Just wait till this Bob the Blob starts growing synapses between it's algae and finds the pleasures of dopamine production. Living, breathing and thinking blob is in the coast of Alaska, and its horny.
Our worst fears come true. Lets just feed it some caffeine too...
On the more serious note, I have seen algae blooms quite a many times in my life but that one really is big. I too hope that it will not create a huge dead zone, but what can we do? I don't want to blame the global warming, but it does increase the chances of one of these huge blobs forming. Lets just hope that its not poisonous and it won't float towards a swimming beach. I also have to admit that the geek inside of me hoped that this would be something more. It may be caused by me watching 3 seasons of x-files withing a week before the news first reached slashdot and just having read the swarm, but a geek can dream, a geek can dream...
A two dimensional movie with no real plot but a huge amount of things blowing up?
An overpowered spaceship destroying everything that moves and stands on it's way for no reason?
A movie with 100% pure action and 0% human interaction?
Welcome to Hollywood!
It indeed may be able to reduce the amount of child porn watched in Germany. The problem is that once something has been censored or blocked, if someone wants to get their hands on that censored material, they will find a way. Child porn is not very "mainstream" and I'm pretty sure that quite many of those who are watching it are able to find a new way of watching it. Be it different sites (like you all know, the internet has a habit of rerouting itself once a part of it has been cut. I don't think that this will happen though), proxies or real children (not a likely outcome though).
The thing I'm worried about is the fact that once you started censoring something, the threshold to censor something else falls. Once you have started, you may easily start censoring some other things, just like those killer games that were mentioned. First the porn, then the games and what next?
Indeed, they proved what it is complitely possible to hijack a huge botnet and destroy a big part of it. (Well, everything is possible and there is quite much variation between different botnets, but still...)
The problem is that they also gained access to a huge supply of bank account, credit card numbers and such. This itself can be consider a huge crime, even if they weren't planning to use them themselves. Legally speaking, hijacking it didn't differ much from creating a botnet for yourself. Also hijacking a botnet ofcourse involves interracting with the infected computers, which is a crime.
Morally speaking this all is acceptable and benificial for the public good. Yet, legally speaking it seems a bit suspicious activity. You can't always be certain that the goal of this kind of operation is as naive as this time.
Well anyway, good job!
I agree with you but there is a slight problem with having copyrights released after the authors death.
"Boom, head shot. All your music are belong to us."
In music, I think that this would be acceptable, but in some other material it would cause a possible danger for the author, if there is a ruthless enough publisher that wants to produce the copyrighted material. Or someone might be arrested for the possession of pirated goods and then decide to kill the author so his/hers prison sentence would be shortened.
Well this is quite unlikely though.
Let's just hope that they don't mail order it from Ikea...
Well even if it will survive it's annihilation in the nuclear doomsday, it will be disintegrated when the Earth is destroyed to make room for an intergalactic highway.
Finland. Hmm.. thats where I live...
Luckily it's just this small village where I live, that is monopolized by my ISP. I bet that you can guess which one.
I'm paying 44EUR for 1Mbps but no limit. (well, not at least any real limit. They just check the stats and say "Hmm, that poor pirating bastard has used 5GB of our precious bandwith this month." and press the button. No letter nor anything whatsoever.)
This is madness. My ISP cut the phone lines where I live (is that even legal?) and the only wireless connection available is by that ISP! They simply forced my neighborhood into using their pricey and low quality connection. (1Mb max, 6 hour waiting line in the service phone and sometimes the connection just vanishes for a couple of days.)
No mattter, I'm moving out in a few months. It's rare that someone moves because of their ISP...
And 3million years from now, alien archaeologist discovers a frozen corpse of the bravest little astronaut of planet Earth. The bat far away from his home. At least they can have some interesting arguments on how it ended up in there.
So we are to believe some conspiracy theories, aliens are going to capture it, thinking that bats are the dominant intelligent species of Earth. (After watching too much Batman from Earth tv.) Soon the bat will return to Earth as a super intelligent genetically engineered super bat and try to dominate Earth. Just like the chimps.
Welcome, my wonderful new bat masters. Please don't probe me.
USB fingers are cool, but if you really want to show everyone who's boss you will need a USB Groin Attachment Socket(tm). Just think about plucking your groin in a USB drive of a library computer... The ladies will like it too.
"Small USB memory detected. Booting up Groinal Linux..."
Now where did I leave my scissors?...
