I thought the amount of genes didn't matter (could be junk genetics?)
Remember the Macro-virus on Voyager? [IANAT]
I didn't realise that Viruses weren't 'alive'...
Since the 1960s, scientists have argued about whether viruses are living organisms or just a bundle of very large molecules.
aaaah so - definition of life...
Then the truly dumb dumb dumb stuff:
A virus has to hijack another organism's biological machinery to replicate, which it does by inserting its DNA into a host. Bacteria, on the other hand, carry all that they need to reproduce independently, and thus qualify as alive.
Well oil my ovaries, auto-reproduction [there might be a better word for it] here I come! [I am alive right?]
OK I realise they don't mean asexual reproduction is the only way of being able to reproduce on your own.
I guess some/.'ers could only reproduce by infecting someone elses DNA!!:-)
I do not mind having some driver alert system, but if it goes off too many times, too many false positives, then drivers may ignore it, yet at the same time, the very fact that it is there might make them more willing to distract thier attention from the road.
So it gives you a false sense of security, but like all computer equiptment, you ignore it the seconed it gets too annoying.
How many times has a car alarm gone off, and you rush outside to apprehend the thieves?
This sounds too much like a tax funded project gone awry. Perhaps the car might have a failsafe mode if the triggers go too far? if the person doesn't hit an ok button in enough time, the car should slow calmly and require some special intervention to make sure the user is aware.
Now any action on the part of a computer that would remove the human from the loop is not desirable, as this would mean a car might slow in the middle of a 5 lane intersection, or something stupid.
But if humans take themselves out of the loop through complacency, then that is worse.
I'd say it is better because the unlikely duo of Google and Yahoo!!!!!!!!!! are now putting this into the most anticipated email application there is. And right now Yahoo! has been going up in my rating for a while (ever since I saw Kylie Minogue getting water poured over her nips on thier viral site) and now I'd say:
buy buy buy!:-)
If it is 500% slower than noting it, if it cuts spam, then there could be 5000% less email.
Consider yourself enlightened, otherwise, throw us some spare change mister.
Imagine when 80 days around the world was an extraordinary and unbelievable accomplishment, now it seems that something as odd as 80 days around the solar system may be laughed at in a 100 years time.
In todays world, I cannot imagine how restrictive travel must have been, in tomorrows, they will pity us with our cars and segways!
statement Wednesday by 368 economists, including six Nobel laureates:
Well I do not doubt they have good economics: a swift kick of $50k into thier bank account will make most good economists see the value in saying anything.
I was unable to compile the story as it was missing a required library: Pinch of salt.
Star-struck space lovers can now buy their own bona fide rockets, thanks to a Hokkaido University aiming for the stars, according to Weekly Playboy (10/26).
?? So I am not the only one who reads the articles?
Lets think seriously:
1: When does linux get installed 2: What kind of imaging can we expect 3: Some more money than sense geek gonna hack us up a nice GPS tracking and imaging softwqare with gyro compass and GIS based ground sensing auto navigation?
So it is fine for Spyware/Dialers to be taken of softwares 'threat' lists, but legitimate software?
I cannot believe not more fuss was kicked up to stop Sophos (or whoever) removing the dialer software of thier list.
It is thier software, they advertise it as preconfigured to thier judgement. If all cisco routers suddenly came preconfd to block mp3 packets, then we would all sooon find isp's telling cisco to remove this feature, or shop else where.
I am guessing people wont mind dialers being blocked and that it is a service.
Dumb client probably completely missread it, or saw a zonealarm request for access or something.
A society has a right to govern moral law No they don't.
So we have no right to state that murder is immoral? Only illegal?
Hmmmm. You type before you think. Just because you dissagree with thier practices, perhaps their society as a whole wants to crack down on this.
Perhaps they would preffer less readily available outlets for thier pornography needs.
Just as a society can police murder if it so chooses, it can police pornography, you on the other hand, should not consider your own opinion relevant to thier actions, because:
1: You are not governed by them (and if you are, then go through political change) 2: You actually don't care (unless you run a porn site with a target audience of 1/6 of the planet who speak various chinese dialects)
This will not stop idiots who have a 50,000 ansi lumens bright display playing some dumb-ass mobile game right in the corner of your eye when watching a movie (wtf, why did they go to the cinema?)
Also, those stupid giggly-bitches who laugh/scream/cry at the dumbest of moments, or who have not left the house for months on end, and the cinema is their biggest social event, and they catch up on all the gossip until about 10 minutes into the start of the film, at which point the hushes from other cinema goers has long since drowned out thier mind numbing dialogue.
The worst, when the stupid do not use your mobile advert comes on (Orange has some great ones - but trigger happy tv should be commissioned to do them worldwide) people take out thier mobile, check for messages, and then slide them back, not even switching them.
