I tried submitting a story similar to this to/., but I kid you not -- we in the local LUG were threatened with ARREST for protesting when Hillary Rosen personally came to speak to praise us for our policies.
No one was for it after we were told that by one of the CS teachers, and the protest was dissolved.
It was just like when Bush went to Ohio State , except it was for a rich corporate billionaire, not just post 9/11 presidential security!
Smaller may be better, but that's mostly for portable devices. If it's not portable, then it makes no difference.
If I could get 50% off current computer prices for building computer inside a case the size of a refridgerator, I would. In fact, if it would make them any cheaper, computers should be getting bigger!
Seriously, does Canada just look for socialist excuses to bust the budget, waste untold sums of money on data entry and IT services for billions upon billions of documents in a giant database, and raise taxes past 50% for a database that only lawyers and bored hackers will ever use?
This isn't a step into the future -- it's just outright government waste. The Canadian government needs a line-item veto system even more than we do.
If the whole jail resided in its own actual virtual Linux machine, where nasty things cannot break the account, just the session, they would be quite a bit more effective.
There might be some sort of barbarism scenario like that in the future, seeing how wealth continues to polarize and concentrate in the top 1% of the US population while the third world poor breed out of control, thanks to the Pope.
If there was a cheap way to print out books other than sneaking into your local community college, since even laptops glare very badly in the sun, these might be worth reading. You will get pretty bad eyestrain reading an entire novel on the computer, though it's not bad for single-sitting things like Edgar Allen Poe.
The charge of a book should be more for the materials cost, since data -- especially text -- can be copied for absolute pennies, and could have been even back in the days of floppy disk sneakernet. Paperback is still the way to go for buying books until very cheap book reproduction can be done, or until we run out of trees.
---- Are you a Mallcore Kid? If so, kill yourself.
They might end up getting bullets in the head when we have a true corporate dictatorshiop.
And yes, similar copy protections just make it easier to crack.
The third point you made is quite true: just like with the drug war, all the government has to do is poison the drug supply to really, really mess with it. Virused cracks (or at least ones that install a SHITLOAD of spyware) would wreak havoc on the community.
Online schools deprive you of needed experience and interaction -- and that's particularly bad for the field of medicine, which requires LOTS of hands-on experience. Even worse than cassette tape courses at colleges, online degrees in general are a joke that the vast, vast majority of people flunk out of or quit.
The idea is a total waste of money -- there is no way that the brain drain will stop until for-profit Healthcare corporations quit hiring so many H1B doctors for wages that are much lower than doctors here yet are still higher than those in the third world; that goes for just about every other erudite profession, as well.
Most warez comes with cracks for SecuROM or whatever else already distributed with ISO, and whenever there's a patch, the patches are quickly cracked and distributed everywhere.
Even CD-Keys don't make much of a difference for not paying for the game -- servers are being cracked and emulated like crazy in everything from War3 to Battlefield to UT2k3 (just use buddy-lists).
There are a lot of people out there in the "scene" who are absolute Gods in disassembly and cracking, and nothing on Earth can stop them -- these people get the game and crack advanced protections on the way home on a laptop in a car.
Some music CDs I've seen bought on ebay are pretty authentic-looking; they must have used color laser printers or something, but the audio was right out of MP3s.
How can you tell? Take something like Audacity or CoolEdit Pro or whatever, open the track with it, and set the view mode to spectrum. If just about everything after 16000hz is missing, it's an MP3.
Eventually, due to the massive stock manipulation and watering that has taken place with companies like LNUX, leading only to a plummett and a loss of millions of dollars, as well as all kinds of corrupt business practices going on with KDE, Linux will go back underground.
That's a good thing -- each from their own and each to their needs works great in the software world with the ease of reproducing it, but when put into the cut-throat capitalism of Wall Street, all it is ever used for is to scam investors like crazy and make a few insiders rich.
Once those companies die, no business people will be able to have any say in Linux, and the kernel hackers will be in charge once again. It will really set Linux aside from other top-down dictatorial management commands that have ruined the late-90's economy, and from there... ????.... profit!:)
1. Must have spikey hair with frosted tips. 2. Must rap. 3. Must whine when not rapping.
4. Must tell people that you're real metal because you listen to Korn and Limp Bizkit. 5. All your lyrics must be about suicide, how shitty your life is and it must angry. 6. Everyone who has long hair is a hippie and gay. 7. Iron Maiden are not metal, they're "gay 70's/80's @#%$".
