I would also like to thank you for selling weapons to my great country so we now have a way to defend ourselves from the weapons you sold to the Iraqis. If this is always the way hijacking operations turn out, we should consider funding them more often.
If any of the readers here weren't reading newsfroups in '91 or haven't read the "JOKES" file that comes with emacs, you might be entertained by the original joke/meme that joe_bruin is making a (very funny) variation of.
I don't know about you, but if this technology ever gets developed, I'd love to pirate Jack Valenti's consciousness and upload it into the brain of my dog.
Is anyone else tired of low end machines that have an excessively fast processor with way too little RAM? Sure, you can always upgrade, but since this machine is destined for non-techies, it should work well out of the box. I'd rather have a 600 Mhz machine with twice as much RAM so that KDE doesn't run like a slug. Maybe 128 MB would be excusable if they turn the anti-aliasing and other shiny eye-candy off by default.
Hmm. Funny that you use that metaphor... Could it be that all those poor moths that got fried inside ENIAC and other early computers didn't have an unhealthy obsession with glowing things, but rather a nerdy obsession with complex things?
The puzzle solution seems to be a convenient one for hardware manufacturers- all of the puzzles would have to be tough enough to slow down the spammers and their 2-GHz PIII's, but then it would take the poor bloke with a 66-MHz machine 30 times longer to send his email.
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Instead of doing some random puzzle, why not kill two birds with one stone and have machines that want to send email or have access to other services do a small work unit for folding@home or something.
* Requires no power. * Portable. * Ultra-stable. * Low cost of entry. * Lasts indefinitely. * Secure.. * No need to localize to other languages. * No install package needed. * One interface to learn (forget Aqua, Luna, KDE, Gnome, etc). * Friendly to modders (wood, bamboo, aluminum?).
* Reboots by shaking!
An Etch-a-Sketch also has these advantages as well- and you can draw a doggy on it!
I remeber a while ago Compaq (as it was then) was playing with the idea of using power from the kayboard to recharge batteries. now that was a good idea
You're damn right that's a good idea!!!
Then I'd be able to go on Slashdot and compose long,rambling,poorly substanciated posts that also include random jokes about CowboyNeal's mass,"obligatory" but totally irrelevant Star Wars/LOTR/Simpsons/Matrix quotes, as well as many context-adjusted meme regurgitations...
And then at the bottom I could write: "Just charging my iPaq!"
In order for this to work, they would have to make the beam extremely focused from transmitted to receiver.
The article isn't very specific, but I would guess that they would have either used a parabolic reflector or a maser to do this. A parabolic reflector could focus the microwaves into a beam, much like that of a flashlight, but some energy would be lost to diffraction. A maser is similar to a laser, only it emits a coherant beam of microwaves that would travel from transmitter to receiver with minimum energy loss.
Once a science becomes feasible, it's going to be explored.
Yes, but the real question is: will it be financially feasible for anyone but a first world country or research institution to do it?
I'm sure Al Qaida would love to develop nanobots that proceed to liquefy any person who has Anglo-Saxon genes, but scanning-tunneling electron microscopes and other equipment cost money, dude.
When things get scary is when somebody produces some body of knowledge that allows a weapon to be reproduced for malicious intent cheaply and easily.
Like when the U.S. government discovered back in the 60's that if their secrets on making biological weapons were leaked (which they inevitably would be), they could be produced by anyone in cheap and relatively undetectable manner. For this reason we decided to stick with nuclear weapons, which you can't build just by knowing how to build them- you need weapons-grade uranium or plutonium, which requires either a massive purification facility or a nuclear reactor.
Or when Popular Mechanics drew flak for publishing an article (with unlucky timing- in the August 2001 issue)outlining how to build an electromagnetic pulse weapon for $400.
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I would also like to thank you for selling weapons to my great country so we now have a way to defend ourselves from the weapons you sold to the Iraqis. If this is always the way hijacking operations turn out, we should consider funding them more often.
Love,
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini
Really? I did the same thing and the sound was just kind of a DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!.
If any of the readers here weren't reading newsfroups in '91 or haven't read the "JOKES" file that comes with emacs, you might be entertained by the original joke/meme that joe_bruin is making a (very funny) variation of.
I don't know about you, but if this technology ever gets developed, I'd love to pirate Jack Valenti's consciousness and upload it into the brain of my dog.
When people can buy new bodies and live for centuries, amassing power and wealth, how will that affect their humanity?
Well, for one thing, the people on Slashdot will bitch a lot about the 1000+ year copyright terms.
On mescaline however I imagined there was a hidden vegetable behind everything.
Are you sure you didn't mean "Super Mario Brothers 2" rather than "mescaline"?
