When I was a kid I really wanted a Transformer, so I asked my parents for one for Christmas. Well, my mom liked to shop at an upscale department store that didn't carry this kind of stuff, and so when she asked to for "transformers" they took her to the model railroad section of their toy department...
Windows XP is pretty secure if you know what you are doing. Disable the services, get antivirus and a firewall and you are set. Don't forget the router firewall, probably the most important part of securing your machine.
I completely agree. What people need is clean fresh water, better agricultural technology, basic education, birth control, health care, access to capital, roads, electricity... sure, computers are on my list, but only if you've already got all of those other things.
Now, what I'm gonna say here may not go over well with the Slashdot crowd. I think America has done really well with technology- semiconductors, cars, aircraft, the A/C motor, the lightbulb, the phonograph, the telephone, TV, the PC, etc. etc. For each of these, America either did it first or made the first practical version of the technology. And America has prospered in large part because of this Yankee Ingenuity. But I think that Americans have drawn the wrong lesson from this- they automatically assume that any problem is a technological problem first and foremost. Throw enough high technology at it, and it'll all be sorted out. Well, it's just not that simple, and this misconception creates major problems whether we're combating poverty, or Iraqi insurgents, or what have you.
Its like in star trek. Think about how many battles would have been won if they had a big red "fire phaser" and a green "modulate shield frequency" button an the captains chair (instead of wasting time speaking it out everytime):)
Seat belts. How come they never had seat belts, even though they were always flying out of their chairs?
If I were going to battle the Enterprise, I'd get a starship with a bigass bumper, heavily padded chairs, airbags, and of course, lots and lots of seat belts. Just ram them at high speed... and then send in a boarding party with spatulas to clean up the mess.
if you look at something like Future Combat Systems -- an extremely expensive, quite possibly pie-in-the-sky redesign that goes against decades of military thinking which will require success in a rather large number of utterly unproven technologies to work. Lightweight, lightly armored heavily networked vehicles complimented by large numbers of mobile attack / recon robots?
See, in the computer game analogy, Future Combat Systems is Duke Nukem Forever...
Well, like they say, it's killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Maybe this move can get some new weapons system out there a few months earlier, but in the meantime, you're not inventing the technologies which permit whole new classes of weapons systems.
I'll put it in StarCraft terms: you're spending your minerals on upgrading your Zealots, and failing to invest in the pylons and tech structures that would allow you to build a whole frickin' fleet of Protoss Carriers.
Why does a school need our SSNs? Why does anybody outside the government?
Here in Minnesota, I need to provide my SSN now just for fishing and hunting licenses. WTF?
Next time you apply for a license, just tell them you are John Kruptowski, 537 Cherrywood Circle, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 575-63-6216, currently applying to UC Berkeley's astrophysics program.
If you don't like that name, I got a zillion more.
Hulk work hard on Grammar Checker for Microsoft! Program many long hours. Very hard to type with huge green hands and puny little keys! Many times get angry and smash keyboard. Many keyboards broken. Hulk also get help with grammar from Yoda. Yoda very wise. Maybe not best work in world, but Hulk take pride in work. Why puny University of Washington professor criticize hard work of Hulk? Criticism hurt Hulk's feelings. Hulk angry! HULK SMASH!
On the contrary, the Church is only homogenous in that we share certain core beliefs.
Diversity my ass. I've been there a number of times, and Utah is the whitest state in the Union... abit creepy, it's like some Nazi experiment in eugenics. People are nice to be sure, but then I'm blond haired and blue eyed so I think they just assumed I was one of them. I would hate to be black and travelling through (or God forbid, living in) Utah.
You guys give guns to your children for xmas, but you can't buy dildos. Whoa!
So how about a gun where the barrel is shaped like a dildo- that would be protected under the second Amendment. Man, THAT would confuse the hell out of a lot of Texans...
"You can have my dildo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!"
Ha! You won't fool me! You're just trying to get me to take off my Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie! Well, it won't work!
RFIDs can be made paper-thin and less than a centimeter square, so now they (you know who!) have put them inside every square foot of aluminum foil.
For a good tinfoil hat, you need to get aluminum foil which is at least twenty years old. I suggest going to the dump and digging down a few feet- dig until you get to the really ripe stuff, then it's just about five more feet! The dates of magazines and newspapers will help you make sure you're deep enough. You could try melting down aluminum foil and then hammering it out into sheets, but then they (you know who!) will notice that some of the RFIDs no longer transmit, and that will arouse suspicions and increase surveillance intensity, so it's not a good idea.
The information technology which kept police states like the USSR, Third Reich, and Saddam's Iraq going was good 'ol fashioned paper. Written records of people's history and whereabouts don't sound as nasty but they were plenty effective.
Why would life on mars necessarily be DNA-based, and why would protiens and lipids nessarily evolve if life evolves? Certainly, other methods of reproduction may have evolved.
One possibility is that the Martian life and Earth life are related. If rocks can be blown off the surface of Mars and land here- and presumably, vice-versa- it's quite possible that in the early days around 3-4 billion years ago, impact ejecta formed a sort of interplanetary shuttle service for microbes. If Mars became habitable before Earth, it's even possible life actually evolved there, and then was seeded here.
In other news, George Lucas has announced that he will digitally re-edit the original three Star Wars movies so that Darth Vader will randomly break out into rap. "I just think it's so cool when older people try to show the young people that they are still hip and with it by trying to rap", said Lucas.
A self-replicating machine would need to have the capacity to gather energy and raw materials, process the raw materials into finished components, and then assemble them into a copy of itself.
