(see, Arthur is running around the countryside pretending to be on a horse while his squire claps to coconuts together to make the sounds of a horse galloping. One of the other characters calls him on this and Arthur tries to explain that the coconut probably was transported to England by a migrating African swallow...)
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony! You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you! If I went around sayin' I was Emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
Help, help, I'm being repressed!!! Come see the violence inherent in the system!
What was that Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman movie? Outbreak?
something like "I cut this kid open and it looked like a bomb went off. All his organs were liquified."
Not a pleasant way to die, by any stretch. This story about a bio-engineered, crippled DNA string virus sounds like the premise for a sci-fi novel:
The DNA in the vaccine has been bioengineered by Vical to remove 'the part that triggers illness and the part that might allow the DNA to recombine with the DNA of some other virus.'
... what no one knew was that some bio-engineer on the project built a "DNA-backdoor" that allowed him to release an even more virulent strain of the virus that was immune to the vaccine that had been administered to 20 trillion human beings throughout the 7 million inhabited worlds of the earth-empire colonies and territories. Then, he held the galaxy hostage, threatening to release his bio-weapon and wipe out civilization in 28 days unless his demands were met.
His demands? "...and I want the letter 'M', stricken from the English Alphabet!!!'
Alcubierre has proposed a way of beating the FTL speed limit that is somewhat like the expansion of the universe, but on a more local scale. He has developed a "metric" for general relativity, a mathematical representation of the curvature of space, that describes a region of flat space surrounded by a "warp" that propels it forward at any arbitrary velocity, including FTL speeds. Alcubierre's warp is constructed of hyperbolic tangent functions which create a very peculiar distortion of space at the edges of the flat-space volume. In effect, new space is rapidly being created (like an expanding universe) at the back side of the moving volume, and existing space is being annihilated (like a universe collapsing to a Big Crunch) at the front side of the moving volume. Thus, a space ship within the volume of the Alcubierre warp (and the volume itself) would be pushed forward by the expansion of space at its rear and the contraction of space in front.
Sounds like Farnsworth's explanation of how his "dark matter drive" worked. The engine does not propel the spaceship. The engine makes it possible for the ship to remain in place while the universe moves.
I was searching yesterday for possum traps, animal control, suchlike because I have a possum living under my back step I want to get rid of. Nothing personal, he just smells really bad and I want to find someone who will trap and release him somewhere else.
My seach came up with lots of hits, but all were in.au or.nz
Is possum trapping a big thing down-under? I tried to change my search to look for midwest suppliers, but I couldn't come up with anything.
Hope this helps (when it recovers from whatever is wrong with it right now).
> "why would the music industry do such an awful thing" from people who before couldn't have cared less about the issue.
Nope. Word from the soccer-pool is "gee, our kids might be doing something illegal!! Johnny is on that 'puter all the time, I have no idea what he is doing!! I can't afford $2000 because Johhny is doing something wrong!!! I'm going to go home right now and unplug the modem and hope it's not too late!!!!
Despite the colourfulness of the above anecdote, it is known that the use of the word "bug" to describe defects in mechanical systems dates back to at least the 1870s. Thomas Edison, for one, used the term in his notebooks.
However, saying "the first documented cased of an actual bug (insect) being found" as the cause of a processing error may have been more apropos.
Well, probably not that poor (she doesn't go to public school and her family can afford a computer, internet access and $29.95 for a Kazza account), but certainly not the typical mid-upper class well-off college student that they probably expect (on average).
I think the RIAA screwed up here and I'm glad of it, but I wonder too about how this all went down. The girl (and not her parents) is named in the lawsuit? Makes me wonder how they are getting the names. I would assume the parents set up the ISP and Kaaza accounts with a credit card in their own name? How, then, did they end up with her name?
> the studio execs try to work out how the *hell* they are supposed to spin this.
Apparently this is the best they can do:
"Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said Cary Sherman, the RIAA's president. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.
