No one is going to tote around a mini chem lab to their favorite coffee outlet. Unless they offer a marketable test kit, (that works like litmus paper or a hand held device), the method is rather useless.
No I haven't seen the film. But it sounds to me like another "Metropolis" with a bit of "Things to Come" thrown in and Matt Damon style violence. Brigitte Helm in her robot suit was quite racy for 1927.
As this is "current", not sure it qualifies but has completed its second season this year.
I mentioned to a friend last week, "Person of Interest" is my favorite TV show. I'm only worried whether there will be another season. Also whether they will get too involved in character's personal interactions and the main computer rather than the original "fix the victim" plotline. Since many shows with good plot devices end up this way.
There was an episode this season near the end, the computer was dumping its own O/S binary to paper and it hired employees to get re-keyed by hand every night before a reboot. Classic computer humor.
Agree. A van with the right equipment parked outside their facilities can pick up TEMPEST emanations. But I think the Russian Federal Guards would start asking themselves, "Why is there a van parked outside our secure facility?"
It is apparent to me that someone must have confused it with the "other" kind of Open Source, which is Open Source Intelligence. Perhaps an agent thought it was ripe for the picking.
I place my bets on Otto Schmidt's OGABAS system. (Oh My God, Anything But A Six!). Later this month I'll play his "Jayne's Frightening Ships" at an invitation-only Mini-Con, (no vendors.)
Seems all they have to do is form a company called Quantum Computer. Then it doesn't matter if the machine really is one, it would simply be a product line under the auspices of "Quantum Computer".
(No doubt there already is a company with that name, so it won't work.)
I still get Strategy & Tactics because there is still a paper wargame in every issue. (And will the word 'wargame' ever get promoted into canon and pass the spell checker?)
My doctor told me that during very intense weeks of cold and flu season, he has to pull the magazines from the waiting room because patients cough into the magazines and they get passed around.
Its painfully obvious at the grocery store. I've lost count how many spouses (mostly husbands) are shopping for something get on their phone to ask the other spouse what boxed item, can of sauce, vegetable, or other ingredient to get, down to the last variation of the product.
If the husband had any creativity he'd think of something on this own. Or as in days of yore, presence of forethought to have written it down on paper beforehand.
I too currently use an HP3000. It is a workhorse that keeps going and going and going...
A file on the HP3000 can be defined in what is called the TEMP domain. It simply disappears when you log off. (Poof!)
It is an awesome computer by the way. It has never had a worm or virus (outside the lab, and the one it had, only affected a program on a dumb terminal.)
And of course HP still owns the rights. (AND the CODE and the BUILD procedures.) Runs the old languages. COBOL, FORTRAN, SPL, Pascal, BASIC, C, RPG, Perl.
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No one is going to tote around a mini chem lab to their favorite coffee outlet. Unless they offer a marketable test kit, (that works like litmus paper or a hand held device), the method is rather useless.
No wonder Kwai Chang Cane had a hard time catching one.
The day before the subpoena arrives.
No I haven't seen the film. But it sounds to me like another "Metropolis" with a bit of "Things to Come" thrown in and Matt Damon style violence. Brigitte Helm in her robot suit was quite racy for 1927.
Perhaps this thread should have the Guy Fawkes Mask Icon instead of a padlock.
Why don't they just contract out to Dr. Evil or any other arch-Villian? I'm sure one of them has a weather control machine.
As this is "current", not sure it qualifies but has completed its second season this year.
I mentioned to a friend last week, "Person of Interest" is my favorite TV show. I'm only worried whether there will be another season. Also whether they will get too involved in character's personal interactions and the main computer rather than the original "fix the victim" plotline. Since many shows with good plot devices end up this way.
There was an episode this season near the end, the computer was dumping its own O/S binary to paper and it hired employees to get re-keyed by hand every night before a reboot. Classic computer humor.
Agree. A van with the right equipment parked outside their facilities can pick up TEMPEST emanations. But I think the Russian Federal Guards would start asking themselves, "Why is there a van parked outside our secure facility?"
My search for the perfect AD&D random number generator has finally ended!
It is apparent to me that someone must have confused it with the "other" kind of Open Source, which is Open Source Intelligence. Perhaps an agent thought it was ripe for the picking.
Apollo Global Management? Metropoulous?
I suspect olive oil will be substituted for fat!
Parapolee Kala!
I place my bets on Otto Schmidt's OGABAS system. (Oh My God, Anything But A Six!). Later this month I'll play his "Jayne's Frightening Ships" at an invitation-only Mini-Con, (no vendors.)
I'm conceptually surprised by the title, the author complains about supporting antique software, then complains about hardware issues.
So the Star Trek computer will had access to "All the data in the known Universe" ?
Will someone ever ask: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
Or will the question first be posed in 2061?
Seems all they have to do is form a company called Quantum Computer. Then it doesn't matter if the machine really is one, it would simply be a product line under the auspices of "Quantum Computer".
(No doubt there already is a company with that name, so it won't work.)
That is why I like the TV show "Person of Interest", it is so darn accurate in its Minority Reporting!
(I think of those little square boxes with corner handles you can drag with a click every time I see a traffic camera.)
I still get Strategy & Tactics because there is still a paper wargame in every issue. (And will the word 'wargame' ever get promoted into canon and pass the spell checker?)
I get Proceedings because I have a navy interest.
My doctor told me that during very intense weeks of cold and flu season, he has to pull the magazines from the waiting room because patients cough into the magazines and they get passed around.
Its painfully obvious at the grocery store. I've lost count how many spouses (mostly husbands) are shopping for something get on their phone to ask the other spouse what boxed item, can of sauce, vegetable, or other ingredient to get, down to the last variation of the product.
If the husband had any creativity he'd think of something on this own. Or as in days of yore, presence of forethought to have written it down on paper beforehand.
Everyone knows that when you play your two down cards in "Nuclear War" you can't swap them with cards in your hand.
The F-35 is now a down card and has to be there until its turn to come up is played.
Oh yeah,
This is going to generate a few laughs on the few HP3000 forums.
Once the HP legal dept picks up on it, it is only going to get better.
I too currently use an HP3000. It is a workhorse that keeps going and going and going ...
A file on the HP3000 can be defined in what is called the TEMP domain. It simply disappears when you log off. (Poof!)
It is an awesome computer by the way. It has never had a worm or virus (outside the lab, and the one it had, only affected a program on a dumb terminal.)
And of course HP still owns the rights. (AND the CODE and the BUILD procedures.) Runs the old languages. COBOL, FORTRAN, SPL, Pascal, BASIC, C, RPG, Perl.
Good times.
So instead of 13 regions for the Hunger Games, we start with 50?
Oh minus one because the capital was devastated.
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