Man, that game gave me some weird, vegetable-related nightmares when I was a kid.
On the upside, since all of the pixels have been crushed into a singularity, the resolution will be infinity dpi!
Is anyone else tired of low end machines that have an excessively fast processor with way too little RAM? Sure, you can always upgrade, but since this machine is destined for non-techies, it should work well out of the box.
I'd rather have a 600 Mhz machine with twice as much RAM so that KDE doesn't run like a slug.
Maybe 128 MB would be excusable if they turn the anti-aliasing and other shiny eye-candy off by default.
Perhaps that masturbating sound I heard coming from the server room all this time was actually a hard drive meltdown!
*dashes out of room*
I'd like to complain about the lack of options. How about negative 2 hours?
I'm using an Xpert@Play98 and I love it. Yeah, it doesn't support OpenGL very well, but look how fast it can display B's in a /. post:
B BB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
Wow, that's some card!
Why do I have a strange urge to try and embed it in an applet?
Yeah! And then if Jazilla supports applets you can use it to visit the web page that the Jazilla applet is on and... uh... Ow! Recursive headache!
In fact, when educated, most people will use their powers for good, not evil.. :) ...and then, a select few will use them for Awesome.
...like a moth to a bulb, if you ask me...
Hmm. Funny that you use that metaphor... Could it be that all those poor moths that got fried inside ENIAC and other early computers didn't have an unhealthy obsession with glowing things, but rather a nerdy obsession with complex things?
The puzzle solution seems to be a convenient one for hardware manufacturers- all of the puzzles would have to be tough enough to slow down the spammers and their 2-GHz PIII's, but then it would take the poor bloke with a 66-MHz machine 30 times longer to send his email.
Instead of doing some random puzzle, why not kill two birds with one stone and have machines that want to send email or have access to other services do a small work unit for folding@home or something.
* Requires no power.
* Portable.
* Ultra-stable.
* Low cost of entry.
* Lasts indefinitely.
* Secure..
* No need to localize to other languages.
* No install package needed.
* One interface to learn (forget Aqua, Luna, KDE, Gnome, etc).
* Friendly to modders (wood, bamboo, aluminum?).
* Reboots by shaking!
An Etch-a-Sketch also has these advantages as well- and you can draw a doggy on it!
I remeber a while ago Compaq (as it was then) was playing with the idea of using power from the kayboard to recharge batteries. now that was a good idea
You're damn right that's a good idea!!!
Then I'd be able to go on Slashdot and compose long,rambling,poorly substanciated posts that also include random jokes about CowboyNeal's mass,"obligatory" but totally irrelevant Star Wars/LOTR/Simpsons/Matrix quotes, as well as many context-adjusted meme regurgitations...
And then at the bottom I could write:
"Just charging my iPaq!"
Another language trick I hate is when they stick 'arts' on something that is not artistic
As a learned Sandwich Artist,I cannot tell you how much I agree with this statement.
Stupid leechy hygenists- always trying to make themselves look more cultured at the expense of the prestige of the Sandwich Artist designation!
grumble...grmble..gr.
Richard Dawkins describes some cheaper and more battle-proven guidance systems in this article.
In order for this to work, they would have to make the beam extremely focused from transmitted to receiver.
The article isn't very specific, but I would guess that they would have either used a parabolic reflector or a maser to do this.
A parabolic reflector could focus the microwaves into a beam, much like that of a flashlight, but some energy would be lost to diffraction. A maser is similar to a laser, only it emits a coherant beam of microwaves that would travel from transmitter to receiver with minimum energy loss.
Yeah, the Anonymous Zionist Coward says that it's about freedom, but they're really looking for oil.
By that test, Star Wars isn't too original, either. Ever seen Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress?
Not unless everyone has their evil bit set correctly.
Once a science becomes feasible, it's going to be explored.
Yes, but the real question is: will it be financially feasible for anyone but a first world country or research institution to do it?
I'm sure Al Qaida would love to develop nanobots that proceed to liquefy any person who has Anglo-Saxon genes, but scanning-tunneling electron microscopes and other equipment cost money, dude.
When things get scary is when somebody produces some body of knowledge that allows a weapon to be reproduced for malicious intent cheaply and easily.
Like when the U.S. government discovered back in the 60's that if their secrets on making biological weapons were leaked (which they inevitably would be), they could be produced by anyone in cheap and relatively undetectable manner. For this reason we decided to stick with nuclear weapons, which you can't build just by knowing how to build them- you need weapons-grade uranium or plutonium, which requires either a massive purification facility or a nuclear reactor.
Or when Popular Mechanics drew flak for publishing an article (with unlucky timing- in the August 2001 issue)outlining how to build an electromagnetic pulse weapon for $400.