Well, on its own the chip's explosion would almost certainly not be life-threatening. However, you could theoretically use this as a catalyst to detonate a high-order explosive.
Your laptops should be safe on airlines, folks. Pretty much the only way to make this dangerous would be to wrap a brick of Semtex around it (which the airports already have sniffer-dogs to detect), or build a chip so large that it releases enough energy to do serious damage. Explaining a laptop the size of a blackboard would be difficult, I think.
"No really, it's for doing some serious number-crunching..."
Here at UPS we've got a small-package sorting system (project: Bullfrog), and the DCOR (Digital Camera Optical Readers) that acquires all package-tracking data from the shipping labels runs on embedded Linux. Of course, that's all that's running on Linux at the hub/center level...except for my rogue Red Hat box.
This raises a lot of concerns with me about the sanctity of off-the-record conversations in legal proceedings. How can one side ensure that the conversation they're having in "virtual chambers" with the judge and the opposing counsel is not being recorded?
Don't get me started on man-in-the-middle attacks...
Read your post and it was considerably below average. I didn't hate the post, but I certainly hate you more as a person now.
Capitalization-wise, I was disappointed that you couldn't seem to figure out the proper usage of capitals (or uncials, for that matter). I guess you had a cutback of intelligence since you started huffing paint thinner.
The rest of your post ranged from "piss-poor" to "absolutely fucking abysmal." I'm guessing that you had an encephalitic four-year-old proofread the text, which explains why you have unnecessary ellipses and seem to end every other sentence (and/or sentence fragment) with two periods. Honestly, what the living fuck is that?
I'm still trying to figure out your contribution to the human race (and the fact that you generate carbon dioxide doesn't count).
Your subject-verb agreement was poor. The fact that you started your "review," and I use that term loosely, with a past participle verb and an implied subject of "I" (as in I seen) was more than just jarring grammatically, it was the sort of thing I would expect to encounter more on a NASCAR weblog. (By the way, did you happen to notice how I capitalized the acronym NASCAR, but not just any random words? I felt I should point that out to you again.)
Proper separation of coherent thoughts into paragraphs? Don't get me started.
For years, you've had the technology (in the form of remedial English textbooks) to remedy your own lexicographical deficiencies, but (or yet -- never, under any circumstances, "but yet") you can't find your own ass with both hands and a map. Jesus Christ.
Oh, well. I guess you could have written a worse post than this. Assuming, for a moment, that you were a blind, deaf, autistic chimpanzee with a heroin problem.
The initial idea you had was "good," in the same sense that Hitler's idea of making the trains run on time was "good," but it looks like you're too incompetent to string a group of letters into something that is internally consistent and grammatically correct. Basically, most of your post is useless prattle that will add nothing to anybody's existence.
However (because it's generally bad form to start a sentence, much less a paragraph, with a conjunction), I'll be glad when you decide to kill yourself. Clean or messy, your suicide will do nothing but improve our planet. With a bit more work (and a little forethought), your suicide might even make it onto the evening news. Try to choke to death while attempting to fellate yourself.
The US think they are the "world police" and can shape the world just like they want it.
To paraphrase a stand-up comedian I heard once:
Other nations call the US "police" and "bullies." That's not quite true. A bully beats you up and takes your money. We give you money,
then we beat you up. We're the mob.
"This is a nice fsckin' country you've got here. You might want to think about paying Sammy back, y'know? I'm not sayin' anything's gonna happen...sometimes bridges just explode on their own."
<flame>
And for that matter, so what if the US wants to shape the rest of the world in its own image? That's traditionally been the right of the victor in any competition for cultural superiority. Rome had it; the Greeks had it; the Brits had it. Simply because the US is only a de facto empire and not de jure, that doesn't mean that we haven't earned the right to do some nation-building.
I can hear your snivelling, silly reply already: "Who says your system is any better than ours?" We do. The 280 million citizens of the best nation on earth, governed by the best system devised yet -- representative democracy. The day we told Triple George to go pound sand was the first step towards achieving that right. November 9, 1989 sealed it when we all heard the death-rattle of our other competitor for cultural supremacy. Now Marxist-Leninism has been consigned to history's fetid dung heap and we can all rejoice that the better of the two systems did indeed triumph.
I do not support mr.Laden [sic] nor mr.Bush [sic].
Congratulations on your neutrality. Ever heard the old axiom, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"?
Oh, wait. I guess it does. Anyway, stand by for the incoming "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." jokes. I'm going to huddle in a corner now, trying to figure out how to get my outdoor Christmas lights up on my RH server.
