Recently I had a position that required a Win10 machine running alongside some industrial machinery. It was used for measuring output, but it sat idle most of the time, with a desktop image of a woman running along a beach.
I located the image on my home machine and photoshopped some variations; without a shadow, with the shadow but with the woman missing, and a third with both the woman and her shadow replaced by background. I copied them, along with the original image, into a folder in windows/media and set up the desktop with a random cycling slideshow from that directory, changing every five minutes.
I don't think anyone noticed, but I like to imagine someone might, one day.
What acts of violence has this virus committed? The linked article was rather short on detail, although it did describe several instances of violent behavior on behalf of various associated meatba^H^H^H^H^H^H humans.
The most violent thing I ever saw a program do was to toggle the tape selector input relay on the System 80 computer, rapidly, to make a loud buzzing noise, and eventually destroy the relay.
How do you fuck up a watch? You might be surprised.
I knew a guy in a digital design class who produced a beautiful digital clock, based on 7400-tier chips. It would count up to 12:59, and then the hour counter would reset to zero. Fortunately someone pointed out that this would give him a 26-hour day.
Near-invisible, huh? Birds trying to fly through it, coming out in sections.. people brushing against it, losing fingers... yakuza vat-grown ninjas swinging fake thumbs about on a spool of it, cutting people in half...
Microplastics seems to span the range from 5mm down to 10nm but this seems too broad to me if you are talking safety. 5mm is roughly 20 thousandths of an inch and that's fairly macroscopic with a very small surface area to volume.
I really hope you meant 5nm, because five millimeters is roughly one fifth of an inch, but if that was the case, it implies the previous sentence would have been "from 5nm down to 10nm", which doesn't make much sense.
YOU pay good money to go visit a dentist at least once a year for the same damn reason; you don't have the expertise or the tools to maintain your teeth or do maintenance on them.
This toothbrush I am waving at you says otherwise. Yes, it's a talking toothrbrush.
Perhaps, just before he died, he loaded his vocoder up with about an hour's worth of speech, and it's still going. We could call that "pulling a Hari Seldon".
Didn't they all learn -
- from the BMG-Rootkit scandal
- about piracy being a service problem
- about tamper-protections only hurting paying customers
before?
Evidently, they learned at least one thing: DRM in entertainment just forces the customer away, so they're using it in education, where at least in some circumstances the clients have no DRM-free alternatives.
Yes, but then the app can sue you, or at least sue your app, leading your app to sue their app in an appy loop of appy app apps.
Apps!
Perhaps the whole legal system will devolve into some kind of app-based card trading game, or if someone sues you, you can send Charmander in to court to fight for you.
"We are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn't be assured that it would align with our AI Principles," a Google spokesman said in a statement."
That's okay. They can bid for the Strategic Intervention Taskforce Headquarters instead.
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It can be.
Recently I had a position that required a Win10 machine running alongside some industrial machinery. It was used for measuring output, but it sat idle most of the time, with a desktop image of a woman running along a beach.
I located the image on my home machine and photoshopped some variations; without a shadow, with the shadow but with the woman missing, and a third with both the woman and her shadow replaced by background. I copied them, along with the original image, into a folder in windows/media and set up the desktop with a random cycling slideshow from that directory, changing every five minutes.
I don't think anyone noticed, but I like to imagine someone might, one day.
What acts of violence has this virus committed? The linked article was rather short on detail, although it did describe several instances of violent behavior on behalf of various associated meatba^H^H^H^H^H^H humans.
The most violent thing I ever saw a program do was to toggle the tape selector input relay on the System 80 computer, rapidly, to make a loud buzzing noise, and eventually destroy the relay.
Twit. What would be the point of impeaching a space probe that's run out of fuel? Do you suspect that it sold the fuel to Jovian insurgents?
One patent troll gone. Good riddance. How many more to go?
The problem with patent trolls is that you cannot win against them.
As for assets, how many people work for this company, and (Zim voice) do they have all of their organs?
How do you fuck up a watch? You might be surprised.
I knew a guy in a digital design class who produced a beautiful digital clock, based on 7400-tier chips. It would count up to 12:59, and then the hour counter would reset to zero. Fortunately someone pointed out that this would give him a 26-hour day.
Farewell and thank you for a job well done.
Did the last person to use it leave it pointed at the Earth or something? It's still going to be pointed at something. Have it take pictures of that.
Do you really want to be operating your phone or computer if you're that drunk?
Near-invisible, huh? Birds trying to fly through it, coming out in sections.. people brushing against it, losing fingers... yakuza vat-grown ninjas swinging fake thumbs about on a spool of it, cutting people in half...
aren't there more down to earth already practicable use cases, where this fibre will replace some other fibre because it is better?
Are there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We have a new... er... Martian Pope!
Microplastics seems to span the range from 5mm down to 10nm but this seems too broad to me if you are talking safety. 5mm is roughly 20 thousandths of an inch and that's fairly macroscopic with a very small surface area to volume.
I really hope you meant 5nm, because five millimeters is roughly one fifth of an inch, but if that was the case, it implies the previous sentence would have been "from 5nm down to 10nm", which doesn't make much sense.
YOU pay good money to go visit a dentist at least once a year for the same damn reason; you don't have the expertise or the tools to maintain your teeth or do maintenance on them.
This toothbrush I am waving at you says otherwise. Yes, it's a talking toothrbrush.
Who cares that your local data gets turned into mulch. It will all just be appy app apps in the cloud soon.
From the original post:
"... a bug wherein deleting a directory that was synced to OneDrive crashed the machine.
The Cloud was the problem here. One of the reasons I never use it.
How long until someone tries to introduce the term "essential dietary microplastics"?
I hope you got better.
Imgur.
If it didn't cost $350 and was a bit flatter, it'd make a neat business card. or ID badge.
Perhaps, just before he died, he loaded his vocoder up with about an hour's worth of speech, and it's still going. We could call that "pulling a Hari Seldon".
Didn't they all learn - - from the BMG-Rootkit scandal - about piracy being a service problem - about tamper-protections only hurting paying customers before?
Evidently, they learned at least one thing: DRM in entertainment just forces the customer away, so they're using it in education, where at least in some circumstances the clients have no DRM-free alternatives.
Sure there are some workers from trade schools where that kind of thing is not as prevalent...
It can be difficult to keep them from dangerous accidents with the lathe if they're preoccupied with wondering "does existence precede essence?"
The prefix "sub-" can do a lot of work here: We can islands within islands "subislands,"
We can? I'm glad.
Why do so many people have a blind spot when it comes to verbs? "I accidentally the whole planet".
Yes, but then the app can sue you, or at least sue your app, leading your app to sue their app in an appy loop of appy app apps.
Apps!
Perhaps the whole legal system will devolve into some kind of app-based card trading game, or if someone sues you, you can send Charmander in to court to fight for you.
The Sovereign Citizen movement is going to love this.
"We are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn't be assured that it would align with our AI Principles," a Google spokesman said in a statement."
That's okay. They can bid for the Strategic Intervention Taskforce Headquarters instead.
Perhaps Banksy could help with that.