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It's a means to project power that can be mass produced, and without the impediment of a conscience. This fills my nightmares.
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Along those lines, just the air conditioning for tents in Iraq and Afghanistan circa 2011 eclipsed NASA's budget http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-cos...
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... and it's gone
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Can't trust them -- I've seen too much.
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Would make an interesting random number generator (which are tough to find on some systems). Waterbears are rad hard as well :) Would be tough for Mallory to "reduce their entropy."
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I shuddered when I saw the Enigma. I'm sure other people have similar reactions to some of the other constituents.
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Examine the binary for a run of the mill system sometime and check out the partition headers/manifest, see if you are convinced there are no networking functions in there. The processor in my laptop supports WoL (and I've tested t
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As another example, take the newer remote management "features" included in modern BIOSes that run on a separate microcontroller in the system and allow access to network, memory, peripherals, etc., even if the computer is shut do
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Maybe several times over independently. Hopefully we won't have to speculate long. As Jill Tarter says, "we count one, two, infinity." Still waiting for two, and I hope it happens in my lifetime.
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I got you -- The accompanying Nature paper gives a 10 trillion year figure.
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Well, it's estimated that it will still be around in 4-5 trillion years, so, if we can get there, and it's habitable, that gives humanity a little longer lease in the universe.
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Gauss said that if the reason weren't immediately obvious to someone, they would never be a first rate mathematician. For the rest of us, there's YouTube.
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Likewise, I was hoping to get in a game of Thexder. What is this "ActiveGS," and can it be trusted?
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I hope so too! Don't forget: http://www.vim.org/sponsor/ "Since Bram is back to a paid job the money will now (after March 2006) be used to help children in Uganda. This is the charity recommended by Vim'