Comment Re:Short black with one (Score 1) 192
A well made cup of coffee does take the edge off the pain, yes.
A well made cup of coffee does take the edge off the pain, yes.
Aeropress reccomends 175 F, which is still hot enough to cause third degree burns.
There's nothing dangerous about a floating bubble of boiling water, is there?
A worm/human hybrid-- they are similar in a lot of ways to to Dougal Dixon's Homo caelestis, but as with a lot o Biopreperat's work, the ethics are a bit muddled, so the worn program tries to keep a low profile.
One device to compromise. If malware infects the LAN-of-things gateway, it can tell your pillows to play deadmau5, tell the lights to flash, and tell the security system to upload shower-cam photos to facebook.
(But then, computer viruses that just annoy the user with sounds and flashing text are deader than dial-up. Connected home malware would probably wait silently for bad weather, then lock you out and demand 0.25 bitcoin to let you back inside, or steal your amazon credentials when the refrigerator orders more milk, or turn on everyone's air conditioner at the same instant to DDoS the power grid.)
That's one view, yes. There are others, of course.
From a biography of Alan Turing:
Alan could not stand social chat or what he was pleased to call "vapid conversation". What he really liked was a thoroughly disputatious exchange of views. It was pretty tiring, really. You could take a safe bet that if you ventured on some self evident proposition, as for example, the earth was round, Alan would produce a great deal of incontrovertible evidence to prove that it was almost certainly flat, ovular, or much the same shape as a Siamese cat which had been broiled for fifteen minutes at a temperature of one thousand degrees Centigrade.Alan's hatred of "vapid conversation", his fear of "unsafe" women, and the value he placed on the importance of time--that is to say, his own--did not make him the most amiable or helpful of guests.
The author, Sara Turing, his mother, does not suppose Alan Turing to be misogynist. But it sounds as Alan was not terribly interested in understanding the female sex, much less understanding the "ways of women" well enough to imitate them. I may be doing a disservice in quoting a source that infamously does not grapple with Turing's homosexuality but given that the (original) Turing Test can be misconstrued as analogous to a transgenderist exercise, I feel it's appropriate to question whether Turing was even interested in that sort of thing.
from which I can only infer that Karl MacDorman doesn't consider women to be human.
This may have been Turing's position as well....
Real men (such as Turing) prefer the company of other men.
Actually, some men are fairly practice as pretending to be women in the context of (online) sex, but probably are less familiar with pretending to be women in other contexts.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo
Congress tried to build in a safeguard against Obama making unilateral decisions on releasing terrorist detainees by including language in the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the administration to alert Congress of such moves at least 30 days in advance.
Obama did not follow that law when he swapped five senior Taliban commanders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Sen. Carl Levin (Mich.), the Democratic chairman of the Armed Services panel, said Obama had a plausible legal argument for ignoring the law.
“The White House did not comply with the requirement of the 30-day provision. However, the White House said it had power under Article II of the Constitution to do what it did,” Levin said. “I’m not a court that’s going to decide whether or not under Article II the commander in chief has the power to move this quickly even though Congress said you’ve got to give 30 days notice.”
So in order for Obama to close Guantanamo, not only does he have to determine that the concentration camp is bullshit, but he also has to determine that Congress's impertinence on the matter is also bullshit.
Maybe you should read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution before you blindly accept an outsider's definition of "Hacking".
That was Jerry Pournelle's excuse, too.
I recently read Clifford Stoll's Cuckoo's egg and a good many of "Hunter's" exploits were based on nothing more than known service passwords. You'd think that things would have changed since 1989, but apparently the same mistakes are being made.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
