Like all those bioterrorists out there who work in hidden laborotories around the world, fiendishly trying to create super-deadly diseases to wipe out us decadent western scum...
Should instead just try to create a harmless bug, for laboratory purposes. Every time someone tries that, they end up with something which kills every mouse in the area.
Leave computers for their own courses in high school (Computer Science and maybe some kind of class for basics.)
I don't think this is really the case any longer. In the past few years, I've seen an explosion in the use of computers as real, positive learning aids in Scottish schools. I'm in my final year of high school now, going to study maths, comp. sci and physics at university, and I can personally say that computes in my classrooms have helped me a lot in my understanding of the more difficult theory - nothing beats a computer simulation when it comes to accurately visualising a complex situation.
Admittedly, my experience with computers in schools was overwhelmingly in the scientific subjects. Perhaps my views are skewed, but I know I've learned a lot through doing things that can only be done with computers in classrooms; there's any number of experiments that couldn't be carried out in a school environment, which are either too difficult or too dangerous to be considered, but which demonstrate important phenomena.
As far as I'm concerned, computers have as much right to the modern classroom - in any subject - as blackboards or desks.
I think it would be fair to say that a lot of the earth-shattering inventions were arrived at for reasons of "i wonder if i can do this?", "it would be cool if..." and "wow, i'll make a bundle with this!".
The steam engine, in its earliest form, was considered a toy of very little practical use (the first steam engine just spun round pointlessly).
Then the "this invention is a goldmine" mindset pops up, and we see people inventing loads to attatch onto that pointlessly spinning thing, and building their business on them.
A lot of the famous inventors of the past invented on a production-line basis, churning out one idea after another. I'd suppose Benjamin Franklin, amongst others, have thought "I wonder if I could do this...?"
Altogether, I think the inventors who had the foresight to see that their invention would change the world are in the minority.
That food would've saved thousands of lives but, on account of greed and politics, was denied.
As so many people in Zimbabwe live on the money brought in by grain exports, the livelyhoods and lives of potentially millions of people would be ruined if the grain were accepted. Once GM organisms are introduced to a country, it can never be said that the food produced there is GM-free. Therefore, a lot of farmers will lose their jobs, and their sons and daughters who should have inherited the farms would also be plunged into poverty. Of course, the farmers could stll feed themselves and those around them, but the economy of the country would collapse. The only people to blame are the Americans who sent the grain to Zimbabwe without first spending at most a few thousand dollars to grind the grain into flour.
300ft is not close enough if you're talking about the fancy small tactical nukes they would use in modern warfare. Want to blow dictator X out of his deep underground bunker? Use a tactical nuke. If you miss by 300ft, your target may live and thoushands of innocents*will* die.
The plane executing the goofy loop thing will not survive the complex and inacurate manouvre. The pilots probably know they're going to die. Wouldn't it be better to fly the plane itself into the target? Kind of like an uber-kamikazi?
I'm all for opening up the internet to poor communities, I think it's important to have free exchange of ideas and so on.
However, I'm not all for this way of doing it. We all know how dirty a single user computer can get, I can't be bothered looking up the/. article ID. Now imagine the same amount of dirt and pathogens times a hundered. Then factor in that not everywhere has battled diseases like tuberculosis as effectivly as we have in the Western nations.
This isn't intended to be racist, sorry if it comes across as such, but I think such a system would be an almost ideal breeding ground for infectious disease.
1) Buy wireless AP
2) Get fast-assed broadband
3) Encourage neigbours to buy wifi cards to access your broadband connection
And the rest writes itself!
OK, i haven't read the linked article and I don't really understand all of what's talked about on/., but the actual/. posting said the vuln. was also to be found in the 2k and XP versions of windows.
The Replicators have been using far more advanced technology than this throught their entire existance.
I'd like to see these pissy bee-bots bringing a hyperdrive to 800% efficiency. Or evolving into cellular units that are invincible even to our projectile weapons.
