Trainee Inquisitor: But how do we know if he's an elf or not?
Head Inquisitor: Simple, we throw him in the river, and if he disappears magically, we know he was an elf disguised as a human. If not he drowns, and we know he was not an elf.
Trainee Inquisitor: And what do you if he disappears magically?
Head Inquisitor: Darn! I knew there was a flaw in this logic.
Back in the days of the dot com boom in Silicon Valley, you practically had to remember the locations where the doors of the Caltrain carriages were likely to open. This wasn't as difficult as it seems though, since there was a sign indicating to the train driver where he should stop the cab (if not just the train).
However, sometimes the train would overshoot, so people would have to frantically run along the platform. In Summertime, parents and schools would reserve the last carriage for children's parties. So people would have to run even further.
Eventually, we turned this into a casino game: Caltrain Casino
Each turn was represented by two or three throws of the die/dice.
The first throw represents which carriage of the train you have chosen. The second throw represents which event has happened. The scoring is as follows:
[1] Train is completely full and doesn't stop - you lose.
[2] Last two carriages are reserved for school trip - if you threw a one or two, you lose, otherwise you win.
[3] The carriage you chose was completely full - If your first throw was three or higher, you lose, otherwise you win.
[4] Train overshoots. If your first throw was three or less, you lose, otherwise you win.
[5] Train overshoots by half a carriage. Take another throw. If evens you win, odds you lose.
[6] Train arrives normally. You win.
The Kronos Chronicle (ISSN 1526-7105) is a project of the Klingon Language Institute, intended for Klingon speakers. Here you can read interesting opinons and articles, but only if you can understand Klingon.
I have an ASUS GeForce FX card on a Dell Dimension 8200. Whenever somebody logged in, it would make ftp and http attempts to the following addresses:
http: 211.72.249.193
ftp: 211.72.249.196
I traced these back to ASUS's http and ftp sites in Taiwan.
I don't know whether it was getting or putting data. Downloading updated drivers without my permission would piss me off (what if there was some major disagreement between two countries). And what if it were uploading performance statistics (most used OpenGL programs/commands, vertex/fragment programs). For a research lab in visualisation, this would not be good.
I am still trying to find the process responsible, but since the PID was the idle process, it looks like something buried inside a device driver, so it probably can't be stopped.
That's interesting... I've got a PC in our lab, which recently had a new graphics card installed. The bizarre thing was that everytime any user logged in onto this machine, it would briefly ftp and http to their web site under the guise of the "idle process". I only found this out after running "netstat -a -o" as soon as I logged in, in order to check out what ports were open. Virus/trojan scanners didn't find anything. Neither did the local or department firewall.
After sending an E-mail to the company inquestion, this stopped happening.
(I would like to know what the system was downloading/uploading however, but still haven't received a reply).
Later, Jerome Pearson thought about building a tower on the Moon. He determined that the center of gravity needed to be at the L1 or L2 Lagrangian points, which are special stable points that exist about any two orbiting bodies where the gravitational forces are balanced. The cable would have to be 291,901 kilometers long for the L1 point and 525,724 kilometers long for the L2 point. Compared to the 351,000 kilometers from the Earth to the Moon, that's a long cable, and the material would have to be gathered and manufactured on the Moon.
Surely it would be easier to build a space elevator on the moon than it would be on the Earth? Especially since gravity on the moon is 1/5th that of Earth's?
You will have over 10+ years experience in the plumbing trade, be Corgi approved, and must have experience in the following: Mira Excel/Form/88/Advance/Extreme/Elite 2 and also Bristan Java/Omega/1901/Pinnacle. Experience with Triton, Aqualisa is desirable but not required as training will be provided. Your duties will include mentoring junior plumbers and providing feedback when required. You will also be expected to draw up specifications and cost estimates when necessary. As you will be meeting customers face to face, you will be expected to dress appropriately. A toolkit and company subsidized transport will also be available.
One simple thing average users can do is to give people they communicate with some special keyword they should always add to messages they send you with an attachment. It doesn't have to be anything special - even a company name would do.
Unfortunately, the virus could always just search through your sent and received mail and search for matching lines that would be in the signature or at the top of the message, and use these.
My biggest fear is that because of the political climate here the fee will begin to be distributed to comercial chanels.
Personally, I'd like to see the TV license used to fund *NEW* programming (news, documentaries, mini-series, comedies, sit-com's etc..) and have anything imported or repeated paid for by advertising. The BBC was excellent at producing such comedies and sci-fi (Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies, Bread, Dr Who, Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers). ITV was too (Minder, UFO, Space 1999, Thunderbirds, Terrahawks etc...).
