For the first couple of months after the observatory was built I had constant dreams about the observatory being broken into, being stolen, being destroyed by various means, this includes storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and once by an "Angel" from Neon Genesis Evangelion That would be bad, right?
The chances of anyone coming from Mars are a million to one, I say.
But it just might work! I'm changing my "You've got mail" to Oooollaaaaa! (Since it was "I'm the evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight, Bwahahahaha!", this is a step in the direction of sanity.)
No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.--War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells (1898), as adapted for Jeff Wayne's musical version of the book.
The Path line in a Usenet post was supposed to be a valid !path for replies. A couple years ago, spammers used the bigflup%example.com to bypass relay blocking software. I'm surprised it took them that long to exploit the weakness. Closed within days.
No worries, Stirling engines are definitely engineering as opposed to electrofan shinola. I'm sure that issue is in there somewhere, maybe behind those 1976 Bytes...
Your uncle seemed quite a character. And that's a good thing!
Late 50's, early 60's. There were plenty of Dick Tracy style electrofan gizmos. (I'm not sure how the sci-fi Dick Tracy strips of the mid-late 60's fit in with Dick Tracy canon, but that's what the papers ran.) The power cord was usually a problem.:^)
Somewhere, I've still got the solar-pumped Stirling engine plans from a '65 issue. Even then, I could tell the difference between engineering and shinola.
In '50's, '60's Popular Science magazines, right along side the flying cars were the "electrofan" ionic propelled hover vehicles. This has been a pipe-dream for some time.
It isn't anti-gravity, but if they can do something useful with it, a flying Segway would be cool. (Otherwise, STFU.)
Sure, easy enough just to use the pet chip. However, the tinfoil hat types will tell you that thousands of people are being implanted and tracked with these all the time by the them*. (* last I heard it was gay alien nazi MiB.)
Unfortunately, it looks like they are canceling it to focus on the use of the same technology in the warehouses and distribution centers instead
I don't have a problem with them using RFID for their internal inventory tracking. Sure, we'll be facing this same argument all over again when the price does drop enough to deploy in stores, but it can wait until then.
I did have some problems with older hardware, but that was the "install out of the box and see what happens" pass rather than the "pot of heavy-duty coffee and read the docs carefully" pass. Time for coffee, I guess.:^)
SCO could try retro-modifying the code and comments, but (among others) IBM has had access to that source since V.2, so if SCO produces doctored code, IBM will know. (Proving it I leave as an exercise...)
No different than most any other COM object. The only difference was that a couple extra interfaces were slapped on. Microsoft loves to rename their tech every couple years: DDE, Object Linking and Embedding, OLE (which doesn't stand for anything), COM, ActiveX, add-ons like COM+
What was Windows DNA again? I fell asleep at that point.
I doubt that English is Karin's first language, perhaps we should give her some slack? (As for the Martians at Slashdot... D'OH! I wasn't supposed to say that. Definitely no Martians at Slashdot. Never hearing of Martians from me!)
Okay, I'll be serious. The sender of the email does own the copyright on the email. Publishing that email on a website might be a violation of their copyright if they object. Even if the website now has a notice that emails will be published, there was no prior notification of this change and the senders had no expectation that this was so. If anyone minds, let them speak up.
Now, as for the previous owners of Cyberangels (I believe Martin still denies any connection), their rights are murkier and probably depend on national laws. There I won't even claim to know what they might be. Of course, if Cyberangels is linked to criminal activity, we might not be hearing from anyone claiming to be the previous owner for a long time. (Hopefully 5 to 10 or so.)
As I said, I'm undecided about the moral question. After all these bad analogies (smail, postcard, etc), my take is that email is like an elephant. And an elephant is soft and mushy. (Kliban ref.)
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Didn't it run away to the Village? That didn't sound like a high-pitched voice.
No "Voice of Doom"? Forget it.
I was a Neilson family for a while. I suspect my votes got tossed. None so blind...
For the first couple of months after the observatory was built I had constant dreams about the observatory being broken into, being stolen, being destroyed by various means, this includes storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and once by an "Angel" from Neon Genesis Evangelion That would be bad, right?
I remember the part about fine girls kissing me. A fantasy work, no? ;^P
But it just might work! I'm changing my "You've got mail" to Oooollaaaaa! (Since it was "I'm the evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight, Bwahahahaha!", this is a step in the direction of sanity.)
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No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.--War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells (1898), as adapted for Jeff Wayne's musical version of the book.
It's not that old!
And if you want to avoid that whole NYT thing, just follow my sig. I've had the story since yesterday. :^P
The Path line in a Usenet post was supposed to be a valid !path for replies. A couple years ago, spammers used the bigflup%example.com to bypass relay blocking software. I'm surprised it took them that long to exploit the weakness. Closed within days.
So far as I know, all those sonic pest repel gizmos work best if you fling them at the pest.
Your uncle seemed quite a character. And that's a good thing!
If in Toronto, check out BookCity. Very interesting stuff for quite (usually) a bit off.
Somewhere, I've still got the solar-pumped Stirling engine plans from a '65 issue. Even then, I could tell the difference between engineering and shinola.
It isn't anti-gravity, but if they can do something useful with it, a flying Segway would be cool. (Otherwise, STFU.)
Sure, easy enough just to use the pet chip. However, the tinfoil hat types will tell you that thousands of people are being implanted and tracked with these all the time by the them*. (* last I heard it was gay alien nazi MiB.)
They already have implantable ID chips for pets (and for humans too according to the tin-foil headgear types). You just need to build a reader.
I don't have a problem with them using RFID for their internal inventory tracking. Sure, we'll be facing this same argument all over again when the price does drop enough to deploy in stores, but it can wait until then.
I did have some problems with older hardware, but that was the "install out of the box and see what happens" pass rather than the "pot of heavy-duty coffee and read the docs carefully" pass. Time for coffee, I guess. :^)
SCO could try retro-modifying the code and comments, but (among others) IBM has had access to that source since V.2, so if SCO produces doctored code, IBM will know. (Proving it I leave as an exercise...)
After OLE 2.0 or so, Microsoft said that OLE is just the name, it doesn't stand for anything. Riiight...
What was Windows DNA again? I fell asleep at that point.
I doubt that English is Karin's first language, perhaps we should give her some slack? (As for the Martians at Slashdot... D'OH! I wasn't supposed to say that. Definitely no Martians at Slashdot. Never hearing of Martians from me!)
Now, as for the previous owners of Cyberangels (I believe Martin still denies any connection), their rights are murkier and probably depend on national laws. There I won't even claim to know what they might be. Of course, if Cyberangels is linked to criminal activity, we might not be hearing from anyone claiming to be the previous owner for a long time. (Hopefully 5 to 10 or so.)
As I said, I'm undecided about the moral question. After all these bad analogies (smail, postcard, etc), my take is that email is like an elephant. And an elephant is soft and mushy. (Kliban ref.)