You've got to be kidding me. David Lynch is an overblown, clumsy idiot. He can't coach actors, he can't put together a script with a coherent storyline, and he's certainly incapable of handling a storyline as rich as that of Dune. He's only in movies because it allows him to cast hotties like Naomi Watts to do topless shots, making his wanking easier at night.
The movie Dune was an utter failure - it did not capture half of the interest of the book's plotline, it used clunky voiceovers because Lynch couldn't figure out any way to explain the plot without them, half the dialogue comes out of nowhere unless you've read the book over a dozen times, etc. etc.
Hiring David Lynch to do Dune is like hiring Timmy from South Park to build a mansion. Raise your standards a little.
Just remember, Brits: We Americans have a loooooong memory. If it took us 220+ years to get you back for the tea tax, just imagine what we have planned as a retort for burninating Washington in 1812.
2 key points:
We now have a preemptive doctrine, and our intel clearly shows that the Brits have the bomb.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." An old adage, and who has America kept closer than the good old U.K.?
Why not set up your auto-replies with people's numbers from the DNC list? Then once the spammers call them, it will be a phone call, not solicited by the consumer (because someone else solicited it for them) and you could then sue the spammer under that federal law...
It's a heck of a lot more work to stuff 5,000,000 extra ballots into boxes around the country (town, state, county, whatever) than to write a program that does it.
It's the same reason email spam is a lot more annoying than bulk snailmail. So saying that this is just as hackable as paper ballots is, frankly, a stretch.
If they patent the process, the smart thing for them to do would be to release the decoder as a part of their basic freeware utility, then charge for the ability to zip/compress everything.
That way, you could always still send either an unencrypted or an encrypted zip - you pay for the ability to encrypt them, fine, but you can unencrypt them easily enough no matter where you are or whose winzip you're using.
It's kinda like Acrobat - anyone can read their files, nobody can create them without buying the utility (blah blah freeware acrobat writers, I know...)
The best thing about this technology, of course, is that we will be able to wear pace-makers into the qwikee-mart again.
Well, hot diggity shucky-dang! Nothin' thrills me more than grabbin' a pacemaker, slappin' it in and firin' it up, and headin' down to the ol' Qwikee-Mart!
Perhaps you misread my message. I was comparing them to countries like Ghana and Mongolia. Iraq is not Europe or China or Japan or us, but they are far more modern than where Geekcorps goes.
By your reasoning, since Enron didn't report their debt, they were one of the best companies in the world. Do you think that? How's your portfolio?
Inflation's bad, but you have to have an economy to have inflation. Look at the pictures of Iraq. It's not mud huts, it's oil fields, houses made with actual architecture and construction, it's got large buildings and stores on the corner and cars everywhere.
Going from what you said to "Iraq does not have an economy" is a Gallic leap of idiocy.
I had dinner with Ethan Zuckerman, GeekCorps' founder, a couple weeks ago. He explained to me during a discussion of another underdeveloped region that GeekCorps was aimed primarily at places with almost nothing - places like Ghana and Mongolia that for-profit companies would not touch.
Iraq has an internet infrastructure, a modern economy... There's money to be made there, and they are hardly backwater. They're not really GeekCorps territory at all, so don't expect to see them there.
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If you're using it as a honeypot, and can set a trigger from the virtual machine to the host machine (just a network blip of some sort with the host listening), you can actually have your honeypot suspend itself - completely preserving state, etc., before an intruder can cover their tracks.
The intruder, of course, loses their connection to it while it's suspended, but if your intrusion detection is good enough, you may be able to keep some info that you wouldn't otherwise have.
Another advantage is that if you keep VMWare disk images saved, you have effective backups and can simply restore a previous disk image if they *do* compromise it, whereas restoring a regular machine can take significantly more effort. So fixing the pot and pouring the honey back in is way easier unless you have a restore solution for your machine that involves something less than copying a single file.
Detonate the projectile - that will cause it to come apart, losing its aerodynamic attributes and probably causing minor shrapnel well away from its intended target. My guess would be it wouldn't work against non-explosive tank rounds, bulletsh [sic; Sean Connery], and the like.
You're hitting this thing, ideally, a mile or more away, so it's got plenty of time to come apart and be affected by its newly-lousy aerodynamics.
Well... It won't reflect off anything, for all intents and purposes. 2 things:
You're probably referring to light bending, or HAM radio waves bending, etc. Those waves are not coherent - a laser that actually bent like that would lose its coherence - in other words, spread out - long before it bent back to the ground. You're right to have it come to mind, but the same principle doesn't hold here.
Even when radio waves do bend back to earth, you're only getting a tiny fraction of the energy back from the source, so unless you're pumping exajoules through this thing (no way), that fraction would not hurt anything.
I guess we'll just take our chances with Mars, the birds, and the aliens. Airliners, as previously mentioned, are a non-issue. Your odds of hitting the ISS before the laser has dissipated enough (that's a lot of atmosphere in between) seem pretty low - even on the incredibly small chance you're actually pointing right at it.
This thing will usually be pointed more horizontally than vertically, esp. if it's going after rockets, so that's an awful lot of air - it doesn't dissipate much over short range, which seems to be its primary use.
All in all, I'd rather have our side have these than not have them.
Puh-lease. Like Israel is running out of stuff to shoot at people. This doesn't increase anybody's ability to harm anyone else - it's a defensive capability. We have 2000-lb bombs that land within a few feet of whatever we feel like. We have machine guns, artillery, and RPGs. So does Israel. This is a defensive machine - it doesn't significantly upgrade anyone's ability to kill someone over what already exists.
