DARPA also isn't hamstrung by Congress micromanaging every aspect of a 15 year project, dictating using vendors from the chairman's home district and cutting the budget six times in eight years before canning the idea completely.
The military may be the only branch of our government that can successfully do any long-term planning any more.
Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes?
You know for once it would be nice if the mollusks were the bad guy, screwing things up for humans. Gastropods could evolve to have hi-tech bio-warfare labs in their shells, they retreat and then re-emerge with an exotic neurotoxin precisely tailored to the threat. Then! Fed up with being trodden on and being cooked in French cuisine they turn on mankind by turning chimps into hyper-intelligent evil psychopaths! Only to find that the now dominant chimps evolve a taste for escargots au beurre d'ail.
For example, if you read about some religious sect in India that believes God wants people to drink their own urine, you don't say to yourself, "Isn't it amazing, the diversity of belief systems man has developed in his never-ending quest to understand and cope with the intricate moral dilemmas posed by a complex and uncertain world?" No, what you say to yourself is, "These people have the brains of a trout."
Meanwhile, over in India, the sect members are getting a major chuckle over the fact that some American basketball players cross themselves before they take foul shots. "As if God cares about foul shots!" the sect members howl, tears streaming down their faces. "Say, is this my urine or yours?"
Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL
Sometimes giving 110% just makes your FAIL that much more epic. And what use would the Internet be if it wasn't there to document this FAIL for all time?
This award is to honor a person or company's spectacularly epic FAIL. And the winner is:
Sony
After Fail0verflow and GeoHot published how to jailbreak the PS3, Sony got a bit miffed. Apparently unfamiliar with how the Internet works and how difficult it is to remove the piss from a swimming pool, Sony proceeded to try erase the information from the Internet and sue GeoHot et al. into oblivion. Needless to say, this was about as successful as the MiniDisc.
Sony
Speaking of piss in a swimming pool, that just happened to be how well Sony protected their Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users' account info and roughly 25 to 77 million account details were stolen by unknown hackers. That metaphor makes just about no sense at all, but you get the point: FAIL.
Sony
Sony is definitely good at one thing: keeping the hits coming and their fans entertained. Oh wait, did we say Sony? We meant LulzSec. I guess that counts as another FAIL for Sony.
Sony
After learning the hard way that their PlayStation Network was about as porous as air, Sony had to shut it down for over two months to rebuild it from scratch. In doing so, they made everyone from your 8-year old cousin to your barber learn about the importance of security. Hooray for us, sorry Sony shareholders.
Sony
Noticing a pattern here? But wait, it gets better. Sony might have been able to better repel the multitude of attacks if they hadn't just recently laid off a significant number of their network security team. Great timing, guys.
Dr. Bob, to be honest, I'm much more concerned about the infiltration of our society by fatass cyborgs. Kudos to Jerome Radcliffe in his fight to defend Sarahs Conners' doughnuts.
In 2002, a 'l33t haxx0r unit was sent to prison by a MPAA court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a minimum security basement to the San Francisco underground. Today, still wanted by the RIAA they survive as hackers for hire. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The lambda team."
That's what I get for trying to go for the cheap joke.
"In 2002, a 'l33t haxx0r unit was sent to prison by a MPAA court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a minimum security basement to the San Francisco underground. Today, still wanted by the RIAA they survive as hackers for hire. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The lambda."
The reason fusion reactors are so incredibly safe is that we keep the safely away fifty years in the future. Transporting the generated power back in time has turned out to be a bit of an engineering conundrum.
bah, what's happened to the American can-do spirit? (sic) I can't believe that some enterprising good-ol' boy engineer from Oak Ridge hasn't built a nuclear powered still! Come on, this is the 21st century for pete's sake!
Apparently Massachusetts thought that meant people who are bad at math should be running the lottery. A critical mistake in the state that's home to Stanford.
I think you're forgetting about Harper Lee's timeless classic "How to Kill a Mockingbird". I think that pretty much says all that needs, nay, can be said in the pirates vs ninjas genre.
But you still have monkey vs robot vs pirate vs ninja (vs alien vs predator vs terminator (wait, robot...)) which is wide open.
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DARPA also isn't hamstrung by Congress micromanaging every aspect of a 15 year project, dictating using vendors from the chairman's home district and cutting the budget six times in eight years before canning the idea completely.
The military may be the only branch of our government that can successfully do any long-term planning any more.
mmmmmm....TOS miniskirt uniforms... even the purple-haired moonbabes at SHADO moonbase come in as a far second
Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes?
You know for once it would be nice if the mollusks were the bad guy, screwing things up for humans. Gastropods could evolve to have hi-tech bio-warfare labs in their shells, they retreat and then re-emerge with an exotic neurotoxin precisely tailored to the threat. Then! Fed up with being trodden on and being cooked in French cuisine they turn on mankind by turning chimps into hyper-intelligent evil psychopaths! Only to find that the now dominant chimps evolve a taste for escargots au beurre d'ail.
