It is quite possible that the laptop was purposefully lost, and contains disinformation.
The press, then, would be an unwitting agent of the MI5 in validating the authenticity of would actually be a false intel sitrep fed to the enemies of the intelligence agency.
Do they have enough fuel left to break the LEO and land on the moon without too-huge of a bump? It shouldn't take *that* much if you did the slingshot-effect math right.
The idea here is make a little bit of a "garbage dump" some place on the moon, so that if we ever need the spare parts for our colonies, they will be there to use in a pinch, and much cheaper than shipping up.
I see that was moderated as "funny", but I was deadly serious. If you drip superglue on copper traces, they get eaten. Superglue is very acidic. I once wrecked an Atari 130ST like that.
From the mailbag archives of The Straight Dope (remember Cecil Adams?):
SDSTAFF David replies:
It's pretty certain, assuming by "one common primate ancestor" you don't actually mean a single individual. A single group or species, yes.
While evolution can produce similar results among differing species (for example, birds, insects, and bats, all of which evolved wings independently), it doesn't converge two different species into one. To put it more precisely, two species can't merge so completely that they appear, even through DNA tests, to be a single species.
The DNA tests are key. In all the tests performed on people since DNA testing started, nobody has ever noticed that some results were completely different from others to the point of being a separate species. It's considered highly unlikely, to say the least.
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The Nature of Things with David Suzuki (on CBC) had a show on last week about the origin of man. They mentioned that they have tracked the North American indians down as being descendants of Siberian Asias. (Or whatever the heck they're called). These two groups of people are the only know groups of people in the world who share a particular rare genetic mutation. This technique will surely be used at some point in the future to collect further evidence of human migratory patters.
No, worker bees and the like work together as a community not because of religion, but in the hopes that one day they will get lucky... and aren't about to act anti-social which would surely reduce their chances to near nil.
Would you shut the hell up? I'm getting sick and tired of reading about xlem, and if it doesn't stop, I'm going to have DoS the whole damned site so you won't have any garbage to link *to*. Now go away.
Good thing *you* weren't the King of Portugal, or we'd all be living in Europe today, and the only people to know about North America would be the indians and the fishermen.
..but since when to are tanks, planes and warships unmanned? The US military is developing a system they call "FireStorm" (or some such) which should be in production sometime within the next five years. It is already is beta. The idea is to use Apache helicopters to gather intelligence data, relay to an M-1 Abrams tank, and have the M-1 lay down a highly precise, directed artillery barrage. The common example they are showing is an Apache ducking up from below, looking over the top of a mountain for a few seconds(with just the radar part of the helicopter visible), and gather reconnaissance for the tank. The far-away tank (and the Apache in some cases) has smart weapons which are then released on the target. While these vehicles are not unmanned per-se, their weapons systems are necessarily computer-controlled, with computer-selected targetting. I think it should be obvious to anybody reading this that inserting a human into that equation would be ridiculous, as intel on a moving enemy is only good for a few seconds at best.
You just need hardware at the other end which doesn't require a link beat to send data out the port. Many cheap hubs do the trick. Heck, early ethernet NICs did not even implement link.
Do me a favour, then? Drop by unit C and beat the hell out of him. I think it's pretty obvious that with a name like that this person is not Swiss.... and therefore almost certainly a CyberSquatter.
You are making two assumptions, both of which are likely incorrect.
It is unlikely that off-the-shelf tape would be used in a commercial venture.
It is not necessary to write to a single, particular layer of tape in sequential order. It is only necessary to write to a layer which happens to be a certain distance from the center.
They already have a better solution than tape for this, although to storage would need be expanded by a few hundred K to be truly useful in the way you envision. See the ibutton web page for further details. This has been mentioned at least twice on/. The major problem with any solution in this class (heck, even a single credit-card sized card would do!) is not the technology, but rather the methodolgy for convincing government, consumers, and corporations to agree to use it.
>>Would someone out there, please name ONE (can you say "REDMOND"?) good piece of software that Microsoft has written. DELTREE.EXE It works particularly well with the arguments "/y" and "\"
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If that's the case, then, Apple should be paying royalties to aquarium manufacturers.
Pfft.
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Hip Hop and Linux have nothing in common.
