All this is assuming that we would know immediately if there were a 50-100 million year old alien probe in our solar system's backyard.
Yes. There could be half a bajillion alien probes in the Kuiper belt, transmitting the latest antics of the Earthlings right to GalaxyTV, and we'd have no idea.
OF course we'd have an idea: the RIAA and MPAA would have sent all the alien TV shows DMCA Takedown notices. . . .
In the meantime, 23 shoggoths, led by Nyarlathotep, will wreak havoc carrying plastic letter openers onto commuter trains, and dangerously opening envelopes with them.. . . .
. ..who don't trust their customers. You think they would have learned by now. So they play onerous DRM games, and charge dead tree prices for dirt-cheap digital copies.
And yet it's been SHOWN that inexpensive, DRM-free books can be profitable. You need but look at Baen Books and Webscriptions.net to see that trusting your customers and not using DRM sells you even MORE e-books and dead tree books. But that, of course, requires some changing of business models, and we can't have THAT, can we ???
POSSIBLY ? If classified data was moved to an unclassified box, the person who did it is almost definitely going to be spending some serious time in sub-standard Federal Housing in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Knowingly circumventing a security system with classified information is a FEDERAL Felony. . .
By "FOF" transciever I assume you mean its' IFF system. (Identification, Friend or Foe, to the uninitiated. . . ).
Except those systems are standardized, and the particular daily details controlled by a constantly-changing and manually-loaded cryptosystem key. Not that Identifying a jet as a friendly or foe is much help: you can still lock a weapon system onto a target identified as "friendly", and ignore targets listed as "unfriendly".
Then, assuming you have locked (or even CAN lock. ..) and launched a weapon, you have to run the gamut of the onboard Electronic Countermeasures. Whose methods are programmable, changeable, and regularly updated to the most current threat data we have.
In other words: you, sir, are blowing smoke here. ECM/ECCM/Radar/IR Defense is a well-developed field of study, and your comments show little knowledge of it.
The mother of all beta-to-live failures. I should know, I was an alpha and beta tester. Flagship had roughly half the game done when they released. As a result, everything that WASN'T in the beta (the entire last two acts) was a cut-and-paste of the first three acts with some of the details randomised and the difficulty turned up.
The storyline was there, but that was about it. But what killed Hellgate was the truly horrendous launch: massive billing problems (people were billed mulitple times) followed by some of the worst customer service in recent memory (example: they billed you **5** times for your subscription, so you cancel the account to stop the fiscal bleeding. ..Flagship's INITIAL response was to close your account immediately, even though you were billed for 5 months at that point.) THEN they denied problems existed.
To add the cherry on the top of their sundae of pain, they ran Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day events with bugged items that could not be deleted, with limited space per player. There is a REASON "Flagshipped" has become a verb
Gee, spend all the time and effort on a unusual gun. . . or just eat a handful of meds ? If you want to suicide, there are FAR easier ways than going to get a hi-tech medically-approved Palm Pistol and THEN doing yourself. . .
You also realize that Obama promised to go on Public Funding, and then didn't, while McCain went on public funding (which, considering McCain-Feingold, he would have been a hypocrite if he hadn't. A Politician being a hypocrite ?? Nevermind. . ..).
As a result, however, Obama could out-spend McCain 6-1, in some markets, 10-1 or more. . .
And in **SOME** places, you get that. DC has the Post on the Left, and the Times on the Right: New York has the Times on the Left, and the Post on the Right (and an ironic mirroring there).
But many places there is ONE major outlet. LA comes to mind.
TV belongs almost totally to the Left: Talk Radio to the right. About the only place you can REALLY find all viewpoints is the net.
However, on the net, ideology often self-segregates: you find very few people who, for example, actively participate in both Kos and FreeRepublic.
As a result. . . despite active communities, we STILL talk past each other. . .
Au contraire: I rather enjoy minimal-combat strategies for winning Civ IV. I've managed Research-'em to Death victories (i.e. research to successfully build and launch a starship in the late 1800s/early 1900s) and Virus/Borg victories, where you spread so fast that you are literally all over the start continent in the first millenium, and between everyone else. ..and then just Assimilate everyone by culture and growth. . .
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And you're CONSTANTLY worried about other players spawn-camping the boss and generally ganking you. . . .
Unless, of course, you have a sugar-daddy to powerlevel you. . .
We've told both campaigns, the next call we get from their campaign is an automatic vote of all four votes in our house for the other guy. Then, in my best "Dirty Harry" imitiation, I told each one:
"Do you feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ??"
Blessed silence from both campaigns ever since. . .
Yes, but the Manglement chain prints out copies at every level, so you have to figure that in. You end up grinding x*3 trees to paper pulp for every x trees you saved by going paperless. . .
Several years ago, I was interviewing for a job, and they gave me a problem to solve. I did so, but did it by submitting it to them in an email.
I didn't get the job, but found out several weeks later that they implemented my exact solution, as the guy they hired for the job EMAILED ME WITH QUESTIONS and quoted the entire email.
I submitted it to their billing department at my standard consulting rate and minimum bill, with a note attached that since there was prima facie evidence that they were using my solution. ..it was pay or go to court.
The check arrived via FedEx the next morning . . .