8. Korn are the gods metal. 9. Manson rules in your book, even though he's shock rock. 10. Must wear baggy ass pants that cover your feet so you can trip over them on stage. 11. If you don't have spikey hair, but rather dreads instead, you fuckin' rule!
12. Must tell people that not only are you "metal" but you're gothic as well. 13. Must insult your fans everytime you're on stage. 14. Must insult your band members everytime you're on stage. 15. Must think every band not on MTV or K-Rock, suck.
16. Must only be popular in the U.S. any place else would be uncivilized. 17. Must praise MTV for giving your shitty band a chance to rake in the dough. 18. Must buy a full length nu metal album just for the one hit wonder. Disregard all other songs.
19. You are only allowed to play 2 chords. Anything higher then 2 means you're too talented for the band. 20. If you don't hop up and down on stage, you suck. 21. When a new trend breaks in and you don't change, you're band is washed up and has always sucked.
22. If your favorite band is no longer popular, you must turn your back on them and make fun of them every chance you get. 23. Must make fun of every band that was popular in the past because they're no longer cool. 24. If you just recently got into In Flames, you're fuckin' bad ass.
25. Must think you're satanic, even though you don't own a satanic bible. 26. Korn's album "Life is Peachy" is so fuckin' satanic. 27. Must like at least one Britney Spears song, and the only reason you like it is because the music video was "gully".
28. When doing an interview you must talk really low, say "like" a lot, and at the same time, talk as if you were raised in the ghetto, even though you're a white boy who lived in a mansion growing up. 29. Must say you love your fans, but the second they download one of your songs off the internet, you tear them a new @#%$, because even though you have millions of dollars, your money's more important.
30. Only start a band for the money, not for the love of the music. 31. Metallica are your heroes. 32. Fat John Davis from, Korn is hot and sexy. 33. Fred Durst is bad ass because he mentions his band name in every fuckin' song, but if a band like, Manowar does it, it's not cool. 34. Must worship, Slipknot. 35. You must think Slipknot are the greatest "metal" band on the planet, even if they do suck.
36. Static-X are death metal because they toured with, Morbid Angel. You're not allowed to like them anymore. 37. One hit wonders, Drowning Pool are cool and the lead singer isn't really dead. He's just chillin'.
38. Must like at least one emo punk song. If you don't, you're a loser. 39. MTV is the greatest channel ever. 40. Carson Daly is cool. 41. That fat bald guy on MTV is soooooo metal and you worship his fatness. 42. There's no such thing as the underground. 43. Nu metal is the only metal in existence.
44. Korn's "Shoots and Ladder's" makes you cry. 45. "Shoots and Ladder's" is a power ballad that sooooo rules. 46. WWE Forceable Entry is the greatest "metal" comp. in the world. 47. Must only watch the Resident Evil movie for the music, @#%$ the games, @#%$ the story.
48. Life's a bitch. 49. Must like, Rage Against the Machine. 50. Must hate society, the government and the media, but want to be played all over MTV to make a lot of money and play big ass concerts in arena's. 51. Any music before 2001 is old.
52. I Know What You Did Last Summer and all 3 Scream movies are the best "horror" movies out there. 53. Who's Jason Voorhees? 54. You gotta like at least one rap album. 55. You hated, Ozzy Osbourne 5 years ago, but now that the Ozzfest has a band list of nu metal, he's your idol.
56. Must rip off every single "riff" from, Korn and Limp Bizkit, combine them and claim they're yours. 57. If you don't like, Pantera, you're not a bad ass and you're soooo gay. 58. Pantera were never glam, got it? 59. Black metal scares you. 60. Death metal scares you. 61. Power metal makes you fear sharp objects.
62. Glam Rock makes you cream your pants because they sing about parties and sex, but is still "gay 80's @#%$". 63. Must get into, Quiet Riot because, Manson let them play at a party of his. 64. "Faith" was written by, Fred Durst. 65. You're gay. 66. Anything loud is metal. 67. Must think people fear you, yet in reality, they are laughing at you.
