And of course if you wanted some real old time badness there was Bonzi Buddy, also known as "Kill that GODDAMNED MONKEY DEAD!!" and Geocities with the ever popular "WTF? Why is there a pocketwatch hanging off my mouse like a ball of snot and who thought pink OMG Ponies! text on a lime green background with sparkles and GIFs was tasteful?" and of course MSFT Bob, an OS made for the clueless that needed a fricking gamer rig just to run and spawned the electronic son of Satan known as Clippy.
It looks like you're writing a Slashdot flame.
Would you like help?
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture from our
underwater robotic camera, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The
Titanic has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a
master race of iron eating bacteria. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will merely digest the sunken ship or
enslave us all. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them;
Halomonas titanicae will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our
new rusty bacterial overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot
moderator, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their
underwater metal caves.
Now I know where I am. This is Slashdot (say it like King Leonitus and kick something if you need to). It's nothing to be ashamed of, but Slashdotters have a problem. After seeing the ten millionth repetition of "in Soviet Russia" or "sharks with lasers" and modding it up to +5 Funny for the 9 trillionth time, they have a very hard time admitting when something has gotten old and it's time to move on. (Someone is tempted to reply with one of those memes thinking "hah, that'll fix him, he'll NEVER see this coming!")
I for one welcome our karma-whoring +5 Funny comedian stratospheric critics!
Robin is 22 and leaves the house for work at Quick Burger at 3:30 PM.
Jack leaves school at 2:30 carrying a laptop and 2 math books,
and arrives at home for study at 3:15. He stops on the way to
get a burger and pays 99 cents plus tax. If Robin rings up 78
burgers each hour, and Jack spends 6 years in college, how many
employees will be affected Jack's analysis when he's the
Operations Research consultant for Quick Burger Corp?
ADDITIONAL BONUS: Would Jack like fries with that?
1. A high-tech anechoic chamber shaped like a transparent bubble?
2. A plastic deco gimmick?
3. How about a boy scout with a transistor radio and earphones?
"And God was like 'Moses, dude, you totally need to kill your son.' And Moses was all "WTF?" but then he goes "Meh, F it." So God's all "LOL, dude you were totally gonna do it. I pranked you good!'"
Another version of the Bible, created right here on Slashdot before our very eyes!
The universe is not a computer problem. The universe is also not a computational device. There's a gaping hole in your argument - the difference between == (equivalency) and === (identity), just as the picture is not the thing.
I also find it hard to believe, with 10% unemployment, they can't find engineers/software people who are desperate for jobs.
National unemployment for Americans with a bachelor degree or higher is currently 4.6%. Certainly there are plenty of unemployed engineers/software people out there, but not as many as you might expect.
As for the publisher, shame on them. "Collaborator" is the proper term. They should let the people know, via the liberated press, what is really going on behind closed doors. Just as the publishers did during the Watergate or McCarthy scandals.
Why should an American necessarily want to let "people" know what is going on behind closed doors? Why should they not want to "collaborate" with their military for the sake of their own security? Why do you assume that all military secrets are scandals?
Unlike in some other countries (such as the U.K.), the U.S. does not have a "state secrets act" that prevents citizens from revealing secrets. (If you are working for the government and have signed an agreement not to reveal things, which is what happens when you get a security clearance, that's a different matter.) Unlike people in other countries, we the people are free to publish secrets. What's going on in this story is the decision not to reveal secrets to our enemies. Why don't you think that makes sense?
However, absolute random noise on a disk isn't all that usual,
Actually, nowadays, it's extremely unusual. Blocks are all zero'd from the factory, and anything you save over them that's later marked free will almost certainly be far from random. (like pieces of pictures, documents, applications, etc)
How about using stenography on those fragments, marking them as not deleted, and keeping the indexing in some regular JPEGs. (In other words, a file system layered over the deleted files. When a file is deleted normally, the steno-fragment daemon picks it up and adds it to the stenographic free space.)
Ever since the last system update from Apple, none of my Macs (laptops or desktops) have been able to run various graphics programs without crashing. It would crash the entire windowserver process, killing the desktop and all running apps!
