When humans communicate we often don't use words in a scientifically correct manner, but in ways that are understood by the people to whom we are communicating.
I used to think that was a good idea, but the car I have now with the steering wheel controls have such a bar across the steering wheel to house them all that I can't really drive comfortably with the 9-3 hand position required to use them. I have to pretend I'm either an old lady with the 10-2 position, or some teenager on drugs using the 8-4 position.
I always think it's interesting in pictures like that, that you often see a completely leveled house right next to a house that looks completely undamaged.
Sure, once NASA had done all the research, a private company can take that and do the last stage cheaper. When a private company lands on the moon (or something else that NASA/JAXA/ESA has never done) then I'll buy your competition argument.
Maybe in astronomical terms 800 million years isn't a long time, but geologically it's still quite a while. The Earth looked quite different 800 million years ago.
So many times, I've had a project to do, and I've sped up my work with a little scripting (I won't even call it programming, it's that low level) that takes the inputs I have and give me the results I want. Then I brag to my boss that my script let me do it so much faster. Then some time later, someone else has a vaguely related piece of work to do, and my boss tells them "Go and talk to sleazy.ridr, he's got a program that'll do that for you!" Some people understand the code and can rewrite it to suit their needs (of course it's spaghetti code, but we want results) but other just get pissed off at me that I haven't done their job for them.
In addition to what everyone else has said, the second someone stands up and says that they have such great security that they've stopped hacking attempt X, every other hacker in the world will say "oh, yeah?" and they'll be bombarded. No security is perfect, so eventually someone will find a way in.
Just like me, because I kept hearing the jokes about men being lazy, I never bothered to get an education, and now all the technological progress that could have been made by men will be lost. ):
I remember reading something when I was getting my L-1 visa that when I left the country, I'd be eligible to recover everything I'd paid in to Social Security... I should probably look that up since I'll be heading home soon...
If you're willing to be a little loose with the definitions, I've played games based on the first three. If you're willing to be a lot loose, I could claim all five!
I've seen it posted here before, but no-one's responded to this post with it, so I'll express the sentiment;
In the olden days, modern medicine as we know it didn't really exist, so any treatments were what we'd call 'alternative medicine' today. Over the years we discovered that some of it worked well, and some of it didn't, and by applying the techniques that had been found to work, modern medicine evolved. All that stuff that didn't work: well that's still alternative medicine.
and who is to say that they're not adding and/or removing items in the process? It would be trivial to take, say, an MS Outlook mailbox file and add a few tasty mails with kiddie porn attachments
Who's to say that they are? We know that the News of the World has done some less than noble things, and now we might find out just how far they have sunk. If (and I in no way believe this has happened) fake emails were inserted into those released, let these be challenged and if it turns out they're not real, then we can drop it. As it is, NotW are the ones who have to clear their name, not Anonymous.
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If this was an xkcd it would be obligatory, but it's smbc, so I don't think it counts...
http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=001#comic
High-five!
When humans communicate we often don't use words in a scientifically correct manner, but in ways that are understood by the people to whom we are communicating.
A steering wheel like that would make me happy.
I used to think that was a good idea, but the car I have now with the steering wheel controls have such a bar across the steering wheel to house them all that I can't really drive comfortably with the 9-3 hand position required to use them. I have to pretend I'm either an old lady with the 10-2 position, or some teenager on drugs using the 8-4 position.
I thought the ISS was originally going to be MIR 2.
Shit, bad typo to make. No, I'm not a whacko conspiracy theorist, I meant to say Mars.
I always think it's interesting in pictures like that, that you often see a completely leveled house right next to a house that looks completely undamaged.
I have a picture somewhere of a homeowner who breached a high pressure gas line, or the aftermath, rather. Bad Shit happening indeed.
Sure, once NASA had done all the research, a private company can take that and do the last stage cheaper. When a private company lands on the moon (or something else that NASA/JAXA/ESA has never done) then I'll buy your competition argument.
Maybe in astronomical terms 800 million years isn't a long time, but geologically it's still quite a while. The Earth looked quite different 800 million years ago.
Well there used to be whales, but over-whaling has wiped them out.
Paying for advertising is completely different than paying for the right to sell from a program that you wrote.
Some works of fiction work quite well for supporting theses. The Bible springs to mind...
So many times, I've had a project to do, and I've sped up my work with a little scripting (I won't even call it programming, it's that low level) that takes the inputs I have and give me the results I want. Then I brag to my boss that my script let me do it so much faster. Then some time later, someone else has a vaguely related piece of work to do, and my boss tells them "Go and talk to sleazy.ridr, he's got a program that'll do that for you!" Some people understand the code and can rewrite it to suit their needs (of course it's spaghetti code, but we want results) but other just get pissed off at me that I haven't done their job for them.
There is part of me that really wants to click on that link, but a larger part of me that thinks it's actually Goatse...
In addition to what everyone else has said, the second someone stands up and says that they have such great security that they've stopped hacking attempt X, every other hacker in the world will say "oh, yeah?" and they'll be bombarded. No security is perfect, so eventually someone will find a way in.
Just like me, because I kept hearing the jokes about men being lazy, I never bothered to get an education, and now all the technological progress that could have been made by men will be lost. ):
I remember reading something when I was getting my L-1 visa that when I left the country, I'd be eligible to recover everything I'd paid in to Social Security... I should probably look that up since I'll be heading home soon...
If you're willing to be a little loose with the definitions, I've played games based on the first three. If you're willing to be a lot loose, I could claim all five!
So, you basically want to live in a land with no government at all?
Fuck you.
I've seen it posted here before, but no-one's responded to this post with it, so I'll express the sentiment;
In the olden days, modern medicine as we know it didn't really exist, so any treatments were what we'd call 'alternative medicine' today. Over the years we discovered that some of it worked well, and some of it didn't, and by applying the techniques that had been found to work, modern medicine evolved. All that stuff that didn't work: well that's still alternative medicine.
and who is to say that they're not adding and/or removing items in the process? It would be trivial to take, say, an MS Outlook mailbox file and add a few tasty mails with kiddie porn attachments
Who's to say that they are? We know that the News of the World has done some less than noble things, and now we might find out just how far they have sunk. If (and I in no way believe this has happened) fake emails were inserted into those released, let these be challenged and if it turns out they're not real, then we can drop it. As it is, NotW are the ones who have to clear their name, not Anonymous.
How does it make phone calls with the touch-screen smashed?