Even Stargate Infinity? Or did I violate your mental block? (Confession: I bought it on DVD.)
I'd like it if they could get Showtime to give the franchise a home again. Stargate Universe could do with being on a more mature channel, especially with the more mature themes in this series.
Indeed, there are people so intent on being annoying in public that they will post in alternating case, which they can do without the luxury of a caps-lock key.
(With the above being the closest example of that here leads me to believe that slashdot has specific filters against it.)
General Hayden, the former Director of the NSA, spoke at Blackhat on the topic this summer. He said that the Internet today resembles a vast indefensible plain, and that an enemy attack can come from anywhere. He thought (hoped?) a kind of "geography" would eventually evolve on the internet, allowing for tactical maneuvering, permitting the kind of strategies warriors like to fight and defend from.
Basically the Princes and Tribesmen want the Dwellers to plant a Forest in which they can fight their battles. It's only reasonable.
Perhaps he thought Cylon was an acronym for "Cybernetic Lifeform Node" (ref: Caprica) and was following an old rule that says abbreviations are to be made plural with "'s".
And don't think that the government wouldn't use the same mandated mechanism to keep its agents from being tracked when they are investigating you. Then if you notice them doing it, they can arrest you for noticing them.
Man, back in the day you'd send in what looks like an ordinary audio cassette and, after recording a day's worth of audio to on-board memory, it would transform into a bird, shoot its way out, and return to the chest of Soundwave who'd play back what it heard for Megatron.
In August of 2004, the local authorities of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were called to the apartment of one Joe Smith. Neighbors suspected a suicide.
But Joe Smith was not dead. He was curled up in a ball in the corner of his room laughing and texting himself on his phone.
Before Joe Smith was taken into protective custody, he handed a homemade video to the police labeled MY ALMOST SUICIDE.
This is the transcript of the video.
Joe Smith
"Sometimes I Google Myself"
The Dreadful Lonesome
Satire Records/Morgantheau Music Group
It's another lonesome night clouded in satin robes of silence And between the nightmare of being awake and being honest there's a haunting glow: A digital whore on the designer desk that draws me in With a slimline keyboard and its lettered rows.
Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself Just to see if I'm out there Sometimes I like to try and Google myself But it's hard to see through my hair
Advanced searches and other inquiries Bring back these secret results, I had no idea who I was Apparently I've actually got a lot to live for And that's because
I'm a fairly well known and highly paid NBA basketball star I'm also a moderately successful side-arm major league pitcher And I'm the founder of Mormonism So I guess I'm okay...
Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself And what comes up is a total surprise Sometimes I'm in home alone just Googling myself And I can't believe my eyes Because my eyes are liars!
But there it is on the screen are the only thing I trust in this whole world And I pray to the absence of God that it's all a lie But page after page of my apparent success Just makes me want to sit and cry, because
I'm a star running back in the CFL what the (beep) is this with sports? I'm a state politician from Missouri -- okay that sucks pretty bad But I'm also a highly respected jazz drummer So I guess I'm okay again And I don't know what to do with that
The more I search through the evidence of my accomplished life The more I feel like my sadness is a disguise that I've been wearing Like the cloth of shepherd's caring and watchful arms The Joe Smith that I've spent so much time alone with Has been subduing the world Like an emperor, plated In purple and gold
Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself
Oh my God, is what you're telling me is that I'm all right? Oh my God, it can't be as simple as that I'm just all right! But I've built my personal security on not all right And now I'm okay? I don't know how to handle that.
In four years, Joe Smith has contemplated suicide a further 1,687 times according to Myrtle Beach Clinic records.
But it's hard to follow through when you are so successful.
I haven't flown this century and likely won't if I can avoid it until the situation improves.
But I do have a bit of advice for the TSA: perhaps if you allowed people to place a metal plate over their face they may be more likely to do the body scan. You shouldn't need to associate the public aspects of my person with the private aspects for a one-off security scan. If people are assured that nothing exists associating their recognizable physical identity with their nude form they may be more willing to undergo the procedure and their concerns of the image possibly being retained would lessen.
You really don't lose anything by allowing facial concealment from the scan. You're recording everything at the checkpoint already so if you're dead set on secretly building a database of people naked you can tag the video footage and the scan with a time-code to re-associate them easily.
Because really, what good does it do to scan my head which is already uncovered? What possible weaponry could I be concealing in my face that you couldn't discern by visual inspection?
So, if I were within the space-time cloak, although I would exist, I would no longer exist in time, and for me time itself would not exist? That is, although I'd still be mass, I would no longer be an event in space-time; I would be a non-event mass with a quantum probability of zero?
Even better, if you and your party are in different areas, only one of you may get the alert, and both of you will get a dropped call.
Consider how TiVos behave: kicking you out of your recording and into live TV and holding you there for the duration of the test. Sometimes repeatedly depending on the test being performed.
Now imagine it happening during a 911 call for rescue with a dying cell battery.
Of course, I don't think the cell networks could handle sending individual alerts to every handset. The network will need support for sending one godzillagram to which every cell will respond in a one-way party line. And a way to secure it so that a merry prankster can't issue his own with a rogue transmitter.
