but will also allow them to attack other systems in the network
We had one go on a rampage last week! It tore up half the bay before a couple of us beat to death with a dictionary and one of those big staplers from the copy room. WHY WOULD THEY EVEN PUT HIDDEN ARMS AND LEGS ON A PRINTER?!
Well, you're too far in the other direction for me, I'm afraid. You're already heading down a bad road with your "I'm going to decide who gets to vote" angle. No thanks. When we disagree on a complex issue, do I lose my vote, too?
Having worked in an environment for over 35 years along side many scientists I'm immune to the myth scientists represent some sort of ultra moral group. As I have said in past threads, I got along fine with with most of the ones I have known, but I'd personally lead the rebel army if any of them ever got into power.
The idea we can do any sort of large scale space colonization now if we just had the will to start is space fan fantasy, and that's coming from me, a big space fan. Colonization with the goal of species survival is a mass migration scenario. It's why I welcome the private sector efforts. No more space policy primarily to satisfy political pork requirements. Cargo hauling for profit is a solid foundation. Orbital sciences/manufactuing, solar power and mining are possible next steps. Along the way, hey, look, we need workers out there, and hey, look, we have to R&D some ways for them to live and survive. Hey, we need a bigger worker barracks. Better make model II spinnable for gravity. And so on.
It's hard to convince the general public not steeped in an interest in science from an early age the way a lot of the geekverse was. People need to see something happening in a big, clear way before they believe it.
Be fair, though. Some of the discoveries are ones that you have to be a hard core geology nut to care about. Or they can state for a fact that there was water on the surface at some point in the last thousand or so millennia. Or they discover something about the local soil composition, and the only thing of interest about it is that we now know what it is. Ultimately, it's still just some dirt.
I guess hardware is different. I'm in my late 40s and valued more than ever for my experience. I can start a new design, and by the time the mid 20s guy has an initial concept, I can be well through my detailed design and talking with the board layout guy thanks to the fact that many designs have a lot of "boiler plate" sections that can be adapted from my many previous designs. I suppose it helps that I can design the hardware, write the HDL for the FPGAs, write the embedded C for the processors and write the C# on the computer that talks to the hardware, and even generate the initial layout and board stackup. There's a lot of related areas in hardware development that can be explored by a curious EE, especially in the R&D work I do. It helps that they can assign one guy to cover many areas of the design.
So if you're sitting on an anti-racism high horse at the time, it's OK to wish for kids, even dumbasses who post racist comments, to have violence perpetrated against them? You really think that's a rational response that will lead to a better world?
Because *that's* what this particular thread fork was about. The ones wishing for hurt and violence.
I see their delivery vans all over So Cal. Yeah, I snicker like a three year old at "Bimbo". I'm awful.
I was surprised once to find out they own Sara Lee and Entemann's. There's an Entemann outlet store near me that keeps me stocked in Danish Crumb Cake.
This is ideology. It's intellectual filth. It's a mind cancer. You get two sides attacking each other in a fog of hypocrisy so dense you wonder how they can even keep moving.
Will they also be outing the authors of all the tweets that threatened to assassinate Romney or riot and murder in general if Romney had won? Just curious.
If they could do something like that House episode where a "locked in" guy could communicate a binary response thanks to sensors, a special browser could could provide a list of links and he could navigate up and down. C'mon, this is a whole new world of handicapped accessibility to explore.
Um, no? And no YouTube at work. Let me guess: some serial killer in a movie or something.
No, that actually happened. It's the fifth time that lamp has had a tiny green spider hanging out on it in the past few years. No other spiders spotted anywhere else in my home office. I'm starting to think it's the lamp.
Johnny could at least nod out Morse code if I recall.
There was an episode of House like this. A "ocked in" guy was hooked up to sensors, and he had to teach himself to think certain ways to move a pointer on a computer screen so he could at least give yes and no responses.
That was a computer, though, wasn't it? Harlan Ellison? Maybe I'm thinking of something else.
The story depressed the hell out of me, I and feel really bad for the guy. I'd be trying to wire him up to the TV remote or a web browser next just so he can get some entertainment.
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Richard, are you really that touchy and pedantic?
Pack of matches has that covered.
but will also allow them to attack other systems in the network
We had one go on a rampage last week! It tore up half the bay before a couple of us beat to death with a dictionary and one of those big staplers from the copy room. WHY WOULD THEY EVEN PUT HIDDEN ARMS AND LEGS ON A PRINTER?!
Well, you're too far in the other direction for me, I'm afraid. You're already heading down a bad road with your "I'm going to decide who gets to vote" angle. No thanks. When we disagree on a complex issue, do I lose my vote, too?