Good point -- I just wrote "rampaging cyborg" into my Disaster Recovery plans. It's right after "alien invasion" (Use the PowerBook[TM] to defeat them) and right before "irradiated lizard-beast" (Send in the paleontologist). Here's hoping the suits sign off.
January, 2002. Steve Ballmer steps up to a podium, looking calm and collected under the harsh glare of the TV reporters' klieg lights.
Ballmer: As most patriotic, god-fearing, apple-pie-eating Americans know, Microsoft Office XP is simply the best office productivity package ever created...
Ballmer continues for sometime, raving about how "easy" OXP is for everyone from granny e-mailing her fruitcake recipes, all the way up to super-powered website developers (who all use FrontPage or MS Word, natch). As he drones on, a crazy look begins to develop in his eyes.
Ballmer: Now that Office XP is the best -- and best-selling -- office suite in human history, we've been asked by the makers of other, "non-standard" operating systems to produce versions that their customers can use. We've decided to do so, but that will mean hiring more...
Ballmer begins to scream, spittle flying everywhere, and gigantic sweat-stains appearing in the armpits of his shirt.
From what I've read, "fat netting" was used quite a bit on Shatner's TOS as well, to keep him looking slender in all those shirtless, I'm-about-to-fight-this-blue-alien-to-the-death shots.
I have nothing to back this up but anecdotal evidence, but[...]
And that's the problem. I'm currently sitting in the Northern Plains district hub, in the Technology Support Group office. My door is ~10 feet away from the first of the loading doors in our hub, and there's nobody in here deliberately trying to destroy packages.
I'm here for twilight and midnight sorts, and although you are correct in that our particular hub has less volume on midnight sort, there isn't a single sorter, loader, or unloader who's got so much spare time (or is so angry) that he or she is crushing boxes because they say "Fragile."
I'll allow that I'm not constantly observing each individual. However, I'm not management, and I'm actually in the hub ~65% of my night, working on various problems. You would assume that in the approximately 1352 hours I spent in the hub over the last year, I would have observed, at least in passing, some of the behavior which you describe. Strangely enough, I haven't.
As for the theft, UPS takes its integrity very seriously. We had one individual who was using his position to ship packages fraudulently; when this was discovered (the company is scrupulous about its accounting), he not only lost his job, but civil charges were filed against him to recover the money he stole from the company. Criminal charges have been filed against individuals who have stolen package contents, and UPS security offers a $5,000 "stoolie reward" to anyone who presents information or evidence of another individual's theft.
To make a long story short (too late), all you've done is take a few facts (the package cars and feeder trailers get hot in the summer, certain shippers send large volumes on the same route constantly) and string them together to draw conclusions which have no empirical fact to back them up. Sounds like FUD to me.
I can't remember the exact quote, but the commandant of the military academy to which Bart is exiled says something like the following at commencement:
Wars of the future will be fought by very, very small robots. As we look to that future, your purpose is clear: to clean and maintain those robots.
Frankly, I say screw the DoD. I want a legion of killbots to do my dark and nefarious bidding. And frankly, bringing this back on-topic, I'm pretty sure that if the robot ran amok and started killing human beings, all we'd have to do is disassemble him and give his pieces to a five-year-old. The kid will convert the parts into a cute little Lego house, and that's that.
Of course, if the Lego house ran amok and started killing people, then I'd start to get worried...
Am I the only one who remembers where this will go? Check Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and remember -- in the future, you'll have to sit reeeeeaaaaally still to keep your PC from reformatting itself.
Not necessarily, unless your Piggly Wiggly or GigaPlex 50 theater can be manipulated to such an extent that everyone using them is plunged to a fiery death. In which case, yeah, I'd kind of like to know if Grandma over there is buying rutabagas, or about to kill all her fellow customers.
If you notice the UFP registration number of Enterprise NX-01, that's the designator for an experimental naval contract. It's not considered a legitimate member of the fleet until it has a valid Naval Construction Contract (hence the NCC). So, technically, NCC-1701E is the sixth starship to bear the name.
Microsoft has made about a million stupid moves in the past (e.g., vowing to drop lower-cost "upgrade" editions of software so all users will be forced to pay full price), and every time, somebody on/. says, "This is it -- it's finally the straw that will break the camel's back and move the world to GPL'ed software!" Everyone who believes that, just hold your breath, 'K?
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it's cool that I log into websotes,my computer and open my front door with the one in my ring!
One Ring to login to them all,
One Ring to unlock them,
One Ring to vaporize them all,
And with the explosion shock them.
Well, on its own the chip's explosion would almost certainly not be life-threatening. However, you could theoretically use this as a catalyst to detonate a high-order explosive.
