On a second thought, there might be a tiny, winy bit of unbelievable things in there, like the Heisenberg compensators making the transporters work.
First of all, the heisenberg compensators are NOT what makes the transporters work, they only protect against the infamous transporter madness. Secondly, please specify what is so wierd about them.
There is your neighbourhood dysons-sphere conveniently built around a sun to harvest energy (Next generation episode: Relics).
Again, what's so unbelievable about it?
E.g. the weather control systems that are only mentioned when failing.
Now you are just grasping for straws.
Force fields are mentioned so often in Scfi-Fi we just have to believe in the possiblity. There seem to be working experiments with magnetic "shields". Metaphasic shields on the other hand are something completely different, although they have become as common as cloaking devices in the Star Trek universe.
Metaphasic shields work by pushing an object partly or fully into a lower subspace domain. Nothing strange about them given the existance of subspace.
Now off for a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot, freshly converted from dilithium generated energy to matter by a food replicator...
Energy isn't generated from dilithium. The dilithium is the crystal structure used to control matter/antimatter reactions. Furthermore, a food replicator doensn't convert energy into matter, it restructures matter.
The DMCA strictly forbids owning and selling of circumvention devices, and that is truly what a PC is. Suing Sony because your illegal device crashed when you tried to circumvent copyright protection on a CD seems fruitless at best, and catastrophic at worst. I can see it before me: PCs outlawed under the DMCA. Lawyers running around with stone axes chopping computers in pieces.
I mean seriously, just listen to it: "all-optical". I'll let it slide so far as to accept actual matter included in the switch, but for such a thing to be truly all-optical it can have no moving parts (or the parts need to move at light speed, which is of course impossible). Personally it seems like a all-optical switch is a long bit into the future.
Eh, you just can't spin a mirror and get switching, you need the mirror to spin according to the incoming information. This is a long way from what CD-ROMs do.
If I were to write, "We feel that this change will be sufficient to discourage people, although it is obviously insufficient to protect people against a determined and malicious attack."
this sentence makes a lot more sense than your sentance with "murderers" instead of "people" thereby prooving the point that hacker is a good thing (except in the eyes of suits (like you?))
the day politics die is the day politicians no longer control the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the comfort we take in not being shot if we step outside the door, the electricity we use to heat/cool our bodies and the trust we have in the fact that no nukes will come raining over our heads. The day politics die is the day humanity dies.
Ask any author why he/she writes. If he/she says "I do it for the money" you can bet your life savings on the things written by that person is crap. Copyright is a system to ensure that artists can be artistic more, not to give then a lot of cash.
I think it would be extremely strange if you as a programmer always thought that the real world was as logical and clean as the world of computers. Reality isn't anywhere near making sense the way computers do. I don't see how you can defend an atheistic belief. Long live the agnostics!:P
Programming and hacking in particular forces you to think, it establishes a habit of reading manuals and to mark it off it establishes the thought of "this API sux, it would be better like this". Catholiscisms manual is the bible and it has a really lousy API, so we write our own under GPL.
as we all know zen is a big movement in buddhism because it actually says something very important about the very fabric of reality, or the fabric of the fabric of reality etc etc. Zen is for opening your eyes. Most occultism is for putting on cool-looking/hip blindfolds.
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Creation of a new species by man isn't new. Just look at the cow. There is no way cows would survive in a world without humans.
You can edit PDF just fine. Get Acrobat (not Acrobat reader mind you).
The DMCA strictly forbids owning and selling of circumvention devices, and that is truly what a PC is. Suing Sony because your illegal device crashed when you tried to circumvent copyright protection on a CD seems fruitless at best, and catastrophic at worst. I can see it before me: PCs outlawed under the DMCA. Lawyers running around with stone axes chopping computers in pieces.
...but isn't this exactly what numbers like PI are all about?
2004? Heh, tough luck.
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0 is the correct link to the article about openBSD
I mean seriously, just listen to it: "all-optical". I'll let it slide so far as to accept actual matter included in the switch, but for such a thing to be truly all-optical it can have no moving parts (or the parts need to move at light speed, which is of course impossible). Personally it seems like a all-optical switch is a long bit into the future.
Eh, you just can't spin a mirror and get switching, you need the mirror to spin according to the incoming information. This is a long way from what CD-ROMs do.
If I were to write, "We feel that this change will be sufficient to discourage people, although it is obviously insufficient to protect people against a determined and malicious attack." this sentence makes a lot more sense than your sentance with "murderers" instead of "people" thereby prooving the point that hacker is a good thing (except in the eyes of suits (like you?))
funnniest thing today :P
the day politics die is the day politicians no longer control the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the comfort we take in not being shot if we step outside the door, the electricity we use to heat/cool our bodies and the trust we have in the fact that no nukes will come raining over our heads. The day politics die is the day humanity dies.
hmm... and I always thought that peanutbutter and jelly was worse than gnutella.. :P
Ask any author why he/she writes. If he/she says "I do it for the money" you can bet your life savings on the things written by that person is crap. Copyright is a system to ensure that artists can be artistic more, not to give then a lot of cash.
Lots of entropy in your everyday life means less entropy in the computers :P
I'm there.
christians easily, any christian who still hasn't got the brains to burn the old testament at least.
I think it would be extremely strange if you as a programmer always thought that the real world was as logical and clean as the world of computers. Reality isn't anywhere near making sense the way computers do. I don't see how you can defend an atheistic belief. Long live the agnostics! :P
Information wants to be free, as do our minds.
Secondly Zen is nothing but fucus and peace of mind, which makes your post very strange imho
as we all know zen is a big movement in buddhism because it actually says something very important about the very fabric of reality, or the fabric of the fabric of reality etc etc. Zen is for opening your eyes. Most occultism is for putting on cool-looking/hip blindfolds.