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Water Cooler / This and that / Poor man's copyright
« on: March 09, 2013, 06:14:17 PM »
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I am copyrighting, trademarking, and otherwise reserving the right to sue others for large amounts of money the use of the following phrase without my express written consent.
Women want to be desired, men want to be remembered. |
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Water Cooler / This and that / When can we get our freedom back?
« on: June 10, 2012, 08:54:22 AM »
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The loss of freedom that largely started on 9/11/01 was principally due to the war on terror. It appears that we may have won that war. Lightning kills more people annually in the US than terrorism.
http://tinyurl.com/7cuzx83
It's time to back away from the police state mentality that gave us the TSA and concentrate on the real threats to Americans- the bad economy, the greed of the banking class, the future of energy resources, pollution and environmental degradation, and the lawlessness and atrocities engendered by our now misguided war on drugs. The pundit class has their knickers in a twist over the atrocities in Syria, but seem to ignore the truckloads of corpses continually turning up in Mexico. The violence has been spilling over our borders for quite some time, yet we continue to misdirect our resources to the other side of the world.
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Water Cooler / This and that / Batmobile stopped for no tags
« on: March 30, 2012, 02:40:35 AM »
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Police in Montgomery County Maryland got a surprise when they pulled over a black Lamborghini with a Batman logo in place of the license plate. Turns out that Batman was driving.
The traffic stop happened in the White Oak area of Silver Spring on Route 29.
Officer Borja says he noticed the not exactly state-approved Batman symbol license plate before he noticed the Caped Crusader himself.
"I walked up and there's Batman, and I said Batman the reason I pulled you over is that you didn't have any tags."
Borja asked for Batman's registration and the Dark Knight had a little trouble finding it, having to get out and walk around to the passenger side of his Lamborghini to locate it.
"I said what is your name. And I was expecting Bruce, and he says Lenny."
Lenny Robinson is his full name, and it turns out he puts on the whole Batman get-up for a very good reason...to try to cheer up kids with cancer at area hospitals.
There is dashcam video of the incident-
http://tinyurl.com/8xgxukw
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The Tech Section / Tech News / Commentary / The NSA's computer system
« on: March 18, 2012, 07:46:40 AM »
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Wired has an interesting article concerning the new data center being constructed in Utah.
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
There are several issues raised such as the NSA’s collection of massive amounts of communications and personal data, the constitutionality of that process, the construction of a new data warehouse and analysis facility in Utah at which the data center will consume 200 megawatts of electricity and require 60,000 tons of cooling, and a computing center in Oak Ridge Tennessee. More interesting is the information concerning the new super computers being built specifically to crack data encryption. There are recent breakthroughs in computing power that at least raise the possibility that AES 256 bit encryption is at risk. Computers that operate at petaflop speed will soon (if not already) be replaced by machines orders of magnitude faster.
“But despite its progress, the agency has not finished building at Oak Ridge, nor is it satisfied with breaking the petaflop barrier. Its next goal is to reach exaflop speed, one quintillion (1018) operations a second, and eventually zettaflop (1021) and yottaflop”
Could computers with this capacity become sentient?
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Water Cooler / This and that / Va. Man Arrested In Adult Store With Blowup Doll
« on: July 07, 2011, 02:30:02 AM »
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) -- A Woodbridge man has been charged with burglary and destruction of property after he was arrested in the closet of an adult video store with a blow-up doll.
Prince William County police say the man, 28-year-old Justin Dale Little Jim, is an officer in the U.S. Army.
Was he being all he could be? I bet he was thinking of Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection.
http://tinyurl.com/3lpkcjd
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The Tech Section / Tech News / Commentary / Power grid test may affect some clocks
« on: June 25, 2011, 05:21:50 AM »
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The North American power grid runs at 60 Hz and the power companies traditionally have gone to great lengths to insure that the system stays at precisely 60 Hz. Many clocks and other devices use the 60 Hz frequency as the basis for maintaining accurate timekeeping functions, although in todays world, other more accurate time keeping strategies are used in electronic devices. The North American Electric Reliability Corp. is considering a test in which the frequency will be allowed to float in an effort to improve the reliability of the overall grid-
"A June 14 company presentation spelled out the potential effects of the change: East Coast clocks may run as much as 20 minutes fast over a year, but West Coast clocks are only likely to be off by 8 minutes. In Texas, it's only an expected speedup of 2 minutes.
Some parts of the grid, like in the East, tend to run faster than others. Errors add up. If the grid averages just over 60 cycles a second, clocks that rely on the grid will gain 14 seconds per day, according to the company's presentation."
http://tinyurl.com/6gfgv58
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