Oh people in Switzerland do have rifles in their homes, but ammunition is VERY strictly controlled by the government. At least according to the article you linked.
- Get list of employee names that work for a corporation you wish to target (Not too hard) - Generate list of usernames based on them - Keep loging in with "password" as password 3 or more times for each generated username - Watch as the corporation is brought to its knees as all employees flood the IT support for password reset - Demand payment for you to stop it - Profit!!!
This is precisely why current system add gap time before next login attempt. This slows down the attacker but avoids the above scenario.
What are you talking about? At the moment NASA is sending their astronauts to ISS on Russian-built Souz spacecraft, while lacking a man-rated craft of their own! The Soviet Union achieved so many firsts that USA panicked: That resulted in the Apollo program that finally secured their lead. Even after Apollo, Russia still achieved a first: First space station.
For all the flaws of Russia, their space program is something remarkable. Even when it went through all the shit and chaos of Perestroika and corruption afterwards, they just kept going. We shall see how long NASA will last with all the cuts coming.
In the corporate world: Just Ship It and send the invoice!
Consistent observation from my experience: There is always time to fix something when things go wrong, but never enough time to do things properly from the beginning.
Well at least someone will find me interesting. They might even arange a get together, where someone will actually pay attension when you keep going on and on about yourself.
I actually heard that you could be sent overseas with all expenses paid! Cuba is a very beautiful tropical country.:-)
Is it even practical to bring back an extinct specie? I am wondering how many individuals with varied genetic code is required to avoid the issue of inbreeding.
Lets say I found two perfect genetic samples: One male and one female. I placed them into my magical DNA-To-Fertile-Adult(tm) machine, so now have two organisms set to reproduce. But then we run into a problem: Even if those two have 30 offsprings any further mating will result in genetic deterioration due to inbreeding.
So we need to have quite a bit more samples. What is a minimum population count that we need to hit in order to avoid this? Could we possibly have that many different samples of an extinct organism to fulfil such a quota?
Ignoring all the./'s typical cynicism: This is quite an exciting development.
If the artificial components can be kept functioning without affecting the living tissue, we will be able to help people with virtually any physical disability! A few weeks ago there was a stoly how brain signals were decoded when it came to sight, so combine that with this breakthrough we can even have people controlling the devices with their mind!
Biotech is making great strides in progress. This is a very exciting time to be alive.
Good example is the Huescar vs Denmark which was declared in 1809 as part of a larger conflict between France and Spain. Then this declaration was literally forgotten before re-discovery by a local historian in 1981!
In November of the same year the peace treaty was signed thus ending 172 year (!) conflict without a single shot or injury.
So your employer pays you in cash and you hide it somewhere in your house?
Better hope that noone find out about that and robs you. Also since you aren't earning intrest on your savings, inflation is cutting into your "nest egg" quite severely! Guess you better invest the cash right away, but then you need to make an account in a financial institution. Surely you are not converting your cash into gold and hiding that somewhere!
No matter how you slice it, the system is designed around having a bank account and there is a reason behind that: Much more convenient and safe.
"Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone..."
Very nice short story and almost humorous in its execution. It is mandatory to provide a link to the author's page where he has the whole story available:
The story is called "The Last Question" and it is in my personal opinion the greatest science fiction short story ever written. I do not believe it is suited to be called "Most Depressing" because it has a really up-lifting ending. I would recomend you read the last part: The whole short story is available free here:
Compare to Baxter's Titan. How about taking a bunch of angry social misfits who are patently crazy from day zero and launching them on a one-way trip to a faraway moon of a faraway planet, with no means of return and with no purpose in any of that?
And on top of that the descriptions of the living conditions, deaths of all the main characters and the humanity purposefully redirecting an asteroid to hit the Earth (Misscalculation. Supposed to have fractured and only a piece to strike the USA as part of a war) that ends up wiping out civilization.
Titan was a very depressing novel. Publisher forced Baxter to add another part on the end of the book which magically resurects two of the main characters and describes how Earth and Titan life spreads to other solar systems.
Given how jarring and tacky the fairy tail addition was, it is much better to skip it: Book ends when Benecraff freezes herself in the water crater on Titan. I guess the publisher wouldn't agree to publish such a downer of a novel.
If it is the latter: You can toss them into a volcano to be encased in lava for the next billion years. Or launched into space in a big enough trajectory to leave the solar system. Or bury them alive by collapsing a deep mine shaft while them being tied up in the bottom. Etc.
Though noone deserves such a horrifying fate. Can you just immagine being concious while being trapped for billions of years not able to die?!
Immortality is awesome. Invulnerability is a curse of unimmaginable horror!
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Wow! What a pure example of a strawman argument. Disgraceful that it got modded interesting.
How does the requirement to be responsible for securing their own network brought about your fantasy of an extreme police state?
Oh people in Switzerland do have rifles in their homes, but ammunition is VERY strictly controlled by the government. At least according to the article you linked.
Let me introduce to a very simple DDoS attack:
- Get list of employee names that work for a corporation you wish to target (Not too hard)
- Generate list of usernames based on them
- Keep loging in with "password" as password 3 or more times for each generated username
- Watch as the corporation is brought to its knees as all employees flood the IT support for password reset
- Demand payment for you to stop it
- Profit!!!
This is precisely why current system add gap time before next login attempt. This slows down the attacker but avoids the above scenario.
How's pulseaudio working out for you?
Touche.
