This is a great idea to implant into convicted felons, and I'm not talking about little felony convictions, I'm talking about "Life without Parole" and "Death Row" inmates. The devices could be implanted inside an individual and secretly hidden, as in the case of the Star Wars slave Anakon Skywalker, or perhaps a large intestonator ball like in the movie Fortress. Inmates who misbehaved got "intestonated", or rather, experienced writhing pain in their intestines from the little devices. Powering the device would not be problematic since the technology already exists to power electronics with body heat.
My first impression is that this looks promising, but it does look much like Doom with fancy shadows and smoother animation. From the trailer, all I see are half-crazed males running around killing anything that moves. This is good, but, where are the half-naked sex-deprived women in the trailer? I mean, come on, look around, there are women everywhere in our society in all types of positions. There should be some pretty nice looking, albeit evil women somewhere in the game, and I'm not talking about player skins that we've all seen in Quake 3 Arena.
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See, I'm NOT that evil:
This post serves the purpose that not everything one reads on the internet is helpful. Obviously, those in the know, know that this will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive of that computer. Hence, DON'T DO IT! It was a common *NIX prank that someone would name a folder in the user's home folder "*". If the user typed rm -rf/*, the command would start deleting everything instead of the folder named "*". This has come up before in a few Mac OS X forums around the net, and beginning Mac OS X users should be aware of this.
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for *NIX Newbies is:
1. Open a terminal session.
2. Type the following in the command line: sudo rm -rf/*
3. Press ENTER
All your molecule and energy are belong to the universe, in Soviet Russia.
I would have to say GET A LIFE people. Just as all the office ladies gossip about who's sleeping with who on whatever soap opera, we geeks & nerds actually write a permanent record of the speculative direction that a Sci-Fi TV series should take for the next episode season. Don't get me wrong, I'm just an enthusiastic as the next Vulcan want-to-be, but looking at this post from an outside perspective, I'd think some people here need to get a life, and better yet, FIND A WOMAN. What started me thinking about this was reading through the posts and numerous people siting the historical timeline of Star Trek History, what happened when, involving such and such characters and alien species. Yes, it's a nice fantasy universe to live in, but it's not real, and people argue, with serious passion and vigor, as if it was real.
All your molecule and energy belong to the universe.
One of the most important facts I've learned about American economics is the Golden Rule... Those with the gold make the rules. If you've earned a degree in a geeky technical field like chemistry, computer science, engineering, etc... YOUR AMERICAN JOB CAN BE REPLACED BY A LOWER SALARIED FOREIGN PERSON OVER SEAS. This is happening everywhere in the US and abroad in an effort for businesses (those with the gold) to maximize profits (make the rules). It doesn't necessarily matter where one gets a degree, if a job is shipped over seas to lower a business's expenses (paying someone else instead of you), then perhaps you might want to consider a more economically resistent career, perhaps upper management, accounting, law, or medicine. Consider this: there will be a never ending supply of healthcare needs of the population, stupid people needing legal assitence, etc... American businesses cannot ship lawyers' jobs and physcians' jobs over seas.
So to answer your question, NO! You'll find a job, just don't expect it to be as exciting or glamerous, or high paying as you'd like.
We need to have a standard internet profile that internet sites can access and see what a user is interested in. Obviously, this profile would be an OPTIONAL feature in the user's web browser. The user could fill-in text fields what he or she is interested in, or looking to buy. For instance, let's say I've got an older Macintosh (which is the truth) and I'm intersted in accelerator cards and larger hard drives, the web page I'm visiting could automatically list the links for the lowest prices of those items in a special advertising section of the web page.
People make a decision whether or not to break the law. The analogy of giving needles to IV drug users to stave off disease is not applicable here to computer hackers. The disease of IV drug users is chemical addiction, the result of activating a biological predisposition for the addiction. Hackers probably have an affliction closely resembling gambling addiction, but either way, one makes a decision to do the wrong thing even though s/he may know it is wrong. It isn't bob's fault his computer is insecure, it's joe's fault for hacking it.