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I loved all the Stargate shows
Even Stargate Infinity? Or did I violate your mental block? (Confession: I bought it on DVD.)
I'd like it if they could get Showtime to give the franchise a home again. Stargate Universe could do with being on a more mature channel, especially with the more mature themes in this series.
If only my mod points hadn't expired yesterday.
The martiaforming of Earth is continuing according to schedule.
Tales from the Crypt "You, Murderer" featured Humphrey Bogart as Lou Spinelli in 1995.
You can have my ADB keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead hands.welcome datacompwelcome datacompwelcome datacompwelcome datacomp
i Don"T NEed no cAPSloCKs
Indeed, there are people so intent on being annoying in public that they will post in alternating case, which they can do without the luxury of a caps-lock key.
(With the above being the closest example of that here leads me to believe that slashdot has specific filters against it.)
General Hayden, the former Director of the NSA, spoke at Blackhat on the topic this summer. He said that the Internet today resembles a vast indefensible plain, and that an enemy attack can come from anywhere. He thought (hoped?) a kind of "geography" would eventually evolve on the internet, allowing for tactical maneuvering, permitting the kind of strategies warriors like to fight and defend from.
Basically the Princes and Tribesmen want the Dwellers to plant a Forest in which they can fight their battles. It's only reasonable.
"Hello, cyberwar hotline. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
Limits on stockpiling that which can be infinitely replicated, would that not be DRMs on war?
A complaint is not a ruling of law, nor is a settlement a ruling of law. Has the EU even ruled yet?
Re:Cylon's are so cute when they're that young.
Looks like someone didn't pass 3rd grade English
Perhaps he thought Cylon was an acronym for "Cybernetic Lifeform Node" (ref: Caprica) and was following an old rule that says abbreviations are to be made plural with "'s".
And if it was faulty? You'd be a bit late to complain to the manufacturer!
He wanted 7h3j3573r, but someone else had already claimed it, so he had to substitute ts for his 7s.
(Not realizing 73hj3573r was available.)
And don't think that the government wouldn't use the same mandated mechanism to keep its agents from being tracked when they are investigating you. Then if you notice them doing it, they can arrest you for noticing them.
Man, back in the day you'd send in what looks like an ordinary audio cassette and, after recording a day's worth of audio to on-board memory, it would transform into a bird, shoot its way out, and return to the chest of Soundwave who'd play back what it heard for Megatron.
When one person does it to another, it's called stalking. When a corporation does it to everyone it's called marketing.
In August of 2004, the local authorities of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were called to the apartment of one Joe Smith. Neighbors suspected a suicide.
But Joe Smith was not dead. He was curled up in a ball in the corner of his room laughing and texting himself on his phone.
Before Joe Smith was taken into protective custody, he handed a homemade video to the police labeled MY ALMOST SUICIDE.
This is the transcript of the video.
In four years, Joe Smith has contemplated suicide a further 1,687 times according to Myrtle Beach Clinic records.
But it's hard to follow through when you are so successful.
Even by conceptual extensive transference.
I haven't flown this century and likely won't if I can avoid it until the situation improves.
But I do have a bit of advice for the TSA: perhaps if you allowed people to place a metal plate over their face they may be more likely to do the body scan. You shouldn't need to associate the public aspects of my person with the private aspects for a one-off security scan. If people are assured that nothing exists associating their recognizable physical identity with their nude form they may be more willing to undergo the procedure and their concerns of the image possibly being retained would lessen.
You really don't lose anything by allowing facial concealment from the scan. You're recording everything at the checkpoint already so if you're dead set on secretly building a database of people naked you can tag the video footage and the scan with a time-code to re-associate them easily.
Because really, what good does it do to scan my head which is already uncovered? What possible weaponry could I be concealing in my face that you couldn't discern by visual inspection?
I don't exactly hold an economics degree, but I'm still fascinated to see where this all leads.
Sounds to me there's money to be made wearing QR-coded T-shirts around photogenic tourist sites.
Photobombing for fun and profit!
It is the duty of the government to publish the laws somewhere, in some publicly available format.
Tell that to the TSA.
So it's like The Three Amigos: unable to tell the famous from the infamous.
Please, nobody make a Naked Gun 40-Fores with Frank Drebin's son played by Andy Dick.
So, if I were within the space-time cloak, although I would exist, I would no longer exist in time, and for me time itself would not exist? That is, although I'd still be mass, I would no longer be an event in space-time; I would be a non-event mass with a quantum probability of zero?
Tentatively named KinectBot
I recommend instead, to avoid the trademark, go with 'TalBot, borrowing from the original codename Project Natal.
Or, if you want to go female with it, Natalia (or NatalAIa).
Even better, if you and your party are in different areas, only one of you may get the alert, and both of you will get a dropped call.
Consider how TiVos behave: kicking you out of your recording and into live TV and holding you there for the duration of the test. Sometimes repeatedly depending on the test being performed.
Now imagine it happening during a 911 call for rescue with a dying cell battery.
Of course, I don't think the cell networks could handle sending individual alerts to every handset. The network will need support for sending one godzillagram to which every cell will respond in a one-way party line. And a way to secure it so that a merry prankster can't issue his own with a rogue transmitter.