Google is about finding and organizing shit you want. Facebook is about the narcissistic pursuit of yourself.
The 60's was the "me" generation. The 70's was the "me me" generation. The 80's was the "me me me" generation. The 90's was the "me me me me" generation. The first decade of the 21st century is turning out to be the "it's all about me me me me me me me (keep repeating until you run out of breath) generation.
So there's being into yourself, and then there's those sick fucks on Facebook.
My mom did dictation for a neurosurgery department for more than a decade. Listening to these people's stream-of-consciousness ramblings was...terrifying. Remember, these are people who root around in your head for a living.
Doing this on a large scale, where you can apply brute-force methods (solar sails, high capacitance batteries jammed into 90% of the ship's hull, etc) is a vastly different proposition from creating a small hand-carried (or even mech carried) laser weapon that's suitable for extended environmental combat use. Plus, something that works fine in terrestrial atmospheric conditions may not work properly in the Pandoran environment (which has other things in the atmosphere that make it poisonous to humans). The effects these things have on things like beam collimation, range, and beam diffusion are big unknowns. While differences in gravity and atmosphere can affect projectile weapons too, it's usually easier to overcome problems with ballistic weaponry than it is with exotic energy weaponry.
As for slamming an orbital impactor into the tree. Sure. Lots of heat, light, and radiation. Adverse weather effects. Etc.
1: If the ships in question have the equipment to latch on to such an object. 2: If the ships in question have enough power and control to actually capture the object once they attach. Remember, pushing to relativistic speeds doesn't necessarily require vast amounts of power for instant acceleration and maneuvering. You build up to it over time so you don't turn your crew into salsa inside. 3: If the ships can capture a large enough object to survive atmospheric entry to the ground. 4: If they can plot an atmospheric path to the tree that isn't blocked by the floating mountains. 5: Ask NASA how hard it is to hit a specific point (within say 1000 yards) with a projectile from space. Especially a "dumb fire" projectile like a meteor with no guidance or course correction after release.
Realistically, about the only ship capable of latching onto a large enough impactor would be the interstellar transport ship itself. Trying to use your only ride home (in case of disaster) on a risky object-capture mission that it likely was NOT designed for is, for lack of a better term, and trying to stay diplomatic COMPLETELY BAT-SHIT STUPID!
Sorry, I'm from Illinois. Specifically the Chicagoland area.
This assmunch did jack shit for people during the time he was in office. About his greatest achievement was bringing in campaign dollars for himself like they were going out of style.
And, even for an Illinois politician (for whom corruption isn't just a word, it's a lifestyle) ex-governor Haircut was just completely beyond the pale.
Yeah, he'll probably get shipped to some country club prison (like other former government officials). But this guy doesn't deserve to be walking the streets.
Who knows. Maybe if Darth Jobs' empire pushes too hard, some of his lobotomy cult will eventually get the idea.
Don't let any of them near the CPU operations!
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Seriously. Your best bet is to stuff them into a closet someplace and forget about them. Otherwise we'll start having CPUs that take up their own cycles just so they can figure out how to take up more cycles, all the while corrupting any software run on them, cheese-grater'ing your data, and generally prohibiting you from actually USING the machine under the pretense of "entertaining" you with myriad popups, warnings, and better still complete instituting random, undocumented refusals of various portions of the OS and apps permission to run.
He's a public official being contacted BY MEMBERS OF HIS CONSTITUENCY through an e-mail account that's being subsidized by taxpayers SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of making him accessible to his constituency.
Were this his PRIVATE e-mail address, he'd have a legitimate bitch. But this isn't the case.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
YOU allowed the technician access to your router during setup. YOU allowed him to set the administrative password. YOU allowed him to set the router options such that someone could remote logon. YOU are the one who DID NOT change the password once he was done!
YOU are at fault. Verizon is merely covering YOUR ass (and, let's be honest, theirs too) because you allowed the setting of a shitty, insecure password and did JACK SHIT to change it to something more secure IN A THREE YEAR TIMESPAN!
If you didn't want Verizon, or anyone BUT YOU to get into the router, YOU SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THE FUCKING PASSWORD YOU WHINY ASSHOLE DOUCHEBAG!
But we have this even better tech coming out just a little later that sucks the doors off, steals it's dog, sleeps with its wife, empties out its bank account, and thoroughly curb-kicks it.
"they would disable some OS functionality until the ad is viewed"
Were something like this to happen on my system, I wouldn't be mad. I'd be livid! As in "get a gun, drive to Cupertino and kill everyone responsible for this".
MY machine. My screen.
You don't simply turn off parts of my OS as a goad to make me do what you want me to.