The humiliation of the crime, fear of rotting in prison from boredom, and lack of control over one's life should be a strong enough deterrent to persuade one's decision in the direction of NOT acting against the law. However, look at our prison population compared to other countries. America has more people in prison for one crime or another compared to any other country. In other countries the punishements usually are much harsher for the crimes committed (in the middle east it is said that thieves loose one hand, hence they are likely never to steal again). Here in America, we take away your life (freedom) for a while, sometimes for the remainder of your natural life. One way or another, prison will rehabilitate the offender, often through reflection on the crime and the horrid experience of being locked in cage, hearing the screams of fellow inmates calling for help, pleading to be set free and promising to NEVER again do whatever they did to get in there. Well, their time pleading for mercy will have a cumulative effect on their behavior. They will weather the storm of their actions and experiences, and be transformed into a law abiding and productive citizen.
In keeping with the Slasdot tradition, and to approximately half of our readership, I mis-spelled "loud" as "load". "A" is still a vowel like "u"; some would argue it depends on the usage.
in today's world, which is primarily occupied by Micro$oft zombies. Why, I can encrypt my documents manually, employ a random encryption algorythm, and read them [with my eyes] even while encrypted! Take a look here:
!dAOl Si gNiLWoH EhT HO !sTHgIN eTiLNoOm No TNeMeC DLoC eNoTs eHt tSnIAgA lAEnYObwOc SEpaR OCaTRdMc
To the average Borg drone, this looks like M$ Windows just before a fatal crash, and quite possibly THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! Hence, the drone will quickly exit the document, save as many other open documents, and restart the computer.
So this is the secret to "recharging human batteries" (those tiny little mitochondria in our cells). Somehow, I'll bet they are able to reclaim some of that back and forth motion, i.e. low frequency vibration (1 - 5 Hertz), to give people a little extra "zip" for a day or two.
Let him out of that jail cell you morons. He's too nice of a lad to be locked in such a horrible place. And I can prove he's my great great grandson. I'll submit my DNA for analysis.
I know an opportunity when I see one.
Really though, this guy did not likely have insider trading the likes of which the SEC is accustomed to dealing with. I wouldn't be surprised if he's using some data mining software like KnowledgeMiner for Macintosh (http://www.knowledgeminer.net/) and actually has the software set up RIGHT with the right kind of data being fed to it. The economy is just one VERY large system of linear and non-linear equations in a huge matrix. Stumbling upon the right information for even a partial solution for maximizing returns in the stock market would indeed be quite profitable. I wish I could turn $800 into $350 million in two weeks.
We already have controlled genetic engineering in our society. It's called smoking, sitting in front of a computer monitor getting bathed in radiation, sun-tanning, and exposure to chemicals. Hell, being a chemist I expose myself to hexavalent and trivalent chrome almost on a daily basis, very bad for the DNA. Women, putting on cosmetic makeup to pretty themselves up introduce phthalates into their bodies which interacts with DNA in a bad kinda way. Economics also plays a role in this controlled genetic engineering. People are waiting longer to start families; the older you get, the more likely your offspring will bear genetic mutations.
As far as the human race as a species splitting between the thinkers, managers, and a servant working class, I think it is already here. Birds of a feather flock together. Generally speaking, college graduates marry college graduates, and are even selective enough that they choose spouses from certain types of universities. Jane who graduated from Columbia marries John who graduated from Stanford. One cannot deny this doesn't happen. Yes, I'm talking about the so called *bell curve*. We're not going to see a Magna Cum Lauda MIT graduate marrying a West Virginia high school drop out who failed two grade levels. I'm not talking about raw intelligence, there is social pressure to stay within your own *league*.
What you describe sounds an aweful lot like life in general. A bacterial population will consume all available resources in its environment to aid in reproduction and sustaining the population and gene lines. Does it matter if life is based on carbon or silicon? Perhaps silicon-based life forms are the next step in evolution, simply because it is faster at conducting electrical impulses, and better at adapting to its environment, as you proclaim. If this is indeed the situation, then evolution is proceeding as it should and we will have had our time and space on this Earth just as the dinosaours did. And in the distant future when the silicon-based life forms postulate what killed off the carbon-based life forms, the answer will be either a massive asteroid or a massive solar burst of radiation, take your pick.