Or if they are on silent, they bloody answer them and talk in that hushed-shouting whisper that is actually about 50 decibels above normal talking.
Using technology to enforce peoples social awareness is lame. Just make it legal to hit them repeatedly with a length of lead piping until they learn.
Before that - I feel that all those less plausible parts of sci-fi where the rich swap bodies and stay young, are getting more and more plausible each day.
The spam:
Subject: geet yoor Heal1ng Molecu1es 50 % off mad s4le bucket chimney monkey
You have read about healing molecules, and now we offer them at an amazing d3al price!
Buy any pack of amazing healing molecules, and we send you:
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One thing that makes this stand out, aside from all those mb's of paintless data (to my eyes!) on the screen, is that they have done a suprisingly good job at usability.
I was away in seconds, without even knowing what the hell I was doing I was finding out all sorts of unuseful things!
Usually I would expect such a scintific based project to have a page like this:
Hello and welcome:
2004-10-11-000001.tar.gz MD5 =...
Of course, this brings to mind, is this data available in some open format we can all d/l and run scripts on to try and find a buffer overflow in the human genome (that sounded worryingly plausible since many tools are being used now to find such cases in binay and source code).
Hack the humans!
Hacker talk in 3045:
0010101110: Oh man, I totally r00t3d n pwn3d her genome, n0w everytime her heart rate goes over 50bps she will be so h0rny for meh.
842984A228BE98: D00d, g1v me h3r bioIP soz I can/GET some 0f th4ht!!
Yoda: Fsk that dude, linux installed and detecting her io ports now, mmmm ys indeed I have.
Link all thier sitched websites to a googleable (what is the 'official' spelling for all stems of google?) site that is inaccessible from.cn but ives is.westerners a chance to have lots of free porn listed! They can be the worlds biggest benefactor from Google ads.
1 billion porn hunters!
It is like google, but better! (unless Chinese have some other interesting fetishes that haven't been absorbed into the western conscience.)
I say good luck to them. A society has a right to govern moral law and try and limit the accessibility of corrupting information.
Bear in mind that as China races towards being a superpower (huge oil wars ahead unless China invent some really cool thingTM that replaces it) they might actually increase their prosperity and thier societies performance by removing such a tempting way to while away a few hours at night.
Or is that just me?:-)
On the other hand, increased access to all the asian oriented (pun intended) porn, or the delectible other varieties of ethinic porn available, they might stem thier mad population grow, and increase tissue sales instead!
I believe that the Big Bang we hear are echoes of cosmic events that may have happened anywhere. I also think that there was a real bang, when reality and existence in thier mortal plane was created.
If you think that is more crazy than an inexplicable universe full of toothpicks, then please by all means explain yourself.
You can use firefox and simply do a DOM search and pull out the image that way.
You can probably tweak browser setting to allow for cross frame javascript dom, set the source automatically to an image in top frame, and create a bookmarklet that always wraps a google search.
I do like the idea of pulling apart thier obfuscated code, or maybe using similar code on other websites.
I have my own usable solution involving backgrounds, javascript etc, but then I realised since anyone can print screen, just let them...
Slashdot Mirror
The first comment I saw +5 something) talked about people deleteing MP3's for space, and finding it easy to get them again
I wonder how they measured this 'drop' in mp3 popularity, my guess would be network traffic, which cuts through your argument.
I would say that MP3 hit a fad era, and is just settling down. [people thought mp3's might dissapear perhaps?)
Well I think MP3 is ok, at a high enough bit rate, stereo is fine even for a semi decent home sound rig.
Again, I say MP3 became a commodity, so people were less worried about getting it.
Although biologists sometimes divide life into three categories,
Alive, dead, and that feeling you get at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon....
Or:
Us, them, and my little friends in the test tube...
I thought the amount of genes didn't matter (could be junk genetics?)
/.'ers could only reproduce by infecting someone elses DNA!! :-)
Remember the Macro-virus on Voyager? [IANAT]
I didn't realise that Viruses weren't 'alive'...
Since the 1960s, scientists have argued about whether viruses are living organisms or just a bundle of very large molecules.
aaaah so - definition of life...
Then the truly dumb dumb dumb stuff:
A virus has to hijack another organism's biological machinery to replicate, which it does by inserting its DNA into a host. Bacteria, on the other hand, carry all that they need to reproduce independently, and thus qualify as alive.
Well oil my ovaries, auto-reproduction [there might be a better word for it] here I come! [I am alive right?]
OK I realise they don't mean asexual reproduction is the only way of being able to reproduce on your own.
I guess some
I do not mind having some driver alert system, but if it goes off too many times, too many false positives, then drivers may ignore it, yet at the same time, the very fact that it is there might make them more willing to distract thier attention from the road.
So it gives you a false sense of security, but like all computer equiptment, you ignore it the seconed it gets too annoying.
