Eventually we'll turn out a swath of military officers who are very good at running teams of droids. Then we'll need some droids. In the meantime, here's a story.
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A new user entering the internet is like your first time using the communal prison showers.
Those with previous experience (Custom Linux installation) will know there's security options and will pick, for example, "buttcheeks=open" or "buttcheeks=closed" depending on what they plan to do.
The new users won't know there's an option until it's pointed out to them some time in the future.
MacOSX follows "recommended best practice" and starts you off with buttcheeks=closed, and if that ever becomes a problem, hopefully you'll look into it yourself and figure out which option needs changing to enhance your experience.
Windows apparently starts with buttcheeks=open, because they don't want to deny their users the full internet experience. Or something.
Depends - how fast is it moving? I was going to say something funny about relativistic speeds and extra electron charge, which would be true of flash memory, but darn it hard drives still use magnetic domains this decade. Apologies.
Also as a Type 1 diabetic, I might expect a restricted lifespan from the side-effects, but I would also expect my lifespan to be extended if I had all the benefits Yoda does.
Dietician-designed food within easy reach, doesn't need to work for a living, has (large) women brought to him, cared for by a team of doctors... what more do you need?
Desktop nuclear fission, eh? Sure the power generation is less than parity, but a portable neutron generating device could be used for so many things - medical scans, security scans, neutron vision goggles...
Conversation started by my wife, last week, while commuting, after watching "The Shipping News":
"When you die, have you thought about whether you want to be buried or cremated?" "Cremated. Less room and less money." "But would you want your ashes buried with me, or taken back to Canada, or what?" "Hmm.." "You wouldn't want them to be just scattered, would you?" "I've got it! How about putting them into a really big firework, and exploding them across the sky?" "A...firework?" "Yeah! Everyone attending would be looking up, and BOOM! there he goes." "That's stupid." "And of course there would be lots of drinking at the wake, and reminiscing about the big explosion I made." "..." "I suppose if the explosion were REALLY big, you'd have a few shattered windows within the blast radius. You could pay for those out of the money you save on a burial. Although the noise could cause a few heart failures in elderly people... hmm, a funereal chain reaction..." "Shut up now." "I wonder if mixing me with a spoonful of actual napalm wouldn't go astray?" "I'm going to put on a CD, ok?"
Yes, but teenagers consider themselves to be immortal (or, to clarify, invulnerable) and their parents stupid. As attributed to Mark Twain:
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
So they're not likely to properly weigh the risks.
Military? Are you saying the alien abductions and implants left in the abductees are connected to secret programs run by the US Military? Using timeshared UFO technology?
That's ridiculous, Mulder.
Mind you, I can't see a computer chip and MEMS vapor pump being bad at this, if they had a direct means of measuring the insulin/glucose and closing the feedback loop. Short time duration shouldn't be hard for a 10+MHz processor to handle. "VeryVeryFrequently" as mentioned above is by comparison to the usual 2-4 injections per *day* that diabetics use. Cyclic checks and adjustments once a second might even be enough, but I'd prefer tenths of a second myself. Contact lenses would be easier to replace than embedded chips under the skin, too, which was my first idea.
Caught in a loop and I can't log out I've been hacked on my port 80 Why can't I free system memory Why didn't McAffe's checker save me
I cant go online ever with these malicious MIMEs Now I know I should have never clicked suspicious MIMEs...
Popup windows that I can't ever close Backspawn themselves and won't go away My javascript's bad I guess I've been had by some script kiddie based in Bombay
My own ISP is denying service to me They say I hosted last night's ping storm And I'm spamming the net and people I've never met Are questioning my taste in p0rn
I cant go online ever with these malicious MIMEs Now I know I should have never clicked suspicious MIMEs...
I decided long ago I wasn't going to have the time to do everything.
