I love how this headline was constructed. It has a six-character sequence during which truncation (say, in an RSS reader) may make the reader think it generated a 'Mini-Black Hole'.
Also all the more impressive due to it being an all-mechanical typewriter controlled by an Arduino, as opposed to, say, an IBM Selectric with a built-in RS-232 interface, which would make it as easy as playing Zork over a modem. Well, with a translation table from ASCII to control code for the golfball print head (and avoidance of unsupported characters).
Not that a Selectric typewriter isn't a fascinating design in itself.
Denise Riley: The first responsibility is to protect the best interest of this country, right? Then let's say it: in a national emergency a country must plan for the future. And discriminate between those who are vital to continued stability and - those who are not. And now that we've established that our kids are exempt the whole principle of random selection is dead in the water anyway. - Let me finish! Now look: on the one hand we've got the good schools and I don't just mean those producing graduates. I mean the people who will go on to staff our hospitals, our offices, our factories; the work force of the future. We need them. Accepted, yes? So: set against that, you got the failing schools, full of the less able, the less socially useful, those destined to spend a lifetime on benefits occupying places on the dole queue and, frankly, the prisons. Now look, should we treat them equally? - God knows we've tried and we failed, and now the time has come to choose. And if we can't identify the lowest achieving ten percent of this country's children, then what are the school league tables for?
When I first heard of this Internet Kill Switch idea, I remembered Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense" (3.11 and 3.12). Mostly set in San Francisco 2024, one of the methods the government used to suppress dissidents from airing their grievances was cutting off their access to the net. And that aired in 1995.
[last lines] Doctor Bashir: You know, Commander... having seen a little of the 21st century, there is one thing I don't understand: how could they have let things get so bad? Commander Sisko: That's a good question. I wish I had an answer.
Or a tattoo that can tell you when you need another injection of counteragent to counteract the impending quicksilver madness because you overused your invisibility gland.
"Hey, uh, your intranet's DNS servers are under DDoS attack." "How could they be attacking our servers? I had Mordenpyren's Magical Firewall installed!"
Try it in smaller range first. How many integers are there between 0 and 10? That's a small enough range that you can not only count them but also very easily list them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Nine of them. 9 minus zero, or 10 minus 1, or 10-0 - 1.
1599 minus 1000, or 1600 minus 1001, or 1600 minus 1000 minus 1. All equal 599.
You make me want to boot up my old Apple//e or IIgs and do a full disassembly of the original game, but I don't know if my floppies will boot or just shed their magnetic substrate onto the drive head.
True, the issue of encryption locking away public domain works isn't ripe.
Or is it? Some DVDs contain public domain works (due to historically flawed or insufficient copyright notice when required). Encryption of DVDs is optional. (Is selective track encryption possible?)
And what of the podcasts on TiVo? Many of them are released under Creative Commons licenses permitting copying, yet uniformly you aren't permitted to transfer any of them between TiVos, to computers, or burn them to DVDs. If the podcaster complains, TiVo could just drop their feed rather than code an exception. (They have to do a special encoding for TiVo, or the end user has to do it on their computer.) The end user, with other unencumbered options for download, may not have standing either.
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Speculation ran rampant from the delayed iOS 4.2, to iTunes Streaming to a release of the Beatles catalog on the iTunes store. Well it was the latter.
You provided a list of three speculations. The proper term for the last item in a list of more than two items would be "lattermost".
Related questions: how often should you change your username? real name? identity? SSN? fingerprints? retina pattern? DNA?
That amount of gamma radiation is going to create an Inconceivable Hulk!
I love how this headline was constructed. It has a six-character sequence during which truncation (say, in an RSS reader) may make the reader think it generated a 'Mini-Black Hole'.
How well did setting a bounty work for getting chat pad drivers?
Also all the more impressive due to it being an all-mechanical typewriter controlled by an Arduino, as opposed to, say, an IBM Selectric with a built-in RS-232 interface, which would make it as easy as playing Zork over a modem. Well, with a translation table from ASCII to control code for the golfball print head (and avoidance of unsupported characters).