The two most damage resistant items of hardware which I own are arguably my hammer and my palmtop.
The hammer has been repeatedly and forcefully beaten with rocks, nails and many other hard, tough things. While it may be susceptible to damage by fire, an inexpensice upgrade to an aluminium shaft should all but eliminate this possible weak point in an otherwise invincible product.
The palmtop (A Handspring Visor Edge, circa 2002) has been through almost as much; it's been dropped off of tables onto carpeted floors, dropped from chest-hight onto supermarket tiled floors and thrown onto thinly carpeted concrete floors during a poorly conceived Captain Kirk-style wrist-flip at school. It was even dropped and stepped on once (its most recent misfortune), but escaped having sustained only minor cosmetic damage and a slightly dabaged hinge. Some superglue engineering fixed that though.
I won't bore you with the story of how my brother securely held onto an iMac motherboard by placing his unearthed sweaty palms across the contacts on the underside of the PCB, but I will mention that the computer worked perfectly afterwards...
Sure, there's loads of sites with advers which stick in my mind. Take slasdot, for instance, it has loads of great adverts. Like the one for that company that sells stuff that geeks would think are cool, green laser pointers and whatnot; can't quite remember their name or URL, it's just on the tip of my tongue. And there's the one I'm looking at right now, advertising some sort of hand-held three-in one communications device. And so on. So there.
I think he means a "snowball's chance" in the context that the other models people use have like "a snowball's chance in a supernova", so hell is a relatively comfortable environment for our frosty friends. Therefore salon's ads are relatively non-screwed.
I mean, I'm sure it's alright in some circles to talk about police constables with anoraks being shoved into cases, but I always thought those sort of situations were more the preserve of some of the world's seedier clubs...
Wasn't that abandoned after the X-303 was hijacked, re-captured and helped by some funny little grey men to save their civilisation by fixing a time machine?
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Should instead just try to create a harmless bug, for laboratory purposes. Every time someone tries that, they end up with something which kills every mouse in the area.
I don't think this is really the case any longer. In the past few years, I've seen an explosion in the use of computers as real, positive learning aids in Scottish schools. I'm in my final year of high school now, going to study maths, comp. sci and physics at university, and I can personally say that computes in my classrooms have helped me a lot in my understanding of the more difficult theory - nothing beats a computer simulation when it comes to accurately visualising a complex situation.
Admittedly, my experience with computers in schools was overwhelmingly in the scientific subjects. Perhaps my views are skewed, but I know I've learned a lot through doing things that can only be done with computers in classrooms; there's any number of experiments that couldn't be carried out in a school environment, which are either too difficult or too dangerous to be considered, but which demonstrate important phenomena.
As far as I'm concerned, computers have as much right to the modern classroom - in any subject - as blackboards or desks.
this might have to come with a warning... ... Or a first-aid kit for burn victims...
I'm sure the good people developing this will be glad that we've thanked them by melting their servers...
I can't help thinking that not having a 'Big Brother Is Watching You' poster is a waste of an opportunity, though...
I think it would be fair to say that a lot of the earth-shattering inventions were arrived at for reasons of "i wonder if i can do this?", "it would be cool if..." and "wow, i'll make a bundle with this!".
The steam engine, in its earliest form, was considered a toy of very little practical use (the first steam engine just spun round pointlessly).
Then the "this invention is a goldmine" mindset pops up, and we see people inventing loads to attatch onto that pointlessly spinning thing, and building their business on them.
A lot of the famous inventors of the past invented on a production-line basis, churning out one idea after another. I'd suppose Benjamin Franklin, amongst others, have thought "I wonder if I could do this...?"
Altogether, I think the inventors who had the foresight to see that their invention would change the world are in the minority.
My favourite game is called "The internet". I finally beat it the other day. The end guy is hard.
