If companies like AT&T and Verizon come up with a good way to provide boundless bandwidth... what do you think are the chances that they'll stop charging for high usage? 0.005% maybe?
Somewhat unrelated, there are also video poker machines that if played "perfectly" will earn you about $8 / hour statistically, although you may have to put in considerable hours before seeing the profit. Again it all depends on how the pay table is structured.
Hm. $8/hour to play video games? Does sound better than flippin' burgers, but no real opportunity for advancement...
Wow, that's pretty good rationalization. But really, it's his ship. It's where he lives, He owns the friggin place. The command is four syllables. He should really just have to say "tea." If he's on an unfamiliar system, then it should ask him what kind and temperature. But at home, it would know exactly what tea means without him even programming it... it should assume that since he didn't provide clarification, he wants the usual.
WhyTF does Picard have to say "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot" every freakin' time?
A computer that is sophisticated enough to fly a warpdrive spaceship and replicate food should be able to understand user preferences, no?
Shouldn't he just say, "cuppa tea" or just, "the usual" and get a nice hot cup of Earl Grey?
Only explanation is it's MS Enterprise 5.7 and user preferences are the great new groundbreaking feature in MS Enterprise 6... expected any decade now.
I use this technique all the time. Usually I just use the name of the service, like bankofamerica, and change Es to 3s, etc. Do you get it? An E and a 3 look kinda the same... but backwards!!! Brilliant!
This is totally bulletproof. No hackers have ever heard of this amazing technique. Everyone should use it.
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I like how when Apple introduced the iPod, they thought of it as practically a novelty. IIRC, I think they targeted 10,000 sales.
Corruption in government. This certainly is news.
Think that's bad? I saw a Cylon Centurion at LAX trying to sell phone charging services for a buck.
(It and a group of Hare Krishnas all got kicked out... after a cavity search, of course.)
To over-simplify it: the evidence that the data was faked was itself faked.
So what's to stop the other side from coming back by saying that the analysis of the faked evidence of the faked data was in fact faked?
Fake this noise.
FUD is "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt," right?
What's the difference between Uncertainty and Doubt?
I doubt there is a major difference within this context. Or at least I'm uncertain. Hm.
This article showed up elsewhere over a month ago:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/nerds-darpa-wants-your-advice-on-interstellar-flight/
Correction: Teen posts some BS about finding a FBI wifi network.
Really? Do we believe everything some jerkoff posts on Facebook now?
The article itself is pretty amazing: it's mostly a report of the kids social media posts. WTF is that? Journalism?
...assuming one of the crew doesn't accidentally punch a hole in the side of the aircraft/boat...
Also, once your adversary reaches the same technological level the end result is having robots fight other robots.
Well, it's all very clean and neat then:
1. Two armies of robots fight it out in a huge but very confined conflagration.
2. Eventually, one side defeats the other and eradicates all their robots.
3. Whatever victorious robots remain then, of course, go ahead and exterminate the entire enemy civilian population.
See how neat and clean that is? Warfare will be much more decisive and the following peace will certainly be much longer-lasting.
I'm pretty sure I've seen one of these already in use by the CIA. There was this guy named Stan or something who was operating it...
Seems like a major purpose of these is to have soldiers wear an exoskeleton to make them more formidable both offensively and defensively.
But can't you just skip the middleman (literally) and just have good ol' fashion killbots?
I mean, what's the point of having actual people involved in a process so minor as, well, killing people?
If companies like AT&T and Verizon come up with a good way to provide boundless bandwidth... what do you think are the chances that they'll stop charging for high usage? 0.005% maybe?
But true slashdot style let's get the Microsoft bashing going
Already on it! See next post.
Federal government and Microsoft. Somehow, they both bring up the same not-so-positive images in my mind...
Better yet, you can run WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3!!
RTFA: because in the 21st century, everyone is black and latino and a teenager and gay. Duh.
The idea of patents being bad for the economy is MY intellectual property.
I'm suing the author, the poster (meaning everyone who has ever posted as anon), and Slashdot.
In that mockup, it depicts this stupid word for which I cannot pronounce the "t". WTF, Firefox?
Somewhat unrelated, there are also video poker machines that if played "perfectly" will earn you about $8 / hour statistically, although you may have to put in considerable hours before seeing the profit. Again it all depends on how the pay table is structured.
Hm. $8/hour to play video games? Does sound better than flippin' burgers, but no real opportunity for advancement...
Wow, that's pretty good rationalization. But really, it's his ship. It's where he lives, He owns the friggin place. The command is four syllables. He should really just have to say "tea." If he's on an unfamiliar system, then it should ask him what kind and temperature. But at home, it would know exactly what tea means without him even programming it... it should assume that since he didn't provide clarification, he wants the usual.
1. Buy $100,000+ in lottery tickets ...but for real.
2. ???
3. Profit!
I'm suing you for the emotional duress of making me consider that /.'s April Fools jokes aren't funny. How dare you criticize my sense of humor??
WhyTF does Picard have to say "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot" every freakin' time?
A computer that is sophisticated enough to fly a warpdrive spaceship and replicate food should be able to understand user preferences, no?
Shouldn't he just say, "cuppa tea" or just, "the usual" and get a nice hot cup of Earl Grey?
Only explanation is it's MS Enterprise 5.7 and user preferences are the great new groundbreaking feature in MS Enterprise 6... expected any decade now.
Woah. I guess it's been too long since I've seen that movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEz-SHJbB0
You can create a 100% secure password:
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I use this technique all the time. Usually I just use the name of the service, like bankofamerica, and change Es to 3s, etc. Do you get it? An E and a 3 look kinda the same... but backwards!!! Brilliant!
This is totally bulletproof. No hackers have ever heard of this amazing technique. Everyone should use it.