I install packages when it's software that updates frequently or has many dependancies. Often times I can do a YUM UPDATE SOFTWARENAME and make the Debian users jealous that apt get isn't the shiznit any more. RPM can keep track of the orphans and let me focus on what's really important, like pr0n.
If the software is something that I think isn't going to update frequently, I'll build from source. Also when there are not packages, and the pre-built binaries have dumb dependancies. (I remember one time if I wanted to install SDL I needed to install Solder of Fortune from Loki. WTF?)
So you want to add some dipshit that lectures about social concerns in the middle of Grand Theft Auto?
Sure. Why Not? Watch he often he gets fragged.
The only reason to beat gamers over the head with the morality stick in a game is so they can grab that stick away and stick it up someone's ass.
Games are cathartic. They are a release from the bullshit in everyday life. If you inject everyday life into a game, it's not going to sell (The Sims being an exception, but people still love torturing Sims, so I think it proves my first point).
You've already used the mail, Darl. You qualify for the RICO ACT. Enjoy your stay in the federal "Pound-me-in-ass" prison.
===========
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 96--RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS
Sec. 1961. Definitions
As used in this chapter--
(1) ``racketeering activity'' means (A) any act or threat
involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery,
extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled
substance or listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the
Controlled Substances Act), which is chargeable under State law and
punishable by imprisonment for more than one year; (B) any act which
is indictable under any of the following provisions of title 18,
United States Code: Section 201 (relating to bribery), section 224
(relating to sports bribery), sections 471, 472, and 473 (relating
to counterfeiting), section 659 (relating to theft from interstate
shipment) if the act indictable under section 659 is felonious,
section 664 (relating to embezzlement from pension and welfare
funds), sections 891-894 (relating to extortionate credit
transactions), section 1028 (relating to fraud and related activity
in connection with identification documents), section 1029 (relating
to fraud and related activity in connection with access devices),
section 1084 (relating to the transmission of gambling information),
section 1341 (relating to mail fraud), section 1343 (relating to
wire fraud), section 1344 (relating to financial institution fraud),
section 1425 (relating to the procurement of citizenship or
nationalization unlawfully), section 1426 (relating to the
reproduction of naturalization or citizenship papers), section 1427
(relating to the sale of naturalization or citizenship papers),
sections 1461-1465 (relating to obscene matter), section 1503
(relating to obstruction of justice), section 1510 (relating to
obstruction of criminal investigations), section 1511 (relating to
the obstruction of State or local law enforcement), section 1512
(relating to tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant),
section 1513 (relating to retaliating against a witness, victim, or
an informant), section 1542 (relating to false statement in
application and use of passport), section 1543 (relating to forgery
or false use of passport), section 1544 (relating to misuse of
passport), section 1546 (relating to fraud and misuse of visas,
permits, and other documents), sections 1581-1588 (relating to
peonage and slavery), section 1951 (relating to interference with
commerce, robbery, or extortion), section 1952 (relating to
racketeering), section 1953 (relating to interstate transportation
of wagering paraphernalia), section 1954 (relating to unlawful
welfare fund payments), section 1955 (relating to the prohibition of
illegal gambling businesses), section 1956 (relating to the
laundering of monetary instruments), section 1957 (relating to
engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified
unlawful activity), section 1958 (relating to use of interstate
commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire), sections
2251, 2251A, 2252, and 2260 (relating to sexual exploitation of
children), sections 2312 and 2313 (relating to interstate
transportation of stolen motor vehicles), sections 2314 and 2315
(relating to interstate transportation of stolen property), section
2318 (relating to trafficking in counterfeit labels for
phonorecords, computer programs or computer program documentation or
packaging and copies of motion pictures or
So you feel that you ain't nobody Always needed to be somebody Put your feet on the ground Put your hand on your heart Lift your head to the stars And the world's for your taking
So you feel it's the end of the story Find it all pretty satisfactory Well I tell you my friend This might seem like the end But the continuation Is yours for the making
Chef: Hello there children. Kyle: Hey Chef. Chef: How you doin'? Boys: Bad. Chef: Why bad? Kyle: We need to genetically engineer our mouse and an monkey, but their genes won't splice. Chef: Ahhhh, of course they won't splice children. Haven't you ever heard that song by 'Loverboy'? Chef: Dooodnnndoodnn - A mouse and an monkey DNA just won't...A mouse-monkey. Say, now that's not a bad idea. Kyle: I told you guys. Chef: Imagine, a pint sized monkey that you could keep in the house. Children, we could make a fortune with this. Kyle: You hear that dudes? We'll be rich! Chef: Forget about all that genetic engineering whoosafudge. If you want to combine a mouse and an monkey, just get them to make sweeet love. Cartman: Whaaat?! Stan: I don't think an monkey would make love to a mouse. Cartman: I don't think my mouse would want to make love to that stupid monkey. Chef: Sure they would. But you're gonna have to get 'em in the mood. Stan: So how do we do that? Chef: Do what I do, get 'em goood and drunk.
