Was it "murder" or was it "tenderizing", albeit a little bit on the soft, undercooked side?
Or, was it Reverse, CONver, or INverse or PERverse discrimination? Extreme Prejudice (against SPAM and against spam)? I guess his spam was deCONgealed.
I think it was Reagan who didn't want to call the "Gas Chamber" the "Gas Chamber", and some satirical cartoonist drew a pic of Reagan proclaiming the apparatus a "Reincarnation Acceleration Chamber".
Haven't we all at one point wanted to KILL (if we were dieties and able to do it and get away with it) some bastard or bitch who set upon our systems, cost us time, resources, access, and esteem?
I am not for KILLING someone unless it's clearly the case of irreparable bodily damage or harm about to befall me, but I imagine if his fate is widely publicised, his death won't have been meaningless. Either it was his spamming activities, or his failure to pay up, or he slept with someone's "property", yaddy yaddy yah (you fill in the blanks).
OTOH, his death could be for real reasons unknown, and the media are just chewing the fat over his spam. I can just see it now: "SPAMMER ATTACKED!" "Spam Counter-Attacked"...
But, don't worry, he's only been reincarnated. He'll be back with a less disastrous-ended, but profiteering plan. It'll be Spam 2.0 (beta).
Was it "murder" or was it "tenderizing", albeit a little bit on the soft, undercooked side?
Haven't we all at one point wanted to KILL (if we were dieties and able to do it and get away with it) some bastard or bitch who set upon our systems, cost us time, resources, access, and esteem?
I am not for KILLING someone unless it's clearly the case of irreparable bodily damage or harm about to befall me, but I imagine if his fate is widely publicised, his death won't have been meaningless. Either it was his spamming activities, or his failure to pay up, or he slept with someone's "property", yaddy yaddy yah (you fill in the blanks).
OTOH, his death could be for real reasons unknown, and the media are just chewing the fat over his spam.
Does that mean a MySQL database can easily be slashdotted? (Seems so...)
If the slashdotting doesn't subside, is it because some/.ers have scripts running to make them "first up" to see the page when the loading drops to a manageable level?
If so, is that technically a form of distributed "DDOS" attack?
Is it feasible or practical for subjects of/. articles to demand that when Slashdot links to them that/. sponsors a temporary mirror? Maybe even host that mirror on/.'s back end?
I know that would eat into/. ad revenues, and create more work for/. staff, but some subjects probably cannot even get business done. Imagine if some of these smaller dev sites have e-commerce that is disrupted...
And WHY is it necessary to reboot for things like this? Changing a port number requires a reboot? Sheesh...
I admit that I have weird things happening to my KDE 3.3x desktop, such as the password entry box for drakconf just sitting there, refusing to destroy itself, refusing to die when as root I kill the command for it (for this issue, I just kill the session and log back in... a nuissance, but at least I don't have to reboot for this particular thing...). But, it's nice to not have to reboot to do a lot of things in Linux.
To me, that the user has to reboot mwin for changing a port number smacks of shoddy programming or a lack of communications between the teams whose modules will interact and ought not depend upon reboots to pass configuration settings... Besides, weren't the public told that rebooting would be a thing of the past, or was that for W2K? Or, was it all just a bunch of mshaft marketing lies...ahem, features dreams as usual?
(Note to Modder: Grandparent is NOT flamebait... it has more than an element of truth to it. Even one BAD bug every 500 can have a deleterious effect upon individuals as well as Ajax-strength IT departments...)
Actually, people should be tired of playing "whack a mole" with mshaft. They should get into the "Raid-a-Mole" mode and just kill the ms CNS...yeh, just "Black Flag" mshaft...
And, to remember that back around 1995, mshaft said they'd listen to their customers and break up the monolithic structure of windows and modularize it so that fluff and bloat could be removed or never be seen in the first place... So much for them "listening to what their customers want..."
This is probably an extension of their previous work, except this new stuff will "come in handy" in identifying any new victims. Afterall, that man in the oval office did tell 'merkuns to (paraphrasing here...) "Take the family out. Go to Disney(land/world). Enjoy a movie/dinner..." after 9/11.
Now, if the T's "take that to heart", they just conceivably COULD do what another poster said about sneaking 20lbs of stuff under their Goofy costume.
