Did they set it to wipe the phone after (however many) incorrect PIN attempts? Because that would be uncommon. If not, they could just keep trying PIN codes, and eventually they will get in.
While it's a pretty bad game, E.T. is not even the worst game on the VCS platform let alone the worst game ever made. Pac-Man is arguably worse on the platform, and there are numerous third party games that are way worse than anything Atari released. "Sorcerer" by Mythicon really sets the benchmark for how bad a game can be in my opinion. E.T. is at least 100 times better than that piece of crapola.
So we are supposed to accept the word of an (at best) incompetent company, with management that is tied to Clinton, while the Sanders campaign is expected to prove an unprovable thing. The Sanders campaign has had its records accessed in a similar manor during previous firewall lapses. Do you seriously expect that the corrupt leadership of the DNC will apply the same punishment for those transgressions?
I wonder if the access logs for this site would prove that you are a partisan shill for the Clinton campaign.
I think the answer is yes.
Fortunately for you we have a tradition of respecting anonymity around here.
I would advocate replacing the current practice of corporations being legally required to act in the best interests of shareholders only with a new hierarchy or rules, much like Asimov's laws if you will:
First, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of the general public. Second, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their employees where it doesn't conflict with the first rule. Third, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their shareholders where that doesn't conflict with the first or second rule.
A corporation jacks up the price of a generic drug by 7,000,000%? Sued by the general public.
A corporation informs employees that they will have to train their H1B replacements? Sued by their employees.
A corporation pays its CEO an unreasonably large salary with no evidence that that results in better executive performance? Sued by their shareholders. (This should be happening now...)
I like it better than a corporate death penalty, because many corporations do have value and importance to the general public that would be at risk of being destroyed because of a single bad acting CEO. With this scheme, the courts would have a framework for redressing these issues.
In the case of patent trolls, some patents are more obviously bullshit then others. The more obviously bullshit the patent, the more strong a case members of the general public would have to individually sue the trolls for obstructing their use of the technology. What if everybody who uses HTTPS could sue these clowns?
You are making a very common mistake of free enterprisors here... you are ignoring (or denying) the externalities. Government intervention is necessary to deal with this problem. Some of the interventions, such as bumper design requirements to minimize harm in collisions effect both gasoline and electric cars, while others, such as emissions and fuel economy requirements only effect gasoline cars.
While there is certainly much to criticize about government subsidies for $100,000 luxury cars, they start to make more sense when the technology works its way down to the lower end. I would favor phasing out the subsidy based on the vehicle price, it should be $0 for anything over $50,000.
By the way, how much do you think gasoline would cost if all the subsidies for petroleum went to $0?
It takes a capacity for being deliberately obtuse to fail to acknowledge that Malthusianism has been discredited for decades. Indeed, population growth is already going negative in many countries. All you need is to have good education and easy access to birth control.
It is well documented that all you need to do to push the reproduction rate below replacement is to have comprehensive sex education and easy access to birth control.
We will probably have to move to ever more generous paid family leave policies just to keep the population stable.
Libertarians regard this as some sort of violation of contract law, but who knows how they think contracts are supposed to be enforced without laws. It's all a bunch of malarkey.
That reminds me of a Babylon 5 episode, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars".
A far future (from the show's perspective) government creates holographic simulacra of the the characters from the show in order to make propaganda videos of them committing atrocities, only the Garabaldi simulacrum is a little too clever and causes some problems for them.
You are correct that heavy metals are everywhere. However, we can't trust corporations to self police, so we have government set limits. It is reasonable for the limits to be more strict with respect to a product that is marketed as a replacement for all of your meals, such as Soylent. Contrast this with tuna fish and mercury content, which is considered to be at acceptable levels when eaten occasionally.
This is an incredibly stupid idea. Of course I'd love to sit back and watch the fireworks the first time someone attacks, say, Sony, and spoofs it so they think it was perpetrated by, let's say, Samsung. That would be amusing.
Matias makes full-sized keyboards with mechanical switches that are much less expensive than the half-keyboards. They are priced from $130 to $150 or so. The half-keyboards are niche products and they are more expensive in part due to the tooling costs being a much more significant proportion of the overall cost of manufacture.
There are quite a few mechanical keyboards available on the market that are cheaper than Matias, and some that are more expensive. Unicomp has has both Mac and Windows layout keyboards for a bit less than the Matias boards. There are also a large number of offerings from various manufactures that use Cherry MX switches. The cheapest that I am aware of is the Monoprice Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches, which is about $60. It's acceptable, but the Matias boards have a much higher standard of build quality.
Don't forget to watch out for the opposing lane of traffic when you are the first one to go when the light turns green. I can't count the number of times I would have been flattened if I wasn't paying attention in that situation, and this is with a delayed green. Never take your right of way for granted.
If you think a Googol is big (or a Googolplex), try wrapping your head around Graham's number.
I'll use "^" to represent a Knuth arrow. Start with 3^^^^3, call that g_1. Now g_2 is 3^^^...^^^3 but with g_1 Knuth arrows. g_3 is 3^^^....^^^3 but with g_2 Knuth arrows. G, or Graham's number, is g_64.
There are numbers with more digits than the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe, that if you repeatedly take the factorial of, over and over again more times than the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe, where the end result would be smaller than Graham's number.
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Sounds more like the Killbots from Chopping Mall than Robocop.
What good is living forever if you can't enjoy a bacon cheeseburger from time to time?
Did they set it to wipe the phone after (however many) incorrect PIN attempts? Because that would be uncommon. If not, they could just keep trying PIN codes, and eventually they will get in.
The premise here is flawed.
