Yes, but (a) the rigid armor is "flexible" in terms of the joints between the plates, and (b) doesn't cover the whole body - whereas presumably this would be shirt, trousers, the lot. The parent's question was whether they could run in the liquid armor... IE the video states that the liquid solidifies when agitated - are the forces of running enough to trigger the solidification? What about with full battle kit slapping around on your back? Or when you slip in what's left of your buddy's intestines and land flat on your face? Or (as another poster put it) some other applied force may be sufficient to trigger it - sound waves, a blast of air, a sonic boom from a low-flying jet. If the stuff doesn't de-solidify in a hurry then the enemy could have a field day among the now "statuesque" soldiers...
Sci-fi involves some level of scientific rigor. If you don't have to explain anything (or if you don't bother to even try) than sci-fi itself becomes fantasy
Well technically, "sci-fi" without the science is just "-fi"... and fiction is just one step short of fantasy.
Sci-fi demands some exercise in explanation. Fantasy does not.
Not quite. Science demands some exercise in explanation, fiction does not. Ergo, sci-fi is a somewhat convoluted and contradictory genre, whereas fantasy is easier to swallow once you recognise it as such and are able to suspend disbelief.
I forget the name of the technology, its the one that makes you type in the characters in the scrabled view.
Captcha seems to be the generally accepted jargon you were looking for, I believe.
Personally, I go one step further - my email is (aggresively) whitelisted too. Anyone I send to is on it, anyone in my address book is on it, certain "safe" domains are on it. Everyone else is out. If you're not on it, and you actually know me, and it's important enough for you to contact me then you can do so by other means (and you already know how). If you're a spammer, or it's not that important, then I don't have the time or inclination to deal with it - sorry!
Sure - if you have a data file (tab delimited or whatever) with more than 65,536 rows you can't open it in Excel. Or maybe you're more familiar with SQL queries than coding for Excel. Enter a market niche for Access. I see both of these happening on a regular basis in the world of Finance.
So long as people aren't really physically harmed, then scaring prisoners with dogs, or stripping them naked is fair game in interrogation as far as I'm concerned. For those who are in engaging in ACTUAL torture, I sure hope they are prosecuted.
Not all torture is physical, but it is still torture. Perhaps you would do well to look up some facts before you spew your ignorant rhetoric too.
Wrong - all traceable back to his router, but not to him. "Well, it could've been anyone - my AP is open" is a legitimate defence. Sure, he could have to deal with the hassle of being charged, but I doubt he would be convicted.
Actually they are only immutable if you use your own in the first place. The obvious solution? Keep a healthy supply of other people's body parts in your freezer, and discard once compromised...
With all do respect, I shouldn't have to be a "decent" web designer to be able to put up a personal homepage that looks the same in all browsers.
Why on Earth shouldn't you have to be a "decent" web designer? We all agree that cross-browser compatability is a trickier problem than it needs to be, but you are effectively asking that this should be achievable with no knowledge of what you are actually doing. Here's a challenge for you - name one other product of human creativity that can be displayed in all possible environments without absolutely no modifications.
Only if the invasion is unsuccessful. If they pull it off, you'll get a Counterstrike-style splash-screen that says "Terrorists Win" followed by some guy named "pH33r 4LL4h" calling you a n00b... let the spawncamping commence!
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Yes, but (a) the rigid armor is "flexible" in terms of the joints between the plates, and (b) doesn't cover the whole body - whereas presumably this would be shirt, trousers, the lot. The parent's question was whether they could run in the liquid armor... IE the video states that the liquid solidifies when agitated - are the forces of running enough to trigger the solidification? What about with full battle kit slapping around on your back? Or when you slip in what's left of your buddy's intestines and land flat on your face? Or (as another poster put it) some other applied force may be sufficient to trigger it - sound waves, a blast of air, a sonic boom from a low-flying jet. If the stuff doesn't de-solidify in a hurry then the enemy could have a field day among the now "statuesque" soldiers...
Well, I never said he was right...