At least with the hand-scan plan, there might be some closure when/if anyone is "literally dismembered" from the disney membership, whether by T's or if a sky ride suddenly drops to the ground due to poor maintenance or operator error. Really, don't people sometimes dismember after falling some 200 feet? In most movies, the fallen is shown INtact, maybe OUT of tact for the ratings boards...
I loath the idea of certain businesses collecting SSNs, fingerprints, retina scans, saliva samples, and now, I guess when we go to the movies, we'll have to stick our eye in the Eye-dentifier before getting past the ticket booth.
Well, no, that's what I'll watch DVDs for. But, T's or not, it seems movie theaters are on the downslide...
three PENISES, or 3 vaginas, or 3x3 breasts (would they be udders, or an "udder shame"... is this to be an udderly shameful commentary?)
Now, imagine the rules saying one man and one woman. They'd have to be rewritten to accommodate ten nuclear/molecule-like "attachability" of reproductive organs. Hell, they'd NEED a planet that happens to be "slightly larger than Jupiter" just to have expansion room for the offspring.
Of course, if the first few paragraphs described above are occurring now, then wouldn't that "udderly" turn on its head all the various Earthling-originated, mass-organized religions? Maybe, but it could mean the saying "God works in mysterious ways" means it's time for humans to stop invoking the name, foisting the beliefs (which WON'T be provable to the living unless "God" allows the living and dead to freely transposition themselves. Since that has a snowball's chance in hell, so much for that.
Relations and relationships would be hopelessly confounded as reproduction could conceivably (pun not lost...) be geometrically complex. Rather than the female reproductive organs as we know them (or, organ as we know it), a simply all-in-one tele-tracting (telescoping/contracting) HUSK could be quite sufficient, leading to sanguine.
Maybe ants would have three bodies side-by-side, but skyscrapers as we know them would be monstrously large, perilously inefficient, and hopelessly subject to derision by oil industry lobbyists seeking funding to break the addiction to tri-sun energy delivery.
Perhaps, on planets having 3 suns, the beings we'd liken to humans might be vegetarians, telepathic, telekinetic, and able to leap 25-foot trenches.
Ground transportation would be a veritable bitch.
3rd degree burns as we know them would be 30-degree burns, and maybe racism as experienced on this dismal blast-deserving Earth humans might never be an issue on Tri-Star Planet.
Water would be held together by extremely strong gravity, but then the multi-ped near-humans might grow only as tall as 3.5 feet to 4 feet, or might grow tall and scoliotic as do vines. Physical relations could be as if the "Day of the Triffids" met "Bamby in Heat" sniffing for acorns and daisies-- one for entry and two for slapping extensors/penetrors... A tri-penetron-bond just to reproduce.
On Earth, people could be hung out to DRY. On Tri-Star Planet, people would be hung out to FRY. Maybe Fry's Electronics would be TRI's Electronics... or worse: Fly's Erectronics...
Naval warfare might be difficult. Radio Direction Finding might be trebly painful. Aeronautical navigation would be nearly impossible, and campfires sing-alongs might never exist-- unless campfire covers were patented to protect the concept of "singing in the dark"...
Now, imagine what could be written if humans discover a planet zig-zagging/orbiting among 4 suns.
Imagine what could be written if humans discover a planet zig-zigging or zag-zagging about 4.2 suns.
Imagine if if Slashdot were in existence on such planets. Imagine the commentaries posted on THOSE pages...
Now, for me, page 15 is where things begin to get "juicy". I would think that by now AMD would find all the AMD-friendly desktop/laptop computer makers it can and set up AMD outlets, a la Apple stores. With the profit margins so low on computers, and given that Intel is pushing AMD to the brink of "do or die" or at least putting oil on an already black-iced road for AMD, could it hurt AMD to just go "all out" and relentlessly push it's CPU's? I would hope or suggest they tap into Open Source developers and maybe take two courses of action:
1. De-geek many Open Source user applications
2. Push AMD and Linux hardware and computer arrangements.
After all, IFFF they are deeply in bed with msoft, then it's only a matter of time for Intel to assert a certain amount of "hypocrisy" on the part of AMD, when ms is a convicted and morally defunct monopolist. For any company to be in bed with ms when that company's intractable enemy also in bed with msoft probably spells the reality or likelihood of pissing off ms.