If it saves our lives on the battlefield, more power to them. What I really want to know is how often it can change targets and fire - that's the difference between stopping an artillery barrage or just a handful of rockets.
Your post was off-topic and irrelevant, and I hope it gets modded appropriately. Besides, even if you were on topic, if you're claiming the Palestinians are somehow without culpability and that Israel is the only wrongdoer, or even significantly worse than their adversary, you're insane, ill-informed, unbalanced, or any combination thereof.
I pray that in spite of short-sighted fools who preach what they don't really understand, there may someday be world peace. Also, I pray that people stop using names of their ex-significant-others as their handles.
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The movie Dune was an utter failure - it did not capture half of the interest of the book's plotline, it used clunky voiceovers because Lynch couldn't figure out any way to explain the plot without them, half the dialogue comes out of nowhere unless you've read the book over a dozen times, etc. etc.
Hiring David Lynch to do Dune is like hiring Timmy from South Park to build a mansion. Raise your standards a little.
Well, if that's what it takes, I say screw voting.
Wow, you've just implied the divine redemption of all gay people. What profound theological and moral thought! Strong work!
I mean, if dead gay people are good people, then all gay people end up good at some point! Can you then make the argument that they are saved? :)
Would that make you a duckie-rubber?
Viag-ramen?
It's more the fact that they're weaklings with a low pain tolerance. In short, they're complete nancies.
(OK, back to reading the JBoss documentation...)
2 key points:
- We now have a preemptive doctrine, and our intel clearly shows that the Brits have the bomb.
- "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." An old adage, and who has America kept closer than the good old U.K.?
Look out, limeys.Why not set up your auto-replies with people's numbers from the DNC list? Then once the spammers call them, it will be a phone call, not solicited by the consumer (because someone else solicited it for them) and you could then sue the spammer under that federal law...
What my source of knowledge was, typically. Good thing I found this article - I went to the internet immediately to find out, of course.
Effect is a verb. He just used it incorrectly. To effect = to do, as in "he effected a change", whereas to affect = to alter.
It's the same reason email spam is a lot more annoying than bulk snailmail. So saying that this is just as hackable as paper ballots is, frankly, a stretch.
That way, you could always still send either an unencrypted or an encrypted zip - you pay for the ability to encrypt them, fine, but you can unencrypt them easily enough no matter where you are or whose winzip you're using.
It's kinda like Acrobat - anyone can read their files, nobody can create them without buying the utility (blah blah freeware acrobat writers, I know...)
Think about it this way: At field rates, that's 150 literjons, so maybe it's not such a bad deal after all.
Now, in terms of the whole "No machine may be made in the likeness of a human mind" thing, we may have some other issues going on here. JIHAD!
Well, hot diggity shucky-dang! Nothin' thrills me more than grabbin' a pacemaker, slappin' it in and firin' it up, and headin' down to the ol' Qwikee-Mart!
By your reasoning, since Enron didn't report their debt, they were one of the best companies in the world. Do you think that? How's your portfolio?
Inflation's bad, but you have to have an economy to have inflation. Look at the pictures of Iraq. It's not mud huts, it's oil fields, houses made with actual architecture and construction, it's got large buildings and stores on the corner and cars everywhere.
Going from what you said to "Iraq does not have an economy" is a Gallic leap of idiocy.
Iraq has an internet infrastructure, a modern economy... There's money to be made there, and they are hardly backwater. They're not really GeekCorps territory at all, so don't expect to see them there.
The intruder, of course, loses their connection to it while it's suspended, but if your intrusion detection is good enough, you may be able to keep some info that you wouldn't otherwise have.
Another advantage is that if you keep VMWare disk images saved, you have effective backups and can simply restore a previous disk image if they *do* compromise it, whereas restoring a regular machine can take significantly more effort. So fixing the pot and pouring the honey back in is way easier unless you have a restore solution for your machine that involves something less than copying a single file.
VMWare is so damn cool.
Dune itself is one of the greatest books I've ever read, no doubt about it.
Don't blame something that's clearly been developed for many years, including during Clinton's reign.
You're hitting this thing, ideally, a mile or more away, so it's got plenty of time to come apart and be affected by its newly-lousy aerodynamics.
Nothing's perfect... yet
That's a *phasor*. Lasers are so 2280.
This thing will usually be pointed more horizontally than vertically, esp. if it's going after rockets, so that's an awful lot of air - it doesn't dissipate much over short range, which seems to be its primary use.
All in all, I'd rather have our side have these than not have them.
Puh-lease. Like Israel is running out of stuff to shoot at people. This doesn't increase anybody's ability to harm anyone else - it's a defensive capability. We have 2000-lb bombs that land within a few feet of whatever we feel like. We have machine guns, artillery, and RPGs. So does Israel. This is a defensive machine - it doesn't significantly upgrade anyone's ability to kill someone over what already exists. If it saves our lives on the battlefield, more power to them. What I really want to know is how often it can change targets and fire - that's the difference between stopping an artillery barrage or just a handful of rockets. Your post was off-topic and irrelevant, and I hope it gets modded appropriately. Besides, even if you were on topic, if you're claiming the Palestinians are somehow without culpability and that Israel is the only wrongdoer, or even significantly worse than their adversary, you're insane, ill-informed, unbalanced, or any combination thereof. I pray that in spite of short-sighted fools who preach what they don't really understand, there may someday be world peace. Also, I pray that people stop using names of their ex-significant-others as their handles.