...could they have hung out at the ISS and waited for NASA to send up a rescue craft?
No. Columbia was the oldest orbiter, and even though it had been refit and upgraded in many ways, it still had it's original airframe. Columbia was the heaviest of the orbiters, and unable to achieve the high orbit of the ISS. It was the only shuttle unable to make flights to the space station.
Even IF Columbia were able to achieve the altitude needed for docking, it was in an orbit that would take it nowhere near ISS. And IF it had been able to make it to ISS, Columbia did not have the docking module needed to dock to ISS. Without the docking module, the crew would need to EVA to get to ISS. Columbia did not have the spacesuits needed for this.
Columbia's ONLY option would be to wait for Atlantis, and Atlantis would have to be preped for launch in such a hurry that it's crew would be at extreme risk.
Columbia should have been retired a long time ago. We should have been using a 2nd gen shuttle by now. It may be sad to think that the shuttle fleet is to be retired with NASA's Mars goals, but in truth it was time.
I'm a big fan of the Space program, but NASA's claims that the shuttle fleet was designed to fly for 50 years should fail anybody's smell test. We don't use school buses for 50 years. Are we supposed to believe that they accounted for 50 years of metal fatigue when designing the shuttle fleet?
After Challenger NASA placed the odds for loss of a shuttle at 1 in 100. Those are risky odds. You wouldn't fly on an airplane with those odds.
The Shuttles never made the price of lauching satelites cheaper (it's primary goal) and it never made the turnaround cycle shorter than disposable launch systems.
It's time for NASA to get out of the trucking business and back to science.
Oh, I can't wait for the first time we see one of these "busts" go bad. I'd love to see the fallout for the RIAA when some grainy video shows up on CNN showing RIAA thugs kicking the crap out of someone for selling bootleg Tupac CDs. I'm going to have a fscking blast watching Jesse Jackson rip them a new one.
Most of these people are old enough to have voted in the old voting booths with hundreds of little levers. Rows and rows of them. And then there was the big red lever that commited your vote.
These people could operate that system, but can't touch a button on a screen? Bullshit. They didn't vote, or the software is fsck'ed. But we'll never know, because there's no hard copy.
Why are we having this system pushed on us instead of the no.2 pencil and ovals? That system is electronic, it's verfiable, it's an established technology.
Despite the tin foil beenie cap conspiracy freeks who think tri-lateralists are behind all of this, I think we are seeing an example of government contracting abuse. Florida has paid for a bunch of machines and now finds they don't work.
It just so happens we're not spineless. Except you, Mr. Rollover. I'm glad you don't work for IBM.
Acting meek and meely-mouthed is not going to get us anywhere. Why should we not be confident, hold our heads up and say "Hey, we didn't do anything wrong!!! Those guys are full of crap! We can show you how they are full of crap!" That's what Bruce Perins and Groklaw and Linus and numerous top players have been doing. If at the end of making their case they make an editorial comment, deal with it. Some of these guys are media savy to know that you have to give a soundbite if you want press.
We forgot to take the high road? Blow me! Why should we not be outraged? SCO is stealing - yes, STEALING - the work of honest developers and distributing it without a valid license. SCO is not abiding by the GPL. They are now software pirates.
It was an external SCSI unit that was housed in a unit 2 inches high by a foot square. The unit was marketed by a third party Mac vendor, but the drive IDed itself as a Ricoh. The unit sold for ~$350 dollars at the time. The pack in software was Mac only, so I had to sit on the drive for a short time until I got Corel EZ CD Creator 3. (Yes, corel published it at that time).