How many times has a car alarm gone off, and you rush outside to apprehend the thieves?
This sounds too much like a tax funded project gone awry. Perhaps the car might have a failsafe mode if the triggers go too far? if the person doesn't hit an ok button in enough time, the car should slow calmly and require some special intervention to make sure the user is aware.
Now any action on the part of a computer that would remove the human from the loop is not desirable, as this would mean a car might slow in the middle of a 5 lane intersection, or something stupid.
But if humans take themselves out of the loop through complacency, then that is worse.
So people will one day be sifting through petabytes [probably a heap more] of spam, and hanging the best of it in art galleries around the world.
In the future everyone will have genetically engineered 13" wangers, so spam will be almost erradicated.
BMX, Skateboards (I hope) and killing people.
Oh and now music, so that is 4.
I'd say it is better because the unlikely duo of Google and Yahoo!!!!!!!!!! are now putting this into the most anticipated email application there is. And right now Yahoo! has been going up in my rating for a while (ever since I saw Kylie Minogue getting water poured over her nips on thier viral site) and now I'd say:
:-)
buy buy buy!
If it is 500% slower than noting it, if it cuts spam, then there could be 5000% less email.
Consider yourself enlightened, otherwise, throw us some spare change mister.
Then I thought of the Salmon of Doubt, the book of the scraps of electronic data found on Douglas Adams HDD. But his emails?
Yes letters can be well penned, but is every author going to vainly CC: their emails to a library?
Should they be digitally signed? Oh lawks, Micheal Jackson just emailed me and asked if he could use my toilet [goonies]
Seems dumb to me. Email is such a throw-away medium.
If Shakespeares SMS's were saved, would be citing:
2 b r !2b tat s da qsn, wthr ts noblr n da mnd to sffr da slngs n arws f owtragos frtne,r 2 tk rms agnst a c f trbls n bi opresing, nd dem.
Email is for email. Anyone know any good librarian pr0n sites?
Imagine when 80 days around the world was an extraordinary and unbelievable accomplishment, now it seems that something as odd as 80 days around the solar system may be laughed at in a 100 years time.
In todays world, I cannot imagine how restrictive travel must have been, in tomorrows, they will pity us with our cars and segways!
statement Wednesday by 368 economists, including six Nobel laureates:
Well I do not doubt they have good economics: a swift kick of $50k into thier bank account will make most good economists see the value in saying anything.
I was unable to compile the story as it was missing a required library: Pinch of salt.
has a zlib[?] licence, no obligations really, and you can redist for commercial use.
l
Has a full UI set of things.[buttons sliders]
Yep written in C++ but can use DX 8.1, 9.0, OpenGL1.2 and somethign else, and software.
And has skeletal animated or quake 2 style meshes. and loads quake 3 maps, objs or 3ds, jpgs and even psd.
Scenegraph and special effects you can turn on [water, fire etc]
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/screenshots.htm
Star-struck space lovers can now buy their own bona fide rockets, thanks to a Hokkaido University aiming for the stars, according to Weekly Playboy (10/26).
?? So I am not the only one who reads the articles?
Lets think seriously:
1: When does linux get installed
2: What kind of imaging can we expect
3: Some more money than sense geek gonna hack us up a nice GPS tracking and imaging softwqare with gyro compass and GIS based ground sensing auto navigation?
Neat.
Without an address book or the ability to make phone calls.
Or GPRS.
Seems to me the difference between an MP3 player and a mobile phone is: Storage or phone gubbins.
So it is fine for Spyware/Dialers to be taken of softwares 'threat' lists, but legitimate software?
I cannot believe not more fuss was kicked up to stop Sophos (or whoever) removing the dialer software of thier list.
It is thier software, they advertise it as preconfigured to thier judgement. If all cisco routers suddenly came preconfd to block mp3 packets, then we would all sooon find isp's telling cisco to remove this feature, or shop else where.
I am guessing people wont mind dialers being blocked and that it is a service.
Dumb client probably completely missread it, or saw a zonealarm request for access or something.
User, pfftsk.
A society has a right to govern moral law
No they don't.
So we have no right to state that murder is immoral? Only illegal?
Hmmmm. You type before you think. Just because you dissagree with thier practices, perhaps their society as a whole wants to crack down on this.
Perhaps they would preffer less readily available outlets for thier pornography needs.
Just as a society can police murder if it so chooses, it can police pornography, you on the other hand, should not consider your own opinion relevant to thier actions, because:
1: You are not governed by them (and if you are, then go through political change)
2: You actually don't care (unless you run a porn site with a target audience of 1/6 of the planet who speak various chinese dialects)
OK.
If anything is more annoying than someone talking in a cinema - it is French people talking in a cinema :-) I guess they had to impose a law!
