Particular care is taken to ensure that the landers are devoid of any life that may contaminate the system.
Hasn't Deinococcus radiodurans already successfully hitched a ride on space probes despite decontamination and sterilization procedures, accidentally trapped between two layers of glass, and surviving hard space radiation to a return to Earth?
The first positing that I recall of Earth having already seeded Mars with bacterial life was in the 1983 Timothy Bottoms-starring movie Tin Man (not available on DVD).
It's not actually *erased* per se. More like being commented out.
More like <del></del> and <ins></ins> tags are inserted with each revision.
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The waves are persistent, accessible to anyone who's added to them, and include the ability to track changes, so they ultimately work quite well as a medium for the non-tactical parts of an RPG. A newcomer can jump right in and get up-to-speed on past interactions, and a GM or industrious player can constantly maintain the official record of play by going back and fixing errors, formatting text, adding and deleting material, and reorganizing posts.
Great, so with everything logged, they can finally settle whether or not Galstaff had cast Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog.
Snow Leopard also has a text substitution feature you could use. Come up with a unique trigger text and you can replace, say, !inf with the infinity symbol, and use a font that has all the symbols you'll need present. In most programs, look under Edit for Substitutions.
I use ! as an example because in regular use, there's very few things that can logically follow an exclamation point, and requires only a slight change in style for programming.
If it isn't enough, try TextExpander or TypeIt4Me. I hear they can do rich text substitution to get your subscripts and superscripts as needed.
I like how this is suddenly news because Windows 7 has a GUI for this and touts it as a feature.
Pretty much every modern OS can act as a router, even previous versions of Windows, without additional software.
On the Mac, it is called Internet Sharing. I've shared my Bluetooth Internet connection over WiFi with a friend at work. I've shared my wired Ethernet at home over WiFi on a G4 Cube with a Wii, a laptop, and a tablet. Only powered on when I needed it though. You can bridge any two interfaces you want, but only two AFAIKT; you can't share Ethernet over WiFi and Bluetooth over Firewire all at the same time.
Anonymity and security are generally incompatible concepts. I.e. to be anonymous you have to be anybody, but to be secure you have to be someone in particular.
And if you OK with being identified, then the only thing you have that remains secret in Tor is your locality. So logging in somewhere with something that is geo-aware and thus can leak your location over Tor is especially foolish (like logging into your pedophile-ring's server and uploading live the geo-tagged video you're making with your cellphone's camera -- Tor won't protect you from outing yourself).
Tor could use its own paranoid version of Clippy that says, "It looks like you're about to disclose your identity and/or location over an anonymizing network. Would you like me to inform the authorities directly instead?"
FYI, it's "pedals". You're not stepping on flowers.
Also, momentum helps with the pedal option: it encourages more braking and less acceleration. A joystick where pushing forward is acceleration and pulling back is braking uses your momentum against your desires both ways.
That's what passes for ultimate with you? I for one wouldn't mind having an 8-drive Drobo hooked up and replacing drives in it with ever larger drives as I needed or some other device whose expansion capabilities are limited only by how much storage and power for operation and cooling I can afford (or upper limit of the XBOX 360's drive system, whichever comes first, and then a way to swap drives).
How is "readily available" defined? Is "available under NDA and a license agreement for a fee of $1 billion dollars per month provided your postmarked application is received in 10 seconds starting now" encompassed?
And what of the remainder of the XBOX Live Gold subscription? As this gets sprung upon unanticipating subscribers, can they then opt out of their Live contract and thus regain access to their unauthorized storage, or is upgrading giving Microsoft a permanent foothold in your hardware free to exert any terms they want, including bricking the hardware if you don't take it on-line for remote auditing often enough?
Steal a laptop out of a car? According to the MPAA, a movie pirate is a person who would steal the car!
But hey, better you suffer a physical loss than they suffer an illusory loss.