What are you talking about? At the moment NASA is sending their astronauts to ISS on Russian-built Souz spacecraft, while lacking a man-rated craft of their own! The Soviet Union achieved so many firsts that USA panicked: That resulted in the Apollo program that finally secured their lead. Even after Apollo, Russia still achieved a first: First space station.
For all the flaws of Russia, their space program is something remarkable. Even when it went through all the shit and chaos of Perestroika and corruption afterwards, they just kept going. We shall see how long NASA will last with all the cuts coming.
In the corporate world: Just Ship It and send the invoice!
Consistent observation from my experience: There is always time to fix something when things go wrong, but never enough time to do things properly from the beginning.
This has been done before:
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7) You're now a Person of Interest.
Well at least someone will find me interesting. They might even arange a get together, where someone will actually pay attension when you keep going on and on about yourself.
I actually heard that you could be sent overseas with all expenses paid! Cuba is a very beautiful tropical country. :-)
What does "Full blooded" even means? Is this a common expression when applied to development tools/methodologies?
Is it even practical to bring back an extinct specie? I am wondering how many individuals with varied genetic code is required to avoid the issue of inbreeding.
Lets say I found two perfect genetic samples: One male and one female. I placed them into my magical DNA-To-Fertile-Adult(tm) machine, so now have two organisms set to reproduce. But then we run into a problem: Even if those two have 30 offsprings any further mating will result in genetic deterioration due to inbreeding.
So we need to have quite a bit more samples. What is a minimum population count that we need to hit in order to avoid this? Could we possibly have that many different samples of an extinct organism to fulfil such a quota?
Really?! When was this feature implemented?
I might want to check out the latest version again. It will be interesting to see how it approaches female users. :-)
Ignoring all the ./'s typical cynicism: This is quite an exciting development.
If the artificial components can be kept functioning without affecting the living tissue, we will be able to help people with virtually any physical disability! A few weeks ago there was a stoly how brain signals were decoded when it came to sight, so combine that with this breakthrough we can even have people controlling the devices with their mind!
Biotech is making great strides in progress. This is a very exciting time to be alive.
Stranger things have happened in history.
Good example is the Huescar vs Denmark which was declared in 1809 as part of a larger conflict between France and Spain. Then this declaration was literally forgotten before re-discovery by a local historian in 1981!
In November of the same year the peace treaty was signed thus ending 172 year (!) conflict without a single shot or injury.
There is a whole list of conflicts like this on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity
So your employer pays you in cash and you hide it somewhere in your house?
Better hope that noone find out about that and robs you. Also since you aren't earning intrest on your savings, inflation is cutting into your "nest egg" quite severely! Guess you better invest the cash right away, but then you need to make an account in a financial institution. Surely you are not converting your cash into gold and hiding that somewhere!
No matter how you slice it, the system is designed around having a bank account and there is a reason behind that: Much more convenient and safe.
Very true.
But they all stay out of stories like this. You can relax here and look at pictures of fascinating fish in peace.
My appologies. Slashdot links keep adding trailing slash. Here is the corrected link:
The Last Question
Now you are making me hungry. Will never eat human though: Have you seen what kind of horrible, horrible crap they are fed with?!
That episode of Futurama got nothing on the stories mentioned here. The episode can be summed up: Love makes you an idiot!
If you want to talk anime, the most depressing one I have ever seen is: Grave of the Fireflies
It isn't science fiction though, so perhaps does not meet the requirements.
"Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ..."
Very nice short story and almost humorous in its execution. It is mandatory to provide a link to the author's page where he has the whole story available:
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html/
The story is called "The Last Question" and it is in my personal opinion the greatest science fiction short story ever written. I do not believe it is suited to be called "Most Depressing" because it has a really up-lifting ending. I would recomend you read the last part: The whole short story is available free here:
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html/
Though perhaps some may see the re-birth to still be a downer, it is still much more cheerful than other stories mentioned in this Ask Slashdot.
OK. You got a child.
Now what? Have the mother have sex with her offspring (If you are lucky to get a male)? Hello genetic defects.
Not sure what is the lower limit on healthy population, but way more than two or three.
Compare to Baxter's Titan. How about taking a bunch of angry social misfits who are patently crazy from day zero and launching them on a one-way trip to a faraway moon of a faraway planet, with no means of return and with no purpose in any of that?
And on top of that the descriptions of the living conditions, deaths of all the main characters and the humanity purposefully redirecting an asteroid to hit the Earth (Misscalculation. Supposed to have fractured and only a piece to strike the USA as part of a war) that ends up wiping out civilization.
Titan was a very depressing novel. Publisher forced Baxter to add another part on the end of the book which magically resurects two of the main characters and describes how Earth and Titan life spreads to other solar systems.
Given how jarring and tacky the fairy tail addition was, it is much better to skip it: Book ends when Benecraff freezes herself in the water crater on Titan. I guess the publisher wouldn't agree to publish such a downer of a novel.
Immortal or invulnerable?
If it is the former: They can still be shot.
If it is the latter: You can toss them into a volcano to be encased in lava for the next billion years. Or launched into space in a big enough trajectory to leave the solar system. Or bury them alive by collapsing a deep mine shaft while them being tied up in the bottom. Etc.
Though noone deserves such a horrifying fate. Can you just immagine being concious while being trapped for billions of years not able to die?!
Immortality is awesome. Invulnerability is a curse of unimmaginable horror!
Really, Shadowrun is little more than D&D with guns.
Indeed. Others have pointed out that Shadowrun is a result of a D&D nerd reading Neuromancer.