The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted an all-encompassing patent to ActiveBuddy that covers every step of IM botmaking technology. According to internetnews, ActiveBuddy now plans to enforce the patent...
Flamebait? Weird. Having spent several years of my life as a researcher, you'd think I'm allowed to make that joke. It's certainly true enough. Maybe the honorable moderators are a little out of touch with reality?
Of course, the current downturn in economy is enough to make the best of us lose our sense of humour.
Academics, especially professors, spend a good deal of their time brown-nosing and kissing other people's asses in the hopes of securing yet another research grant. Hence, the seemingly odd fascination for toilet paper, the uses of.
I find it hard to believe that there won't be people there yelling "Linux Rulz" and so on.
There wouldn't be much of that, I should think, hardly any of that at all. And they certainly wouldn't ceremoniously burn a Microsoft flag in front of TV cameras, surrounded by a ferocious mob of wildly cheering geeks. They wouldn't go that far...
To be on the safe side, I would recommend writing it down using MS Powerpoint and emailing it as an attachment to yourself through a MS Exchange server.
You can be assured that the document will vanish for the foreseeable future. Of course, there is a good change that it will never be found again...
You can't use GPS data to decide how to form the network topology, because in order to echange the GPS data you will have to have the network already running.
Unfortunately, the amount of routing information that needs to be exhanged in ad-hoc networks increases exponentially with the size of the network and the rate of change in the network topology (mobility).
You're right in that utilizing location information could be used to optimize the routing protocol, and people are working on this, but it sill presents a formidable scalability problem.
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This almost makes you want to patent natural stupidity.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted an all-encompassing patent to ActiveBuddy that covers every step of IM botmaking technology. According to internetnews, ActiveBuddy now plans to enforce the patent...
Sounds like a job for... ROBOCOP!
Flamebait? Weird. Having spent several years of my life as a researcher, you'd think I'm allowed to make that joke. It's certainly true enough. Maybe the honorable moderators are a little out of touch with reality?
Of course, the current downturn in economy is enough to make the best of us lose our sense of humour.
Academics, especially professors, spend a good deal of their time brown-nosing and kissing other people's asses in the hopes of securing yet another research grant. Hence, the seemingly odd fascination for toilet paper, the uses of.
I find it hard to believe that there won't be people there yelling "Linux Rulz" and so on.
There wouldn't be much of that, I should think, hardly any of that at all. And they certainly wouldn't ceremoniously burn a Microsoft flag in front of TV cameras, surrounded by a ferocious mob of wildly cheering geeks. They wouldn't go that far...
Well, this is like a rich man being mistaken for a beggar and subsequently mobbed by well meaning philantrophists.
Am I the only one who thinks there is a weird topsy turvy humour to the whole situation?
I wonder how long it will be before someone hacks the rat and get linux running on it.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these -- lurking in the subway tunnels.
do you really want those horny 16 yearolds at the checkout stand to know who you are while you're picking up the tampons for your wife?
Just give them a tired smile and express your profound relief over having a couple of days off from your exhausting studly duties.
Why do you care what a couple of pimply faced kids think, anyway?
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Look, it's the Vogons, isn't it?
To be on the safe side, I would recommend writing it down using MS Powerpoint and emailing it as an attachment to yourself through a MS Exchange server.
You can be assured that the document will vanish for the foreseeable future. Of course, there is a good change that it will never be found again...
I'm trying to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these but the bowtie is cutting the flow of blood to my brain.
FORTRAN has the same kind of cherubic appeal as a very very large hirsute man wearing a tutu.
You can leave FORTRAN behind, but you can never forget it. Sometimes, I wake up at night, thinking about it -- wishing I didn't.
Oh, I read it. I just didn't appreciate anyone calling Linux a slut.
Well, there are others you have to pay for...
...at the last brain storming session.
I wonder what happened to those things. I haven't received an invitation in ages...
Cutting in line, being insistent and unreasonable at the counter, no doubt trundling over somebody's toes, bragging about the vacation in Acapulco...
Apparently, the only things she didn't do was grab somebody's ass while reeking of yesterday's wine. But hey, schmoozing skills in next version, yeah?
Clearly professor material!
The US Naval Academy is participating in this contest. Their vehicle is powered by a pc104 running Windows 98
Somebody must have told them that Windows 98 goes down faster than anything else on the market.
You can't use GPS data to decide how to form the network topology, because in order to echange the GPS data you will have to have the network already running.
Unfortunately, the amount of routing information that needs to be exhanged in ad-hoc networks increases exponentially with the size of the network and the rate of change in the network topology (mobility).
You're right in that utilizing location information could be used to optimize the routing protocol, and people are working on this, but it sill presents a formidable scalability problem.
..the result of Geeks with too much money (or stuff), too much spare time, and some hare brained scheme that they will make work.
Let's face it: they just wanted to access their pr0n while on the road.
Sprinkle some salt on your dinner and, no matter how careful you are, a little will always wound up on the table. -- JHVH, Day 7
What exactly makes these Internet Security Standards, anyway?
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
;-)
Good question. You can always meta moderate.
That's usually a sign of a misconfigured firewall.
Picture the Berkeley scientists, eyes glued to the monitor, excitedly following the maiden flight...
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Scientist: "Oooh, look at that!"
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Scientist: "Let's land over there."
Speaker: "Whadda..?"
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Speaker: "Damn bugs!"
rrrrrRRRRRrrrrrr SPLAT!
Speaker falls silent.
This is the first moderator who has made me laugh.
The best reason for going back to the moon is to replentish our supply of cheese.
Do you know how long that thing has been festering in the sun?