That was stupid of me. For some reason I was on Slashdot when I meant to do a Photoshop contest on Fark.

Not Gilstrap!

I can't escape the feeling that anyone brought back in this manner would be living in vain.

Maybe NASA would have a use for them...

Something to do with an active electrical pattern, firing neurons, etc.? Brain-dead but was never other than brain-dead...

http://terminallance.com/2015/06/30/terminal-lance-386-the-birth-of-a-safety-brief/

"Up To" is a weasel word/expression. It doesn't actually mean anything, or at least nothing useful to the consumer. It means marketing can claim pretty much whatever they like. I can have a store with thousands of items, with a single item that is 90% off, and I can truthfully say that my products are "up to 90% off." A carrier can offer terrible data speed accept for a customer standing right next to one of their towers and marketing can still truthfully say "up to 20 Gbps." It's only meaningful/useful if it's "At Least..." instead of "Up To..."

But then a competitor would only have to find one place, anywhere, just on the outer edge of a carrier's range, where the data connection is intermittent, dipping under 20 Gbps, then the competitor could show that the carrier does not offer at least 20 Gbps.

The car did not hit people because the owner didn't pay for an extra feature. The car hit people because the driver made an error, assuming the car had a feature the car did not have.

Get stuck while offroading? It's not the car's fault you didn't buy the 4WD version.

Damage the engine by filling up with diesel instead of regular gas? It's not the car's fault you didn't buy the model with the diesel engine.

Injured because your car didn't notify the manufacturer when it was in an accident? It's not the car's fault you didn't pay for the accident monitoring service.

IBM releases the Z9M9Z...

...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.