I smell an array of transport enhancers... or, this is a diabolical plot to turn homes into super collectors... But, i am awaiting the cavalier responses such as, "I can assure you; nothing can go wro....*(&#$"
"...just as cows have to make up the difference out of their own pockets when the price of milk falls."
Cows cannot afford to be ripped off... But, they are bosom buddies with farmers, and that's why cows are fully abreast of the situation. They probably won't cry over a little spilt milk, hehehe....
Someone mentioned the Kindle, but imagine everyone had one of those, instead of newspapers. It might save boatloads of paper. On the other hand, it would be unlikely that anyone would share their kindle they way people leave finished newspapers on trains and buses. Sometimes, i find interesting things in papers i didn't buy, but out of boredom or lack of time picked up and read a discarded paper.
Eventually, i can see, the content distribution networks will personalize and ban the redistribution of content sent to subscribers, but on a level far more sophisticated than we even know about already today. Personalize ads with discount pricing will do more than just lure people in....
If you suspect a threat is on a given axis, you fire a shot (or war shot) down that bearing. The target (if real) will either sit there or move, or return fire and move under the cover of noise of the real and decoy torpedoes.
However, if you suspect a threat is in your baffles, release SAND. Not just sand spray, but sand dispersed from trailing tubes to CLOG UP THEIR TUBES. This might only work if the threat is within the dispersal cone of the tubes.
Fire noise makers operating on various wavelengths/frequencies. Either the personnel will be affected to the point of being pissed of enough to move quickly , or someone will make some costly mistake.
Release oil (if the threat is on the same plane or slightly above (assuming your own sub has no detection gear atop the sail/mast) to clog up those acoustic-reshaping tubes.
Periodically release "sentries" that are tethered to and powered by trailing wires, and which will detonate if multiple nodes (operating on different sets of search parameters so as to not be deceived in multiple, simultaneously) detect a penetration of the boundary. These, obviously, will create a security "bubble" around the boat and offer such protection as detection and exposure, or detection and damaging. If said charges are properly "tuned" they then will damaging the otherwise advantageous "tuning pipes" of any sneaky-ass boats getting within range that the wire-trailing sub's government can afford to deploy. Such damage inflicted on the enemy sub need not sink it initially - just make the fucker WHISTLE at evasive speeds so as to make the fucker back of and go home, or start a war by aggressive/annoying posture.
copy your fingerprints and then wake you up and ask you, "What is the last thing you remember?"
Maybe all this fingerprinting is to report to Core Control which humans are trying to reach the Mothership?
But, i did not read much that explicitly said that US CITIZENS will be scanned. Sure US-VISIT and biometric passports IMPLY that it will be US citizens, but this has got to be a real smokescreen.
Seriously, though, it is probably a way to index ALL the FUTURE foreign operatives, particularly those who are sent here as students by their respective governments, so the US can either keep tabs on foreign operatives who are rising stars, or to blackmail those whom the US considers fodder or disposable in the brinkmaship the governments play. Really, it is often difficult to trick an astute spy into giving up fingerprints, saliva samples and so on in a restaurant (except the careless ones who mix and mingle in DC and touch dinnerware that is carefully taken to the "kitchen" for scanning/imaging/databasing), compared to just going directly after ALL foreigners who come here for months on end and invariably will slip because it's hard for YOUNG trainees to be perfect ALL the time.
It's the WIRETAPPING. So much tracking and forwarding shit must be embedded in all the traffic that the intertubes are going bonkers.
Seriously, though, i wonder which -- if any -- of their "multiple devices" will support Linux, as in work from kppp, at a minimum. If Sierra is a provider, hopefully it will be available AND work from day one, not day 72. This OS-stratification crap/game played by service providers and hardware makers has to end. Design the hardware to work with minimum communication by the OS and tell ms to talk to the card, not the card talk to ms. Tell Mac to talk to the card, not the card kiss up. This way, maybe Open Source OS's can have a more level playing field to get onto. OTOH, many of these hardware choices might work with Linux, but have their APIs deliberately obfuscated to delay uptake of non-ms OS's...
Maybe people pay for the Apple premium by choice compared to the average user who gets a PC because of money? Or, is it because the Apple model doesn't trip and fall nearly as much as the windows model?
I was looking around to insert, or shim, the conversation with my own thoughts about the shim-job. I was thinking that ms' shims were analogous to replacing leaky sphinctres with grommets and shims, but the code being dry stuffing. Or, the code is like glass fed to the machine, which... Oh, shim me... i need to shim my shim comment... my vision must be shimmery...