Me, I just want to get pictures of those brown dots they mar the movie with so I can use the pictures for purposes of public criticism, commentary, and parody.
A more practical question: how many bits does my encryption key need now to make brute force cracking impractical for the fastest computer possible in this Universe (i.e probability of finding the key within my remaining lifespan 0.0001% (1 in a million))?
And not involving a system that reduces my lifespan, such as one failed attempt kills me, smart-ass.
People skipping commercials are stealing television. People who wear body armor are stealing my ammunition. People fluoridating water are sapping and impurifying all of our precious bodily fluids!
"Hello, I'm Jack Valenti, and these are my cheeks. You know, we get a lot of letters here at the Motion Picture Association of America. And most of them are about my cheeks.... Letters like this one from Miss Ida Lupins of Santa Susana City. And she writes, `Dear Mr. Valenti, I like your cheeks.... My home is made of adobe.'"
Yeah, but will it be classified as a toxic material or break down into toxic materials according to California?
Also, how durable is this material? What's its operative lifespan? How long can it be stored after manufacture before use? If your fridge fails, does your superconductor die?
RESEARCH NOTE: The copper-oxides are strongly hygroscopic [absorbing or attracting moisture from the air]. All tests should be performed immediately after annealing.
Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Did you get to see what happened at the other end of the wormhole for those events?
Ring transporters can sever heads and send the severed head to the other side (though only when they come from above and pin you underneath them, not from below like most ring platforms in the series). Stargates don't. Ring transporters also allow bidirectional travel unlike stargates.
Unless you're the animated series where your 'gates can have from 6 to as many as 12 chevrons depending on what angle you're viewing it at.
(you can warp through things, when in warp you are out of normal space time. DUH so a Run about would pass through the borg cube
A Runabout passed through a Borg Cube's shields. That's different from passing through the whole Cube. And they weren't at warp.
Why? Because they had to get through the shields before they could use the transporter.
I don't think there's a canonical instance of ships at warp speed intersecting with anything in Star Trek. But they certainly didn't try warping through things that surrounded them like Dyson Spheres, Tholian Webs, Space Amoebas, or Q Fences.
As to this bit, I think gates are all addressed absolutely. So you can take a specific ring to a new place, install it, and it'll still have the same Gate address. Its gate address wouldn't change just because you moved it.
Otherwise, all the gates would be useless given orbits, Galactic movement and expansion, etc...
The gates in the network communicate with each other to address such issues. Since SGC's gate had been off the network and had no DHD, they could initially only reach Abydos using its canonical address due to it being close to Earth (retconning its extragalactic location of the movie), and Ernest's planet. The computers at SGC compensate for the lack of a DHD and has since accounted for such drift the way the gates with DHDs would do normally.
Difficulties with calibrating the SGC's system was the cause of people initially coming through cold or with excessive velocity on the other side, though the latter sometimes was caused by overriding the gate's safety protocols.
Also, note that at times when the ship's gate is active, the ship is not traveling FTL (specifically stated not to be hyperspace). Normal operation still prohibits travel to moving gates.
This is also not the first time a gate has been active on a ship. Apophis' invasion force had a ship with a gate on it. SG-1 dialed in just before it left for Earth. They escaped by dialing out to the alpha site as if the gate was Earth's gate when the ship was in orbit around Earth. (Thus Earth has had three gates: Giza, Antarctica, and the gate brought by Apophis.)
There's also the gate Samantha Carter used to blow up a star, but only stellar material traveled through it.
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"You blow up one star and suddenly everybody expects you to walk on water." -- Samantha Carter, SG-1
Particular care is taken to ensure that the landers are devoid of any life that may contaminate the system.
Hasn't Deinococcus radiodurans already successfully hitched a ride on space probes despite decontamination and sterilization procedures, accidentally trapped between two layers of glass, and surviving hard space radiation to a return to Earth?
The first positing that I recall of Earth having already seeded Mars with bacterial life was in the 1983 Timothy Bottoms-starring movie Tin Man (not available on DVD).