Hahah even though this is true, I love France, and French people.
It *is* true though!
Instead of education.
This will not stop idiots who have a 50,000 ansi lumens bright display playing some dumb-ass mobile game right in the corner of your eye when watching a movie (wtf, why did they go to the cinema?)
Also, those stupid giggly-bitches who laugh/scream/cry at the dumbest of moments, or who have not left the house for months on end, and the cinema is their biggest social event, and they catch up on all the gossip until about 10 minutes into the start of the film, at which point the hushes from other cinema goers has long since drowned out thier mind numbing dialogue.
The worst, when the stupid do not use your mobile advert comes on (Orange has some great ones - but trigger happy tv should be commissioned to do them worldwide) people take out thier mobile, check for messages, and then slide them back, not even switching them.
Or if they are on silent, they bloody answer them and talk in that hushed-shouting whisper that is actually about 50 decibels above normal talking.
Using technology to enforce peoples social awareness is lame. Just make it legal to hit them repeatedly with a length of lead piping until they learn.
Before that - I feel that all those less plausible parts of sci-fi where the rich swap bodies and stay young, are getting more and more plausible each day.
The spam:
Subject: geet yoor Heal1ng Molecu1es 50 % off mad s4le bucket chimney monkey
You have read about healing molecules, and now we offer them at an amazing d3al price!
Buy any pack of amazing healing molecules, and we send you:
1 million verified sucker email addresses
How to make money on 411 scams - your guide
Make money raping ebay auctions
How to hack google and win chicks
5 Free Penorized viagra supplements! Tested on mice!
Don't delay - make you order today!
I was joking about the status of installing linux on all PDA's on Mars...
But thanks for the info...
Sorry even as a technophile the words AI and satellite are worrying. Even if 'AI' is actually:
O WER);
if(xyzDoesntWork()){
Microwave.setTarget(Earth.US.WashingtonDC);
Microwave.setPower(AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs.MAX_P
Microwave.beam("Error xyz screwed up");
}
One thing that makes this stand out, aside from all those mb's of paintless data (to my eyes!) on the screen, is that they have done a suprisingly good job at usability.
...
/GET some 0f th4ht!!
I was away in seconds, without even knowing what the hell I was doing I was finding out all sorts of unuseful things!
Usually I would expect such a scintific based project to have a page like this:
Hello and welcome:
2004-10-11-000001.tar.gz MD5 =
Of course, this brings to mind, is this data available in some open format we can all d/l and run scripts on to try and find a buffer overflow in the human genome (that sounded worryingly plausible since many tools are being used now to find such cases in binay and source code).
Hack the humans!
Hacker talk in 3045:
0010101110: Oh man, I totally r00t3d n pwn3d her genome, n0w everytime her heart rate goes over 50bps she will be so h0rny for meh.
842984A228BE98: D00d, g1v me h3r bioIP soz I can
Yoda: Fsk that dude, linux installed and detecting her io ports now, mmmm ys indeed I have.
Forgive my poor leet speak.
Link all thier sitched websites to a googleable (what is the 'official' spelling for all stems of google?) site that is inaccessible from .cn but ives is .westerners a chance to have lots of free porn listed! They can be the worlds biggest benefactor from Google ads.
1 billion porn hunters!
It is like google, but better! (unless Chinese have some other interesting fetishes that haven't been absorbed into the western conscience.)
I say good luck to them. A society has a right to govern moral law and try and limit the accessibility of corrupting information.
:-)
Bear in mind that as China races towards being a superpower (huge oil wars ahead unless China invent some really cool thingTM that replaces it) they might actually increase their prosperity and thier societies performance by removing such a tempting way to while away a few hours at night.
Or is that just me?
On the other hand, increased access to all the asian oriented (pun intended) porn, or the delectible other varieties of ethinic porn available, they might stem thier mad population grow, and increase tissue sales instead!
Appendix:
- Salt (one pinch of)
New data suggests that the universe expanded rapidly in the first instants after the Big Bang
Which lead to renewed enthusiasm about the name, as apposed to previous suggestions:
The Big Yet Apathetic And Lethargic Singlular Point Of Spontaneous Existence Creation By Magic.
I believe that the Big Bang we hear are echoes of cosmic events that may have happened anywhere. I also think that there was a real bang, when reality and existence in thier mortal plane was created.
If you think that is more crazy than an inexplicable universe full of toothpicks, then please by all means explain yourself.
No really, why?
You can use firefox and simply do a DOM search and pull out the image that way.
You can probably tweak browser setting to allow for cross frame javascript dom, set the source automatically to an image in top frame, and create a bookmarklet that always wraps a google search.
I do like the idea of pulling apart thier obfuscated code, or maybe using similar code on other websites.
I have my own usable solution involving backgrounds, javascript etc, but then I realised since anyone can print screen, just let them...