GELFs (Genetically Engineered Life Forms) were created for humans pleasure. I can't remember many of them, but boxers with thier brains below the waist and nothing but a lump of meat where the head should be* so they couldn't get knocked out so easily.
*Hmm sounds like me at 4am on Satuday mornings.:-)
Ahh - This is your first mistake. Anyone going into the poky comms room meeting the grumpy sysadmin realises that all sysadmins would rather be anywhere else doing anything than what they are doing at that point. Serial murder for example.
Dear Mad Evil B@stards.
You are hearby orderd by a government you probably say you don't recognize to upgrade your cryptography software to V.1.1 with new added BackDoor(TM) technology. If you do this in the next 30 days you will recieve free support on 1-800-GETREAL.
The only people the back doors will effect are law abiding citizens who governments shouldn't have much right to nosey in on what they are doing. The argument for back doors would have been relevant before the technology was released to the public. Now my friends (IMHO) it is too late. Non-back-door crypto is out there and to try and put it back would be akin to trying to placing the flatulence that come Katzs every orrifice back into his body.
Reminds me of the last time I was stopped for speeding. Officer said I was travelling 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. I answered, "But officer, that's impossible!" Puzzled, he asked me to explain. "I've only been driving for 5 minutes!"
I know what you mean, everyone wants credit, thats the trouble when you give out the a gong that is the pinicle of any scientists' career to three people at once.
Just as aside, Harry Kroto is a top bloke. He wasn't self important at all, like all the other faculty, he would sit in the tea room (there were no seperate rooms for staff) and chat to undergrads.
C60 was first discovered by some chaps studying interstella chemistry/chemical physics. One of them Prof Harry Kroto had the bright idea of placing two carbon rods end to end in a vacuum a very small distance apart and putting a massive potential difference across them which yielded an arcing effect. They shoved the resultant black dust into a mass spectrometer and found massive peaks at 60 (x12) and 70 (x12) units. At first this was dismissed as contaminants, but then Kroto had the 'falling of the toilet and imagining the flux capacitor moment' of thinking about the Geodesic sphere created by R. Buckminster-Fuller at the Montreal expo 67 to which he went with his son.
It was first isolated, by putting the black dust in benzene (J. Hare - then a research student of Krotos did this) which yielded a red solution that when dried yielded red C60 crystals.
An explosion of research happened around the world, most notibly from the UK (Sussex Uni - guess where I studied:-)) Japan, and the US.
There is loads of stuff on the web, and in a wierd way this is what got me into computers... Looking for papers 3 years ago turned me back to computers after I left them when my Amiga got packed away.... Then I realised that Chem grads got about 14,000 gbp a year in their first few years in Chem, and I was way too mercenry for that!:-)
Slashdot Mirror
This is what happened in the Red Dwarf books.
:-)
GELFs (Genetically Engineered Life Forms) were created for humans pleasure. I can't remember many of them, but boxers with thier brains below the waist and nothing but a lump of meat where the head should be* so they couldn't get knocked out so easily.
*Hmm sounds like me at 4am on Satuday mornings.
Look closer - the first scene - when Ewan^H^H^H^HObiwan walks in the little floppy eared turd is there. :-(
I really want to be a UNIX admin
:-)
Ahh - This is your first mistake. Anyone going into the poky comms room meeting the grumpy sysadmin realises that all sysadmins would rather be anywhere else doing anything than what they are doing at that point. Serial murder for example.
Miserable Bastards
Philip, why are you interested in cryptography??
It seems that no-one understands you anyway so you might as well send everything as plain ASCII!
Bah - who modded that down! It was a joke!!
Jeez someone got out of bed the wrong side today..
Philip, why are you interested in cryptography??
It seems that no-one understands you anyway so you might as well send everything as plain ASCII!
Privacy is of the utmost importance. Its the freedom we need the most.
Indeed. As Kryten said:
"Most of mans most popular persuits have been about being on his own - golf, fishing, and the all time number one"
An open letter to any criminals/terrorists..
Dear Mad Evil B@stards.
You are hearby orderd by a government
you probably say you don't recognize to
upgrade your cryptography software to V.1.1
with new added BackDoor(TM) technology.
If you do this in the next 30 days
you will recieve free support
on 1-800-GETREAL.
