "Alaheimers"?
At this point, even with favorable orbits, and a payload already loaded and ready for launch, you still couldn't get there in time. The fast orbit to Mars still takes six months. The slow orbit takes two years. I don't think they even knew about this event six months ago.
The article should read "Java considered harmful to students"
I can remember being in a couple of interviews for potential new-hires where the guy who was obviously taught with Java completely fell apart with the whiteboard coding test. (candidate writes two selected programs, one on files and the other on linked lists, on whiteboard while many of us talk among ourselves, thus simulating a "normal work environment")
Not quite.
"Where do we edit tonight? We edit with cat and sed!"
I've already heard on usenet that they expire after 90 days. If you don't think you'll buy a box (or even be able to find one) within 90 days, then WAIT before asking for coupons!
Yeah, maybe someone should submit that as a story.
Here's a translation of a blog post about MIAU, for those who want to get an idea of what it's about.
In the worst case you could always "make a run for the border" and buy incandescents in Canada. This law has no effect there. (Yes, I know that it's less than convenient to get to Canada from Chicago. But it's a lot easier than getting there from Texas or Florida.)
Whereas the radioactive waste going up the chimney from coal-fired power plants is very cheap and easy to dispose of, right into our atmosphere. (along with bonus mercury, too!)
The real problem with "nuclear waste" is that the long-lived components are reusable as fuel, but that moron Jimmy Carter decided that reprocessing is too good for us.
...because Chuck Norris won't stand for people making money off of other people's jokes! I'm sure the author(s) tracked down the origin of every one of those jokes and gave each one of them a crisp twenty dollar bill in payment.