None of that stuff got anything on stuff created by the real OTS or whatever the MI6 version is called.
Besides the real trick is not building the gadgets, it's getting them in place in a secure location. I challenge one of you guys to buy any of those 'bugs' and get the in place at even a low security national security site, like an embassy office or something. Try it.
There's always at least one delusional space fruitcake in any thread that mentions space, helium or energy. The answer is NO. NEVER.
Aw your trolling makes me so mad and so sad, I shall go cry myself to sleep now.
Perhaps a little more constructive, well whether or not we end up going there - moon's filthy with helium, and if we're going to need a lot of it we're gonna have to get it from there.
Long ago, I worked at a commercial lab where tanks of H2, 02, and N2O (nitrous oxide) were used for flame or plasma ion detectors. For fun, we used to launch "Hindenburgs"... large trash bags filled with hydrogen plus a latex glove filled with the oxydizer and trailed by a fuse of burning paraffin film. The balloon would sail off into the night sky and detonate at a safe altitude and distance downwind. Usually. Our antics abruptly halted when one exploded prematurely just a dozen feet off the ground. The concussion and heat convinced us to give up our fun.
Do that with oxygen and acetylene, wear ear protection.
Fun fact, many of the games on steam don't actually have DRM, you just just launch them from the folder they get installed to, no need to sign in through steam. Of course all the big titles have DRM out the ass, but whatcha gonna do.
More fancifully, perhaps the Rat Things from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash are now a possibility.
Unlikely, those things are described as running several hundred miles per hour, also I don't think the non-proliferation people will be too happy about all the RTGs involved-
1. AT&T ditched their pay phones because they didn't make any money.
2 . hardlines - they WANT you to keep them! Really! Case in point: when I called to drop my hardline ATT immediately, without asking, cut roughly 40% off of my bill to keep me on ($95 [with internet] down to $60). Reason given by customer retention person - "We DON'T want you to give up your landline!".
Sunk costs indeed.
After hearing that they could have reduced my bill at anytime, I told them that I was not interested. Cancel immediately. Thank you.
Firm and cold stops all salespeople in their tracks - no emotion is the key.
Well no company that relies more or less entirely on subscription fees will never want you to cancel one of their subscriptions. Doesn't mean they wont stop marketing them as heavily though-
Oh that depends on entirely on what benefits are offered, like you know how that Neil Stephenson sword fighting thing would give you a sword if you gave them a ton of cash?
Well maybe this fancy new accelerator should offer stuff like "for donations over $1.000.000 you will get to place an object of your choosing in the path of the beam, for donations over $10.000.000 you will get to place yourself in the path of the beam, hopefully developing superpowers (and hopefully not supercancer or super radiation poisoning)".
Really? I'm not so sure that I would have wasted what may have been my last few precious moments on earth signing hundreds of pieces of paper with my name, had something been in place already.
I wouldn't bee too confident with this theory. They certainly felt like they needed to do more at the time.
Just because you wouldn't doesn't mean that the Apollo guys wouldn't.
Maybe they just didn't think that whatever the military offered at the time would be enough, so they took out extra insurance. Doesn't regular soldiers do that sometimes too? I mean take out a private life insurance to supplement their military one.
My great grandfather died 2 years ago at the ripe age of 104. He ate a fry up/every/ morning with copious amounts of bacon, smoked more pipes than popeye, drank whiskey literally all the time.
My grandmother was given 2 years to live 30 years ago due to heart problems. She still knocks back the bottle and fries chips in lard twice a week.
There is no magic balance.
Mutants, both of them. No really.
Admittedly, the boring kind of mutant that doesn't have eyelasers or anything.
Isn't the.com and.org TLDs American? They only seized the domains and not necessarily the server hardware, as I understand it. Besides if the sites were running off American TLDs and were hosted in the US then it's no wonder that a US agency could seize them.
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It might also involve in [sic] a sunk submarine.
The US coastguard aren't something off Baywatch, they're more like a Navy-lite. They bagged plenty of U-boats in WW2.
Kinda doubt they carry anti-submarine gear today, maybe during wartime but probably now now.
Can you post from Wornwood Whatchacallit?
Considering I haven't got the slightest idea what you're talking about, probably not.
None of that stuff got anything on stuff created by the real OTS or whatever the MI6 version is called.
Besides the real trick is not building the gadgets, it's getting them in place in a secure location. I challenge one of you guys to buy any of those 'bugs' and get the in place at even a low security national security site, like an embassy office or something. Try it.
There's always at least one delusional space fruitcake in any thread that mentions space, helium or energy. The answer is NO. NEVER.
Aw your trolling makes me so mad and so sad, I shall go cry myself to sleep now.
