Bollocks. I don't do coke. I don't do drugs. I don't do anything I'm ashamed of.
If my doctor asks me something, I tell him truthfully. Sometimes though what I tell him is not what he wanted to ask. That's not due to my lying. It's due to my not understanding the question asked, or at least, not understanding what is important in regards to the question.
Google is like a knife: neither inherently good nor inherently evil.
Some people will do the equivalent of SEO and actually create lies about themselves that people will find. Literally, if you're smart about it when people google your name all they will see is that you are some sort of awesome human being. Link to press releases of you donating a kidney to some poor schmuck who couldn't afford it. Link to how Jesus washed your feet. Link to positive stuff.
Other people won't get it and the picture your ex girlfriend posted of you pissing yourself will make the front page of google.
When Tony Soprano had the Onstar and nav system ripped out of his new Escalade, who knew he was smarter than the NSA?
I remember Bruce Willis saying in an interview that before he decided to play a hitman in "The Whole 9 Yards" he went to visit some Mafia hitmen in Prison. They were thrilled to be consulted and quite a few of the things he said, or the mannerisms he picked up were in fact from the hit men.
It's funny because sometimes writers just make stuff up. Watch the writer's commentary from "The Thomas Crown Affair" and you'll find out much of the museum heist stuff was just to make a good show.
But other times, writers do research and from that put stuff in.
And it can be hard to tell what is made up and what is bonafide research. CIA agents who could contact the NSA and magically find out who you'd been emailing or where you'd been sounded crazy prior to Snowden's leaks.
Pay attention the next time you watch a movie. See if you can figure out what really is and what isn't.
60 kt nukes have been set off that don't destroy civilization. Setting off a 60 kt nuke would be bad, but you'd just basically get an area you couldn't fly over go near for 1000 years.
Sure beats the alternative.
Do I know how to do it? No. Could someone figure it out? Yes.
It's not about the amount of energy released it's about the time it takes to release the energy.
24MT of energy released in an instant is quite bad, but if you could somehow spread that out over millions of years it wouldn't have any effect.
If we can double, quadruple, or otherwise increase the amount of time the energy is increased it wouldn't be as bad.
Of course this is a relative term because perhaps releasing the same amount of energy over 1000x the time still would be very very very bad.
If it was certain that the yellowstone volcano was going to extinguish life as we know it, I think creative ways of popping a hot molten lava zit would be preferable to waiting around to die.
Maybe for instance the energy could be redirected to land no one cared about. (No not canada, maybe out into the ocean). Maybe it would be possible to create some sort of atmospheric hepa filter.
It'd still be bad but it's better than doing nothing.
A computer science course does not cover how to be a developer it covers the science of computing. Learning to be a developer is an on-the-job thing and takes some years.
You should more be asking what the CS graduates who decide to become developers are like in 5 years.
Or did you think Calc III and Diff Eq just weren't enough maths?
The scary thing about these sorts of shenanigans by companies is what if you're of average height, average build, brown hair, and your name is John Smith.
How can you know that the "investigation" they do into your facebook profile is actually on the right person?
Every so often one of those "updates" will be a service pack with significant changes to the system which are an upgrade.
Let's not argue semantics that because Microsoft defines an upgrade to be from one product to another (like XP to Vista) that an update is not a sort of upgrade.
There's plenty of places on earth with active volcanoes. Saying he's in a volcano narrows it down more then saying he's on planet earth, but it's still quite a large search area
Assume that his volcano lair is in a dormant volcano (because let's face it who wants to be inside an active volcano) and a lot of other mountains that used to be active volcanos some millions of years ago also become possible locations.
The difference is that whereas windows costs a few hundred dollars and Microsoft is giving away free upgrades, a car costs tens of thousands of dollars and upgrades cost money.
If Windows suddenly had the equivalent of an oil change / tune up for a couple bucks a pop every few months, Microsoft would be more likely to continue to support Windows XP. Hell, it might even still be supporting Win95
The problem with any sort of discussion like this is if indeed ESP exists, it exists so weakly that you have no way of knowing if your "coincidence" is really just the outcome of randomness or a true premonition.
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Bollocks. I don't do coke. I don't do drugs. I don't do anything I'm ashamed of.
If my doctor asks me something, I tell him truthfully. Sometimes though what I tell him is not what he wanted to ask. That's not due to my lying. It's due to my not understanding the question asked, or at least, not understanding what is important in regards to the question.
Patients don't lie. They just don't have a medical professional's understanding of what is and isn't important.
Autism is not an acute illness
Google is like a knife: neither inherently good nor inherently evil.
Some people will do the equivalent of SEO and actually create lies about themselves that people will find. Literally, if you're smart about it when people google your name all they will see is that you are some sort of awesome human being. Link to press releases of you donating a kidney to some poor schmuck who couldn't afford it. Link to how Jesus washed your feet. Link to positive stuff.