68. Must drink beer just too look cool and then cry when you throw up. 69. Heh, heh, 69. 70. Must wanna @#%$, Britney Spears and then steal one of "her" songs. 71. The more you curse, the more bad ass you are. 72. The more you talk about how shitty life is, the cooler you are.
73. Linkin Park are so talented. 74. Staind are cool because they bitch about things. Bitching is cool. 75. Manowar are not the loudest band in the world, Korn are because they're popular and cool. 76. And last but not least, you must be voted the #1 greatest "metal" band of all time in Hit Parader magazine because you had one, ONE, hit and you're extremely bad ass and heavy
I'm glad they're busy tweaking out a decent interface and making it more readily-usable -- making sure everything's aligned right, implementing an xFree86 that can actually do dynamic resolution changes, sticking to a GUI standard, and so forth.
But if people spent more time working on or with Redhat and less time talking about/flaming it, it would have a lot more commercial success and would serve as a better bulwark against you-know-who.
Depressed and alone on Christmas break during college, I went on a Counter-Strike spree some day in the age of Beta5 that lasted 97 hours straight, only taking breaks to quit drinking coffee and urinate.
Tiredness did not matter -- everything was a copy of a copy, and I was some sort of killing machine, though I went from top of the list to somewhere in the middle after the first day. After two days, I was screwed up beyond recognition and was hallucinating, thinking that flowers were growing in de_nuke and that Beavis and Butthead were saying "Go Go Go!."
After the third day, my head and eyes hurt terribly, I had pissed myself and didn't notice for an hour as my legs were totally numb, and everything was a nightmare. I was so wacked out I couldn't do anything but shoot at things that weren't there...... but my obsession could not end as I sat alone in my dorm room.
I passed out, collapsed on the floor, and slept for two days (well, about 28 hours) afterwards and was drowsy with a TERRIBLE, GODAWFUL headache for the entire next week, which I pretty much spent in bed.
The digital identity that will finally make it is an 18-digit code, split into three parts of 6 digits, embedded in a chip in the forehead or the right hand!
Guardians of the moonlight bring the spell alive trought the sphere of sorrow lead my holy ride Titans of the desert face the warlord's pride fighters from the near lakes join the tragic night
War of the ghostland take your souls but give us freedom once and for all...firestorm!
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
Silent cries of virgins touch the heart of night raped by the demons under painful sights Sperm and blood and terror chaos in my head Is the law of evil triumph for the damned
War of the ghostland take your souls but give us freedom once and for all...firestorm!
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS...Moonlight is the witness of the most tragic day for our lands... nothing seems possible to change the destiny of war... Lament of heroes reach the deep skies fill the wide cosmos and free my pain... my pain!
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
It sounds like a good idea to fund technology that will improve our lives, but when the government uses public money to fund research that will eventually lead to large private profits by paying for the financial risk of researching the technology, it is corporate welfare.
You may like the technology, but corporate welfare is a huge drain on the treasury that only makes the rich richer, borders on socialism, and forces the taxpayer to take the fall for technology that won't work for private businesses.
More information on corporate welfare can be found here:
Slashdot Mirror
I tried submitting a story similar to this to /., but I kid you not -- we in the local LUG were threatened with ARREST for protesting when Hillary Rosen personally came to speak to praise us for our policies.
No one was for it after we were told that by one of the CS teachers, and the protest was dissolved.
It was just like when Bush went to Ohio State , except it was for a rich corporate billionaire, not just post 9/11 presidential security!
The Megatek corporation has a site full of stuff like that, somewhere in its "For Kids" section.
http://megatek.netfirms.com/intro.html
Smaller may be better, but that's mostly for portable devices. If it's not portable, then it makes no difference.
If I could get 50% off current computer prices for building computer inside a case the size of a refridgerator, I would. In fact, if it would make them any cheaper, computers should be getting bigger!
I actually beat you to it.
I've never gotten a fp before, nor have I ever expected to get one.
Maybe it's just because I quit drugfucking myself during the 20 second wait time.
Who needs a Wintendo gaming system anymore if all these games run under Linux?
Seriously, does Canada just look for socialist excuses to bust the budget, waste untold sums of money on data entry and IT services for billions upon billions of documents in a giant database, and raise taxes past 50% for a database that only lawyers and bored hackers will ever use?
