Spirit and Opportunity would have benefited greatly from glass that was self cleaning. Would not have needed to wait for Dust Devils and playful Mars Bunnies to clean off the photo cells.
A much simpler test would have been to put out a purchase req. for parts for a certain stealth helicopter. The disproportionate response to fill parts for the tail rotor assembly would have been a dead giveaway.
They're *all* innocent until proven guilty and that does not happen until after they're extradited, charged (if they're lucky) and subjected to a fair trial.
No wait... pinch me please... this is a nightmare.
You can keep the frog in there longer though if you buy a ram and have him watch the pot. Having the ram watch the pot may help a bit as the water will heat up slower - and most certainly will never boil.
Efficiency may decrease if you put all this on a buffé (or RAM Table), which TFA clearly states will make the frog more jittery.
The one exception to this appears to be when you employ a Serf (or Page) to watch over the buffé. Supervised Page Tables actually benifit from more RAM and you will need fewer Serfs i.e. it will make serfing more efficient.
First there was DOS... Denial Of Service. Then there was WinXP... "XP" is an emote-icon for dead with tongue hanging out. Then WinCE... Read it and wince.
Now MSRT... a Malicious, Software Removal Tool (note the comma)
Yes - that is the way history played out in the majority set of alternate realities. However, in the limited set of realities that allowed the human race to continue (and subsequently achieve the ability to probe alternate realities (hence this "/." submission)), the original iPhone software "modifications" were done in a building adjacent to this chap (WARNING - not for the feint of heart):
Once the iPhone intelligence singularity started to develop, the hac^H^H^Hresearchers dashed next door and a suitable power-off mechanism was implemented.
iPhone - we've got your number - don't mess with the human race.
Standard Operating Procedure: To usurp a world standard and boost Microsoft sales:
(1) Deliver a "world standard" implementation (2) ??? (3) Offer Microsoft-only extensions with subsequent "patch" (for efficiency of course) (4) Developers use the extensions (5) Standard subverted!! (6) Profit
Implementation Notes: step (2) may be completely omitted for already well established and widely adopted standards (e.g. C, C++) step (2) has recently been proposed as "Break something important"
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Certainly not a "problem landing" and while the brakes are not usually applied until the nosewheel is grounded (else the nose comes down with a bang), the right-main wheels certainly looked like they were offering significant resistance. The nosewheel smoke does not indicate a significant crosswind or gust. I believe a gust would have had to be from starboard to port (camera side to far side) to make the aircraft slew to its right as such a gust would have pushed on the tail and pivoted the aircraft on its mains bringing the nose towards us. Does the profile of the aircraft make it more susceptible to gusts - I would have thought its mass would make it less so. The fact that we see anything at all, given the size of the aircraft, makes the event significant.
If it was not a gust and not a braking issue it might indicate a landing geometry problem which would be significant.
While not a "problem landing" it would be nice to find out what the landing analysis was. What were the stresses on the gear during landing? Is there a problem with the automated landing system or was the pilot a little right-toe early? (Perhaps they *were* running the Microsoft Flight Simulator in "direct control mode":-) )
Did anyone see the "Landing Anomoly" on CNN (LAX)?
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Did anyone else notice the CNN video that showed the US LAX arrival earlier this week. The mains touched down and the plane aircraft slewed to the right requiring immediate (and large) correction - watch the rudder deflection. Looked like a problem with uneven braking. Both mains touched down twice, the second touch was followed by the slew. On final touchdown the left main touched fractionally first followed by the right main followed by the nosewheel. The correction was needed between the right-main touch and the nosewheel. It did not seem to be crosswind related, though that's a little difficult to tell (have to use wheel smoke etc. which is tough to gauge).
Don't know if the automated systems or the pilot made the correction but with that large an aircraft there's very little room for error.
From a Real World perspective - if there are 10% fewer vulnerabilities in an MS Windows system and they are cleared up twice as fast but Windows is used on 90% of the desktops, this still means 90% of the spam mail I get comes from Windows Zombie networks. Makes no difference to me how secure Windows is. I care about issues like these:
When will the existing Zombie networks be disabled? When will the vulnerabilities that allow new Zombies to be created be fixed?
Windows *needs* to be more secure than all the other less pervasive platforms - trouble is it needs to be *much* more secure than them and it is nowhere near secure enough to mitigate the problems that it is continuing to cause to productivity and resource availability.
Unless you're being willfully dense because it makes insulting someone easier, it's clear that ABN Amro is not literally unaware of what Skype does or how it works. The guy in charge of keeping the network running just chose an unpretentious way of saying that he's proceeding with caution in a business where a lot of people's money is at stake and the main benefit seems to be employee enjoyment.
I would like to point out that those people who state that MacOS X hacking is of little interest to the hacking community because the Mac has little market presence should pay attention to the draw this challenge precipitated.
Looks like every hacker and their uncle had a go at this one. I wonder how many unique IP addresses were used to access the challenge.