Trust me, it was a pain in the ass being the only guy I knew with a CD burner. Suddenly everyone wanted a favor. It's a bit like owning a truck. Everyone is your friend and wants help moving.
So Optima can kiss my ass! I know there's prior art, and their patent is shit!
Wrestling promoter, hell, what about MJ's answering machine? Peter and Green Goblin have a discussion that's being recorded, and everything MJ needs to get a clue is discussed.
It would be nice if they got past the secret between Pater and MJ in the next movie. It doesn't work for me. "Gee, Spiderman, you have the same arrested-development sounding voice as my friend Peter Parker."
To which Spidey says "You were so much hotter in Interview with a Vampire"
As a blender user and foundation member I've watched as the features, inovations, and rate of development have gone up since it went open source and GPL last year. We have tons of new python scripts, a new gui that continues to evolve, better rendering...
It's not Maya, but it's on par with anything in the low-mid range for windows, and it's getting better by leaps and bounds
Give Blender a couple years and we might Hollywood contributing code. Hollywood lves Gimp, and I could see this becoming a real player in 3D.
"Actually, are you sure the Cylons used EMP to wipe-out the new Colonial fighters? It actually seems more like they sent out a signal to disable the jets, probably thanks to #6 infiltrating the Colonial defense net a la Baltar."
I stand corrected. I remember that now that you mention it.
In that case, the failure of the fighter craft is even harder to excuse. Every (modern) piece of Colonial hardware are built on a single software platform, and someone could slip a backdoor into this system. Are these people still on Windows? Frak me, the military in the distant year of this show has never heard of hostile computer code? Next thing you'll be telling me they find it useful to cut the corners off of all their papers!
Sound was usually limited to when a ship was right next to the camera and some sound when ships and objects collide (usually a quick camera cut inside the ship to help excuse the sound).
A better model for spaceflight was used in this show. Ships use manuvering thrusters to position, ships have inertia when engines cut out. Boomer and a shipmate escape a wing of Cylons by cutting all power and drifting to Caprica, and restoring power only when the ionisphere is reached.
There do not seem to be forcefields present on hanger decks. Large transparent doors cover a bay in one scene.
Galactica seems to rely on brute force to withstand a strike from a 50 megaton nuke (the weapon of choice for these cylons). No mentions of shields or defensive screens, just a shitload of hull plates.
A fire is extinguisted by venting all air in the damaged section into space. Of course, a few crew are lost when this happens.
Dumb things (just a few):
Galactica needs to pulls it's flight decks inward to jump to FTL speed.
Baltar looks at a nuke as it goes off, shockwave arrives 30 seconds later. This means it's a relatively close strike and he should be dead/blind/both.
We're supposed to belive there's nothing on a 2nd gen viper that is sensitive to EMP. Starbuck shakes off a EMP pulse when more advanced Vipers fail.
Apollo uses some old generators to blast an EMP during a Cylon attack. This fools th Cylons into thinking the ship he's on (a civilian liner) is destoyed. DUMB DUMB DUMB. 1) The civilian ship functions as normal afterward, no mention of systems damaged. Aparently this ship's systems are hardened better than military grade. 2) The Cylons use EMP as a weapon all the time and should not be fooled by such a tactic.
Adama figures out a character is a cyclon for no good reason. My wife and I are watching the show thinking this character has radiation sickness, but Adama (out of the blue) somehow figures out that the nearby space storm is causing his cylon brain to fail. Don't forget nobody other than Baltar is alive that has seen a new Cylon. Adama didn't even need a tricorder. Beat that, Wheaton!
Number Six's mechanical spine glows during an interlude with Baltar. OK, she's a robot, right? But for some reason nobody can think of a decent way to check if people are real or cylons. You would think a metal detector is all you would need....
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I install packages when it's software that updates frequently or has many dependancies. Often times I can do a YUM UPDATE SOFTWARENAME and make the Debian users jealous that apt get isn't the shiznit any more. RPM can keep track of the orphans and let me focus on what's really important, like pr0n.
If the software is something that I think isn't going to update frequently, I'll build from source. Also when there are not packages, and the pre-built binaries have dumb dependancies. (I remember one time if I wanted to install SDL I needed to install Solder of Fortune from Loki. WTF?)
Riiiight.
Just like "Read The Friendly Manual".
If you put a wheel in their cage I'll never have to leave the house again!
I could just watch them jiggle...
