That's actually a really good point, I'm sure that you're right. Also there aren't really that many skyscrapers in the world anyways, so it's a totally moot point.
As modern buildings expand the radius of the Earth (a very small amount), the Earth's rotation is already slowing due to conservation of angular momentum.
"Hello, Mr. Anderson? This is Washington First National Citi Wells Fargo Mutual. I'm afraid we are unable to process your loan request. Well, unfortunately it appears that you're dead. Yes, it is surprising. My sincerest condolences on your recent loss.
Well, according to your obituaries, you initially died on October 12, 1982, of trauma resulting from a car accident. Wow, that looked like a terrible accident. I hope you didn't suffer too much. Then on February 23, 1997, you were decapitated in an industrial accident... oh, I'm glad to hear you're feeling much better. Except for being dead, of course.
"Mr. Anderson, no, I'm sorry, we cannot approve a loan to a dead person. You may be feeling fine, but Google says you're dead. Well, killed by an IED in Iraq most recently. 2005? You don't remember being there? Well, that doesn't prove anything because you're dead; I wouldn't expect you to remember it.
"Mr. Anderson, please calm down. It's not healthy to get so agitated. I mean, it's definitely not healthy to be dead, but there's no need to make matters worse... Yes, as a matter of fact I did find an obit for myself. Died after a lingering coma. Fortunately, it's not a problem, because being brain dead is not an impediment to my line of work. Yes, I'm sorry, please feel free to re-apply when you're not dead. Goodbye."
I believe that's straight out of the movie "Hackers".
(The sentence "Like, you start with and end with" was supposed to look like "Like, you start HTML with and end with/HTML", but the tags got cut off. Or rather, cut in.)
Please, PLEASE don't teach anything you couldn't hypothetically respect yourself for programming in. I beseech you this from the perspective of a once bright young student who's wasted more than several classes listening to speeches on introductory HTML. I mean really introductory. Like, you start with and end with . Twelve doesn't mean retarded. Just let your students challenge themselves, preferably not in a totally obsolete, trashy language.
I'll have to admit that Visual Basic was one of the most helpful learning experiences... not from a programming point of view, but software development.
I'll admit,,v
chemical reactions are just a matter of distribution, too. but you can't talk 6.03x10^23 randomly moving particles into redistributing energy for efficiency.
Barack Obama announced today that he would not accept public donations, in favor of receiving private donations. A chandidate cannot receive both and must choose between one or the other. Thusly, it doesn't matter whether or not you retract your donation (public of which there are ~$80million)
Usually competitions like this are in "Which OS is most secure" kinds of settings, where the ostensible purpose is to find out which OS is the most secure. However, in this case, you had you had a bunch of different OSs all linked together, and you had to protect them from a bunch of security professionals. I imagine these "pros" probably weren't hard-core hackers, and given that, I'm not sure what the value of the exercise was. These pros won't have anything in their arsenal that everybody doesn't already know about it (at least, if they're studying computer security, they *ought* to know about it), and so we're basically left with (and this is something the article mentions) a bunch of people changing their conf files as fast as possible. If you ask me, they should six Eastern Europeans and North Koreans, and offer them $10,000 for every box they own. If the teams box doesn't get owned, they get the ten grand. Simpler, more interesting, and far more realistic. being both from eastern europe and also a decent hacker, I like that idea
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That's actually a really good point, I'm sure that you're right. Also there aren't really that many skyscrapers in the world anyways, so it's a totally moot point.
As modern buildings expand the radius of the Earth (a very small amount), the Earth's rotation is already slowing due to conservation of angular momentum.
Indeed! There's a scene with almost exactly those words. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller have just hacked the FBI file on a NY police officer.
Phone conversation overheard in a bank:
"Hello, Mr. Anderson? This is Washington First National Citi Wells Fargo Mutual. I'm afraid we are unable to process your loan request. Well, unfortunately it appears that you're dead. Yes, it is surprising. My sincerest condolences on your recent loss.
Well, according to your obituaries, you initially died on October 12, 1982, of trauma resulting from a car accident. Wow, that looked like a terrible accident. I hope you didn't suffer too much. Then on February 23, 1997, you were decapitated in an industrial accident... oh, I'm glad to hear you're feeling much better. Except for being dead, of course.
"Mr. Anderson, no, I'm sorry, we cannot approve a loan to a dead person. You may be feeling fine, but Google says you're dead. Well, killed by an IED in Iraq most recently. 2005? You don't remember being there? Well, that doesn't prove anything because you're dead; I wouldn't expect you to remember it.
"Mr. Anderson, please calm down. It's not healthy to get so agitated. I mean, it's definitely not healthy to be dead, but there's no need to make matters worse... Yes, as a matter of fact I did find an obit for myself. Died after a lingering coma. Fortunately, it's not a problem, because being brain dead is not an impediment to my line of work. Yes, I'm sorry, please feel free to re-apply when you're not dead. Goodbye."
I believe that's straight out of the movie "Hackers".
(The sentence "Like, you start with and end with" was supposed to look like "Like, you start HTML with and end with /HTML", but the tags got cut off. Or rather, cut in.)
Please, PLEASE don't teach anything you couldn't hypothetically respect yourself for programming in. I beseech you this from the perspective of a once bright young student who's wasted more than several classes listening to speeches on introductory HTML. I mean really introductory. Like, you start with and end with . Twelve doesn't mean retarded. Just let your students challenge themselves, preferably not in a totally obsolete, trashy language. I'll have to admit that Visual Basic was one of the most helpful learning experiences... not from a programming point of view, but software development. I'll admit, ,v
I'm 17 and also space out during conversations/lectures that I think I can forsee, but mostly just because some of them are awfully boring.
chemical reactions are just a matter of distribution, too. but you can't talk 6.03x10^23 randomly moving particles into redistributing energy for efficiency.
Barack Obama announced today that he would not accept public donations, in favor of receiving private donations. A chandidate cannot receive both and must choose between one or the other. Thusly, it doesn't matter whether or not you retract your donation (public of which there are ~$80million)
reality is what you make it, man. everything cuts both ways, though. sort of a statistical problem.