This isn't a step into the future -- it's just outright government waste. The Canadian government needs a line-item veto system even more than we do.
Though it seems like a virtual system, a chroot cell is not totally virtual, and there can still be plenty of comprosmises.
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Like usual, all you need is access to a compiler, and you can make a jailbreak. In fact, there's a whole guide to it here:
http://www.bpfh.net/simes/computing/chroot-break.
If the whole jail resided in its own actual virtual Linux machine, where nasty things cannot break the account, just the session, they would be quite a bit more effective.
There might be some sort of barbarism scenario like that in the future, seeing how wealth continues to polarize and concentrate in the top 1% of the US population while the third world poor breed out of control, thanks to the Pope.
If there was a cheap way to print out books other than sneaking into your local community college, since even laptops glare very badly in the sun, these might be worth reading. You will get pretty bad eyestrain reading an entire novel on the computer, though it's not bad for single-sitting things like Edgar Allen Poe.
The charge of a book should be more for the materials cost, since data -- especially text -- can be copied for absolute pennies, and could have been even back in the days of floppy disk sneakernet. Paperback is still the way to go for buying books until very cheap book reproduction can be done, or until we run out of trees.
----
Are you a Mallcore Kid? If so, kill yourself.
They might end up getting bullets in the head when we have a true corporate dictatorshiop.
And yes, similar copy protections just make it easier to crack.
The third point you made is quite true: just like with the drug war, all the government has to do is poison the drug supply to really, really mess with it. Virused cracks (or at least ones that install a SHITLOAD of spyware) would wreak havoc on the community.
Online schools deprive you of needed experience and interaction -- and that's particularly bad for the field of medicine, which requires LOTS of hands-on experience. Even worse than cassette tape courses at colleges, online degrees in general are a joke that the vast, vast majority of people flunk out of or quit.
The idea is a total waste of money -- there is no way that the brain drain will stop until for-profit Healthcare corporations quit hiring so many H1B doctors for wages that are much lower than doctors here yet are still higher than those in the third world; that goes for just about every other erudite profession, as well.
I just made all that shit up :D
Most warez comes with cracks for SecuROM or whatever else already distributed with ISO, and whenever there's a patch, the patches are quickly cracked and distributed everywhere.
Even CD-Keys don't make much of a difference for not paying for the game -- servers are being cracked and emulated like crazy in everything from War3 to Battlefield to UT2k3 (just use buddy-lists).
There are a lot of people out there in the "scene" who are absolute Gods in disassembly and cracking, and nothing on Earth can stop them -- these people get the game and crack advanced protections on the way home on a laptop in a car.
Most CDs sold on ebay are pirated.
Some music CDs I've seen bought on ebay are pretty authentic-looking; they must have used color laser printers or something, but the audio was right out of MP3s.
How can you tell? Take something like Audacity or CoolEdit Pro or whatever, open the track with it, and set the view mode to spectrum. If just about everything after 16000hz is missing, it's an MP3.
Eventually, due to the massive stock manipulation and watering that has taken place with companies like LNUX, leading only to a plummett and a loss of millions of dollars, as well as all kinds of corrupt business practices going on with KDE, Linux will go back underground.
... ???? .... profit! :)
That's a good thing -- each from their own and each to their needs works great in the software world with the ease of reproducing it, but when put into the cut-throat capitalism of Wall Street, all it is ever used for is to scam investors like crazy and make a few insiders rich.
Once those companies die, no business people will be able to have any say in Linux, and the kernel hackers will be in charge once again. It will really set Linux aside from other top-down dictatorial management commands that have ruined the late-90's economy, and from there
76 RULES OF NU METAL
1. Must have spikey hair with frosted tips. 2. Must rap. 3. Must whine when not rapping.
4. Must tell people that you're real metal because you listen to Korn and Limp Bizkit. 5. All your lyrics must be about suicide, how shitty your life is and it must angry. 6. Everyone who has long hair is a hippie and gay. 7. Iron Maiden are not metal, they're "gay 70's/80's @#%$".
