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A rare scientific law means it is settled. For most of them their are theories
The problem most people have is confusing Scientific Theory and pundit "theory" (mind the quotes). The two are not the same -- I even question Commander Data's overuse of the word theory in his many musings. I think he was sometimes a little slack in his application, but that's just a theory.
Do they know what Quantum means?
Does it matter? Verizon doesn't. (eg: "FiOS Quantum")
You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.
You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.
I considered that but, if it was sarcasm, it actually wasn't well executed and some people really don't know that some NICs support MAC cloning/changing, so I replied.
Conveying sarcasm in writing is hard to do well. Simply stating a contrary fact/opinion in a reply, like 'Because a MAC address cannot be cloned" hoping the reader knows the truth and assumes the writer does too doesn't cut it. There needs to be some clue that the writer actually knows the truth. When speaking, this is usually done through tone and inflection - which is hard to do on the page. In this case, a better attempt would have been, "Ya, well, it's not like a MAC address can be cloned with a few simple commands."
Because a MAC address cannot be cloned
Sure it can, though not all NICs support that. Google it.
All sharks know is that Alice, Bob and Eve are delicious. [Chomp, chomp, chompity chomp.]
Laser-Based Quantum Crypto is "Unbreakable"
Sharks: 1
NSA: 0
Coffee from pods is an affront dignity anyway. Get a proper espresso machine, or use a press.
Besides, Dolphins and Orcas are horrible Baristas. Wait, what kind of "pods" are we talking about?
It looks like something out of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, except more curvaceous and birdlike.
So. Like Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Jetpacks make sense if you can get them to work.
As would many, many other things, like Warp Drive and the G Spot.
Geo Networks runs the cables along the roof of the sewers, avoiding any 'waste' issues
The Internet is a series of tubes sending digital crap to your home, that runs through a series of tubes sending physical crap away from your home.
The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.
On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...
I had three cars totaled while they were parked by cell phone users
That's what you get for letting cell phone users park your cars.
Wayland waylaid; now way late.
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language.
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure.
...instead of "special-purpose scripting languages" like Emacs
One of the least informed statements I've ever read on
Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.
Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one. -- Jack Hurley