The mini-wench was attached to a suction cup arrow and Data also had the jaws that grabbed onto something above to prevent him from being impaled when he fell through the floor over some spikes or something like that, and the boxing glove that pops out and punches one of the bad guys.
a "one-in-a-million miracle" will statistically occur 280 times a day in the U.S.
This means that there is just a single one-in-a-million miracle that humans can observe, but it is likely that there are many and each of them will occur roughly 280 times a day in a population of 280 million. (this assumes that a one-in-a-million miracle is something which the odds of happening to a specific person on a specific day is 1/1,000,000 and which can be observed by other humans (having an abnormally high number of neutrinos pass through your body in a specific nanosecond would be something that is unlikely but wouldn't be miracle worthy))
Floating point numbers have problems with precision, your computer can not store 82.845 in a floating point number so the number it stores is slightly less than 82.845 which VB correctly rounds to 82.84
if VHS becomes rare, competition will go down and prices, up
Exactly! Look at the sky high prices on 8-track tapes these days due to decreased competition. But seriously, you're ignoring the fact that competition goes down due to decreased demand.
A LONG time ago I saw a movie where this guy would place bets of various types where the prize was something welthy if he lost and the person's finger if he won.
not on Linux, the kernel ignores SUID scripts for some reason
The reason is that suid scripts create a race condition, the time between the interpreter process being created and the interpreter process reading the script can be exploited. Let's say there's a suid script/usr/bin/suidroot and you have created a link to it in your home directory, you now execute the ~/suidroot script and the kernel sees that it's suid so the kernel creates the interpreter process with a root uid and passes the interpreter the name of the script, you have time before the interpreter reads the script to replace it with whatever you like and you will have a root process execute whatever you want. This is overcome in some operating systems by the interpreter being given a filehandle to the script.
My grandfather was a guard at the Manhattan Project. After the test blast, he and many of the other guards took molten sand from the blast as a souveneir. There were quite a few people walking around the blast area.
if I heard a legend about 7 temples, and the 7th temple was not only already discovered standing on land, but also one of the most photographed temples in India, then I'd be inclined to believe the other 6 temples existed
George W. Bush is one of the first surviving septuplets (don't believe the lies about the McCaughey septuplets being the first). George W. Bush exists and has been photographed many times, therefore his six identical brothers also exist.
a message stating that "Sale or Rental of this movie is ILLEGAL". Since we neither purchased nor rented the discs we received (they were gifted to us), I guess it's legal.
I was in a shop and they had a sign stating that shoplifting was a crime, I guess murder is legal. Stating that something is illegal does not automatically make everything else legal.
I created a VERY random 16character email account name
Did you every think that maybe people just pound away at hotmail's servers with dictionary files, and other techniques until they find e-mail addresses that work
I'll assume the OP was using the english alphabet of 26 letters. There are 26**16 different possible combinations, if a spammer is capable of trying one billion addresses per second (which he isn't, not even close) it would take nearly 1.4 million years to try every 16 character address. So, given that hotmail has existed for significantly less than 1.4 million years, no, I don't think that someone used a dictionary technique (which won't work for a random address) or another technique. It is possible, however, that an admin for hotmail sells the addresses without Microsoft's consent (which still doesn't make Microsoft blameless).
how long it'll be before these online vendors lock out Morpheus' referral IDs, or even worse, deny the connections altogether (since the most recent source IP will be Morpheus' proxy, not your own).
It doesn't sound like it uses any kind of proxy, an IE plugin redirects you to another website which redirects you back to amazon/yahoo/whoever so the morpheus machine isn't the one connecting to the vendors, they're just telling your machine what url to request from the vendor. I would be very surprised if vendors honor the comissions "earned" through this method.
And anyone who complains that it takes too long to type "ISDN_Terminals_Per_Trunk" compared to "data" really needs to take a cluecheck...
In all fairness, ISDN_Terminals_Per_Trunk is a bit much to type out and can be shortened without any loss in understandability to ISDN_Terms_Per_Trunk and we can combine the last two terms giving us ISDN_Terms_Perunk and removing those pesky vowels gives us SDN_Trms_Prnk which can be condensed to DN_T_P and removing the ugly underscores gives us DNTP. But look at what your descriptive variable naming has given us, we now have a variable called DNTP which could easily be confused for some sort of Transport Protocol since it ends in TP. We could rename DNTP to something general like "data", we've kept the same first letter for easy recognition and it no longer looks like an acronym for a network protocol.
Highlights has tech articles next to "The Timbertoes" and "Goofus and Gallant"???
No, not really, they're not actually articles. The June 1983 issue of Highlights contained a "What's Wrong With This Picture" picture and one of the answers was that Bobby was using a holographic cube storage device with his computer and that the technology won't be available for another few years. They used to be more political in their pictures but after the faux pas of May 1941 in which they showed a German Jewish girl without her yellow star, they moved away from politics and more into science and technology.
"it" and "in" are ignored by google, so it's just "leave" and "me," not necessarily in any particular order.
It still affects ranking since leave it in me returns different results from leave me and if you insist on forcing the words in you can search for +leave +it +in +me which still returns yahoo number one and disney number two (+leave +it +in +me +baby returns an interesting number one site)
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The mini-wench was attached to a suction cup arrow and Data also had the jaws that grabbed onto something above to prevent him from being impaled when he fell through the floor over some spikes or something like that, and the boxing glove that pops out and punches one of the bad guys.
a "one-in-a-million miracle" will statistically occur 280 times a day in the U.S.
