What's sad is I can imagine Lucas using a dumbed down version of this whole dark matter and WIMPs stuff to further remove the magic and mystery of using the Force.
"Well, Anakin, the midichlorians that are in your cells are able to interact with the WIMPs and make the WIMPs lift rocks and whatnot."
A laboratory environment makes these disasters very likely, and allows for propagation of their genetic lines.
How? The scientists will only breed the creations they consider successful. But that calf with organs on the outside sounds good, you wouldn't even need to cut it open!
The RIAA could make all audio CDs actually be Hybrid Audio/Data CDs. And then screw up the Data part so that it makes the computer view the CD as unreadable, or freezes the computer up (I have seen this happen a few times on Windows with bad CDs), or gives you a virus (autorun...).
or the places that will ship it FedEx, or the places that will ship it USPS.
Use FedEx if you want something there fast. Use USPS if you want something there slow. Use UPS if you want something there late and crushed by a truck.
1.) A message that will delete all the ringtones in the phone's memory except for a simple, inoffensive beep tone. The cell phone OS is modified so it will vulgarly insult them whenever they try to get the latest Britney Spears tune to play on their cell phone.
2.) A message that will simply explode all those phones that people use to talk like a bastardized two way radio with the annoying beep every time someone stops talking.
3.) A message that causes the cellphone to emit sterilizing radiation at an especially idiotic user's genital regions. Helping Darwin along...
Number 3 is, sadly, only a dream. Number 1 is almost definitely impossible, especially when you only have about 120 characters in the SMS message. Number 2 might be possible, just target the specific models of phones that support this "feature". Get to work, l33t |-|@xx0rs.
(Although I do own a cellphone, I use it less in a month than half the other cellphone owners use it in a day. The ringtone it is set to is a simple unannoying beep. Usually it is off anyway so that no one can call me.)
I believe Morpheus/Kazaa is a decentralized network. I could never find much information except hype on their tech, but I believe that if the client detects that you have good bandwidth and a decent computer, it will use your computer to process search requests.
There should be some central server that finds you nearby clients to connect too, but that could probably be replaced with unofficial underground ones. It would actually get better since if they shut down the official Morpheus servers there will be no more ads popping up. (Not like they can keep their ads going - anyone who uses Morpheus should be familiar with the message boxes it constantly pops up about not being able to connect to the ads server)
I wonder if it is just Kazaa or if it is to be Morpheus too. They are connected, when i do a search in Morpheus I come up with results like userfoo@MusicCity, userbar@Kazaa, and userbaz@???.
Theoretically I guess you could use a black hole to dig a tunnel, but I do not think it would be practical and it is definitely too risky. You don't want to have to worry about a problem with your mining operation ending the world.
A rogue black hole generated on the surface would not generally eat its way to the center of the Earth. The event horizon of anything we make would probably be very small, only able to capture a few molecules at a time. It would fall more or less invisibly into the Earth (maybe there would be some radiation you could notice). Then it would would go back and forth underneath the Earth, with gravity slowing it down and moving it towards the Earth's core. Meanwhile the whole time it would be consuming matter, and eventually it would consume the Earth. Maybe, not sure on this, but it might be that we wouldn't notice the Earth being consumed until a few hours before the Earth was completely consumed, because the rate of growth would increase quite a bit.
We'd either be dead from the cold, or possibly from some radiation it would shoot out when it collapses. No problem at all.
While I am now talking out of my ass, I think the reason you can use it is a slingshot is not the great amount of gravity it has but the fact that that gravity is more or less a point source. Thus your Spacecraft could get very close to ALL the mass so there would be great effect: instead of your semi-orbit around the Sun or Jupiter which would have to be very very big and take a long time, your time in the gravity well of the black hole would be a lot shorter with a lot more acceleration.
We're actually rather close to making our own black holes I think....
There was worry when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven went online that among other ways of ending the World (Strangelets) or the Universe (transition to a new vacuum state), that the collisions would produce a black hole which would fall into the center of the Earth and consume it.
There was a report on the RHIC website, which I can no longer find as the website seems to have been overhauled, where they used complex maths I don't understand to decide that (a) The probability of the thing making a black hole was somewhere around 10 to the -30 and (b) even if it did make a black hole it would be a small one that would "evaporate" instead of being able to grow and consume the Earth.
