There is precedent, albeit tenuous, that the only purpose of certain kinds of equipment, or even logic (DeCSS anyone), is to do unlawful and criminal things with it.
Now, I'll grant that there are many reasons for owning laser pointers. Specifically, if you have a cat, it is a patented means of delivering exercise to the feline.
However... With datamining, if you buy diesel fuel, fertilizer, and now a laser pointer, you can end up on a watch list which you could avoid if you did not buy a cat toy.
Never mind the birds... All those windmills interfere with natural air currents. Air currents, in turn are what moves weather patterns like hurricanes. Too many windmills, therefore, will slow air masses to a standstill, creating unprecedented ecological disasters. Specifically, consider the recent hurricanes that impacted the south eastern US. Without wind to eventually blow them out to sea, they'd still be floating over Florida, wreaking havoc.
With an MS in CS, I've spent some free time teaching introductory CS at a local University.
With a BS, you may be able to teach at a Community College. Or, if you just know what you're doing, but even without credentials, you can volunteer to do computer literacy workshops for kids, seniors, etc.
You may want to visit the iRobot site to get your perception of the navigational logic adjusted. I'm all for healthy cynicism, but let's give credit where credit is due.
1. It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
2. You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
3. You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm. How do you react?
4. You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
5. Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
But I already sent in my car payment... Whaddya mean I also have to pay for insurance, and gas, and oil changes, and "maintenance"? And what the hell is a "parking ticket"? It's my car, I'll park it wherever I want!
The programmers, admins and other "IT professionals" out there are analogous to auto mechanics and carpenters, or at best construction formen. Nobody is talking about architecture majors in relation to the recent building boom, are they?
A CS degree, a proper, accredited CS degree from a school with a good reputation, makes you more of an architect or mechanical engineer, better suited to designing the skyscraper or concept car than to actually build one.
And before people jump on me for glorifying CS degrees... Few architects and mechanical engineers could build a solid addition onto their house, or even hang kitchen cabinets or lay carpet, better than a professional suited and trained to the task. How many lines of code have the likes of Alan Turing and C.J. Date written, in comparison to the lot that tried to "Learn C++ in 21 Days"?
The world only needs so many designers and theory-people. CS grads were filling the programming and admin needs, and largely wasting their theory education, because there isn't that much need for theory in the "real world". The bubble burst, and the people who went into CS for the money are no longer doing it.
Conversely, those of us who truly love the field would still be doing theory and research, even if the only relevant job we could find was a teaching VB to industrial technology majors.
This is why people get an "education", get a well-paying "job", so they can move to where guys like your Nemesis would get pulled over for "driving while Minority".
Then they "vote" so that gun and alcohol stores can more easily be opened in "da hood" than in your "burb", so that your Nemesis will tend to stay there.
"Acts of God" are probably defined with regard to who is in office at the time.
I know this was in New Zealand, but if it'd happened in the US, a plague would be defined as an act of terror, while stray a titanium rod fired from orbit would be indemnified by the government.
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What? You don't have a coffee can attached to your CPU fan to make it cool better and run faster?
Just wait until your dentist offers crowns with a built-in digital camera. But then, it'll probably have WiFi too.
There is precedent, albeit tenuous, that the only purpose of certain kinds of equipment, or even logic (DeCSS anyone), is to do unlawful and criminal things with it.
Now, I'll grant that there are many reasons for owning laser pointers. Specifically, if you have a cat, it is a patented means of delivering exercise to the feline.
However... With datamining, if you buy diesel fuel, fertilizer, and now a laser pointer, you can end up on a watch list which you could avoid if you did not buy a cat toy.
Doh! Yeah... That's CMDA... Damn my metal fingers!
I say sic the Fed on them, and their employer!
White worms are a nice theory, but I think they should be fought just as vehemently by anti-virus software as malicious ones.
Holes they use should never be left unpatched, even if the worm's patches are not applied.
