You should know better that to use such a weak command on good 'ol MK. Try this:
"Oh uncool bush! Unloose this passle
Of furry cats that you hassle!
Tho' by speed my brain's destroyed,
I'm not half this paranoid!
So cease this bummer, down the freak-out,
Let caps and joints cause brains to leak out!
These cats are groovy here among us,
So leave 'em be, you up-tight fungus!"
Either that or just call his mom and tell him to come upstairs for a while.
This just makes me so fucking sad. Everything in our future will be advertising. Imagine the golden arches painted on the surface of the moon, or a big Nike swoosh.
And you're sure this hasn't already happened? All those ancient 'hieroglyphics" - do they look like product placement or an actual language language? I thought so.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Interesting. According to your thesis, TFA should have at least a closing line suggesting that saving the whales / polar bears / sea kittens isn't all that important because there aren't that many of 'them' to begin with, that biodiversity is just a buzz word for the lefties.
Actually, the TFA mentions nothing of the sort - just that somebody finally got around to cataloging "all" plant species and found a bunch of duplicates and a bunch more variations that probably aren't species. Given that plant taxonomy has been ongoing since the 1700's (in the Western world, I have no idea if Asian science is so hung up on cataloging) and that thousands of people in hundreds of different places and times have done the work, it's rather unsurprising to find duplicates.
I have no idea why Fox picked this up but they've not apparently done anything ridiculous with it. Give it to Glen Beck and maybe he can make it Obama's fault - that might be next week but for now it seems to be just straight up reporting.
The last time "sophisticated" was attached to the word malware, a certain Middle East country had problems with its uranium-enrichment program. So what are the chances of this being the mobile version of the Stuxnet worm?
About the same as the chances of anyone using an Android phone to concentrate uranium.
As long as you are prepared to run only third party software, suitable to any old PC a dell is a perfectly adequate way of doing it. Dell itself, though, can't be trusted to get the simplest software stuff right...
This is certainly true - look how many posters just strip the Dell 'inspired' software image off and put bog standard Windows on. Further, this seems to be the same modius operandi that Acer, HP, Toshiba etc. use.
What I've never understood is that these are all enormous companies with lots of money. I cannot believe they can't come of with a "Ministry of Special Software" (not the short-bus kind of special) that hires a dozen good programmers, a manager and a secretary and puts the local pizzeria on speed dial and have a go at it. Is it really that hard?
Am I the only one immune to Steve's RDS and the only not-gay person immune to this girl's sweet, impossibly-blood-boiling begging and flirting? (I have a friend that can basically get any guy to do anything, she has her own reality distortion field... oh it gets my blood moving alright, but it doesn't distort my judgment... various tech presenters get the same thing these days: a look from me and a lot of interest, but a critical eye looking for the eventual letdown).
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you telling us you're not gay? (Thanks, I suppose, kept me up all night wondering about it). That you manage to not turn into a testosterone fueled blob of manliness at the sight of a pretty girl? (Ditto.)That Steve Jobs 'isn't your type'? (Really, some things should just be left as secrets.)
Oh, you don't want a white iPhone! Ahh... There's the rub!
Yeah. But. When, according to the TFA, one of the included applications complains that the current resolution is unsupported, you have problems.
Yes, the iPad got a lot of love from Apple. It's all shiny. But come on - it looks like Dell doesn't even test things once before they drop kick it out the door. Kinda like those no-name Chinese Android junk makers....
In the Northern hemisphere it's Aurora Borealis. In the Southern hemisphere it's Aurora Australis. What's it called when it hits the lower latitudes closer to the Equator?
Expect it will have an effect on singing in kindergartens as childern that young won't know the words, so the words have to be spelled out for the child.
it is really hard to teach simply by talking about a given subject.
Kindergarten age kids in Germany can read sheet music? I'm impressed...
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Slashdot is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
It is important to understand that there is a lot (several pages) of metadata, some of which may be in binary format, which may not all be shown by the kinds of programs used by consumers ordinarily. Of course you can stare at the output of "strings" until you are blue in the face but ultimately you have to trust some tool that it has found all the metadata.
So far exiftool is what I trust but I know this is a best effort kind of thing. It seems that different manufacturers include different information, and the amount is far beyond what is needed to display an image. If the embedded data gets steganographed or otherwise hidden in the file it won't be easily found since people will not know it is there.
Just to be complete - the JPEG and TIFF file structure is well known. If you were really paranoid and wanted to make sure all the metadata was scrubbed, you could fire up your favorite hex editor and look carefully at the data itself to make sure that nothing is where it ought not to be.
The only thing you would not see is embedded data, (Stenographic) which I haven't seen nor heard of any camera doing. Of course, this can be done post processing, but that's another discussion. So if you are paranoid and diligent, you can really figure it out.
