The Cylon machines you see are just shells for their AI, and they are in a crusade to slay their 'unjust' creators who enslaved them, then sought to exterminate them when they revolted.
The all to common insult of lazy fat B**** and perhaps its just what's needed to banish the last bastion of discrimination; Fatism.
It's still socially acceptable to discriminate/insult/ belittle over weight people, even in those politically correct circles where, sexism, racism or disability discrimination would an appalling faux pas or social gaff.
That civil servants/govenrment departments are not carrying around old/obselete/dated/inappropriate/inaccrurate data.
The fact that this act has forced a house cleaning is a good thing, you've fallen for politically motived spin. DDont forget previous governments had this data, but you had no right to ensure it was accurate or relevent.
Darkspace is Space Combat MMOG, not a mining simulation like Eve; imagine multi-player elite on steroids. PvP combat in a large scale persistent Meta-Verse of about 40 Star systems of 10-30 planets with 3 factions, 2 human and 1 alien.
Each faction has about 30 unique ships. You can fly combat ships from small fast stealthy long range scouts, frigate, destroyers, cruisers, dreadnaught and even space stations, each ship has uniques capabilities. There are also support ships such as engineers to build planets, supply ships to repair friendly forces and transports to trade resources, carry troops or ships mods.
You form fleets, or join an established fleet, or fight as a lone wolf. You can put down rebellions, capture planets & moons, bomb them, mine them, build them up with a wide range of structures as mining colonies, military training camps for troops, factory planets for ships mods, or front line supply depots using various structures including habitation, factories, powers planets, repair depots, barracks, defensive installations, supply depots and factories, even shipyards.
You can modify your ships extensively, upgrade your engines for more power and speed, switch between long range/stand-off weapons like fighers and missiles, or get close up and personal with cannon and torpedoes. You can sneak up to enemy ships, and paint them for your big guns, board and capture them with elite troops, or simply spy scout them out. As you go gain prestige, rank, earning honors alone the way, giving you a progress increase in choice.
I've been playing Darkspace for 2 years, I'm ranked in the top 30 players out of 6000 regulars and it still holds a challenge. IMHO its up there amoungt the best games of all time.
You dont even have to believe me, you can download the game client for free (windows only) and receive a weeks free trial.
1) 'access to [b]any[/b] program or data held in [b]any[/b] computer.' 2) Breaching Copyright is a tort issue not a criminal offence. 3) By placing the file on file sharing network they placing it into the public arena.
This like all Malware is a very clearly against the law in the UK and most of Europe. The UK Computer Misuse Act makes it a criminal offense for a person to
"causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer" Computer Misuse Act 1990
Depending on what the Company does with the data obtained they are likely also be in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 which allows a £5,000 fine for each person offended against.
As the image formed on the top of my screen, you first notice the smashed buildings. As as I scrolled down I though 'are those bodies ?' and I scrolled further I realised yes there are bodies in there. Eventually you reach the bottom of the screen and the true horror of the situation is shown.
His whole blog posting smacks of narcissism, he first priority seems to his own safety, then his equipment, and finally the people. He also seem unable to restrain himself from using this disaster to plug one of his books and his own 'foresight'.
I used to be a massive fan of Wikipedia and a regular contributor in the fields of computer science, programming and military history.
However as Wikipedia has became more popular it has also became completely overwhelmed with pop-opinion, poor rigour and fact checking. It has become completely bogged down blatant bias and revisionist history, and simply trying to keep on top of this became exhausting.
At first I assumed this was simple ignorance, and tried to work withing the wikipedia process for resolution, but it was pointless, over time I came to understand that the trouble causers seemed to exhibit the same personality traits as usenet trolls and MOG griefer. The ignore facts, build straw men and resort to personal assaults. However the usual tactic of ignoring them doesnt work because they carry on changing the articles anyway, use revert bots to change articles on mass. Some examples.
- One contributor who tried to suggest that encapsulation was not a fundemental feature of OO. - Another contributor kept removing the word riot from the blood Sunday article. - Another contributor kept removing the evidence of JP Jones war crimes.
These are just some of the many problems I experienced at the hands of revert bots.
In the end I gave up and left them to their ignorance.
It reminds me of a cartoon about one of the failed early landers where, Martian yobs where vandalising the lander. It seems tha Martians have grown up a little and now need to earn a living.