It's something for your bosses to worry about as something that takes attention away from your job. It's something that, if they know about it, can cause prospective employers to be biased against you and accept another applicant in your place, even with lesser credentials than you have.
You evidently haven't a clue what it takes to make me wrathful.
No. Merely a compliment that you had the testicular fortitude to post it under your own account name instead of AC'ing like a bunch of the pansies here would.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"And I should give a sh*t because...?"
Why did I say you should give a shit? Merely presenting you with data here. Use that data how you want (or don't use it at all).
Additionally, it's not MY perception (FYI, I'm from Chicago). And yes, as much as some people wish it weren't, it's American soil. =)
However I've worked overseas and have come up against this perception on several occasions.
Again, I'm merely making note that the condition exists. Nothing more.
If you still want to be salty, that's your own problem Mr. Internet Toughguy.
Well, at least you had the gonads to post it under your own account...
Now would you like to illuminate us as to your reasoning?
Here's mine.
I'm not saying that Americans ARE rich assholes who sleep on piles of money.
However, in a lot of less well-off countries in the world, there IS a perception that Americans (in general) have an inordinately large amount of money.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
Note my use of the term GREATER OPPORTUNITY
I didn't say that this couldn't happen in the US. Simply that there would be a slightly better chance of it being caught before hitting the consumer.
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
How the hell would they know if someone decided to pull a dick move like this? And for what they're being *COUGH*paid*COUGH*, why the hell would they even care?
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Google is about finding and organizing shit you want.
Facebook is about the narcissistic pursuit of yourself.
The 60's was the "me" generation.
The 70's was the "me me" generation.
The 80's was the "me me me" generation.
The 90's was the "me me me me" generation.
The first decade of the 21st century is turning out to be the "it's all about me me me me me me me (keep repeating until you run out of breath) generation.
So there's being into yourself, and then there's those sick fucks on Facebook.
=)
The stupid...it hurts me!
Try listening to their dictation!
My mom did dictation for a neurosurgery department for more than a decade.
Listening to these people's stream-of-consciousness ramblings was...terrifying.
Remember, these are people who root around in your head for a living.
FTL or relativistic travel vs no energy weapons.
Doing this on a large scale, where you can apply brute-force methods (solar sails, high capacitance batteries jammed into 90% of the ship's hull, etc) is a vastly different proposition from creating a small hand-carried (or even mech carried) laser weapon that's suitable for extended environmental combat use. Plus, something that works fine in terrestrial atmospheric conditions may not work properly in the Pandoran environment (which has other things in the atmosphere that make it poisonous to humans). The effects these things have on things like beam collimation, range, and beam diffusion are big unknowns. While differences in gravity and atmosphere can affect projectile weapons too, it's usually easier to overcome problems with ballistic weaponry than it is with exotic energy weaponry.
As for slamming an orbital impactor into the tree. Sure. Lots of heat, light, and radiation. Adverse weather effects. Etc.
1: If the ships in question have the equipment to latch on to such an object.
2: If the ships in question have enough power and control to actually capture the object once they attach. Remember, pushing to relativistic speeds doesn't necessarily require vast amounts of power for instant acceleration and maneuvering. You build up to it over time so you don't turn your crew into salsa inside.
3: If the ships can capture a large enough object to survive atmospheric entry to the ground.
4: If they can plot an atmospheric path to the tree that isn't blocked by the floating mountains.
5: Ask NASA how hard it is to hit a specific point (within say 1000 yards) with a projectile from space. Especially a "dumb fire" projectile like a meteor with no guidance or course correction after release.
Realistically, about the only ship capable of latching onto a large enough impactor would be the interstellar transport ship itself. Trying to use your only ride home (in case of disaster) on a risky object-capture mission that it likely was NOT designed for is, for lack of a better term, and trying to stay diplomatic COMPLETELY BAT-SHIT STUPID!
Good old EA "If it's not Madden, it's a waste of money and we'll shut it down eventually" Games.
I stopped listening to anything they said years ago.
Sorry, I'm from Illinois. Specifically the Chicagoland area.
This assmunch did jack shit for people during the time he was in office.
About his greatest achievement was bringing in campaign dollars for himself like they were going out of style.
And, even for an Illinois politician (for whom corruption isn't just a word, it's a lifestyle) ex-governor Haircut was just completely beyond the pale.
Yeah, he'll probably get shipped to some country club prison (like other former government officials). But this guy doesn't deserve to be walking the streets.
Who knows. Maybe if Darth Jobs' empire pushes too hard, some of his lobotomy cult will eventually get the idea.
Seriously. Your best bet is to stuff them into a closet someplace and forget about them.
