Who wants electricity in their home? It's a deadly killer! My house has been safely connected to the city tar gas plant for the last 120 years and my Welsbach mantle lamps are running just fine, thank you. B-P
For those interested, here's a two minute mini-history of the perils of installing electricity.
Funnily enough, our "smart coffee machine" at work more often than not has an out-of-order sign on it. Maybe it's contemplating why the ape-like life forms want ground beans in boiling water. Time to hold a séance...
When I moved to the USA, I was briefly confused as to why the Steak and Kidney pies tasted different. Turns out they have steak in over here. (See also, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler.)
Will it play more than 75% of my XBox360 games, including 100% of the good ones?
Yes -> then maybe I'll buy, depending on price.
No -> then no. I can get a PS4 or PC instead.
What sort of circumstance would lead you to need a 4K Blu ray player?
His Slashdot profile page links to his professional page, and his profession is actually a good candidate for requiring 4k Blu Ray. It's either that or his nerdy A/V club kid neighbor kidnapped his cat and is holding it to ransom.
Quite right! All speech should be limited to under 1.5 kW ERP! Those 10 MW people are just too loud for my ears. And don't get me started on libraries....
The Illuminati Council of Atlantis voted them down in a poll alleged to be rigged by Lee Harvey Oswald just before Princess Diana was about to publish the real moon landing photographs.
I have no problem with telnet as long as you can't access anything too interactive (e.g., a shell) through it. After all, http, SMTP, POP, daytime, chargen and echo are all telnet-like protocols. (Ok, not really, but close enough,) It used to be quite fun to run a honeypot (fake) telnet server to see what was happening in the wild woolly internet.
Even open, unencrypted RDP and VNC have a [narrow] use case (broadcasting games and videos, anyone?)
Can't think of a good use case for open SQL ports though; except for very specialized applications.
If I notice a quantity of 8" floppies dropped around a parking lot next to an inconspicuous government building, can I assume that some sort of Stuxnet cyber attack is under way?
Bother—I was just getting excited about storing my photos infinitely by converting them to decimal and dialing them. Come to think of it, maybe that's why I get so many random calls to my mobile phone....
That would have been a helluva good hunting rifle.
Crazy engineer: I just shot at the shuttle with my hunting rifle. Iazaus: Pfft. You couldn't get close to it. Let's launch! CE: Let me just call the newspaper.... I: Errm, maybe we should postpone it a while.
A BB rifle would have been just fine for the effect intended. You are absolutely right in your statement about heroes though. (Real heroes, not newspaper/TV ones.)
Bang. Now it's going to blow up from that hole that I just shot into it.
However, what you didn't know was that the shuttle was being launched to rescue 20 (or 50, or 1000) astronauts on a classified hypothetical mission. In the Challenger case, the information about the seals was discarded (not ignored); and someone made the decision to launch. Unless you're the one responsible for the decision, it's not yours to make. We, as engineers, can only hope to give the executive all the relevant and pertinent information. Even then, the launch decision was found to be incorrect by the commission.
(I read somewhere, don't remember where, that NASA was under pressure to prove they could make a launch under adverse weather conditions for some branch of the military. Don't quote me on that though.)
I did that many years ago (2005-ish). The local stations had a standard error of about 10 minutes, presumably because no one knew how to set the server clocks at the time. Played havoc with the clock in my receiver....
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How about "Sprinkles"? A topping for Raspberry Pi; with no nutritional value but sure makes it look more attractive.
Not everyone wants eye candy cluttering up everything they see.
Totally true. I'm guessing only 95% of people want things to look nice.
What does network traffic smell like? What does the "unusual" stuff look like? Will it leave a stain?
Who wants electricity in their home? It's a deadly killer! My house has been safely connected to the city tar gas plant for the last 120 years and my Welsbach mantle lamps are running just fine, thank you. B-P
For those interested, here's a two minute mini-history of the perils of installing electricity.