This latest update for graphics has fixed that bug.
I notice that Apple never seems to have acknowledged the bug, despite people screaming in the support forums, and that the System Update doesn't mention that it's obtw fixing a total showstopper that has plagued many users for the last 6 weeks on all platforms - nothing to do with the games cited.
An uninsulated space suit in a vacuum wouldn't feel very cold on the inside as long as the suit doesn't touch anything on the outside.
What were the physics involved in the Apollo 13 mission when they were getting very cold after turning off the heaters in the spacecraft, using the LEM as a lifeboat?
Given the astoundingly nonsensicalness of what the FBI seems to have done, here's my theory.
Some moron who works for the FBI woke up the other morning and got upset from hearing about the recent Wikileaks news. Not knowing what "wiki" is, he decided that Wikipedia and Wikileaks are the same thing, or in league with each other. Certainly it's a bunch of commie "freedom" and "open" somethingorother, probably influenced by shady people, hippies, and foreign powers. Why, did you know that people from all over the world can just write whatever they want on Wikipedia? And now it's compromising our national security! Well, I don't quite understand what's holding up the other agencies from getting to the bottom of this Wikipedia crap, but we're the god damned FBI and we will show some initiative. Let's go fuck with these Wikipedia people. Now, let's see if we can find something prima facie we can get them for. Aha! They have a web page with our logo on it!
"Self service" obviously doesn't count. If it did then dogs, and not man, would be running the world...
You mean the dogs who we take into our warm houses, give them a nice place to sleep, feed them, wash them, walk around after them and pick up their poop for them, and tell them "Go lay down now! Good dog!"
I for one welcome our pampered canine overlords...
You know those cheap tiny "locks" that come with so many little boxes or other devices? The ones that all have the same key? Would you consider using those to lock anything important up? I'm guessing you wouldn't.
Absolutely! Well, maybe it would be sufficient for, like, an ATM...
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And of course if you wanted some real old time badness there was Bonzi Buddy, also known as "Kill that GODDAMNED MONKEY DEAD!!" and Geocities with the ever popular "WTF? Why is there a pocketwatch hanging off my mouse like a ball of snot and who thought pink OMG Ponies! text on a lime green background with sparkles and GIFs was tasteful?" and of course MSFT Bob, an OS made for the clueless that needed a fricking gamer rig just to run and spawned the electronic son of Satan known as Clippy.
It looks like you're writing a Slashdot flame. Would you like help?
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture from our underwater robotic camera, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Titanic has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a master race of iron eating bacteria. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will merely digest the sunken ship or enslave us all. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; Halomonas titanicae will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new rusty bacterial overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot moderator, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underwater metal caves.
Nuke it out of orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Imagine a Beowulf ....oh, wait
Now I know where I am. This is Slashdot (say it like King Leonitus and kick something if you need to). It's nothing to be ashamed of, but Slashdotters have a problem. After seeing the ten millionth repetition of "in Soviet Russia" or "sharks with lasers" and modding it up to +5 Funny for the 9 trillionth time, they have a very hard time admitting when something has gotten old and it's time to move on. (Someone is tempted to reply with one of those memes thinking "hah, that'll fix him, he'll NEVER see this coming!")
I for one welcome our karma-whoring +5 Funny comedian stratospheric critics!
I for one, welcome our glowing Leporidae overlords.
Robin is 22 and leaves the house for work at Quick Burger at 3:30 PM. Jack leaves school at 2:30 carrying a laptop and 2 math books, and arrives at home for study at 3:15. He stops on the way to get a burger and pays 99 cents plus tax. If Robin rings up 78 burgers each hour, and Jack spends 6 years in college, how many employees will be affected Jack's analysis when he's the Operations Research consultant for Quick Burger Corp? ADDITIONAL BONUS: Would Jack like fries with that?
1. A high-tech anechoic chamber shaped like a transparent bubble? 2. A plastic deco gimmick? 3. How about a boy scout with a transistor radio and earphones?
They probably had 3G on Everest back in the 1920s...
With Zombies. And Ninjas. And Cyborgs.
And hookers and blackjack.