8. Korn are the gods metal. 9. Manson rules in your book, even though he's shock rock. 10. Must wear baggy ass pants that cover your feet so you can trip over them on stage. 11. If you don't have spikey hair, but rather dreads instead, you fuckin' rule!
12. Must tell people that not only are you "metal" but you're gothic as well. 13. Must insult your fans everytime you're on stage. 14. Must insult your band members everytime you're on stage. 15. Must think every band not on MTV or K-Rock, suck.
16. Must only be popular in the U.S. any place else would be uncivilized. 17. Must praise MTV for giving your shitty band a chance to rake in the dough. 18. Must buy a full length nu metal album just for the one hit wonder. Disregard all other songs.
19. You are only allowed to play 2 chords. Anything higher then 2 means you're too talented for the band. 20. If you don't hop up and down on stage, you suck. 21. When a new trend breaks in and you don't change, you're band is washed up and has always sucked.
22. If your favorite band is no longer popular, you must turn your back on them and make fun of them every chance you get. 23. Must make fun of every band that was popular in the past because they're no longer cool. 24. If you just recently got into In Flames, you're fuckin' bad ass.
25. Must think you're satanic, even though you don't own a satanic bible. 26. Korn's album "Life is Peachy" is so fuckin' satanic. 27. Must like at least one Britney Spears song, and the only reason you like it is because the music video was "gully".
28. When doing an interview you must talk really low, say "like" a lot, and at the same time, talk as if you were raised in the ghetto, even though you're a white boy who lived in a mansion growing up. 29. Must say you love your fans, but the second they download one of your songs off the internet, you tear them a new @#%$, because even though you have millions of dollars, your money's more important.
30. Only start a band for the money, not for the love of the music. 31. Metallica are your heroes. 32. Fat John Davis from, Korn is hot and sexy. 33. Fred Durst is bad ass because he mentions his band name in every fuckin' song, but if a band like, Manowar does it, it's not cool. 34. Must worship, Slipknot. 35. You must think Slipknot are the greatest "metal" band on the planet, even if they do suck.
36. Static-X are death metal because they toured with, Morbid Angel. You're not allowed to like them anymore. 37. One hit wonders, Drowning Pool are cool and the lead singer isn't really dead. He's just chillin'.
38. Must like at least one emo punk song. If you don't, you're a loser. 39. MTV is the greatest channel ever. 40. Carson Daly is cool. 41. That fat bald guy on MTV is soooooo metal and you worship his fatness. 42. There's no such thing as the underground. 43. Nu metal is the only metal in existence.
44. Korn's "Shoots and Ladder's" makes you cry. 45. "Shoots and Ladder's" is a power ballad that sooooo rules. 46. WWE Forceable Entry is the greatest "metal" comp. in the world. 47. Must only watch the Resident Evil movie for the music, @#%$ the games, @#%$ the story.
48. Life's a bitch. 49. Must like, Rage Against the Machine. 50. Must hate society, the government and the media, but want to be played all over MTV to make a lot of money and play big ass concerts in arena's. 51. Any music before 2001 is old.
52. I Know What You Did Last Summer and all 3 Scream movies are the best "horror" movies out there. 53. Who's Jason Voorhees? 54. You gotta like at least one rap album. 55. You hated, Ozzy Osbourne 5 years ago, but now that the Ozzfest has a band list of nu metal, he's your idol.
56. Must rip off every single "riff" from, Korn and Limp Bizkit, combine them and claim they're yours. 57. If you don't like, Pantera, you're not a bad ass and you're soooo gay. 58. Pantera were never glam, got it? 59. Black metal scares you. 60. Death metal scares you. 61. Power metal makes you fear sharp objects.
62. Glam Rock makes you cream your pants because they sing about parties and sex, but is still "gay 80's @#%$". 63. Must get into, Quiet Riot because, Manson let them play at a party of his. 64. "Faith" was written by, Fred Durst. 65. You're gay. 66. Anything loud is metal. 67. Must think people fear you, yet in reality, they are laughing at you.
68. Must drink beer just too look cool and then cry when you throw up. 69. Heh, heh, 69. 70. Must wanna @#%$, Britney Spears and then steal one of "her" songs. 71. The more you curse, the more bad ass you are. 72. The more you talk about how shitty life is, the cooler you are.
