I was working for a defense contractor in the late 80's. I had developed a prototype test driver for our system, that talked to the target system over an RS-232 interface.
This was back in the days of serial terminals, so no graphics.
I had put in an easter egg, that if you ran the program with my name as the sole argument, it displayed a little ASCII animation intro. The funny thing was that I had actually made a mistake on the first cut, and it scrolled in upside down. So I kept it, added "Oops, start over", and reran the animation properly.
It was originally for internal use only, so nobody cared. Eventually the marketeers saw some potential in it, and started selling it to DoD clients. They made me take the egg out at that point.
Years ago, I remember reading about some dude who designed an A-bomb for his senior thesis.
His last stumbling block was the proper explosives for the implosion. So he called up the sales arm of some manufacturer, said he was a building contractor, and that he would need an explosive with $CHARACTERISTICS.... and that he was ready to buy in quantity.
The sales guy fell all over himself providing the exact info the dude needed.
He turned in his thesis, and then when no grade was published, he went to see his professor, who told him that DOE was considering classifying it.
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To be fair, I'm willing to be Californiaman, if it keeps Kim Kardashian and Kanye West out of California!!!
I'm not your bud, guy!
It was preemptive, in case somebody asked for a car analogy.
You had sewers and barrels of toxic waste? You lucky, jammy bastard!!!!
WE had to dig our own sewers, and then build the chemical plants to GENERATE the toxic waste!!! I'd have killed for barrels of premade waste!
Please report to Room 101 for training. The correct spelling is doubleplusgood
You don't have to take the triple play. I have TWC for TV and UVerse for phone/Internet.
Carly is the idiot who took down one great institution and damned near destroyed a second.
She destroyed AT&T Bell Labs, and damn near took down HP, trying to turn it into a glorified ink company.
I was working for a defense contractor in the late 80's. I had developed a prototype test driver for our system, that talked to the target system over an RS-232 interface.
This was back in the days of serial terminals, so no graphics.
I had put in an easter egg, that if you ran the program with my name as the sole argument, it displayed a little ASCII animation intro. The funny thing was that I had actually made a mistake on the first cut, and it scrolled in upside down. So I kept it, added "Oops, start over", and reran the animation properly.
It was originally for internal use only, so nobody cared. Eventually the marketeers saw some potential in it, and started selling it to DoD clients. They made me take the egg out at that point.
"Ushering in..." That wasn't Hugh, that was a direct quote from TFA.
Are you a Turtle?
Been once since 1975!
Dammit! You beat me to it!
Guess that makes sense.... <ANCIENT-SLASHDOT-MEME>Since only old people use email anyways...</ANCIENT-SLASHDOT-MEME>
The following notice is being posted for the sarcasm-impaired, in compliance with the ADA.
The OP had implied <SARCASM> tags.
Are the ponies powered by hot grits?
Only if you happen to be carrying the Loc-Nar with you.
Yeah, Apple *really* led with that. Firefox has had a "block third party cookies" setting since day one.
Brief overview of this: http://www.universitypressclub.com/archive/2013/02/the-a-bomb-kid-and-hows-your-senior-thesis-going/
Years ago, I remember reading about some dude who designed an A-bomb for his senior thesis.
His last stumbling block was the proper explosives for the implosion. So he called up the sales arm of some manufacturer, said he was a building contractor, and that he would need an explosive with $CHARACTERISTICS.... and that he was ready to buy in quantity.
The sales guy fell all over himself providing the exact info the dude needed.
He turned in his thesis, and then when no grade was published, he went to see his professor, who told him that DOE was considering classifying it.
"The money is out there, Scully..."
SSFL (Santa Susanna Field Laboratory) was also the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history.
And now here's something you will REALLY like...
Colonel Panic, on the other hand, just stopped.
I think what he really means is that Luna already has the internet. The tubes are there.
So, like the 10 Plagues. That was unleashing biological weapons to frighten the populace to achieve a political goal.
The magistrate judge was Judge Wells.