Sometime in late 2001, some bozo's organising an advertising campaign for Microsoft's XBOX console decided it would be a great idea to graffiti the logo in bright green paint all over publicly funded paving, pathways, garden beds etc in Sydney, Australia. Claimed it was environmentally friendly paint, will wash off with rain. Company charged hundreds of dollars in removal costs for each logo, after the local government found that in many cases it was rather more...permanent, including many instances on newly installed granite paving. Story reported in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, so I suppose theres *plenty* of consumers like me who are spending their money on PS2 instead.
WHAT IF: this invention really works, and we start scaling it up and using it for ALL the earth's power needs, and then we realise, to our absolute HORROR, that harvesting zero-point energy has some really bad side effect. Such as causing some sort of pollution of the space-time fabric, making space travel impossible in our region of space. Or killing cute little aliens in a neighbouring dimension that we cannot see, yet. Or worse still, a powerful alien race, acting as a galactic police force immediately destroy the world so that this bad effect cannot continue...
Is this hack really breaking a security measure? Company sells you an item that has errors in it. You provide a means of making those errors irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
...So that's what my forgotten Slashdot account password was...
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(for fans of Sesame Street).
The most recent add for the Twin Towers
Twin towers? Tolkien wrote a book called The Two Towers, as I recall. Or has the movie been renamed as a tribute?
Sometime in late 2001, some bozo's organising an advertising campaign for Microsoft's XBOX console decided it would be a great idea to graffiti the logo in bright green paint all over publicly funded paving, pathways, garden beds etc in Sydney, Australia. Claimed it was environmentally friendly paint, will wash off with rain. Company charged hundreds of dollars in removal costs for each logo, after the local government found that in many cases it was rather more...permanent, including many instances on newly installed granite paving. Story reported in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, so I suppose theres *plenty* of consumers like me who are spending their money on PS2 instead.
Meanwhile, scientists in Ireland have become the first in the world to seperate a Siamese cat.
WHAT IF: this invention really works, and we start scaling it up and using it for ALL the earth's power needs, and then we realise, to our absolute HORROR, that harvesting zero-point energy has some really bad side effect. Such as causing some sort of pollution of the space-time fabric, making space travel impossible in our region of space. Or killing cute little aliens in a neighbouring dimension that we cannot see, yet. Or worse still, a powerful alien race, acting as a galactic police force immediately destroy the world so that this bad effect cannot continue...
Some here to avoid being lame...
An XML has 99% of its information content redundant?
Is this hack really breaking a security measure? Company sells you an item that has errors in it. You provide a means of making those errors irrelevant.