Drug runner are much better of using onboard human brain power getting updates over FM radio.
The premise is that if you use robots you can spam them. Drugs are cheap where they are produced, some of them amazingly so. People are cheap too, but getting them to where you want them isn't necessarily. If you can build lots of small smuggling drones with toy technology and then spam your target with them, and have them receive-only until they are near their destination, there's no reason why they should be easily detected. The same is true, of course, of fleets of autonomous bombs.
Then there's the problem of random people on the beach picking up your drugs and stealing them.
Hey, that made me think of something...maybe Microsoft should pay in their worthless ass currency, the Euro. It's funny until you realize, I think the fine is in Euros rofl. Perhaps this is a conspiracy to drive up the cost of the Euro. MS holds primarily USD so if they had to convert a bunch to Euros, it would drive the price up. Yeah, the lawsuit started before the Euro was in trouble but still, I'm sure the recent problems didn't help the case be operated any less crookedly.
What make you think that Microsoft doesn't have 860 million Euros already? They take payments in Europe. If I were them I would have been revenue from European operations into a bank account for years. All they have to due is write the check.
The intelligence of a group can be determined by finding the IQ of the least intelligent member of the group, and dividing that number by the total people in the group.
Like...contributors to Linux source code? (Or, Apple source code, or Microsoft source code, BeOS source code...etc)
relevant quotes: " the bonobo genome is about 0.4% divergent from the chimpanzee genome" "Initial genetic studies characterised the DNA of chimpanzees (common chimpanzee and bonobo, collectively) as being as much as 98% (99.4% in one study) identical to that of Homo sapiens." "the genetic differences between chimpanzees and humans, covering 98% of the same genes."
What reason is there to consider the Bonobo and Chimpanzee different species?
You're misunderstanding the numbers. Simplified Example: We share genes A-Y with Chimps, and Genes B-Z with Bonobo's. Chimps and Bonobo's share Genes B-Y, but you can see that Chimps have gene A, and Bonobos have Gene Z, and are therefore not the same species.
yes, the fiat currency we are using instead of money are merely debt-notes designed to allow a few wealthy elite to confiscate and control real wealth. we should start using money again.
you mean, we should use shiny pieces of worthless metal? yeah, that's useful...
Paper money and 'valuable' metals are used as currency as a convenience. It would not be convenient for us to buy an iPhone by bartering them for 100,000 gallons of water, nor would it be easy for the electric company to pay their employees in electricity. Money makes the world go 'round, just stop being paranoid about it.
I will be mourning the death of publicly-funded space travel. Now, we hand it over to the pirates, slave-traders and privateers of our own era.
Citation please. Who has SpaceX robbed or committed violence against? Who has SpaceX enslaved? Which government has authorized SpaceX to attack foreign shipping during wartime?
Hmmm 24 hours of criminals posting tweets detrimental to your business on their own account which is displayed in their own software. I guess everyone over at WHMCS must be on vacation...OR ARE COMPLETE MORONS! Maybe they forgot their security question though, lol.
Or the ugnazis changed the security question/answer...
If he knew that the other activist had already been arrested, why would you accept a chat from them AND then accept a file transfer from them?
Perhaps he had not heard that the other activist had been arrested? It's not like the Iranian government is going to advertise how much repression they are using.
Do these activists not use some super secret codes to tell each other they are who they say they are?
They are activists, not necessarily hax0rs or james bond types. C'Mon, they're using Skype to communicate.
The patent covers something very specific: using the velocity of a swipe across a touchscreen to decide to remove an object / set of objects when a threshold is exceeds. Or in other words flicking / swiping through a collection of things, like the iPhone home screen or cover flow in iTunes. Ignoring whether the patent is valid or not (seems quite trivial to me) how is this "something we already know how to do, but on a computer"? It's a HCI gesture, not sure how it could be done without a computer...
You mean, like flipping through a book, you know, the ones made of dead trees? Moving a page out of the way to make the next one visible?
Or, for that matter, like my dog attacking the toilet-paper holder, unrolling it onto the floor.
No, just like now, a phone user will have to call his provider and using his account information report the phone stolen. It's not iron clad but I highly doubt the system would be setup to make it impossible to reverse the process in error, and if you call up and use someone else information to disable their phone I would bet there's a law covering that.
The UK is an island to the rest of the world, how are you getting your foreign car there? you know they drive on the opposite side as most of the rest of the world too right?
I have seen Hawaii license plates in Texas. How do you think those cars got here? Freight ships carry more than just toys and bananas.