Just exclude that use in your EULA., or even better, encrypt a feature in the control mechanism of your machine so that the only way the licensee could make such a use would be in contravention of the DMCA. Then, in a masterstroke of reverse psychology, sue the sh*t out of the licensee who does invalidate your patent, forcing said licensee to go back in time and prevent the DMCA from becoming law.
Unfortunately (for the rest of the world), you don't need to do any of these things though. You don't even need to patent your device. Heck, you don't even need to actually invent it. Just wait for someone to patent a time machine and then claim that they took away your invention (by preventing you from having invented it). They just weren't quite thorough enough though, since you still have the memory of the invention, though you can't remember quite how it worked (shame). You now demand the device be returned to you, the rightful owner.
If the other inventor turns out to be a charlatan, who then turns around and discloses that his invention never actually worked, making you out to be a perjurer. Just claim that they cleverly wrecked their own invention to invalidate your case and make you out to be a lier, by their going back and changing their own timeline. Now you've got them. You can sue them for destroying your invention together with the evidence of there having been a working time machine.
A much more heinous crime against you and humanity than mere theft. You'll probably be awarded all the money they received from VCs to start their company in the first place.
Temporal Lawyers will likely, however, be the only people who will ever benefit from this whole new legal avenue. You will probably go down in the annals of infamy as the person who gave rise to this new (hated) legal profession.
In another display of stunningly insightful herd-like reporting.
One after another, the news stations pointed at the engine that had fallen into a gas station as the likely cause of the crash ignoring three rather important points (1) the engine is designed to detach under certain conditions (2) the plane is designed to fly with an engine missing and (most important) (3) the tail of the aircraft had already fallen off and was sticking out of the water a good way back.
If it wasn't for the pilot's black-box-recorded plea to the co-pilot to "stop playing with that damned rudder 'cos you're making me nauseous", we might never have known what brought the plane down and we would have had completely re-designed engines by now.
(ok... I made that last paragraph up... but the second was true (honest)).
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Does anyone know if (by any chance) he had a pacemaker?
Spirit and Opportunity would have benefited greatly from glass that was self cleaning. Would not have needed to wait for Dust Devils and playful Mars Bunnies to clean off the photo cells.
A much simpler test would have been to put out a purchase req. for parts for a certain stealth helicopter. The disproportionate response to fill parts for the tail rotor assembly would have been a dead giveaway.
I thought the energy to flip a bit was already measured in Quantum Computing devices as it tends to cause de-coherence?
If not, then it should :-)
Actually, unless I've woken up in a "New West"
They're *all* innocent until proven guilty and that does not happen until after they're extradited, charged (if they're lucky) and subjected to a fair trial.
No wait... pinch me please... this is a nightmare.
...a growing practice that results in a shrinking practice.
Doctor's practices are shrinking as a result of the growing practice of them firing patients with whom they have lost patience.
You can keep the frog in there longer though if you buy a ram and have him watch the pot. Having the ram watch the pot may help a bit as the water will heat up slower - and most certainly will never boil.
Efficiency may decrease if you put all this on a buffé (or RAM Table), which TFA clearly states will make the frog more jittery.
The one exception to this appears to be when you employ a Serf (or Page) to watch over the buffé. Supervised Page Tables actually benifit from more RAM and you will need fewer Serfs i.e. it will make serfing more efficient.
YMMV
And when I find the perverted virus that had sex with my ancestor, I'm going to be *very* *very* angry!
Micro$oft finally finds 15 year old bug in software but cannot fix it as no one writes assembler anymore!
First there was DOS... Denial Of Service.
Then there was WinXP... "XP" is an emote-icon for dead with tongue hanging out.
Then WinCE... Read it and wince.
Now MSRT... a Malicious, Software Removal Tool (note the comma)
Yes - that is the way history played out in the majority set of alternate realities. However, in the limited set of realities that allowed the human race to continue (and subsequently achieve the ability to probe alternate realities (hence this "/." submission)), the original iPhone software "modifications" were done in a building adjacent to this chap (WARNING - not for the feint of heart):
e &video=iphone
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsaf
Once the iPhone intelligence singularity started to develop, the hac^H^H^Hresearchers dashed next door and a suitable power-off mechanism was implemented.
iPhone - we've got your number - don't mess with the human race.
Standard Operating Procedure: To usurp a world standard and boost Microsoft sales:
(1) Deliver a "world standard" implementation
(2) ???
(3) Offer Microsoft-only extensions with subsequent "patch" (for efficiency of course)
(4) Developers use the extensions
(5) Standard subverted!!
(6) Profit
Implementation Notes:
step (2) may be completely omitted for already well established and widely adopted standards (e.g. C, C++)
step (2) has recently been proposed as "Break something important"
Certainly not a "problem landing" and while the brakes are not usually applied until the nosewheel is grounded (else the nose comes down with a bang), the right-main wheels certainly looked like they were offering significant resistance. The nosewheel smoke does not indicate a significant crosswind or gust. I believe a gust would have had to be from starboard to port (camera side to far side) to make the aircraft slew to its right as such a gust would have pushed on the tail and pivoted the aircraft on its mains bringing the nose towards us. Does the profile of the aircraft make it more susceptible to gusts - I would have thought its mass would make it less so. The fact that we see anything at all, given the size of the aircraft, makes the event significant.