People specialize. By spending time on a subject, they can discover more and learn more about it. But we can't do this with everything we want to know about because there's too many things in the world, and we all have to eat, sleep, and earn money sometime. So sooner or later we have to take the shortcut of deciding whether or not we can believe what Professor X is telling us, and listen to him instead of doing the years of research ourselves. This is irrelevant of our intelligence.
Apparently you're specializing in Paranoia and Conspiracy Theory. Which has its place. But there's way too much information out there for even most of it to be lies.
Well, it seems to me that radiated heat _will_ pass freely across the vacuum, keeping both sides in equilibrium. Why wouldn't it? Visible light and IR both travel through vacuum.
So if your circuit did manage to pump light energy from one side to the other, it would leak back as radiated heat.
Hmm. What if you had a highly insulated box, with only an LED to pump light/energy to the outside world? Would the IR photocell inside suck up a significant amount of heat from the contents, forming a heat pump?
I had to quickly check the black box definition on http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i869620,00.html
Food, water, electricity, and telecommunications.
The Coalition has so far left water and electricity supplies alone in Baghdad but knocked out a telecommunications center this morning.
Admittedly food and water are most important for survival, but communication isn't as far down on the vital-to-society list as you might think. This IS infrastructure. And GSM towers go up quite quickly compared to laying fiber or copper lines.
My situation was similar - surprised by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at age 25, a few months after the major lifestyle change of moving to Ireland, getting a mobile phone, cooking my own food. No history in my family. Good health, even skinny.
As a brother-in-law said, there's never been a better time to be diabetic. Thanks to insulin treatment, it's mostly an inconvenience; 100 years ago, it would be an agonizing life of sickness and early death.
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As someone wittier than I related when these rumors of Windows-boot first started flying:
SARUMAN: "Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were Elves once."
Eventually we'll turn out a swath of military officers who are very good at running teams of droids. Then we'll need some droids. In the meantime, here's a story.
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=10823
A new user entering the internet is like your first time using the communal prison showers.
Those with previous experience (Custom Linux installation) will know there's security options and will pick, for example, "buttcheeks=open" or "buttcheeks=closed" depending on what they plan to do.
The new users won't know there's an option until it's pointed out to them some time in the future.
MacOSX follows "recommended best practice" and starts you off with buttcheeks=closed, and if that ever becomes a problem, hopefully you'll look into it yourself and figure out which option needs changing to enhance your experience.
Windows apparently starts with buttcheeks=open, because they don't want to deny their users the full internet experience. Or something.
Depends - how fast is it moving?
I was going to say something funny about relativistic speeds and extra electron charge, which would be true of flash memory, but darn it hard drives still use magnetic domains this decade. Apologies.
Also as a Type 1 diabetic, I might expect a restricted lifespan from the side-effects, but I would also expect my lifespan to be extended if I had all the benefits Yoda does.
Dietician-designed food within easy reach, doesn't need to work for a living, has (large) women brought to him, cared for by a team of doctors... what more do you need?
Well, maybe an internet connection.
Sorry, that's "fusion", not fission. As in heavy-acetone ultrasound-modulated fusion.
Desktop nuclear fission, eh? Sure the power generation is less than parity, but a portable neutron generating device could be used for so many things - medical scans, security scans, neutron vision goggles...
and of course
Shark-mounted Neutron Cannon.
Conversation started by my wife, last week, while commuting, after watching "The Shipping News":
"When you die, have you thought about whether you want to be buried or cremated?"
"Cremated. Less room and less money."
"But would you want your ashes buried with me, or taken back to Canada, or what?"
"Hmm.."
"You wouldn't want them to be just scattered, would you?"
"I've got it! How about putting them into a really big firework, and exploding them across the sky?"
"A...firework?"
"Yeah! Everyone attending would be looking up, and BOOM! there he goes."
"That's stupid."
"And of course there would be lots of drinking at the wake, and reminiscing about the big explosion I made."
"..."
