And if this turns out to be true, then I don't give a shit what they do with the HPC. I want to meet the person who managed to get this expense approved with basically little or no justification behind it, for that is far more amazing to me than the hardware.
Her name is Candy and she works really hard for that hardware.
I would be interested in knowing the story of the engineering. When you consider a bonus of years of use from a device designed with a 90-day warranty, you'd really like to meet the folks who put the device together.
Yes, clearly they need to be fired immediately. I mean, creating a product that outlives its warranty by more than 3 months is ridiculous. Frankly it should be a crime and god willing soon will be.
I don't even think the Enterprise D could pull it away with a tractor beam.
They would need to use a multi-phase tracker beam while diverting all power from the warp drive and most from life support. Perhaps even use a modified shuttle to create a warp bubble around the object to reduce its mass. Or they could just ask Q to do it.
So not only does this mean that your jamming transmitter can be small (not much power to dissipate when you're only transmitting a 100ms pulse, but it means that the power source can be small, and the short duration of the signal makes it hard to find.
So when you're ready to create your civil disruption, you drop 100 of these jammers around town (they can be quite small, powered by a couple D-cell batteries for a few days), with so many jammers, it's hard to triangulate on any single one of them.
Any EE undergrad should be able to build these jammers using easily obtained off-the-shelf components.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen... tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.
Bread and circus my friend... There is a third option however... DEATH by Lawyer... I don't think you want that option, as it involves listening to readings of out of date law books for weeks on end while being cut 1000's of times by legal briefs filled in patent and trademark cases... among other things... works wonders at gitmo... woopps... I didn't say that....
But I also remember downloading stuff from the usenet alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* newsgroups and needing to edit out the headers, cat them together, and then run the whole thing through uudecode. Good times -- that's partly how I learned vi.;-)
Haven't we been arguing this since the invention of the copy machine? As long as people want something bad enough, they will get it. The cat and mouse game will never end and the cat will never win. For every torrent site that gets shut down, 3 new ones appear. The genie technology has been let out of the bottle. People will find new ways to transport and hide/encrypt their files.
If you're of noble birth and choose to make most everything illegal, than you've made most everyone else your slave. Make knowledge illegal and their children and children's children become slaves. Make chiropractic schools illegal and you've made Dr. Bob your new court jester.
The reports currently are that the train cars detailed because of a collision, not because they were simply going too fast and took a sharp turn on faulty rails. Can you really expect cars to remain on the tracks after a collision?
So does anyone know if the firmware can be upgraded to cause the battery to burst into fames? That would be funny and probably not covered by the apple warranty.
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And if this turns out to be true, then I don't give a shit what they do with the HPC. I want to meet the person who managed to get this expense approved with basically little or no justification behind it, for that is far more amazing to me than the hardware.
Her name is Candy and she works really hard for that hardware.
and ate all the pancakes...
something like a WiFi card can generate a strong enough signal that blows the amplifiers of the telescopes.
Time for a trip to W. Virginia with my AWUS036H! Damn dirty scientist with their magnets. HOW DO THEY FUCKING WORK!
Cool... but at the same time pointless. Seriously what is the point of this laser?
It'll keep those damn kids off of my lawn and in the ER where they belong.
"modulated for safety"
That sounds like it should be on a box of "star trek" brand condoms...
*Visual Studio required
Looks like Visual Studio 6 might work in wine...
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=892
I would be interested in knowing the story of the engineering. When you consider a bonus of years of use from a device designed with a 90-day warranty, you'd really like to meet the folks who put the device together.
Yes, clearly they need to be fired immediately. I mean, creating a product that outlives its warranty by more than 3 months is ridiculous. Frankly it should be a crime and god willing soon will be.
And the heat, assuming they're using all their old Hitachi Deskstar drives.
That sounds like a plot to a disaster movie... "Sir, the cluster won't shut down! We're looking at a full melt down!"
TO be fair he IS supposed be the first person to take the next step in human evolution.......the Traveler thing and all..
The next step in human evolution is to be gay? Somehow I don't think that is going to work out...
So... what you're saying is it's a "Diamond BOMB"! Get me the defence department STAT! We must acquire this new weapon before the commies...
I don't even think the Enterprise D could pull it away with a tractor beam.
They would need to use a multi-phase tracker beam while diverting all power from the warp drive and most from life support. Perhaps even use a modified shuttle to create a warp bubble around the object to reduce its mass. Or they could just ask Q to do it.
Do I have lung cancer in my crotch ??
Bend over to find out...
So not only does this mean that your jamming transmitter can be small (not much power to dissipate when you're only transmitting a 100ms pulse, but it means that the power source can be small, and the short duration of the signal makes it hard to find.
So when you're ready to create your civil disruption, you drop 100 of these jammers around town (they can be quite small, powered by a couple D-cell batteries for a few days), with so many jammers, it's hard to triangulate on any single one of them.
Any EE undergrad should be able to build these jammers using easily obtained off-the-shelf components.
open source project???
They will more inclined to believe that you will leave them with painful welts rather than obliterate them with the Maverick.
Well maybe I got the Maverick for free and need the garage space...
IT'S A TRAP!!!
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen... tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.
Bread and circus my friend... There is a third option however... DEATH by Lawyer... I don't think you want that option, as it involves listening to readings of out of date law books for weeks on end while being cut 1000's of times by legal briefs filled in patent and trademark cases... among other things... works wonders at gitmo... woopps... I didn't say that....
But I also remember downloading stuff from the usenet alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* newsgroups and needing to edit out the headers, cat them together, and then run the whole thing through uudecode. Good times -- that's partly how I learned vi. ;-)
wait.... but then how did you learn emacs?
Haven't we been arguing this since the invention of the copy machine? As long as people want something bad enough, they will get it. The cat and mouse game will never end and the cat will never win. For every torrent site that gets shut down, 3 new ones appear. The genie technology has been let out of the bottle. People will find new ways to transport and hide/encrypt their files.
If you're of noble birth and choose to make most everything illegal, than you've made most everyone else your slave. Make knowledge illegal and their children and children's children become slaves. Make chiropractic schools illegal and you've made Dr. Bob your new court jester.
I'm behind seven proxies, one is on the moon... Good Luck!
The reports currently are that the train cars detailed because of a collision, not because they were simply going too fast and took a sharp turn on faulty rails. Can you really expect cars to remain on the tracks after a collision?
If you use strong enough magnets...
So does anyone know if the firmware can be upgraded to cause the battery to burst into fames? That would be funny and probably not covered by the apple warranty.
I still don't get Google+ What's the selling point ?
It's not facebook...
This CD goes to eleven!
*checks the time stamps*
Sorry, you were one minute late. Those damned dirty Pastafarians apparently have invented time travel. Does his noodliness's gifts know any bounds?
FAITH