Why's it so lucrative? 'Cos our fucking idiot Prime Minister has decided that there's no pride to be taken in honest trades like plumbing, electrical work, construction, etc,
Don't blame Tony Blair. It was Maggie Thatcher who decided to close all the trade schools in order to reduce income tax. And she also had the dental schools closed. So now we have a shortage of dentists in rural communities. Not forgetting a shortage of mathematics and science teachers for secondary schools.
It's not just plumbers who are earning more money than graduates. There's a story in the Edinburgh Evening News about a research scientist who discovered his salary (25K pounds) was less than the technician maintaining the Coke vending machnes(28K pounds).
Just wondering. If the core cooled down, wouldn't it shrink, maybe even fracture, and therefore create space for the water to sink into? What would happen if the earth's core/mantle were to cool down. Wouldn't they shrink?
Accident group was a bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers
One time I was shopping in downtown Liverpool, when I saw a whole bunch of dudes hanging around
the main street handing out leaflets. As they were dressed in black uniforms with red/white lettering on their shoulders, I thought they might be the salvation army, or some far-right militant group. Only when one guy approached me and handed me a leaflet did I find out they were from the "Accident group". Basically, they were fishing for anyone who might have had an accident in the past six months (tripping over uneven sidewalk blocks, cracked asphalt, raised drains exposed tree roots, etc..)
In all of these cases, it was the city who would get sued.
Would high frequency vibrations work? When I worked in Canada, there used to be these beetles which be attract by the light from my halogen lamp and try and bury themselves into my pot plants (if they didn't fry themselves first).
Being particularly curious, I dug a couple out of the soil. Being covered in dust, the first thing they would do is make a loud buzzing noise to warm up (and which would shake off the dust) and then open their wing case and take off.
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Trainee Inquisitor: But how do we know if he's an elf or not?
Head Inquisitor: Simple, we throw him in the river, and if he disappears magically, we know he was an elf disguised as a human. If not he drowns, and we know he was not an elf.
Trainee Inquisitor: And what do you if he disappears magically?
Head Inquisitor: Darn! I knew there was a flaw in this logic.
Back in the days of the dot com boom in Silicon Valley, you practically had to remember the locations where the doors of the Caltrain carriages were likely to open. This wasn't as difficult as it seems though, since there was a sign indicating to the train driver where he should stop the cab (if not just the train). However, sometimes the train would overshoot, so people would have to frantically run along the platform. In Summertime, parents and schools would reserve the last carriage for children's parties. So people would have to run even further.
Eventually, we turned this into a casino game: Caltrain Casino
Each turn was represented by two or three throws of the die/dice.
The first throw represents which carriage of the train you have chosen. The second throw represents which event has happened. The scoring is as follows:
[1] Train is completely full and doesn't stop - you lose.
[2] Last two carriages are reserved for school trip - if you threw a one or two, you lose, otherwise you win.
[3] The carriage you chose was completely full - If your first throw was three or higher, you lose, otherwise you win.
[4] Train overshoots. If your first throw was three or less, you lose, otherwise you win.
[5] Train overshoots by half a carriage. Take another throw. If evens you win, odds you lose.
[6] Train arrives normally. You win.
The odds are 50/50 that you will win or lose.
The Kronos Chronicle (ISSN 1526-7105) is a project of the Klingon Language Institute, intended for Klingon speakers. Here you can read interesting opinons and articles, but only if you can understand Klingon.
Source: http://www.kli.org/QQ/
A quick google search for "Chernobyl DNA study -children -liquidators" pulls up a whole list of links:
Chernobyl and Genotoxicity
Chernobyl: Wildlife Followup
DNA Damage and Radiocesium In Channel Catfish From Chernobyl
I have an ASUS GeForce FX card on a Dell Dimension 8200. Whenever somebody logged in, it would make ftp and http attempts to the following addresses:
http: 211.72.249.193
ftp: 211.72.249.196
I traced these back to ASUS's http and ftp sites in Taiwan.
I don't know whether it was getting or putting data. Downloading updated drivers without my permission would piss me off (what if there was some major disagreement between two countries). And what if it were uploading performance statistics (most used OpenGL programs/commands, vertex/fragment programs). For a research lab in visualisation, this would not be good.
I am still trying to find the process responsible, but since the PID was the idle process, it looks like something buried inside a device driver, so it probably can't be stopped.
Out of ~3,000 computers, ~750 of them came back with at least one positive. And that's just looking for about 100 known spyware apps
I wonder how much Internet traffic can be attributed to spyware.
That's interesting ... I've got a PC in our lab, which recently had a new graphics card installed. The bizarre thing was that everytime any user logged in onto this machine, it would briefly ftp and http to their web site under the guise of the "idle process". I only found this out after running "netstat -a -o" as soon as I logged in, in order to check out what ports were open. Virus/trojan scanners didn't find anything. Neither did the local or department firewall.
