So, what with the rat neurons being permitted to create their own connections, can we safely say that in the event of robot apocalypse, the first strike targets will be dairy farms and cheese factories? The robots won't be able to do anything with it, but will be drawn to it for some reason they can't explain.
And what if the minerals at the source of the water are appreciably the same? Reliably being tracked back to a handful of collection sites across the US doesn't exactly equate to "placing someone at the scene of a crime".
If you look at the heat map included with the article, the entirety of Florida is indicated as having the same expected water composition. Similarly for most of Texas, and wide swaths of the Midwest / Central US.
So if someone commits a crime in Tallahassee, and I buy bottled water at Disney World, I must have done it. The same goes for proving of innocence. If I drink only bottled water that comes from a neighboring state, because it tastes better, is that sufficient evidence that I didn't murder the guy, because I was obviously in Minnesota at the time?
I'd be interested in knowing the rate at which the water is added to the hair, and how finely it can be read. Can we tell if someone drinks water with different compositions each day for a month? Can we tell what water he drank last week?
I'm just going to put on my tinfoil hat and start shaving my head...then no one will be able to tell what kind of water I drink.
It's probably just me, but the phrase "nonfamily safe" doesn't seem to parse all that well. Personally, I read that as "safe for non-families". So, if I wanted to go to that site with some friends, so long as I am not related to them, it would be acceptable. However, once my wife enters the room, it becomes non-safe.
On second thought, that's probably an accurate interpretation.
Honestly, I think that we're used to reading their stuff when they were bachelors. Now they are married and have kids, growing a gamer family. It'll probably click when I'm in the same situation they are, but right now it ain't.
I think that's a legitimate comment on pretty much any observer/commentator/etc. As their life changes, so does their viewpoint.
Now that I'm married, and have my first child, I'm looking at Penny Arcade and appreciating the viewpoints of individuals who make gaming a way to bond with their kids more. If I weren't in this situation, as you rightly point out, their viewpoint might be a little too distant from my own to really click.
Such is the nature of influence - you need to have some common ground to really have influence on any kind of personal level.
I think you're on to something. The phenomenon of the BOFH is simply the result of being surrounded by hard drives and other magnetic materials. The actions do not cause any physical harm, though most would consider it immoral.
I learned that from my parents - "If the two of you can't share, neither of you gets the toy." As a side note, I doubt I was particularly happy at that, as I was an only child, and toys generally truly were mine.
I agree - when I was a kid, we would dream of only waiting 14 hours. We would wait half a fortnight outside just for the clinic to open up. During that time, the only people that would talk to us were the brigands attempting to rob us.
This will be utterly destroyed by an angry mob the first time it gets hacked to display Goatse. Imagine not just disgusting a single person, but an entire football stadium.
Practically speaking, the evolutionary route would likely be that their wing beat frequency would change - faster or slower enough to not attract the attention of the laser (since that's what the poster above indicates is used for targeting).
The article indicates that this is the first demonstration from an airborne platform. However, I am significantly more interested in the application of directed energy weapons from certain aquatic platforms.
So we want to teach these impressionable wards of the state that they should go about doing their own police investigations? I think not. They should report the murder first, not endanger themselves by carrying out an investigation.
Not to get off topic, but it should be clarified that this is what *some* Christian fundamentalists believe. I would be categorized as a Christian fundamentalist, and I would categorize Jack Chick as a conspiracy theorist lunatic fringe nutjob Christian fundamentalist. There are a number of things in his tracts (aside from the weird stuff) that he presents as Biblical that aren't in the Bible (no matter how liberal/conservative your reading of it.
I know the goal was a joke, but nevertheless, we already do too much marketing of ultra processed goods as being healthy by virtue of them containing something that the body needs. It evokes the whole issue in Idiocracy of "Brawndo - Its got electrolytes!"
I could see this turning into "Mountain Dew - Its got Vitamin D - Its what kids crave!"
That being said, I have a 4-foot privacy wall in my cubicle constructed of Mountain Dew cans glued together.
This is offtopic, but it depends upon what end of the potato cannon one is on. As a younger man, I had built a number of these. One summer on vacation, my uncle, who does HVAC, decided that we should build one to shoot out over a lake.
