I love when wise guys link to that article without bothering to read it or to understand the significance.
Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968
The lesson being that low tech worked just fine.
And if we're going to actually get out there and stay in space, then we need to be able to make do and get by. Apollo 13 was fixed with duct tape and a sock. The ISS is currently screwed because they can't get a single bolt to turn and are paralysed with indecision: we've taken everything up there except the right stuff.
I love giving police the finger when they demand to see what's on my laptop
And in your fantasy, does the Lady Cop say "Oh, Mr Neckbeard, your fingering is so... virile," then bow-chicka-wow?
There's nothing so sad as preparing for an apocalyptic showdown with The Man, when The Man could not possibly care less about you or your data. Encrypt, don't encrypt, you've got more chance of being eaten by badgers than subjected to a search-and-seizure.
"Oooh, better not do that, it might go wrong" is "anti-science". The early 19th century Crichtons "warned" that travelling 30 miles in one hour by steam locomotive would cause our brains to explode. You can only reduce ignorance with information, not speculation.
So, Apple, are you going to assert your "rounded corners" design patent against that device? And if not, why not?
At this point, the only real question is how long it will take for Apple and MS to turn on each other after they've killed off Android. A New York minute?
Just so you know, we look at your obsession with slicing up little boys' penises, shake our heads sadly, and lump you in with equally "developed" nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
You do it because Abraham did it. Don't dress it up in science, you're just embarrassing us all with the pretence.
I imagine it delivered some tickets to Aruba. The hint was that it was a bunch of nobodies with no track record asking for money before they'd delivered anything beyond an hilariously badly written "Hello, world".
[modifying number plates] may be counter-productive from the terrorist standpoint
Whoa, where did that come from? They also claim they "contributed to more than 50,000 arrests". That's a lot of "terrorists" then: maybe we should live in permanent shivering supine unquestioning fear.
Or maybe we could just put Elbonian plates on and jabber "No speaking Englandish!" if stopped, like any halfwit career criminal could figure out.
Look at the state of patents. Look at Apple just being gifted a billion dollars and change for "inventing" rectangles with rounded corners. Even those who rail against patents are busily engaged in stockpiling "defensive" ones.
So no, I'm guessing that no sane business will lay aside their patents, not until the rules of the game are changed.
Every time in my career that I've been asked to "provide metrics", I've asked (friendly like) "What decisions will be taken based on them? What will we do differently? What can we do differently?"
I've never, ever, received any answer other than "Can't change anything, but Bossman wants them".
So you can take your metrics and shove them right up your ISO 14001. They're very likely to be a waste of time demanded by a waste of oxygen.
Every top level athlete shoots up something. Every one of them.
If you choose to believe that your personal vicarious hero is the single, solitary exception that that universal rule, go to it, but don't expect anyone rational or even remotely disinterested to share your deluded childish fantasies.
Human beings, however, might enjoy simple ape-like wonderment gazing at some modern high quality images of a fish-o-saurus that's said "Fuck you, that's why" to evolution for 65 million years.
I honestly believe that they'd rather that the music just died, than live with the thought that somewhere out there, Alice might be passing Bob her iPod and saying "Hey, listen to this".
When the only music left is appropriately sub-licensed in commercials, TV and movies, they might stop. Maybe. But the concept of plain old music, that can be played right out there in the open and insinuate itself into just anyone's ears without them being forced to pay first? That makes them beat their hookers with horrific ferocity.
Please provide us with debit cards loaded with $USD. In return for that, we will give you some Magic Beans which you can trade anonymously for a wide variety of goods and services, such as drugs and handjobs and... more drugs.
You know, I started typing that sarcastically, but given that it's bankers we're talking about, they might actually go for that.
Make it look and work as close as possible, out of the box. No dicking around, no "Yehbut, we can improve it just a little bit here, maybe a dab there, a sprinkling over that wa- ah, we'll fix that in the next version".
My wife will use it. My mother will use it. My employer might even take a look at it.
Stop with your new paradigm fantasies. The desktop isn't broke (until Windows 8). Quit trying to fix it.
I do have to wonder what he expected to happen. Wasn't this the exactly the outcome that the shirt itself predicted?
Point well made, he could have laughed it off and covered or removed the shirt, so that it could be taken away for controlled detonated by the Freedom Disposal Squad.
Any hack that requires physical disassembly of the lock is just ePeen waving.
Given the choice between a $50 bit of magic juju that might work after 5 minutes of fiddling, and a $20 jimmy that will work 100% of the time in 10 seconds, I know which option 99% of "going equipped" criminals are going to go for.
So, no, I'm not blaming the lock manufacturer here. No security is absolute, it's a question of what's reasonable.
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I love when wise guys link to that article without bothering to read it or to understand the significance.
The lesson being that low tech worked just fine.
And if we're going to actually get out there and stay in space, then we need to be able to make do and get by. Apollo 13 was fixed with duct tape and a sock. The ISS is currently screwed because they can't get a single bolt to turn and are paralysed with indecision: we've taken everything up there except the right stuff.
And in your fantasy, does the Lady Cop say "Oh, Mr Neckbeard, your fingering is so... virile," then bow-chicka-wow?