It's not actually *erased* per se. More like being commented out.
More like <del></del> and <ins></ins> tags are inserted with each revision.
The waves are persistent, accessible to anyone who's added to them, and include the ability to track changes, so they ultimately work quite well as a medium for the non-tactical parts of an RPG. A newcomer can jump right in and get up-to-speed on past interactions, and a GM or industrious player can constantly maintain the official record of play by going back and fixing errors, formatting text, adding and deleting material, and reorganizing posts.
Great, so with everything logged, they can finally settle whether or not Galstaff had cast Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog.
Snow Leopard also has a text substitution feature you could use. Come up with a unique trigger text and you can replace, say, !inf with the infinity symbol, and use a font that has all the symbols you'll need present. In most programs, look under Edit for Substitutions.
I use ! as an example because in regular use, there's very few things that can logically follow an exclamation point, and requires only a slight change in style for programming.
If it isn't enough, try TextExpander or TypeIt4Me. I hear they can do rich text substitution to get your subscripts and superscripts as needed.
You should never be Reliant on your enemy's technology.
I like how this is suddenly news because Windows 7 has a GUI for this and touts it as a feature.
Pretty much every modern OS can act as a router, even previous versions of Windows, without additional software.
On the Mac, it is called Internet Sharing. I've shared my Bluetooth Internet connection over WiFi with a friend at work. I've shared my wired Ethernet at home over WiFi on a G4 Cube with a Wii, a laptop, and a tablet. Only powered on when I needed it though. You can bridge any two interfaces you want, but only two AFAIKT; you can't share Ethernet over WiFi and Bluetooth over Firewire all at the same time.
Anonymity and security are generally incompatible concepts. I.e. to be anonymous you have to be anybody, but to be secure you have to be someone in particular.
And if you OK with being identified, then the only thing you have that remains secret in Tor is your locality. So logging in somewhere with something that is geo-aware and thus can leak your location over Tor is especially foolish (like logging into your pedophile-ring's server and uploading live the geo-tagged video you're making with your cellphone's camera -- Tor won't protect you from outing yourself).
Tor could use its own paranoid version of Clippy that says, "It looks like you're about to disclose your identity and/or location over an anonymizing network. Would you like me to inform the authorities directly instead?"
PRS: Hey, who sings that song?
Sandra Burt: Mick Jagger.
PRS: Yeah, let's keep it that way.
FYI, it's "pedals". You're not stepping on flowers.
Also, momentum helps with the pedal option: it encourages more braking and less acceleration. A joystick where pushing forward is acceleration and pulling back is braking uses your momentum against your desires both ways.
And then he'd go on a munchies-induced rampage killing and eating Zoanoids.
Of course the ultimate would be a 1TB.
That's what passes for ultimate with you? I for one wouldn't mind having an 8-drive Drobo hooked up and replacing drives in it with ever larger drives as I needed or some other device whose expansion capabilities are limited only by how much storage and power for operation and cooling I can afford (or upper limit of the XBOX 360's drive system, whichever comes first, and then a way to swap drives).
How is "readily available" defined? Is "available under NDA and a license agreement for a fee of $1 billion dollars per month provided your postmarked application is received in 10 seconds starting now" encompassed?
And what of the remainder of the XBOX Live Gold subscription? As this gets sprung upon unanticipating subscribers, can they then opt out of their Live contract and thus regain access to their unauthorized storage, or is upgrading giving Microsoft a permanent foothold in your hardware free to exert any terms they want, including bricking the hardware if you don't take it on-line for remote auditing often enough?
Steal a laptop out of a car? According to the MPAA, a movie pirate is a person who would steal the car!
But hey, better you suffer a physical loss than they suffer an illusory loss.
Me, I just want to get pictures of those brown dots they mar the movie with so I can use the pictures for purposes of public criticism, commentary, and parody.
might add a few zeros to that key though.