Consider: If there was a benign strain of HIV out there that immunized you to Herpes upon infection, would you give up condoms?
A laser like this could indeed be a great threat to our strategic Dixie cup reserves.
I hope the boot-up images are more interesting than the flatline image of the server hosting them.
Never mind the birds... All those windmills interfere with natural air currents. Air currents, in turn are what moves weather patterns like hurricanes. Too many windmills, therefore, will slow air masses to a standstill, creating unprecedented ecological disasters. Specifically, consider the recent hurricanes that impacted the south eastern US. Without wind to eventually blow them out to sea, they'd still be floating over Florida, wreaking havoc.
Just say NO to wind-farms! Do it for Florida!
With an MS in CS, I've spent some free time teaching introductory CS at a local University.
With a BS, you may be able to teach at a Community College. Or, if you just know what you're doing, but even without credentials, you can volunteer to do computer literacy workshops for kids, seniors, etc.
Ignorance LOVES statistics.
To wit: If we're all unemployed, the "unemployment rate" will be ZERO, and that will be good for the economy.
You may want to visit the iRobot site to get your perception of the navigational logic adjusted. I'm all for healthy cynicism, but let's give credit where credit is due.
Has anyone gleaned from the article how the beaming stations are maintained in place?
I got that nuclear and solar power would be used to generate the beam, but generating the beam would impart thrust to the station.
Did I miss something?
1. It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
2. You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
3. You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm. How do you react?
4. You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
5. Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
"Windows", anyone?
You don't want the Moon to be blown out of orbit by a nuclear waste dump explosion, do you?
Have any of you bothered to appreciate the spin of the source of this drivel?
Just a thought.
How about turning that frown upside-down, and setting up a mutually-learning system based on the addresses of everyone I filter/block?
But I already sent in my car payment... Whaddya mean I also have to pay for insurance, and gas, and oil changes, and "maintenance"? And what the hell is a "parking ticket"? It's my car, I'll park it wherever I want!
The programmers, admins and other "IT professionals" out there are analogous to auto mechanics and carpenters, or at best construction formen. Nobody is talking about architecture majors in relation to the recent building boom, are they?
A CS degree, a proper, accredited CS degree from a school with a good reputation, makes you more of an architect or mechanical engineer, better suited to designing the skyscraper or concept car than to actually build one.
And before people jump on me for glorifying CS degrees... Few architects and mechanical engineers could build a solid addition onto their house, or even hang kitchen cabinets or lay carpet, better than a professional suited and trained to the task. How many lines of code have the likes of Alan Turing and C.J. Date written, in comparison to the lot that tried to "Learn C++ in 21 Days"?
The world only needs so many designers and theory-people. CS grads were filling the programming and admin needs, and largely wasting their theory education, because there isn't that much need for theory in the "real world". The bubble burst, and the people who went into CS for the money are no longer doing it.
Conversely, those of us who truly love the field would still be doing theory and research, even if the only relevant job we could find was a teaching VB to industrial technology majors.
I haven't listened to broadcast radio while driving in years. Except to check traffic reports.
I have an mp3 player. (not and iPod, though FM transmitters are available COTS for anything with an 1/8" jack at CompUSA)
Get with the times.
This is why people get an "education", get a well-paying "job", so they can move to where guys like your Nemesis would get pulled over for "driving while Minority".
Then they "vote" so that gun and alcohol stores can more easily be opened in "da hood" than in your "burb", so that your Nemesis will tend to stay there.
Why not leave Trek in it's dilapidated, polarity-inverted Universe, and instead create another series in the Babylon 5 one?
"Acts of God" are probably defined with regard to who is in office at the time.
I know this was in New Zealand, but if it'd happened in the US, a plague would be defined as an act of terror, while stray a titanium rod fired from orbit would be indemnified by the government.
Astronauts aren't rated for space either. This is why we send them up in shielded spacecraft. ;)