If the dolphins complain, then we can just give them complimentary underwater-jet-packs. Then, on romantic moonlit nights, passengers on cruise ships can watch the playful dolphins jump over the boat.
This is a really interesting question--I always come up with the following situation (since I already have some biased thoughts on the matter):
So, they decide to teleport you to somewhere--to make it easy, they teleport you across the room. (It seems that the "reading" process will destroy the initial object, but I'm going to play with that so I can make some distinctions.) You step into the teleport-machine, which then tells the other machine across the room to builkd a perfect copy of you. Something goes wrong, though, and you step out of the original machine just in time to see yourself step out of the new machine.
Now, if it's true that the copy of you is the same as the original, then should anyone have any qualms about shooting [the original] you in the head (or putting you in a particle-vaporization chamber, if you want to quibble), just to clear things up? I mean, the original was supposed to be vaporized anyway, and should be no more, now that there is that perfect copy across the room. . . so now is the "accidental original" expendable?
Notice that in most of the discussions so far, nothing is sent across the room other than instructions on how to make a perfect copy.
I guess my thoughts are that a perfect copy can be substitutedtransparently for the original, unless you happen to be the original. No one else might notice, but you sure would.
Is this reasoning fatally flawed, or can I remain concerned?
>> Who says you need source to fix problems? In this case, it's as simple as setting a password for th sa user.
Word up. The people this worm will affect are those who should know better. It's not like my gramma's running SQL Server, after all. (If she were, nobody would ever know the password. Some people's memory is quite the security device.)
God forbid that the world would go on without Transformers! About 5 years ago, they appeared in the warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded battles of Beast Wars (the heroic Maximals led by the oddly named Optimus Primal), then on to the organic vs. inorganic battles of Beast Machines, and there's a new incarnation called "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" which I think starts this fall on FOX-kids. There was even a new spinoff in Japan lamely named "Car Robots."
The only reason I know this is because my roommate and his brothers are die-hard TF-fans (they run www.unicron.com) and have nearly every Transformer known to man. That's not to say the new toys are all great, though--as I'm writing this, I'm looking at the Evil Predicon "Slappy" (some sort of frog with a medieval mace for a tongue) and "Gas Skunk" (a skunk/scorpion combo). They're not all that bad, but I suppose it's hard to come up with a lot of cool names like "Starscream".
If you want to see pure, unleashed fury, check out the movies at http://www.phonebashing.com/. These guys dress up in cell-phone suits and smash the cellphones of passersby. I'd try to start a local chapter, but I'm way too timid.
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With an infinite number of unlimited-storage drives, you could use the RAID Controller of God to store the BLUEPRINTS OF ALL CREATION.
You'd probably want to store them in a rackmount enclosure tall enough to reach into heaven.
Uh. . . that "golden shower" isn't much cleaner than your money-bath.
I respectfully submit anything by Morty Fineman.
If the dolphins complain, then we can just give them complimentary underwater-jet-packs. Then, on romantic moonlit nights, passengers on cruise ships can watch the playful dolphins jump over the boat.
I want a T-shirt that says: "Rectangular Game-Prism"
Look for Houston to replace all of its roads with train-tracks in the near future.
If you wanna pirate, that's your call. . .
But I wanna pony! Waaaaaah!
This is a really interesting question--I always come up with the following situation (since I already have some biased thoughts on the matter):
So, they decide to teleport you to somewhere--to make it easy, they teleport you across the room. (It seems that the "reading" process will destroy the initial object, but I'm going to play with that so I can make some distinctions.) You step into the teleport-machine, which then tells the other machine across the room to builkd a perfect copy of you. Something goes wrong, though, and you step out of the original machine just in time to see yourself step out of the new machine.
Now, if it's true that the copy of you is the same as the original, then should anyone have any qualms about shooting [the original] you in the head (or putting you in a particle-vaporization chamber, if you want to quibble), just to clear things up? I mean, the original was supposed to be vaporized anyway, and should be no more, now that there is that perfect copy across the room. . . so now is the "accidental original" expendable?
Notice that in most of the discussions so far, nothing is sent across the room other than instructions on how to make a perfect copy.
I guess my thoughts are that a perfect copy can be substitutedtransparently for the original, unless you happen to be the original. No one else might notice, but you sure would.
Is this reasoning fatally flawed, or can I remain concerned?
The above comment can be freed of potential pro/anti-gun polemics by replacing any mention of "guns" with either
A) Blunt objects
B) Lions
C) Seemingly-innocent handkerchiefs
Word up. The people this worm will affect are those who should know better. It's not like my gramma's running SQL Server, after all. (If she were, nobody would ever know the password. Some people's memory is quite the security device.)
God forbid that the world would go on without Transformers! About 5 years ago, they appeared in the warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded battles of Beast Wars (the heroic Maximals led by the oddly named Optimus Primal), then on to the organic vs. inorganic battles of Beast Machines, and there's a new incarnation called "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" which I think starts this fall on FOX-kids. There was even a new spinoff in Japan lamely named "Car Robots."
The only reason I know this is because my roommate and his brothers are die-hard TF-fans (they run www.unicron.com) and have nearly every Transformer known to man. That's not to say the new toys are all great, though--as I'm writing this, I'm looking at the Evil Predicon "Slappy" (some sort of frog with a medieval mace for a tongue) and "Gas Skunk" (a skunk/scorpion combo). They're not all that bad, but I suppose it's hard to come up with a lot of cool names like "Starscream".
If you want to see pure, unleashed fury, check out the movies at http://www.phonebashing.com/. These guys dress up in cell-phone suits and smash the cellphones of passersby. I'd try to start a local chapter, but I'm way too timid.