Anyway, it looks like either ms needs to provide virtualization to contain these bad apps, or just stop providing infrastructure support. Any 3rd-party devs who shim or bypass the non-support should (or could?) be blacklisted and clients warned their bad/leaky shims will not be plugged/supported.
no "downsides"? Things would be "upended". While we would retain backsides, we would be deprived of foreheads (and more people of foreskins).
Life would be downgraded, and some would feel sideswiped, by underhanded, overbearing people who cannot be aboveboard. But, at least we might not have the problem of innocent bystanders.
But, with computers, we would be deprived of throughput... or output.... LOL!
(I think i'll go outside to get some fresh air...)
"My reasoning would be that being sued is a very stressful and emotional circumstance"
Limit or alleviate the stress (caused by overstepping official, frivolouos lawsuit filers, bus-taggers, petty thieves, overbearing bosses/teachers/ just about anyone who gets on and GRATES your nerves, hehehehe...
What is stress?
Stress: That confusion created when the mind override the body's desire to kick the living shit out of some asshole who desperately deserves it.
When the water machine goes haywire, they lack of water will give rise to a new definition of pissing contest... If the machine clogs up, it could be attributed to "piss-poor-performance"...
Well, if the dress up in rubber skin, a test would involve putting ants on them, and waiting for them to itch or cringe. Or, skin-reacting chemicals could be applied to see if hair or skin give off a smell that rubber won't give off. If the subjects are in a room full of Klieg lights, they will suffer greatly from trapped sweat.
But, thermal gear can probably pick up the differential or amount of trapped heat between their skin, the rubber skin, and the ambient air. Pinching and tugging might work for detection, too, if touching is permitted. But, if the inspectors wear self-protection gloves, they might lack the dexterity or sensitivity to know they are not touching real skin.
Yes, drugs consumption really needs to be addressed, but now (or, now more than ever) we need to consider that legalization of certain recreational drugs would likely just compound the problem of the chemicals tainting the oceans and local water bodies.
Since the summary said the disk "is" missing, i was going to chime in (humourously) with "Whether it really IS missing depends on what the meaning of IS IS..."
means to punish those who film speeders by providing to DMV the footage and license plate of said speeder, who is contacted by insurer who informs speeder of being dropped for coverage, who then hires a lawyer to root out and frag the person who set up and operated the camcorder.
Yep, such a thing happened in Silicon Valley, in the hills of Highway 17 south of Los Gatos. Some ASSHOLE who decided HE had to be in front of everyone, everyday, put at risk the lives, property, vehicles and employment-access-means of every other motorist out there, by speeding liek a mad-ass demon. He so unnerved a home resident that the resident mounted a camcorder and got enough footage enough times to convince the DMV it HAD to act on this asshole. They did their thing, and the insurer did the right thing. Then, the camera operator/resident got outted, fragged, and dragged through court. It seems OBVIOUS that if DMV and an insurer do the right thing, the punished/speed-demon ASSHOLE should not even be allowed to bring the case. Whether DMV de-registered the car or de-licensed to operator or the owner, public safety should come first, even at the expense of the driver who LENDS the car to a reckless friend. The insurer has to keep claims exposure to a minimum, and their move was simultaneously good for the public.
Now, i'm not clean-- i've in my youth done my share of reckless driving, but once the smarter of us realize we're not invincible, or get too many tickets for speeding, and get falsely cited by greedy cops, we cut wayyyy back on driving, or ditch the car for multiple other convenient reasons-- like paying rent, having good local transit, and poor at/near-home parking options.
Slashdot Mirror
or high blood pressure or maybe they had thicknened cell walls up there...
I smell an array of transport enhancers... or, this is a diabolical plot to turn homes into super collectors... But, i am awaiting the cavalier responses such as, "I can assure you; nothing can go wro....*(&#$"
Talk about tempests in teapots....
"...just as cows have to make up the difference out of their own pockets when the price of milk falls."
Cows cannot afford to be ripped off... But, they are bosom buddies with farmers, and that's why cows are fully abreast of the situation. They probably won't cry over a little spilt milk, hehehe....
Someone mentioned the Kindle, but imagine everyone had one of those, instead of newspapers. It might save boatloads of paper. On the other hand, it would be unlikely that anyone would share their kindle they way people leave finished newspapers on trains and buses. Sometimes, i find interesting things in papers i didn't buy, but out of boredom or lack of time picked up and read a discarded paper.
