You are bright enough to conduct an experiment such as this, yet you couldn't figure out a way to generate a fucking spark? Do the world a favor and don't reproduce, ok?
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We don't live on a static planet in a static solar system in a static etc etc etc. Things change. When will the Scientific community just admit that constants only exist in tiny frames of reference? Cripes.
I happen to work in a place where the Powers that Be are absolutely 100% clue-free when it comes to technology. Unfortunately, that same bunch of technical morons truly believe that they know IT. I'm not kidding. They will look you in the eye and lie. They will nod and act like they understand what you are saying when they don't even know what planet your words came from. I.E.,
Me: "You do know that roaming profiles and node-locked access are mutually exclusive, right?"
IT Director: "No they aren't."
Me: "Yes, they are. If you want people to be able to log in to any machine and get their same environment, you can't lock down their access to those machines."
IT Director: "Yes we can, we'll use Active Directory."
Me: "Have you tried pinging it using the machine's FQDN?"
Network Manager: "What's that?"
Me: "The Fully Qualified Domain Name."
Network Manager: "You mean the IP Address?"
Me: "You understand that a firewall is only as good as the knowledge of routing the Firewall Admin has, right?"
Network Manager and IT Director(in unison): "We're not talking about routing! We are talking about the firewall!!"
And the big Twinkie of all time:
IT Director: "You can talk about your 1's and Zero's and theory all you want, but that doesn't explain to me why DNS worked this morning and it doesn't work now!"
Me: "It is because your PC's were NEVER using DNS, they were using WINS, and the WINS server is DOWN."
IT Director: "If we were never using DNS, then how did we get to other machines by typing the names in?"
Me: "Because as I said before, the machines were using WINS."
IT Director: "You can't tell me that ALL these machines were set up WRONG!"
Me: "I'm not telling you that ALL these machines were set up wrong. Just about half of them were."
These are the kinds of people who are making decisions...
These are exactly the kinds of people who would make a programmer use Fortran simply because they heard Fortran was a powerful language. Nevermind that the project is a web based HR database...
These are the same kinds of people who would say, "Don't use Perl. Perl isn't standardized. Use Java instead."
[insert diety name] help us programmers/scripters.
Yep, sometimes I do too. Too bad the asteroids couldn't just wipe out the idiots.
On another note, if we are sending out these probes, can't we push the asteroids into the sun? Wouldn't that provide more fuel making our sun last longer? I mean, If we can get another 40 or fifty years out of the sun, then isn't it worth it?
Would they still make music, just getting money off of concerts and stuff? I know some bands would, but some of the other more popular bands, I dunno...
This would be the best thing to happen to music in a very long time. If bands were making music for the music we would get a higher quality of music than the mass produced Britney/Justin/other shit music that is being released today.
So, we have 2 choices: "eye for an eye" them, or "turn the other cheek."
If we take the "eye for an eye" approach, I can see this escalating to the point where the government will want to step in. Nope, don't like that choice...
I think the cheek-turning alternative is the way to go. We have a rare situation here: if everyone ignores this problem, it will go away. I know it sounds a bit ridiculous, but think about it...spammers send spam to make money. If it stops working, they'll stop sending spam. The reason spam keeps on truckin' is because there is a portion of our Internet using population that gives a positive response to the spammer. Stop these people and the flood of spam will recede.
99% of all species that have ever lived on this planet are extinct. Species become rare because they are unable to adapt to changes in their environment. If they can't adapt to the changes (even changes made by man) they die.
I bet you wouldn't hear one single tree-hugger crying if all the mosquitoes in the world suddenly vanished.
Just one question, though: Where do the tree-huggers live when they aren't up a tree? Do they live in special "wood-free" houses?
Life forms don't have to be sentient to kill us, e.g. virii, bacteria...
Some of the most dangerous (to humans) lifeforms are also simplistic (in comparison to humans) and cannot possibly be self-aware. We could quite possibly develop a simple life-form that wipes out all human life rather quickly. If this was not the case, countries around the world would not be dumping so much money into the development of Biological weapons.
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You are bright enough to conduct an experiment such as this, yet you couldn't figure out a way to generate a fucking spark? Do the world a favor and don't reproduce, ok?
Or can they be from the fiction world?
I think he meant "human."