73. Linkin Park are so talented. 74. Staind are cool because they bitch about things. Bitching is cool. 75. Manowar are not the loudest band in the world, Korn are because they're popular and cool. 76. And last but not least, you must be voted the #1 greatest "metal" band of all time in Hit Parader magazine because you had one, ONE, hit and you're extremely bad ass and heavy
I'm glad they're busy tweaking out a decent interface and making it more readily-usable -- making sure everything's aligned right, implementing an xFree86 that can actually do dynamic resolution changes, sticking to a GUI standard, and so forth.
But if people spent more time working on or with Redhat and less time talking about/flaming it, it would have a lot more commercial success and would serve as a better bulwark against you-know-who.
...that's probably it. Your heart can just stop during manic episodes due to extreme physical/mental stress.
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I'm bipolar myself, and wasn't medicated at the time, so that's probably why I played cstrike for 97 hours, which is posted below:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=41928&thresho
Depressed and alone on Christmas break during college, I went on a Counter-Strike spree some day in the age of Beta5 that lasted 97 hours straight, only taking breaks to quit drinking coffee and urinate.
Tiredness did not matter -- everything was a copy of a copy, and I was some sort of killing machine, though I went from top of the list to somewhere in the middle after the first day. After two days, I was screwed up beyond recognition and was hallucinating, thinking that flowers were growing in de_nuke and that Beavis and Butthead were saying "Go Go Go!."
After the third day, my head and eyes hurt terribly, I had pissed myself and didn't notice for an hour as my legs were totally numb, and everything was a nightmare. I was so wacked out I couldn't do anything but shoot at things that weren't there...... but my obsession could not end as I sat alone in my dorm room.
I passed out, collapsed on the floor, and slept for two days (well, about 28 hours) afterwards and was drowsy with a TERRIBLE, GODAWFUL headache for the entire next week, which I pretty much spent in bed.
The digital identity that will finally make it is an 18-digit code, split into three parts of 6 digits, embedded in a chip in the forehead or the right hand!
Beware, the end times are near!
More information can be found here:
http://www.bible-prophecy.com/mark.htm
Almost forgot:
http://rainof1000flames.cjb.net
Lots of other fireball sightings are documented on here.
The day of wrath is upon us!
...firestorm!
...firestorm!
...Moonlight is the witness of the most tragic day for our lands...
Rhapsody - Rain Of A Thousand Flames
DIES IRAE
REGNA NELL' OSCURITA'
Guardians of the moonlight bring the spell alive
trought the sphere of sorrow lead my holy ride
Titans of the desert face the warlord's pride
fighters from the near lakes join the tragic night
War of the ghostland take your souls
but give us freedom once and for all
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
Silent cries of virgins touch the heart of night
raped by the demons under painful sights
Sperm and blood and terror chaos in my head
Is the law of evil triumph for the damned
War of the ghostland take your souls
but give us freedom once and for all
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW OF FALLING STARS
nothing seems possible to change the destiny of war...
Lament of heroes reach the deep skies
fill the wide cosmos and free my pain... my pain!
UNDER THE RAIN OF A THOUSAND FLAMES
WE FACE THE REAL PAIN FALLING IN VAIN
WHILE THE DARK ANGEL SCREAMS FOR VENGEANCE
IN THE DEAD SHADOW
OF FALLING STARS
DIES IRAE
REGNA NELL' OSCURITA'
Too bad he couldn't afford Cesium or Francium!
...and that's why you should actually use those MD5 checksums, instead of unpacking and installing without thinking.
They may have used the Holodeck to meet with Einstein and Newton on Star Trek, but we're too irresponsible with our technology to do that.
Immersible fog technology will be used for only one thing: PORNO, the same technology that brought a VCR and a computer into every household.
Fog porn will be the collapse of society! Beware!
It sounds like a good idea to fund technology that will improve our lives, but when the government uses public money to fund research that will eventually lead to large private profits by paying for the financial risk of researching the technology, it is corporate welfare.
You may like the technology, but corporate welfare is a huge drain on the treasury that only makes the rich richer, borders on socialism, and forces the taxpayer to take the fall for technology that won't work for private businesses.
More information on corporate welfare can be found here:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-9.html
http://www.citizen.org/congress/welfare/index.cfm