Well fact of the matter is, The Earth is by the very definition of the word "planet" a limited resource. Even if we get a thousand times better at conserving resources and all that eventually we are going to use up all the resources on Earth and then we're gonna need to go to space, if nothing else with robots.
But that doesn't change the fact that an obnoxiously loud contingent here on Slashdot watched Star Trek as children, and really, truly believe that they're going to get to bang vaguely ethnic looking space girls with pale green skin and silver hair on Proxima Centauri IV, just like Kirk did..
Nah, I just wanna go to space cus' I'm tired of Earth, it's full of idiots.
Also cus' it's cool, if some guy with verifiable credentials came up to me and said "Wanna go to space? It's a one-way trip and you might die on-launch or shortly after" I'd say "yes" in a heartbeat.
uhh, you do realize that unmanned generally means that it doesn't havel ife support systems. We can get shit to the space station; we demonstrated that with the dragon capsule. However, we still don't have a way to get a man in space.
We could cryogenically freeze the astronauts and send them up as popsicles. Then, once we invent equipment to defreeze them, we can send that up and thaw them out. Problem solved. With enough creativity, nearly anything is possible.
Also it takes a while to die from exposure to the vacuum of space so technically we could also just get them up there REALLY quickly and hope for the best.
Yeah plague isn't really uncommon, there are still areas of Russia and Africa and other countries [citation needed] where plague is still a problem, mostly for livestock.
It wont really turn into the black death again, since we now have stuff like proper hygiene and antibiotics. Of course it could have been one of those super plagues the Soviets were designing that somehow got out, if that was the case commence you panicking now.
So the site is riddled with malware, like hundreds of other sites out there I imagine. That is their webserver, which probably lives with some hosting provider somewhere and has no contact with the stuff they use for development of those medical devices.
Besides I don't really think that malware designed for whatever those servers ran will run on medical hardware..
Why, exactly, did you feel the need to explain to world+dog that film noire translated as black film? I'm hoping you know that some of the best films ever made, include Blade Runner, are in the film noire 'style'.
I just get this feeling that you think Shaft is film noire, and I've had enough headaches today.
Technically speaking, 'film noir' does mean 'black film' in French. Of course this only applies if you assume that it is a term that needs to be translated, it really doesn't.
"yep, I still use me ol' horse and cart. There's no good reason for "cars" - me ol' horse an' cart is workin' just fine".
False analogy. There are very real advantages to cars over horses (mainly that cars don't poop everywhere), other than not having DX11 there are very little advantage to switching to Win7 over XP.
I recently switched and other than the fact I now idle with twice as much RAM in use I don't really see any differences beyond purely cosmetic ones.
We need more destructive malware that wrecks unsecured systems, or USERS WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT SECURITY.
Immune responses are built be sustained attack.
Humans aren't wired to worry about vague threats of things they will never understand. They ARE wired to worry about their machines being bricked and the loss of data they will never back up.
I have a better idea. First we need to set up a highly secretive network of death squads, then we start tasking the NSA, those CNET guys, the Kasparsky guys and the FBI with identifying and tracking infected users. Once we know where the people live we send in the death squads and murder them in horrific ways and blame the malware.
Or we can somehow make the malware spread HIV or bird flu or SARS.
: "Considering that you helped a foreign power conspire to break NZ law, why should we allow you to continue to work in our country?"
To which the answer would be something like : "Because we're a hideously rich gigantic corporation operating out of your lord and master the US, suck it Kiwis."
since when has a broken thing been a usable thing...
i know the Apple (the only phone i've ever known to crack) reality distortion field is powerful but really, if it's broken it's no longer functioning.
My phone currently has a nice big crack running down the length of the screen and it functions just fine. As long as it is just the outer layer of glass that is cracked rather than the LCD underneath the glass then it is no problem.
If we can have 'Chinatowns' in other countries, why not an 'Austriatown' or '_____town' in China? Yeah, it would have been polite of them to have told them first, "We find your town so beautiful that we'd like to replicate it in China".
As an aside, I'm surprised that they cloned just that town - given the size & population of China, they could have cloned an entire Austria, if not an entire Austro-Hungarian empire.
Well as I understand it those 'Chinatowns' are usually filled with ethnic chinese, I doubt that China has a lot of ethnic Austrians living there.
Oh, FOREIGN intelligence. That's OK then. Those evil foreigners have no right to privacy, they aren't even *American*!
In the eyes of the CIA and the NSA and their international counterparts, no, no they don't.
That sort of is the whole point of intelligence gathering, just comfort yourself in the knowledge that you are nowhere near interesting enough for any agency to look at you.
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Perpetual motion is forbidden by the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
You silly Americans and your "we have to pay for university education".
Then again I guess that free education is socialist and since we all know that socialism is the terrible evil I guess you'll just have to pay.
Well fact of the matter is, The Earth is by the very definition of the word "planet" a limited resource. Even if we get a thousand times better at conserving resources and all that eventually we are going to use up all the resources on Earth and then we're gonna need to go to space, if nothing else with robots.
But that doesn't change the fact that an obnoxiously loud contingent here on Slashdot watched Star Trek as children, and really, truly believe that they're going to get to bang vaguely ethnic looking space girls with pale green skin and silver hair on Proxima Centauri IV, just like Kirk did..
Nah, I just wanna go to space cus' I'm tired of Earth, it's full of idiots.
