Unix scripts always take the cake. They have login/pw hardcoded into them to perform automated admin tasks. Then of course they get backed up, printed out, shared, etc. A nice big security leak.
"Introverts are deviants just like extroverts are."
If we are one or the other then what you are saying is that we are all deviants. But if a "deviant" is defined as one who deviates from the norm then what is the norm?
You can't automatically apply this to a alien life form that is very likely to be biologically, environmentally, technologically, and evolutionarily 100% distinct from us. That is huge leap of logic. You might as well assume that crabs like to eat the same food you do.
That doesn't automatically lead to malicious behavior. If they are very advanced they may have lost any need to feel powerful just as (most) people give up childish behavior as they grow up.
Your arguement assumes that aliens would even think like us and be emotionally driven by the same motivations, if they even had anything resembling our emotions. Our desire to be malicious is driven by a need to feel powerful, there is no reason to assume they'd have any such need.
I have this thumb drive and it is very fast. The only catch here is that those transfer rates only apply to the Jetflash 2gb model. The 512k model is about half as fast. The OCZ drive seems to be the fastest for 512k drives. I just want to know why OCZ short-changes you on utility software for it.
I noticed in AnandTech's USB roundup that they compared against the Jetflash 512K model, not the 2gb. They also tested the OCZ 512k "Rally" drive and it was much slower than the numbers quoted in the/. article but this may be a new model.
Sell him some "special" 00 grit sandpaper and tell him to scrub the labels off of his cds with it. Tell him that it'll make the cd lighter and the sound "clearer".
Make sure you get a good headstart before he destroys his cd collection.
I think he meant his neighbor's wife. Either that or he has a voyeur fantasy fetish. "Com'on honey, pretend you're taking a shower at the Y...oooh yah!"
Please format your code so it is easy to read! I've worked with people who edit code in notepad and never indent or use capitalization consistantly. I spend half my time trying to identify big loop begins/ends and if-then blocks when working with other people's code.
1. New military gizmo is invented 2. Inventor deploys it. If others are impressed it goes on to... 3. Other armies copy it sooner or later 4. Armies decide to add it to their "arms for sale" lists 5. If product can be hand-held it drops in price and works it's way down to paramilitaries, rebel groups, etc 6. Inventor now must invent countermeasure to it's own invention
I used to work at a DOD lab. I always thought it was ironic how they went through so much effort to build these systems and devices and then had to immediately figure out a countermeasure to their own invention.
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Unix scripts always take the cake. They have login/pw hardcoded into them to perform automated admin tasks. Then of course they get backed up, printed out, shared, etc. A nice big security leak.
"Introverts are deviants just like extroverts are."
If we are one or the other then what you are saying is that we are all deviants. But if a "deviant" is defined as one who deviates from the norm then what is the norm?
"Extroverts would make a good artist"
I don't think you can pin artists down so easily. I doubt Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh would have been described as extroverts.
Sorry if my comments have offended anyone in the past. It was genetic.
I just bought about $2000 of computer parts Monday. Now I read this. I'm a pawn!
"Our own civilization"
You can't automatically apply this to a alien life form that is very likely to be biologically, environmentally, technologically, and evolutionarily 100% distinct from us. That is huge leap of logic. You might as well assume that crabs like to eat the same food you do.
"Have you ever left the confines of your mother's basement?"
I guess you've proved your own point when it comes to childish behavior.
That doesn't automatically lead to malicious behavior. If they are very advanced they may have lost any need to feel powerful just as (most) people give up childish behavior as they grow up.
Your arguement assumes that aliens would even think like us and be emotionally driven by the same motivations, if they even had anything resembling our emotions. Our desire to be malicious is driven by a need to feel powerful, there is no reason to assume they'd have any such need.
Forget that, connect both of them up and run them in raid 0!
I have this thumb drive and it is very fast. The only catch here is that those transfer rates only apply to the Jetflash 2gb model. The 512k model is about half as fast. The OCZ drive seems to be the fastest for 512k drives. I just want to know why OCZ short-changes you on utility software for it.
/. article but this may be a new model.
I noticed in AnandTech's USB roundup that they compared against the Jetflash 512K model, not the 2gb. They also tested the OCZ 512k "Rally" drive and it was much slower than the numbers quoted in the
No, you are thinking of Catholic bears.
Sell him some "special" 00 grit sandpaper and tell him to scrub the labels off of his cds with it. Tell him that it'll make the cd lighter and the sound "clearer".
Make sure you get a good headstart before he destroys his cd collection.
I think he meant his neighbor's wife. Either that or he has a voyeur fantasy fetish. "Com'on honey, pretend you're taking a shower at the Y...oooh yah!"
You should NEVER assist the very smart because they will then just open secret labs and look for kyrptonite or bring the dead back to life.
So, will they have to build mirrors for the people who will now be in the shadow of the 1st mirrors?
I don't know if having fearless soldiers is a good thing in the age of machine guns. Just look at WWI to see what the results would be.
"Why, my man, I am ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
- General John Sedgwick
(Killed by a sharpshooter at that distance, near Spotsylvania, 1864)
I just want to "Make money fast! It really works!"
Great, now I'm scared to see how much time I've wasted going through comments on Slashdot.
Please format your code so it is easy to read! I've worked with people who edit code in notepad and never indent or use capitalization consistantly. I spend half my time trying to identify big loop begins/ends and if-then blocks when working with other people's code.
Sadly, all of the new Sun CPUs are made out of wood.
Hats shmats, this does NOTHING about the microphones the aliens hide in your fillings and the wires up the back of your nose.
Looks like there are more than a few suckers born every minute.
"There are no natural monopolies."
Really? So if diamonds weren't found outside of South Africa you wouldn't consider that a natural monopoly?
New military gadgets? Here we go...
1. New military gizmo is invented
2. Inventor deploys it. If others are impressed it goes on to...
3. Other armies copy it sooner or later
4. Armies decide to add it to their "arms for sale" lists
5. If product can be hand-held it drops in price and works it's way down to paramilitaries, rebel groups, etc
6. Inventor now must invent countermeasure to it's own invention
I used to work at a DOD lab. I always thought it was ironic how they went through so much effort to build these systems and devices and then had to immediately figure out a countermeasure to their own invention.