This is not different than a money transfer, where people can enter a custom message. You get data into your system from an untrusted source and you have to be smart enough to sanitize it.
In fact, I once checked if it was possible to inject javascript in a web banking application using a money transfer (while being paid to do so).
The gate addresses do change with galactic drift. That's why in the Stargate movie they could only connect to a single gate. Normally the DHD takes care of recalculating the address, but they didn't have one on earth.
The ninth chevron is for selecting a location that is even farther away than a single galaxy. The stargate didn't connect to the ship while it was in hyperspace: if you watch the intro sequence, you can see that the ship drops out of hyperspace before the wormhole connects. After the gate was closed, it entered hyperspace again.
As for the death of the senator: they just wanted to get rid of him:-).
I don't think tidal power really qualifies as a clean power source. Of course, now it seems there is an abundance of 'free' power, but in 50 years, when we have taken too much, the moon will crash into the earth.
The same is true for harnassing power from the earth's magnetic field: there certainly will be side effects when too much power is taken.
Same goes for the tray eject button. Kill the motor and eject the disc already! I don't need "pretty" or "graceful," I need my disc back in less than five seconds.
You could rewrite the firmware to do this. Or you could let it open the tray without stopping the rotation of the disk. That would make a nice frisbee launcher.
A few years ago, I got a brand new Dell laptop. As you may know, it has a nice green light underneath the power button. Of course, there is nothing more tempting for a kid than a nicely lit button on a computer keyboard.
I guess it took about 10 shutdowns before she understood that pressing that button is not the preferred way to start a game.
When I bought a 250GB external drive earlier this week, I was thinking the same. However, I decided to stick with it.
The main reason is compatibility across platforms. The drive will be used to backup data from a Linux fileserver. So, I could have used a Linux filesystem on it. However, if the server dies, it should be possible to read the data back using a Windows machine. This leaves FAT32 as the only practical alternative.
I have already encountered one limitation of this approach: FAT32 only allows files of up to 2 GB.
In this case you are probably right, but this is not always an (affordable) option. In the past, I had to use Google Video to post a video of an event we held. Our current provider doesn't allow us to host the video ourselves, so I did the next best thing: upload it to Google Video.
FTA: Avatars near the edge of one sim need to be able to look over and see activity in the next sim, just like people in the real world can see activity going on in the next lot of land.
What would happen if everyone moves their avatar to the edge of an area and look towards another area? Would this bring down the communication between the two servers?
Scott Adams has written some excellent literature on this: first start by assigning 4000 sq feet to a place called scorp1us-ville, dedicated to illegal gambling and drinking.
If you do use cubicles, don't forget to extort money from people in exchange for larger ones.
Roddenberry had automatic doors, cell phones, and flat screen monitors 200 years in the future rather than 30 years later (now).
The problem with our automatic doors is that they cannot anticipate very well when they have to open and when not. In Star Trek, the doors only open when you actually want to walk through them and they open on time: you don't risk walking into them.
Turns out the only way to get that door happening is for you to wander up and down the street looking for other people in Linux houses to find someone who knows enough about masonry to teach you how to rebrick the area around the door so you have a doorway that works right.
There's no way you'll find Linux users outside. Maybe if you look through basement windows, you'll find someone.
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This is not different than a money transfer, where people can enter a custom message. You get data into your system from an untrusted source and you have to be smart enough to sanitize it.
In fact, I once checked if it was possible to inject javascript in a web banking application using a money transfer (while being paid to do so).
Mandatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/400/
I don't know why I bother replying, but anyway.
The gate addresses do change with galactic drift. That's why in the Stargate movie they could only connect to a single gate. Normally the DHD takes care of recalculating the address, but they didn't have one on earth.
The ninth chevron is for selecting a location that is even farther away than a single galaxy. The stargate didn't connect to the ship while it was in hyperspace: if you watch the intro sequence, you can see that the ship drops out of hyperspace before the wormhole connects. After the gate was closed, it entered hyperspace again.
As for the death of the senator: they just wanted to get rid of him :-).
You forgot the link.
Now I know what to do this evening.
The fun is in recovering it, not using it!
The real fun is in irritating Woz by reporting all the bugs to him again.
Hey Woz. I just found this small program you wrote and boy, is this code terrible!
What Windows 7 will not have:
* WinFS
* MinWin
* capability to operate with less than half a terabyte of RAM
What Windows 7 will have:
* More eye candy.
Well, just try http://www.dilbert.com/fast.
(This feature was described in Scott Adam's blog.)
This may be slightly off-topic, but you should read this. It is absolutely brilliant.
I don't think tidal power really qualifies as a clean power source. Of course, now it seems there is an abundance of 'free' power, but in 50 years, when we have taken too much, the moon will crash into the earth.
The same is true for harnassing power from the earth's magnetic field: there certainly will be side effects when too much power is taken.
It's obvious they are not running Solaris.
At work, I get the error "Forbidden file extension : COM".
Apparantly it doesn't like "www.latimes.com".
-100: Old and lame
There is no way to shut off the beeping.
There is: turn off the phone.
Same goes for the tray eject button. Kill the motor and eject the disc already! I don't need "pretty" or "graceful," I need my disc back in less than five seconds.
You could rewrite the firmware to do this. Or you could let it open the tray without stopping the rotation of the disk. That would make a nice frisbee launcher.
This is a similar story.
A few years ago, I got a brand new Dell laptop. As you may know, it has a nice green light underneath the power button. Of course, there is nothing more tempting for a kid than a nicely lit button on a computer keyboard.
I guess it took about 10 shutdowns before she understood that pressing that button is not the preferred way to start a game.
I suggest we take the same measures when they want to sell a CD to us.
Bring on the fees and taxes and fingerprints and anal probes!
When I bought a 250GB external drive earlier this week, I was thinking the same. However, I decided to stick with it.
The main reason is compatibility across platforms. The drive will be used to backup data from a Linux fileserver. So, I could have used a Linux filesystem on it. However, if the server dies, it should be possible to read the data back using a Windows machine. This leaves FAT32 as the only practical alternative.
I have already encountered one limitation of this approach: FAT32 only allows files of up to 2 GB.
In this case you are probably right, but this is not always an (affordable) option. In the past, I had to use Google Video to post a video of an event we held. Our current provider doesn't allow us to host the video ourselves, so I did the next best thing: upload it to Google Video.
FTA: Avatars near the edge of one sim need to be able to look over and see activity in the next sim, just like people in the real world can see activity going on in the next lot of land.
What would happen if everyone moves their avatar to the edge of an area and look towards another area? Would this bring down the communication between the two servers?
He's already considering it.
Scott Adams has written some excellent literature on this: first start by assigning 4000 sq feet to a place called scorp1us-ville, dedicated to illegal gambling and drinking.
If you do use cubicles, don't forget to extort money from people in exchange for larger ones.
Roddenberry had automatic doors, cell phones, and flat screen monitors 200 years in the future rather than 30 years later (now).
The problem with our automatic doors is that they cannot anticipate very well when they have to open and when not. In Star Trek, the doors only open when you actually want to walk through them and they open on time: you don't risk walking into them.
Turns out the only way to get that door happening is for you to wander up and down the street looking for other people in Linux houses to find someone who knows enough about masonry to teach you how to rebrick the area around the door so you have a doorway that works right.
There's no way you'll find Linux users outside. Maybe if you look through basement windows, you'll find someone.
The most important enhancement will be that Khan now gets a tail. No wait, that's for the second movie.
And don't forget: Kirk shoots first.