:-) )
If it was not a gust and not a braking issue it might indicate a landing geometry problem which would be significant.
While not a "problem landing" it would be nice to find out what the landing analysis was. What were the stresses on the gear during landing? Is there a problem with the automated landing system or was the pilot a little right-toe early? (Perhaps they *were* running the Microsoft Flight Simulator in "direct control mode"
Did anyone else notice the CNN video that showed the US LAX arrival earlier this week. The mains touched down and the plane aircraft slewed to the right requiring immediate (and large) correction - watch the rudder deflection. Looked like a problem with uneven braking. Both mains touched down twice, the second touch was followed by the slew. On final touchdown the left main touched fractionally first followed by the right main followed by the nosewheel. The correction was needed between the right-main touch and the nosewheel. It did not seem to be crosswind related, though that's a little difficult to tell (have to use wheel smoke etc. which is tough to gauge).
v ideo/business/2007/03/19/vo.ca.airbus.landing.cnn
Don't know if the automated systems or the pilot made the correction but with that large an aircraft there's very little room for error.
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/
Something to do with productivity - let's see...
From a Real World perspective - if there are 10% fewer vulnerabilities in an MS Windows system and they are cleared up twice as fast but Windows is used on 90% of the desktops, this still means 90% of the spam mail I get comes from Windows Zombie networks. Makes no difference to me how secure Windows is. I care about issues like these:
When will the existing Zombie networks be disabled?
When will the vulnerabilities that allow new Zombies to be created be fixed?
Windows *needs* to be more secure than all the other less pervasive platforms - trouble is it needs to be *much* more secure than them and it is nowhere near secure enough to mitigate the problems that it is continuing to cause to productivity and resource availability.
Unless you're being willfully dense because it makes insulting someone easier, it's clear that ABN Amro is not literally unaware of what Skype does or how it works. The guy in charge of keeping the network running just chose an unpretentious way of saying that he's proceeding with caution in a business where a lot of people's money is at stake and the main benefit seems to be employee enjoyment.
Not Carl Bialik!!
(Hi Shawn, nice story)
I would like to point out that those people who state that MacOS X hacking is of little interest to the hacking community because the Mac has little market presence should pay attention to the draw this challenge precipitated.
Looks like every hacker and their uncle had a go at this one. I wonder how many unique IP addresses were used to access the challenge.
"What is contained within these brackets gives me pause: [,]"
Are you a modem?
' "Suspend disbelief." Isn't that a double negative? '
OBOT... Yes but only a temporary one.
Anyone know how long it takes other manufacturers to make their jet airplanes?
I'll bet very few of those killograms parachuted in at a nice safe speed though :->
Just exclude that use in your EULA., or even better, encrypt a feature in the control mechanism of your machine so that the only way the licensee could make such a use would be in contravention of the DMCA. Then, in a masterstroke of reverse psychology, sue the sh*t out of the licensee who does invalidate your patent, forcing said licensee to go back in time and prevent the DMCA from becoming law.
Unfortunately (for the rest of the world), you don't need to do any of these things though. You don't even need to patent your device. Heck, you don't even need to actually invent it. Just wait for someone to patent a time machine and then claim that they took away your invention (by preventing you from having invented it). They just weren't quite thorough enough though, since you still have the memory of the invention, though you can't remember quite how it worked (shame). You now demand the device be returned to you, the rightful owner.
If the other inventor turns out to be a charlatan, who then turns around and discloses that his invention never actually worked, making you out to be a perjurer. Just claim that they cleverly wrecked their own invention to invalidate your case and make you out to be a lier, by their going back and changing their own timeline. Now you've got them. You can sue them for destroying your invention together with the evidence of there having been a working time machine.
A much more heinous crime against you and humanity than mere theft. You'll probably be awarded all the money they received from VCs to start their company in the first place.
Temporal Lawyers will likely, however, be the only people who will ever benefit from this whole new legal avenue. You will probably go down in the annals of infamy as the person who gave rise to this new (hated) legal profession.
Worth a statue or two though, don't you think?
In another display of stunningly insightful herd-like reporting.
One after another, the news stations pointed at the engine that had fallen into a gas station as the likely cause of the crash ignoring three rather important points (1) the engine is designed to detach under certain conditions (2) the plane is designed to fly with an engine missing and (most important) (3) the tail of the aircraft had already fallen off and was sticking out of the water a good way back.
If it wasn't for the pilot's black-box-recorded plea to the co-pilot to "stop playing with that damned rudder 'cos you're making me nauseous", we might never have known what brought the plane down and we would have had completely re-designed engines by now.
(ok... I made that last paragraph up... but the second was true (honest)).