...so far is 3 hrs 49 min.

I don't understand how searching for known CP files on Gnutella is an illegal search. It could be a lack of technical understanding on my part, but I thought of it like this:

There's an officer looking for users of the new getuhigh drug. If the officer stops everyone to search them for getuhigh, I understand that that's an illegal search. If the officer stops and searches only those people who are yelling out to the general public "want to buy some getuhigh?, I've got some right here," then that wouldn't seem like an illegal search.

Now suppose there's an officer looking for CP on the Gnutella file sharing network. Let's say the officer has a special program, hackunow. If the officer uses hackunow to search the entire computer (not just the shared files) of everyone on Gnutella, I could see that as an illegal search. If the officer searches Gnutella for publicly shared files called herestheCPrighthere.jpg and only then uses hackunow on the specific users sharing those files, that wouldn't seem like an illegal search because those users are publicly announcing that they have CP. If the file has a more generic name ( hereitis.jpg ), then that might be too generic to justify use of hackunow, but wantsomeCPherecomegetit.jpg wouldn't seem to be generic.

I don't understand anything beyond the basic idea of Gnutella as a file sharing network, but don't you have to place whatever you want to share in a folder or specifically tell Gnutella to share a particular list of files? I don't understand how that wouldn't be equivalent to yelling out "here's the CP," "gethuhigh for sale here," etc..

Is this correct?: If the Superman logo is trademarked in the United States, then I can not legally draw a Superman logo and sell it in the United States.

If I drew the Superman logo somewhere outside of the United States, then you bought it from me somewhere outside of the United States, then you brought it back into the United States, would it be legal for you to possess it in the United States?

If I drew the Superman logo somewhere inside the United States, then gave it to you at no charge, would that be legal?

Dammit. I have a Bacon number (2). Now I have to go get my PhD and try to get an Erdos number. I can't beat the current lowest Erdos-Bacon number (4, held by Steven Strogatz), but I could tie it. Unless...If I can get onto a movie with Bacon himself in it, that might put 3 in striking range.

"...blowing orders of magnitude past the original projected 90 day mission timeframe."

Minimum of 2 orders of magnitude. 90 * 100 = 9000, or around 24 to 25 years.

...dealing with telepathic cats.

they care.

...your mother.

Something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage.

My old HD TV was a 1080i CRT model.

I first read the title as 'camels transiting Venus.'

...'Michael Moore' the first time around, which would have been...weird.

Friday, November 2, 2012, 9:33am PST. Just got a call from Rachel.

I get da nuts! I just need a little more time, Squeezle.