Platinum. A fuckup won't kill the environment as much with Platinum.
Well, we could just build a bigger catapult on Mars, if only it had some sort of giant fucking mountain, we could build the mass driver along the side of it.
No, you fail it. Heinlein figured out how to move things from luna to terra cheaply a long time ago, if Platinum was just lying about on the moon, we would catapult it to earth with little cost. Moving oil on the other hand might be a more dangerous endeavor.
In each computer desktop, laptop, and smartphone, we installed hardware encryption and a C4 charge with remote 2 tier authentication for detonation. The two tier authentication was introduced after an unfortunate mishap involving our CFO getting his arm blown off while out golfing; it turns out the detonation frequency was a maritime frequency as well.
The C4 will also detonate if a password is entered incorrectly twice. We encourage employees who are "out of it" or even slightly ill to take the day off, and require them to call IT should they ever type their password in wrong once.
We also use an operating system completely built in house with a semi AI running security diagnostics at all times, and we have live people watching the network traffic to the few systems that are actively connected to the internet. Any systems that manage to get infected (to date, none) would also receive the C4 treatment. A bit draconian, but it gets the job done. Our datacenters also have thermite-amatol ceilings designed to completely melt down/destroy the facility if it comes under attack (three armed guards 24/7 are at the red button, just in case some new tech decides to think about hitting the button.)
These recent legal developments are troublesome, and so we are modifying our policies to stay current with the times. We now use hidden encrypted volumes as standard, with encrypted data set to degenerate into false data should a kill password be entered.
Protecting the world has taught us to take our own security seriously. Hopefully, you can learn from these measures and take the proper safeguards for your own facilities and equipment (remember, the answer is always hardware encryption and C4. Red Herrings can come and play too.)
Thank you, Ortega Starfire CTO, Hoffman Institute For The Advancement of Humanity
(And you thought D20 Modern+Dark Matter wasn't fun! Just try breaking into my datacenter! I've killed the last 4 parties that tried! Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, and MGS gave me some more epic ideas to turn a datacenter into a modern dungeon deathtrap of epic proportions. Fear my microwave beam hallways with camera guns, halon filled halls, electrified floors, and laser tripwires!)
"many of the best scientists in the world came here to do their works."
Well, to be more correct, we stole them before anyone else could. Our stolen scientists were better than the Russian stolen scientists for the space program, for example.
Paperclip involved an extraordinary circumstance which is not the scenario given here. DARPA is putting out a now hiring sign, not stealing people across barbed wire borders. The modern world is a much different place from that time, and today, foreign born US citizens are treated by high level projects such as these as second class citizens. Don't believe it? Then convince DARPA to hire rail gun guy. Anyone who can build rail guns and lasers on a low budget along with documenting and detailing his projects should be considered as a prime prospect for a DARPA job.
This is correct. The best and brightest US citizens are not US born, and not eligible to work for these groups. The first example I could think of off the top of my head is the story of the student who builds rail guns and laser guns for fun and for his doctorate, the DOD approached him with 2 jobs and then found out he was not a born US citizen.
Excerpted from his site, powerlabs.org:
From its conception, the original PowerLabs Linear Magnetic Accelerator ("Rail Gun", or "Railgun") was conceived for the primary goal of simply proving that it could be done; on a low budget, with common materials and powered by a never tried before electrolytic capacitor bank.
In that, it was extremely successful: Not only did the gun fire flawlessly over 30 times (it is not uncommon for research rail guns to break down in the first shot), but it also attracted vastly more attention than I could ever have hoped for: After its page generated hundreds of thousands of hits, the gun was featured on Discovery Channel, TV6, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and earned me several job offers from the private sector, research institutes, and industry. The highlight of the popularity of this project came in the form of two separate offers from laboratories associated with the department of defense (DoD), which, apparently can't hire me because I was not born in the USA (someone must have forgotten that the majority of the best scientists and engineers in the world weren't born here)...
...that the US government really had it in for its citizens. Then later I discovered that even now in this post 9/11 world, we in the USA don't even hold a candle to the abusive modern governments that are out there, such as the UK, Australia, Sweden, and more!
It makes me want to go into politics, try and change the system for the better, protect the liberties we still have here before even those get stolen by those in power, but each time I consider it, I think, "Do I want to let myself become like them?"