Perhaps a little more constructive, well whether or not we end up going there - moon's filthy with helium, and if we're going to need a lot of it we're gonna have to get it from there.
Hurry up and get those fusion plants up and running!
Problem with that is that those fancy aneutronic fusion reactors they really want to build are going to need large quantities of helium-3 themselves.
Harvest the moon, it's the only way to go.
Long ago, I worked at a commercial lab where tanks of H2, 02, and N2O (nitrous oxide) were used for flame or plasma ion detectors. For fun, we used to launch "Hindenburgs" ... large trash bags filled with hydrogen plus a latex glove filled with the oxydizer and trailed by a fuse of burning paraffin film. The balloon would sail off into the night sky and detonate at a safe altitude and distance downwind. Usually. Our antics abruptly halted when one exploded prematurely just a dozen feet off the ground. The concussion and heat convinced us to give up our fun.
Do that with oxygen and acetylene, wear ear protection.
Fun, loud, times.
Just get the brain interface developed already! Plug me into the Matrix, I wanna know kung-fu baby.
Fun fact, many of the games on steam don't actually have DRM, you just just launch them from the folder they get installed to, no need to sign in through steam. Of course all the big titles have DRM out the ass, but whatcha gonna do.
Or perhaps they didn't want the robot accidentally hurled into the back wall at 30mph?
Both, I think.
More fancifully, perhaps the Rat Things from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash are now a possibility.
Unlikely, those things are described as running several hundred miles per hour, also I don't think the non-proliferation people will be too happy about all the RTGs involved-
1. AT&T ditched their pay phones because they didn't make any money.
2 . hardlines - they WANT you to keep them! Really! Case in point: when I called to drop my hardline ATT immediately, without asking, cut roughly 40% off of my bill to keep me on ($95 [with internet] down to $60). Reason given by customer retention person - "We DON'T want you to give up your landline!".
Sunk costs indeed.
After hearing that they could have reduced my bill at anytime, I told them that I was not interested. Cancel immediately. Thank you.
Firm and cold stops all salespeople in their tracks - no emotion is the key.
Well no company that relies more or less entirely on subscription fees will never want you to cancel one of their subscriptions. Doesn't mean they wont stop marketing them as heavily though-
Look up-
Leave the windows wide open, and your problem will probably go away.
In the sense he probably wont have any gadgets to worry about anymore, yeah, I suppose that would work too.
You could also get a thermometer with data collection capability, I don't think those are *that* expensive.
What the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran are most interest on is not about malware
They are most interested on developing super-sonic anti-ship torpedoes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval ) which employs Russia's Supercavitation technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation )
I think a bunch of Western powers are interested in that. I don't think that one excludes the other. But hey, what do I know, I'm not American.
Oh that depends on entirely on what benefits are offered, like you know how that Neil Stephenson sword fighting thing would give you a sword if you gave them a ton of cash?
Well maybe this fancy new accelerator should offer stuff like "for donations over $1.000.000 you will get to place an object of your choosing in the path of the beam, for donations over $10.000.000 you will get to place yourself in the path of the beam, hopefully developing superpowers (and hopefully not supercancer or super radiation poisoning)".
Really? I'm not so sure that I would have wasted what may have been my last few precious moments on earth signing hundreds of pieces of paper with my name, had something been in place already.
I wouldn't bee too confident with this theory. They certainly felt like they needed to do more at the time.
Just because you wouldn't doesn't mean that the Apollo guys wouldn't.
Maybe they just didn't think that whatever the military offered at the time would be enough, so they took out extra insurance. Doesn't regular soldiers do that sometimes too? I mean take out a private life insurance to supplement their military one.
My great grandfather died 2 years ago at the ripe age of 104. He ate a fry up /every/ morning with copious amounts of bacon, smoked more pipes than popeye, drank whiskey literally all the time.
My grandmother was given 2 years to live 30 years ago due to heart problems. She still knocks back the bottle and fries chips in lard twice a week.
There is no magic balance.
Mutants, both of them. No really.
Admittedly, the boring kind of mutant that doesn't have eyelasers or anything.
Isn't the .com and .org TLDs American? They only seized the domains and not necessarily the server hardware, as I understand it. Besides if the sites were running off American TLDs and were hosted in the US then it's no wonder that a US agency could seize them.
Sure is election time soon over in the US, huh?
You again? I thought you died.
Maybe then the Slashdot condescension machine will cool its jets.
Of course it wont, don't be silly.
Also: get trolled son.
Wow. You sure got it all figured out, guess USAF will shut down its program now.
you're not apk
Sure you can, you just don't want to in most cases.
Might end up with hundreds of superpowered kids, not all of whom will end up going to heroic route.