Poor them! Their hand was forced -- nobody likes being an asshole, but you have to do what is "appropriate" when someone is doing you wrong.
Apparently, this includes scaring the shit out of a 12-year-old honor's student who lives in public housing.
"We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
Hey, when you're blindly suing hundreds of people, who has time to check into anything? Poor RIAA!
We got rockstars in the Whitehouse All our popstars look like porn All my heroes hit the highway They don't hang out here no more
I mean, yeah... there's nothing wrong with hot-looking popstars, but the current trend of promoting jail-bait-looking hotties is pretty unsettling...and yes, I _am_ a parent.
Why deflect it into a different path rather than just speed up or slow it down?
The problem is that the asteroid's orbit is going to intersect the earth's orbit at a time when the earth is there, right? Instead of trying to divert the asteroid to a different orbit so it misses the earth's orbit, why not change it's velocity to make sure it crosses earth's path when the earth isn't there?
I thought the same thing when I first saw it too, but apparently he has a swath of dyed hair on top that looks like thinning hair in the B&W photo (I saw video of the guy being led around on the news a few minutes ago, he's not bald yet).
Jeffrey Lee Parson, who was arrested August 29, 2003 on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer, according to a St. Paul district court clerk, is pictured in this Hopkins High School 2003 yearbook photo. The Minnesota teenager arrested by the FBI (news - web sites), admitted to making a copycat variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm, even as experts combed over data to hunt down the virus's creator, officials said. REUTERS/HO/Minneapolis Star Tribune
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That's later on..
oy, where'd you get coconuts anyway?
(see, Arthur is running around the countryside pretending to be on a horse while his squire claps to coconuts together to make the sounds of a horse galloping. One of the other characters calls him on this and Arthur tries to explain that the coconut probably was transported to England by a migrating African swallow...)
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony! You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you! If I went around sayin' I was Emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
Help, help, I'm being repressed!!! Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Now do you see what I'm on about?
How do you know he's a moderator?
He 'ent got shit ellover'im.
yeah, because anyone who is gay is obviously a ped too, right?
something like "I cut this kid open and it looked like a bomb went off. All his organs were liquified."
Not a pleasant way to die, by any stretch. This story about a bio-engineered, crippled DNA string virus sounds like the premise for a sci-fi novel:
The DNA in the vaccine has been bioengineered by Vical to remove 'the part that triggers illness and the part that might allow the DNA to recombine with the DNA of some other virus.'
His demands? "...and I want the letter 'M', stricken from the English Alphabet!!!'
*snicker* getaway car!
Sounds like Farnsworth's explanation of how his "dark matter drive" worked. The engine does not propel the spaceship. The engine makes it possible for the ship to remain in place while the universe moves.
and what percent had linux plans (or even knew what it was) before this SCO business started making headlines in the trades?
Our CTO didn't until she read about this and asked for a position paper.
98% of CIO's can't find their own a-holes with both hands and a mirror.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116118/
well, mase for TV, anyway
I really need this!
.au or .nz
I was searching yesterday for possum traps, animal control, suchlike because I have a possum living under my back step I want to get rid of. Nothing personal, he just smells really bad and I want to find someone who will trap and release him somewhere else.
My seach came up with lots of hits, but all were in
Is possum trapping a big thing down-under? I tried to change my search to look for midwest suppliers, but I couldn't come up with anything.
Hope this helps (when it recovers from whatever is wrong with it right now).
I love this headline:
It all turns out fine for 12-year-old internet pirate
She's a pirate. Bet it was the funny hat, parrot and eyepatch that gave her away!
> "why would the music industry do such an awful thing" from people who before couldn't have cared less about the issue.
Nope. Word from the soccer-pool is "gee, our kids might be doing something illegal!! Johnny is on that 'puter all the time, I have no idea what he is doing!! I can't afford $2000 because Johhny is doing something wrong!!! I'm going to go home right now and unplug the modem and hope it's not too late!!!!