I was wondering whether AMD's "daring and bold" assault on Intel will have any repercussions as far as the Intel/ms and AMD/ms relationships go. I know they flip-flop between bending over for ms and splaying for Linux/Open Source, but couldn't AMD benefit by having an outlet store selling AMD-based computers and Linux? Just an idea, but would this cause problems for them and msoft?
I ask partly because I'd heard that AMD is "deeply in bed" with msoft.
One day, they're going to lock up, ahem detain, the WRONG person, and all hell's going to break loose. No matter how good they think their intelligence or sources are, nothing's perfect. But, detaining people and not affirming to relatives or courts that the subject indeed is being held for questioning only stirs up more rancor and ire. Doesn't matter if it's a domestic or foreign person.
I recently heard "This American Life" on NPR, where a 70-year-old suspect who promised to deliver a submarine to would-be evil-doers was considered a terrorist. The guy has a spotty record and has dealt with shady types, but to lock up someone just to make 'merkuns "feel good and safer" is just plain wrong. Only bad karma can be expected to be generated from such things. Not only that, they used a FAKE Stinger missile to entrap the guy, and the poor/lame salesman didn't even know what was the shooting end of the damned missile. Even one of the jurors held out in favor of the accused, but relented and tossed in a "guilty" verdict because the jury foreman (who'd found out her mortgage was closing) told her she'd not see the inside of her new home (losing the escrow/settlement process) if she didn't vote along with the rest of the jurors.
What justice....
Fortunately, there is yet no research into integrating the mons or frenulum or cossicks for biometric security. Those would be more like bio-HAZARD...
I suppose a wire or chip could always be clamped to the delta cartoid
These could have some real military applications. Imagine if this kind of stuff were aboard the helo that was shot down in Afghanistan last week. Those guys could have had 3-D, 360-degree situational awareness. It's a freakin' shame that with all the lives being risked to rescue expensively-trained operatives that there doesn't appear to have been any satellite tasking to link the helo and the extraction team to the terrain imagery.
Yes, I know the "birds" have limited fuel and such, but with the US presence in the ME so intense, what's the added expense of a dedicated bird?
Maybe someone will figure a symbolic casing for this machine.
If this were around a few years ago, Gene Simmons and Judas Priest and Def Leopard/Leper, and others might be smashing Macs (or, better yet, *doze-based) machines on stage.
Imagine power-chute-shot computers slamming down to the stage...
Maybe it's the "packrat mentality" we humans seem to be wired to have.
If someone could find the packrat/hoarding gene, then maybe the only companies and distributed movies and displayed products would be of those which actually make anything useful, find an audience, or have repeat volume users.
If only stores would be less cluttered, and ads less full of junk aimed at subconsciously making kids torment mommy and daddy for some gizmo Micky D's or whomever is bundling or some tennis that are selling like hotcakes over the branding of some celeb, then maybe, just maybe economies will be shaken up and made to produce and sell REAL things.
As for movies, all to many of them are shit anyway. Films, OTOH, deserve to be called film (even tho movies are also on mylar/whatever film or disk or mylar/digital medium) when they are not some harebrained, investor-covered shit that should not have been financed anyway.
Maybe they ought to stop selling movies on disk and just put them on silver screen. Encode them with encryption and some new, non-playable format to work against employees who send bootleg copies outside the studio...
Slashdot Mirror
and she'll meet all 7 of MINE!
5.3 VFI... (VERY Fuckin' Informative)
5.5 WFI... (Wayy Fuckin' Informative)
5.7 TFI... (Tooo Fuckin' Informative)
5.9 YBA... (Yo' Brains'll Asplode)
Was it "murder" or was it "tenderizing", albeit a little bit on the soft, undercooked side?
Or, was it Reverse, CONver, or INverse or PERverse discrimination? Extreme Prejudice (against SPAM and against spam)? I guess his spam was deCONgealed.
I think it was Reagan who didn't want to call the "Gas Chamber" the "Gas Chamber", and some satirical cartoonist drew a pic of Reagan proclaiming the apparatus a "Reincarnation Acceleration Chamber".
Haven't we all at one point wanted to KILL (if we were dieties and able to do it and get away with it) some bastard or bitch who set upon our systems, cost us time, resources, access, and esteem?
I am not for KILLING someone unless it's clearly the case of irreparable bodily damage or harm about to befall me, but I imagine if his fate is widely publicised, his death won't have been meaningless. Either it was his spamming activities, or his failure to pay up, or he slept with someone's "property", yaddy yaddy yah (you fill in the blanks).