Proudly going out of business for 24 years.
It's almost enough to make me like the french.
This also represents our friends at Novell (with the help of IBM) taking the fight to SCO on a new front
So you want to add some dipshit that lectures about social concerns in the middle of Grand Theft Auto?
Sure. Why Not? Watch he often he gets fragged.
The only reason to beat gamers over the head with the morality stick in a game is so they can grab that stick away and stick it up someone's ass.
Games are cathartic. They are a release from the bullshit in everyday life. If you inject everyday life into a game, it's not going to sell (The Sims being an exception, but people still love torturing Sims, so I think it proves my first point).
All your sigs are belong to SCO...
You've already used the mail, Darl. You qualify for the RICO ACT. Enjoy your stay in the federal "Pound-me-in-ass" prison.
===========
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 96--RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS
Sec. 1961. Definitions
As used in this chapter--
(1) ``racketeering activity'' means (A) any act or threat
involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery,
extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled
substance or listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the
Controlled Substances Act), which is chargeable under State law and
punishable by imprisonment for more than one year; (B) any act which
is indictable under any of the following provisions of title 18,
United States Code: Section 201 (relating to bribery), section 224
(relating to sports bribery), sections 471, 472, and 473 (relating
to counterfeiting), section 659 (relating to theft from interstate
shipment) if the act indictable under section 659 is felonious,
section 664 (relating to embezzlement from pension and welfare
funds), sections 891-894 (relating to extortionate credit
transactions), section 1028 (relating to fraud and related activity
in connection with identification documents), section 1029 (relating
to fraud and related activity in connection with access devices),
section 1084 (relating to the transmission of gambling information),
section 1341 (relating to mail fraud), section 1343 (relating to
wire fraud), section 1344 (relating to financial institution fraud),
section 1425 (relating to the procurement of citizenship or
nationalization unlawfully), section 1426 (relating to the
reproduction of naturalization or citizenship papers), section 1427
(relating to the sale of naturalization or citizenship papers),
sections 1461-1465 (relating to obscene matter), section 1503
(relating to obstruction of justice), section 1510 (relating to
obstruction of criminal investigations), section 1511 (relating to
the obstruction of State or local law enforcement), section 1512
(relating to tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant),
section 1513 (relating to retaliating against a witness, victim, or
an informant), section 1542 (relating to false statement in
application and use of passport), section 1543 (relating to forgery
or false use of passport), section 1544 (relating to misuse of
passport), section 1546 (relating to fraud and misuse of visas,
permits, and other documents), sections 1581-1588 (relating to
peonage and slavery), section 1951 (relating to interference with
commerce, robbery, or extortion), section 1952 (relating to
racketeering), section 1953 (relating to interstate transportation
of wagering paraphernalia), section 1954 (relating to unlawful
welfare fund payments), section 1955 (relating to the prohibition of
illegal gambling businesses), section 1956 (relating to the
laundering of monetary instruments), section 1957 (relating to
engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified
unlawful activity), section 1958 (relating to use of interstate
commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire), sections
2251, 2251A, 2252, and 2260 (relating to sexual exploitation of
children), sections 2312 and 2313 (relating to interstate
transportation of stolen motor vehicles), sections 2314 and 2315
(relating to interstate transportation of stolen property), section
2318 (relating to trafficking in counterfeit labels for
phonorecords, computer programs or computer program documentation or
packaging and copies of motion pictures or
So you feel that you ain't nobody
Always needed to be somebody
Put your feet on the ground
Put your hand on your heart
Lift your head to the stars
And the world's for your taking
So you feel it's the end of the story
Find it all pretty satisfactory
Well I tell you my friend
This might seem like the end
But the continuation
Is yours for the making
Yes you're a hero
I imagine if this goes mainstream (unlikely, but let say if) it's the end of 'fuzzbusters' and police radar detectors.
I demand we level the playing field, and make certain it screews up rader guns used by state troopers.
But really, do we need to be bathed in even more radio and/or microwave radiation? Isn't cancer a bit harsh penalty for tailgating?
Chef: Hello there children.
Kyle: Hey Chef.
Chef: How you doin'?
Boys: Bad.
Chef: Why bad?
Kyle: We need to genetically engineer our mouse and an monkey, but their genes won't splice.