I really don't want to read the new version:
"And God was like 'Moses, dude, you totally need to kill your son.' And Moses was all "WTF?" but then he goes "Meh, F it." So God's all "LOL, dude you were totally gonna do it. I pranked you good!'"
Another version of the Bible, created right here on Slashdot before our very eyes!
I for one, welcome our googley eyed autonomous vehicular overlords!
Apparently the city has decided that the signs are no longer AOL newbies.
...Turbines to speed!
The universe is not a computer problem. The universe is also not a computational device. There's a gaping hole in your argument - the difference between == (equivalency) and === (identity), just as the picture is not the thing.
The universe is a sphere, 700 meters in diameter.
I also find it hard to believe, with 10% unemployment, they can't find engineers/software people who are desperate for jobs.
National unemployment for Americans with a bachelor degree or higher is currently 4.6%. Certainly there are plenty of unemployed engineers/software people out there, but not as many as you might expect.
Two words: Security Clearance.
I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly....
As for the publisher, shame on them. "Collaborator" is the proper term. They should let the people know, via the liberated press, what is really going on behind closed doors. Just as the publishers did during the Watergate or McCarthy scandals.
Why should an American necessarily want to let "people" know what is going on behind closed doors? Why should they not want to "collaborate" with their military for the sake of their own security? Why do you assume that all military secrets are scandals? Unlike in some other countries (such as the U.K.), the U.S. does not have a "state secrets act" that prevents citizens from revealing secrets. (If you are working for the government and have signed an agreement not to reveal things, which is what happens when you get a security clearance, that's a different matter.) Unlike people in other countries, we the people are free to publish secrets. What's going on in this story is the decision not to reveal secrets to our enemies. Why don't you think that makes sense?
However, absolute random noise on a disk isn't all that usual,
Actually, nowadays, it's extremely unusual. Blocks are all zero'd from the factory, and anything you save over them that's later marked free will almost certainly be far from random. (like pieces of pictures, documents, applications, etc)
How about using stenography on those fragments, marking them as not deleted, and keeping the indexing in some regular JPEGs. (In other words, a file system layered over the deleted files. When a file is deleted normally, the steno-fragment daemon picks it up and adds it to the stenographic free space.)
Just what did you think they were intended for?!?
This latest update for graphics has fixed that bug.
I notice that Apple never seems to have acknowledged the bug, despite people screaming in the support forums, and that the System Update doesn't mention that it's obtw fixing a total showstopper that has plagued many users for the last 6 weeks on all platforms - nothing to do with the games cited.
An uninsulated space suit in a vacuum wouldn't feel very cold on the inside as long as the suit doesn't touch anything on the outside.
What were the physics involved in the Apollo 13 mission when they were getting very cold after turning off the heaters in the spacecraft, using the LEM as a lifeboat?
Given the astoundingly nonsensicalness of what the FBI seems to have done, here's my theory.
Some moron who works for the FBI woke up the other morning and got upset from hearing about the recent Wikileaks news. Not knowing what "wiki" is, he decided that Wikipedia and Wikileaks are the same thing, or in league with each other. Certainly it's a bunch of commie "freedom" and "open" somethingorother, probably influenced by shady people, hippies, and foreign powers. Why, did you know that people from all over the world can just write whatever they want on Wikipedia? And now it's compromising our national security! Well, I don't quite understand what's holding up the other agencies from getting to the bottom of this Wikipedia crap, but we're the god damned FBI and we will show some initiative. Let's go fuck with these Wikipedia people. Now, let's see if we can find something prima facie we can get them for. Aha! They have a web page with our logo on it!
"Self service" obviously doesn't count. If it did then dogs, and not man, would be running the world...
You mean the dogs who we take into our warm houses, give them a nice place to sleep, feed them, wash them, walk around after them and pick up their poop for them, and tell them "Go lay down now! Good dog!" I for one welcome our pampered canine overlords...
You know those cheap tiny "locks" that come with so many little boxes or other devices? The ones that all have the same key? Would you consider using those to lock anything important up? I'm guessing you wouldn't.
Absolutely! Well, maybe it would be sufficient for, like, an ATM...