In the days before raster scan monitors it was possible to get the electron beam to sit at a single point on the screen long enough to cause sufficient thermal stress in the glass for the screen to implode. Dunno if it ever killed anyone tho.
So what does this fictional trick involve then? Darned if I'm going to cough up 10 bucks to find out.
I was blue and lonely, I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious if I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation were growing in my head
I needed inspiration, a brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection, but I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw in a special magazine
An ad that was unusual, the like I'd never seen
"Experience something different with our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatible and a guarantee of joy."
She came all wrapped in cardboard, all pink and shrivelled down
A breath of air was all she needed to make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom and pumped her with some life
And later in a moment that girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner and sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy, she's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen and I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning and have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was and I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry in case my girl wears thin
from "Be My Girl - Sally", written by Sting & Andy Summers (The Police: Outlandos d'Amour).
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise!... Surprise and fear... fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons.... Hmf... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surpr.... I'll come in again.
Notice the "Email to a friend" link at the end of that CNET story? Wouldn't it be great idea if you could email the story to everyone in your contacts list, huh? They could even add a bit at the end about what a great news source CNET is too.
(Hey, this is such a great idea someone should patent it!)
Imagine you have no choice but walk across a ten-lane highway at a regular pace, with no deviations in speed or direction allowed. Are you better doing it with your eyes open, or shut?
Does it really help us to have a 3m survey telescope to look for "threatening objects"? (Except to give us time to say "bye" to the folks.)
You do an innocent bit of/. moderating on a Windows box and then when you submit you find that your use of the mouse's scroll wheel has completely mangled the moderation you wanted to make and then you have to make a post just to clear that moderation before the meta-moderation corrects it and bangs your karma down but then someone will probably moderate this one down so the karma's going to take a beating anyhow...
Another reason is that Mom & Pop can justify paying for the PS2 for the kids to play games on because when the kids have gone to bed they can watch a DVD movie on the thing.
You still have to be a covered person for them to arrange for a foreign agency to spy on you
Well, it ain't arranged though is it... it just happens. Automatically all the intelligence They want is just... available. "Well, jeez schucks we didn't ask for it did we?"
And, look, I didn't even touch on your naive trust in the oversight of NSAs compliance with their own charter, did I?
Well, 16DM if you didn't use it maybe... now calculate in the on-line charges, network surcharges, database lookup services...
I'll admit CI$ was good (for it's time) for technical info (though not as good as Compulink (CIX) in the UK I reckon - CI$ won only for it's international access).
Access to the Web via vanilla ISPs killed CI$ - better to get that technical info direct from the suppliers' website (or Usenet) rather than via some CI$ forum. (The overcharging and low performance helped of course...)
Another motivation behind echelon is that the security services of the partner states are normally constitutionally prohibited from spying without cause on their own citizens. Echelon gets round this by having the partners spying on the citizens of the other partners. Naturally any interesting information obtained gets passed on to the relevant partner's organisations...
tell that to the (ex-)Compuserve users. AOL took over a great service Bollocks says this ex-Compu$erve user. CIS was always underpowered and overcharged (esp. in Europe). I jumped when they started playing games with email interconnect with various ISPs they didn't like.
The remaining CompuServe users are not diehards... they are (with the greatest respect) diestupids.
Hmm, I was thinking more of Arthur C. Clark's "The Fountains of Paradise" (1979). There the fibre from the satelite is lowered to earth to carry up a thicker wire (and so on) in order to eventually construct a tethered space elevator. Why launch to orbit when you can just lift?
Slashdot Mirror
Regards, Ralph.
So what does this fictional trick involve then? Darned if I'm going to cough up 10 bucks to find out.
Regards, Ralph.
No problem - we'll just farm space fungus.
Regards, Ralph.
Pantywaist?!?
Regards, Ralph.
I was blue and lonely, I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious if I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation were growing in my head
I needed inspiration, a brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection, but I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw in a special magazine
An ad that was unusual, the like I'd never seen
"Experience something different with our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatible and a guarantee of joy."