Chef: Ahhhh, of course they won't splice children. Haven't you ever heard that song by 'Loverboy'?
Chef: Dooodnnndoodnn - A mouse and an monkey DNA just won't...A mouse-monkey. Say, now that's not a bad idea.
Kyle: I told you guys.
Chef: Imagine, a pint sized monkey that you could keep in the house. Children, we could make a fortune with this.
Kyle: You hear that dudes? We'll be rich!
Chef: Forget about all that genetic engineering whoosafudge. If you want to combine a mouse and an monkey, just get them to make sweeet love.
Cartman: Whaaat?!
Stan: I don't think an monkey would make love to a mouse.
Cartman: I don't think my mouse would want to make love to that stupid monkey.
Chef: Sure they would. But you're gonna have to get 'em in the mood.
Stan: So how do we do that?
Chef: Do what I do, get 'em goood and drunk.
rollergirl don't worry
Linux plays the movies all night long
Bounty Hunters. We don't need their kind.
...could they have hung out at the ISS and waited for NASA to send up a rescue craft?
No. Columbia was the oldest orbiter, and even though it had been refit and upgraded in many ways, it still had it's original airframe. Columbia was the heaviest of the orbiters, and unable to achieve the high orbit of the ISS. It was the only shuttle unable to make flights to the space station.
Even IF Columbia were able to achieve the altitude needed for docking, it was in an orbit that would take it nowhere near ISS. And IF it had been able to make it to ISS, Columbia did not have the docking module needed to dock to ISS. Without the docking module, the crew would need to EVA to get to ISS. Columbia did not have the spacesuits needed for this.
Columbia's ONLY option would be to wait for Atlantis, and Atlantis would have to be preped for launch in such a hurry that it's crew would be at extreme risk.
Columbia should have been retired a long time ago. We should have been using a 2nd gen shuttle by now. It may be sad to think that the shuttle fleet is to be retired with NASA's Mars goals, but in truth it was time.
I'm a big fan of the Space program, but NASA's claims that the shuttle fleet was designed to fly for 50 years should fail anybody's smell test. We don't use school buses for 50 years. Are we supposed to believe that they accounted for 50 years of metal fatigue when designing the shuttle fleet?
After Challenger NASA placed the odds for loss of a shuttle at 1 in 100. Those are risky odds. You wouldn't fly on an airplane with those odds.
The Shuttles never made the price of lauching satelites cheaper (it's primary goal) and it never made the turnaround cycle shorter than disposable launch systems.
It's time for NASA to get out of the trucking business and back to science.
Good news - The Spirit rover has contacted JPL!
Bad News - It has detected a new device and is asking for the Windows Install CD to be inserted to continue.
The european picture looks like it's artwork. It does not seem real.
Oh, I can't wait for the first time we see one of these "busts" go bad. I'd love to see the fallout for the RIAA when some grainy video shows up on CNN showing RIAA thugs kicking the crap out of someone for selling bootleg Tupac CDs. I'm going to have a fscking blast watching Jesse Jackson rip them a new one.
Most of these people are old enough to have voted in the old voting booths with hundreds of little levers. Rows and rows of them. And then there was the big red lever that commited your vote.
These people could operate that system, but can't touch a button on a screen? Bullshit. They didn't vote, or the software is fsck'ed. But we'll never know, because there's no hard copy.
Why are we having this system pushed on us instead of the no.2 pencil and ovals? That system is electronic, it's verfiable, it's an established technology.
Despite the tin foil beenie cap conspiracy freeks who think tri-lateralists are behind all of this, I think we are seeing an example of government contracting abuse. Florida has paid for a bunch of machines and now finds they don't work.
It just so happens we're not spineless. Except you, Mr. Rollover. I'm glad you don't work for IBM.
Acting meek and meely-mouthed is not going to get us anywhere. Why should we not be confident, hold our heads up and say "Hey, we didn't do anything wrong!!! Those guys are full of crap! We can show you how they are full of crap!" That's what Bruce Perins and Groklaw and Linus and numerous top players have been doing. If at the end of making their case they make an editorial comment, deal with it. Some of these guys are media savy to know that you have to give a soundbite if you want press.
We forgot to take the high road? Blow me! Why should we not be outraged? SCO is stealing - yes, STEALING - the work of honest developers and distributing it without a valid license. SCO is not abiding by the GPL. They are now software pirates.
