I thought they only gave them memories with the newest prototype model (the one Harrison Ford falls in love with). The lack of memories to back up personalities was why the others failed the psychological tests at the beginning, methinks.
For the record, in all of my constant browsing Slashdot stories these last two years (or so), I've never seen a MiB joke. Simpsons and soviet russia and whatever show up everywhere; thus, they aren't funny. I had assumed that the moderators hadn't watched MiB or didn't get the reference.
There was me thinking that the Internet was designed from the outset to be resilient to attacks
I believe ARPAnet was designed to withstand physical attacks. If a bomb takes out a phone switching station, all the lines go down because the damage can't be bypassed. I doubt they were thinking about cyberattacks and virtual resilience.
What happens if a pedestrian walks into the intersection? If a car's brakes fail or it doesn't accelerate as fast as it should?
This would require that every car on the road has both extremely precise acceleration and precise location reference (possible with GPS, but even that only has resolution of a few meters).
In short, this tech certainly won't be around anytime soon.
You sure you don't mean jynnan tonnyx or tzjin-anthony-ks?
Douglas Adams, Restaruant at the End of the Universe:
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds./blockquote
Perhaps you missed the part that said "once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."
Slashdot Mirror
Now go ahead and mod me down for being a crotchety old man.
What, you're 21?
Who do you think are you, Dick Tracy? :P
Oh, and you forgot the standard Bond remote detonator and high-power laser.
Ah. Quite right.
It would be YRO if michael were posting it, for sure.
I thought they only gave them memories with the newest prototype model (the one Harrison Ford falls in love with). The lack of memories to back up personalities was why the others failed the psychological tests at the beginning, methinks.
Thank you. :P
For the record, in all of my constant browsing Slashdot stories these last two years (or so), I've never seen a MiB joke. Simpsons and soviet russia and whatever show up everywhere; thus, they aren't funny. I had assumed that the moderators hadn't watched MiB or didn't get the reference.
I believe ARPAnet was designed to withstand physical attacks. If a bomb takes out a phone switching station, all the lines go down because the damage can't be bypassed. I doubt they were thinking about cyberattacks and virtual resilience.
For the clueless ones who modded the parent "overrated," the parent is quoting Agent K from Men in Black.
Much better.
My my, #10000000. The mind boggles.
As soon as people can also moderate the stories.
What happens if a pedestrian walks into the intersection? If a car's brakes fail or it doesn't accelerate as fast as it should?
This would require that every car on the road has both extremely precise acceleration and precise location reference (possible with GPS, but even that only has resolution of a few meters).
In short, this tech certainly won't be around anytime soon.
There are some pictures of the animal in question here.
I think you mean here.
Well, if it's not an animal or vegetable, then it must be a mineral!
(Besides, it is a fossil)
You sure you don't mean jynnan tonnyx or tzjin-anthony-ks?
Douglas Adams, Restaruant at the End of the Universe:
What are you, a Dadaist?
grammer
Grammar.
nazi's
There we go; I closed the tag on that one.
And I'm a grammar nazi, not an HTML-strict Nazi.
And an explicit comma, making them not two sentences.
I think you could try RTF thing under the main logo:
"Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Let's count.
One sentence!
Two sentences!
Ha ha ha! I love to count!
comming this summer. Well its summer
Ah, so all I have to do to get a story accepted is include terrible spelling, grammar, and punctuation!
That might explain a few things.
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Is that better? I swear I closed the tag, but accidents happen to everyone.
There's an implied "or" between the two sentences.
comming this summer. Well its summer
Ah, so all I have to do to get a story accepted is include terrible spelling, grammar, and punctuation!
That might explain a few things.
Perhaps you missed the part that said "once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."
some edict from The Fuhrer at Homeland Security
May I refer you to Godwin's Law?