A guy named Jim Bell was working on this (not for spammers, but for any sufficiently unpopular public figure). He'd use untraceable digital cash to put up bounties. Potential assissins would (again, untraceably) make "predictions" on when said figure would meet his demise. The person "predicting" the correct date and time would collect the bounty. See the article at e2 on assassination politics. Jim Bell is currently in jail on IRS charges.
You dimwit! Duff Lite wasn't the name of the new beverage produced when Springfield banned alcohol after a woman saw Bart drunk at the St. Patrick's day parade, and which brought about the immediate failure of the Duff Brewing Company---it was Duff Zero!
The guys who wrote the rainbow series in the 1980's understood this and tried to get security practitioners to think about the problem, but solutions like that simply aren't commercially viable.
Is this a critical series of computer security books?
While we're at it, we can rename this service to "Vitual America", not "Virtual Earth"! Just think of all the hassle and trouble that will be saved for Americans trying to find out which state China is in!
David Brin is great, and Earth is probably the most relevant story to this news, as part of its plot involves a man-made black hole. Besides the black hole stuff, it's a great attempt at a 50-year prediction. 50-year predictions are tricky because they need some big leaps but nothing too discontinuous, and cool because they're a time frame that a lot of us might live to see tested.
Sorry, but Rockefeller was pretty evil. Ever hear of the Ludlow coal massacre? Rockefeller got the Colorado militia, company guards and hired thugs to kill 20 innocent men, women and children who had the audacity to go on strike after nasty treatment in the coal mines.
Besides the long-distance quantum entanglement effects that are referred to as teleportation, a particle can "be" on one side of a barrier and then "be" on the other side without having to exist inside the barrier or breaching it. This is because a particle's position is an uncertain quantity, described by a probability cloud. The probability of the particle being on one side of the barrier is initially very high. Certain circumstances then cause the probability distribution to tend toward the other side of the barrier.
Hear, hear! The Library of Congress Classification System beats the pants off Dewey Decimal any day. And it's even got a sense of humor - under LoC, the bible's classified under BS!
Ewww.. it comes with an infared keyboard - these suck in my experience. They skip keypresses often enough to make them useless for typing anything of length. I use mine as a remote control because I haven't bothered to get a LIRC remote yet, but it seems like you'd need one or the other. If you want wireless typing, you've gotta go with rf.
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...a 2 party system as much as Russia is...
Russia has a second political party? You don't mean that marching chess club?
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Does "open-minded" in this context mean suggestible?
A guy named Jim Bell was working on this (not for spammers, but for any sufficiently unpopular public figure). He'd use untraceable digital cash to put up bounties. Potential assissins would (again, untraceably) make "predictions" on when said figure would meet his demise. The person "predicting" the correct date and time would collect the bounty. See the article at e2 on assassination politics. Jim Bell is currently in jail on IRS charges.
You dimwit! Duff Lite wasn't the name of the new beverage produced when Springfield banned alcohol after a woman saw Bart drunk at the St. Patrick's day parade, and which brought about the immediate failure of the Duff Brewing Company---it was Duff Zero!
yeah, but it's in the OSPD, so it's good enough for me!
'coz monkeys just kick ass!
And 'coz we're kin to the apes, and at a porn site we're indulging our primative desires.
Is this a critical series of computer security books?
It's only a one-year contract. Still not for me but not as gougeriffic as $792.
damn, and i just spent my mod points.
so it was humor, i'm still gonna nitpick: y'all is SINGULAR, all y'all is plural!
....to be replaced by corn-dog jealousy?
David Brin is great, and Earth is probably the most relevant story to this news, as part of its plot involves a man-made black hole. Besides the black hole stuff, it's a great attempt at a 50-year prediction. 50-year predictions are tricky because they need some big leaps but nothing too discontinuous, and cool because they're a time frame that a lot of us might live to see tested.
Sorry, but Rockefeller was pretty evil. Ever hear of the Ludlow coal massacre? Rockefeller got the Colorado militia, company guards and hired thugs to kill 20 innocent men, women and children who had the audacity to go on strike after nasty treatment in the coal mines.
Yes, Knoppix has a couple of CD burning programs included, so you can burn CDs as long as you have a second optical drive to boot Knoppix from.
Besides the long-distance quantum entanglement effects that are referred to as teleportation, a particle can "be" on one side of a barrier and then "be" on the other side without having to exist inside the barrier or breaching it. This is because a particle's position is an uncertain quantity, described by a probability cloud. The probability of the particle being on one side of the barrier is initially very high. Certain circumstances then cause the probability distribution to tend toward the other side of the barrier.
So would you ban fertility clinics? 'Cos they create lots of embryos, most of which don't end up implanted in a woman's uterus.
"...These little reminders are all around us--they tell us to OBEY, ACCEPT AUTHORITY, CONFORM, etc..."
Thank god John Carpenter exposed them! Now where's Rowdy Roddy Piper with my sunglasses?
"What about all the stupid people who voted bush into office, thats not change?"
In that case, it's only 5 people! (Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, Kennedy, O'Connor)
The play in question is RUR (for Rossum's Universal Robots), and it's by Carel Kapec, also author of the great sci-fi "The War With the Newts".
Hear, hear! The Library of Congress Classification System beats the pants off Dewey Decimal any day. And it's even got a sense of humor - under LoC, the bible's classified under BS!
Ewww.. it comes with an infared keyboard - these suck in my experience. They skip keypresses often enough to make them useless for typing anything of length. I use mine as a remote control because I haven't bothered to get a LIRC remote yet, but it seems like you'd need one or the other. If you want wireless typing, you've gotta go with rf.