While it's a pretty bad game, E.T. is not even the worst game on the VCS platform let alone the worst game ever made. Pac-Man is arguably worse on the platform, and there are numerous third party games that are way worse than anything Atari released. "Sorcerer" by Mythicon really sets the benchmark for how bad a game can be in my opinion. E.T. is at least 100 times better than that piece of crapola.
The solar wind is going out at all directions. You would have to first build a Dyson Sphere of solar wind harvesters in order to implement that idea.
So we are supposed to accept the word of an (at best) incompetent company, with management that is tied to Clinton, while the Sanders campaign is expected to prove an unprovable thing. The Sanders campaign has had its records accessed in a similar manor during previous firewall lapses. Do you seriously expect that the corrupt leadership of the DNC will apply the same punishment for those transgressions?
I wonder if the access logs for this site would prove that you are a partisan shill for the Clinton campaign.
I think the answer is yes.
Fortunately for you we have a tradition of respecting anonymity around here.
This has become a thoroughly pointless thread.
I would advocate replacing the current practice of corporations being legally required to act in the best interests of shareholders only with a new hierarchy or rules, much like Asimov's laws if you will:
First, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of the general public.
Second, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their employees where it doesn't conflict with the first rule.
Third, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their shareholders where that doesn't conflict with the first or second rule.
A corporation jacks up the price of a generic drug by 7,000,000%? Sued by the general public.
A corporation informs employees that they will have to train their H1B replacements? Sued by their employees.
A corporation pays its CEO an unreasonably large salary with no evidence that that results in better executive performance? Sued by their shareholders. (This should be happening now...)
I like it better than a corporate death penalty, because many corporations do have value and importance to the general public that would be at risk of being destroyed because of a single bad acting CEO. With this scheme, the courts would have a framework for redressing these issues.
In the case of patent trolls, some patents are more obviously bullshit then others. The more obviously bullshit the patent, the more strong a case members of the general public would have to individually sue the trolls for obstructing their use of the technology. What if everybody who uses HTTPS could sue these clowns?
You are making a very common mistake of free enterprisors here... you are ignoring (or denying) the externalities. Government intervention is necessary to deal with this problem. Some of the interventions, such as bumper design requirements to minimize harm in collisions effect both gasoline and electric cars, while others, such as emissions and fuel economy requirements only effect gasoline cars.
While there is certainly much to criticize about government subsidies for $100,000 luxury cars, they start to make more sense when the technology works its way down to the lower end. I would favor phasing out the subsidy based on the vehicle price, it should be $0 for anything over $50,000.
By the way, how much do you think gasoline would cost if all the subsidies for petroleum went to $0?
Smells like Fail.
It takes a capacity for being deliberately obtuse to fail to acknowledge that Malthusianism has been discredited for decades. Indeed, population growth is already going negative in many countries. All you need is to have good education and easy access to birth control.
Bullshit.
It is well documented that all you need to do to push the reproduction rate below replacement is to have comprehensive sex education and easy access to birth control.
We will probably have to move to ever more generous paid family leave policies just to keep the population stable.
So fuck off with the discredited Malthusianism.
Here is a link that might be of interest.
Libertarians regard this as some sort of violation of contract law, but who knows how they think contracts are supposed to be enforced without laws. It's all a bunch of malarkey.
That reminds me of a Babylon 5 episode, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars".
A far future (from the show's perspective) government creates holographic simulacra of the the characters from the show in order to make propaganda videos of them committing atrocities, only the Garabaldi simulacrum is a little too clever and causes some problems for them.
You are correct that heavy metals are everywhere. However, we can't trust corporations to self police, so we have government set limits. It is reasonable for the limits to be more strict with respect to a product that is marketed as a replacement for all of your meals, such as Soylent. Contrast this with tuna fish and mercury content, which is considered to be at acceptable levels when eaten occasionally.
This is an incredibly stupid idea. Of course I'd love to sit back and watch the fireworks the first time someone attacks, say, Sony, and spoofs it so they think it was perpetrated by, let's say, Samsung. That would be amusing.
I just want it go go from off (not standby) to an open document in a useful application in under three seconds.
They should remake the Butterfly Keyboard. I'd buy that.
Matias makes full-sized keyboards with mechanical switches that are much less expensive than the half-keyboards. They are priced from $130 to $150 or so. The half-keyboards are niche products and they are more expensive in part due to the tooling costs being a much more significant proportion of the overall cost of manufacture.
There are quite a few mechanical keyboards available on the market that are cheaper than Matias, and some that are more expensive. Unicomp has has both Mac and Windows layout keyboards for a bit less than the Matias boards. There are also a large number of offerings from various manufactures that use Cherry MX switches. The cheapest that I am aware of is the Monoprice Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches, which is about $60. It's acceptable, but the Matias boards have a much higher standard of build quality.
Don't forget to watch out for the opposing lane of traffic when you are the first one to go when the light turns green. I can't count the number of times I would have been flattened if I wasn't paying attention in that situation, and this is with a delayed green. Never take your right of way for granted.
Wow, holy crap. I have two little girls (4 months and 2 1/2 years) and I can hardly imagine.
Damn, a sub-800-er!
Infinity is not a number. There is no largest number.
If you think a Googol is big (or a Googolplex), try wrapping your head around Graham's number.
I'll use "^" to represent a Knuth arrow.
Start with 3^^^^3, call that g_1.
Now g_2 is 3^^^...^^^3 but with g_1 Knuth arrows.
g_3 is 3^^^....^^^3 but with g_2 Knuth arrows.
G, or Graham's number, is g_64.
There are numbers with more digits than the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe, that if you repeatedly take the factorial of, over and over again more times than the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe, where the end result would be smaller than Graham's number.