Are they actually taking their own risible advice, and packing the place floor-to-ceiling with the "3 mac-pros-per-12U-shelf-what-is-this-'LOM Card'-you-speak-of?" server configuration?
No. It will be stuffed floor to ceiling with Mac Airs and old, version I AppleTVs. This will result in such a concentration of Mac Awesomness that it will result in the Singularity.
Unfortunately, since it will happen in North Carolina, no one will take notice of it for a couple of decades.
Call me crazy, and you probably will, but I think it would have been more effective if they'd have instead targetted the storage or final packaging stage machines for the enriched materials and tried to cause a detonation.
You may not be crazy, but you're not thinking clearly. Creating a nucular explosion is very, very hard. Even the 'simple' Little Boy" implosion mechanisms used initially are rather difficult technical feats. So you don't just target the enriched materials. They won't blow up. Unless you are talking about making a 'dirty bomb' where all you are doing is taking a bunch of mildly radioactive materials and spreading them around to the major annoyance (and little else) of the victim. In that case you have to supply the bang which is likely harder to do over the Internet.
Kinda maybe perhaps these folks spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to do it. They might even know what they're doing.
Actually neither site points to the 'end of the world'. They both point out that there will be a host of major changes that will jack our economy around in ways not many people have envisioned. Your 'answer' is that the incredible intelligence and resourcefulness of man kind will get us out of the mess that the intelligence and resourcefulness of mankind got us into.
Keep up the happy thoughts if you will. Keep pumping money into fusion and hope to hell somebody comes up with a viable method of making metric shitloads of cheap energy. And hope they do all then in the next 50 years.
And keep on minimizing the 'alarmists'. I'm sure the idea that they have years of specific thought and research on the subject bothers you not since the 'end' hasn't happened yet. It's a happy thought and happy is good.
It just might not be correct. Quite a number of careful thinkers believe it's not correct and in reading quite a lot of their material, they can point out chapter and verse specific problems and issues. The happy people invariably look to solutions in the future that so far, have stumped our best minds for decades. Yep, we're making progress and no, I don't think we are going to make enough progress to matter.
Until we are in a situation where we have one or more resources under significant and consistent pressure over a long period of time that eats up more and more of our collective time and energies trying to manage and maximize, then this mathusian doomsday scenario hasn't even left the drawing board - let alone the hanger.
Slashdot Mirror
Either that or just call his mom and tell him to come upstairs for a while.
This just makes me so fucking sad. Everything in our future will be advertising. Imagine the golden arches painted on the surface of the moon, or a big Nike swoosh.
And you're sure this hasn't already happened? All those ancient 'hieroglyphics" - do they look like product placement or an actual language language? I thought so.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
How come Microsoft gets to name an entire galaxy? I think this is another one of their b**s claims for "market share."
Sarcasm Warning.
'cuz Apple has already got the iVerse. Galaxy, pah.
Interesting. According to your thesis, TFA should have at least a closing line suggesting that saving the whales / polar bears / sea kittens isn't all that important because there aren't that many of 'them' to begin with, that biodiversity is just a buzz word for the lefties.
Actually, the TFA mentions nothing of the sort - just that somebody finally got around to cataloging "all" plant species and found a bunch of duplicates and a bunch more variations that probably aren't species. Given that plant taxonomy has been ongoing since the 1700's (in the Western world, I have no idea if Asian science is so hung up on cataloging) and that thousands of people in hundreds of different places and times have done the work, it's rather unsurprising to find duplicates.
I have no idea why Fox picked this up but they've not apparently done anything ridiculous with it. Give it to Glen Beck and maybe he can make it Obama's fault - that might be next week but for now it seems to be just straight up reporting.
+1 tin foil hat stars for you
I did, and somehow I ended up with a link back to /.? WTF?
-jcr
Ayyyeee! Run for your lives!
The Singularity is here!
The last time "sophisticated" was attached to the word malware, a certain Middle East country had problems with its uranium-enrichment program. So what are the chances of this being the mobile version of the Stuxnet worm?
About the same as the chances of anyone using an Android phone to concentrate uranium.
Zero.
This is certainly true - look how many posters just strip the Dell 'inspired' software image off and put bog standard Windows on. Further, this seems to be the same modius operandi that Acer, HP, Toshiba etc. use.
What I've never understood is that these are all enormous companies with lots of money. I cannot believe they can't come of with a "Ministry of Special Software" (not the short-bus kind of special) that hires a dozen good programmers, a manager and a secretary and puts the local pizzeria on speed dial and have a go at it. Is it really that hard?
You sure put a high bar up for next year. I'm just looking for the Higgs Boson. That'll be enough.