After sending an E-mail to the company inquestion, this stopped happening. (I would like to know what the system was downloading/uploading however, but still haven't received a reply).
I found a link in First Science, The Audacious Space Elevator
Later, Jerome Pearson thought about building a tower on the Moon. He determined that the center of gravity needed to be at the L1 or L2 Lagrangian points, which are special stable points that exist about any two orbiting bodies where the gravitational forces are balanced. The cable would have to be 291,901 kilometers long for the L1 point and 525,724 kilometers long for the L2 point. Compared to the 351,000 kilometers from the Earth to the Moon, that's a long cable, and the material would have to be gathered and manufactured on the Moon.
Surely it would be easier to build a space elevator on the moon than it would be on the Earth?
Especially since gravity on the moon is 1/5th that of Earth's?
Maybe he saw this advert:
Senior Plumbing Architect wanted
You will have over 10+ years experience in the plumbing trade, be Corgi approved, and must have experience in the following: Mira Excel/Form/88/Advance/Extreme/Elite 2 and also Bristan Java/Omega/1901/Pinnacle. Experience with Triton, Aqualisa is desirable but not required as training will be provided. Your duties will include mentoring junior plumbers and providing feedback when required. You will also be expected to draw up specifications and cost estimates when necessary. As you will be meeting customers face to face, you will be expected to dress appropriately. A toolkit and company subsidized transport will also be available.
Salary: Negotiable
One simple thing average users can do is to give people they communicate with some special keyword they should always add to messages they send you with an attachment. It doesn't have to be anything special - even a company name would do.
Unfortunately, the virus could always just search through your sent and received mail and search for matching lines that would be in the signature or at the top of the message, and use these.
"Blackadder: Baldrick, do you know what irony is?
Baldrick: Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made of iron."
My biggest fear is that because of the political climate here the fee will begin to be distributed to comercial chanels.
Personally, I'd like to see the TV license used to fund *NEW* programming (news, documentaries, mini-series, comedies, sit-com's etc..) and have anything imported or repeated paid for by advertising. The BBC was excellent at producing such comedies and sci-fi (Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies, Bread, Dr Who, Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers). ITV was too (Minder, UFO, Space 1999, Thunderbirds, Terrahawks etc...).
Why's it so lucrative? 'Cos our fucking idiot Prime Minister has decided that there's no pride to be taken in honest trades like plumbing, electrical work, construction, etc,
Don't blame Tony Blair. It was Maggie Thatcher who decided to close all the trade schools in order to reduce income tax. And she also had the dental schools closed. So now we have a shortage of dentists in rural communities. Not forgetting a shortage of mathematics and science teachers for secondary schools.
It's not just plumbers who are earning more money than graduates. There's a story in the Edinburgh Evening News about a research scientist who discovered his salary (25K pounds) was less than the technician maintaining the Coke vending machnes(28K pounds).
>Is there a way to DDoS Darl's car? Hmmm...
Yes, it's called rush-hour traffic.
Just wondering. If the core cooled down, wouldn't it shrink, maybe even fracture, and therefore create space for the water to sink into? What would happen if the earth's core/mantle were to cool down. Wouldn't they shrink?
"Tuxedo Gun"
Wasn't he one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie?
... even photographs of the president have to wear tin-foil hats.
... even the photograph of the president has to wear a tin-foil hat.
But is it blessed or cursed?
What I'd like is a musical keyboard with C/C++ keywords on each key. Just think of the productivity increase from not having to type so many letters.
Accident group was a bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers
One time I was shopping in downtown Liverpool, when I saw a whole bunch of dudes hanging around the main street handing out leaflets. As they were dressed in black uniforms with red/white lettering on their shoulders, I thought they might be the salvation army, or some far-right militant group. Only when one guy approached me and handed me a leaflet did I find out they were from the "Accident group". Basically, they were fishing for anyone who might have had an accident in the past six months (tripping over uneven sidewalk blocks, cracked asphalt, raised drains exposed tree roots, etc..)
In all of these cases, it was the city who would get sued.
Would high frequency vibrations work? When I worked in Canada, there used to be these beetles which be attract by the light from my halogen lamp and try and bury themselves into my pot plants (if they didn't fry themselves first).
Being particularly curious, I dug a couple out of the soil. Being covered in dust, the first thing they would do is make a loud buzzing noise to warm up (and which would shake off the dust) and then open their wing case and take off.
Would this method work with solar panels?
All your DVD's are belong to us
...then they could have the first solar powered barbeque in space...and could analyze the results within a few orbits.