While riding my bike I've been nearly hit twice by drivers talking on their cell phones and not concentrating on the road. But now if people use Bluetooth technology to transmit their voice to their cellphones instead of talking directly on the cellphone, I'll be perfectly safe!
What other loopholes will people try to get away with next?
Sorry officer, I didn't mean to go through that intersection and run over that biker, but according to my color sensor that street light had an RGB value of (253, 0, 0) so it wasn't fully red.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours.
Make a script that create an AOL account with each registration number on the cds. Then have every account generate and forward mail to every other account. Especially emails with large attachments. I sure AOL's systems will feel that.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours.
Make a perl script that takes in the account number from the cd and automatically creates an account on AOL and logs in. Then the script should goto Google, search for the letter 'e' and then wget -r the Internet. You might want to send the output to/dev/null
..and starting drilling holes in it, I would have give in and given them the rocket pack. Little would they have known is that it would be a vacuum cleaner full of TNT.
Strap it on and try it out first, I want to make sure it's not missing any parts. Don't worry, most of you will be in the air soon.
If my kid Tommy needs to take his aggression out, I don't want him taking it out on video games. It's far better for him to take it out on his classmates, friends and neighbors dog. Actually the neighbors dog isn't around any longer since Tommy got his last test back, so it will have to be his friends and classmates.
Down in Cape Cod in Wellfleet, there is a cell phone antennae inside of a church steeple (I forget which one). The church gets paid something like 50,000-100,000$ a year to hold the antennae. The church doesn't do anything with the antennae, they just rent out the space to hold it.
I wish some phone company put an antennae in my chimney. I could quit working.
I would use the money to bring back Looking Glass. The people who made the games System Shock, Theif and all those other amazing classics. Even if the games sold at a loss, who cares, a billion dollars will keep everyone in business for a while. It's sad to see quality games get stomped out because of lack of profits...
If you buy really good, really slow speed film that has minimal grain, the film can hold a little less than 20 megapixels of data. But to get a good quality shot that will have enough detail to fill all that information, you need to have a very steady tripod, a very good quality lens and perfect focusing and exposure.
I have a new film scanner I use that has made scans up around 5500x3600 pixels. That's about the highest one needs to go to get all the information out of an image. Oh and that comes out to about 19.8 mega pixels, which is about a 60 meg uncompressed file (24bit RGB). You can also scan in using 16bit RGB channels resulting in an image around 120megs.
And think, that's just 35mm film, which is about 1 square inch. Imagine what a large format camera can shoot with it's 8x10" film. And the film can be even larger than that!
I went through airline security recently and it is a joke. And absolute joke. I've concluded that it's just a placebo to make most ignorant people feel better. Why? Well here are a few things.
When I was bringing my bag on the airline, I was checked 3 times. Getting onto every flight and my connecting flights. Somehow I triggered a "possible terrorist" flag and had people hand check my luggage. Maybe it was my scruffy beard?
Anyways when they checked my carry on luggage they ran it through an Xray. They made me take my trekking poles out to see what they were (they are poles for hiking). They didn't care about the pot that showed up as a big grey cylinder in the middle of my pack.
For my carry on luggage I had a camera lens in a 1Liter drink cooler. It was in there because it's soft to keep it from getting damaged. They never opened it up. I can think of all kinds of stuff to put in there... They never once checked the carry on bag itself. Couldn't something be hidden in the liner of the bag?
Coming back I had to have my checkon bag checked again, but this airport didn't have any xray machines. They had to hand check everything. I gave the guy my bag, he opened it up and saw a backpack filled with stuff. He asked me "Is this all hiking gear?". I said yes and he just zipped it up and put it on the belt to go into the plane. Luckily that backpack has 75liters of gear in it and not explosives. I was thinking on the whole flight back:
"Sir is this all camping gear in this backpack?"
"No it's approximately 75Liters of C4."
"Hmmm let me check my manual here... explosives, dynamite, C4. Sorry sir but you can't bring C4 on the plane. You must be an Al Queda terrorist?"
"Why yes I am, I guess you caught me. Take me in."
If a terrorist wants to bring something on the plane, it's going to get on the plane. The people who setup these security checkpoints are either: A. Ignorant. B. Setting up a Placebo C. Making a boost in their political career. D. All of the above.
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Dude: Dude, nice techno.
Technician: Actually I'm sending out the construction sequence for the storage module for the ISS.
Dude: Woaw.... Rock on.
Has the bacteria really developed a resistance? Or have all the non-resistive bacteria died off and now only resistive bacteria remain?
While riding my bike I've been nearly hit twice by drivers talking on their cell phones and not concentrating on the road. But now if people use Bluetooth technology to transmit their voice to their cellphones instead of talking directly on the cellphone, I'll be perfectly safe!
What other loopholes will people try to get away with next?
Sorry officer, I didn't mean to go through that intersection and run over that biker, but according to my color sensor that street light had an RGB value of (253, 0, 0) so it wasn't fully red.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours.
Make a script that create an AOL account with each registration number on the cds. Then have every account generate and forward mail to every other account. Especially emails with large attachments. I sure AOL's systems will feel that.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours.