Also cus' it's cool, if some guy with verifiable credentials came up to me and said "Wanna go to space? It's a one-way trip and you might die on-launch or shortly after" I'd say "yes" in a heartbeat.
uhh, you do realize that unmanned generally means that it doesn't havel ife support systems. We can get shit to the space station; we demonstrated that with the dragon capsule. However, we still don't have a way to get a man in space.
We could cryogenically freeze the astronauts and send them up as popsicles. Then, once we invent equipment to defreeze them, we can send that up and thaw them out. Problem solved. With enough creativity, nearly anything is possible.
Also it takes a while to die from exposure to the vacuum of space so technically we could also just get them up there REALLY quickly and hope for the best.
Yeah plague isn't really uncommon, there are still areas of Russia and Africa and other countries [citation needed] where plague is still a problem, mostly for livestock.
It wont really turn into the black death again, since we now have stuff like proper hygiene and antibiotics. Of course it could have been one of those super plagues the Soviets were designing that somehow got out, if that was the case commence you panicking now.
So the site is riddled with malware, like hundreds of other sites out there I imagine. That is their webserver, which probably lives with some hosting provider somewhere and has no contact with the stuff they use for development of those medical devices.
Besides I don't really think that malware designed for whatever those servers ran will run on medical hardware..
Except one-time pads don't have keys.
Yes, yes they do.
Okay ... . Now you've peaked my curiosity.
Why, exactly, did you feel the need to explain to world+dog that film noire translated as black film? I'm hoping you know that some of the best films ever made, include Blade Runner, are in the film noire 'style'.
I just get this feeling that you think Shaft is film noire, and I've had enough headaches today.
Technically speaking, 'film noir' does mean 'black film' in French. Of course this only applies if you assume that it is a term that needs to be translated, it really doesn't.
It also costs money, where the others are free.
So. There's that.
"yep, I still use me ol' horse and cart. There's no good reason for "cars" - me ol' horse an' cart is workin' just fine".
False analogy. There are very real advantages to cars over horses (mainly that cars don't poop everywhere), other than not having DX11 there are very little advantage to switching to Win7 over XP.
I recently switched and other than the fact I now idle with twice as much RAM in use I don't really see any differences beyond purely cosmetic ones.
We need more destructive malware that wrecks unsecured systems, or USERS WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT SECURITY.
Immune responses are built be sustained attack.
Humans aren't wired to worry about vague threats of things they will never understand. They ARE wired to worry about their machines being bricked and the loss of data they will never back up.
I have a better idea. First we need to set up a highly secretive network of death squads, then we start tasking the NSA, those CNET guys, the Kasparsky guys and the FBI with identifying and tracking infected users. Once we know where the people live we send in the death squads and murder them in horrific ways and blame the malware.
Or we can somehow make the malware spread HIV or bird flu or SARS.
Seriously...sometimes being a criminal over in the US is way too easy if people like that can become one.
: "Considering that you helped a foreign power conspire to break NZ law, why should we allow you to continue to work in our country?"
To which the answer would be something like : "Because we're a hideously rich gigantic corporation operating out of your lord and master the US, suck it Kiwis."
since when has a broken thing been a usable thing...
i know the Apple (the only phone i've ever known to crack) reality distortion field is powerful but really, if it's broken it's no longer functioning.
My phone currently has a nice big crack running down the length of the screen and it functions just fine. As long as it is just the outer layer of glass that is cracked rather than the LCD underneath the glass then it is no problem.
Oh also it's not an Apple product.
If we can have 'Chinatowns' in other countries, why not an 'Austriatown' or '_____town' in China? Yeah, it would have been polite of them to have told them first, "We find your town so beautiful that we'd like to replicate it in China".
As an aside, I'm surprised that they cloned just that town - given the size & population of China, they could have cloned an entire Austria, if not an entire Austro-Hungarian empire.
Well as I understand it those 'Chinatowns' are usually filled with ethnic chinese, I doubt that China has a lot of ethnic Austrians living there.
Oh, FOREIGN intelligence. That's OK then. Those evil foreigners have no right to privacy, they aren't even *American*!
In the eyes of the CIA and the NSA and their international counterparts, no, no they don't.
That sort of is the whole point of intelligence gathering, just comfort yourself in the knowledge that you are nowhere near interesting enough for any agency to look at you.
Very insightful.
Instead of hiding the existence of our intelligence assets, we should be strongly encrypting them.
No would ever know they exist, because the assets themselves would look like random data.
You honestly think this isn't already done? I am fairly certain that strong encryption is commonplace is all intelligence operations.
Kind of shocking the guys at Slashdot would miss something as big as this. Wonder if they're just too young and inexperienced to know about Woz.
(Yeah, I know they're not -- which means only temporary idiocy could explain them making that mistake!)
Revisionism, yo.
Yeah but they regenerate, so you're going to need to add in some acid or fire to properly kill it.
My understanding is that "weapons grade" only refers to a degree of purity, and not to actual intent...
This is true, a more general term would be 'highly enriched', meaning uranium which 80% or more pure Uranium-235.
I think they got bored of it, wonder what the next one will be.
You actually PAY for SMSing? I don't think any service provider here in my country actually charges for SMSs, they did a while back but not any more.
It was my impression that no-one actually uses MIRV any more, it was banned in one of the START treaties I believe.
I mean SALT treaties of course...
duh..
I'm fairly certain muslim porn is just regular porn, we all like the naked ladies.