There are also some good books where there are black holes in the Earth - read "Earth" by David Brin, which is entirely about a black hole falling into the Earth, and the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons is set in a future universe in which evil AIs made a scientific experiment drop a black hole into the Earth (I don't want to give out too much of the plot, but everyone thinks Earth is destroyed - they are wrong).
Most of the people who buy antivirus software do so because they know they are at risk.
They know they are at risk becuase they know jack shit about computers. I've never gotten a virus in my entire life, even on Windows. Very simple, don't use Outlook, don't do anything stupid, and you're fine.
The RIAA is strongly in favor of the rights of the music industry executives, not the musicians.
Tim
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The thing is that the stone isn't even a Philosopher's stone. Philosopher's stone turns any common metal to gold. The Harry Potter stone gives you immortality.
No, he's not. If the FRAGILE deer urine package was properly handled as fragile material, then it would not have broken, and no one would have gotten stunk up. They deserved it.
Tim
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The problem is that Black and White just sucked goats. They had all these nifty ideas about gestures and tamagotchi creatures and whatnot but they forgot about making it fun. Purchase something good. I would recommend Independence War II, which I just finished playing. Some other games not quite as recent which are very good: Half-Life, Homeworld, Freespace 2, Tribes 2, Sacrifice.
Standard RAM? You mean like the SDRAM and DDR SDRAM that AMD motherboards can use while P4s have to use Rambus?
Not like Dell, Compaq, etc... care about standards. I once tried to put a motherboard I had into a Compaq case, and I couldn't because (A) the case didn't conform to the ATX standard (the board wouldn't fit in physically - and it wasn't even a full size ATX board) and (B) the case headers (wires from the power button, power LED, etc....) were all on one ribbon in some weird fashion that wouldn't plug into the motherboard.
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IRC is still one of the best place to find warez, movies, pr0n, all that good stuff...
Tim
The stormtrooper helmet is from a good movie.
The lightsaber is from a crap-fest.
Tim
Yeah, there's a big problem up there with the astronauts always running out of freeze dried Astronaut Ice Cream and having to resort to cannibalism.
Tim
What's sad is I can imagine Lucas using a dumbed down version of this whole dark matter and WIMPs stuff to further remove the magic and mystery of using the Force.
"Well, Anakin, the midichlorians that are in your cells are able to interact with the WIMPs and make the WIMPs lift rocks and whatnot."
Tim
Might you happen to know anywhere online I could read up on the latest research? I'm probably about 20 years behind...
Tim
What about "test tube babies"? I am sure that some of them have a happy life.
Tim
How? The scientists will only breed the creations they consider successful. But that calf with organs on the outside sounds good, you wouldn't even need to cut it open!
Tim
The RIAA could make all audio CDs actually be Hybrid Audio/Data CDs. And then screw up the Data part so that it makes the computer view the CD as unreadable, or freezes the computer up (I have seen this happen a few times on Windows with bad CDs), or gives you a virus (autorun...).
Tim
or the places that will ship it FedEx, or the places that will ship it USPS.
Use FedEx if you want something there fast. Use USPS if you want something there slow. Use UPS if you want something there late and crushed by a truck.
Tim
1.) A message that will delete all the ringtones in the phone's memory except for a simple, inoffensive beep tone. The cell phone OS is modified so it will vulgarly insult them whenever they try to get the latest Britney Spears tune to play on their cell phone.
2.) A message that will simply explode all those phones that people use to talk like a bastardized two way radio with the annoying beep every time someone stops talking.
3.) A message that causes the cellphone to emit sterilizing radiation at an especially idiotic user's genital regions. Helping Darwin along...
Number 3 is, sadly, only a dream. Number 1 is almost definitely impossible, especially when you only have about 120 characters in the SMS message. Number 2 might be possible, just target the specific models of phones that support this "feature". Get to work, l33t |-|@xx0rs.
(Although I do own a cellphone, I use it less in a month than half the other cellphone owners use it in a day. The ringtone it is set to is a simple unannoying beep. Usually it is off anyway so that no one can call me.)
Tim
I believe Morpheus/Kazaa is a decentralized network. I could never find much information except hype on their tech, but I believe that if the client detects that you have good bandwidth and a decent computer, it will use your computer to process search requests.