Apparently there already is a self-replicating system out there; the system is capable of manufacturing virtually any kind of tool, machine or technology known. To make new copies of itself, it uses only common materials from the environment- water, oxygen, vegetable matter, protein, and that kind of thing. Unfortunately, top computer scientists and engineers are having trouble figuring out the self-replication process. Apparently, it involves some mysterious mechanism known as "sex", which takes place with a "woman". Anyone else know any more about this?
If I recall, it was an H-bomb, but one designed to take out a carrier battle group, in which case it would be tactical, correct?
If you think "H-bomb" automatically means "tactical", all I can say is you just aren't creative enough! Or perhaps "destructive" is the word I'm looking for.
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Hmmm... if you had a female Transformer who kicked ass and could transform into a jet... then you would have an action-packed airplane with breasts.
This could be the GREATEST movie of ALL TIME!!!
When I was a kid I really wanted a Transformer, so I asked my parents for one for Christmas. Well, my mom liked to shop at an upscale department store that didn't carry this kind of stuff, and so when she asked to for "transformers" they took her to the model railroad section of their toy department...
Maybe it's a typo, and he meant "escape armless".
MOOOOOO!
Yes, in other words.
Final step: unplug Windows machine from network.
Now, what I'm gonna say here may not go over well with the Slashdot crowd. I think America has done really well with technology- semiconductors, cars, aircraft, the A/C motor, the lightbulb, the phonograph, the telephone, TV, the PC, etc. etc. For each of these, America either did it first or made the first practical version of the technology. And America has prospered in large part because of this Yankee Ingenuity. But I think that Americans have drawn the wrong lesson from this- they automatically assume that any problem is a technological problem first and foremost. Throw enough high technology at it, and it'll all be sorted out. Well, it's just not that simple, and this misconception creates major problems whether we're combating poverty, or Iraqi insurgents, or what have you.
Seat belts. How come they never had seat belts, even though they were always flying out of their chairs?
If I were going to battle the Enterprise, I'd get a starship with a bigass bumper, heavily padded chairs, airbags, and of course, lots and lots of seat belts. Just ram them at high speed... and then send in a boarding party with spatulas to clean up the mess.
See, in the computer game analogy, Future Combat Systems is Duke Nukem Forever...
I'll put it in StarCraft terms: you're spending your minerals on upgrading your Zealots, and failing to invest in the pylons and tech structures that would allow you to build a whole frickin' fleet of Protoss Carriers.
Next time you apply for a license, just tell them you are John Kruptowski, 537 Cherrywood Circle, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 575-63-6216, currently applying to UC Berkeley's astrophysics program.
If you don't like that name, I got a zillion more.
Hulk work hard on Grammar Checker for Microsoft! Program many long hours. Very hard to type with huge green hands and puny little keys! Many times get angry and smash keyboard. Many keyboards broken. Hulk also get help with grammar from Yoda. Yoda very wise. Maybe not best work in world, but Hulk take pride in work. Why puny University of Washington professor criticize hard work of Hulk? Criticism hurt Hulk's feelings. Hulk angry! HULK SMASH!
Actually, it was going to have a one-button interface, just like the Mac. Surprisingly this product didn't do well in focus group testing.
The robotic snake offered a woman working on the project a robotic apple...
Tires touching the road... shit, I knew I was doing something wrong.
Diversity my ass. I've been there a number of times, and Utah is the whitest state in the Union... abit creepy, it's like some Nazi experiment in eugenics. People are nice to be sure, but then I'm blond haired and blue eyed so I think they just assumed I was one of them. I would hate to be black and travelling through (or God forbid, living in) Utah.
So how about a gun where the barrel is shaped like a dildo- that would be protected under the second Amendment. Man, THAT would confuse the hell out of a lot of Texans...
"You can have my dildo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!"
RFIDs can be made paper-thin and less than a centimeter square, so now they (you know who!) have put them inside every square foot of aluminum foil.
For a good tinfoil hat, you need to get aluminum foil which is at least twenty years old. I suggest going to the dump and digging down a few feet- dig until you get to the really ripe stuff, then it's just about five more feet! The dates of magazines and newspapers will help you make sure you're deep enough. You could try melting down aluminum foil and then hammering it out into sheets, but then they (you know who!) will notice that some of the RFIDs no longer transmit, and that will arouse suspicions and increase surveillance intensity, so it's not a good idea.
The information technology which kept police states like the USSR, Third Reich, and Saddam's Iraq going was good 'ol fashioned paper. Written records of people's history and whereabouts don't sound as nasty but they were plenty effective.
Yes, but OS X has the most stylish viruses and malware around!
Like, get rid of all the effects of the beer and pot I do? Dear lord, these people really ARE evil and must be stopped!
One possibility is that the Martian life and Earth life are related. If rocks can be blown off the surface of Mars and land here- and presumably, vice-versa- it's quite possible that in the early days around 3-4 billion years ago, impact ejecta formed a sort of interplanetary shuttle service for microbes. If Mars became habitable before Earth, it's even possible life actually evolved there, and then was seeded here.
In other news, George Lucas has announced that he will digitally re-edit the original three Star Wars movies so that Darth Vader will randomly break out into rap. "I just think it's so cool when older people try to show the young people that they are still hip and with it by trying to rap", said Lucas.
I think I'm getting morphine... I think I'm getting morphine... I think I'm getting morphine...
Shit, nothing!
Apparently there already is a self-replicating system out there; the system is capable of manufacturing virtually any kind of tool, machine or technology known. To make new copies of itself, it uses only common materials from the environment- water, oxygen, vegetable matter, protein, and that kind of thing. Unfortunately, top computer scientists and engineers are having trouble figuring out the self-replication process. Apparently, it involves some mysterious mechanism known as "sex", which takes place with a "woman". Anyone else know any more about this?
If you think "H-bomb" automatically means "tactical", all I can say is you just aren't creative enough! Or perhaps "destructive" is the word I'm looking for.