If it is strong enough to charge power sources through the case, wouldn't the plate in my head cause me to be stuck to the thing?
Hmm... I don't know about you, pahdnah, but I don't want no fish fucking in my beer...
We don't live on a static planet in a static solar system in a static etc etc etc. Things change. When will the Scientific community just admit that constants only exist in tiny frames of reference? Cripes.
Febreeze your chair once in a while. Everybody's ass stinks.
I use CHALKBOARD. It rocks. Doesn't use up all my system's resources, no licensing fee, and I can share it among my friends without getting sued. :)
Me: "You do know that roaming profiles and node-locked access are mutually exclusive, right?"
IT Director: "No they aren't."
Me: "Yes, they are. If you want people to be able to log in to any machine and get their same environment, you can't lock down their access to those machines."
IT Director: "Yes we can, we'll use Active Directory."
Me: "Have you tried pinging it using the machine's FQDN?"
Network Manager: "What's that?"
Me: "The Fully Qualified Domain Name."
Network Manager: "You mean the IP Address?"
Me: "You understand that a firewall is only as good as the knowledge of routing the Firewall Admin has, right?"
Network Manager and IT Director(in unison): "We're not talking about routing! We are talking about the firewall!!"
And the big Twinkie of all time:
IT Director: "You can talk about your 1's and Zero's and theory all you want, but that doesn't explain to me why DNS worked this morning and it doesn't work now!"
Me: "It is because your PC's were NEVER using DNS, they were using WINS, and the WINS server is DOWN."
IT Director: "If we were never using DNS, then how did we get to other machines by typing the names in?"
Me: "Because as I said before, the machines were using WINS."
IT Director: "You can't tell me that ALL these machines were set up WRONG!"
Me: "I'm not telling you that ALL these machines were set up wrong. Just about half of them were."
These are the kinds of people who are making decisions...
These are exactly the kinds of people who would make a programmer use Fortran simply because they heard Fortran was a powerful language. Nevermind that the project is a web based HR database...
These are the same kinds of people who would say, "Don't use Perl. Perl isn't standardized. Use Java instead."
[insert diety name] help us programmers/scripters.
or does Dave Barry bear a striking resemblance to Katy Couric?
On another note, if we are sending out these probes, can't we push the asteroids into the sun? Wouldn't that provide more fuel making our sun last longer? I mean, If we can get another 40 or fifty years out of the sun, then isn't it worth it?
Let's wait and see how the case turns out. Perhaps the judge will also recognize the idiocy in punishing people for giving out information.
Writing the code, or giving out the code is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than USING the code to break the law.
"Welcome to [town name]! Here is your fruit basket, your laundry detergent, your book of coupons, and your block of IP addresses."
1) empty lunch box /.
2) put pc in lunch box
3) report progress on
In Japan, XBox IS a room and the controllers are garages.
Surely one misconfigured electron in as large a system as a human body would not make a difference.
On the other hand, it might just cause a rip in the space-time continuum. Great Scott!!!!
Nope, just look for "geocities" in the URL.
This would be the best thing to happen to music in a very long time. If bands were making music for the music we would get a higher quality of music than the mass produced Britney/Justin/other shit music that is being released today.
Legend of Eamon. Remember that game? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
If we take the "eye for an eye" approach, I can see this escalating to the point where the government will want to step in. Nope, don't like that choice...
I think the cheek-turning alternative is the way to go. We have a rare situation here: if everyone ignores this problem, it will go away. I know it sounds a bit ridiculous, but think about it...spammers send spam to make money. If it stops working, they'll stop sending spam. The reason spam keeps on truckin' is because there is a portion of our Internet using population that gives a positive response to the spammer. Stop these people and the flood of spam will recede.
I bet you wouldn't hear one single tree-hugger crying if all the mosquitoes in the world suddenly vanished.
Just one question, though: Where do the tree-huggers live when they aren't up a tree? Do they live in special "wood-free" houses?
No Problem.
Sorry. I read it too fast. My mistake.
Some of the most dangerous (to humans) lifeforms are also simplistic (in comparison to humans) and cannot possibly be self-aware. We could quite possibly develop a simple life-form that wipes out all human life rather quickly. If this was not the case, countries around the world would not be dumping so much money into the development of Biological weapons.
"...think, man, think..."