I was _very_ glad that I'd already read the book. I was the only one, it appears, in the Monterey movie theater who had a clue as to what was going on, so many people from 2-3 rows and seats around kept asking me "What's going on now?"
Heh, only time I found myself useful during a movie.
On a chip near the Sun? What's the fun in that? Now if they were to send claim stakes to the Moon, preferably to mark that plot of Lunar real estate I remember getting many years ago (what did it cost me then? A buck? Can't remember.)... now then, THAT would be impressive:-)
Thousands of little sterilized metal or plastic stakes, fired out like from a giant shotgun, each one with a subscriber's name on it... yep, I'd pay money for that:-)
Yes, I remember the Sturgis well. I was assigned to the 8th SFG in Panama then, and remember it parked up by the Chagres River Spillway where it was plugged into the power grid. Our SCUBA team also pulled a training "raid" on the ship, easily swimming past the almost nonexistent "defenses" and planting fake explosive charges on her hull.
Great site here with lots of pictures of her disassembly. Pity she's gone: the Army Engineers did a good job with her, no question.
And if one of its products is something edible by bacteria? And the bacteria figure out how to use it! Imagine the damage to the fancy water industry! And the toy soldiers! Noooooo!
No one has noticed that, invariably, the air blown by one of those blowers is quite hot, surprisingly so. There's a damned hot surface or wire mesh somewhere inside that blower that I suspect is doing a real job on the bacteria flowing through there.
Surely that has something to do with the problem, ne? Has anyone passed an ordinary Petri dish through the airflow of one of these heaters and then waited to see what grew? That would be a LOT better than all these woeful, disgusting tales about people and dirty bathrooms, I would think. Very simple to do, would make a lovely college Biology 101 experiment, maybe even a grad paper!
Reaction time? That woman could've been given the rest of the night to react and it would've made no difference. She was totally oblivious to that oncoming car. Despite what appears to be flaws or faults in the "autonomous" driving mechanics or software, she was as much to blame for that as anyone. Given that perhaps the video is darker than it would have appeared in real life, I still don't see how a human driver (e.g., me, and I'm neither careless nor slow) could've avoided her.
But yeah, payoff is probably cheaper than a lawsuit because the jury would be _so_ sympathetic to that poor woman vs. the greedy careless corporation.
"Meanwhile, Slashdot reader darthcamaro shares an article about "the so-call 'kill switch'" that some vendors have been debating: "The 'kill switch' was immediately obvious to everyone who worked on mitigating this DDoS attack," John Graham-Cumming, CTO of CloudFlare said. "We chose not to use or test this method because it would be unethical and likely illegal since it alters the state of a remote machine without authorization.""
One of the responsibilities of a subordinate (whether it be a lower commander or a staff officer) is to make recommendations and suggestions to your commander. It's what you're paid to do!
Any subordinate who will NOT do that is a coward, a toadie.
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Blizzard’s Vice President and production director on World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, talks about re-recreating the original World of Warcraft experience in WoW Classic.
In an interview with Forbes, Brack and senior game designer Jeremy Feasel talked about the upcoming World of Warcraft vanilla server option, which was announced at BlizzCon 2017. Brack was asked whether Classic would be using the original 2004 graphics or the high-definition character models used in the recent World of Warcraft expansions, after which he replied that re-creating the original 2004 experience is the starting place and that the Warcraft community might help them decide."
And you had to buy each and every one of the "expansions". I'm looking at "Mists of Pandaria", "Warlords of Draenor", "Wrath of the Lich King", "Cataclysm", "Burning Crusade", "Legion" right now, sitting up there on my shelf. 45 bucks each. None of them require the original "vanilla" WoW from back in 2004 (which I also bought for $45 as I recall. So why can't I just play the original on a fan server, and NOT buy all the expansions.
I have to wonder what would happen if I booted up a copy of the original and logged in to the Blizzard server. Would it play at all?
Stealing my money? Well, yes, actually they are. I paid to play a game with non-cheaters, playing as I play. Their cheating is destroying that expected, paid-for experience. Plus, I hate cheaters almost as much as I do Illinois Nazis.
They've been finding all sorts of good stuff (mammoth and other "modern" fossils, even archaeological finds) from dredging, fishermen, and the like. Well, maybe they'll be able to check out the stuff being dredged up to build the island.
I was worried about shipwrecks and the like (since there've been numerous naval engagements in the area). But apparently none were actually on the Dogger Bank itself (the German warship Blucher being the closest and it's 50 miles away). Still, navigation is going to get even tougher in the North Sea with artificial islands, wind generators, underwater cables, and the like.
"Engadget calls it "one of the perks of owning a Tesla in the first place. The combination of all-digital displays and frequent software updates lets Tesla add little delights that you couldn't get if you had to stare at an old-school instrument cluster.""
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I was _very_ glad that I'd already read the book. I was the only one, it appears, in the Monterey movie theater who had a clue as to what was going on, so many people from 2-3 rows and seats around kept asking me "What's going on now?"
Heh, only time I found myself useful during a movie.
Vanilla pudding, I suppose.
Oh yeah, and oyster stew.
On a chip near the Sun? What's the fun in that? Now if they were to send claim stakes to the Moon, preferably to mark that plot of Lunar real estate I remember getting many years ago (what did it cost me then? A buck? Can't remember.) ... now then, THAT would be impressive :-)
Thousands of little sterilized metal or plastic stakes, fired out like from a giant shotgun, each one with a subscriber's name on it ... yep, I'd pay money for that :-)
Yes, I remember the Sturgis well. I was assigned to the 8th SFG in Panama then, and remember it parked up by the Chagres River Spillway where it was plugged into the power grid. Our SCUBA team also pulled a training "raid" on the ship, easily swimming past the almost nonexistent "defenses" and planting fake explosive charges on her hull.