You know, I'm really going to miss Baghdad Bob's enthusiam and nightly broadcasts of how Iraqi forces were kicking our coalition asses. I was totally amused with this guy. It was kinda like waiting to see what laughter David Letterman's Top Ten List was going to bring.
and can't suck the life out of its competitors anymore, it instead sucks the life out of its customers, making *everyone* soul-less zombies, as if they didn't deserve to be for choosing M$. Micro$oft will in the short term make a lot of profit from this (almost as creative as the credit card companies applying late fees and interest payments). But in the long term companies will investigate alternatives like Linux and Mac OS X, OpenOffice, Star Office, etc... The only creativity and innovation coming from M$ are methods to bleed more money from an already depressed economy. And I sincerely mean this when I say it. M$ has not produced any innovative software in the last several years, only ways to maintain its profit margin among growing competition from Linux and other software makers.
No more sniffing when i'm checking items in the refrigerator - is it 'alive' ? gzip is the answer!
Now, we all know that the more familiar name of the 'refridgerator' among us geeks is the 'Polish Genesis Machine', which was shown in great detail in "Star Trek: The Search For Spock". I don't know about you, but my Polish Genesis Machine works rather well, ALL THE TIME. While it may not turn a dead planet into a thriving world replete with vegetation and animals, it sure does a great job on turning dead food into colorful sedentary lifeforms. And I don't need gzip to determine if 'it's alive', I can monitor the growth of my precious lifeforms on a daily basis with a simple ruler or meter stick.
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This is a great idea to implant into convicted felons, and I'm not talking about little felony convictions, I'm talking about "Life without Parole" and "Death Row" inmates. The devices could be implanted inside an individual and secretly hidden, as in the case of the Star Wars slave Anakon Skywalker, or perhaps a large intestonator ball like in the movie Fortress. Inmates who misbehaved got "intestonated", or rather, experienced writhing pain in their intestines from the little devices. Powering the device would not be problematic since the technology already exists to power electronics with body heat.
My first impression is that this looks promising, but it does look much like Doom with fancy shadows and smoother animation. From the trailer, all I see are half-crazed males running around killing anything that moves. This is good, but, where are the half-naked sex-deprived women in the trailer? I mean, come on, look around, there are women everywhere in our society in all types of positions. There should be some pretty nice looking, albeit evil women somewhere in the game, and I'm not talking about player skins that we've all seen in Quake 3 Arena.
See, I'm NOT that evil:
/*, the command would start deleting everything instead of the folder named "*". This has come up before in a few Mac OS X forums around the net, and beginning Mac OS X users should be aware of this.
This post serves the purpose that not everything one reads on the internet is helpful. Obviously, those in the know, know that this will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive of that computer. Hence, DON'T DO IT! It was a common *NIX prank that someone would name a folder in the user's home folder "*". If the user typed rm -rf
for *NIX Newbies is:
/*
1. Open a terminal session.
2. Type the following in the command line: sudo rm -rf
3. Press ENTER
All your molecule and energy are belong to the universe, in Soviet Russia.
JEEZ People, it was a FREAKIN' Joke!!!
Go ahead, mode it down -5 FLAIMBAIT/TROLL.
Come, mode the damn comment down. It deserves it.
Couple of things to point out here:
1. You read and are a registered member of Slashdot, therefore your intelligence is likely at least 40 points above the average population.
2. This "successful movie formula" is geared for the masses, i.e., people with an IQ of approximately 100 or so.
3. You'll probably get more from reading the books (substance, plot, and detail from The Lord of the Rings).
4. Recognize that you're at least somewhat "gifted" and have an avenue to discuss your point of view in a geek forum.
5. Don't worry, be happy that you're a little (or a lot) different from the bulge in the bell curve.
All your molecule and energy are belong to the universe.
And so NOW you know why the Slashdot crowd refers to Micro$oft as THE BORG.|
Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated.
I would have to say GET A LIFE people. Just as all the office ladies gossip about who's sleeping with who on whatever soap opera, we geeks & nerds actually write a permanent record of the speculative direction that a Sci-Fi TV series should take for the next episode season. Don't get me wrong, I'm just an enthusiastic as the next Vulcan want-to-be, but looking at this post from an outside perspective, I'd think some people here need to get a life, and better yet, FIND A WOMAN. What started me thinking about this was reading through the posts and numerous people siting the historical timeline of Star Trek History, what happened when, involving such and such characters and alien species. Yes, it's a nice fantasy universe to live in, but it's not real, and people argue, with serious passion and vigor, as if it was real.
All your molecule and energy belong to the universe.