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All this is assuming that we would know immediately if there were a 50-100 million year old alien probe in our solar system's backyard.
Yes. There could be half a bajillion alien probes in the Kuiper belt, transmitting the latest antics of the Earthlings right to GalaxyTV, and we'd have no idea.
OF course we'd have an idea: the RIAA and MPAA would have sent all the alien TV shows DMCA Takedown notices. . . .
In the meantime, 23 shoggoths, led by Nyarlathotep, will wreak havoc carrying plastic letter openers onto commuter trains, and dangerously opening envelopes with them.. . . .
And, of course, with the STERLING record of Comcast for customer service, it looks like yet MORE proof of Comcraptic! service to paying customers. . .
And yet it's been SHOWN that inexpensive, DRM-free books can be profitable. You need but look at Baen Books and Webscriptions.net to see that trusting your customers and not using DRM sells you even MORE e-books and dead tree books. But that, of course, requires some changing of business models, and we can't have THAT, can we ???
POSSIBLY ? If classified data was moved to an unclassified box, the person who did it is almost definitely going to be spending some serious time in sub-standard Federal Housing in Leavenworth, Kansas. Knowingly circumventing a security system with classified information is a FEDERAL Felony. . .
Except those systems are standardized, and the particular daily details controlled by a constantly-changing and manually-loaded cryptosystem key. Not that Identifying a jet as a friendly or foe is much help: you can still lock a weapon system onto a target identified as "friendly", and ignore targets listed as "unfriendly".
Then, assuming you have locked (or even CAN lock. . .) and launched a weapon, you have to run the gamut of the onboard Electronic Countermeasures. Whose methods are programmable, changeable, and regularly updated to the most current threat data we have.
In other words: you, sir, are blowing smoke here. ECM/ECCM/Radar/IR Defense is a well-developed field of study, and your comments show little knowledge of it.
No, we save "Babylon" for Node #5, silly. . . .
In fact, I suspect a LOT of "two-back" activity would result.
You might say, they would boldly cum, where no man has cum before. . .
. . . someone figures out how to gank noobs by dropping asteroids onto their facilities. . . . And imagine the PVP options. . .
The mother of all beta-to-live failures. I should know, I was an alpha and beta tester. Flagship had roughly half the game done when they released. As a result, everything that WASN'T in the beta (the entire last two acts) was a cut-and-paste of the first three acts with some of the details randomised and the difficulty turned up.
The storyline was there, but that was about it. But what killed Hellgate was the truly horrendous launch: massive billing problems (people were billed mulitple times) followed by some of the worst customer service in recent memory (example: they billed you **5** times for your subscription, so you cancel the account to stop the fiscal bleeding. . .Flagship's INITIAL response was to close your account immediately, even though you were billed for 5 months at that point.) THEN they denied problems existed.
To add the cherry on the top of their sundae of pain, they ran Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day events with bugged items that could not be deleted, with limited space per player. There is a REASON "Flagshipped" has become a verb
Compared to Hellgate, TR ran SMOOOTH. . . .
Where's the Divine Beano when we REALLY need it ???
Gee, spend all the time and effort on a unusual gun. . . or just eat a handful of meds ? If you want to suicide, there are FAR easier ways than going to get a hi-tech medically-approved Palm Pistol and THEN doing yourself. . .
Details. . .
As a result, however, Obama could out-spend McCain 6-1, in some markets, 10-1 or more. . .
But many places there is ONE major outlet. LA comes to mind.
TV belongs almost totally to the Left: Talk Radio to the right. About the only place you can REALLY find all viewpoints is the net.
However, on the net, ideology often self-segregates: you find very few people who, for example, actively participate in both Kos and FreeRepublic.
As a result. . . despite active communities, we STILL talk past each other. . .
Au contraire: I rather enjoy minimal-combat strategies for winning Civ IV. I've managed Research-'em to Death victories (i.e. research to successfully build and launch a starship in the late 1800s/early 1900s) and Virus/Borg victories, where you spread so fast that you are literally all over the start continent in the first millenium, and between everyone else. . .and then just Assimilate everyone by culture and growth. . .
And you're CONSTANTLY worried about other players spawn-camping the boss and generally ganking you. . . . Unless, of course, you have a sugar-daddy to powerlevel you. . .
Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!!
(For the clueless: Link)
REAL geeks get the show via BitTorrent. They don't broadcast ITV in North America. . .
REAL geeks are currently watching "No Heroics". . .
"Do you feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ??"
Blessed silence from both campaigns ever since. . .
Yes, but the Manglement chain prints out copies at every level, so you have to figure that in. You end up grinding x*3 trees to paper pulp for every x trees you saved by going paperless. . .
I didn't get the job, but found out several weeks later that they implemented my exact solution, as the guy they hired for the job EMAILED ME WITH QUESTIONS and quoted the entire email.
I submitted it to their billing department at my standard consulting rate and minimum bill, with a note attached that since there was prima facie evidence that they were using my solution. . .it was pay or go to court.
The check arrived via FedEx the next morning . . .
I remember, in particular, a 2002 ad looking for people with 5 or more years of Windows 2000 server experience.
Or the people looking for 10+ years of experience in JAVA in 2003 (which only debuted in 1995. . . do the math. . .)
The real problem, is the clueless tyrants in HR. . .