Not that a Selectric typewriter isn't a fascinating design in itself.
I suspect more people have seen A Christmas Carol than Star Trek 2.
Sure, what with its varied forms. I found Rich Little's adaption more memorable than Bill Murray's.
And I suspect more have read A Christmas Carol than the novelization of Star Trek 2 will ever have had.
Compare to Torchwood: Children of Earth, anyone?
Denise Riley: The first responsibility is to protect the best interest of this country, right? Then let's say it: in a national emergency a country must plan for the future. And discriminate between those who are vital to continued stability and - those who are not. And now that we've established that our kids are exempt the whole principle of random selection is dead in the water anyway. - Let me finish! Now look: on the one hand we've got the good schools and I don't just mean those producing graduates. I mean the people who will go on to staff our hospitals, our offices, our factories; the work force of the future. We need them. Accepted, yes? So: set against that, you got the failing schools, full of the less able, the less socially useful, those destined to spend a lifetime on benefits occupying places on the dole queue and, frankly, the prisons. Now look, should we treat them equally? - God knows we've tried and we failed, and now the time has come to choose. And if we can't identify the lowest achieving ten percent of this country's children, then what are the school league tables for?
When I first heard of this Internet Kill Switch idea, I remembered Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense" (3.11 and 3.12). Mostly set in San Francisco 2024, one of the methods the government used to suppress dissidents from airing their grievances was cutting off their access to the net. And that aired in 1995.
[last lines]
Doctor Bashir: You know, Commander... having seen a little of the 21st century, there is one thing I don't understand: how could they have let things get so bad?
Commander Sisko: That's a good question. I wish I had an answer.
"Ouch."
Or a tattoo that can tell you when you need another injection of counteragent to counteract the impending quicksilver madness because you overused your invisibility gland.
A repeated error does not a gentle hint warrant.
"of" is not a verb. The word you want is "have".
How about the trading floor of a stock exchange?
Welcome to the Panaudion: everything you say can and will be used against you.
I can't go in there; that doesn't look anything like me!
"Hey, uh, your intranet's DNS servers are under DDoS attack."
"How could they be attacking our servers? I had Mordenpyren's Magical Firewall installed!"
But, according to comic books, that which doesn't kill me gives me superpowers!
Did the maker of polo shirts with alligators on them sue Warner Bros. Pictures over Superman II?
"Why are we wearing bras on our heads?"
"It's ceremonial."
Paula: What's that?
Blank Reg: It's a book!
Paula: Well, what's that?
Blank Reg: It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one.
Paula: Stuff it!
Try it in smaller range first. How many integers are there between 0 and 10? That's a small enough range that you can not only count them but also very easily list them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Nine of them. 9 minus zero, or 10 minus 1, or 10-0 - 1.
1599 minus 1000, or 1600 minus 1001, or 1600 minus 1000 minus 1. All equal 599.
Presumably the first shock from trying to eat the electrically charged paint would get them to stop. Or at least the third attempt.
You make me want to boot up my old Apple //e or IIgs and do a full disassembly of the original game, but I don't know if my floppies will boot or just shed their magnetic substrate onto the drive head.
Why just threaten? Why aren't they pre-emptively suing? Or can they only do that for trademark infringement?
True, the issue of encryption locking away public domain works isn't ripe.
Or is it? Some DVDs contain public domain works (due to historically flawed or insufficient copyright notice when required). Encryption of DVDs is optional. (Is selective track encryption possible?)
And what of the podcasts on TiVo? Many of them are released under Creative Commons licenses permitting copying, yet uniformly you aren't permitted to transfer any of them between TiVos, to computers, or burn them to DVDs. If the podcaster complains, TiVo could just drop their feed rather than code an exception. (They have to do a special encoding for TiVo, or the end user has to do it on their computer.) The end user, with other unencumbered options for download, may not have standing either.