Other people won't get it and the picture your ex girlfriend posted of you pissing yourself will make the front page of google.
For all intents and purposes, "intensive purposes" is not correct english. This begs the question, why put it in a signature criticizing grammar? ;)
When Tony Soprano had the Onstar and nav system ripped out of his new Escalade, who knew he was smarter than the NSA?
I remember Bruce Willis saying in an interview that before he decided to play a hitman in "The Whole 9 Yards" he went to visit some Mafia hitmen in Prison. They were thrilled to be consulted and quite a few of the things he said, or the mannerisms he picked up were in fact from the hit men.
It's funny because sometimes writers just make stuff up. Watch the writer's commentary from "The Thomas Crown Affair" and you'll find out much of the museum heist stuff was just to make a good show.
But other times, writers do research and from that put stuff in.
And it can be hard to tell what is made up and what is bonafide research. CIA agents who could contact the NSA and magically find out who you'd been emailing or where you'd been sounded crazy prior to Snowden's leaks.
Pay attention the next time you watch a movie. See if you can figure out what really is and what isn't.
60 kt nukes have been set off that don't destroy civilization. Setting off a 60 kt nuke would be bad, but you'd just basically get an area you couldn't fly over go near for 1000 years.
Sure beats the alternative.
Do I know how to do it? No. Could someone figure it out? Yes.
It's not about the amount of energy released it's about the time it takes to release the energy.
24MT of energy released in an instant is quite bad, but if you could somehow spread that out over millions of years it wouldn't have any effect.
If we can double, quadruple, or otherwise increase the amount of time the energy is increased it wouldn't be as bad.
Of course this is a relative term because perhaps releasing the same amount of energy over 1000x the time still would be very very very bad.
If it was certain that the yellowstone volcano was going to extinguish life as we know it, I think creative ways of popping a hot molten lava zit would be preferable to waiting around to die.
Maybe for instance the energy could be redirected to land no one cared about. (No not canada, maybe out into the ocean). Maybe it would be possible to create some sort of atmospheric hepa filter.
It'd still be bad but it's better than doing nothing.
It's OK AC. Knowing you are 80% of the posters on slashdot, I now know 80% of slashdot loves and adores me
No they're just going to blame the NSA for being malicious hackers, and skip over taking any sort of responsibility for the situation.
There is a western and eastern hemisphere, of which antarctica occupies both parts.
http://geology.com/world/antarctica-map.jpg
Modded flame bait. How appropriate %)
Curry Tindaloo. I know that makes me blast off when I go to the toilet.
They're not lazy. They're smart.
They know they get paid for the people hired. The more shots in the dark the more people hired and the more commissions.
Just another example of incentives that cause bad behavior instead of good behavior.
M-x qt-mode
duh
A computer science course does not cover how to be a developer it covers the science of computing. Learning to be a developer is an on-the-job thing and takes some years.
You should more be asking what the CS graduates who decide to become developers are like in 5 years.
Or did you think Calc III and Diff Eq just weren't enough maths?
The scary thing about these sorts of shenanigans by companies is what if you're of average height, average build, brown hair, and your name is John Smith.
How can you know that the "investigation" they do into your facebook profile is actually on the right person?
Why do you think tinfoil hats are so effective? ;)
Spooks are not Aes Sedai
Every so often one of those "updates" will be a service pack with significant changes to the system which are an upgrade.
Let's not argue semantics that because Microsoft defines an upgrade to be from one product to another (like XP to Vista) that an update is not a sort of upgrade.
There's plenty of places on earth with active volcanoes. Saying he's in a volcano narrows it down more then saying he's on planet earth, but it's still quite a large search area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spreading_ridges_volcanoes_map-en.svg
Assume that his volcano lair is in a dormant volcano (because let's face it who wants to be inside an active volcano) and a lot of other mountains that used to be active volcanos some millions of years ago also become possible locations.
The difference is that whereas windows costs a few hundred dollars and Microsoft is giving away free upgrades, a car costs tens of thousands of dollars and upgrades cost money.
If Windows suddenly had the equivalent of an oil change / tune up for a couple bucks a pop every few months, Microsoft would be more likely to continue to support Windows XP. Hell, it might even still be supporting Win95
The problem with any sort of discussion like this is if indeed ESP exists, it exists so weakly that you have no way of knowing if your "coincidence" is really just the outcome of randomness or a true premonition.
And what would the rate of shark deaths be if Australia didn't already use helicopter spotters to get swimmers out of the water?
I'd agree it's not the most pressing issue. But if it's easily preventable, why not prevent it?
In europe, you stick 2 EUR coins on the girls boobs :)