If you can't be bothered to leave I'm not all to sympathetic if you can't call out either.
What if you can't afford to leave (no car), and there are no services helping you evacuate? You think those 9000 people in the SuperDome were there becaue it was fun? Anyone with an SUV left town - you can be sure of that! Even at 15mph, it's hard to out-walk a hurricane.
Also, my.02$: I don't know how fast blimps can fly, but I suspect cell-phone blimps wouldn't be outfitted with the latest in engines. Cheapest maybe, if they aren't just towed somewhere, anchored and left... Gonna make moving them in/out of affected areas slow. Useful for cleanup after the fact, but not going to be there as soon as the rescue boats can actually start moving.
Actually, "Prior Art" would only work if they already had a video game with weird effects. However, that bit about a nontrivial innovation would apply. If you play CoC, and make a video game out of it, then the idea of measuring sanity doesn't take a whole lot to come up with. "Gee, there's already this thing called 'sanity' in CoC...I'd better put that in the video game too!" In that sense, you could fight the patent.
"on a more serious note"? I don't know about that!
But yes, I played DKII, and it was pretty good. "You know that long flat object next to you? I thas the power to cure fatigue and promote rest"... "Are you still here? The imps are about to lock up!"
I have two Yahoo accounts - one for personal use, and one for work use. The one for work use is (maybe) a year old, while the other has been around since '98. Care to guess which gets more spam? By a factor of 50? That's right - a factor of 50.
Same filters, but one's been out there longer. Same thing'll happen to Google.
Someone I knew in Moscow (in 1999) was partial owner of a donut store. He was having problems with his ahh..."business partners." Sure, you can do stuff in Russia w/o the mob being involved. But you can't make money while doing it! As soon as you do, the mafia is going to move in. I wouldn't visit Russia a rich man!
1. Shouldn't kill even spammers. 2. This happened b/c he was spamming. 3. Yeah! Kill the bastards!
That about sums up the comments...
FWIW, he was probably offed by a business partner who wanted a bigger cut of the profits, or by the mob, because he wasn't paying them off. This is Russia we're talking about here.
Geeze - moderators with no vision! If someone sent a probe knocked out every electronic device in the western US with an EMP (because it was measuring sub-surface structure based on the echo?), what do you think Bush would do? "I, for one, welcome our new..."? No way in hell - he'd make some speech about freedom and launch our nuculear arsenal into speace to deal with it!
Ok, it was a quick check, and not national security here, but although CNN is better than many news sources (*cough* *fox* *cough*), they still do plenty of dubious reporting. Read the site - it's good:-)
How would you like it if the world Invaded (and I use that word deliberatly) YOUR town, shutting it down for a week, potentaly destroying a large part of it and making the residents lives hell?
Sounds like anywhere Bush&Co had major parties during the 2004 election campaign. The republicans closed down an entire island of the carolina coast that year. <shivers> At least these people "invading" Edinburgh don't have the ability to arrest you and detain you indefinitely!
Wow - this got moderated "Interesting" instead of "Funny"?? What's wrong with the moderators today?
There may well be excellent journalists working for indymedia, but responsible journalists do not allow anonymous, unchecked "facts" into their news output.
If this is the case, then there are almost no repsonsible journalists out there - you might as well close down CNN for that...
See http://www.cjrdaily.org/, an excellent site showing inaccuracies in reporting and facts that are glossed over.
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--LWM
Was Moria Call of Cthulhu?
--LWM
Very very brilliant! You can even make the walls bleed! Or at least the ceiling...
--LWM
Actually, "Prior Art" would only work if they already had a video game with weird effects. However, that bit about a nontrivial innovation would apply. If you play CoC, and make a video game out of it, then the idea of measuring sanity doesn't take a whole lot to come up with. "Gee, there's already this thing called 'sanity' in CoC...I'd better put that in the video game too!" In that sense, you could fight the patent.
--LWM
Anyone played Doom while on LSD?
--LWM
Only *one* turtle. It does have four elephants on its back, though.
--LWM
I don't allow cookies in the first place; that kind of obviates the need to delete them.
I accept cookies from about 10 sites (and yes...slashdot is one of them). And even those get deleted when I close firefox!
When I set up others' computers, I only allow cookies from the orinating website, so that cuts down on cookie retention as well.
No one needs to track me!
--LWM
Read the BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm
They at least sorta touch on it; gives you a few thoughts to start w/.
--LWM
"on a more serious note"? I don't know about that!
But yes, I played DKII, and it was pretty good. "You know that long flat object next to you? I thas the power to cure fatigue and promote rest"... "Are you still here? The imps are about to lock up!"
Heh.
--LWM
BBC reports he was playing StarCraft.
I have to say, I think that's pretty pathetic, all things considered - it's barely over 2 days!
--LWM
I have two Yahoo accounts - one for personal use, and one for work use. The one for work use is (maybe) a year old, while the other has been around since '98. Care to guess which gets more spam? By a factor of 50? That's right - a factor of 50.
Same filters, but one's been out there longer. Same thing'll happen to Google.
--LWM
Better yet, take the conservative estimate, double it, add 20% and then tell them that!
It'll always cost you more then you expect.
--LWM
You need a picture of CowboyNeal fiddling (err...playing air guitar?) while the 'net burns.
--LWM
Heh.
Someone I knew in Moscow (in 1999) was partial owner of a donut store. He was having problems with his ahh..."business partners." Sure, you can do stuff in Russia w/o the mob being involved. But you can't make money while doing it! As soon as you do, the mafia is going to move in. I wouldn't visit Russia a rich man!
--LWM
Go figure.
--LWM
Yes dear.
For What It's Worth.
--LWM
Please! What about wirehead references? After all, if they can improve mood, why not put a wire directly in the pleasure center of the brain?
--LWM
The first three comments:
1. Shouldn't kill even spammers.
2. This happened b/c he was spamming.
3. Yeah! Kill the bastards!
That about sums up the comments...
FWIW, he was probably offed by a business partner who wanted a bigger cut of the profits, or by the mob, because he wasn't paying them off. This is Russia we're talking about here.
--LWM
Nice.
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How about this, tho? Make a piped file on a samba share, and when something tries to read the file, it executes:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SOUNDDIR="/usr/share/sounds";
opendir(DIR,$SOUNDDIR) || die "Can't open $SOUNDDIR: $!\n";
$count=0;
while(defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
if($file =~
$files[$count]=$file;
$count++;
}
}
$arraysize=@files;
$rnd=int(rand($arraysize));
$filename=$files[$
system("cat $filename");
# --LWM
Geeze - moderators with no vision! If someone sent a probe knocked out every electronic device in the western US with an EMP (because it was measuring sub-surface structure based on the echo?), what do you think Bush would do? "I, for one, welcome our new..."? No way in hell - he'd make some speech about freedom and launch our nuculear arsenal into speace to deal with it!
--LWM
NASA should charge this nut for deftly moving the comet a milimeter from its original course, thus saving his love-life from complete misery.
OTOH, I'm glad to see the Russians finally learning to do things the American Way (i.e., sue the pants off everyone).
--LWM
--LWM
Be surprised :-p
:-)
Ok, it was a quick check, and not national security here, but although CNN is better than many news sources (*cough* *fox* *cough*), they still do plenty of dubious reporting. Read the site - it's good
--LWM
--LWM
If this is the case, then there are almost no repsonsible journalists out there - you might as well close down CNN for that...
See http://www.cjrdaily.org/, an excellent site showing inaccuracies in reporting and facts that are glossed over.
--LWM