Having worked in an environment for over 35 years along side many scientists I'm immune to the myth scientists represent some sort of ultra moral group. As I have said in past threads, I got along fine with with most of the ones I have known, but I'd personally lead the rebel army if any of them ever got into power.
The idea we can do any sort of large scale space colonization now if we just had the will to start is space fan fantasy, and that's coming from me, a big space fan. Colonization with the goal of species survival is a mass migration scenario. It's why I welcome the private sector efforts. No more space policy primarily to satisfy political pork requirements. Cargo hauling for profit is a solid foundation. Orbital sciences/manufactuing, solar power and mining are possible next steps. Along the way, hey, look, we need workers out there, and hey, look, we have to R&D some ways for them to live and survive. Hey, we need a bigger worker barracks. Better make model II spinnable for gravity. And so on.
Or lapis. For some reason I love finding lapis in Minecraft even though its only purpose is making blue blocks as accent decorations.
It's hard to convince the general public not steeped in an interest in science from an early age the way a lot of the geekverse was. People need to see something happening in a big, clear way before they believe it.
Well, except for religion.
And politicial ideology.
And conspiracy theories.
And urban myths.
And all the "I know what I know" categiries.
And... er... hmmm...
Not possible. That would push them beyond the chocolatey event horizon because, um, string theory.
Be fair, though. Some of the discoveries are ones that you have to be a hard core geology nut to care about. Or they can state for a fact that there was water on the surface at some point in the last thousand or so millennia. Or they discover something about the local soil composition, and the only thing of interest about it is that we now know what it is. Ultimately, it's still just some dirt.
There may have been liquid water in that very spot at some point in the last 50,000,000 years!
I guess hardware is different. I'm in my late 40s and valued more than ever for my experience. I can start a new design, and by the time the mid 20s guy has an initial concept, I can be well through my detailed design and talking with the board layout guy thanks to the fact that many designs have a lot of "boiler plate" sections that can be adapted from my many previous designs. I suppose it helps that I can design the hardware, write the HDL for the FPGAs, write the embedded C for the processors and write the C# on the computer that talks to the hardware, and even generate the initial layout and board stackup. There's a lot of related areas in hardware development that can be explored by a curious EE, especially in the R&D work I do. It helps that they can assign one guy to cover many areas of the design.
So if you're sitting on an anti-racism high horse at the time, it's OK to wish for kids, even dumbasses who post racist comments, to have violence perpetrated against them? You really think that's a rational response that will lead to a better world?
Because *that's* what this particular thread fork was about. The ones wishing for hurt and violence.
I see their delivery vans all over So Cal. Yeah, I snicker like a three year old at "Bimbo". I'm awful.
I was surprised once to find out they own Sara Lee and Entemann's. There's an Entemann outlet store near me that keeps me stocked in Danish Crumb Cake.
Wha? Facts? Figures that don't fit into little ideological boxes?
Son, you are a pilgrim in an unholy land.
Oh, snap!
This is ideology. It's intellectual filth. It's a mind cancer. You get two sides attacking each other in a fog of hypocrisy so dense you wonder how they can even keep moving.
Will they also be outing the authors of all the tweets that threatened to assassinate Romney or riot and murder in general if Romney had won? Just curious.
If they could do something like that House episode where a "locked in" guy could communicate a binary response thanks to sensors, a special browser could could provide a list of links and he could navigate up and down. C'mon, this is a whole new world of handicapped accessibility to explore.
Are you.. I mean, you know the reference, right?
Um, no? And no YouTube at work. Let me guess: some serial killer in a movie or something.
No, that actually happened. It's the fifth time that lamp has had a tiny green spider hanging out on it in the past few years. No other spiders spotted anywhere else in my home office. I'm starting to think it's the lamp.
Thanks. I'm over my little anger day.
Wyoming is Colorado's evil twin.
Johnny could at least nod out Morse code if I recall.
There was an episode of House like this. A "ocked in" guy was hooked up to sensors, and he had to teach himself to think certain ways to move a pointer on a computer screen so he could at least give yes and no responses.
That was a computer, though, wasn't it? Harlan Ellison? Maybe I'm thinking of something else.
The story depressed the hell out of me, I and feel really bad for the guy. I'd be trying to wire him up to the TV remote or a web browser next just so he can get some entertainment.
Well, you're bought easily. I'd have the information in a hundred scattered dead drops and ask for a General Products hull franchise.
we only found one homeless planet in our neighborhood
Either the galactic economy is going well, or they are good at hiding the problems.
Nah, the Third Angel, I'm guessing.