Eventually, i can see, the content distribution networks will personalize and ban the redistribution of content sent to subscribers, but on a level far more sophisticated than we even know about already today. Personalize ads with discount pricing will do more than just lure people in....
If you suspect a threat is on a given axis, you fire a shot (or war shot) down that bearing. The target (if real) will either sit there or move, or return fire and move under the cover of noise of the real and decoy torpedoes.
However, if you suspect a threat is in your baffles, release SAND. Not just sand spray, but sand dispersed from trailing tubes to CLOG UP THEIR TUBES. This might only work if the threat is within the dispersal cone of the tubes.
Fire noise makers operating on various wavelengths/frequencies. Either the personnel will be affected to the point of being pissed of enough to move quickly , or someone will make some costly mistake.
Release oil (if the threat is on the same plane or slightly above (assuming your own sub has no detection gear atop the sail/mast) to clog up those acoustic-reshaping tubes.
Periodically release "sentries" that are tethered to and powered by trailing wires, and which will detonate if multiple nodes (operating on different sets of search parameters so as to not be deceived in multiple, simultaneously) detect a penetration of the boundary. These, obviously, will create a security "bubble" around the boat and offer such protection as detection and exposure, or detection and damaging. If said charges are properly "tuned" they then will damaging the otherwise advantageous "tuning pipes" of any sneaky-ass boats getting within range that the wire-trailing sub's government can afford to deploy. Such damage inflicted on the enemy sub need not sink it initially - just make the fucker WHISTLE at evasive speeds so as to make the fucker back of and go home, or start a war by aggressive/annoying posture.
Mwuahahaha... looks like i pissed on or pissed off somebody...
... "This is HELLACIOUSLY wicked...."
copy your fingerprints and then wake you up and ask you, "What is the last thing you remember?"
Maybe all this fingerprinting is to report to Core Control which humans are trying to reach the Mothership?
But, i did not read much that explicitly said that US CITIZENS will be scanned. Sure US-VISIT and biometric passports IMPLY that it will be US citizens, but this has got to be a real smokescreen.
Seriously, though, it is probably a way to index ALL the FUTURE foreign operatives, particularly those who are sent here as students by their respective governments, so the US can either keep tabs on foreign operatives who are rising stars, or to blackmail those whom the US considers fodder or disposable in the brinkmaship the governments play. Really, it is often difficult to trick an astute spy into giving up fingerprints, saliva samples and so on in a restaurant (except the careless ones who mix and mingle in DC and touch dinnerware that is carefully taken to the "kitchen" for scanning/imaging/databasing), compared to just going directly after ALL foreigners who come here for months on end and invariably will slip because it's hard for YOUNG trainees to be perfect ALL the time.
Just my two cents...
subjects?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070252.stm
FIGHTING with one of these lean, mean green machines would definitely show you to be very unenlightened...
But, if you don't believe, then read this:
http://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-or-Survive-a-Monkey-Attack
Now, if you don't heed, you will bleed, and kiss behind your behind for that last view of monkeyshine...
When all else fails, make love, not war. Get down with the monkey business... and do the funky monkey..
Ovian:
http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_ovians.htm
or one of the 4-eyed vocalists from the alien R&B group in the original BSG
It's the WIRETAPPING. So much tracking and forwarding shit must be embedded in all the traffic that the intertubes are going bonkers.
Seriously, though, i wonder which -- if any -- of their "multiple devices" will support Linux, as in work from kppp, at a minimum. If Sierra is a provider, hopefully it will be available AND work from day one, not day 72. This OS-stratification crap/game played by service providers and hardware makers has to end. Design the hardware to work with minimum communication by the OS and tell ms to talk to the card, not the card talk to ms. Tell Mac to talk to the card, not the card kiss up. This way, maybe Open Source OS's can have a more level playing field to get onto. OTOH, many of these hardware choices might work with Linux, but have their APIs deliberately obfuscated to delay uptake of non-ms OS's...
Computer: Can-not-c*m-pyoot... Insufficent-data-to-assscertain-the-extended-copulas-for-this-type-of-social-intercourse-violating-the-laws-of-god-and-man...
KirkBek: M-5, are-you-feeling...Lonely... Are-there-others-like-you-on-this-planet-
Computer: Question-is-irrelevant. Counter-point: now, YOU-bend-over-Kirkthling
Maybe people pay for the Apple premium by choice compared to the average user who gets a PC because of money? Or, is it because the Apple model doesn't trip and fall nearly as much as the windows model?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3vIxM2jH8
Or, is it that the multi-trip-and-fall-model-business-model is so funny that users pay for the premium to laugh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3vIxM2jH8
(laugh!)
sizzle and can smell the effects of the THIRD RAIL.... This guardrail business sounds shocking....
confused...