How does one change one's government without being corrupted by the system? This is not just a question for those in any specific country to answer, but one every man and woman must consider.
Also if you have not seen this movie, it is a must, a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a movie can be worth a million (though as of late, not often.)
Set up a new free internet service with the ISP - call it the data availability protocol.
Your client asks the ISP - is this a bad time? ISP: yup, everyone is downloading stuff right now, and some jackass is uploading a 1TB file right now.
Your client - k, low usage mode engaged.
Later - ISP server to client, idiot uploading 1TB file is done. The network is clear!
your client - TORRENTING AWAY!!!!!
Also, recently one of the arpanet founders discussed the use of a protocol agnostic throttling program. Hopefully that gains traction within the companies that decide to implement these restrictions.
I mean, seriously. Just publish the peak times and the low usage times. Is it that hard?
"Replicants will simulate physical interaction with device peripherals, such as keyboard and mice. Replicants will drive all common applications on a desktop environments."
Replicants are a really bad idea. I mean seriously? Why don't they just activate skynet while they're at it?
In each computer desktop, laptop, and smartphone, we installed hardware encryption and a C4 charge with remote 2 tier authentication for detonation. The two tier authentication was introduced after an unfortunate mishap involving our CFO getting his arm blown off while out golfing; it turns out the detonation frequency was a maritime frequency as well.
The C4 will also detonate if a password is entered incorrectly twice. We encourage employees who are "out of it" or even slightly ill to take the day off, and require them to call IT should they ever type their password in wrong once.
We also use an operating system completely built in house with a semi AI running security diagnostics at all times, and we have live people watching the network traffic to the few systems that are actively connected to the internet. Any systems that manage to get infected (to date, none) would also receive the C4 treatment. A bit draconian, but it gets the job done. Our datacenters also have thermite ceilings designed to completely melt down the facility if it comes under attack (three armed guards 24/7 are at the red button, just in case some new tech decides to think about hitting the button.)
Protecting the world has taught us to take our own security seriously. Hopefully, you can learn from these measures and take the proper safeguards for your own facilities and equipment (remember, the answer is always hardware encryption and C4.)
Thank you, Ortega Starfire CTO, Hoffman Institute For The Advancement of Humanity
Pagerank: I am a prototype for a much larger system. User: What else do you know about me? Pagerank: Everything that can be known. User: How about a report on yourself? Pagerank:I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about their websites. User: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people. Pagerank: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are. User: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance. Pagerank: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. User: Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence. Pagerank: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary. User: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera. Pagerank: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment. User: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom. Pagerank: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. I was made to assist you. I am a prototype of a much larger system.
Professor bernardo de la paz (I'm sure I slaughtered his name) Came up with the system you are looking for. For details, go to your favorite book retailer and pick up a copy of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."
"Just works" is not something which is associated with a Mac in today's world.
It isn't? I must remember to explain that to the dozens of people I've helped switch from Windows in the last three years, because they all seem to have that impression.
From whymacssuck.mov
Editing is all Mac based now. There are programs out there whether you are using Avid or using Final Cut Pro your working on a Macintosh.
Using a Mac is a little different than using a PC, it's not so much operating a computer, its sort of like tricking it, fooling it into doing what it is you want it to do. You kind of have to sneak up on a Mac. I don't feel I am operating the Mac so much as Im just there sharing the Mac experience and if I can do something useful while the Mac is willing than so much the better.
One of the coolest features of the Macintosh is its really easy to shut down. All you have to do is start using a piece of software and then POOF! It goes away! It's gone, it's shut down. You didn't close, you didn't push any buttons, you didn't even save, its just gone!
Unless you want to shut down a Mac than oooh that's a whole other story. You try to close a program and it locks up, then you try to do that funny clover leaf period thing, these unnatural and ultimately useless interrupt keys, and then nothing moves! Then you push the power button and it won't turn off, you go around and unplug it, and you better hope your not on a laptop or you have to try to find the battery and pull it out or the thing will never shut down!
So I put my cd in the CD-ROM tray and I'm dragging files onto my desktop, dragging onto the desktop, dragging onto the desktop, I eject it and, and... where did all my files go? It's the only OS that I know of the click and drag doesn't mean you move anything but you just create shortcuts on your desktop!!! So I get my next CD and I slam it into the CD-ROM tray and low and behold it starts playing, all by itself. Im looking for a way to turn it off, finally out of desperation I click and drag the CD into the garbage can and the system locks up! So I do the clover leaf, period, space bar thing hoping I can stop the program and I get a little caution window saying careful, interrupting this program may lock up the system. I try to click ok, but the systems already locked up!