Your laptops should be safe on airlines, folks. Pretty much the only way to make this dangerous would be to wrap a brick of Semtex around it (which the airports already have sniffer-dogs to detect), or build a chip so large that it releases enough energy to do serious damage. Explaining a laptop the size of a blackboard would be difficult, I think.
"No really, it's for doing some serious number-crunching..."
Here at UPS we've got a small-package sorting system (project: Bullfrog), and the DCOR (Digital Camera Optical Readers) that acquires all package-tracking data from the shipping labels runs on embedded Linux. Of course, that's all that's running on Linux at the hub/center level...except for my rogue Red Hat box.
This raises a lot of concerns with me about the sanctity of off-the-record conversations in legal proceedings. How can one side ensure that the conversation they're having in "virtual chambers" with the judge and the opposing counsel is not being recorded?
Don't get me started on man-in-the-middle attacks...
Just my $0.45 (it would have been $0.02, but Microsoft stuffed my PayPal account).
There is no MicrosoftWorld.
Look out the window.
/me holds his head in his hands and weeps quietly.
Read your post and it was considerably below average. I didn't hate the post, but I certainly hate you more as a person now.
Capitalization-wise, I was disappointed that you couldn't seem to figure out the proper usage of capitals (or uncials, for that matter). I guess you had a cutback of intelligence since you started huffing paint thinner.
The rest of your post ranged from "piss-poor" to "absolutely fucking abysmal." I'm guessing that you had an encephalitic four-year-old proofread the text, which explains why you have unnecessary ellipses and seem to end every other sentence (and/or sentence fragment) with two periods. Honestly, what the living fuck is that?
I'm still trying to figure out your contribution to the human race (and the fact that you generate carbon dioxide doesn't count).
Your subject-verb agreement was poor. The fact that you started your "review," and I use that term loosely, with a past participle verb and an implied subject of "I" (as in I seen) was more than just jarring grammatically, it was the sort of thing I would expect to encounter more on a NASCAR weblog. (By the way, did you happen to notice how I capitalized the acronym NASCAR, but not just any random words? I felt I should point that out to you again.)
Proper separation of coherent thoughts into paragraphs? Don't get me started.
For years, you've had the technology (in the form of remedial English textbooks) to remedy your own lexicographical deficiencies, but (or yet -- never, under any circumstances, "but yet") you can't find your own ass with both hands and a map. Jesus Christ.
Oh, well. I guess you could have written a worse post than this. Assuming, for a moment, that you were a blind, deaf, autistic chimpanzee with a heroin problem.
The initial idea you had was "good," in the same sense that Hitler's idea of making the trains run on time was "good," but it looks like you're too incompetent to string a group of letters into something that is internally consistent and grammatically correct. Basically, most of your post is useless prattle that will add nothing to anybody's existence.
However (because it's generally bad form to start a sentence, much less a paragraph, with a conjunction), I'll be glad when you decide to kill yourself. Clean or messy, your suicide will do nothing but improve our planet. With a bit more work (and a little forethought), your suicide might even make it onto the evening news. Try to choke to death while attempting to fellate yourself.
The US think they are the "world police" and can shape the world just like they want it.
To paraphrase a stand-up comedian I heard once:
<flame>
And for that matter, so what if the US wants to shape the rest of the world in its own image? That's traditionally been the right of the victor in any competition for cultural superiority. Rome had it; the Greeks had it; the Brits had it. Simply because the US is only a de facto empire and not de jure, that doesn't mean that we haven't earned the right to do some nation-building.
I can hear your snivelling, silly reply already: "Who says your system is any better than ours?" We do. The 280 million citizens of the best nation on earth, governed by the best system devised yet -- representative democracy. The day we told Triple George to go pound sand was the first step towards achieving that right. November 9, 1989 sealed it when we all heard the death-rattle of our other competitor for cultural supremacy. Now Marxist-Leninism has been consigned to history's fetid dung heap and we can all rejoice that the better of the two systems did indeed triumph.
I do not support mr.Laden [sic] nor mr.Bush [sic].
Congratulations on your neutrality. Ever heard the old axiom, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"?
</flame>
There is no Lumber Cartel.
I don't know what software package they used.
IIRC, it was Video Toaster. I seem to remember seeing that in the B5 credits one of the ~5 times I watched an episode.
Will Earthlink be liable for the sudden cluster of nine-headed babies in the Atlanta area? Or will these kids be autistic too?
WTF? This article has been up for how long with no Sunken Kursk comments? Frankly, I'm shocked.
Time to bunker down and prepare for a guided karma hit. No stealth technology to save my ass now...
Yeah, but does it run...
Oh, wait. I guess it does. Anyway, stand by for the incoming "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." jokes. I'm going to huddle in a corner now, trying to figure out how to get my outdoor Christmas lights up on my RH server.