What are you some sort of closet $cientologist?!!
For example, if you read about some religious sect in India that believes God wants people to drink their own urine, you don't say to yourself, "Isn't it amazing, the diversity of belief systems man has developed in his never-ending quest to understand and cope with the intricate moral dilemmas posed by a complex and uncertain world?" No, what you say to yourself is, "These people have the brains of a trout."
Meanwhile, over in India, the sect members are getting a major chuckle over the fact that some American basketball players cross themselves before they take foul shots. "As if God cares about foul shots!" the sect members howl, tears streaming down their faces. "Say, is this my urine or yours?"
you mean water, like in the toilet?
they may be on FB specifically to catch the moron demographic
You might be right, Brawndo is on Facebook.
Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL
Sometimes giving 110% just makes your FAIL that much more epic. And what use would the Internet be if it wasn't there to document this FAIL for all time?
This award is to honor a person or company's spectacularly epic FAIL. And the winner is:
Sony
After Fail0verflow and GeoHot published how to jailbreak the PS3, Sony got a bit miffed. Apparently unfamiliar with how the Internet works and how difficult it is to remove the piss from a swimming pool, Sony proceeded to try erase the information from the Internet and sue GeoHot et al. into oblivion. Needless to say, this was about as successful as the MiniDisc.
Sony
Speaking of piss in a swimming pool, that just happened to be how well Sony protected their Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users' account info and roughly 25 to 77 million account details were stolen by unknown hackers. That metaphor makes just about no sense at all, but you get the point: FAIL.
Sony
Sony is definitely good at one thing: keeping the hits coming and their fans entertained. Oh wait, did we say Sony? We meant LulzSec. I guess that counts as another FAIL for Sony.
Sony
After learning the hard way that their PlayStation Network was about as porous as air, Sony had to shut it down for over two months to rebuild it from scratch. In doing so, they made everyone from your 8-year old cousin to your barber learn about the importance of security. Hooray for us, sorry Sony shareholders.
Sony
Noticing a pattern here? But wait, it gets better. Sony might have been able to better repel the multitude of attacks if they hadn't just recently laid off a significant number of their network security team. Great timing, guys.
Let me just hop onto anonops and ask for the Annonymous cert. I'm sure nothing bad will come from that.
probably signed by GoDaddy...
Dr. Bob, to be honest, I'm much more concerned about the infiltration of our society by fatass cyborgs.
Kudos to Jerome Radcliffe in his fight to defend Sarahs Conners' doughnuts.
believe me, if you have a fish that can play jazz, you'll be kept booked solid with gigs.
Now I don't have to live in Massachusetts to learn me about some artificial intelligence!
I'm pretty sure your Pontiac will be safe.
Brings to mind Roger Zelazny's "Last of the Wild Ones".
In 2002, a 'l33t haxx0r unit was sent to prison by a MPAA court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a minimum security basement to the San Francisco underground. Today, still wanted by the RIAA they survive as hackers for hire. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The lambda team."
That's what I get for trying to go for the cheap joke.
"In 2002, a 'l33t haxx0r unit was sent to prison by a MPAA court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a minimum security basement to the San Francisco underground. Today, still wanted by the RIAA they survive as hackers for hire. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The lambda."
really?!!!
Randi Zuckerburg
sounds absolutely filthy
Actually, "Randi Zuckerburg" is a better porn star name than what you get when you enter "Randi Zuckerburg" into the porn star name generator.
at least we can be reasonably sure it's not a offog. man, I really hate when we misplace one of those...
it's obviously a crater from a anti-submarine depth-charge.
The reason fusion reactors are so incredibly safe is that we keep the safely away fifty years in the future.
Transporting the generated power back in time has turned out to be a bit of an engineering conundrum.
bah, what's happened to the American can-do spirit? (sic)
I can't believe that some enterprising good-ol' boy engineer from Oak Ridge hasn't built a nuclear powered still!
Come on, this is the 21st century for pete's sake!
hmmm, no mention of their brothel-oriented computer consulting services.
somebody moved my water dish!
now I'm going to die of dehydration...
bonk!
bonk!
Apparently Massachusetts thought that meant people who are bad at math should be running the lottery. A critical mistake in the state that's home to Stanford.
Just as long as we don't have to endure a remake of "Americathon"!
I think you're forgetting about Harper Lee's timeless classic "How to Kill a Mockingbird". I think that pretty much says all that needs, nay, can be said in the pirates vs ninjas genre.
But you still have monkey vs robot vs pirate vs ninja (vs alien vs predator vs terminator (wait, robot...)) which is wide open.