One of the most important facts I've learned about American economics is the Golden Rule... Those with the gold make the rules. If you've earned a degree in a geeky technical field like chemistry, computer science, engineering, etc... YOUR AMERICAN JOB CAN BE REPLACED BY A LOWER SALARIED FOREIGN PERSON OVER SEAS. This is happening everywhere in the US and abroad in an effort for businesses (those with the gold) to maximize profits (make the rules). It doesn't necessarily matter where one gets a degree, if a job is shipped over seas to lower a business's expenses (paying someone else instead of you), then perhaps you might want to consider a more economically resistent career, perhaps upper management, accounting, law, or medicine. Consider this: there will be a never ending supply of healthcare needs of the population, stupid people needing legal assitence, etc... American businesses cannot ship lawyers' jobs and physcians' jobs over seas.
So to answer your question, NO! You'll find a job, just don't expect it to be as exciting or glamerous, or high paying as you'd like.
We need to have a standard internet profile that internet sites can access and see what a user is interested in. Obviously, this profile would be an OPTIONAL feature in the user's web browser. The user could fill-in text fields what he or she is interested in, or looking to buy. For instance, let's say I've got an older Macintosh (which is the truth) and I'm intersted in accelerator cards and larger hard drives, the web page I'm visiting could automatically list the links for the lowest prices of those items in a special advertising section of the web page.
Let the freaking advertisers shop for us!
Using "...probes are based on bunker-buster penetrators."
My probe is a cherry-buster penetrator. And unlike the bunker-buster pentrators, mine is reusable!.
All your molecule are belong to the universe.
People make a decision whether or not to break the law. The analogy of giving needles to IV drug users to stave off disease is not applicable here to computer hackers. The disease of IV drug users is chemical addiction, the result of activating a biological predisposition for the addiction. Hackers probably have an affliction closely resembling gambling addiction, but either way, one makes a decision to do the wrong thing even though s/he may know it is wrong. It isn't bob's fault his computer is insecure, it's joe's fault for hacking it.
The humiliation of the crime, fear of rotting in prison from boredom, and lack of control over one's life should be a strong enough deterrent to persuade one's decision in the direction of NOT acting against the law. However, look at our prison population compared to other countries. America has more people in prison for one crime or another compared to any other country. In other countries the punishements usually are much harsher for the crimes committed (in the middle east it is said that thieves loose one hand, hence they are likely never to steal again). Here in America, we take away your life (freedom) for a while, sometimes for the remainder of your natural life. One way or another, prison will rehabilitate the offender, often through reflection on the crime and the horrid experience of being locked in cage, hearing the screams of fellow inmates calling for help, pleading to be set free and promising to NEVER again do whatever they did to get in there. Well, their time pleading for mercy will have a cumulative effect on their behavior. They will weather the storm of their actions and experiences, and be transformed into a law abiding and productive citizen.
In keeping with the Slasdot tradition, and to approximately half of our readership, I mis-spelled "loud" as "load". "A" is still a vowel like "u"; some would argue it depends on the usage.
in today's world, which is primarily occupied by Micro$oft zombies. Why, I can encrypt my documents manually, employ a random encryption algorythm, and read them [with my eyes] even while encrypted! Take a look here:
!dAOl Si gNiLWoH EhT HO !sTHgIN eTiLNoOm No TNeMeC DLoC eNoTs eHt tSnIAgA lAEnYObwOc SEpaR OCaTRdMc
To the average Borg drone, this looks like M$ Windows just before a fatal crash, and quite possibly THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! Hence, the drone will quickly exit the document, save as many other open documents, and restart the computer.
So this is the secret to "recharging human batteries" (those tiny little mitochondria in our cells). Somehow, I'll bet they are able to reclaim some of that back and forth motion, i.e. low frequency vibration (1 - 5 Hertz), to give people a little extra "zip" for a day or two.
Let him out of that jail cell you morons. He's too nice of a lad to be locked in such a horrible place. And I can prove he's my great great grandson. I'll submit my DNA for analysis.
I know an opportunity when I see one.
Really though, this guy did not likely have insider trading the likes of which the SEC is accustomed to dealing with. I wouldn't be surprised if he's using some data mining software like KnowledgeMiner for Macintosh (http://www.knowledgeminer.net/) and actually has the software set up RIGHT with the right kind of data being fed to it. The economy is just one VERY large system of linear and non-linear equations in a huge matrix. Stumbling upon the right information for even a partial solution for maximizing returns in the stock market would indeed be quite profitable. I wish I could turn $800 into $350 million in two weeks.