There should be some central server that finds you nearby clients to connect too, but that could probably be replaced with unofficial underground ones. It would actually get better since if they shut down the official Morpheus servers there will be no more ads popping up. (Not like they can keep their ads going - anyone who uses Morpheus should be familiar with the message boxes it constantly pops up about not being able to connect to the ads server)
I wonder if it is just Kazaa or if it is to be Morpheus too. They are connected, when i do a search in Morpheus I come up with results like userfoo@MusicCity, userbar@Kazaa, and userbaz@???.
Tim
Theoretically I guess you could use a black hole to dig a tunnel, but I do not think it would be practical and it is definitely too risky. You don't want to have to worry about a problem with your mining operation ending the world.
A rogue black hole generated on the surface would not generally eat its way to the center of the Earth. The event horizon of anything we make would probably be very small, only able to capture a few molecules at a time. It would fall more or less invisibly into the Earth (maybe there would be some radiation you could notice). Then it would would go back and forth underneath the Earth, with gravity slowing it down and moving it towards the Earth's core. Meanwhile the whole time it would be consuming matter, and eventually it would consume the Earth. Maybe, not sure on this, but it might be that we wouldn't notice the Earth being consumed until a few hours before the Earth was completely consumed, because the rate of growth would increase quite a bit.
Tim
We'd either be dead from the cold, or possibly from some radiation it would shoot out when it collapses. No problem at all.
While I am now talking out of my ass, I think the reason you can use it is a slingshot is not the great amount of gravity it has but the fact that that gravity is more or less a point source. Thus your Spacecraft could get very close to ALL the mass so there would be great effect: instead of your semi-orbit around the Sun or Jupiter which would have to be very very big and take a long time, your time in the gravity well of the black hole would be a lot shorter with a lot more acceleration.
Tim
We're actually rather close to making our own black holes I think....
There was worry when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven went online that among other ways of ending the World (Strangelets) or the Universe (transition to a new vacuum state), that the collisions would produce a black hole which would fall into the center of the Earth and consume it.
There was a report on the RHIC website, which I can no longer find as the website seems to have been overhauled, where they used complex maths I don't understand to decide that (a) The probability of the thing making a black hole was somewhere around 10 to the -30 and (b) even if it did make a black hole it would be a small one that would "evaporate" instead of being able to grow and consume the Earth.
There are also some good books where there are black holes in the Earth - read "Earth" by David Brin, which is entirely about a black hole falling into the Earth, and the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons is set in a future universe in which evil AIs made a scientific experiment drop a black hole into the Earth (I don't want to give out too much of the plot, but everyone thinks Earth is destroyed - they are wrong).
Tim
Someone doesn't know what happens when you put Sodium and H2O together....
Tim
Scientists extracting small bits of DNA from dinosaurs isn't fiction. However we aren't making any Dino Theme Parks anytime soon....
Tim
Most of the people who buy antivirus software do so because they know they are at risk.
They know they are at risk becuase they know jack shit about computers. I've never gotten a virus in my entire life, even on Windows. Very simple, don't use Outlook, don't do anything stupid, and you're fine.
Tim
I'd forgotten about this story in the day or so since it had been last posted here! Thanks for reminding me!
Tim
The RIAA is strongly in favor of the rights of the music industry executives, not the musicians.
Tim
The thing is that the stone isn't even a Philosopher's stone. Philosopher's stone turns any common metal to gold. The Harry Potter stone gives you immortality.
Tim
No, he's not. If the FRAGILE deer urine package was properly handled as fragile material, then it would not have broken, and no one would have gotten stunk up. They deserved it.
Tim
The problem is that Black and White just sucked goats. They had all these nifty ideas about gestures and tamagotchi creatures and whatnot but they forgot about making it fun. Purchase something good. I would recommend Independence War II, which I just finished playing. Some other games not quite as recent which are very good: Half-Life, Homeworld, Freespace 2, Tribes 2, Sacrifice.
Tim
Sorry, that position is already filled by the popular music industry. You'll have to find another job.
Tim
Standard RAM? You mean like the SDRAM and DDR SDRAM that AMD motherboards can use while P4s have to use Rambus?
Not like Dell, Compaq, etc... care about standards. I once tried to put a motherboard I had into a Compaq case, and I couldn't because (A) the case didn't conform to the ATX standard (the board wouldn't fit in physically - and it wasn't even a full size ATX board) and (B) the case headers (wires from the power button, power LED, etc....) were all on one ribbon in some weird fashion that wouldn't plug into the motherboard.
Tim
300 some odd posts, and while I didn't look too carefully, I didn't see a single "Stephen King, dead at 54" troll...
Tim