It comes from ALF's planet Melmac? Zowie! But seriously, I remember that stuff. Surviving nuclear weapons tests sounds a lot safer than my guess. And there's a lot of other stuff in a PC case that will burn.
My sinuses hurt just thinking about them. There's always a pile of crap dust up there that I'm allegic to as it rains down. It takes weeks for that stuff to dissipate afterwards.
After the computer has been rendered silent, the sound card will play all those classic movie computer sounds to let you know it's alright: clattering relays, doot-doot-deep telemetery, chugga-chugga card punches, a little R2, etc...
A computer that sounds like is supposed to! And what right-thinking geek could resist that?:^P
Are those foam panels fireproof (or at least resistant)? If they're used in office ceilings, I'd guess so, but I'd want more than my guess before putting close to stuff that gets hot.
It is possible (just highly improbable). Assuming 0 starting point: 1 Troll and 6 Underrated votes. Assuming 2 starting point: 1 Troll and 4 Underrated.
Aha! So that's what made those tree-aliens so easy to control by evil ancient hidden code in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep! They were SCrOde-Riders!
Phone: *ring*
Cthulhu: Hello?
JF Lyons: Hi there, Mr. Khooloo, I calling you because I want to give you what you want to eat! Interested?
Cthulhu: Why yes, I am a bit peckish...
Some friends used to keep a "Toronto Fire Tour" map of all the various shelters that burned down in their area. (Odds are they were torched to empty them. Did that and killed a bunch of people too.)
I actually did type porxy a while ago, and it seemed a good name for those types of proxies. The ActiveX was finger auto-pilot this time.
True, it's not a stupid program. And the coder is criminally moronic. Thanks to him, all those newbes who use it to allow the kids' machine to share the house Internet connection also allow spammers and scriptkiddies to share that connection too. And with ADSL/cable speeds, that can cause serious damage. (And has, I believe.) Shame, it would probably be a nice program otherwise.
And I thought when turning on Microsoft network shares, turning them on for all network connections was bad...
I did find people suing them for trying to make their search engine more accurate, though (like SearchKing).
SearchKing? Accurate? They were basically trying to spam (heh) Google's ranking algorithm by various tricks and Google adjusted the algorithm to prevent abuse.
You haven't read the ingredient label on a pack of non-deluxe pork hotdogs lately have you? Somebody once refered to the meat as "lips and ass". 100% pig is no joke.
Why? The skit was obviously refering to the Hormel product. You can use someone's trademark, so long as you're refering to their product and not some generic or something completely different.
Yes, they've been very understanding with the use of spam for unsolicited email/Usenet posts. The trouble is now that scores of commercial businesses have started using for their product names over the last few years.
Their lawyers probably told them that they had no choice but to "send a message". If they lose, maybe Hormel could rename their product to Windows?:^P
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Not normally, but if my Athlon or power-supply suffered a melt-down, I'd prefer to replace the chip/PS rather than the apartment.
Works for imploding attacking Martians' brains too! :^)
A bastard? Nah, everyone feels that way. Hey, would it do for cell phones too?
I wants one!
Someone already built his case out of that stuff. Ugly as sin! It was on Slashdot.
Anyone doing a personal Halon case mod?
My sinuses hurt just thinking about them. There's always a pile of crap dust up there that I'm allegic to as it rains down. It takes weeks for that stuff to dissipate afterwards.
A computer that sounds like is supposed to! And what right-thinking geek could resist that? :^P
And here, laugh, it's relevant
Who is this interstellar gas cloud gesturing too, and what is it ordering?
It is possible (just highly improbable). Assuming 0 starting point: 1 Troll and 6 Underrated votes. Assuming 2 starting point: 1 Troll and 4 Underrated.
Aha! So that's what made those tree-aliens so easy to control by evil ancient hidden code in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep! They were SCrOde-Riders!
Phone: *ring*
Cthulhu: Hello?
JF Lyons: Hi there, Mr. Khooloo, I calling you because I want to give you what you want to eat! Interested?
Cthulhu: Why yes, I am a bit peckish...
And it's not very hard. this search gave at least 10 pages of hits.
Well, if a rabid dog like Lyons keeps trying to bite me all the time, he'll get what I want. Eat this Lyon!
Grrr... But seriously, every time someone has suggested graphic challenge systems, several people would point out this problem.
Some friends used to keep a "Toronto Fire Tour" map of all the various shelters that burned down in their area. (Odds are they were torched to empty them. Did that and killed a bunch of people too.)
And someone stole the copper plumbing to sell?
True, it's not a stupid program. And the coder is criminally moronic. Thanks to him, all those newbes who use it to allow the kids' machine to share the house Internet connection also allow spammers and scriptkiddies to share that connection too. And with ADSL/cable speeds, that can cause serious damage. (And has, I believe.) Shame, it would probably be a nice program otherwise.
And I thought when turning on Microsoft network shares, turning them on for all network connections was bad...
Their keyboards might be reliable, but all the links on their page were borken.
SearchKing? Accurate? They were basically trying to spam (heh) Google's ranking algorithm by various tricks and Google adjusted the algorithm to prevent abuse.
One difference is SpamArrest is know for spamming its own product from time to time.
You haven't read the ingredient label on a pack of non-deluxe pork hotdogs lately have you? Somebody once refered to the meat as "lips and ass". 100% pig is no joke.
And now for something completely different...
About a year ago, McDonald's started serving it for breakfast. Here we are
Their lawyers probably told them that they had no choice but to "send a message". If they lose, maybe Hormel could rename their product to Windows? :^P