Micro$oft was looking for a way to force people to upgrade to the new licensing plan. Looks like they've found a way. Bastards.
I, however, am unaffected by this tragic event. I'm a happy Apple Macinotsh owner who uses Mac OS X and OpenOffice.
Really, there is no reason why corporations have to stay with M$; OpenOffice is good enough for the average business user.
We already have controlled genetic engineering in our society. It's called smoking, sitting in front of a computer monitor getting bathed in radiation, sun-tanning, and exposure to chemicals. Hell, being a chemist I expose myself to hexavalent and trivalent chrome almost on a daily basis, very bad for the DNA. Women, putting on cosmetic makeup to pretty themselves up introduce phthalates into their bodies which interacts with DNA in a bad kinda way. Economics also plays a role in this controlled genetic engineering. People are waiting longer to start families; the older you get, the more likely your offspring will bear genetic mutations.
As far as the human race as a species splitting between the thinkers, managers, and a servant working class, I think it is already here. Birds of a feather flock together. Generally speaking, college graduates marry college graduates, and are even selective enough that they choose spouses from certain types of universities. Jane who graduated from Columbia marries John who graduated from Stanford. One cannot deny this doesn't happen. Yes, I'm talking about the so called *bell curve*. We're not going to see a Magna Cum Lauda MIT graduate marrying a West Virginia high school drop out who failed two grade levels. I'm not talking about raw intelligence, there is social pressure to stay within your own *league*.
What you describe sounds an aweful lot like life in general. A bacterial population will consume all available resources in its environment to aid in reproduction and sustaining the population and gene lines. Does it matter if life is based on carbon or silicon? Perhaps silicon-based life forms are the next step in evolution, simply because it is faster at conducting electrical impulses, and better at adapting to its environment, as you proclaim. If this is indeed the situation, then evolution is proceeding as it should and we will have had our time and space on this Earth just as the dinosaours did. And in the distant future when the silicon-based life forms postulate what killed off the carbon-based life forms, the answer will be either a massive asteroid or a massive solar burst of radiation, take your pick.
It doesn't matter. Micro$oft is still lame no matter what article is posted about it, or its *innovative* technology.
All the cool Nerds hang out at http://www.macosx.com/
Hush now, quiet. Or they'll start shouting at us:
"Death to the Infadels"
You know, I'm really going to miss Baghdad Bob's enthusiam and nightly broadcasts of how Iraqi forces were kicking our coalition asses. I was totally amused with this guy. It was kinda like waiting to see what laughter David Letterman's Top Ten List was going to bring.
I was being nice and didn't want to be labeled a TROLL. I agree whole heartedly with your argument.
Amen.
and can't suck the life out of its competitors anymore, it instead sucks the life out of its customers, making *everyone* soul-less zombies, as if they didn't deserve to be for choosing M$. Micro$oft will in the short term make a lot of profit from this (almost as creative as the credit card companies applying late fees and interest payments). But in the long term companies will investigate alternatives like Linux and Mac OS X, OpenOffice, Star Office, etc... The only creativity and innovation coming from M$ are methods to bleed more money from an already depressed economy. And I sincerely mean this when I say it. M$ has not produced any innovative software in the last several years, only ways to maintain its profit margin among growing competition from Linux and other software makers.
All your number are belong to infinity.
It's Magic!
Oh wait, no, it's due to the Earth's rotation!
Um, no, wait, it's due to a combination of the Earth's rotation and its orbit around the Sun.
Yeah! That's it!, Yeah, I got it! Woohoo!
Actually, Stephen Hawking is expected to say "it's the spooky force at close proximity."
Honestly, between you and me, I think this will turn out to be as real as cold fusion.
No more sniffing when i'm checking items in the refrigerator - is it 'alive' ? gzip is the answer!
Now, we all know that the more familiar name of the 'refridgerator' among us geeks is the 'Polish Genesis Machine', which was shown in great detail in "Star Trek: The Search For Spock". I don't know about you, but my Polish Genesis Machine works rather well, ALL THE TIME. While it may not turn a dead planet into a thriving world replete with vegetation and animals, it sure does a great job on turning dead food into colorful sedentary lifeforms. And I don't need gzip to determine if 'it's alive', I can monitor the growth of my precious lifeforms on a daily basis with a simple ruler or meter stick.