Otherwise we'll start having CPUs that take up their own cycles just so they can figure out how to take up more cycles, all the while corrupting any software run on them, cheese-grater'ing your data, and generally prohibiting you from actually USING the machine under the pretense of "entertaining" you with myriad popups, warnings, and better still complete instituting random, undocumented refusals of various portions of the OS and apps permission to run.
I've spent time cleaning up systems infected (yes, infected) due to MJ's mandatory advertising.
Having an attacker exploit an ad system is something all advertising networks have to deal with at one time or another.
Magic Jack is simply much less stringent about their requirements and have almost no followup
As such, Magic Jack may as well be classified a trojan.
I won't say that I wouldn't install their software if you paid me.
Fact is, I would, if the sum was large enough.
VMs are cheap afterall.
Don't post anything on the internet you wouldn't feel comfortable showing or demonstrating to a police officer, your parents, your priest, etc.
This is a serious "my pussy hurts" moment.
He's a public official being contacted BY MEMBERS OF HIS CONSTITUENCY through an e-mail account that's being subsidized by taxpayers SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of making him accessible to his constituency.
Were this his PRIVATE e-mail address, he'd have a legitimate bitch. But this isn't the case.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
YOU allowed the technician access to your router during setup.
YOU allowed him to set the administrative password.
YOU allowed him to set the router options such that someone could remote logon.
YOU are the one who DID NOT change the password once he was done!
YOU are at fault.
Verizon is merely covering YOUR ass (and, let's be honest, theirs too) because you allowed the setting of a shitty, insecure password and did JACK SHIT to change it to something more secure IN A THREE YEAR TIMESPAN!
If you didn't want Verizon, or anyone BUT YOU to get into the router, YOU SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THE FUCKING PASSWORD YOU WHINY ASSHOLE DOUCHEBAG!
What a marvelous way to run the company into the ground.
*External Success A*
MUST FOLLOW! MUST FOLLOW! MUST FOLLOW!
*External Success B*
Abandon plan A! MUST FOLLOW! MUST FOLLOW! MUST FOLLOW!
*External Success C*
Abandon plan B! MUST FOLLOW!...
You get the idea.
So Microsoft becomes the a dog with it's nose permanently shoved up other people's asses.
Great!
Microsoft wasn't all that innovative before. But this is points out that the company has come to a dead stop on the innovation front.
Just kinda underwhelming?
Maybe I've become a relic, but I don't enjoy reading for long periods of time on a screen.
If I do, I want a book, or at least, a printout.
Yeah! We've got this great new tech.
But we have this even better tech coming out just a little later that sucks the doors off, steals it's dog, sleeps with its wife, empties out its bank account, and thoroughly curb-kicks it.
But buy the crappier neat new stuff now!
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Like I said...
Maybe their testing isn't, exactly, "exhaustive".
But I want that mutation in the "rage center" of my brain!
The ideas is I turn into this huge green, angry thing (currently all I'm lacking is the green pigmentation).
Then it's BULK SMASH!
"they would disable some OS functionality until the ad is viewed"
Were something like this to happen on my system, I wouldn't be mad.
I'd be livid! As in "get a gun, drive to Cupertino and kill everyone responsible for this".
MY machine.
My screen.
You don't simply turn off parts of my OS as a goad to make me do what you want me to.
It's something for your bosses to worry about as something that takes attention away from your job.
It's something that, if they know about it, can cause prospective employers to be biased against you and accept another applicant in your place, even with lesser credentials than you have.
And the employment experience funny?
My almighty wrath?
Pfft!
You evidently haven't a clue what it takes to make me wrathful.
No. Merely a compliment that you had the testicular fortitude to post it under your own account name instead of AC'ing like a bunch of the pansies here would.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"And I should give a sh*t because...?"
Why did I say you should give a shit? Merely presenting you with data here. Use that data how you want (or don't use it at all).
Additionally, it's not MY perception (FYI, I'm from Chicago).
And yes, as much as some people wish it weren't, it's American soil. =)
However I've worked overseas and have come up against this perception on several occasions.
Again, I'm merely making note that the condition exists. Nothing more.
If you still want to be salty, that's your own problem Mr. Internet Toughguy.
Well, at least you had the gonads to post it under your own account...
Now would you like to illuminate us as to your reasoning?
Here's mine.
I'm not saying that Americans ARE rich assholes who sleep on piles of money.
However, in a lot of less well-off countries in the world, there IS a perception that Americans (in general) have an inordinately large amount of money.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
Note my use of the term GREATER OPPORTUNITY
I didn't say that this couldn't happen in the US. Simply that there would be a slightly better chance of it being caught before hitting the consumer.
"Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they age,"
If I get burned to death by Johnathan Winters I'm going to be PISSED!
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
How the hell would they know if someone decided to pull a dick move like this?
And for what they're being *COUGH*paid*COUGH*, why the hell would they even care?