I've just started reading Snow Crash to my 10 and 8 year old girls at bedtime. I've been having to elide the larger-than-I-remembered-number of 'fuck*' that I've been running across.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure exactly how I'll deal with the Y.T./Raven/dentata scene on the Raft.
Perhaps James Burke could provide some insight into how to make the show work
[en.wikipedia.org](TV_series)
curse you comment link mangler and you too, wikipedia!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
"... Bust your ass for years to get your creation in front of people. Keep deepening the mythology and adding to the wonder. You will probably fail. Good luck."
That is the most amazingly inspiring anti-inspiration that I've ever seen. Nicely done.
If I had to guess, based on almost no context at all, I would say that this is a 'defense' against SQL injection. For example, if your website is vulnerable (and somewhat horribly written by today's standards), you can type something like the following into a web response form (which would attempt to insert into the comments database):
'"; delete from users;
Where the single quote and double-quote at the beginning attempt to prematurely terminate a SQL string, the semicolon ends the current insert statement trying to record your comment. Then your delete statement empties out all of the records in the user table.
It's only a vulnerability when you allow unsanitized user entries to become part of your commands to the database. There are a number of relatively simple ways to prevent this. Changing "delete" to "del_ete" is a simple way, but a stupid one.
Then again, maybe this isn't the explanation.
PS. Of course, had I refreshed the page before posting, I would have seen any number of pithier explanations of my hypothesis.
Goodness, you missed the most important sentence in the paper:
We found that engaging in reproduction accelerated
telomere shortening.
I guess it really is "Le petit mort".
So what you're saying is that someone actually discovered a precursor to NZT?
I was expecting twenty-six toes on just one paw. Perhaps an unreasonable expectation.
@TheOmbudsman : I think that it wasn't that Curran's boss saw it at random, it was the fact that Curran pitched the story to her boss knowing that she was the story.
I'm not a journalist, but isn't the 'teachable moment' here that a journalist isn't part of the story? By pitching a story centered on you, isn't that a conflict of interest and a pretty clear introduction of bias to any reportage of the story?
Or is your assertion that you only brought up the idea of the story and wanted someone else to observe and comment with journalistic detachment? Even if so, I think you put your editor in a compromised position. Assume that he assigns it to someone else to report and that there truly wouldn't be any bias in reporting. There still could be the perception of bias, which in some ways would be worse than actual bias.
While it's true that it's a good story (given Marketplace's picking it up) it wasn't a story that you should have been involved in telling (since you were the story -- passive or not).
Or is your assertion that you only brought up the idea of the story and wanted someone else to observe and comment with journalistic detachment? Even if so, I think you put your editor in a compromised position. Assume that he assigns it to someone else to report and that there truly wouldn't be any bias in reporting. There still could be the perception of bias, which in some ways would be worse than actual bias.
While it's true that it's a good story (given Marketplace's picking it up) it wasn't a story that you should have been involved in telling (since you were the story -- passive or not).
#corrections Doesn't it take five lines, not four? (hence that whole 'penta' thing)
There were some moments of 'flow' where a sequence of pictures actually gave me the indication of movement towards the goal. I didn't notice the mountains on the horizon until about halfway through. I wonder if there's enough information in the end-of-drive images to be able to animate/interpolate the daily images so that it would give a better sense of progress.
Otherwise, absolutely beautiful images. It made me want to go there.
Otherwise, absolutely beautiful images. It made me want to go there.
They're not using a Pentium with the bug to control the clocks, are they? Rounding error?
C'mon, really? Opening sentence in the original article: "At the height of the Cold War..."
Because the universe keeps making better idiots (like the ones that delete a file accidentally and want it back, or the ones that do crash their Mac by dropping it off a table).
@Barnabus: Fire up a heroku account and write a quick little rails app called "LitterVille".
Then you can sell her gold-plated litter scoops and upgraded rose-scented litter.
Then you can sell her gold-plated litter scoops and upgraded rose-scented litter.
@Rä¢inG73 - ain't nuthin' but a G73 thang: I think that the two vehicles are travelling in the same direction and the photograph was taken by a passenger.
@Goopplesoft: Perhaps you need to take the chill pill yourself. I thought Ezra's comment was intended to be funny, and I found it so.
If, however, Ezra was serious, then... then... hm. I still think you were still the one taking things too seriously.
If, however, Ezra was serious, then... then... hm. I still think you were still the one taking things too seriously.
@ForrestWhitakersLazyEye: What do you mean "can't wait"? That's already a requirement. See, I just did.
@Thunderclees: You know, size isn't everything...