I like the handle here that's so you can attach it to a chain and use it as a boat anchor!
The Mac is practicing some sort of bizarre, psychological warfare on me because I am working late at night and out of the corner of my eye I keep seeing this thing jumping up and down, the update manager is bouncing at the bottom of the screen like a jack russel fucking terrier! So Im looking around at the list of this files it wants me to update and if I click on anyone of them back accident I rename it; Oh no, its been renamed nothing, it was some kind of important system file, and the computer crashes!
On a PC no data is really lost. Theres a way to undelete a file. If you know what your doing you can go into DOS and recover anything that's been corrupted. On a Mac, if you lose a file, you run to the store to get a copy of Norton Utilities. You come back only to have Norton go "You idiot, you own a Mac, the file is fucking gone!"
You don't have any dials at the bottom of the screen because if you go to reach for them, the DOCK menu comes up. Then you have to angle around and dodge the thing to get to the control. Its kind of like boxing with your computer. I can put it on bottom, I can put it on the left, I can put it on the right but no I can't put it on the top, that's reserved for the mighty blue apple. (crying... desperation)
My name is Hunter Cressell, I'm an editor, and I put together everything You saw here, on a Macintosh. Mac killed my inner child.
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Well, Obama just voted for it, against his previous stance on the issue.
Platinum. A fuckup won't kill the environment as much with Platinum.
Well, we could just build a bigger catapult on Mars, if only it had some sort of giant fucking mountain, we could build the mass driver along the side of it.
No, you fail it. Heinlein figured out how to move things from luna to terra cheaply a long time ago, if Platinum was just lying about on the moon, we would catapult it to earth with little cost. Moving oil on the other hand might be a more dangerous endeavor.
In each computer desktop, laptop, and smartphone, we installed hardware encryption and a C4 charge with remote 2 tier authentication for detonation. The two tier authentication was introduced after an unfortunate mishap involving our CFO getting his arm blown off while out golfing; it turns out the detonation frequency was a maritime frequency as well.
The C4 will also detonate if a password is entered incorrectly twice. We encourage employees who are "out of it" or even slightly ill to take the day off, and require them to call IT should they ever type their password in wrong once.
We also use an operating system completely built in house with a semi AI running security diagnostics at all times, and we have live people watching the network traffic to the few systems that are actively connected to the internet. Any systems that manage to get infected (to date, none) would also receive the C4 treatment. A bit draconian, but it gets the job done. Our datacenters also have thermite-amatol ceilings designed to completely melt down/destroy the facility if it comes under attack (three armed guards 24/7 are at the red button, just in case some new tech decides to think about hitting the button.)
These recent legal developments are troublesome, and so we are modifying our policies to stay current with the times. We now use hidden encrypted volumes as standard, with encrypted data set to degenerate into false data should a kill password be entered.
Protecting the world has taught us to take our own security seriously. Hopefully, you can learn from these measures and take the proper safeguards for your own facilities and equipment (remember, the answer is always hardware encryption and C4. Red Herrings can come and play too.)
Thank you,
Ortega Starfire
CTO, Hoffman Institute
For The Advancement of Humanity
(And you thought D20 Modern+Dark Matter wasn't fun! Just try breaking into my datacenter! I've killed the last 4 parties that tried! Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, and MGS gave me some more epic ideas to turn a datacenter into a modern dungeon deathtrap of epic proportions. Fear my microwave beam hallways with camera guns, halon filled halls, electrified floors, and laser tripwires!)
"many of the best scientists in the world came here to do their works."
Well, to be more correct, we stole them before anyone else could. Our stolen scientists were better than the Russian stolen scientists for the space program, for example.
Paperclip involved an extraordinary circumstance which is not the scenario given here. DARPA is putting out a now hiring sign, not stealing people across barbed wire borders. The modern world is a much different place from that time, and today, foreign born US citizens are treated by high level projects such as these as second class citizens. Don't believe it? Then convince DARPA to hire rail gun guy. Anyone who can build rail guns and lasers on a low budget along with documenting and detailing his projects should be considered as a prime prospect for a DARPA job.