Funnily enough, our "smart coffee machine" at work more often than not has an out-of-order sign on it. Maybe it's contemplating why the ape-like life forms want ground beans in boiling water. Time to hold a séance...
When I moved to the USA, I was briefly confused as to why the Steak and Kidney pies tasted different. Turns out they have steak in over here. (See also, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler.)
Speak for yourself....
... because they don't have a catchy portmanteau.
Will it play more than 75% of my XBox360 games, including 100% of the good ones?
Yes -> then maybe I'll buy, depending on price.
No -> then no. I can get a PS4 or PC instead.
What sort of circumstance would lead you to need a 4K Blu ray player?
His Slashdot profile page links to his professional page, and his profession is actually a good candidate for requiring 4k Blu Ray. It's either that or his nerdy A/V club kid neighbor kidnapped his cat and is holding it to ransom.
Quite right! All speech should be limited to under 1.5 kW ERP! Those 10 MW people are just too loud for my ears. And don't get me started on libraries....
I can only modulate my 800THz light bulbs at about 2000mHz though. B-(
The Illuminati Council of Atlantis voted them down in a poll alleged to be rigged by Lee Harvey Oswald just before Princess Diana was about to publish the real moon landing photographs.
Did you know that some doors—maybe even your door—can be opened by using a MASTER KEY! This, and other secret conspiracies, at 11...
Agreed. "Exposed ports" != "vulnerable ports".
I have no problem with telnet as long as you can't access anything too interactive (e.g., a shell) through it. After all, http, SMTP, POP, daytime, chargen and echo are all telnet-like protocols. (Ok, not really, but close enough,) It used to be quite fun to run a honeypot (fake) telnet server to see what was happening in the wild woolly internet.
Even open, unencrypted RDP and VNC have a [narrow] use case (broadcasting games and videos, anyone?)
Can't think of a good use case for open SQL ports though; except for very specialized applications.
Hmm. 45.5miles/s/Mparsec is 2.373e-18Hz; or F-63 for those people with 72-octave pianos.
... It's agenda driven, you can be sure.
Could also just be rarity driven. Airplane hijackings used to be a weekly affair; now a hijacking would be a week's-worth of headlines.
If I notice a quantity of 8" floppies dropped around a parking lot next to an inconspicuous government building, can I assume that some sort of Stuxnet cyber attack is under way?
Does your workstation run Smalltalk on Multics over X25-based Infiniband, by any chance? ;-)
Bother—I was just getting excited about storing my photos infinitely by converting them to decimal and dialing them. Come to think of it, maybe that's why I get so many random calls to my mobile phone....
The New York Times published its first-ever public 2016-03-25 newspaper today. Hey, this "first-ever" adjective is fun!
That would have been a helluva good hunting rifle.
Crazy engineer: I just shot at the shuttle with my hunting rifle.
Iazaus: Pfft. You couldn't get close to it. Let's launch!
CE: Let me just call the newspaper....
I: Errm, maybe we should postpone it a while.
A BB rifle would have been just fine for the effect intended. You are absolutely right in your statement about heroes though. (Real heroes, not newspaper/TV ones.)
Bang. Now it's going to blow up from that hole that I just shot into it.
However, what you didn't know was that the shuttle was being launched to rescue 20 (or 50, or 1000) astronauts on a classified hypothetical mission. In the Challenger case, the information about the seals was discarded (not ignored); and someone made the decision to launch. Unless you're the one responsible for the decision, it's not yours to make. We, as engineers, can only hope to give the executive all the relevant and pertinent information. Even then, the launch decision was found to be incorrect by the commission.
(I read somewhere, don't remember where, that NASA was under pressure to prove they could make a launch under adverse weather conditions for some branch of the military. Don't quote me on that though.)
I did that many years ago (2005-ish). The local stations had a standard error of about 10 minutes, presumably because no one knew how to set the server clocks at the time. Played havoc with the clock in my receiver....
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