Yeah, just make sure they're scattered in the middle of the key and not at the beginning or end, thanks.
A more practical question: how many bits does my encryption key need now to make brute force cracking impractical for the fastest computer possible in this Universe (i.e probability of finding the key within my remaining lifespan 0.0001% (1 in a million))?
And not involving a system that reduces my lifespan, such as one failed attempt kills me, smart-ass.
People skipping commercials are stealing television.
People who wear body armor are stealing my ammunition.
People fluoridating water are sapping and impurifying all of our precious bodily fluids!
"Hello, I'm Jack Valenti, and these are my cheeks. You know, we get a lot of letters here at the Motion Picture Association of America. And most of them are about my cheeks.... Letters like this one from Miss Ida Lupins of Santa Susana City. And she writes, `Dear Mr. Valenti, I like your cheeks.... My home is made of adobe.'"
-- Jack Valenti; Freakazoid! "The Chip: Part 1"
And yes, he played himself.
Makes you wonder if the reason for the restraining order was for peeking.
Yeah, but will it be classified as a toxic material or break down into toxic materials according to California?
Also, how durable is this material? What's its operative lifespan? How long can it be stored after manufacture before use? If your fridge fails, does your superconductor die?
RESEARCH NOTE: The copper-oxides are strongly hygroscopic [absorbing or attracting moisture from the air]. All tests should be performed immediately after annealing.
So there's the requirement that it be a dry cold.
game ... contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment.
Am I the only one thinking, "Yeah baby! This one will be #1 on my games to buy list for this year" now?
I saw "no longer contains... piles of dead bodies lying about the environment," and thought, "Third shot: disintegrates."
Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Did you get to see what happened at the other end of the wormhole for those events?
Ring transporters can sever heads and send the severed head to the other side (though only when they come from above and pin you underneath them, not from below like most ring platforms in the series). Stargates don't. Ring transporters also allow bidirectional travel unlike stargates.
Unless you're the animated series where your 'gates can have from 6 to as many as 12 chevrons depending on what angle you're viewing it at.
(you can warp through things, when in warp you are out of normal space time. DUH so a Run about would pass through the borg cube
A Runabout passed through a Borg Cube's shields. That's different from passing through the whole Cube. And they weren't at warp.
Why? Because they had to get through the shields before they could use the transporter.
I don't think there's a canonical instance of ships at warp speed intersecting with anything in Star Trek. But they certainly didn't try warping through things that surrounded them like Dyson Spheres, Tholian Webs, Space Amoebas, or Q Fences.
As to this bit, I think gates are all addressed absolutely. So you can take a specific ring to a new place, install it, and it'll still have the same Gate address. Its gate address wouldn't change just because you moved it.
Otherwise, all the gates would be useless given orbits, Galactic movement and expansion, etc...
The gates in the network communicate with each other to address such issues. Since SGC's gate had been off the network and had no DHD, they could initially only reach Abydos using its canonical address due to it being close to Earth (retconning its extragalactic location of the movie), and Ernest's planet. The computers at SGC compensate for the lack of a DHD and has since accounted for such drift the way the gates with DHDs would do normally.
Difficulties with calibrating the SGC's system was the cause of people initially coming through cold or with excessive velocity on the other side, though the latter sometimes was caused by overriding the gate's safety protocols.
Also, note that at times when the ship's gate is active, the ship is not traveling FTL (specifically stated not to be hyperspace). Normal operation still prohibits travel to moving gates.
This is also not the first time a gate has been active on a ship. Apophis' invasion force had a ship with a gate on it. SG-1 dialed in just before it left for Earth. They escaped by dialing out to the alpha site as if the gate was Earth's gate when the ship was in orbit around Earth. (Thus Earth has had three gates: Giza, Antarctica, and the gate brought by Apophis.)
There's also the gate Samantha Carter used to blow up a star, but only stellar material traveled through it.