Am I the only one immune to Steve's RDS and the only not-gay person immune to this girl's sweet, impossibly-blood-boiling begging and flirting? (I have a friend that can basically get any guy to do anything, she has her own reality distortion field... oh it gets my blood moving alright, but it doesn't distort my judgment ... various tech presenters get the same thing these days: a look from me and a lot of interest, but a critical eye looking for the eventual letdown).
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you telling us you're not gay? (Thanks, I suppose, kept me up all night wondering about it). That you manage to not turn into a testosterone fueled blob of manliness at the sight of a pretty girl? (Ditto.)That Steve Jobs 'isn't your type'? (Really, some things should just be left as secrets.)
Oh, you don't want a white iPhone! Ahh... There's the rub!
Well, I don't want one either.
So there....
Yeah. But. When, according to the TFA, one of the included applications complains that the current resolution is unsupported, you have problems.
Yes, the iPad got a lot of love from Apple. It's all shiny. But come on - it looks like Dell doesn't even test things once before they drop kick it out the door. Kinda like those no-name Chinese Android junk makers....
In the Northern hemisphere it's Aurora Borealis. In the Southern hemisphere it's Aurora Australis. What's it called when it hits the lower latitudes closer to the Equator?
An acid trip.
Your problem is that you are in Anchorage. As any Alaskan will tell you, the best thing about Anchorage is that it's only 30 minutes from Alaska.
Just slide up the Palmer Highway for a while and look up....
Expect it will have an effect on singing in kindergartens as childern that young won't know the words, so the words have to be spelled out for the child.
it is really hard to teach simply by talking about a given subject.
Kindergarten age kids in Germany can read sheet music? I'm impressed...
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Slashdot is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
Oh, like Lotus Notes?
Just to be complete - the JPEG and TIFF file structure is well known. If you were really paranoid and wanted to make sure all the metadata was scrubbed, you could fire up your favorite hex editor and look carefully at the data itself to make sure that nothing is where it ought not to be.
The only thing you would not see is embedded data, (Stenographic) which I haven't seen nor heard of any camera doing. Of course, this can be done post processing, but that's another discussion. So if you are paranoid and diligent, you can really figure it out.
My enterprise Windows software would like to talk to you. But, oh, wait.
It can't....
Thanks for reminding me of the reason I stopped reading the comments here.
So. How does this work?
What's wrong with the 'blowing up stuff' part?
Are they actually taking their own risible advice, and packing the place floor-to-ceiling with the "3 mac-pros-per-12U-shelf-what-is-this-'LOM Card'-you-speak-of?" server configuration?
No. It will be stuffed floor to ceiling with Mac Airs and old, version I AppleTVs. This will result in such a concentration of Mac Awesomness that it will result in the Singularity.
Unfortunately, since it will happen in North Carolina, no one will take notice of it for a couple of decades.
Here. A much shorter and more useful table.
In ten years time we will have perfected translation software to instantly translate the major languages on the fly with almost perfect accuracy.
Perhaps. But it's gonna be an interesting decade.
MEL: "Just get us on the ground."
WASH: "Don't worry, that'll happen..."
Call me crazy, and you probably will, but I think it would have been more effective if they'd have instead targetted the storage or final packaging stage machines for the enriched materials and tried to cause a detonation.
You may not be crazy, but you're not thinking clearly. Creating a nucular explosion is very, very hard. Even the 'simple' Little Boy" implosion mechanisms used initially are rather difficult technical feats. So you don't just target the enriched materials. They won't blow up. Unless you are talking about making a 'dirty bomb' where all you are doing is taking a bunch of mildly radioactive materials and spreading them around to the major annoyance (and little else) of the victim. In that case you have to supply the bang which is likely harder to do over the Internet.
Kinda maybe perhaps these folks spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to do it. They might even know what they're doing.
Actually neither site points to the 'end of the world'. They both point out that there will be a host of major changes that will jack our economy around in ways not many people have envisioned. Your 'answer' is that the incredible intelligence and resourcefulness of man kind will get us out of the mess that the intelligence and resourcefulness of mankind got us into.
Keep up the happy thoughts if you will. Keep pumping money into fusion and hope to hell somebody comes up with a viable method of making metric shitloads of cheap energy. And hope they do all then in the next 50 years.
And keep on minimizing the 'alarmists'. I'm sure the idea that they have years of specific thought and research on the subject bothers you not since the 'end' hasn't happened yet. It's a happy thought and happy is good.
It just might not be correct. Quite a number of careful thinkers believe it's not correct and in reading quite a lot of their material, they can point out chapter and verse specific problems and issues. The happy people invariably look to solutions in the future that so far, have stumped our best minds for decades. Yep, we're making progress and no, I don't think we are going to make enough progress to matter.
Oil and
Fresh Water
Quit watching so much Star Trek. Reality can be a cast iron bitch at times.
I'd start doodling if I were you. If your talents don't run that way, try some reading.