I have first initial + lastname @gmail.com and I have a bunch of people with the same name combo that use the address when they fill out forms, all the time. I ended up getting enough personal information on one of them that I knew his real name, where he grew up, his highschool, his date of birth, his current address, etc. Pretty much everything I could ever want it I wanted to do some ID theft.
I tracked him down on facebook and sent him a message telling him all this. Since then I haven't gotten anymore of his emails, but other people are still doing it too.
Do these people think the emails just go to oblivion? I mean they are giving my email address when they do shit like rent a UHaul so I get all of the information on that transaction in confirmation emails.
I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.
Resale value. a 3-4 year old PC is effectively worthless. A 3-4 year old Mac can be still be sold for about 1/3 to 1/2 it's purchase price depending on condition and upgrades made during that time frame.
Yea, they played half a season. Then left a huge break, then out of the blue they announce that two weeks later they will start playing the second half.
Half of their audience lost interest with the huge break. The other half probably didn't even know the show had started up again.
Good thing they canceled this. Now we can get more of those low budget mega-animal monster flicks (mega-pirana, mega-snake, mega-porpoise, oh my!!) and more wrestling on what used to be the Sci-Fi channel.
NBC took a successful niche station and turned it into just one more of the 256245234534 dumbed down TBS wanna-be stations in an effort to appeal to a wider audience. I really don't see SyFy lasting much longer. NBC will probably sell it off at a huge loss in a year or two.
The galaxy is really, really, really big. There are lot's and lot's of stars. Really. There are a whole slew of them.
Finding as much interesting stuff as we possibly can now, will help tremendously when we finally have the technology to send probes in a reasonable time.
And developing new techniques for searching for interesting stuff is important as well.
If we listened to you, in 100 years or so when we can send something somewhere, we would just have to cross out fingers, close our eyes, and point somewhere in the sky when picking where to go.
In order for any two rational numbers to be different from each other -- for that difference to have any meaning -- you need to be able to define a third rational number that is in between those two.
You can always find a 3rd number in between any two rational numbers. In fact you can find an infinite amount of values in between any two rational numbers. All you have to do is keep adding another decimal.
Except 0.999... is not a rational number. It is an irrational number. There is no 3rd value you can define that is between 1 and 0.999...
Which means any difference between those two values is meaningless.
A solar system or planet might be "fine" in the astrological sense, but there is likely a much higher chance of objects in Oort clouds getting disturbed and sent hurtling towards your friendly neighborhood M class planet.
In other words: one Bruce Willis isn't going to be enough.
Clearly the goal isn't to turn some art student into the next Carmack. But development teams need artists, and don't you think giving those artists some basic understanding of how 3D games are built would help them do their jobs?
My thoughts before I read the last one was somewhat inline with yours. #7 is garbage, and it infected my opinion of #5 and #6 retroactively as I realized how the self indulgent incoherent garbage wasn't something new, but had been seeping into the series after #4.
You are missing the point entirely. It isn't for us to up and leave earth all together, it's to continue to inhabit earth while also colonizing other places.
If we live on multiple planets/moons/space stations, then any one disaster would have to be truly fantastic in scope (enormous gamma ray burst large enough to wipe out a large area of space) to take out all of us at the same time.
The region that doesn't change is the binding site. If that changes the virus will likely be much less effective at binding onto immune cells. If it can't target immune cells anymore, it becomes much less scary.
Mac Mini (with dvi to hdmi cable) + Logitech DiNovo keyboard is the combo I use. Even if you don't like Mac OS X the hardware is fantastic for this role, nice, compact, quiet and plenty powerful for all your TV computing needs.
I know that DNA can be transferred between virus and host.
My point is, how can they say with any certainty that 8% is the number? How do they have any idea what actually came from a virus, and what just happens to match?
The building blocks of each aren't really that much different. How do we know the code for building protein X that is used for part of the virus's wall actually came from it, and doesn't just happen to match the code for building protein Y that is used somewhere in our cells for similar purpose?
The article then goes on to make an association between a virus that only infects brains cells, and this process of DNA transfer. How is the new viral DNA transferred to offspring if it only infects neurons??
Isn't this "discovery" sort of like the Bible Code? So they searched the human genome and found a bunch of "virus like" patterns. Any sufficiently large set of information is going to give you some matches on just about anything you search for.
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I have first initial + lastname @gmail.com and I have a bunch of people with the same name combo that use the address when they fill out forms, all the time. I ended up getting enough personal information on one of them that I knew his real name, where he grew up, his highschool, his date of birth, his current address, etc. Pretty much everything I could ever want it I wanted to do some ID theft.
I tracked him down on facebook and sent him a message telling him all this. Since then I haven't gotten anymore of his emails, but other people are still doing it too.
Do these people think the emails just go to oblivion? I mean they are giving my email address when they do shit like rent a UHaul so I get all of the information on that transaction in confirmation emails.
I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.
