> On a previous mission many years ago a space shuttle commander was concerned about a crew member > he considered potentially volatile. He requested a padlock to lock the hatch to keep someone from > opening it unexpectedly during a mission.
Holy crap, if a commander is concerned that a member of his crew might actually kill people, why would he even allow that person onboard? Psychological screening seems like a better solution than a padlock.
> OP said that FTP was for chumps, and that SCP was the new shizzle. GP said that SCP was just as disco-era as FTP. Parent countered that SCP was > implemented in 1995, indicating that FTP is literally disco-era.
Thanks for the recap. If a bunch of geeks can't reach consensus on which technologies correspond to which musical trends, I'm just gonna go back to X-MODEM.
...it looks like the Sailing game (http://en.beijing2008.cn/funpage/game/sailing/index.shtml) is a ripoff of a game called Arctic Blue on orisinal.com (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/arctic.htm)
> A 2005 study showed that a gamma-ray burst originating within 6,500 light years of Earth could be enough to strip away the ozone > layer and cause a mass extinction
TFA also says
> At a distance of 8,000 light years from Earth, the pair of stars are a short hop away in galactic terms
So what they're actually telling us, in a roundabout way, is that there's nothing to worry about.
Once your machine's physical security is compromised, just about anything can happen. If someone is in your data center or office unattended and hooking up equipment to your PC, you're sort of in a world of hurt anyway.
This doesn't seem to be about the money. Make it $250,000 per CD, or make it $50 million. What they want the power to do is destroy someone forever. One CD means you lose your house, your family, your future. One CD indentures you to them with no hope of retiring. They're asking for $1.5 million because they know that asking for lethal injection is a tad over the top.
> I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11
Interesting in what way? If the 1 000 000 000-second timestamp happened right as the first plane hit the first tower, then it might be a vaguely interesting coincidence. But how is two days before even remotely interesting?
> [it's] probably one few times that an apocalyptic-like event happened so close to a man > made time scale.
> If that's not the case, then this $20 savings isn't acceptable to me.
Even though SuSE itself is free, Lenovo does have some costs associated with the offering that they'll need to recover. For one thing, I'm sure they've done quite a bit of work porting their excellent ThinkVantage utility software to Linux.
My ThinkPad is about a year old with Windows XP. I installed Ubuntu and Grub in a separate partition, but nothing happens in Ubuntu when I press the blue button. I'd love to have those utilities available when running under Ubuntu. Maybe that will be an option now.
In any case, this is good news and something to get excited about when I buy my next ThinkPad.
Multi-sided dice? No, in the next edition they're moving to single-sided dice. 1 is a critical hit, while 1 is a critical miss. 1 is success, and 1 is failure. There won't be much room for rules lawyers to maneuver.
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> Don't forget the evolutionary advantage in "mis-communicating" by the females. More or less, guys
> who like you do stuff for you.
You're describing a personal social advantage here, not an evolutionary one.
I consider a Rubik's Cube to be "solved" regardless of its starting position. I subscribe to the Fred Rogers solution: it's fine just the way it is.
> Since when did Apple start taking lessons from M$?
1997.
> Do you use iTunes on Windows? If so you may be getting the gift of Safari from
> Apple whether you want it or not,
I DO use iTunes for Windows. And I just updated it! And yet, strangely, I don't have Safari. How did that happen? Because I didn't want it.
> Sequoia seems to be claiming that no one can make a "report" regarding their
> "software" without their permission.
Sequoia seems to be "claiming" that no one can make a report regarding "their" software without their permission.
From TFA:
> On a previous mission many years ago a space shuttle commander was concerned about a crew member
> he considered potentially volatile. He requested a padlock to lock the hatch to keep someone from
> opening it unexpectedly during a mission.
Holy crap, if a commander is concerned that a member of his crew might actually kill people, why would he even allow that person onboard? Psychological screening seems like a better solution than a padlock.
> OP said that FTP was for chumps, and that SCP was the new shizzle. GP said that SCP was just as disco-era as FTP. Parent countered that SCP was
> implemented in 1995, indicating that FTP is literally disco-era.
Thanks for the recap. If a bunch of geeks can't reach consensus on which technologies correspond to which musical trends, I'm just gonna go back to X-MODEM.
...it looks like the Sailing game (http://en.beijing2008.cn/funpage/game/sailing/index.shtml) is a ripoff of a game called Arctic Blue on orisinal.com (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/arctic.htm)
TFA says
> A 2005 study showed that a gamma-ray burst originating within 6,500 light years of Earth could be enough to strip away the ozone
> layer and cause a mass extinction
TFA also says
> At a distance of 8,000 light years from Earth, the pair of stars are a short hop away in galactic terms
So what they're actually telling us, in a roundabout way, is that there's nothing to worry about.
Once your machine's physical security is compromised, just about anything can happen. If someone is in your data center or office unattended and hooking up equipment to your PC, you're sort of in a world of hurt anyway.
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> Here in the USA at least, it's only possible to check good references.
> Nobody dares give bad references anymore, for fear of being sued.
That, of course, is hyperbole; and anyway, nobody has ever been sued for damning with faint praise.
...for those not wanting to read TFA: "Check References."
> Hey, McDonald's is suing a dictionary to try to get the definition of "McJob" changed.
I'm familiar with this story, but followed your link anyway. Where do you get the idea that McDonald's is "suing" anyone?
...that British men sound smart regardless of the words coming out of their mouths.
> this new search engine will be wildly popular amongst the type of person who
> enjoys violent flamewars
See, I think it would be wildly popular with people who avoid flamewars in favor of echo chambers.
...we'd all be eating steak.
This doesn't seem to be about the money. Make it $250,000 per CD, or make it $50 million. What they want the power to do is destroy someone forever. One CD means you lose your house, your family, your future. One CD indentures you to them with no hope of retiring. They're asking for $1.5 million because they know that asking for lethal injection is a tad over the top.
> I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11
Interesting in what way? If the 1 000 000 000-second timestamp happened right as the first plane hit the first tower, then it might be a vaguely interesting coincidence. But how is two days before even remotely interesting?
> [it's] probably one few times that an apocalyptic-like event happened so close to a man
> made time scale.
Not bloody likely.
> If that's not the case, then this $20 savings isn't acceptable to me.
Even though SuSE itself is free, Lenovo does have some costs associated with the offering that they'll need to recover. For one thing, I'm sure they've done quite a bit of work porting their excellent ThinkVantage utility software to Linux.
My ThinkPad is about a year old with Windows XP. I installed Ubuntu and Grub in a separate partition, but nothing happens in Ubuntu when I press the blue button. I'd love to have those utilities available when running under Ubuntu. Maybe that will be an option now.
In any case, this is good news and something to get excited about when I buy my next ThinkPad.
...there's no beating half-inch reel-to-reel. Vinyl, pfft.
> I double-dog dare you to post these magical 20 lines here
I'm gonna slightly break protocol here and go right to the dreaded triple-dog dare.
> Which multi sided dice do I have to roll
Multi-sided dice? No, in the next edition they're moving to single-sided dice. 1 is a critical hit, while 1 is a critical miss. 1 is success, and 1 is failure. There won't be much room for rules lawyers to maneuver.
...with the First Edition?
> voyager 1 was launched in 1977 it is just now reaching the edge of the solar system = 20 years
That would be thirty years. But the Voyager craft were designed to explore the solar system, not to just get the hell out of it.