It's asking me for the names of my incoming and outgoing mail server.
The outgoing is often smtp.yourISP.com
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Jon B. - Sep 18, 2005 12:56:10 pm PDT #4546 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2005 1:03:02 pm PDT #4547 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I could lend you a screwdriver.
Jessica - Sep 18, 2005 1:44:15 pm PDT #4548 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hee! Thanks, but I can wait. It's probably something that'll be useful to have anyway.
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2005 4:26:48 pm PDT #4549 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know if anyone here reads Computerworld's Shark Tank, but I just can't get enough of it -- lots of tales of clueless IT users, often management with pointless decisions.
DCJensen - Sep 18, 2005 4:56:24 pm PDT #4550 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Oh Lordy.
"You should have known that users don't follow established procedures, and taken that into account in your maintenance plan."
DCJensen - Sep 18, 2005 6:42:35 pm PDT #4551 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
From Space.com:
September 12Space Elevator Gets FAA Lift
The LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, announced September 9 that it has received a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use airspace to conduct preliminary tests of its high altitude robotic “lifters.”
The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space.
The tests, which are planned for early fall, will simulate a working space elevator by launching a model elevator “ribbon” attached to moored balloon initially up to a mile high. The robotic lifters will then be tested in their ability to climb up and down the free-hanging ribbon, marking the first-ever test of this technology in the development of the space elevator concept.
According to Michael Laine, president of the LiftPort Group in Bremerton, Washington, the FAA go-ahead is a “critical step” in the ultimate developing of the group’s LiftPort Space Elevator concept.
Sean K - Sep 18, 2005 7:01:13 pm PDT #4552 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I love the idea of space elevators, I they they're a bad idea for use on earth. The catastrophic failure of a space elevator brings new definition to the word "catastrophic."
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2005 7:24:36 pm PDT #4553 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In my mind, space elevators fall under the category of "cool stuff that won't happen until after I die." Of course I could be wrong....
(Another of that category is "humans landing on Mars." Latest word is that will happen by 2025 or in the 2030s, but who knows if the proper level of funding can be maintained for that long.)
Sean K - Sep 18, 2005 7:32:58 pm PDT #4554 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm still rooting for Bob Zubrin and the Mars First movement, but why goes to Mars cheap and easy when you can hand out bloated government contracts instead.
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2005 7:36:30 pm PDT #4555 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
At least humans on the moon in the twenty-teens sounds likely. I was too young to remember any of the moon landings except the last one. And the new "heavy lift" booster they're gonna use will be about as big as a Saturn V.
NASA is supposed to release info on the Moon timetable to the public tomorrow. They've already briefed the President and Congress.