I don't know about you guys, but I saw the preview for this and I can't fathom why it's actually coming out in theatres as opposed to straight to video.
Maybe the stealth guy doesnt want to give this surefire bomb too much free advertisement?
Artificial blood is still experimental and the manufacturers havent worked out all the kinks yet, which means the victims are being used as guinea pigs.
I think it'd be cheaper and easier to tow, for example, a big enough moon and lock it in orbit around our planet so that there's a big eclipse covering us at all times.
I vote for Titan, so we can study it up close, and maybe mine it for methane and whatnot.
I remember reading a scary article about how artificial blood products are sometimes used by paramedics without consent when they don't have the right blood type handy and when the victim is unconscious...
I wonder if we could get 1) the Utah kid crowd interested in some Linux distros and organize them on a scale sufficient to attract the attention of SCO, which would want to spa^H^H^H email them about their 699$ registration fee...
Just like our own Moon, Mars' moons were probably formed at the same time that Mars was formed. As the galactic dust swirled around the Sun, it slowly clumped together and grew into large planets. As each planet grew larger, they became an elliptical focal point for the surrounding space dust and trapped moons into orbit around themselves
Does anyone else find this theory sounds like pure rubbish?
If the planets and (most of) their moons had formed this way, wouldn't they tend to be more homogenous in composition? Or at least have progressive differences based on their distance from the Sun?
Even the planets which have several moons, Jupiter and Saturn, have moons that are totally different from each other.
You would expect more similarity between them if they were formed from residual dust swirling around their planet.
The computers will most likely pick up the fact that 100 checks are being sent to the same address.
Doubtful... I remember a case in Canada where a lot of medical cards, driver's licenses and other state-made IDs were fraudulently applied for all under different names, for an illigal immigrant scheme, and sent to the same rented apartment that was basically a shell address.
It was only after an investigative journalist blew the whole thing out in the open that this operation was shut down.
I mostly agree with your #3 point. It would require a lot of work to make up 100 fake identities, open 100 bank accounts, etc. and keep track of it all... But once the bank accounts are open and you got your bank card, just using the ATM to cash and withdraw will minimize the risk of being recognized.
The one thing that caused me to leave paypal is that I used it as a middleman for purchases from businesses who used it, but didnt have the means to charge my credit card...
After I reached my sending limit, paypal required me to get verified, which includes sending them my bank account information.
I'm not giving them that data. My credit card should be enough.
They didnt yield to my concerns, so I deleted my account.
a lot of people use MSN... as much as I don't like it, I have to use it to keep in touch with most of my non-tech-savvy friends, who won't use any other IM...
And to use MSN you need a hotmail account.
Google still has a lot of public awareness ground to cover IMO... when I give out my gmail address, some people ask me "so you work for the government?"
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yea but there's no celestial body named "snickers". /captain obvious
the major motion picture 'Stealth'
I don't know about you guys, but I saw the preview for this and I can't fathom why it's actually coming out in theatres as opposed to straight to video.
Maybe the stealth guy doesnt want to give this surefire bomb too much free advertisement?
What are the limits of conventional computing?
Well right now the limits of chess computing seems to be this Hydra cluster
Is it time to retire the "Beowulf" cliché?
dont the /. editors read /. ?
You must be new here...
thank god I still have access to Tech Support services in India...
Artificial blood is still experimental and the manufacturers havent worked out all the kinks yet, which means the victims are being used as guinea pigs.
I think it'd be cheaper and easier to tow, for example, a big enough moon and lock it in orbit around our planet so that there's a big eclipse covering us at all times.
I vote for Titan, so we can study it up close, and maybe mine it for methane and whatnot.
Nuclear batteries made of it are best known for powering spacecraft that go where sunlight is too dim to energize solar cells.
So what exactly are they planning on spying where the sun don't shine?
I remember reading a scary article about how artificial blood products are sometimes used by paramedics without consent when they don't have the right blood type handy and when the victim is unconscious...
and he added: my sister was bitten by a prøprietary førmat ønce...
In other news, the people in charge of adopting proprietary formats were sacked.
for the flying car.
And it's five years late already.
Pff, big deal. I know people in Buffalo, NY who are able to work in Canada and it's only a 10 minute bike ride each way!
Pff, big deal. I know people whose house straddles the Canada-US border and who telecommute across the border in less than a minute!
I cant wait for the next gen model that transforms into a giant robot!
I wonder if we could get 1) the Utah kid crowd interested in some Linux distros and organize them on a scale sufficient to attract the attention of SCO, which would want to spa^H^H^H email them about their 699$ registration fee...
2) ???
3) Jailarity!
But is it art?
Just like our own Moon, Mars' moons were probably formed at the same time that Mars was formed. As the galactic dust swirled around the Sun, it slowly clumped together and grew into large planets. As each planet grew larger, they became an elliptical focal point for the surrounding space dust and trapped moons into orbit around themselves
Does anyone else find this theory sounds like pure rubbish?
If the planets and (most of) their moons had formed this way, wouldn't they tend to be more homogenous in composition? Or at least have progressive differences based on their distance from the Sun?
Even the planets which have several moons, Jupiter and Saturn, have moons that are totally different from each other.
You would expect more similarity between them if they were formed from residual dust swirling around their planet.
The computers will most likely pick up the fact that 100 checks are being sent to the same address.
Doubtful... I remember a case in Canada where a lot of medical cards, driver's licenses and other state-made IDs were fraudulently applied for all under different names, for an illigal immigrant scheme, and sent to the same rented apartment that was basically a shell address.
It was only after an investigative journalist blew the whole thing out in the open that this operation was shut down.
I mostly agree with your #3 point. It would require a lot of work to make up 100 fake identities, open 100 bank accounts, etc. and keep track of it all... But once the bank accounts are open and you got your bank card, just using the ATM to cash and withdraw will minimize the risk of being recognized.
The next problem is laundering that cool million.
thank god I don't have electricity! /amish
And then we can use him to fight the fembots and bionic Bigfoot!
The one thing that caused me to leave paypal is that I used it as a middleman for purchases from businesses who used it, but didnt have the means to charge my credit card...
After I reached my sending limit, paypal required me to get verified, which includes sending them my bank account information.
I'm not giving them that data. My credit card should be enough.
They didnt yield to my concerns, so I deleted my account.
a lot of people use MSN... as much as I don't like it, I have to use it to keep in touch with most of my non-tech-savvy friends, who won't use any other IM...
And to use MSN you need a hotmail account.
Google still has a lot of public awareness ground to cover IMO... when I give out my gmail address, some people ask me "so you work for the government?"
I thought "cracker" was a racial slur for a white person...
if everyone agreed that we originated in Pangea, then that would settle the issue :P
Of course, starting the species is something of note. At least I'd say so
new findings seem to indicate that man originated in Asia...
but on the whole I agree with the rest of your post.
Africa has some of the deadliest diseases on the planet (if you discount the asian flu "factories" of China and Vietnam).
I'd be placing my bet on African survivors in case of a global deadly pandemic.
German scientists already knew that the bumps on your head could demonstrate (with a very high accuracy ;) how smart you are.
Maybe that explains the whole deal with Star Trek aliens...