Linux is cool.
Hip Hop is not.
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It is quite possible that the laptop was purposefully lost, and contains disinformation.
The press, then, would be an unwitting agent of the MI5 in validating the authenticity of would actually be a false intel sitrep fed to the enemies of the intelligence agency.
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Here's an idea..
Do they have enough fuel left to break the LEO and land on the moon without too-huge of a bump? It shouldn't take *that* much if you did the slingshot-effect math right.
The idea here is make a little bit of a "garbage dump" some place on the moon, so that if we ever need the spare parts for our colonies, they will be there to use in a pinch, and much cheaper than shipping up.
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I see that was moderated as "funny", but I was deadly serious. If you drip superglue on copper traces, they get eaten. Superglue is very acidic. I once wrecked an Atari 130ST like that.
Don't try that at home, kids!
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The complete text of this question & answer can be found here
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The Nature of Things with David Suzuki (on CBC) had a show on last week about the origin of man. They mentioned that they have tracked the North American indians down as being descendants of Siberian Asias. (Or whatever the heck they're called). These two groups of people are the only know groups of people in the world who share a particular rare genetic mutation. This technique will surely be used at some point in the future to collect further evidence of human migratory patters.
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Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
> set type=ANY
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Is the general way to test the DNS for a particular type of record.
If you don't find any soul records, you might have better luck looking in Motown than the DNS.
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No, worker bees and the like work together as a community not because of religion, but in the hopes that one day they will get lucky... and aren't about to act anti-social which would surely reduce their chances to near nil.
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Would you shut the hell up? I'm getting sick and tired of reading about xlem, and if it doesn't stop, I'm going to have DoS the whole damned site so you won't have any garbage to link *to*. Now go away.
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Superglue would eat away all the traces it could -- and not just the IDE ones. What you'd have left would be an I-paperweight.
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Um, no offence, but Miles O'Brien is hardly a "brainless twit". In fact, he is one of the best engineers Starfleet has ever had. Hrmph.
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No, offence, but when I was in science lab courses, I made up numbers that gave me the expected outcome, within 5% or so.
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Good thing *you* weren't the King of Portugal, or we'd all be living in Europe today, and the only people to know about North America would be the indians and the fishermen.
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No to put too fine a point on it, I think I won't care much if somebody gets my "key" after they decapitate me. Sheesh.
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That was funny. I watched in CNN.
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..but since when to are tanks, planes and warships unmanned? The US military is developing a system they call "FireStorm" (or some such) which should be in production sometime within the next five years. It is already is beta. The idea is to use Apache helicopters to gather intelligence data, relay to an M-1 Abrams tank, and have the M-1 lay down a highly precise, directed artillery barrage. The common example they are showing is an Apache ducking up from below, looking over the top of a mountain for a few seconds(with just the radar part of the helicopter visible), and gather reconnaissance for the tank. The far-away tank (and the Apache in some cases) has smart weapons which are then released on the target. While these vehicles are not unmanned per-se, their weapons systems are necessarily computer-controlled, with computer-selected targetting. I think it should be obvious to anybody reading this that inserting a human into that equation would be ridiculous, as intel on a moving enemy is only good for a few seconds at best.
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You just need hardware at the other end which doesn't require a link beat to send data out the port. Many cheap hubs do the trick. Heck, early ethernet NICs did not even implement link.
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You can't really blame them for misplacing the source code... After all, they probably use Microsoft Source Safe.
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Do me a favour, then? Drop by unit C and beat the hell out of him. I think it's pretty obvious that with a name like that this person is not Swiss.... and therefore almost certainly a CyberSquatter.
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Sorry, that link is www.ibutton.com. I screwed up the last one. :-)
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They already have a better solution than tape for this, although to storage would need be expanded by a few hundred K to be truly useful in the way you envision. See the ibutton web page for further details. This has been mentioned at least twice on /. The major problem with any solution in this class (heck, even a single credit-card sized card would do!) is not the technology, but rather the methodolgy for convincing government, consumers, and corporations to agree to use it.
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>>Would someone out there, please name ONE (can you say "REDMOND"?) good piece of software that Microsoft has written. DELTREE.EXE It works particularly well with the arguments "/y" and "\"
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Memorize the tunes.
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