There's nothing so sad as preparing for an apocalyptic showdown with The Man, when The Man could not possibly care less about you or your data. Encrypt, don't encrypt, you've got more chance of being eaten by badgers than subjected to a search-and-seizure.
Gotchya. Now, can you clear something else up for me? Are these the droids I'm looking for?
Informative; also bullshit. The idea of regional "distribution" and "publishers" for eBooks, I mean.
"Oooh, better not do that, it might go wrong" is "anti-science". The early 19th century Crichtons "warned" that travelling 30 miles in one hour by steam locomotive would cause our brains to explode. You can only reduce ignorance with information, not speculation.
So, Apple, are you going to assert your "rounded corners" design patent against that device? And if not, why not?
At this point, the only real question is how long it will take for Apple and MS to turn on each other after they've killed off Android. A New York minute?
Fringe cultist demands use of biological weapons, news at 11.
Murray Leinster figured this out in 1946.
Just so you know, we look at your obsession with slicing up little boys' penises, shake our heads sadly, and lump you in with equally "developed" nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
You do it because Abraham did it. Don't dress it up in science, you're just embarrassing us all with the pretence.
I imagine it delivered some tickets to Aruba. The hint was that it was a bunch of nobodies with no track record asking for money before they'd delivered anything beyond an hilariously badly written "Hello, world".
Whoa, where did that come from? They also claim they "contributed to more than 50,000 arrests". That's a lot of "terrorists" then: maybe we should live in permanent shivering supine unquestioning fear.
Or maybe we could just put Elbonian plates on and jabber "No speaking Englandish!" if stopped, like any halfwit career criminal could figure out.
I dunno, do you reckon they're retards?
Look at the state of patents. Look at Apple just being gifted a billion dollars and change for "inventing" rectangles with rounded corners. Even those who rail against patents are busily engaged in stockpiling "defensive" ones.
So no, I'm guessing that no sane business will lay aside their patents, not until the rules of the game are changed.
Every time in my career that I've been asked to "provide metrics", I've asked (friendly like) "What decisions will be taken based on them? What will we do differently? What can we do differently?"
I've never, ever, received any answer other than "Can't change anything, but Bossman wants them".
So you can take your metrics and shove them right up your ISO 14001. They're very likely to be a waste of time demanded by a waste of oxygen.
Those of us who do things that might benefit actual humans need to come up with more answers than questions.
If you choose to believe that your personal vicarious hero is the single, solitary exception that that universal rule, go to it, but don't expect anyone rational or even remotely disinterested to share your deluded childish fantasies.
Human beings, however, might enjoy simple ape-like wonderment gazing at some modern high quality images of a fish-o-saurus that's said "Fuck you, that's why" to evolution for 65 million years.
I honestly believe that they'd rather that the music just died, than live with the thought that somewhere out there, Alice might be passing Bob her iPod and saying "Hey, listen to this".
When the only music left is appropriately sub-licensed in commercials, TV and movies, they might stop. Maybe. But the concept of plain old music, that can be played right out there in the open and insinuate itself into just anyone's ears without them being forced to pay first? That makes them beat their hookers with horrific ferocity.
Tough on the kids, but if the flat earthers want to devolve back to their Garden of Eden fantasy, let's get the party started.
The only real question is which group is going to end up as the Eloi and which the Morlocks. Me, I'm not that keen on the sun.
I can't imagine many other "practicing Buddhists" who'd make a point of always parking in disabled spaces because "Fuck you, that's why."
It was just another ostentatious hipster douche accessory, like the black turtlenecks.
Please provide us with debit cards loaded with $USD. In return for that, we will give you some Magic Beans which you can trade anonymously for a wide variety of goods and services, such as drugs and handjobs and... more drugs.
You know, I started typing that sarcastically, but given that it's bankers we're talking about, they might actually go for that.
Show it a picture of itself: "Self!"
Build another one and show it that: "Self!"
Pattern recognition is not self awareness.
Or hellz, XP.
Make it look and work as close as possible, out of the box. No dicking around, no "Yehbut, we can improve it just a little bit here, maybe a dab there, a sprinkling over that wa- ah, we'll fix that in the next version".
My wife will use it. My mother will use it. My employer might even take a look at it.
Stop with your new paradigm fantasies. The desktop isn't broke (until Windows 8). Quit trying to fix it.
It's always been there, it's just more naked now.
I do have to wonder what he expected to happen. Wasn't this the exactly the outcome that the shirt itself predicted?
Point well made, he could have laughed it off and covered or removed the shirt, so that it could be taken away for controlled detonated by the Freedom Disposal Squad.
Is that like a "sort of" virgin, or a "sort of" complete ignoramus?
It's a word with a very specific scientific meaning. Use it for that purpose, or find a different one.
Any hack that requires physical disassembly of the lock is just ePeen waving.
Given the choice between a $50 bit of magic juju that might work after 5 minutes of fiddling, and a $20 jimmy that will work 100% of the time in 10 seconds, I know which option 99% of "going equipped" criminals are going to go for.
So, no, I'm not blaming the lock manufacturer here. No security is absolute, it's a question of what's reasonable.