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Comment Re:avoiding paradox? (Score 1) 332

Once we build the technology to receive information from the future, we should know everything that will ever happen in the future. The real question is then is where does unique ideas come from then? If someone is to invent a technology, but a message from the future tells the individual how to make the invention. When is the idea created for the invention? It is a infinite loop of chicken and egg. Just think Wikipedia will have past history and future event.

All the paradoxes still exists. If you can send a message to the past and future. There can be a robot receiving commands, and sending video. So although a person cannot go in the past to mess up the time line, his information can. So a man can still kill his parents before he is born, as long as the robot is created before that time.

Comment Re:but but (Score 1) 153

It will only effect geeks that tell and receive insults, because they are the only ones that will be able to reference this.

So to all the people that don't read Slashdot : "Yo momma is so fat. If she gained another pound, she would collapse in on herself and become a black hole."

Comment Another Paradox (Score 1) 454

In the begining of the third film Marty is at his highschool and he realizes the name has been changed. When he goes back in time to save Doc, Doc and Marty save the teacher. After Marty's influences on Doc. Marty than realizes his highschool was named after a teacher who fell off a clift. Then Doc and Marty have a conversation about how Marty noticed already the highschool was renamed.

At the begining of the film the school should not have been renamed until a Marty went back and influenced Doc.

Comment Re:Not as serious as it sounds (Score 1) 98

And maybe one day linux will support 512bit CPUs, since it already supports 256 bit(I think).

Here is a hit, Microsoft.Windows cares about the common person, who doesn't care about anything you listed.

Then on the opposite side you have Open Source teams so driven to program something so unbelievable useless, and call it progress. Tell me why you need to focus on something so useless, when you don't support so many things. Such as Flash 64 bit, until about a week ago.

http://xkcd.com/619/

Comment Re:This is why we need to use Ruby on Rails. (Score 1) 98

The only reason Visual Basic has a bad rep, is that it was an horrible language when it was immature. Since Visual Basic uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR), it can do the majority of what C# can. C# is an extremely powerful language, with great frameworks and libraries. Visual Studio and the CLR, seems to have a completely different management process than windows, and has very few issues. (Microsoft.Windows != Microsoft.VisualStudio) And so what they had an stupid simple default web application that had a possible exploit if it was deployed.

The real problem is Microsoft assumed developeers wouldn't be so stupid. If IT idiots who never took a security class in there life are programming your web application, you will have problems.

Bottom line is, C# is what Java should have been if it had better backing, and VB can do the majority of what C# can. I much rather have a language that has a strong corp. backing.

Comment Re:Wait wait this can't be right. (Score 1) 98

At least there is someone to be held responsible, unlike linux. This entire thread is just Microsoft vs Linux. This isn’t really an important exploit. Any security expert can tell you not to not to put exception information to your end user. This is why you provide generic errors. Like, when word crashes, it says “An unexpected error happened.” The real problem is the default configuration displays exception information, which is very simple to change. Any educated developer should know not to do this. Regardless, of if it is under asp/php, or IIS/Apache.

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