What is the first principle of engineering psychology (or interface design if I prefer)?
The first principle of engineering psychology is you do NOT talk about engineering psychology!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled trolls, crapfloods, and holy wars. That is all.
Good point -- I just wrote "rampaging cyborg" into my Disaster Recovery plans. It's right after "alien invasion" (Use the PowerBook[TM] to defeat them) and right before "irradiated lizard-beast" (Send in the paleontologist). Here's hoping the suits sign off.
January, 2002. Steve Ballmer steps up to a podium, looking calm and collected under the harsh glare of the TV reporters' klieg lights.
Ballmer: As most patriotic, god-fearing, apple-pie-eating Americans know, Microsoft Office XP is simply the best office productivity package ever created...
Ballmer continues for sometime, raving about how "easy" OXP is for everyone from granny e-mailing her fruitcake recipes, all the way up to super-powered website developers (who all use FrontPage or MS Word, natch). As he drones on, a crazy look begins to develop in his eyes.
Ballmer: Now that Office XP is the best -- and best-selling -- office suite in human history, we've been asked by the makers of other, "non-standard" operating systems to produce versions that their customers can use. We've decided to do so, but that will mean hiring more...
Ballmer begins to scream, spittle flying everywhere, and gigantic sweat-stains appearing in the armpits of his shirt.
Ballmer: Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
Ballmer collapses in a heap, twitching and muttering.
From what I've read, "fat netting" was used quite a bit on Shatner's TOS as well, to keep him looking slender in all those shirtless, I'm-about-to-fight-this-blue-alien-to-the-death shots.
And that's the problem. I'm currently sitting in the Northern Plains district hub, in the Technology Support Group office. My door is ~10 feet away from the first of the loading doors in our hub, and there's nobody in here deliberately trying to destroy packages.
I'm here for twilight and midnight sorts, and although you are correct in that our particular hub has less volume on midnight sort, there isn't a single sorter, loader, or unloader who's got so much spare time (or is so angry) that he or she is crushing boxes because they say "Fragile."
I'll allow that I'm not constantly observing each individual. However, I'm not management, and I'm actually in the hub ~65% of my night, working on various problems. You would assume that in the approximately 1352 hours I spent in the hub over the last year, I would have observed, at least in passing, some of the behavior which you describe. Strangely enough, I haven't.
As for the theft, UPS takes its integrity very seriously. We had one individual who was using his position to ship packages fraudulently; when this was discovered (the company is scrupulous about its accounting), he not only lost his job, but civil charges were filed against him to recover the money he stole from the company. Criminal charges have been filed against individuals who have stolen package contents, and UPS security offers a $5,000 "stoolie reward" to anyone who presents information or evidence of another individual's theft.
To make a long story short (too late), all you've done is take a few facts (the package cars and feeder trailers get hot in the summer, certain shippers send large volumes on the same route constantly) and string them together to draw conclusions which have no empirical fact to back them up. Sounds like FUD to me.
Frankly, I say screw the DoD. I want a legion of killbots to do my dark and nefarious bidding. And frankly, bringing this back on-topic, I'm pretty sure that if the robot ran amok and started killing human beings, all we'd have to do is disassemble him and give his pieces to a five-year-old. The kid will convert the parts into a cute little Lego house, and that's that.
Of course, if the Lego house ran amok and started killing people, then I'd start to get worried...
Schweet! WilSim 4.7 passed the Turing Test! We'll start the marketing campaign next week.
And I thought people used AOL because it's easier for them to find vast quantities of low-quality pr0n...
Am I the only one who remembers where this will go? Check Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and remember -- in the future, you'll have to sit reeeeeaaaaally still to keep your PC from reformatting itself.
Not necessarily, unless your Piggly Wiggly or GigaPlex 50 theater can be manipulated to such an extent that everyone using them is plunged to a fiery death. In which case, yeah, I'd kind of like to know if Grandma over there is buying rutabagas, or about to kill all her fellow customers.
If you notice the UFP registration number of Enterprise NX-01, that's the designator for an experimental naval contract. It's not considered a legitimate member of the fleet until it has a valid Naval Construction Contract (hence the NCC). So, technically, NCC-1701E is the sixth starship to bear the name.
Microsoft has made about a million stupid moves in the past (e.g., vowing to drop lower-cost "upgrade" editions of software so all users will be forced to pay full price), and every time, somebody on /. says, "This is it -- it's finally the straw that will break the camel's back and move the world to GPL'ed software!" Everyone who believes that, just hold your breath, 'K?
It's also cromulent, and I feel rather embiggened by the sentence as a whole. Of course, I probably just violated Matt Groening's EULA...sorry.