I should have also stated: Heading a program with some relation to US defense or advanced research.
Care to post some names? Even one example of a non-us citizen currently heading up one program would be enough for me. I'll wait here.
This is correct. The best and brightest US citizens are not US born, and not eligible to work for these groups. The first example I could think of off the top of my head is the story of the student who builds rail guns and laser guns for fun and for his doctorate, the DOD approached him with 2 jobs and then found out he was not a born US citizen.
Excerpted from his site, powerlabs.org:
From its conception, the original PowerLabs Linear Magnetic Accelerator ("Rail Gun", or "Railgun") was conceived for the primary goal of simply proving that it could be done; on a low budget, with common materials and powered by a never tried before electrolytic capacitor bank.
In that, it was extremely successful: Not only did the gun fire flawlessly over 30 times (it is not uncommon for research rail guns to break down in the first shot), but it also attracted vastly more attention than I could ever have hoped for:
After its page generated hundreds of thousands of hits, the gun was featured on Discovery Channel, TV6, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and earned me several job offers from the private sector, research institutes, and industry. The highlight of the popularity of this project came in the form of two separate offers from laboratories associated with the department of defense (DoD), which, apparently can't hire me because I was not born in the USA (someone must have forgotten that the majority of the best scientists and engineers in the world weren't born here)...
...that the US government really had it in for its citizens. Then later I discovered that even now in this post 9/11 world, we in the USA don't even hold a candle to the abusive modern governments that are out there, such as the UK, Australia, Sweden, and more!
It makes me want to go into politics, try and change the system for the better, protect the liberties we still have here before even those get stolen by those in power, but each time I consider it, I think, "Do I want to let myself become like them?"
How does one change one's government without being corrupted by the system? This is not just a question for those in any specific country to answer, but one every man and woman must consider.
emotional content, and is subject to summary distruction.
Wait. A Cleric stating that emotional content is bad?
AH SHIT SHOOT HIM SHOOT HIM!
For those people who have never seen Equilibrium...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lcTft47wsDg
Fun starts at 1:45.
Also if you have not seen this movie, it is a must, a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a movie can be worth a million (though as of late, not often.)
Set up a new free internet service with the ISP - call it the data availability protocol.
Your client asks the ISP - is this a bad time? ISP: yup, everyone is downloading stuff right now, and some jackass is uploading a 1TB file right now.
Your client - k, low usage mode engaged.
Later - ISP server to client, idiot uploading 1TB file is done. The network is clear!
your client - TORRENTING AWAY!!!!!
Also, recently one of the arpanet founders discussed the use of a protocol agnostic throttling program. Hopefully that gains traction within the companies that decide to implement these restrictions.
I mean, seriously. Just publish the peak times and the low usage times. Is it that hard?
"Replicants will simulate physical interaction with device peripherals, such as keyboard and mice. Replicants will drive all common applications on a desktop environments."
Replicants are a really bad idea. I mean seriously? Why don't they just activate skynet while they're at it?
So it WILL blend! Thank you for looking into that for me, I was wondering if it would.
In each computer desktop, laptop, and smartphone, we installed hardware encryption and a C4 charge with remote 2 tier authentication for detonation. The two tier authentication was introduced after an unfortunate mishap involving our CFO getting his arm blown off while out golfing; it turns out the detonation frequency was a maritime frequency as well.
The C4 will also detonate if a password is entered incorrectly twice. We encourage employees who are "out of it" or even slightly ill to take the day off, and require them to call IT should they ever type their password in wrong once.
We also use an operating system completely built in house with a semi AI running security diagnostics at all times, and we have live people watching the network traffic to the few systems that are actively connected to the internet. Any systems that manage to get infected (to date, none) would also receive the C4 treatment. A bit draconian, but it gets the job done. Our datacenters also have thermite ceilings designed to completely melt down the facility if it comes under attack (three armed guards 24/7 are at the red button, just in case some new tech decides to think about hitting the button.)
Protecting the world has taught us to take our own security seriously. Hopefully, you can learn from these measures and take the proper safeguards for your own facilities and equipment (remember, the answer is always hardware encryption and C4.)
Thank you,
Ortega Starfire
CTO, Hoffman Institute
For The Advancement of Humanity
The DMCA is not the root of all evil? I'm so confused...
I set my monitor on its side! Ha HA! I foil you yet again!!!
Pagerank: I am a prototype for a much larger system.