Also, you are forgetting about the Chunnel
Mother has twin sister. Son X is born. Father divorces mother. Father marries mother's twin. Daughter Z is born. Father's daughter = Z is X's sister. Mother's sister's daughter = Z is X's cousin.
Technically, X and Z are half-siblings, since they only share one parent. But there's no such thing as half cousin.
But seriously, accounts for users gone 5 years? It seems the security team needs to talk to the marketing team about keeping their external server cleaned up.
Now, I'm not necessarily a Microsoft apologist, but I have to point out that it wasn't so long ago that other things near and dear to us geeks were experiencing similar problems.
I was trying to run some ant scripts yesterday that interact with an FTP server to delete some files. Those damned files wouldn't get deleted. They weren't even returned from a listing command. As it turns out, I was using a particularly old version of Apache Commons-Net library (this jar file was from 2005) which had a leap-year bug. It simply would not show me files with modification dates of 2/29. I was looking at the FTP server configuration, logging in with other clients, moving and renaming files, and all about ready to break out Wireshark... and then it occurred to me that it was leap day. Hoo-fucking-ray. "touch"ed the file, and sure enough, it was suddenly available. Those are a few hours of my life I'll never get back.
Your post is not anti-Microsoft, so you must be a shill.
"but the data they use to do so never leaves their own servers."
I guess you believe everything you hear/read....
Why would the data leave their servers? They don't need to sell the information to advertisers--they simply tell advertisers, "We know everything about everyone. We will put your ad in front of the 1 million people most likely to respond. You don't need us to sell their information to you--they will provide it when they buy your product."
I've heard arguments that the space program should have never been put in the hands of government in the first place. If it had been left to the private-sector from day one, space travel would be the norm by now because of the competitive aspect of the private sector and the ability to raises more capital than going the bureaucratic route.
And what, exactly, has prevented the private sector from putting a man in space the last 50-60 years?
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Drug runner are much better of using onboard human brain power getting updates over FM radio.
The premise is that if you use robots you can spam them. Drugs are cheap where they are produced, some of them amazingly so. People are cheap too, but getting them to where you want them isn't necessarily. If you can build lots of small smuggling drones with toy technology and then spam your target with them, and have them receive-only until they are near their destination, there's no reason why they should be easily detected. The same is true, of course, of fleets of autonomous bombs.
Then there's the problem of random people on the beach picking up your drugs and stealing them.
Hey, that made me think of something...maybe Microsoft should pay in their worthless ass currency, the Euro. It's funny until you realize, I think the fine is in Euros rofl. Perhaps this is a conspiracy to drive up the cost of the Euro. MS holds primarily USD so if they had to convert a bunch to Euros, it would drive the price up. Yeah, the lawsuit started before the Euro was in trouble but still, I'm sure the recent problems didn't help the case be operated any less crookedly.
What make you think that Microsoft doesn't have 860 million Euros already? They take payments in Europe. If I were them I would have been revenue from European operations into a bank account for years. All they have to due is write the check.
The intelligence of a group can be determined by finding the IQ of the least intelligent member of the group, and dividing that number by the total people in the group.
Like...contributors to Linux source code? (Or, Apple source code, or Microsoft source code, BeOS source code...etc)
Is this an accurate depiction of the genetic situation, or did you just make it up?
It's pretty close. read the Bonobo article on Wikipedia
relevant quotes: " the bonobo genome is about 0.4% divergent from the chimpanzee genome" "Initial genetic studies characterised the DNA of chimpanzees (common chimpanzee and bonobo, collectively) as being as much as 98% (99.4% in one study) identical to that of Homo sapiens." "the genetic differences between chimpanzees and humans, covering 98% of the same genes."
What reason is there to consider the Bonobo and Chimpanzee different species?
You're misunderstanding the numbers. Simplified Example: We share genes A-Y with Chimps, and Genes B-Z with Bonobo's. Chimps and Bonobo's share Genes B-Y, but you can see that Chimps have gene A, and Bonobos have Gene Z, and are therefore not the same species.
yes, the fiat currency we are using instead of money are merely debt-notes designed to allow a few wealthy elite to confiscate and control real wealth. we should start using money again.
you mean, we should use shiny pieces of worthless metal? yeah, that's useful...
Paper money and 'valuable' metals are used as currency as a convenience. It would not be convenient for us to buy an iPhone by bartering them for 100,000 gallons of water, nor would it be easy for the electric company to pay their employees in electricity. Money makes the world go 'round, just stop being paranoid about it.
Learn the difference between figurative language and literal language
You mean the difference between factual language and inflammatory, misleading language?
I will be mourning the death of publicly-funded space travel. Now, we hand it over to the pirates, slave-traders and privateers of our own era.
