Did you ever consider that the deep sea is one of the vanishingly few places on the planet that hasn't been destroyed by humans? The sooner we begin "exploring", the sooner the environmental degradation occurs. I don't think we need to work on an aquatic Cortez just to get you some more species to kill and extract chemicals from their dead bodies. Just a thought.
Here's an idea - blow the crap off with compressed air.
Just think of all the children that could have been fed with this $400 million.:( Or all the landmines that could be removed. Instead, we get playtoys for stupid white men. Micheal Moore needs to do his next expose on "science".
What do you bet that the radar return on this tiny model is a teensy bit less than that of a real BUFF?
A B-52 has the radar cross-section of a freaking baseball stadium. This model will in all likelihood never exceed flight level 1 in its lifetime, and probably would be classified as a bird (noise) by any radar control station.
The SETI project is run by a bunch of wankers, basically. Well-meaning but I wouldn't trust them with the keys to my bike lock, if you know what I mean. When they lost their government funding, it was due to rank incompetence. How can things have gotten better since then?
The new idea is that democracy itself is a failure. If a man like Bush can get elected twice, that's a pretty good indicator that the system is horribly broken. We really need to move on to a better system of government, away from gambling on referenda that just produce the wrong results anyway.
So, it's "fun"? The whole science part is just extra? You think it's great to burn precious natural resources to generate electricity to power your little "fun"?
P.S. SETI@Home is NOT repeat NOT a benchmark utility.
CPU time is not "wasted". If a PC is not in use, it will go into power saving mode. It's been a long, long time (80486) since CPUs ran at 100% speed when not in use.
You really think some nutball "science" project is worth burning coal to make electricity to power your little vanity project? Do you drive an SUV as well?
Spyware installs itself, either the user doesn't make a choice or is tricked. Does anyone download Gator, knowing what it is, and install it? I call bullshit.
then a note goes on your credit card history that you disputed the charge, and you can never order anything online again due to the fact that people tend to do this sort of thing over and over.
They OFFERED the reward. They did not PAY the reward. Any payment MAY be made after the conviction is complete, a year or two from now. This assumes that the accused is convicted. What if he plea-bargains to a lesser charge, that has nothing to do with computer crime specifically? "Sorry, our reward is for computer crime. Better luck next time, kid." You fail to realize that lawyers determine when and if any reward money is ever paid.
It's nothing new...people used to join #hack and brag about machines they rooted. A narc or ddrew would log what they said, and open an investigation. Teenagers are stupid.
In terms of legality, there are so many ways to weasel out of paying a reward. You can say that the information didn't actually help that much, or any other of a thousand excuses. The U.S. State Department is notorious for this. Why should Microsoft be any different? Why should they pay off...they have their man already. The best thing to do, from a corporate-profit point of view, is to set the lawyers on the problem and divine a solution such that they reward need not be paid. This is pretty common stuff.
Oh, and MS should pay to keep up their reputation...puh-leez. Their reputation is already lower than a snake's belly in a gully. How can they go farther? Before any knee-jerk MS apologists start replying, go check out what I've said about rewards being paid off...you'll find the situation is just as depressing as I've described.
Perhaps pointless to your limited, esoteric point of view, but to the hundreds of millions of Japanese who will very soon have the threat of imminent nuclear attack hanging over their heads, the issues are real. The only known solution to a nation threatening you with nuclear weapons is nuclear deterrence. Perhaps you would be so kind as to enlighten us with your plans for this situation?
Go ahead and laugh. As soon as North Korea finishes their nuke(s), you'll see Japan go nuclear faster than you can say, "irrishaimase". Japan has been living with a foreign-written constitution for a long, long time, and there's substantial support for throwing it out and becoming a real nation again.
I get mad when people tell me I'm not special. I did this WAY before everyone else, which makes me cool. Much more cool than the rest of you "unwashed" people who do the same thing as me. Everyone I know (which, by extension, is everyone *worth* knowing) thinks that I'm the bee's knees, because I'm so SMRT. Infinite beatitude of existence! It is; and there is nothing else beside It.
"You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as [Capt'n Hector] understood them at all, he accepts them as his own -- for he cannot conceive of any other except himself -- and plumes himself upon the variety of 'His Thought' as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Blogland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction."