She came all wrapped in cardboard, all pink and shrivelled down
A breath of air was all she needed to make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom and pumped her with some life
And later in a moment that girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner and sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy, she's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen and I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning and have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was and I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry in case my girl wears thin
from "Be My Girl - Sally", written by Sting & Andy Summers (The Police: Outlandos d'Amour).
Regards, Ralph.
Are these man keyword refs or something? What flavor of nix are you on?
Regards, Ralph.
It was Robin Williams who said "Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."
Regards, Ralph.
More here.
Regards, Ralph.
Notice the "Email to a friend" link at the end of that CNET story? Wouldn't it be great idea if you could email the story to everyone in your contacts list, huh? They could even add a bit at the end about what a great news source CNET is too.
(Hey, this is such a great idea someone should patent it!)
Regards, Ralph.
Imagine you have no choice but walk across a ten-lane highway at a regular pace, with no deviations in speed or direction allowed. Are you better doing it with your eyes open, or shut?
Does it really help us to have a 3m survey telescope to look for "threatening objects"? (Except to give us time to say "bye" to the folks.)
Regards, Ralph.
Ah, you'll be wanting my Quake Plug-in for The Sims (TM) ...
Regards, Ralph.
Hmm, I wonder if you could play MUD with the other people in Sims Online?
Regards, Ralph.
Read the article. In Sims Online it seems you will be controlling your avatar.
Regards, Ralph.
You do an innocent bit of /. moderating on a Windows box and then when you submit you find that your use of the mouse's scroll wheel has completely mangled the moderation you wanted to make and then you have to make a post just to clear that moderation before the meta-moderation corrects it and bangs your karma down but then someone will probably moderate this one down so the karma's going to take a beating anyhow ...
Oh well.
Yeah, and we need a .THEM domain where all them dirty foreigners can go.
Regards, Ralph.
Twas bound to happen ...
...)
CDDB + My.MP3 (+ Napster?) + bdiff = "Fingerprinting" of Audio Files.
Now we just need to solve something like:
IMDb + AltaVista/Corbis + bdiff + WhoWhere?/AnyWho
... to get Natalie Portman's home telephone number.
(Not for me, you understand, but I believe there's a market out there
Regards, Ralph.
Hey, if the MPAA can get the Anonymous Coward locked up then maybe this whole DeCSS thing has really acheived something!
Regards, Ralph.
Another reason is that Mom & Pop can justify paying for the PS2 for the kids to play games on because when the kids have gone to bed they can watch a DVD movie on the thing.
Regards, Ralph.
Well, it ain't arranged though is it ... it just happens. Automatically all the intelligence They want is just ... available. "Well, jeez schucks we didn't ask for it did we?"
And, look, I didn't even touch on your naive trust in the oversight of NSAs compliance with their own charter, did I?
Regards, Ralph.
Well, 16DM if you didn't use it maybe ... now calculate in the on-line charges, network surcharges, database lookup services ...
...)
I'll admit CI$ was good (for it's time) for technical info (though not as good as Compulink (CIX) in the UK I reckon - CI$ won only for it's international access).
Access to the Web via vanilla ISPs killed CI$ - better to get that technical info direct from the suppliers' website (or Usenet) rather than via some CI$ forum. (The overcharging and low performance helped of course
Regards, Ralph.
Another motivation behind echelon is that the security services of the partner states are normally constitutionally prohibited from spying without cause on their own citizens. Echelon gets round this by having the partners spying on the citizens of the other partners. Naturally any interesting information obtained gets passed on to the relevant partner's organisations ...
Regards, Ralph.
The remaining CompuServe users are not diehards ... they are (with the greatest respect) diestupids.
Regards, Ralph.
Hmm, I was thinking more of Arthur C. Clark's "The Fountains of Paradise" (1979). There the fibre from the satelite is lowered to earth to carry up a thicker wire (and so on) in order to eventually construct a tethered space elevator. Why launch to orbit when you can just lift?
Regards, Ralph.
Opera 4.01 renders it just fine.
Then take slash.dot?