Citation please. Who has SpaceX robbed or committed violence against? Who has SpaceX enslaved? Which government has authorized SpaceX to attack foreign shipping during wartime?
Hmmm 24 hours of criminals posting tweets detrimental to your business on their own account which is displayed in their own software. I guess everyone over at WHMCS must be on vacation...OR ARE COMPLETE MORONS! Maybe they forgot their security question though, lol.
Or the ugnazis changed the security question/answer...
I presume you have wikipedia to back up this claim?
Give me 5 minutes and I will!
If he knew that the other activist had already been arrested, why would you accept a chat from them AND then accept a file transfer from them?
Perhaps he had not heard that the other activist had been arrested? It's not like the Iranian government is going to advertise how much repression they are using.
Do these activists not use some super secret codes to tell each other they are who they say they are?
They are activists, not necessarily hax0rs or james bond types. C'Mon, they're using Skype to communicate.
The patent covers something very specific: using the velocity of a swipe across a touchscreen to decide to remove an object / set of objects when a threshold is exceeds. Or in other words flicking / swiping through a collection of things, like the iPhone home screen or cover flow in iTunes. Ignoring whether the patent is valid or not (seems quite trivial to me) how is this "something we already know how to do, but on a computer"? It's a HCI gesture, not sure how it could be done without a computer...
You mean, like flipping through a book, you know, the ones made of dead trees? Moving a page out of the way to make the next one visible?
Or, for that matter, like my dog attacking the toilet-paper holder, unrolling it onto the floor.
...and have your handle be "LoyalEmployeeofCompany", where company is the company you're shilling for.
No, just like now, a phone user will have to call his provider and using his account information report the phone stolen. It's not iron clad but I highly doubt the system would be setup to make it impossible to reverse the process in error, and if you call up and use someone else information to disable their phone I would bet there's a law covering that.
Wire fraud? Not sure.
But if the tickets were sold on eBay, the bids would go up so much that nobody could afford them!
Except, you know, for the winning bidders.
5400 sites*15MW (since it says 'less than') *1000 homes per megawatt=81 million homes. That's quite a lot of homes.
You can't just drill a hole and find hydrogen there.
Really? Whenever I turn on my shower millions of di-hydrodgen oxide molecules come out.
The UK is an island to the rest of the world, how are you getting your foreign car there? you know they drive on the opposite side as most of the rest of the world too right?
I have seen Hawaii license plates in Texas. How do you think those cars got here? Freight ships carry more than just toys and bananas. Also, you are forgetting about the Chunnel
Mother has twin sister. Son X is born. Father divorces mother. Father marries mother's twin. Daughter Z is born. Father's daughter = Z is X's sister. Mother's sister's daughter = Z is X's cousin.
Technically, X and Z are half-siblings, since they only share one parent. But there's no such thing as half cousin.
But seriously, accounts for users gone 5 years? It seems the security team needs to talk to the marketing team about keeping their external server cleaned up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Silent_Planet
Yes!
Now, I'm not necessarily a Microsoft apologist, but I have to point out that it wasn't so long ago that other things near and dear to us geeks were experiencing similar problems.
I was trying to run some ant scripts yesterday that interact with an FTP server to delete some files. Those damned files wouldn't get deleted. They weren't even returned from a listing command. As it turns out, I was using a particularly old version of Apache Commons-Net library (this jar file was from 2005) which had a leap-year bug. It simply would not show me files with modification dates of 2/29. I was looking at the FTP server configuration, logging in with other clients, moving and renaming files, and all about ready to break out Wireshark... and then it occurred to me that it was leap day. Hoo-fucking-ray. "touch"ed the file, and sure enough, it was suddenly available. Those are a few hours of my life I'll never get back.
Your post is not anti-Microsoft, so you must be a shill.
No, the REAL nightmare for programmers is daylight savings time. Especially in the spring, when local times jump back and repeat. Ugh.
That's why you should save the time in UTC format, and then let the OS help you translate that into a display time.
"but the data they use to do so never leaves their own servers."
I guess you believe everything you hear/read....
Why would the data leave their servers? They don't need to sell the information to advertisers--they simply tell advertisers, "We know everything about everyone. We will put your ad in front of the 1 million people most likely to respond. You don't need us to sell their information to you--they will provide it when they buy your product."
I've heard arguments that the space program should have never been put in the hands of government in the first place. If it had been left to the private-sector from day one, space travel would be the norm by now because of the competitive aspect of the private sector and the ability to raises more capital than going the bureaucratic route.
And what, exactly, has prevented the private sector from putting a man in space the last 50-60 years?
My guess is, a lack of government subsidies.