I just assume that the FBI or NSA have a back door into my server and are making copies of everything for me.
Almost right. The FBI surreptitiously copies all your data. The NSA surreptitiously copies the FBI datastream by snarfing it off the internet peering hotels.
What if anyone could make a copy of themselves, on demand? Say you want to try what it feels like to jump out of an airplane -- without a parachute. Do you make a replica, and then toss yourself?
Check out David Brin's "Kiln People"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People
Can't say I liked the ending much, but the story and the questions it raises were definitely worth the time spent reading.
I am guessing this would be mixture of convoluted and deluded.
Unfortunately, there are a number of hits in a web search so you don't get credit for coining the term.
Indeed. Swifts Gulliver's Travels is in incredible gem (see, I'm posting on topic!).
Even after more than 200 years it has astute, applicable and biting political commentary and LOL scenes. Lilliputian royalty looking up and seeing what G's threadbare clothing was no longer hiding as their carriage passed between his legs had me in tears, as did his methodology for extinguishing a file in their palace. Seriously geeky reading entertainment, you can get it FREE.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/829
ATT in IL tells me that IPv6 connectivity is over a year away. If my tier 1 provider doesn't offer it (for neither DS3 or Fiber internet connections), not much purpose of doing it internally.
Your example is even worse than you suspect, Vista, by default, uses some screwy M$ format instead of ISO and you will be able to read the disc that was burned ONLY on another Vista machine, unless they are led thru the extra steps to get a a properly portable disc.
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and it probably loses its flavor on the bedpost overnight.
/ducks
Where's the Ka-boom? There's supposed to be a windows shattering Ka-boom ... oh wait.
I'm thinking waking up at 3:05AM to a giant fireball on the horizon would be an essentially indistinguishable experience.
"politicians and diapers should be changed often ,and for the same reasons."
The attribution for this quote appears to be Mark Twain (Samual Clemens)
Do not bank towards laser and expose remaining compound eye
Am I the only one that wants to post "castration is not causation"
You must be new here.
Oh yes, let's combine the ineptitude of Microsoft with that of the Justice Department and expect a quick and successful resolution to the incident.
Almost right. The FBI surreptitiously copies all your data. The NSA surreptitiously copies the FBI datastream by snarfing it off the internet peering hotels.
Hey, Verne, know what I mean.
/fisheye-lens
My first thought was the obligatory cute kid in the original Battlestar Galactica, probably identifying me as 1) too scifi-geeky 2) too old
IANAL, neither can I.
I am failing to see the downside to this. Have you SEEN the furless girls the use to admonish us unethical treaters?
Check out David Brin's "Kiln People" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People Can't say I liked the ending much, but the story and the questions it raises were definitely worth the time spent reading.
I am guessing this would be mixture of convoluted and deluded.
Unfortunately, there are a number of hits in a web search so you don't get credit for coining the term.
So, after a nudge, nudge you get a wink, wink? Does that make the cable a goer?
> That sentence somehow got me pretty hot
I guess now you are going out and whip a star?
That oughta get me a "-1 obscure" moderation.
Indeed. Swifts Gulliver's Travels is in incredible gem (see, I'm posting on topic!). Even after more than 200 years it has astute, applicable and biting political commentary and LOL scenes. Lilliputian royalty looking up and seeing what G's threadbare clothing was no longer hiding as their carriage passed between his legs had me in tears, as did his methodology for extinguishing a file in their palace. Seriously geeky reading entertainment, you can get it FREE. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/829
Performing Installations, upgrades & maintenance could be called a LAPPdance.
Same diufference. You say potato, Quayle sez potatoe totz
You realize rthat James Tiptree Jr was actually a female? Her real name was Alice Sheldon.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue22/tiptree.html
ATT in IL tells me that IPv6 connectivity is over a year away. If my tier 1 provider doesn't offer it (for neither DS3 or Fiber internet connections), not much purpose of doing it internally.
All reet, All reet. So jeet your seat.
MS was in a lousy position there, with no way to please everybody; but their handling of the situation was surprisingly inelegant.
their handling of the situation was typically inelegant
There, fixed that for ya.
Your example is even worse than you suspect, Vista, by default, uses some screwy M$ format instead of ISO and you will be able to read the disc that was burned ONLY on another Vista machine, unless they are led thru the extra steps to get a a properly portable disc.