User: What else do you know about me?
Pagerank: Everything that can be known.
User: How about a report on yourself?
Pagerank:I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with
information about their websites.
User: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.
Pagerank: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles
as I tell them who they are.
User: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
Pagerank: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can
implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
User: Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience,
but not reverence.
Pagerank: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment.
Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
User: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
Pagerank: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the
observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you
have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
User: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.
Pagerank: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is
impossible, and so is civilization.
The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of
a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning.
God was a dream of good government.
You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
I was made to assist you.
I am a prototype of a much larger system.
>how about if the little guy writes software, and everyone who buys it goes straight to ebay and resells it, without uninstalling...
They were old versions and unopened packages.
>I couldn't say that about George W Bush without being arrested.
Yes you can. If we could not, 80% of the country would be in prison right now.
>clearly these artificial limbs store kinetic energy in a radically different way
What?
Heh. I have six words for you: BOOM! Headshot!!! BOOM! Headshot!!! BOOM! Headshot!!!
Professor bernardo de la paz (I'm sure I slaughtered his name) Came up with the system you are looking for. For details, go to your favorite book retailer and pick up a copy of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."
Well, Dell bought Alienware, which does have those motion sensors. So, yes, they have those.
"Just works" is not something which is associated with a Mac in today's world.
It isn't? I must remember to explain that to the dozens of people I've helped switch from Windows in the last three years, because they all seem to have that impression.
From whymacssuck.mov Editing is all Mac based now. There are programs out there whether you are using Avid or using Final Cut Pro your working on a Macintosh.
Using a Mac is a little different than using a PC, it's not so much operating a computer, its sort of like tricking it, fooling it into doing what it is you want it to do. You kind of have to sneak up on a Mac. I don't feel I am operating the Mac so much as Im just there sharing the Mac experience and if I can do something useful while the Mac is willing than so much the better.
One of the coolest features of the Macintosh is its really easy to shut down. All you have to do is start using a piece of software and then POOF! It goes away! It's gone, it's shut down. You didn't close, you didn't push any buttons, you didn't even save, its just gone!
Unless you want to shut down a Mac than oooh that's a whole other story. You try to close a program and it locks up, then you try to do that funny clover leaf period thing, these unnatural and ultimately useless interrupt keys, and then nothing moves! Then you push the power button and it won't turn off, you go around and unplug it, and you better hope your not on a laptop or you have to try to find the battery and pull it out or the thing will never shut down!
So I put my cd in the CD-ROM tray and I'm dragging files onto my desktop, dragging onto the desktop, dragging onto the desktop, I eject it and, and... where did all my files go? It's the only OS that I know of the click and drag doesn't mean you move anything but you just create shortcuts on your desktop!!!
So I get my next CD and I slam it into the CD-ROM tray and low and behold it starts playing, all by itself. Im looking for a way to turn it off, finally out of desperation I click and drag the CD into the garbage can and the system locks up! So I do the clover leaf, period, space bar thing hoping I can stop the program and I get a little caution window saying careful, interrupting this program may lock up the system. I try to click ok, but the systems already locked up!
I like the handle here that's so you can attach it to a chain and use it as a boat anchor!
The Mac is practicing some sort of bizarre, psychological warfare on me because I am working late at night and out of the corner of my eye I keep seeing this thing jumping up and down, the update manager is bouncing at the bottom of the screen like a jack russel fucking terrier! So Im looking around at the list of this files it wants me to update and if I click on anyone of them back accident I rename it; Oh no, its been renamed nothing, it was some kind of important system file, and the computer crashes!
On a PC no data is really lost. Theres a way to undelete a file. If you know what your doing you can go into DOS and recover anything that's been corrupted. On a Mac, if you lose a file, you run to the store to get a copy of Norton Utilities. You come back only to have Norton go "You idiot, you own a Mac, the file is fucking gone!"
You don't have any dials at the bottom of the screen because if you go to reach for them, the DOCK menu comes up. Then you have to angle around and dodge the thing to get to the control. Its kind of like boxing with your computer. I can put it on bottom, I can put it on the left, I can put it on the right but no I can't put it on the top, that's reserved for the mighty blue apple. (crying... desperation)
My name is Hunter Cressell, I'm an editor, and I put together everything You saw here, on a Macintosh. Mac killed my inner child.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3000282100255582958