Other than the PVC for the barrel and chamber, he chose the fittings he was familiar with: expandable rubberized ones (turn the screw, it expands to seal the gap). If you are familiar with these fittings, you understand that they are not exactly designed for internal combustion.
Well, upon ignition, the end cap flew off and struck me squarely in the groin. To bring this back around to your statement - it did not kill me, nor did it render me incapable of reproducing. It did, however, provide much entertainment to everyone else, as there was enough force to put me on the ground for a while.
That all depends...does this knife fight involve dancing, or just cutting? I can't carry a tune, but as long as I'm in the background, I'm decent at snapping to the rhythm.
I always knew that I lived in an amazing time. I always knew that incredible things would be developed while I was alive. However, I expected these to be things like a reliable cure for cancer, widely available flying cars, and the reduction of disease and hunger in exotic locales where we could benefit from cheap, well-fed labor.
Never did I imagine that we would instead focus on robots that do not, but theoretically could, eat people as fuel.
I use the IETab Firefox plugin - IE in the browser for those few corporate sites that absolutely require IE to display properly. However, for the ones that don't require it, Firefox works awesome.
In fact, when corporate decides that we need to have lots of fancy web-based applications that time out at ungodly intervals and have fields that are the wrong size? The Greasemonkey plugin can also come to the rescue.
Despite the fact that the corporate approved browser is IE, when my supervisor found out that I could increase my productivity and improve the functionality of sites with Firefox and a 5 line script, she had me send out installation instructions and a copy of the script to everyone in the department.
Higher ups (or IT people that aren't technically higher excepting that they control the system images and the portals) may make ill-informed decisions, but having a manager that understands that the real goal is getting work done efficiently can work wonders.
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So, what with the rat neurons being permitted to create their own connections, can we safely say that in the event of robot apocalypse, the first strike targets will be dairy farms and cheese factories? The robots won't be able to do anything with it, but will be drawn to it for some reason they can't explain.
What does "(Windows?)" even mean?
I read that as saying "Windows is the new Linux!". Clearly the submitter is trying to incite violence in the Slashdot community.
And what if the minerals at the source of the water are appreciably the same? Reliably being tracked back to a handful of collection sites across the US doesn't exactly equate to "placing someone at the scene of a crime".
If you look at the heat map included with the article, the entirety of Florida is indicated as having the same expected water composition. Similarly for most of Texas, and wide swaths of the Midwest / Central US.
So if someone commits a crime in Tallahassee, and I buy bottled water at Disney World, I must have done it. The same goes for proving of innocence. If I drink only bottled water that comes from a neighboring state, because it tastes better, is that sufficient evidence that I didn't murder the guy, because I was obviously in Minnesota at the time?
I'd be interested in knowing the rate at which the water is added to the hair, and how finely it can be read. Can we tell if someone drinks water with different compositions each day for a month? Can we tell what water he drank last week?
I'm just going to put on my tinfoil hat and start shaving my head...then no one will be able to tell what kind of water I drink.
It's probably just me, but the phrase "nonfamily safe" doesn't seem to parse all that well. Personally, I read that as "safe for non-families". So, if I wanted to go to that site with some friends, so long as I am not related to them, it would be acceptable. However, once my wife enters the room, it becomes non-safe.
On second thought, that's probably an accurate interpretation.
Honestly, I think that we're used to reading their stuff when they were bachelors. Now they are married and have kids, growing a gamer family. It'll probably click when I'm in the same situation they are, but right now it ain't.
I think that's a legitimate comment on pretty much any observer/commentator/etc. As their life changes, so does their viewpoint.
Now that I'm married, and have my first child, I'm looking at Penny Arcade and appreciating the viewpoints of individuals who make gaming a way to bond with their kids more. If I weren't in this situation, as you rightly point out, their viewpoint might be a little too distant from my own to really click.
Such is the nature of influence - you need to have some common ground to really have influence on any kind of personal level.
According to the article, this technology is already here...assuming you can accept your new fingers having hair, eyes, and a brain.
I think you're on to something. The phenomenon of the BOFH is simply the result of being surrounded by hard drives and other magnetic materials. The actions do not cause any physical harm, though most would consider it immoral.