OTOH, his death could be for real reasons unknown, and the media are just chewing the fat over his spam. I can just see it now: "SPAMMER ATTACKED!" "Spam Counter-Attacked"...
But, don't worry, he's only been reincarnated. He'll be back with a less disastrous-ended, but profiteering plan. It'll be Spam 2.0 (beta).
Was it "murder" or was it "tenderizing", albeit a little bit on the soft, undercooked side?
Haven't we all at one point wanted to KILL (if we were dieties and able to do it and get away with it) some bastard or bitch who set upon our systems, cost us time, resources, access, and esteem?
I am not for KILLING someone unless it's clearly the case of irreparable bodily damage or harm about to befall me, but I imagine if his fate is widely publicised, his death won't have been meaningless. Either it was his spamming activities, or his failure to pay up, or he slept with someone's "property", yaddy yaddy yah (you fill in the blanks).
OTOH, his death could be for real reasons unknown, and the media are just chewing the fat over his spam.
be canned?
I guess he'd have been better off if they read the instructions:
"We want his spam CANED"
Well, was he brutally murdered, or was his spam "tenderized"?
Apparently, they set out to CAN his spam... and went a little ballistic on the Batman "BAMMM" "POWWW" "SPAMMM"
Would a tinfoil condom work?
But, at the loss of sensation, the TFC would need to be ribbed for your survival, a la home AC plenum spiral wiring.
Now, let's see how many "angle of the dangle" examples come from nowhere
donn't whirry...
Bzzzt!!!! Worng anser
I cents Conf-ooy-zhun. They need better see-ehm-ess sseestyum, aye?
Maybe they are bots... or overwerked federal analysts (the kind with no public agency names?)
for goats? let's se, umm, see...
?
/.ers have scripts running to make them "first up" to see the page when the loading drops to a manageable level?
/. articles to demand that when Slashdot links to them that /. sponsors a temporary mirror? Maybe even host that mirror on /.'s back end?
/. ad revenues, and create more work for /. staff, but some subjects probably cannot even get business done. Imagine if some of these smaller dev sites have e-commerce that is disrupted...
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
I thought since another URL might be accessible from within their site, I tried some and got the above...
That comes from their URLs:
http://www.simplekde.org/node/11
and
http://www.simplekde.org/?q=node/2
Does that mean a MySQL database can easily be slashdotted? (Seems so...)
If the slashdotting doesn't subside, is it because some
If so, is that technically a form of distributed "DDOS" attack?
Is it feasible or practical for subjects of
I know that would eat into
Well, the heat shields better work again, because in space, not one can hear you scream (unless the microphone is on and working...)
I wonder if they have "essence of dim sum" and "powder of mu shu pork" for meals (which would have to be "high protein, low residue...)
da fei jie? What kind of boosters do you use? How many xdynes of energy output? (laugh...)
And WHY is it necessary to reboot for things like this? Changing a port number requires a reboot? Sheesh...
...ahem, features dreams as usual?
I admit that I have weird things happening to my KDE 3.3x desktop, such as the password entry box for drakconf just sitting there, refusing to destroy itself, refusing to die when as root I kill the command for it (for this issue, I just kill the session and log back in... a nuissance, but at least I don't have to reboot for this particular thing...). But, it's nice to not have to reboot to do a lot of things in Linux.
To me, that the user has to reboot mwin for changing a port number smacks of shoddy programming or a lack of communications between the teams whose modules will interact and ought not depend upon reboots to pass configuration settings... Besides, weren't the public told that rebooting would be a thing of the past, or was that for W2K? Or, was it all just a bunch of mshaft marketing lies
Really, is a reboot necessary ?
mack a whole...
(Note to Modder: Grandparent is NOT flamebait... it has more than an element of truth to it. Even one BAD bug every 500 can have a deleterious effect upon individuals as well as Ajax-strength IT departments...)
Actually, people should be tired of playing "whack a mole" with mshaft. They should get into the "Raid-a-Mole" mode and just kill the ms CNS...yeh, just "Black Flag" mshaft...
And, to remember that back around 1995, mshaft said they'd listen to their customers and break up the monolithic structure of windows and modularize it so that fluff and bloat could be removed or never be seen in the first place... So much for them "listening to what their customers want..."
