So if I was checking my Email, and found this phishing email in it specifically asking me to send information like name, address, social security number ect to them; would it be wrong of me to write a program that sends them a tetrabytes of names, addresses, social secrurity numbers, credit card numbers, all sliced and diced into uselessness?
A good random number generator might be indistinguishable from one that does just that.
Would the world be populated with your clones the American Indians would still be hunting their buffalo's and the Pyramids would not even be the dream of a king.
Assuming that they end up in a country over which a US court has jurisdiction and don't just, for example, get exported to some out-of-the-way country that would kill for the latest tech and aren't too bothered about whether Apple "supports" their hardware or not.
Thank you for your support, I shall wear it always. David Frost
The scientists owe it to the people there to reduce the risk of an escaped pathogen by as much as they can. Once they do that, there really shouldn't be anything to complain about--it would just be pure, irrational fear from what I can see.
Arguably, siting the lab in the middle of a giant supply of natural hosts for the pathogens being studied is a massive failure of risk reduction, no matter how many sci-fi airlocks they pencil in...
What if terrorists bring erasers and pencil them out.
There is no place more isolated than the arctic. We have had bases there in the past, one even had a sub reactor to power it. Considering the fact that the environment is very much not in tune with the needs of any escaped pathogens I would say that it is just about the best choice. It would be hard to access and harder to enter. Get down under the rock and you are safe and contained with no vectors of escape of the bugs. It is a far better choice than the bread basket of the USA and allot of the world.
I'm not worried about some virus spontaneously escaping into the wild. What I'm concerned about is a bunch of militant "animal rights" nitwits getting in and "liberating" diseased animals, causing all kinds of hell.
You've got a great point there. While the numbers are impressive (85 times more powerful?), the heating and cooling systems would have to be pretty efficient for it to be useful. The article also doesn't say how long it takes the fibers to recharge between twitches. Still, I think it's exciting, but that might just be because I'm writing a mechwarrior story with artificial muscles:)
You have artificial muscles? Does Lance know about this?
Seriously: It's discovery seems like a break-through and no one thought about catching a few alive ones to study them in a laboratory? I mean, "Oh, shiny! Let's catch a few!" is so obvious...
It's not the eating, it's the living conditions. We've kept pigs sheltered enough that they can experience the same problems as us, and suffer the same consequences.
Hang on, lady! Don't blame me! Maybe others do, but I swear I don't let (other) pigs on my couch in my basement... is barely large enough for myself!
(grin)
It sleeps on the floor and eats French toast. What could go wrong?
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So if I was checking my Email, and found this phishing email in it specifically asking me to send information like name, address, social security number ect to them; would it be wrong of me to write a program that sends them a tetrabytes of names, addresses, social secrurity numbers, credit card numbers, all sliced and diced into uselessness?
A good random number generator might be indistinguishable from one that does just that.
If the monkey thinks in circles, then the cursor moves in circles, rounds obstacles, and goes fast.
Terrific!
Does he have a db25 plug on his head?
be careful what you create, western legal trolls. it has a way of coming back to bite you in the ass (out of which comes delicious coffee)
Trolli luwak, aka lawyer shit coffee. Served in legal briefs, it is the supreme coffee. Get some now.
Would the world be populated with your clones the American Indians would still be hunting their buffalo's and the Pyramids would not even be the dream of a king.
Did queen Ti have a calculator?
Getting a robot to write it's own program has been done for a long time (10 years at least). This isn't even a new way of doing it, they are just using this guys code http://www.eejournal.com/archives/fresh-bytes/baxter-is-the-humanoid-robot-you-can-teach-without-programming/ .
Can Baxter (feminine of Baker) make twinkies?
Believe it or not, math informs many of the decisions business owners make -- just like it informs the decisions engineers make.
And government.
Genius is more like it. The next step is to auction the watch off while the publicity is still hot.
That is his TSA period, and of course it will go up in value when he has his next period.
Slashdot seems to love reporting this recurring story, I guess because you can write it with mad-libs...
Macros.
If I could only get that sorted out on my laptop, I could save myself as much as five minutes a year!
It was a little scratched up from falling off a truck, but it was a perfectly usable spare five minutes.
Who said it needs a touch screen and an app store? I'm sure they could put one big button on a small form factor phone and be done with it. :-)
The Apple iPoor. Coming to a store near you.
It'll tickle your iNerds.
Assuming that they end up in a country over which a US court has jurisdiction and don't just, for example, get exported to some out-of-the-way country that would kill for the latest tech and aren't too bothered about whether Apple "supports" their hardware or not.
Thank you for your support, I shall wear it always. David Frost
Old news..
they will be flagged, the GPS location logged and someone (law enforcement or maybe Apple security) will show up at the location.
GEheimnis STaats Apple POlizei
Yes, this eye-opening revelation of yours truly never gets old no matter how many times different people bring it up.
Are iFellows also geeks or iNerds.
The scientists owe it to the people there to reduce the risk of an escaped pathogen by as much as they can. Once they do that, there really shouldn't be anything to complain about--it would just be pure, irrational fear from what I can see.
Arguably, siting the lab in the middle of a giant supply of natural hosts for the pathogens being studied is a massive failure of risk reduction, no matter how many sci-fi airlocks they pencil in...
What if terrorists bring erasers and pencil them out.
There is no place more isolated than the arctic. We have had bases there in the past, one even had a sub reactor to power it. Considering the fact that the environment is very much not in tune with the needs of any escaped pathogens I would say that it is just about the best choice. It would be hard to access and harder to enter. Get down under the rock and you are safe and contained with no vectors of escape of the bugs. It is a far better choice than the bread basket of the USA and allot of the world.
Mike
Thule?
I'm not worried about some virus spontaneously escaping into the wild. What I'm concerned about is a bunch of militant "animal rights" nitwits getting in and "liberating" diseased animals, causing all kinds of hell.
You've got a great point there. While the numbers are impressive (85 times more powerful?), the heating and cooling systems would have to be pretty efficient for it to be useful. The article also doesn't say how long it takes the fibers to recharge between twitches. Still, I think it's exciting, but that might just be because I'm writing a mechwarrior story with artificial muscles :)
You have artificial muscles? Does Lance know about this?
You have to be 21 to buy alcohol. Why wouldn't you get carded?
A convenience store requires ID for alcohol, tobacco and lottery purchases with no exceptions. People come from miles around just to get carded.
Last time we let you people transport alcohol you invented NASCAR and we are NOT going to let that happen again.
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936
The Germans invented amphetamines in time for WWII, but I didn't know about Eleanor.
Off course we could blame Bush...He created Hurricane Katrina.
It was aimed somewhere else?
Seriously: It's discovery seems like a break-through and no one thought about catching a few alive ones to study them in a laboratory?
I mean, "Oh, shiny! Let's catch a few!" is so obvious...
Maybe someone collected the entire set.
(hmmm.... can't stop thinking... a dozen more suits like this and the US economy would be growing... right?)
A gross domestic product.
All that AND you can make footballs out of them.
Can you play football if you wear gloves?
Pig pens today are not what you'd like to imagine they are. Go watch a video on youtube for a dose of reality.
You peeg!
It's not the eating, it's the living conditions. We've kept pigs sheltered enough that they can experience the same problems as us, and suffer the same consequences.
Hang on, lady! Don't blame me!
Maybe others do, but I swear I don't let (other) pigs on my couch in my basement... is barely large enough for myself!
(grin)
It sleeps on the floor and eats French toast. What could go wrong?