Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door
Actually, modern revolving doors have a breakaway feature so traffic can go straight through in emergencies. If you try hard enough it is quite possible to slam one. Just thought you would like to know.
...I bet that if we were clever enough, we'd be able to find another ape-like species which lived on earth, evolved an advanced civilization and then disappeared because of a climatic event. The sun has remained stable for so long that it's inconcevible that it didn't occur before...
Not likely. The sun may have been fairly stable for that long, but the Earth hasn't been. It takes quite a while for a conglomeration of space rubble to form into a cohesive planet - especially when another planet comes along and smacks it just as it's getting things together. The other half of the story is that, on average, evolution probably works on an exponential curve much like every other natural process. It seems to have taken a very long time to get from single-cell lifeforms to the first animals. From there things exploded pretty quickly to give us the diversity we have now within a few hundred million years.
...How would you like to find out that your customers aren't getting what they pay you for...
You mean like when you wake up every morning? When was the last time any company bigger than a mom-and-pop even gave a thought to customers getting what they pay for? Well, OK, occasionally they think about that, then quickly move to either raise the price or remove something from the product.
Taken in context I would presume that they're referring to hackers in the negative sense. This is not a group that's known for being champions of safe computing.
So let's see: 1) l33t h4xx04z finds a nifty security hole. 2) l33t h4xx04z determines that he could use this hole to create 100 million zombies. 3) Decision - a) report the hole so that it can be fixed OR b) start working on exploit to create 100 million marketable zombies 4) PROFIT.
The article means mass, not weight: A star's weight is effetively zero, as it is in a microgravity environment. It's mass is trillions of kilograms.
On the other hand, weight is a measure of one object's gravitational attraction to another. The measured wobble of these stars is induced by said gravitational attraction. Therefore, HST is helping to determine the weight of suspected planets.
It makes me kind of sad to think that there's so few people around to hug those who need it that we need an artificial replacement. Where's the love, man?
The artificial replacement is needed because if one human hugs another it's sexual assault and he goes to jail, or maybe just fired if the hug happens at work.
I have spent four-five hours trying to get 2 screens hooked up to my linux system. So far no luck...
Try WinXP. You just plug in the second screen, right-click to get to the properties and set a couple of preferences, and it works. Call me a troll if you like, but it's true.
Finally Proof of intelligence. On another planet. (Robot is proof of intelligence, and its on another planet, the sentences don't necessarily have to be linked.)
I'll give you partial credit for the "on another planet" part. No points for proof of intelligence, because there's strong evidence that the robot was built by humans.
...GIVE KIDS LIBERTY AND THEY WILL MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!
Like hell they will. Have you ever met a kid? Oh, I suppose it depends a lot on how you define "right choice". If you go by the standards of most communities (Western ones anyway) then the choices made by unguided kids will frequently not qualify. I've known several kids who grew up without someone exerting a reasonable level of control. They don't tend to make wise decisions. Check the news for the activities going on in regions where there is no effective government. That's the kind of stuff young people do in the absence of control.
...Think how much easier it would be to control population and reach world agreements if they where only say a billion people.
Hmm. When there were only a billion people, population apparently wasn't controlled very well at all. World agreements were reached by sending lots of young men out to blow each other up.
I've already got it all sorted out. I'll work till I'm 67, retire in poverty, and (based on my family's male longevity) die 4 years later. The last thing I need is some breakthrough that will keep me hanging around after that.
Isn't this not supposed to happen? I thought that the ISO 900x process was built to flag these issues before they became the nightmare that has since developed?
No, ISO 900x only insures that everything you do is documented. It doesn't even try to address the validity of the processes that are documented. All of your processes can be total crap as long as everyone does what it says in the document.
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Actually, modern revolving doors have a breakaway feature so traffic can go straight through in emergencies. If you try hard enough it is quite possible to slam one.
Just thought you would like to know.
Why do you say that? We already do it with weeds, bacteria, mold spores...
There might be a trademark issue, but copyright only applies to the content.
Not likely. The sun may have been fairly stable for that long, but the Earth hasn't been. It takes quite a while for a conglomeration of space rubble to form into a cohesive planet - especially when another planet comes along and smacks it just as it's getting things together.
The other half of the story is that, on average, evolution probably works on an exponential curve much like every other natural process. It seems to have taken a very long time to get from single-cell lifeforms to the first animals. From there things exploded pretty quickly to give us the diversity we have now within a few hundred million years.
You mean like when you wake up every morning?
When was the last time any company bigger than a mom-and-pop even gave a thought to customers getting what they pay for? Well, OK, occasionally they think about that, then quickly move to either raise the price or remove something from the product.
Me, too, but while I was at it I beat the living crap out of him. OK, so it only registered as a single click, but I felt better.
Since when is taking advantage of a free resource considered extreme? I thought that was basic human nature.
I wonder how much PxN stock Hemos is holding?
I know I would.
Well, now I know why I haven't noticed SL being especially fun.
Oh. Those guys. Well, best of luck.
Because that's what you do with bits of history that you don't like.
Or you can take the easy way out and just revise it.
Taken in context I would presume that they're referring to hackers in the negative sense. This is not a group that's known for being champions of safe computing.
So let's see:
1) l33t h4xx04z finds a nifty security hole.
2) l33t h4xx04z determines that he could use this hole to create 100 million zombies.
3) Decision - a) report the hole so that it can be fixed OR b) start working on exploit to create 100 million marketable zombies
4) PROFIT.
On the other hand, weight is a measure of one object's gravitational attraction to another. The measured wobble of these stars is induced by said gravitational attraction. Therefore, HST is helping to determine the weight of suspected planets.
The artificial replacement is needed because if one human hugs another it's sexual assault and he goes to jail, or maybe just fired if the hug happens at work.
Nope, just one single thing.
Sorry, I'm not telling you which one so just move along.
Try WinXP. You just plug in the second screen, right-click to get to the properties and set a couple of preferences, and it works. Call me a troll if you like, but it's true.
I'll give you partial credit for the "on another planet" part. No points for proof of intelligence, because there's strong evidence that the robot was built by humans.
Like hell they will. Have you ever met a kid?
Oh, I suppose it depends a lot on how you define "right choice". If you go by the standards of most communities (Western ones anyway) then the choices made by unguided kids will frequently not qualify. I've known several kids who grew up without someone exerting a reasonable level of control. They don't tend to make wise decisions.
Check the news for the activities going on in regions where there is no effective government. That's the kind of stuff young people do in the absence of control.
Hmm. When there were only a billion people, population apparently wasn't controlled very well at all. World agreements were reached by sending lots of young men out to blow each other up.
By having lots and lots of small cities scattered all the way across the continent.
I've already got it all sorted out.
I'll work till I'm 67, retire in poverty, and (based on my family's male longevity) die 4 years later.
The last thing I need is some breakthrough that will keep me hanging around after that.
No, ISO 900x only insures that everything you do is documented. It doesn't even try to address the validity of the processes that are documented. All of your processes can be total crap as long as everyone does what it says in the document.
But will they ever find a planet more dense than a Slashdot editor?
Of course they will. Where do you think the electricity is going to come from to make the borohydride?