I was looking around to insert, or shim, the conversation with my own thoughts about the shim-job. I was thinking that ms' shims were analogous to replacing leaky sphinctres with grommets and shims, but the code being dry stuffing. Or, the code is like glass fed to the machine, which... Oh, shim me... i need to shim my shim comment... my vision must be shimmery...
Anyway, it looks like either ms needs to provide virtualization to contain these bad apps, or just stop providing infrastructure support. Any 3rd-party devs who shim or bypass the non-support should (or could?) be blacklisted and clients warned their bad/leaky shims will not be plugged/supported.
When i think "Isis", i think "Oh Mighty ISISSISSISSSS..." (the TV show, hehehe)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis
no "downsides"? Things would be "upended". While we would retain backsides, we would be deprived of foreheads (and more people of foreskins).
Life would be downgraded, and some would feel sideswiped, by underhanded, overbearing people who cannot be aboveboard. But, at least we might not have the problem of innocent bystanders.
But, with computers, we would be deprived of throughput... or output.... LOL!
(I think i'll go outside to get some fresh air...)
"My reasoning would be that being sued is a very stressful and emotional circumstance"
Limit or alleviate the stress (caused by overstepping official, frivolouos lawsuit filers, bus-taggers, petty thieves, overbearing bosses/teachers/ just about anyone who gets on and GRATES your nerves, hehehehe...
What is stress?
Stress: That confusion created when the mind override the body's desire to kick the living shit out of some asshole who desperately deserves it.
MPP? Magic Piss Pot?
When the water machine goes haywire, they lack of water will give rise to a new definition of pissing contest... If the machine clogs up, it could be attributed to "piss-poor-performance"...
ASStonishing (or, ASS-tarnishing) to have an ASSailant's ASSs-hidden baton shove up an unASSuming pASSenger....
However, imagine if the plastic trucnheon were a sheathe, and a carbon-based dagger were in that...
Well, if the dress up in rubber skin, a test would involve putting ants on them, and waiting for them to itch or cringe. Or, skin-reacting chemicals could be applied to see if hair or skin give off a smell that rubber won't give off. If the subjects are in a room full of Klieg lights, they will suffer greatly from trapped sweat.
But, thermal gear can probably pick up the differential or amount of trapped heat between their skin, the rubber skin, and the ambient air. Pinching and tugging might work for detection, too, if touching is permitted. But, if the inspectors wear self-protection gloves, they might lack the dexterity or sensitivity to know they are not touching real skin.
Yes, drugs consumption really needs to be addressed, but now (or, now more than ever) we need to consider that legalization of certain recreational drugs would likely just compound the problem of the chemicals tainting the oceans and local water bodies.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/your-sewer-drugs
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4207235.ece
http://www.sfei.org/inthenews/5-11-06_sfchron_Dumpoldmeds.pdf
Since the summary said the disk "is" missing, i was going to chime in (humourously) with "Whether it really IS missing depends on what the meaning of IS IS..."
means to punish those who film speeders by providing to DMV the footage and license plate of said speeder, who is contacted by insurer who informs speeder of being dropped for coverage, who then hires a lawyer to root out and frag the person who set up and operated the camcorder.
Yep, such a thing happened in Silicon Valley, in the hills of Highway 17 south of Los Gatos. Some ASSHOLE who decided HE had to be in front of everyone, everyday, put at risk the lives, property, vehicles and employment-access-means of every other motorist out there, by speeding liek a mad-ass demon. He so unnerved a home resident that the resident mounted a camcorder and got enough footage enough times to convince the DMV it HAD to act on this asshole. They did their thing, and the insurer did the right thing. Then, the camera operator/resident got outted, fragged, and dragged through court. It seems OBVIOUS that if DMV and an insurer do the right thing, the punished/speed-demon ASSHOLE should not even be allowed to bring the case. Whether DMV de-registered the car or de-licensed to operator or the owner, public safety should come first, even at the expense of the driver who LENDS the car to a reckless friend. The insurer has to keep claims exposure to a minimum, and their move was simultaneously good for the public.
Now, i'm not clean-- i've in my youth done my share of reckless driving, but once the smarter of us realize we're not invincible, or get too many tickets for speeding, and get falsely cited by greedy cops, we cut wayyyy back on driving, or ditch the car for multiple other convenient reasons-- like paying rent, having good local transit, and poor at/near-home parking options.