They actually go over this very question in TFA. If you sue him for getting skin cancer, and if a court rules in your favor, they've just also ruled implicitly that he, in fact, does legitimately own the sun. That's just what he wants someone to do, I think.
Re:Logic, Logic -- Who's Got the Logic?
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I think the poster's logic was as follows:
If you have not seen the Beeb article, then this following bit of information is for you. D&D is 30 years old.
After all, for anyone who did see the article, that would just be redundant information.
A couple weeks ago I bought a silent PSU and cpu fan, and after installing them, my computer made roughly the same amount of noise. Turns out that most of the noise had been (and still is) coming from my two hard drives and my cd-rom drive.
If you use linux, you can find out just how loud your hard drives are by typing "hdparm -y/dev/hda/dev/hdb (etc)" replacing hda/hdb with the appropriate device names of your hard drives. The -y will put them into standby mode, making them spin down. For me, this makes the difference between lots of noise and hardly any noise.
The moral of this story is: don't get sucked into the hype of silent cpu fans like I did... when there are possibly much louder components to work on.
Come on now. A lot of the 256 ASCII characters can't possibly be used for passwords. Many of the others, nobody would want to use anyway. Do you want a DEL (127) or a Backspace (8) in your password? How about a null character (0)? How would you even type that? Realistically, I'd say that crypt() can already support as many characters as anyone would use.
Well, once they actually release their code and claim the money prize, their code is now open-source and anyone can look at it. It only motivates them to hide their work until the point where anyone uses it. But I think it's the same way in the current (unpaid) model of contribution... individuals' work is generally not available to anyone until they release it.
The website defacement archive at Zone-h shows that Linux accounts for 61% of the defacements in the last 24 hours
Well, what percentage of all websites are run on Linux? Do people who run webservers on Linux tend to put up more attractive targets for some reason? Maybe it's just more fun to break into a Linux system than a Windows one.
It's easy to see "61%" and jump to conclusions, but statistics can be manipulated so easily, you can't really trust them.
I don't really know much about nuclear physics... but if the half-life is a really long amount of time, doesn't that mean it isn't radiating very quickly, and therefore it isn't dangerous?
The half-life of Carbon-14 is only a few thousand years... and that isn't dangerous...
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They actually go over this very question in TFA. If you sue him for getting skin cancer, and if a court rules in your favor, they've just also ruled implicitly that he, in fact, does legitimately own the sun. That's just what he wants someone to do, I think.
I think it should be a constitutional amendment that Lawyers are not allowed to hold public office.
Sure, sounds like a plan! Let's just get this thing passed through congress and... um... crap.
then couldn't they also be used as microphones? The sound would just travel in the opposite direction.
Phew, for a second there I thought you were going to mention something about Beowulf clusters...
Don't forget about Fighter Hayabusa.
A winner is you!
of when I first started playing nethack.
I think the poster's logic was as follows: If you have not seen the Beeb article, then this following bit of information is for you. D&D is 30 years old.
After all, for anyone who did see the article, that would just be redundant information.
Nethack: The Movie
The only movie where the main character dies in the first 5 minutes.
Yeah, but it'll only be good for 50 years, and then we'll have to trash it. What a waste...
You can't cage WordPerfect, man. It's gotta be free.
You don't use kill -9 when you want to kill something in the process.
You use kill -9 when you want to kill the process. =)
So if a Slashdotting is abbreviated as "/.ed", I guess this site was 100000000000000000... well you get the point.
If you use linux, you can find out just how loud your hard drives are by typing "hdparm -y /dev/hda /dev/hdb (etc)" replacing hda/hdb with the appropriate device names of your hard drives. The -y will put them into standby mode, making them spin down. For me, this makes the difference between lots of noise and hardly any noise.
The moral of this story is: don't get sucked into the hype of silent cpu fans like I did... when there are possibly much louder components to work on.
Is that going to be anything like Starship Troopers?
Come on now. A lot of the 256 ASCII characters can't possibly be used for passwords. Many of the others, nobody would want to use anyway. Do you want a DEL (127) or a Backspace (8) in your password? How about a null character (0)? How would you even type that? Realistically, I'd say that crypt() can already support as many characters as anyone would use.
Is there going to be localization for this project? We don't have bass where I live. I think I might be more comfortable talking into a carp.
Well, once they actually release their code and claim the money prize, their code is now open-source and anyone can look at it. It only motivates them to hide their work until the point where anyone uses it. But I think it's the same way in the current (unpaid) model of contribution... individuals' work is generally not available to anyone until they release it.
I can't say that without feeling dirty.
"I, for one welcome our new BTX Overlords..."
"All your form factor are belong to us!"
"Microsoft == Evil!"
"In Soviet Russia, CPU cools Front Intake Fan!"
You forgot one.
1) Invent new BTX form factor
2) ?????
3) Profit!
Well, what percentage of all websites are run on Linux? Do people who run webservers on Linux tend to put up more attractive targets for some reason? Maybe it's just more fun to break into a Linux system than a Windows one.
It's easy to see "61%" and jump to conclusions, but statistics can be manipulated so easily, you can't really trust them.
Careful. Some of them might have laptops.
I hate it when opaque windows block my view of Anna Falchi. Finally, with DirectFB, my work-related windows won't block the important stuff!
A cool thing about Real Life that's unlike other MMORPGs is that often times they'll accept in-game currency to resolve problems like that.
Imagine a Beowulf clust-- oh wait.
The half-life of Carbon-14 is only a few thousand years... and that isn't dangerous...