Great site here with lots of pictures of her disassembly. Pity she's gone: the Army Engineers did a good job with her, no question.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
Just checked the "currently displaying" link, South Park image is gone, new image saying it's NOT gone, "check this space", etc.
Who knows? But you can bet your bottom dollar (if you have one left) that I won't be sending them any money :-)
And if one of its products is something edible by bacteria? And the bacteria figure out how to use it! Imagine the damage to the fancy water industry! And the toy soldiers! Noooooo!
So I guess my router connection named "FBI Surveillance Van 3" is right out?
One of my neighbors mentioned it; didn't have the heart to tell him it was me :-)
I'm due a refund (as I have for ever so many years now). I must've missed the part that covers the IRS Direct Paying _me_.
No one has noticed that, invariably, the air blown by one of those blowers is quite hot, surprisingly so. There's a damned hot surface or wire mesh somewhere inside that blower that I suspect is doing a real job on the bacteria flowing through there.
Surely that has something to do with the problem, ne? Has anyone passed an ordinary Petri dish through the airflow of one of these heaters and then waited to see what grew? That would be a LOT better than all these woeful, disgusting tales about people and dirty bathrooms, I would think. Very simple to do, would make a lovely college Biology 101 experiment, maybe even a grad paper!
Reaction time? That woman could've been given the rest of the night to react and it would've made no difference. She was totally oblivious to that oncoming car. Despite what appears to be flaws or faults in the "autonomous" driving mechanics or software, she was as much to blame for that as anyone. Given that perhaps the video is darker than it would have appeared in real life, I still don't see how a human driver (e.g., me, and I'm neither careless nor slow) could've avoided her.
But yeah, payoff is probably cheaper than a lawsuit because the jury would be _so_ sympathetic to that poor woman vs. the greedy careless corporation.
I've been wondering about that ever since I saw the first images of its proposed shape. "Where's the pylon? Where are the supports?"
Obviously it wasn't strong enough to span the distance without them. Doh. But not a word from the media yet about that missing pylon or supports.
Wasn't I married to her once?
You then deserve what you get.
"Meanwhile, Slashdot reader darthcamaro shares an article about "the so-call 'kill switch'" that some vendors have been debating:
"The 'kill switch' was immediately obvious to everyone who worked on mitigating this DDoS attack," John Graham-Cumming, CTO of CloudFlare said. "We chose not to use or test this method because it would be unethical and likely illegal since it alters the state of a remote machine without authorization.""
Unethical my ass. Turn those suckers off.
One of the responsibilities of a subordinate (whether it be a lower commander or a staff officer) is to make recommendations and suggestions to your commander. It's what you're paid to do!
Any subordinate who will NOT do that is a coward, a toadie.
https://wccftech.com/wow-class...
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Blizzard’s Vice President and production director on World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, talks about re-recreating the original World of Warcraft experience in WoW Classic.
In an interview with Forbes, Brack and senior game designer Jeremy Feasel talked about the upcoming World of Warcraft vanilla server option, which was announced at BlizzCon 2017.
Brack was asked whether Classic would be using the original 2004 graphics or the high-definition character models used in the recent World of Warcraft expansions, after which he replied that re-creating the original 2004 experience is the starting place and that the Warcraft community might help them decide."
And you had to buy each and every one of the "expansions". I'm looking at "Mists of Pandaria", "Warlords of Draenor",
"Wrath of the Lich King", "Cataclysm", "Burning Crusade", "Legion" right now, sitting up there on my shelf. 45 bucks each. None of them require the original "vanilla" WoW from back in 2004 (which I also bought for $45 as I recall. So why can't I just play the original on a fan server, and NOT buy all the expansions.
I have to wonder what would happen if I booted up a copy of the original and logged in to the Blizzard server. Would it play at all?
We've learned a lot from them, right?
But yeah, I have to agree with one of the above: there won't BE any Mars colonies.
Visualize that and then imagine how it might affect tendencies toward violence. Or archery.
That sure looks like my Rabbit! Although I don't remember ever being in Edinburgh.
Stealing my money? Well, yes, actually they are. I paid to play a game with non-cheaters, playing as I play. Their cheating is destroying that expected, paid-for experience. Plus, I hate cheaters almost as much as I do Illinois Nazis.
Heh, made you count!
so long as AI doesn't encroach on our beloved haiku
of which I'd surely
be a recognized master
if they let me play
They've been finding all sorts of good stuff (mammoth and other "modern" fossils, even archaeological finds) from dredging, fishermen, and the like. Well, maybe they'll be able to check out the stuff being dredged up to build the island.
I was worried about shipwrecks and the like (since there've been numerous naval engagements in the area). But apparently none were actually on the Dogger Bank itself (the German warship Blucher being the closest and it's 50 miles away). Still, navigation is going to get even tougher in the North Sea with artificial islands, wind generators, underwater cables, and the like.
I see what you did there.
"Engadget calls it "one of the perks of owning a Tesla in the first place. The combination of all-digital displays and frequent software updates lets Tesla add little delights that you couldn't get if you had to stare at an old-school instrument cluster.""
Perk. Delight. Riii-ight.