This is probably an extension of their previous work, except this new stuff will "come in handy" in identifying any new victims. Afterall, that man in the oval office did tell 'merkuns to (paraphrasing here...) "Take the family out. Go to Disney(land/world). Enjoy a movie/dinner..." after 9/11.
Now, if the T's "take that to heart", they just conceivably COULD do what another poster said about sneaking 20lbs of stuff under their Goofy costume.
At least with the hand-scan plan, there might be some closure when/if anyone is "literally dismembered" from the disney membership, whether by T's or if a sky ride suddenly drops to the ground due to poor maintenance or operator error. Really, don't people sometimes dismember after falling some 200 feet? In most movies, the fallen is shown INtact, maybe OUT of tact for the ratings boards...
I loath the idea of certain businesses collecting SSNs, fingerprints, retina scans, saliva samples, and now, I guess when we go to the movies, we'll have to stick our eye in the Eye-dentifier before getting past the ticket booth.
Well, no, that's what I'll watch DVDs for. But, T's or not, it seems movie theaters are on the downslide...
Well, maybe it would be as dry as the dearth of humor?
three PENISES, or 3 vaginas, or 3x3 breasts (would they be udders, or an "udder shame"... is this to be an udderly shameful commentary?)
Now, imagine the rules saying one man and one woman. They'd have to be rewritten to accommodate ten nuclear/molecule-like "attachability" of reproductive organs. Hell, they'd NEED a planet that happens to be "slightly larger than Jupiter" just to have expansion room for the offspring.
Of course, if the first few paragraphs described above are occurring now, then wouldn't that "udderly" turn on its head all the various Earthling-originated, mass-organized religions? Maybe, but it could mean the saying "God works in mysterious ways" means it's time for humans to stop invoking the name, foisting the beliefs (which WON'T be provable to the living unless "God" allows the living and dead to freely transposition themselves. Since that has a snowball's chance in hell, so much for that.
Relations and relationships would be hopelessly confounded as reproduction could conceivably (pun not lost...) be geometrically complex. Rather than the female reproductive organs as we know them (or, organ as we know it), a simply all-in-one tele-tracting (telescoping/contracting) HUSK could be quite sufficient, leading to sanguine.
Maybe ants would have three bodies side-by-side, but skyscrapers as we know them would be monstrously large, perilously inefficient, and hopelessly subject to derision by oil industry lobbyists seeking funding to break the addiction to tri-sun energy delivery.
Perhaps, on planets having 3 suns, the beings we'd liken to humans might be vegetarians, telepathic, telekinetic, and able to leap 25-foot trenches.
Ground transportation would be a veritable bitch.
3rd degree burns as we know them would be 30-degree burns, and maybe racism as experienced on this dismal blast-deserving Earth humans might never be an issue on Tri-Star Planet.
Water would be held together by extremely strong gravity, but then the multi-ped near-humans might grow only as tall as 3.5 feet to 4 feet, or might grow tall and scoliotic as do vines. Physical relations could be as if the "Day of the Triffids" met "Bamby in Heat" sniffing for acorns and daisies-- one for entry and two for slapping extensors/penetrors... A tri-penetron-bond just to reproduce.
On Earth, people could be hung out to DRY. On Tri-Star Planet, people would be hung out to FRY. Maybe Fry's Electronics would be TRI's Electronics... or worse: Fly's Erectronics...
Naval warfare might be difficult. Radio Direction Finding might be trebly painful. Aeronautical navigation would be nearly impossible, and campfires sing-alongs might never exist-- unless campfire covers were patented to protect the concept of "singing in the dark"...
Now, imagine what could be written if humans discover a planet zig-zagging/orbiting among 4 suns.
Imagine what could be written if humans discover a planet zig-zigging or zag-zagging about 4.2 suns.
Imagine if if Slashdot were in existence on such planets. Imagine the commentaries posted on THOSE pages...