"I suppose if the explosion were REALLY big, you'd have a few shattered windows within the blast radius. You could pay for those out of the money you save on a burial. Although the noise could cause a few heart failures in elderly people... hmm, a funereal chain reaction..."
"Shut up now."
"I wonder if mixing me with a spoonful of actual napalm wouldn't go astray?"
"I'm going to put on a CD, ok?"
Yes, but teenagers consider themselves to be immortal (or, to clarify, invulnerable) and their parents stupid. As attributed to Mark Twain:
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
So they're not likely to properly weigh the risks.
Military? Are you saying the alien abductions and implants left in the abductees are connected to secret programs run by the US Military? Using timeshared UFO technology? That's ridiculous, Mulder.
*claps*
No, only the Special Edition came with the vibrator.
Mind you, I can't see a computer chip and MEMS vapor pump being bad at this, if they had a direct means of measuring the insulin/glucose and closing the feedback loop. Short time duration shouldn't be hard for a 10+MHz processor to handle. "VeryVeryFrequently" as mentioned above is by comparison to the usual 2-4 injections per *day* that diabetics use. Cyclic checks and adjustments once a second might even be enough, but I'd prefer tenths of a second myself. Contact lenses would be easier to replace than embedded chips under the skin, too, which was my first idea.
I've heard of ships being struck by flying fish, but never winged seals.
Caught in a loop
and I can't log out
I've been hacked on my port 80
Why can't I free
system memory
Why didn't McAffe's checker save me
I cant go online ever
with these malicious MIMEs
Now I know I should have never
clicked suspicious MIMEs...
Popup windows
that I can't ever close
Backspawn themselves and won't go away
My javascript's bad
I guess I've been had
by some script kiddie based in Bombay
My own ISP
is denying service to me
They say I hosted last night's ping storm
And I'm spamming the net
and people I've never met
Are questioning my taste in p0rn
I cant go online ever
with these malicious MIMEs
Now I know I should have never
clicked suspicious MIMEs...
I decided long ago I wasn't going to have the time to do everything.
People specialize. By spending time on a subject, they can discover more and learn more about it. But we can't do this with everything we want to know about because there's too many things in the world, and we all have to eat, sleep, and earn money sometime. So sooner or later we have to take the shortcut of deciding whether or not we can believe what Professor X is telling us, and listen to him instead of doing the years of research ourselves.
This is irrelevant of our intelligence.
Apparently you're specializing in Paranoia and Conspiracy Theory. Which has its place. But there's way too much information out there for even most of it to be lies.
PS. Zero Point Energy is cool. Tell us more.
Well, it seems to me that radiated heat _will_ pass freely across the vacuum, keeping both sides in equilibrium. Why wouldn't it? Visible light and IR both travel through vacuum.
c i869620,00.html
So if your circuit did manage to pump light energy from one side to the other, it would leak back as radiated heat.
Hmm. What if you had a highly insulated box, with only an LED to pump light/energy to the outside world? Would the IR photocell inside suck up a significant amount of heat from the contents, forming a heat pump?
I had to quickly check the black box definition on http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_g
Food, water, electricity, and telecommunications. The Coalition has so far left water and electricity supplies alone in Baghdad but knocked out a telecommunications center this morning. Admittedly food and water are most important for survival, but communication isn't as far down on the vital-to-society list as you might think. This IS infrastructure. And GSM towers go up quite quickly compared to laying fiber or copper lines.
It's still advertised as Duck Tape in my local hardware store in Ireland, although this may be a brand name.
Here's the link: Parapsychology
My situation was similar - surprised by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at age 25, a few months after the major lifestyle change of moving to Ireland, getting a mobile phone, cooking my own food. No history in my family. Good health, even skinny.
As a brother-in-law said, there's never been a better time to be diabetic. Thanks to insulin treatment, it's mostly an inconvenience; 100 years ago, it would be an agonizing life of sickness and early death.
On that cheery note, I'll start pricing tatoos.