Much better to sell hugely popular games featuring rape, incest, and the general oppression of women, yes? Where's the U.S. market in those? Name a single game released in the U.S. in the last 5 years that featured the protagonist raping a woman.
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Did you ever consider that the deep sea is one of the vanishingly few places on the planet that hasn't been destroyed by humans? The sooner we begin "exploring", the sooner the environmental degradation occurs. I don't think we need to work on an aquatic Cortez just to get you some more species to kill and extract chemicals from their dead bodies. Just a thought.
Just think of all the children that could have been fed with this $400 million. :( Or all the landmines that could be removed. Instead, we get playtoys for stupid white men. Micheal Moore needs to do his next expose on "science".
Good troll. Got 'em biting.
The anecdote you cite is an urban legend, IIRC.
A B-52 has the radar cross-section of a freaking baseball stadium. This model will in all likelihood never exceed flight level 1 in its lifetime, and probably would be classified as a bird (noise) by any radar control station.
The SETI project is run by a bunch of wankers, basically. Well-meaning but I wouldn't trust them with the keys to my bike lock, if you know what I mean. When they lost their government funding, it was due to rank incompetence. How can things have gotten better since then?
The new idea is that democracy itself is a failure. If a man like Bush can get elected twice, that's a pretty good indicator that the system is horribly broken. We really need to move on to a better system of government, away from gambling on referenda that just produce the wrong results anyway.
P.S. SETI@Home is NOT repeat NOT a benchmark utility.
You really think some nutball "science" project is worth burning coal to make electricity to power your little vanity project? Do you drive an SUV as well?
The PC user doesn't know he has spyware running.
Spyware installs itself, either the user doesn't make a choice or is tricked. Does anyone download Gator, knowing what it is, and install it? I call bullshit.
Fucking anime nerds. Diediedie.
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Fucking anime nerds. Diediedie.
then a note goes on your credit card history that you disputed the charge, and you can never order anything online again due to the fact that people tend to do this sort of thing over and over.
I've never seen a laptop with two expansion slots.
They OFFERED the reward. They did not PAY the reward. Any payment MAY be made after the conviction is complete, a year or two from now. This assumes that the accused is convicted. What if he plea-bargains to a lesser charge, that has nothing to do with computer crime specifically? "Sorry, our reward is for computer crime. Better luck next time, kid." You fail to realize that lawyers determine when and if any reward money is ever paid.
It's nothing new...people used to join #hack and brag about machines they rooted. A narc or ddrew would log what they said, and open an investigation. Teenagers are stupid.
Oh, and MS should pay to keep up their reputation...puh-leez. Their reputation is already lower than a snake's belly in a gully. How can they go farther? Before any knee-jerk MS apologists start replying, go check out what I've said about rewards being paid off...you'll find the situation is just as depressing as I've described.
Perhaps pointless to your limited, esoteric point of view, but to the hundreds of millions of Japanese who will very soon have the threat of imminent nuclear attack hanging over their heads, the issues are real. The only known solution to a nation threatening you with nuclear weapons is nuclear deterrence. Perhaps you would be so kind as to enlighten us with your plans for this situation?
Go ahead and laugh. As soon as North Korea finishes their nuke(s), you'll see Japan go nuclear faster than you can say, "irrishaimase". Japan has been living with a foreign-written constitution for a long, long time, and there's substantial support for throwing it out and becoming a real nation again.
The one and only place was always #hack. With no "ers". On EFnet. Back before there was an EFnet as such...there was just "irc".
Hm, I must have hallucinated all the different kinds of sugar availible at the teahouse, then.
-- Wang Zhen, Chinese Communist official, May 1989
I get mad when people tell me I'm not special. I did this WAY before everyone else, which makes me cool. Much more cool than the rest of you "unwashed" people who do the same thing as me. Everyone I know (which, by extension, is everyone *worth* knowing) thinks that I'm the bee's knees, because I'm so SMRT. Infinite beatitude of existence! It is; and there is nothing else beside It.
"You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as [Capt'n Hector] understood them at all, he accepts them as his own -- for he cannot conceive of any other except himself -- and plumes himself upon the variety of 'His Thought' as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Blogland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction."
Much better to sell hugely popular games featuring rape, incest, and the general oppression of women, yes? Where's the U.S. market in those? Name a single game released in the U.S. in the last 5 years that featured the protagonist raping a woman.