...or maybe users are just idiots.
I learned that from my parents - "If the two of you can't share, neither of you gets the toy." As a side note, I doubt I was particularly happy at that, as I was an only child, and toys generally truly were mine.
I believe Monty Python established the best example of abuse of "up to" with LLap-Goch - http://www.llapgoch.org.uk/
I agree - when I was a kid, we would dream of only waiting 14 hours. We would wait half a fortnight outside just for the clinic to open up. During that time, the only people that would talk to us were the brigands attempting to rob us.
This will be utterly destroyed by an angry mob the first time it gets hacked to display Goatse. Imagine not just disgusting a single person, but an entire football stadium.
Practically speaking, the evolutionary route would likely be that their wing beat frequency would change - faster or slower enough to not attract the attention of the laser (since that's what the poster above indicates is used for targeting).
The article indicates that this is the first demonstration from an airborne platform. However, I am significantly more interested in the application of directed energy weapons from certain aquatic platforms.
So we want to teach these impressionable wards of the state that they should go about doing their own police investigations? I think not. They should report the murder first, not endanger themselves by carrying out an investigation.
Not to get off topic, but it should be clarified that this is what *some* Christian fundamentalists believe. I would be categorized as a Christian fundamentalist, and I would categorize Jack Chick as a conspiracy theorist lunatic fringe nutjob Christian fundamentalist. There are a number of things in his tracts (aside from the weird stuff) that he presents as Biblical that aren't in the Bible (no matter how liberal/conservative your reading of it.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I know the goal was a joke, but nevertheless, we already do too much marketing of ultra processed goods as being healthy by virtue of them containing something that the body needs. It evokes the whole issue in Idiocracy of "Brawndo - Its got electrolytes!"
I could see this turning into "Mountain Dew - Its got Vitamin D - Its what kids crave!"
That being said, I have a 4-foot privacy wall in my cubicle constructed of Mountain Dew cans glued together.
Other than the PVC for the barrel and chamber, he chose the fittings he was familiar with: expandable rubberized ones (turn the screw, it expands to seal the gap). If you are familiar with these fittings, you understand that they are not exactly designed for internal combustion.
Well, upon ignition, the end cap flew off and struck me squarely in the groin. To bring this back around to your statement - it did not kill me, nor did it render me incapable of reproducing. It did, however, provide much entertainment to everyone else, as there was enough force to put me on the ground for a while.
I sure wish we had taped that...
That all depends...does this knife fight involve dancing, or just cutting? I can't carry a tune, but as long as I'm in the background, I'm decent at snapping to the rhythm.
Why can companies not come up with decent code names. For instance, this would be the perfect case for it being codenamed "Beowulf".
While I'm not a big fan of grammar Nazism, I'm a big fan of shooting myself in the foot. Please apply the following to my above comment: s/it's/its.
Actually, I believe the final option is always something to the effect of "It's orbit was influenced by CowboyNeal's weight."
Vindication at last! I can now provide proof to my wife that my driving style has a purpose, and that purpose is for the greater good of mankind.
I always knew that I lived in an amazing time. I always knew that incredible things would be developed while I was alive. However, I expected these to be things like a reliable cure for cancer, widely available flying cars, and the reduction of disease and hunger in exotic locales where we could benefit from cheap, well-fed labor.
Never did I imagine that we would instead focus on robots that do not, but theoretically could, eat people as fuel.
I use the IETab Firefox plugin - IE in the browser for those few corporate sites that absolutely require IE to display properly. However, for the ones that don't require it, Firefox works awesome.
In fact, when corporate decides that we need to have lots of fancy web-based applications that time out at ungodly intervals and have fields that are the wrong size? The Greasemonkey plugin can also come to the rescue.
Despite the fact that the corporate approved browser is IE, when my supervisor found out that I could increase my productivity and improve the functionality of sites with Firefox and a 5 line script, she had me send out installation instructions and a copy of the script to everyone in the department.
Higher ups (or IT people that aren't technically higher excepting that they control the system images and the portals) may make ill-informed decisions, but having a manager that understands that the real goal is getting work done efficiently can work wonders.