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Just wait till this Bob the Blob starts growing synapses between it's algae and finds the pleasures of dopamine production. Living, breathing and thinking blob is in the coast of Alaska, and its horny. Our worst fears come true. Lets just feed it some caffeine too... On the more serious note, I have seen algae blooms quite a many times in my life but that one really is big. I too hope that it will not create a huge dead zone, but what can we do? I don't want to blame the global warming, but it does increase the chances of one of these huge blobs forming. Lets just hope that its not poisonous and it won't float towards a swimming beach. I also have to admit that the geek inside of me hoped that this would be something more. It may be caused by me watching 3 seasons of x-files withing a week before the news first reached slashdot and just having read the swarm, but a geek can dream, a geek can dream...
A two dimensional movie with no real plot but a huge amount of things blowing up? An overpowered spaceship destroying everything that moves and stands on it's way for no reason? A movie with 100% pure action and 0% human interaction? Welcome to Hollywood!
It indeed may be able to reduce the amount of child porn watched in Germany. The problem is that once something has been censored or blocked, if someone wants to get their hands on that censored material, they will find a way. Child porn is not very "mainstream" and I'm pretty sure that quite many of those who are watching it are able to find a new way of watching it. Be it different sites (like you all know, the internet has a habit of rerouting itself once a part of it has been cut. I don't think that this will happen though), proxies or real children (not a likely outcome though). The thing I'm worried about is the fact that once you started censoring something, the threshold to censor something else falls. Once you have started, you may easily start censoring some other things, just like those killer games that were mentioned. First the porn, then the games and what next?
Indeed, they proved what it is complitely possible to hijack a huge botnet and destroy a big part of it. (Well, everything is possible and there is quite much variation between different botnets, but still...) The problem is that they also gained access to a huge supply of bank account, credit card numbers and such. This itself can be consider a huge crime, even if they weren't planning to use them themselves. Legally speaking, hijacking it didn't differ much from creating a botnet for yourself. Also hijacking a botnet ofcourse involves interracting with the infected computers, which is a crime. Morally speaking this all is acceptable and benificial for the public good. Yet, legally speaking it seems a bit suspicious activity. You can't always be certain that the goal of this kind of operation is as naive as this time. Well anyway, good job!
I agree with you but there is a slight problem with having copyrights released after the authors death. "Boom, head shot. All your music are belong to us." In music, I think that this would be acceptable, but in some other material it would cause a possible danger for the author, if there is a ruthless enough publisher that wants to produce the copyrighted material. Or someone might be arrested for the possession of pirated goods and then decide to kill the author so his/hers prison sentence would be shortened. Well this is quite unlikely though.
So, now we have the world's fastest carrot? Well I can't say that I hadn't always hoped for a borch soup on wheels...
Money is what the law is all about! And that is exactly what Google has and TBP doesn't.
Let's just hope that they don't mail order it from Ikea... Well even if it will survive it's annihilation in the nuclear doomsday, it will be disintegrated when the Earth is destroyed to make room for an intergalactic highway.
Finland. Hmm.. thats where I live... Luckily it's just this small village where I live, that is monopolized by my ISP. I bet that you can guess which one.
I'm paying 44EUR for 1Mbps but no limit. (well, not at least any real limit. They just check the stats and say "Hmm, that poor pirating bastard has used 5GB of our precious bandwith this month." and press the button. No letter nor anything whatsoever.) This is madness. My ISP cut the phone lines where I live (is that even legal?) and the only wireless connection available is by that ISP! They simply forced my neighborhood into using their pricey and low quality connection. (1Mb max, 6 hour waiting line in the service phone and sometimes the connection just vanishes for a couple of days.) No mattter, I'm moving out in a few months. It's rare that someone moves because of their ISP...
But where's Uwe Boll?
And 3million years from now, alien archaeologist discovers a frozen corpse of the bravest little astronaut of planet Earth. The bat far away from his home. At least they can have some interesting arguments on how it ended up in there.
So we are to believe some conspiracy theories, aliens are going to capture it, thinking that bats are the dominant intelligent species of Earth. (After watching too much Batman from Earth tv.) Soon the bat will return to Earth as a super intelligent genetically engineered super bat and try to dominate Earth. Just like the chimps. Welcome, my wonderful new bat masters. Please don't probe me.
USB fingers are cool, but if you really want to show everyone who's boss you will need a USB Groin Attachment Socket(tm). Just think about plucking your groin in a USB drive of a library computer... The ladies will like it too. "Small USB memory detected. Booting up Groinal Linux..." Now where did I leave my scissors?...