/dev/null
Make a perl script that takes in the account number from the cd and automatically creates an account on AOL and logs in. Then the script should goto Google, search for the letter 'e' and then wget -r the Internet. You might want to send the output to
..and starting drilling holes in it, I would have give in and given them the rocket pack. Little would they have known is that it would be a vacuum cleaner full of TNT.
Strap it on and try it out first, I want to make sure it's not missing any parts. Don't worry, most of you will be in the air soon.
So what would you do if an unforseen problem arises? Like say the patient goes into cardiac arrest?
Oh don't worry, I just reboot the system and start over.
You could probably get away with that.
If my kid Tommy needs to take his aggression out, I don't want him taking it out on video games. It's far better for him to take it out on his classmates, friends and neighbors dog. Actually the neighbors dog isn't around any longer since Tommy got his last test back, so it will have to be his friends and classmates.
I'm imaging it's like the /. community except all the posts will be s/microsoft/linux.
Does he want them dead or alive? Or maybe just their head?
Down in Cape Cod in Wellfleet, there is a cell phone antennae inside of a church steeple (I forget which one). The church gets paid something like 50,000-100,000$ a year to hold the antennae. The church doesn't do anything with the antennae, they just rent out the space to hold it.
I wish some phone company put an antennae in my chimney. I could quit working.
I would use the money to bring back Looking Glass. The people who made the games System Shock, Theif and all those other amazing classics. Even if the games sold at a loss, who cares, a billion dollars will keep everyone in business for a while. It's sad to see quality games get stomped out because of lack of profits...
I could setup the ultimate warez server!! Terabytes of disk space!! An OC3 just for myself!!
What? Just buy the games instead?
Due to lack of funding, and the need to get through the second door, the next robot is going to be a LEGO cart with TNT strapped to it.
But Mc Donalds meat is already simulated meat. So when it gets used in a simulation, does it become real meat? What a philisophical pondering...
MS has enough trouble securing their own servers, never mind other peoples software.
Wow, 1 million people just registered to use MS Office last night!
That's not what the accounting appartment is telling us.
If you buy really good, really slow speed film that has minimal grain, the film can hold a little less than 20 megapixels of data. But to get a good quality shot that will have enough detail to fill all that information, you need to have a very steady tripod, a very good quality lens and perfect focusing and exposure.
I have a new film scanner I use that has made scans up around 5500x3600 pixels. That's about the highest one needs to go to get all the information out of an image. Oh and that comes out to about 19.8 mega pixels, which is about a 60 meg uncompressed file (24bit RGB). You can also scan in using 16bit RGB channels resulting in an image around 120megs.
And think, that's just 35mm film, which is about 1 square inch. Imagine what a large format camera can shoot with it's 8x10" film. And the film can be even larger than that!
I went through airline security recently and it is a joke. And absolute joke. I've concluded that it's just a placebo to make most ignorant people feel better. Why? Well here are a few things.
When I was bringing my bag on the airline, I was checked 3 times. Getting onto every flight and my connecting flights. Somehow I triggered a "possible terrorist" flag and had people hand check my luggage. Maybe it was my scruffy beard?
Anyways when they checked my carry on luggage they ran it through an Xray. They made me take my trekking poles out to see what they were (they are poles for hiking). They didn't care about the pot that showed up as a big grey cylinder in the middle of my pack.
For my carry on luggage I had a camera lens in a 1Liter drink cooler. It was in there because it's soft to keep it from getting damaged. They never opened it up. I can think of all kinds of stuff to put in there... They never once checked the carry on bag itself. Couldn't something be hidden in the liner of the bag?
Coming back I had to have my checkon bag checked again, but this airport didn't have any xray machines. They had to hand check everything. I gave the guy my bag, he opened it up and saw a backpack filled with stuff. He asked me "Is this all hiking gear?". I said yes and he just zipped it up and put it on the belt to go into the plane. Luckily that backpack has 75liters of gear in it and not explosives. I was thinking on the whole flight back:
"Sir is this all camping gear in this backpack?"
"No it's approximately 75Liters of C4."
"Hmmm let me check my manual here... explosives, dynamite, C4. Sorry sir but you can't bring C4 on the plane. You must be an Al Queda terrorist?"
"Why yes I am, I guess you caught me. Take me in."
If a terrorist wants to bring something on the plane, it's going to get on the plane. The people who setup these security checkpoints are either:
A. Ignorant.
B. Setting up a Placebo
C. Making a boost in their political career.
D. All of the above.
You choose.
Skyshadow:
Why use Netscape (Score:6, Linked)
by Skyshadow on Thursday August 29, @02:56PM
"Why should/would I use Netscape instead of Mozilla? Not getting enough pop-up windows in my life? Feel the need for a more closed solution?"
I say abuse the ignorant and we can bring back darwinism in a technological point of view. Survival of the fittest.
Maybe it's because Europe isn't as litigious as the US is. With all the software/business patents it no wonder things move slower here.
echo "uce@ftc.gov" > ~/.forward
Even death has become too easy, you can sorrow online and forget it tomorrow.
Next we just need some Firemen to burn all the bodies as soon as they die. Maybe throw some books in with him.
New wooden dowel insert detected, please reboot night table for changes to take affect.