Karl Marx ... laid the groundwork for the two greatest mass murderers of all time
He laid the groundwork for Stalin and... Genghis Khan? Wow, the Rusky space program must've been WAAAAY ahead of the USA.
he's not crazy... in the way that RMS and the Free Software folks are
Well to be fair, at least RMS looks the part.
I think by four decades he means "seventies, eighties, nineties and naughties"... which cover that period in whole or in part.
Sincerely,
Captain Obvious.
Um, what the hell happened to my UL? Did they change the parser on us?
Not sure, my first guess was that you did the markup in FrontPage...
Sci-fi involves some level of scientific rigor. If you don't have to explain anything (or if you don't bother to even try) than sci-fi itself becomes fantasy
Well technically, "sci-fi" without the science is just "-fi"... and fiction is just one step short of fantasy.
Sci-fi demands some exercise in explanation. Fantasy does not.
Not quite. Science demands some exercise in explanation, fiction does not. Ergo, sci-fi is a somewhat convoluted and contradictory genre, whereas fantasy is easier to swallow once you recognise it as such and are able to suspend disbelief.
(response from Lynx user) *cough* ActiveX *cough* *snigger*
-Translate any text on a web page on the fly into some very English-like language but different enough to make the pages impossible to understand
My vote is for Esperanto. Does anyone know any web services that translate to Esperanto?
It's not a real book on "Building Scalable Web Sites" unless there's a chapter titled : ;)
"Preparing for Slashdotting: Burn, Baby, Burn"
Cisco inferno?
Absolutely. It was Kinchloe that installed Bittorrent in the coffee-pot...
I forget the name of the technology, its the one that makes you type in the characters in the scrabled view.
Captcha seems to be the generally accepted jargon you were looking for, I believe.
Personally, I go one step further - my email is (aggresively) whitelisted too. Anyone I send to is on it, anyone in my address book is on it, certain "safe" domains are on it. Everyone else is out. If you're not on it, and you actually know me, and it's important enough for you to contact me then you can do so by other means (and you already know how). If you're a spammer, or it's not that important, then I don't have the time or inclination to deal with it - sorry!
Obligatory link just in case you were serious...
Yes. I voted for CowboyNeal.
You've got it all wrong - the slogan is "What did Microsoft want to do yesterday"...
Sure - if you have a data file (tab delimited or whatever) with more than 65,536 rows you can't open it in Excel. Or maybe you're more familiar with SQL queries than coding for Excel. Enter a market niche for Access. I see both of these happening on a regular basis in the world of Finance.
Valid point, but the "bad press" doesn't really seem to be crippling their sales now, does it?
So long as people aren't really physically harmed, then scaring prisoners with dogs, or stripping them naked is fair game in interrogation as far as I'm concerned. For those who are in engaging in ACTUAL torture, I sure hope they are prosecuted.
Not all torture is physical, but it is still torture. Perhaps you would do well to look up some facts before you spew your ignorant rhetoric too.
Wrong - all traceable back to his router, but not to him. "Well, it could've been anyone - my AP is open" is a legitimate defence. Sure, he could have to deal with the hassle of being charged, but I doubt he would be convicted.
You, sir, are funnier than the mods give you credit for.
Actually they are only immutable if you use your own in the first place. The obvious solution? Keep a healthy supply of other people's body parts in your freezer, and discard once compromised...
What's to stop them checking the user's platform before deciding which ad (XP, OS/X, or whatever style) to serve up?
Sure - try displaying it outside, in the rain. You can do it, but you have to waterproof it first.
Next?
With all do respect, I shouldn't have to be a "decent" web designer to be able to put up a personal homepage that looks the same in all browsers.
Why on Earth shouldn't you have to be a "decent" web designer? We all agree that cross-browser compatability is a trickier problem than it needs to be, but you are effectively asking that this should be achievable with no knowledge of what you are actually doing. Here's a challenge for you - name one other product of human creativity that can be displayed in all possible environments without absolutely no modifications.
A poor workman always blames his tools.
Only if the invasion is unsuccessful. If they pull it off, you'll get a Counterstrike-style splash-screen that says "Terrorists Win" followed by some guy named "pH33r 4LL4h" calling you a n00b... let the spawncamping commence!