This means that there is just a single one-in-a-million miracle that humans can observe, but it is likely that there are many and each of them will occur roughly 280 times a day in a population of 280 million. (this assumes that a one-in-a-million miracle is something which the odds of happening to a specific person on a specific day is 1/1,000,000 and which can be observed by other humans (having an abnormally high number of neutrinos pass through your body in a specific nanosecond would be something that is unlikely but wouldn't be miracle worthy))
Floating point numbers have problems with precision, your computer can not store 82.845 in a floating point number so the number it stores is slightly less than 82.845 which VB correctly rounds to 82.84
if VHS becomes rare, competition will go down and prices, up
Exactly! Look at the sky high prices on 8-track tapes these days due to decreased competition. But seriously, you're ignoring the fact that competition goes down due to decreased demand.
Slashdot told people the lone gunmen are dead before a lot of them watched the episode.
A LONG time ago I saw a movie where this guy would place bets of various types where the prize was something welthy if he lost and the person's finger if he won.
Sounds like Man From the South
Ah, and then AMD testified in favor of Microsoft out of the goodness of their hearts.
This has already been reported
This was also done with cockroaches.
The lowest end CPU you can find now-a-days is like 800Mhz, unless you go to auctions
Or pricewatch
not on Linux, the kernel ignores SUID scripts for some reason
/usr/bin/suidroot and you have created a link to it in your home directory, you now execute the ~/suidroot script and the kernel sees that it's suid so the kernel creates the interpreter process with a root uid and passes the interpreter the name of the script, you have time before the interpreter reads the script to replace it with whatever you like and you will have a root process execute whatever you want. This is overcome in some operating systems by the interpreter being given a filehandle to the script.
The reason is that suid scripts create a race condition, the time between the interpreter process being created and the interpreter process reading the script can be exploited. Let's say there's a suid script
you mean glass?
More like a glassy rock.
My grandfather was a guard at the Manhattan Project. After the test blast, he and many of the other guards took molten sand from the blast as a souveneir. There were quite a few people walking around the blast area.
if I heard a legend about 7 temples, and the 7th temple was not only already discovered standing on land, but also one of the most photographed temples in India, then I'd be inclined to believe the other 6 temples existed
George W. Bush is one of the first surviving septuplets (don't believe the lies about the McCaughey septuplets being the first). George W. Bush exists and has been photographed many times, therefore his six identical brothers also exist.
Call me wacky
You're wacky.
a message stating that "Sale or Rental of this movie is ILLEGAL". Since we neither purchased nor rented the discs we received (they were gifted to us), I guess it's legal.
I was in a shop and they had a sign stating that shoplifting was a crime, I guess murder is legal. Stating that something is illegal does not automatically make everything else legal.
I'll assume the OP was using the english alphabet of 26 letters. There are 26**16 different possible combinations, if a spammer is capable of trying one billion addresses per second (which he isn't, not even close) it would take nearly 1.4 million years to try every 16 character address. So, given that hotmail has existed for significantly less than 1.4 million years, no, I don't think that someone used a dictionary technique (which won't work for a random address) or another technique. It is possible, however, that an admin for hotmail sells the addresses without Microsoft's consent (which still doesn't make Microsoft blameless).
how long it'll be before these online vendors lock out Morpheus' referral IDs, or even worse, deny the connections altogether (since the most recent source IP will be Morpheus' proxy, not your own).
It doesn't sound like it uses any kind of proxy, an IE plugin redirects you to another website which redirects you back to amazon/yahoo/whoever so the morpheus machine isn't the one connecting to the vendors, they're just telling your machine what url to request from the vendor. I would be very surprised if vendors honor the comissions "earned" through this method.
And anyone who complains that it takes too long to type "ISDN_Terminals_Per_Trunk" compared to "data" really needs to take a cluecheck...
In all fairness, ISDN_Terminals_Per_Trunk is a bit much to type out and can be shortened without any loss in understandability to ISDN_Terms_Per_Trunk and we can combine the last two terms giving us ISDN_Terms_Perunk and removing those pesky vowels gives us SDN_Trms_Prnk which can be condensed to DN_T_P and removing the ugly underscores gives us DNTP. But look at what your descriptive variable naming has given us, we now have a variable called DNTP which could easily be confused for some sort of Transport Protocol since it ends in TP. We could rename DNTP to something general like "data", we've kept the same first letter for easy recognition and it no longer looks like an acronym for a network protocol.
Highlights has tech articles next to "The Timbertoes" and "Goofus and Gallant"???
No, not really, they're not actually articles. The June 1983 issue of Highlights contained a "What's Wrong With This Picture" picture and one of the answers was that Bobby was using a holographic cube storage device with his computer and that the technology won't be available for another few years. They used to be more political in their pictures but after the faux pas of May 1941 in which they showed a German Jewish girl without her yellow star, they moved away from politics and more into science and technology.
I get so tired of Americans who think the world ends north of Minnesota and south of Texas
What? We're well aware of Alaska and Hawaii!
"it" and "in" are ignored by google, so it's just "leave" and "me," not necessarily in any particular order.
It still affects ranking since leave it in me returns different results from leave me and if you insist on forcing the words in you can search for +leave +it +in +me which still returns yahoo number one and disney number two (+leave +it +in +me +baby returns an interesting number one site)
In fact, doing a google search on "please leave now" returns Disney as their second hit
So does leave it in me
the three legged chair
Six legged chair.
Fractures is a repeat, it won't be until a week later that a new episode is on.
Yeah, How the fuck is John Edwards sci-fi?
I mean the first part of Sci-Fi is Sci, i.e. SCIENCE
True, but the last part stands for Fiction.
When shopping for USA-only items, have you tried finding a seller on ebay who will ship to you?