*sigh*
I realize it's too much to hope ppl will RTFA, but in this case her mom is employed:
Brianna's mother, Sylvia, 40, director of a nurse placement agency,
>The Wikipedia has a "computer bug" entry that lists some other "famous bugs" including the fictional HAL 9000 bug.
.36 seconds during the 4-day continuous siege, the error increasing with elapsed time since the system was turned on. This software flaw prevented real-time tracking. The specifications called for aircraft speeds, not Mach 6 missiles, for 14-hour continuous performance, not 100. Patched software arrived via air one day later.
Yeah, it lists them, but doesn't really link to good stories -- so...
An error in a single FORTRAN statement resulted in the loss of the first American probe to Venus.
Software reboot during the Apollo 11 landing forced Armstrong to manually land the lunar lander.
An Iraqi Scud missile hit Dhahran barracks, leaving 28 dead and 98 wounded. The incoming missile was not detected by the Patriot defenses, whose clock had drifted
The Ariane 5 satellite launcher malfunction was caused by a faulty software exception routine resulting from a bad 64-bit floating point to 16-bit integer conversion.
lots more here and here.
Despite the colourfulness of the above anecdote, it is known that the use of the word "bug" to describe defects in mechanical systems dates back to at least the 1870s. Thomas Edison, for one, used the term in his notebooks.
However, saying "the first documented cased of an actual bug (insect) being found" as the cause of a processing error may have been more apropos.
may I humbly recommend pearls before swine?
not the greatest comic strip ever penned, but we ususally get a good chuckle when we thumb thru the comics during a break.
>Her family is dirt poor.
Well, probably not that poor (she doesn't go to public school and her family can afford a computer, internet access and $29.95 for a Kazza account), but certainly not the typical mid-upper class well-off college student that they probably expect (on average).
I think the RIAA screwed up here and I'm glad of it, but I wonder too about how this all went down. The girl (and not her parents) is named in the lawsuit? Makes me wonder how they are getting the names. I would assume the parents set up the ISP and Kaaza accounts with a credit card in their own name? How, then, did they end up with her name?
Apparently this is the best they can do:
"Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said Cary Sherman, the RIAA's president. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.
Poor them! Their hand was forced -- nobody likes being an asshole, but you have to do what is "appropriate" when someone is doing you wrong.
Apparently, this includes scaring the shit out of a 12-year-old honor's student who lives in public housing.
"We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
Hey, when you're blindly suing hundreds of people, who has time to check into anything? Poor RIAA!
Sheryl Crow
Steve McQueen
C'Mon C'Mon
We got rockstars in the Whitehouse
All our popstars look like porn
All my heroes hit the highway
They don't hang out here no more
I mean, yeah... there's nothing wrong with hot-looking popstars, but the current trend of promoting jail-bait-looking hotties is pretty unsettling.
Heh, gotta love those wacky html coders!
that's computerworld receiving the /.ing
the isp is here
picture of the aftermath here
Why deflect it into a different path rather than just speed up or slow it down?
The problem is that the asteroid's orbit is going to intersect the earth's orbit at a time when the earth is there, right? Instead of trying to divert the asteroid to a different orbit so it misses the earth's orbit, why not change it's velocity to make sure it crosses earth's path when the earth isn't there?
I'm thinking a really big parachute (kidding).
>He looks bald at age 18 !!
I thought the same thing when I first saw it too, but apparently he has a swath of dyed hair on top that looks like thinning hair in the B&W photo (I saw video of the guy being led around on the news a few minutes ago, he's not bald yet).
you're probably right
see his picture here
Jeffrey Lee Parson, who was arrested August 29, 2003 on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer, according to a St. Paul district court clerk, is pictured in this Hopkins High School 2003 yearbook photo. The Minnesota teenager arrested by the FBI (news - web sites), admitted to making a copycat variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm, even as experts combed over data to hunt down the virus's creator, officials said. REUTERS/HO/Minneapolis Star Tribune
looks the part