He could create a whole lot of fake characters to simulate the news, inventing fake but entertaining stories.
Of course that would put the existing Fox News team out of a job, but I bet Sim's come a whole lot cheaper.
Re:Freedom requires vigilance
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Strike on Iraq
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The states of Iraq, along with Iran, Syria and Saudia Arabia condone and finance militant anti-Western terrorists. They routinely call for the destruction of "infidels" (read: Western non-Islamic nations).
But the destruction of non-Western Islamic states is fine with you.
"Support the troops". Just another cynical attempt to beat down opposition to the war. You'd think people who made a career choice to kill other people would be tough enough to handle criticism. Obviously not.
An unnamed government agency in Canberra,Australia had two seperate office locations. Traffic went from the outside to Office A, and then on to Office B. Well, people in Office B complained about the slow connection to the outside world and asked for greater bandwidth between A and B. A Network Analyst friend of mine investigated the traffic on the pipe between A and B and found that 90% of it was, you guessed it, pr0n.
Interesting story, but it seems to have been missed by all major chess magzines and chess journalists. I see there are links to biographies of various players, but none to a source of the anecdote itself. Could this be provided?
Despite what you people think, Howard is not racist. The Tampa people actually hijacked a ship (they were allowed on, however they threaten to throw people overboard if the captain didn't go to Australia).
This is wrong in so many ways. While the first sentence may be a matter of opinion other evidence shows it is certainly wrong. The second sentence is wrong in fact. There was no hijack and no threats to throw children overboard. The notion of children being thrown overboard was a fabrication of the Howard government to garner the racist vote at the last election. The following quote sums it up quite well:"Not everyone who voted for Howard is racist, but everyone who is racist voted for Howard"
If we can do this I can imagine a new form of the Turing Test. Put a Magic player and a Magic playing computer together. Then see if an observer can determine who the biggest loser is.
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The End Of Minix?
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Maybe we should be using Minix/Linux as the correct name?
If we were colonized by criminals I would expect more freedoms rather than less. Instead this is the result of being colonised by gaolers (to use the english spelling), the criminals were just along for the ride.
As has been noted elsewhere, Australia has very few legislated rights and freedoms. We don't even have the right to arm bears.
Just arrive by boat, tell them your a Muslim, and the government will take you straight to Woomera, free of charge!
The only drawback is you can't leave.
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Let me guess, you're a big cricket fan. Am I right?
Here you go http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20 030319-1.html
They're still waiting on returns from the testing team code named "Script Kiddies"
They seem unable to hear the phrase "8 straight hours of Bomberman is enough, its time for bed", no matter how loud I yell it.
Maybe Microsoft should point out what happened to Guatemala after they annoyed the United Fruit Company in 1954.
He could create a whole lot of fake characters to simulate the news, inventing fake but entertaining stories. Of course that would put the existing Fox News team out of a job, but I bet Sim's come a whole lot cheaper.
The states of Iraq, along with Iran, Syria and Saudia Arabia condone and finance militant anti-Western terrorists. They routinely call for the destruction of "infidels" (read: Western non-Islamic nations). But the destruction of non-Western Islamic states is fine with you.
"Support the troops". Just another cynical attempt to beat down opposition to the war. You'd think people who made a career choice to kill other people would be tough enough to handle criticism. Obviously not.
I've have one on my desktop already.
The ANU Wedge
Of course it's a pretty big desk
Well, what other kind are there?
An unnamed government agency in Canberra,Australia had two seperate office locations. Traffic went from the outside to Office A, and then on to Office B. Well, people in Office B complained about the slow connection to the outside world and asked for greater bandwidth between A and B. A Network Analyst friend of mine investigated the traffic on the pipe between A and B and found that 90% of it was, you guessed it, pr0n.
Interesting story, but it seems to have been missed by all major chess magzines and chess journalists. I see there are links to biographies of various players, but none to a source of the anecdote itself. Could this be provided?
Despite what you people think, Howard is not racist. The Tampa people actually hijacked a ship (they were allowed on, however they threaten to throw people overboard if the captain didn't go to Australia).
This is wrong in so many ways. While the first sentence may be a matter of opinion other evidence shows it is certainly wrong. The second sentence is wrong in fact. There was no hijack and no threats to throw children overboard. The notion of children being thrown overboard was a fabrication of the Howard government to garner the racist vote at the last election. The following quote sums it up quite well:"Not everyone who voted for Howard is racist, but everyone who is racist voted for Howard"
Put the cheksums for trojaned programs in the database, then crack the popular download sites. Who would know?
No
Sorry, my definition of 'stretched' is to make it longer, not shorter.
If we can do this I can imagine a new form of the Turing Test. Put a Magic player and a Magic playing computer together. Then see if an observer can determine who the biggest loser is.
Maybe we should be using Minix/Linux as the correct name?
A redundant mod followed by ... a redundant mod. What happens when the mod is marked redundant?
Don't mind if I do!
If we were colonized by criminals I would expect more freedoms rather than less. Instead this is the result of being colonised by gaolers (to use the english spelling), the criminals were just along for the ride. As has been noted elsewhere, Australia has very few legislated rights and freedoms. We don't even have the right to arm bears.
Nothing like a robot in a white hat, looking like Abe Vigoda, and driving at 10mph to slow down advancing enemy tanks.
Just arrive by boat, tell them your a Muslim, and the government will take you straight to Woomera, free of charge! The only drawback is you can't leave.
IIRC Nolan Bushnell was developing a similar robot in the early 80's. And at the time it's ONLY selling point was the ability to fetch beer.
Set up your own company, rebrand Open SSH by changing a few comment lines and titles, then sell it to them for $20,000 or so. Eveyone wins!
the "News for nerds" part, rather than "the stuff that matters"