ADSL is a type of DSL. The A is for asyncronous - your upstream is different from your downstream.
No. The A in ADSL is short for asymmetric meaning the capacity is not the symmetrical in both directions. Asynchronous means not synchronous, i.e. each end taking turns to transmit, which is certainly not the case with xDSL, where the loops bandwidth or capacity is shared out between the upstream and downsteam direction.
If you have TV-over-DSL, it's probably not ADSL at all.
Wrong again, ADSL was designed for Video over POTS, can achieve 8Mbps upto about 3Km, which is about twice the bandwidth needed for broadcast quality TV. PAL can be nicely encoded/transcoded into MPEG in realtime at about 4.5Mbps which we where getting upto ~8Km.
I used to work for Kingston Interactive Television which delivers real Interactive Digital Television and true Video on Demand within a wall garden of managed content and high speed Internet Access via IP on ADSL.
The technology works and has done for years, KIT was the first to commercially launch in 1999 and like others it had been running technology trials of Video over POTS for about 6 years previously.
There is little doubt that the platform blows the competing options out the water. DSL based DTV services cost about one tenth that of pure cable system since they doesn't require a fresh dig. They are also truly interactive instead of the faked-out client side interactions of satellite systems. It also offer a realatively pain-free experience of the internet for most ordinary consumers.
The problem is the incumbents who tend to have the content deals stitched up with the studios/distubutors.
that slashdot is only for the US only and therefore everbody automatically knows what the 4th amendment says.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 4th amendment
The 5th Amendment also seem to make a good candidate
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. 5th amendment
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The Cylon machines you see are just shells for their AI, and they are in a crusade to slay their 'unjust' creators who enslaved them, then sought to exterminate them when they revolted.
alternative theories, including creationism might possibly explain.
Except creationism isn't a threory, it never can be a theory, it cannot be tested, to qualify as a theory it must be a tested hypothisis.
The all to common insult of lazy fat B**** and perhaps its just what's needed to banish the last bastion of discrimination; Fatism.
It's still socially acceptable to discriminate/insult/ belittle over weight people, even in those politically correct circles where, sexism, racism or disability discrimination would an appalling faux pas or social gaff.
the same as the difference between American 'English' and British 'English'.
To determine what turns into Bills Spruce Goose. I choose Longhorn.
As Bill Gates grows more isolated, the probability of everybody else being compared to communists approaches one.
Given most houses today have RCD's (Residual Current devices/detector) installed, you can bet public building do.
That civil servants/govenrment departments are not carrying around old/obselete/dated/inappropriate/inaccrurate data.
The fact that this act has forced a house cleaning is a good thing, you've fallen for politically motived spin. DDont forget previous governments had this data, but you had no right to ensure it was accurate or relevent.
Darkspace by PaleStar / Richard "Faustus" Lyle.
Darkspace is Space Combat MMOG, not a mining simulation like Eve; imagine multi-player elite on steroids. PvP combat in a large scale persistent Meta-Verse of about 40 Star systems of 10-30 planets with 3 factions, 2 human and 1 alien.
Each faction has about 30 unique ships. You can fly combat ships from small fast stealthy long range scouts, frigate, destroyers, cruisers, dreadnaught and even space stations, each ship has uniques capabilities. There are also support ships such as engineers to build planets, supply ships to repair friendly forces and transports to trade resources, carry troops or ships mods.
You form fleets, or join an established fleet, or fight as a lone wolf. You can put down rebellions, capture planets & moons, bomb them, mine them, build them up with a wide range of structures as mining colonies, military training camps for troops, factory planets for ships mods, or front line supply depots using various structures including habitation, factories, powers planets, repair depots, barracks, defensive installations, supply depots and factories, even shipyards.
You can modify your ships extensively, upgrade your engines for more power and speed, switch between long range/stand-off weapons like fighers and missiles, or get close up and personal with cannon and torpedoes. You can sneak up to enemy ships, and paint them for your big guns, board and capture them with elite troops, or simply spy scout them out. As you go gain prestige, rank, earning honors alone the way, giving you a progress increase in choice.
I've been playing Darkspace for 2 years, I'm ranked in the top 30 players out of 6000 regulars and it still holds a challenge. IMHO its up there amoungt the best games of all time.
You dont even have to believe me, you can download the game client for free (windows only) and receive a weeks free trial.