Resale value. a 3-4 year old PC is effectively worthless. A 3-4 year old Mac can be still be sold for about 1/3 to 1/2 it's purchase price depending on condition and upgrades made during that time frame.
All they do is drop off a load of trash at my door every day.
I once fixed an issue that was holding up the operations of a $50 million dollar a year company with one well placed rubber band.
Several hundred years? Try several thousand.
Yea, they played half a season. Then left a huge break, then out of the blue they announce that two weeks later they will start playing the second half.
Half of their audience lost interest with the huge break. The other half probably didn't even know the show had started up again.
Good thing they canceled this. Now we can get more of those low budget mega-animal monster flicks (mega-pirana, mega-snake, mega-porpoise, oh my!!) and more wrestling on what used to be the Sci-Fi channel.
NBC took a successful niche station and turned it into just one more of the 256245234534 dumbed down TBS wanna-be stations in an effort to appeal to a wider audience. I really don't see SyFy lasting much longer. NBC will probably sell it off at a huge loss in a year or two.
The galaxy is really, really, really big. There are lot's and lot's of stars. Really. There are a whole slew of them.
Finding as much interesting stuff as we possibly can now, will help tremendously when we finally have the technology to send probes in a reasonable time.
And developing new techniques for searching for interesting stuff is important as well.
If we listened to you, in 100 years or so when we can send something somewhere, we would just have to cross out fingers, close our eyes, and point somewhere in the sky when picking where to go.
In order for any two rational numbers to be different from each other -- for that difference to have any meaning -- you need to be able to define a third rational number that is in between those two.
You can always find a 3rd number in between any two rational numbers. In fact you can find an infinite amount of values in between any two rational numbers. All you have to do is keep adding another decimal.
Except 0.999... is not a rational number. It is an irrational number. There is no 3rd value you can define that is between 1 and 0.999...
Which means any difference between those two values is meaningless.
A solar system or planet might be "fine" in the astrological sense, but there is likely a much higher chance of objects in Oort clouds getting disturbed and sent hurtling towards your friendly neighborhood M class planet.
In other words: one Bruce Willis isn't going to be enough.
You may not be able to be "more dead". But you can be mostly dead.
Clearly the goal isn't to turn some art student into the next Carmack. But development teams need artists, and don't you think giving those artists some basic understanding of how 3D games are built would help them do their jobs?
My thoughts before I read the last one was somewhat inline with yours. #7 is garbage, and it infected my opinion of #5 and #6 retroactively as I realized how the self indulgent incoherent garbage wasn't something new, but had been seeping into the series after #4.
The first three books were very good. Wizard and Glass was amazing. After that the series fell off a very sharp cliff.
This is one instance where I seriously wouldn't mind if hollywood completely re-wrote the story when doing the later half of the series.
Sure moving objects with light is cool, but this is pushing, not pulling.
This tech will do no good in keeping those pesky rebels from escaping your space station.
You are missing the point entirely. It isn't for us to up and leave earth all together, it's to continue to inhabit earth while also colonizing other places.
If we live on multiple planets/moons/space stations, then any one disaster would have to be truly fantastic in scope (enormous gamma ray burst large enough to wipe out a large area of space) to take out all of us at the same time.
Oh, so THAT's why you haven't been fucking.
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Come on, this is slashdot
The region that doesn't change is the binding site. If that changes the virus will likely be much less effective at binding onto immune cells. If it can't target immune cells anymore, it becomes much less scary.
I just typed "5 x 10 hellaparsecs" to see if google's calculator would work. It did.
Unfortunately, google currently won't calculate in hellasmoots. Though regular smoots compute just fine.
Specifically I meant the DiNovo Mini
Mac Mini (with dvi to hdmi cable) + Logitech DiNovo keyboard is the combo I use. Even if you don't like Mac OS X the hardware is fantastic for this role, nice, compact, quiet and plenty powerful for all your TV computing needs.
This sounds like a niche energy product. Basically nano-combustion that very quickly creates a very strong electrical charge.
Doesn't sound too great as a battery. But as "ammo" for hand held laser weapons? Could be perfect for that.
I know that DNA can be transferred between virus and host.
My point is, how can they say with any certainty that 8% is the number? How do they have any idea what actually came from a virus, and what just happens to match?
The building blocks of each aren't really that much different. How do we know the code for building protein X that is used for part of the virus's wall actually came from it, and doesn't just happen to match the code for building protein Y that is used somewhere in our cells for similar purpose?
The article then goes on to make an association between a virus that only infects brains cells, and this process of DNA transfer. How is the new viral DNA transferred to offspring if it only infects neurons??
Actually I'm pretty sure 100% of our DNA is basically crap that only exists because at some point in the past it was better at copying itself ;)
Isn't this "discovery" sort of like the Bible Code? So they searched the human genome and found a bunch of "virus like" patterns. Any sufficiently large set of information is going to give you some matches on just about anything you search for.