The only people the back doors will effect are law abiding citizens who governments shouldn't have much right to nosey in on what they are doing. The argument for back doors would have been relevant before the technology was released to the public. Now my friends (IMHO) it is too late. Non-back-door crypto is out there and to try and put it back would be akin to trying to placing the flatulence that come Katzs every orrifice back into his body.
Is it your page that throws up loads of dodgy pop-ups beefdart? Please don't do that.
Don't go to this site unless you want to be pissed off.
You scared me with the lame humor :-)
Reminds me of the last time I was stopped for speeding. Officer said I was travelling 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. I answered, "But officer, that's impossible!" Puzzled, he asked me to explain. "I've only been driving for 5 minutes!"
I hope you got a really huge fine
"The submittor raises an interesting question - is this possible?"
Hemos: now read this out loud to yourself in the voice of Marvin the Martian.
N.B. It is spelt 'submeter'.
~Iain
lets you perform guesture based commands
Oh dear. If my laptop starts to understand some of the gestures I make to it, it would never talk to me again.
Did anyone else see this initially as:
Tom's Looks At The New Pill
I though it was going to be a Matrix II reveiw or something.
Oh well, my mother did tell me it would effect my eyesight.
Ughh NO!
Clearly putting this on the album was a mistake.
Some things that are good live should be kept there.. I cringe everytime I hear that Dr? track.
Apart from that Orbital at Homelands two weeks ago has been the highlight of my year so far. They were ace.
"The overwriting entails printing series of ones and zeros over the stored material".
I bet that someone at the Pentagon is now looking at the first two buttons on thier keypad and thinking;
G-ddamn this is going to be boring
:-)
Recently Radio 2 got more listeners than radio 1..
However, the station of choice has to be XFM.
Commercial, yes, but they do play some good stuff..
Radio 2 has got a lot better because of the likes of Johnathon (w)Ross and '50's throwback' Mark Lamar who are both very funny.
James Martin == Jim Martin - isn't that the guy who used to be in Faith No More?
I thought that predictions would be more like:
0 Big silly yellow glasses will be fashionable again.
0 "Yooou want it arll, but you can't have it.."
0 Flying V guitars will become the only shape available.
...or have I missed something?
I'm also an active slashdot reader (what else do you think we do for fun out in the middle of the north sea?))
:-p
Well at a guess, if what my friend in the navy said is to believed, it probably involves an old toilet role and some face scrub.
And I heard this story at Sussex :-)
I know what you mean, everyone wants credit, thats the trouble when you give out the a gong that is the pinicle of any scientists' career to three people at once.
Just as aside, Harry Kroto is a top bloke. He wasn't self important at all, like all the other faculty, he would sit in the tea room (there were no seperate rooms for staff) and chat to undergrads.
C60 was first discovered by some chaps studying interstella chemistry/chemical physics. One of them Prof Harry Kroto had the bright idea of placing two carbon rods end to end in a vacuum a very small distance apart and putting a massive potential difference across them which yielded an arcing effect. They shoved the resultant black dust into a mass spectrometer and found massive peaks at 60 (x12) and 70 (x12) units. At first this was dismissed as contaminants, but then Kroto had the 'falling of the toilet and imagining the flux capacitor moment' of thinking about the Geodesic sphere created by R. Buckminster-Fuller at the Montreal expo 67 to which he went with his son.
:-)) Japan, and the US.
:-)
It was first isolated, by putting the black dust in benzene (J. Hare - then a research student of Krotos did this) which yielded a red solution that when dried yielded red C60 crystals.
An explosion of research happened around the world, most notibly from the UK (Sussex Uni - guess where I studied
There is loads of stuff on the web, and in a wierd way this is what got me into computers... Looking for papers 3 years ago turned me back to computers after I left them when my Amiga got packed away.... Then I realised that Chem grads got about 14,000 gbp a year in their first few years in Chem, and I was way too mercenry for that!
(Ex Chem geek)
Imagine just being able to code up a silicon-based life form
Yeah! Way cool... With that coders will be able to create REAL bugs!
People could probably use a future version of perl to code something like a Platapus, which is:
"Proof that God gets stoned" -- Robin Williams
What else is all over the planet, and in the same size everywhere?
Try: Larry Ellisons Ego
That sounds like the Monkey with five asses from Southpark.
Wierd dude, wierd...
Andre: So THINK DAMN-IT do not FEEL, this is silicon and not flesh!
:-(
That's not what Yoda taught us.
Mouse. You're missing a 'karma' from your sig.
:-)