1) 'access to [b]any[/b] program or data held in [b]any[/b] computer.'
2) Breaching Copyright is a tort issue not a criminal offence.
3) By placing the file on file sharing network they placing it into the public arena.
This like all Malware is a very clearly against the law in the UK and most of Europe. The UK Computer Misuse Act makes it a criminal offense for a person to
"causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer"
Computer Misuse Act 1990
Depending on what the Company does with the data obtained they are likely also be in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 which allows a £5,000 fine for each person offended against.
Similar legislation exists throughout Europe as part of the Information Society Policy Framework agreement.
I think your humour is ill conceived, however you do hint at something I find even more distastefull.
Insurance companies are already trying to evade paying out to the survivors by calling this an act of god.
As the image formed on the top of my screen, you first notice the smashed buildings. As as I scrolled down I though 'are those bodies ?' and I scrolled further I realised yes there are bodies in there. Eventually you reach the bottom of the screen and the true horror of the situation is shown.
that they would be speaking Russian.
I think most reasonable people on either of the atlantic would say 'So what !'.
The Canadians wouldn't get so irritated by being mistaken for Americans.
the whole north american continent would be called Canada, which wouldnt be such a bad thing.
A very good friend of mine was holidaying on Phuket Island in Thailand for christmas when the Tsunami hit.
An Experience Of Living Through A Tsunami
His whole blog posting smacks of narcissism, he first priority seems to his own safety, then his equipment, and finally the people. He also seem unable to restrain himself from using this disaster to plug one of his books and his own 'foresight'.
I used to be a massive fan of Wikipedia and a regular contributor in the fields of computer science, programming and military history.
However as Wikipedia has became more popular it has also became completely overwhelmed with pop-opinion, poor rigour and fact checking. It has become completely bogged down blatant bias and revisionist history, and simply trying to keep on top of this became exhausting.
At first I assumed this was simple ignorance, and tried to work withing the wikipedia process for resolution, but it was pointless, over time I came to understand that the trouble causers seemed to exhibit the same personality traits as usenet trolls and MOG griefer. The ignore facts, build straw men and resort to personal assaults. However the usual tactic of ignoring them doesnt work because they carry on changing the articles anyway, use revert bots to change articles on mass. Some examples.
- One contributor who tried to suggest that encapsulation was not a fundemental feature of OO.
- Another contributor kept removing the word riot from the blood Sunday article.
- Another contributor kept removing the evidence of JP Jones war crimes.
These are just some of the many problems I experienced at the hands of revert bots.
In the end I gave up and left them to their ignorance.
It reminds me of a cartoon about one of the failed early landers where, Martian yobs where vandalising the lander. It seems tha Martians have grown up a little and now need to earn a living.
ADSL is a type of DSL. The A is for asyncronous - your upstream is different from your downstream.
No. The A in ADSL is short for asymmetric meaning the capacity is not the symmetrical in both directions. Asynchronous means not synchronous, i.e. each end taking turns to transmit, which is certainly not the case with xDSL, where the loops bandwidth or capacity is shared out between the upstream and downsteam direction.
If you have TV-over-DSL, it's probably not ADSL at all.
Wrong again, ADSL was designed for Video over POTS, can achieve 8Mbps upto about 3Km, which is about twice the bandwidth needed for broadcast quality TV. PAL can be nicely encoded/transcoded into MPEG in realtime at about 4.5Mbps which we where getting upto ~8Km.
I used to work for Kingston Interactive Television which delivers real Interactive Digital Television and true Video on Demand within a wall garden of managed content and high speed Internet Access via IP on ADSL.
The technology works and has done for years, KIT was the first to commercially launch in 1999 and like others it had been running technology trials of Video over POTS for about 6 years previously.
There is little doubt that the platform blows the competing options out the water. DSL based DTV services cost about one tenth that of pure cable system since they doesn't require a fresh dig. They are also truly interactive instead of the faked-out client side interactions of satellite systems. It also offer a realatively pain-free experience of the internet for most ordinary consumers.
The problem is the incumbents who tend to have the content deals stitched up with the studios/distubutors.
Read more here : Kingston Case Study
that slashdot is only for the US only and therefore everbody automatically knows what the 4th amendment says.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
4th amendment
The 5th Amendment also seem to make a good candidate
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
5th amendment
Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
Whoever though of that is one sick scary F***er!!!