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Kent Sharkey wrote: "A T-1000. Advanced prototype. A mimetic polyalloy."
You have confused films
Kent Sharkey wrote: electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.
Who said that Matrix was all crap?
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Yeah, I was going with the flexible bit. They said they already had the Matrix batteries, but only rigid before this.
TTFN - Kent
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The Central Intelligence Agency admitted this week that it had been compromised for months in 2013 by a network of high-tech snack thieves. Sweet!
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Fire them?
What a lack of foresight!
Give them a pay raise and a more interesting job. Those guys obviously have potential! 
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Oh, for Pete's sake!
Which moron decided that the machines should work like that? That's like designing cash dispensers that decide "you can have the money" if they can't contact your bank for approval ... 
I'd suggest that the CIA considers charging the vending machine designers for the cost of the investigation...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd suggest that the CIA considers charging the vending machine designers for the cost of the investigation...
I think they already have done that... or frozen their bank accounts, or hacked their production, or...  
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This goes on more than you think. Many e-commerce systems rely on an element of trust. For example do you really think Tesco checks every transaction? However many hundreds of thousands they get every second? Some systems are designed to batch process payments that fall within a given threshold. This snack machine will probably be holding onto the transaction and will process it when the connection comes back. This decision is a balance of the risk of potentially losing 50p for a Mars bar vs the machine being out of action or considered "unreliable" if the network is temporarily down.
There was a similar scam recently where crooks would buy high-value luxury items from airplanes while in flight. As there is no way of maintaining a proper connection while the plane was in the air there is no way to live-verify the cards mid-flight so (as above) the system pends the transaction to be processed when it does have a connection and gives the customer the benefit of the doubt. Obviously when the customer is a crook with a cancelled card or not enough funds the system fails, but it's all about the balance of the potential for fraud vs lost genuine sales.
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It's not just the candy machines. Despite being the canonical example of a race condition that can be fixed with locks in CS 101; ATMs and most other financial events are handled using a transnational eventually consistent model. If you do a stupid and overspend your account they'll get their money back eventually (with a wopping fine to improve the bottom line); and in the mean time avoiding friction from tech glitches is considered more important to the customer experience.
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I wouldn't say disconnecting a cable is exactly "high-tech".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is if you plug it back in when you are done!
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Wow.
Some people...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What would Felix Leiter say?
Did they at least get a Quantum of Solace from their ill-gotten gains?
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In front of a crowd of nearly 2,000, Torvalds spoke with VMware Head of Open Source Dirk Hohndel in one of their famous “fireside chats” about what motivates and surprises him and how aspiring open source developers can get started. "The Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it."
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The state of global cybersecurity is a mixed bag at the moment, according to a new report by Trustwave. Maybe if we buy them a six pack, they'll go away?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they'll go away?
AAt least I hope the ones replacing them do have a bit more of related knowledge...
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Sure, guys with six-packs get women with two-packs.
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The rise and fall of FireWire—IEEE 1394, an interface standard boasting high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer—is one of the most tragic tales in the history of computer technology. Oh, that's what the connector I never used is for
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How else would I connect my Mini-DV camera?
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Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has set a deadline for humanity to save itself. Within the next 100 years, he warns, we need to colonize Mars and other planets. If we don’t, we may not survive climate change, disease, and other versions of doom we’re bound to inflict on ourselves this century. I'm pretty sure I won't survive the next 100 years one way or the other
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You can't save yourself. No matter where you run or jet off too.
Just sayin'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has set a deadline for humanity to save itself.
Save itself? The only thing we will do is postpone it. To destroy ourselves and everything we have around us is in our nature
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Olympus Mons, the largest landfill in the solar system, sounds awesome!
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