I've managed to read up to page 17 of:
l oadableAssets/AMD-Intel_Full_Complaint.pdf
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Down
Now, for me, page 15 is where things begin to get "juicy". I would think that by now AMD would find all the AMD-friendly desktop/laptop computer makers it can and set up AMD outlets, a la Apple stores. With the profit margins so low on computers, and given that Intel is pushing AMD to the brink of "do or die" or at least putting oil on an already black-iced road for AMD, could it hurt AMD to just go "all out" and relentlessly push it's CPU's? I would hope or suggest they tap into Open Source developers and maybe take two courses of action:
1. De-geek many Open Source user applications 2. Push AMD and Linux hardware and computer arrangements.
After all, IFFF they are deeply in bed with msoft, then it's only a matter of time for Intel to assert a certain amount of "hypocrisy" on the part of AMD, when ms is a convicted and morally defunct monopolist. For any company to be in bed with ms when that company's intractable enemy also in bed with msoft probably spells the reality or likelihood of pissing off ms.
I was wondering whether AMD's "daring and bold" assault on Intel will have any repercussions as far as the Intel/ms and AMD/ms relationships go. I know they flip-flop between bending over for ms and splaying for Linux/Open Source, but couldn't AMD benefit by having an outlet store selling AMD-based computers and Linux? Just an idea, but would this cause problems for them and msoft?
I ask partly because I'd heard that AMD is "deeply in bed" with msoft.
One day, they're going to lock up, ahem detain, the WRONG person, and all hell's going to break loose. No matter how good they think their intelligence or sources are, nothing's perfect. But, detaining people and not affirming to relatives or courts that the subject indeed is being held for questioning only stirs up more rancor and ire. Doesn't matter if it's a domestic or foreign person. I recently heard "This American Life" on NPR, where a 70-year-old suspect who promised to deliver a submarine to would-be evil-doers was considered a terrorist. The guy has a spotty record and has dealt with shady types, but to lock up someone just to make 'merkuns "feel good and safer" is just plain wrong. Only bad karma can be expected to be generated from such things. Not only that, they used a FAKE Stinger missile to entrap the guy, and the poor/lame salesman didn't even know what was the shooting end of the damned missile. Even one of the jurors held out in favor of the accused, but relented and tossed in a "guilty" verdict because the jury foreman (who'd found out her mortgage was closing) told her she'd not see the inside of her new home (losing the escrow/settlement process) if she didn't vote along with the rest of the jurors. What justice....
Fortunately, there is yet no research into integrating the mons or frenulum or cossicks for biometric security. Those would be more like bio-HAZARD... I suppose a wire or chip could always be clamped to the delta cartoid
These could have some real military applications. Imagine if this kind of stuff were aboard the helo that was shot down in Afghanistan last week. Those guys could have had 3-D, 360-degree situational awareness.
It's a freakin' shame that with all the lives being risked to rescue expensively-trained operatives that there doesn't appear to have been any satellite tasking to link the helo and the extraction team to the terrain imagery.
Yes, I know the "birds" have limited fuel and such, but with the US presence in the ME so intense, what's the added expense of a dedicated bird?
faster with "telekenisis"?
Maybe someone will figure a symbolic casing for this machine.
If this were around a few years ago, Gene Simmons and Judas Priest and Def Leopard/Leper, and others might be smashing Macs (or, better yet, *doze-based) machines on stage.
Imagine power-chute-shot computers slamming down to the stage...
Maybe it's the "packrat mentality" we humans seem to be wired to have.
If someone could find the packrat/hoarding gene, then maybe the only companies and distributed movies and displayed products would be of those which actually make anything useful, find an audience, or have repeat volume users.
If only stores would be less cluttered, and ads less full of junk aimed at subconsciously making kids torment mommy and daddy for some gizmo Micky D's or whomever is bundling or some tennis that are selling like hotcakes over the branding of some celeb, then maybe, just maybe economies will be shaken up and made to produce and sell REAL things.
As for movies, all to many of them are shit anyway. Films, OTOH, deserve to be called film (even tho movies are also on mylar/whatever film or disk or mylar/digital medium) when they are not some harebrained, investor-covered shit that should not have been financed anyway.
Maybe they ought to stop selling movies on disk and just put them on silver screen. Encode them with encryption and some new, non-playable format to work against employees who send bootleg copies outside the studio...
LCDR Data, when he was telling new-to-Picard's-Bridge Young Wesley:
;
"There once was a woman from Venus
Whose forehead was shaped like a..."
Riker and Picard knew where the joke was going, but Picard cut Data off at the pass...
Maybe there is an undisclosed reason the Venus never made it out the underground/windowless? lab? Apparently, they hid it where the sun don't shine...