How long until someone finds a vulnerability in this, hacks in and sets it to self-cleaning mode on your dinner. "Nooooooo!!! My kielbasa!!!!". The internet will be plagued by the new R04sT3r.B worm.
I find it "chilling" that the only public places he went outside of the office over 4 days were 2 restaurants. Also that he apparently spent 4 1/2 hours a day in the cafeteria.
I guess this poor fellow did not have a very active social life, although he does seem to enjoy eating.
From the article:
Public health officials said the infected person visited the following areas: Malay Satay Hut, 15230 NE 24th St., Redmond, WA 98052 on August 16th 2005, from 12-3 p.m. Thai Ginger at Redmond Town Center, 16480 NE 74th Street on August 20th from 8-11 p.m. Microsoft -- Redmond Campus, One Microsoft Way, Building #40, Redmond, WA on August 16, 17, 18 and 19, all day. Microsoft -- Cafeteria, One Microsoft Way, between Building #40 and #41, Redmond, WA on August 17, 18 and 19, 11:30 am to 4:00 pm.
He must be up to something fishy.
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This email doesn't contain the words r0lexx, v!/\gr4 or c14ll4s. It sticks out like a sore thumb from 99% of the email traffic we've intercepted, he must be up to no good!!!!
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3895 Actually, a little digging turns out that we're all wrong! A solar sail that reflected the energy perfectly at the same frequency would not move at all, and if it did it would be violating the laws of thermodynamics. The link above mentions the Crooke's radiometer as support for this.
Further digging shows that reflective solar sails don't do this, they actually reduce the frequency of the light which strikes them, and this frequency shift is where the energy comes from. It would seem to me that completely absorbing the light would be more effecient than simply reducing the frequency, but I've been wrong before.
His voodoo is also pretty impressive, because he has just helped me create a perpetual motion machine.
I could point two near perfect reflectors at each other in a vaccuum, bounce a beam of microwaves between them and rake in nearly double power I put into the system every time the wave was reflected!
Energy is gained from the absorption of photons and not their reflection. Otherwise you are violating the ever so important laws of thermodynamics. It makes me angry when people describe a solar sail as a "giant mirror in space".
Most users might be able to live with it, but what they don't see is the 50%-90%+ of spam that is filtered out before it even hits their inbox.
I know I still get about a spam a day, after my personal filters ditch about 80% of what comes in. And that's after my ISP filters out what is likely an equal amount.
That means about 25 spams a day are sent my way. Multiply by the tens of thousands of e-mail accounts on a mid-sized ISP, and it starts to cost these businesses real money.
Unfortuanately humans don't hunt in the same way most predators do.
Natural predators intentionally single out the elderly, the sick or the young. They thin out the herd in the right way, taking out the weakest link which actually makes the population stronger as a whole. Humans on the other hand tend to go for the strongest, healthiest bucks first. They want trophies, and the tastiest meat. Most hunters wouldn't waste a bullet on a sickly deer, much less want to eat it.
Hunting might keep the nuisance deer out of our yards and off our highways, but it sure as hell isn't helping the deer as much as a healthy wolf or cougar population would.
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Hmmm. The flamebait mod has never been more appropriate.
Code behind the windows paper-clip:
if (!document.empty())
appearsToBeWritingALetter();
How long until someone finds a vulnerability in this, hacks in and sets it to self-cleaning mode on your dinner. "Nooooooo!!! My kielbasa!!!!". The internet will be plagued by the new R04sT3r.B worm.
I find it "chilling" that the only public places he went outside of the office over 4 days were 2 restaurants. Also that he apparently spent 4 1/2 hours a day in the cafeteria.
I guess this poor fellow did not have a very active social life, although he does seem to enjoy eating.
From the article:
Public health officials said the infected person visited the following areas:
Malay Satay Hut, 15230 NE 24th St., Redmond, WA 98052 on August 16th 2005, from 12-3 p.m.
Thai Ginger at Redmond Town Center, 16480 NE 74th Street on August 20th from 8-11 p.m.
Microsoft -- Redmond Campus, One Microsoft Way, Building #40, Redmond, WA on August 16, 17, 18 and 19, all day.
Microsoft -- Cafeteria, One Microsoft Way, between Building #40 and #41, Redmond, WA on August 17, 18 and 19, 11:30 am to 4:00 pm.
This email doesn't contain the words r0lexx, v!/\gr4 or c14ll4s. It sticks out like a sore thumb from 99% of the email traffic we've intercepted, he must be up to no good!!!!
CherryOS -> CheeryOS -> Cheerios
Yup... I have been led back to the light by actually looking for the facts. I wish the author of the article had done the same.
OK, I'm a crank! Apparently a perfectly evacuated radiometer actually does turn in the opposite direction. Consider me converted.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3895
Actually, a little digging turns out that we're all wrong! A solar sail that reflected the energy perfectly at the same frequency would not move at all, and if it did it would be violating the laws of thermodynamics. The link above mentions the Crooke's radiometer as support for this.
Further digging shows that reflective solar sails don't do this, they actually reduce the frequency of the light which strikes them, and this frequency shift is where the energy comes from. It would seem to me that completely absorbing the light would be more effecient than simply reducing the frequency, but I've been wrong before.
His voodoo is also pretty impressive, because he has just helped me create a perpetual motion machine.
I could point two near perfect reflectors at each other in a vaccuum, bounce a beam of microwaves between them and rake in nearly double power I put into the system every time the wave was reflected!
Energy is gained from the absorption of photons and not their reflection. Otherwise you are violating the ever so important laws of thermodynamics. It makes me angry when people describe a solar sail as a "giant mirror in space".
Get ready for the soon to be classic -cyclodextrine in the oilpan trick.
Actually it's an Isreali company, they were worrying about airport security long before 9/11.
Yeah, it's my Gutenberg Bible.
If Isaac Newton were alive today he'd most likely be some kind of centuries old mummy-creature. I doubt he could get valet parking, let alone a job.
But they'd already sent him the cheque for $10 at that point, so it should only be $499,995.00 more.
I'll bet the towels are equipped with GPS units, so they can tell when you're stealing them.
DUCK!!!
Didn't anyone tell you? That's the next billion-dollar industry!
I don't know what it is, but it sure as hell doesn't include the word "docuverse"
teh intarnet hutz english performence?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!11111
Now I can finally search for the Free Radio Linux kernel reading by phonemes!
Most users might be able to live with it, but what they don't see is the 50%-90%+ of spam that is filtered out before it even hits their inbox.
I know I still get about a spam a day, after my personal filters ditch about 80% of what comes in. And that's after my ISP filters out what is likely an equal amount.
That means about 25 spams a day are sent my way. Multiply by the tens of thousands of e-mail accounts on a mid-sized ISP, and it starts to cost these businesses real money.
Unfortuanately humans don't hunt in the same way most predators do.
Natural predators intentionally single out the elderly, the sick or the young. They thin out the herd in the right way, taking out the weakest link which actually makes the population stronger as a whole. Humans on the other hand tend to go for the strongest, healthiest bucks first. They want trophies, and the tastiest meat. Most hunters wouldn't waste a bullet on a sickly deer, much less want to eat it.
Hunting might keep the nuisance deer out of our yards and off our highways, but it sure as hell isn't helping the deer as much as a healthy wolf or cougar population would.
Back in my day we just had a million monkeys on a million typewriters.
Madhouse: Satirized for your protection"