Ever think about what would happen if someone accidentally loaded the three laws in reverse?

1.A robot must protect its own existence.

2.A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Imagine the consequences of a programmer not double checking his work. We would get one interesting robot.

The article gives a reference to the endangered claim. I checked it out and it looks like the giant armadillo in South America is endangered. The common nine banded Armadillo that we find across the south is not endangered.

Reminds me of the Mohole Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole

Shouldn't they power the helmet with a lemon first?

These numbers look like they are for a brute force attack that goes thru each possible combination. One thing that can change this is if the hacker first tries a list of the top 1000 passwords and then just tries the dictionary. Most people stick to lowercase and they like to use something simple they can remember. There are common passwords and then there are people who just use normal words. Mixing the case and putting some special characters or numbers will reduce the chance of this technique working.

The idea of using a delay between attempts is a good one. I wish more places used it. It would turn that first number of 10 minutes into millenia of work.

Another idea I have heard of is creating a list of landmine passwords. These passwords, if anyone tried to use one to get in would lock the account. A user would not ever be allowed to enter one of these as their password. If someone tries to use a brute force attack they would be sure to hit one of these landmines. You create millions of them. Odds are the users will only encounter a few of them. A brute force would hit them all over the place. These need to be changed on a regular basis so a hacker cannot compile a list of them.

I feel very sorry for her. I see nothing evil in her intentions. I have heard so many parents say that they would do anything to help their kids. This is an example of a parent who did just that.

If I had been sitting on the jury I would have found in favor of the grandmother as well. If it had been a normal cup of coffee then it would have been different but one that was served extremely hot is asking for trouble. On top of that McDonald's had been warned about it and they ignored it.

I actually played a game with a guy who flipped the table over when he lost. Really was a pain because we now had to sort out all of our decks that were scattered on the floor. The flip side of this guy was he was the biggest gloater in the world when he won and he usually won, although sometimes it was with using less than reputable tactics like tapping 4 islands but then casting a spell requiring 6 blue mana and then hoping no one would notice. He claimed it was part of the game. He said it was all legal if he could get away with it.

Now, they need a card on there for the player who thinks he knows what he is doing but in reality his tactics are far too complicated and layered to possibly work against any kind of straight forward plan. That was me. I had one deck that I could get infinite mana. However, I had to get like 6 different cards in play to make it happen. By the time I got half of them there I was wiped out by a weenie horde.

Ok, I have to say it even though I will be despised for it.

I for one welcome our new Singing Mouse overlords.

I use it all of the time when I am writing code. I try to use all caps to designate commands and lowercase for variables and mixed case for literals. It is quite common for me to be writing a program and respond to an IM in all caps because I forgot to kill the caps lock.

Craig,
Football is full of little tricks like these. They will work once and then everyone will remember them for a few years and no one can get it to happen again. Eventually everyone forgets about it and someone tries it again. All of the coaches know about these things and will cook up a new one every now and then.

Jenjen is right about it only working once. If that team tries it again any time in the next year or two they will probably have to cart a quarterback off of the field with injuries.

Rumson,
I bet the judge wanted the jury to rely on the actual court transcript rather than their notes which would not be a part of the official record in case there was ever an appeal. I wonder if the case you were on was a retrial where the defense attorney got a prior conviction appealed due to the lack of access to juror notes.

As for you name, it reminds me of "Paint Your Wagon". Lee Marvin played Ben Rumson. One of his best characters.

The book of Job does mention a "behemoth", however it could just as easily be describing a rhino or a hippo (both are known to have existed at the same time as man). Jumping to the conclusion that is a dinoaur and then saying that humans and dinosaurs co-existed is silly.

As for the bible and dinosaurs, there are a couple of other mentions (That could just as easily describe some other modern day animals), but if dinosaurs and man co-existed and if the bible is a complete history of man on this planet up until about a couple of thousand years ago then the book should be filled with dinosaur references. However, it is not. Dinosaurs would have made a very huge impact on the lives of humans. The predators, the ones we would have hunted, the scavengers, the ones that would have been domesticated, the use of dino droppings as fertilizer, the use of dinosaur parts in various rituals, the stealing of eggs, the raising of dinosaurs, and tons of other things that would have happened if dinos and humans coexisted are not described in the bible. The bible spends a lot of time describing a lot of other mundane things. However, it does not describe any real human/dinosaur interaction. There is no way around it, the bible does not describe a world at any point where humans and dinosaurs coexisted.

Man, they forgot Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd from "Diamonds Are Forever".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_henchmen_in_Diamonds_Are_Forever#Mr._Wint_and_Mr._Kidd

Who else has the MacGyver theme going on in their heads now?