As so many people in Zimbabwe live on the money brought in by grain exports, the livelyhoods and lives of potentially millions of people would be ruined if the grain were accepted. Once GM organisms are introduced to a country, it can never be said that the food produced there is GM-free. Therefore, a lot of farmers will lose their jobs, and their sons and daughters who should have inherited the farms would also be plunged into poverty. Of course, the farmers could stll feed themselves and those around them, but the economy of the country would collapse. The only people to blame are the Americans who sent the grain to Zimbabwe without first spending at most a few thousand dollars to grind the grain into flour.
300ft is not close enough if you're talking about the fancy small tactical nukes they would use in modern warfare. Want to blow dictator X out of his deep underground bunker? Use a tactical nuke. If you miss by 300ft, your target may live and thoushands of innocents*will* die.
I just upgraded all my hard disks to bigger models :(
The plane executing the goofy loop thing will not survive the complex and inacurate manouvre. The pilots probably know they're going to die. Wouldn't it be better to fly the plane itself into the target? Kind of like an uber-kamikazi?
Well, must go to another universe right now to get my dinner, see (or rather not see :P) all you fols from different universes later!
However, I'm not all for this way of doing it. We all know how dirty a single user computer can get, I can't be bothered looking up the /. article ID. Now imagine the same amount of dirt and pathogens times a hundered. Then factor in that not everywhere has battled diseases like tuberculosis as effectivly as we have in the Western nations.
This isn't intended to be racist, sorry if it comes across as such, but I think such a system would be an almost ideal breeding ground for infectious disease.
1) Buy wireless AP 2) Get fast-assed broadband 3) Encourage neigbours to buy wifi cards to access your broadband connection And the rest writes itself!
I'd insist on a job title of "Lord Uber-Geek". Rolls right off the tongue!
OK, i haven't read the linked article and I don't really understand all of what's talked about on /., but the actual /. posting said the vuln. was also to be found in the 2k and XP versions of windows.
This is all about the differeny bits of linux, the other similar post was just about the different bits.
Is it just me, or is the grammar in Slashdot postings getting worse over time?
You're also looking for all the live chicken oral beheading hotspots too, being a geek, eh?
I'd like to see these pissy bee-bots bringing a hyperdrive to 800% efficiency. Or evolving into cellular units that are invincible even to our projectile weapons.
Pah.
The hammer has been repeatedly and forcefully beaten with rocks, nails and many other hard, tough things. While it may be susceptible to damage by fire, an inexpensice upgrade to an aluminium shaft should all but eliminate this possible weak point in an otherwise invincible product.
The palmtop (A Handspring Visor Edge, circa 2002) has been through almost as much; it's been dropped off of tables onto carpeted floors, dropped from chest-hight onto supermarket tiled floors and thrown onto thinly carpeted concrete floors during a poorly conceived Captain Kirk-style wrist-flip at school. It was even dropped and stepped on once (its most recent misfortune), but escaped having sustained only minor cosmetic damage and a slightly dabaged hinge. Some superglue engineering fixed that though.
I won't bore you with the story of how my brother securely held onto an iMac motherboard by placing his unearthed sweaty palms across the contacts on the underside of the PCB, but I will mention that the computer worked perfectly afterwards...
Sure, there's loads of sites with advers which stick in my mind. Take slasdot, for instance, it has loads of great adverts. Like the one for that company that sells stuff that geeks would think are cool, green laser pointers and whatnot; can't quite remember their name or URL, it's just on the tip of my tongue. And there's the one I'm looking at right now, advertising some sort of hand-held three-in one communications device. And so on. So there.
I think he means a "snowball's chance" in the context that the other models people use have like "a snowball's chance in a supernova", so hell is a relatively comfortable environment for our frosty friends. Therefore salon's ads are relatively non-screwed.
I mean, I'm sure it's alright in some circles to talk about police constables with anoraks being shoved into cases, but I always thought those sort of situations were more the preserve of some of the world's seedier clubs...
Ah well, to each his own.
Wasn't that abandoned after the X-303 was hijacked, re-captured and helped by some funny little grey men to save their civilisation by fixing a time machine?