Gamers don't like watching cut scenes, much less two hour bullshit that panders down to the "dude..." mentality.
You want to reach gamers? Use games.
If Spike does a TV show it's going to take a lot more T&A to get anyone to care.
It was an external SCSI unit that was housed in a unit 2 inches high by a foot square. The unit was marketed by a third party Mac vendor, but the drive IDed itself as a Ricoh. The unit sold for ~$350 dollars at the time. The pack in software was Mac only, so I had to sit on the drive for a short time until I got Corel EZ CD Creator 3. (Yes, corel published it at that time).
Trust me, it was a pain in the ass being the only guy I knew with a CD burner. Suddenly everyone wanted a favor. It's a bit like owning a truck. Everyone is your friend and wants help moving.
So Optima can kiss my ass! I know there's prior art, and their patent is shit!
Wrestling promoter, hell, what about MJ's answering machine? Peter and Green Goblin have a discussion that's being recorded, and everything MJ needs to get a clue is discussed.
It would be nice if they got past the secret between Pater and MJ in the next movie. It doesn't work for me. "Gee, Spiderman, you have the same arrested-development sounding voice as my friend Peter Parker."
To which Spidey says "You were so much hotter in Interview with a Vampire"
As a blender user and foundation member I've watched as the features, inovations, and rate of development have gone up since it went open source and GPL last year. We have tons of new python scripts, a new gui that continues to evolve, better rendering...
It's not Maya, but it's on par with anything in the low-mid range for windows, and it's getting better by leaps and bounds
Give Blender a couple years and we might Hollywood contributing code. Hollywood lves Gimp, and I could see this becoming a real player in 3D.
"Actually, are you sure the Cylons used EMP to wipe-out the new Colonial fighters? It actually seems more like they sent out a signal to disable the jets, probably thanks to #6 infiltrating the Colonial defense net a la Baltar."
I stand corrected. I remember that now that you mention it.
In that case, the failure of the fighter craft is even harder to excuse. Every (modern) piece of Colonial hardware are built on a single software platform, and someone could slip a backdoor into this system. Are these people still on Windows? Frak me, the military in the distant year of this show has never heard of hostile computer code? Next thing you'll be telling me they find it useful to cut the corners off of all their papers!
Sound was usually limited to when a ship was right next to the camera and some sound when ships and objects collide (usually a quick camera cut inside the ship to help excuse the sound).
A better model for spaceflight was used in this show. Ships use manuvering thrusters to position, ships have inertia when engines cut out. Boomer and a shipmate escape a wing of Cylons by cutting all power and drifting to Caprica, and restoring power only when the ionisphere is reached.
There do not seem to be forcefields present on hanger decks. Large transparent doors cover a bay in one scene.
Galactica seems to rely on brute force to withstand a strike from a 50 megaton nuke (the weapon of choice for these cylons). No mentions of shields or defensive screens, just a shitload of hull plates.
A fire is extinguisted by venting all air in the damaged section into space. Of course, a few crew are lost when this happens.
Dumb things (just a few):
Galactica needs to pulls it's flight decks inward to jump to FTL speed.
Baltar looks at a nuke as it goes off, shockwave arrives 30 seconds later. This means it's a relatively close strike and he should be dead/blind/both.
We're supposed to belive there's nothing on a 2nd gen viper that is sensitive to EMP. Starbuck shakes off a EMP pulse when more advanced Vipers fail.
Apollo uses some old generators to blast an EMP during a Cylon attack. This fools th Cylons into thinking the ship he's on (a civilian liner) is destoyed. DUMB DUMB DUMB. 1) The civilian ship functions as normal afterward, no mention of systems damaged. Aparently this ship's systems are hardened better than military grade. 2) The Cylons use EMP as a weapon all the time and should not be fooled by such a tactic.
Adama figures out a character is a cyclon for no good reason. My wife and I are watching the show thinking this character has radiation sickness, but Adama (out of the blue) somehow figures out that the nearby space storm is causing his cylon brain to fail. Don't forget nobody other than Baltar is alive that has seen a new Cylon. Adama didn't even need a tricorder. Beat that, Wheaton!
Number Six's mechanical spine glows during an interlude with Baltar. OK, she's a robot, right? But for some reason nobody can think of a decent way to check if people are real or cylons. You would think a metal detector is all you would need....