Ihan ensimmäisenä, Stanley Kubrikin “2001: Avaruusseikkailu”, ehdotti että meillä olisi jo 9 vuotta sitten ollut ensimmäisen cryostaasiset nukkumatilat, keinoäly joka kykenisi verbaaliseen interaktioon ja lopulta kääntymään ihmistä vastaan. Sekä avaruusasema kuussa. Kunpa oliskin.

Terminator (1984)

Cameronin klassikko, vuodelta 84, joka lukuisten inkarnaatioiden aikana onnistui muuttamaan alkuperäisen vuoden 1997 maailmanlopun vuoteen 2004. Tuplahuti siis. Honda nyt osaa jo melkein tehdä kävelevän robotin, mutta iPhone 4 taitaa olla teknologian vihamielisin edustaja.

1984 (1984)

Tämä Orwelin vuodelta 1949 peräisin oleva, elokuvaversio, oli jo ilmsetymisvuonnaan väärässä. Ja nykyään taidetaan olla lähempänä huxleyn dystopiaa. Kuten Stuart Mcmillenin sarjakuva kertoo.

Pako New Yorkista (1981)

Kehtaan myöntää että tämä oli lapsena suosikki elokuviani. Kurt Russelin esittämä, kolmannen maailmansodan veteraani ja antisankari, Snake Plisken seikkailemassa vuoden… …1997 New Yorkin vankilasaarella.

Akira (1988)

Lisää maailmanloppuja, tai no ainkain vuoden 1988! jälkeisen ydinsodan aikaa, koska tiede ja teknologia jo 22 vuotta sitten meni liian pitkälle.

Demolition Man (1993)

Opettavaan cryo-uneen, jääpalassa, Los Angelesin sota-alueella tapahtuneesta välikohtauksesta vuonna 1996, jep. Saa tosin nähdä tuleeko vuoteen 2032 menessä Californian kuvernööristä vielä presidentti.

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The imposssible problem

Here’s a problem that *sounded* impossible… I almost regret posting
the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over
drinks at a conference. :-) The story is slightly altered in order to
protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring details, and
generally make the whole thing more entertaining.

I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago
when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.

“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”

“What’s the problem?” I asked.

“We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. “Come again?”

“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated.
“A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.”

“Um… Email really doesn’t work that way, generally,” I said, trying
to keep panic out of my voice. One doesn’t display panic when
speaking to a department chairman, even of a relatively impoverished
department like statistics. “What makes you think you can’t send mail
more than 500 miles?”

“It’s not what I *think*,” the chairman replied testily. “You see,
when we first noticed this happening, a few days ago–”

“You waited a few DAYS?” I interrupted, a tremor tinging my voice.
“And you couldn’t send email this whole time?”

“We could send email. Just not more than–”

“–500 miles, yes,” I finished for him, “I got that. But why didn’t
you call earlier?”

“Well, we hadn’t collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now.” Right. This is the chairman of
*statistics*. “Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look
into it–”

“Geostatisticians…”

“–yes, and she’s produced a map showing the radius within which we
can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles. There are a number
of destinations within that radius that we can’t reach, either, or
reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius.”

“I see,” I said, and put my head in my hands. “When did this start?
A few days ago, you said, but did anything change in your systems at
that time?”

“Well, the consultant came in and patched our server and rebooted it.
But I called him, and he said he didn’t touch the mail system.”

“Okay, let me take a look, and I’ll call you back,” I said, scarcely
believing that I was playing along. It wasn’t April Fool’s Day. I
tried to remember if someone owed me a practical joke.

I logged into their department’s server, and sent a few test mails.
This was in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, and a test mail
to my own account was delivered without a hitch. Ditto for one sent
to Richmond, and Atlanta, and Washington. Another to Princeton (400
miles) worked.

But then I tried to send an email to Memphis (600 miles). It failed.
Boston, failed. Detroit, failed. I got out my address book and
started trying to narrow this down. New York (420 miles) worked, but
Providence (580 miles) failed.

I was beginning to wonder if I had lost my sanity. I tried emailing a
friend who lived in North Carolina, but whose ISP was in Seattle.
Thankfully, it failed. If the problem had had to do with the
geography of the human recipient and not his mail server, I think I
would have broken down in tears.

Having established that — unbelievably — the problem as reported was
true, and repeatable, I took a look at the sendmail.cf file. It
looked fairly normal. In fact, it looked familiar.

I diffed it against the sendmail.cf in my home directory. It hadn’t
been altered — it was a sendmail.cf I had written. And I was fairly
certain I hadn’t enabled the “FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES” option. At a
loss, I telnetted into the SMTP port. The server happily responded
with a SunOS sendmail banner.

Wait a minute… a SunOS sendmail banner? At the time, Sun was still
shipping Sendmail 5 with its operating system, even though Sendmail 8
was fairly mature. Being a good system administrator, I had
standardized on Sendmail 8. And also being a good system
administrator, I had written a sendmail.cf that used the nice long
self-documenting option and variable names available in Sendmail 8
rather than the cryptic punctuation-mark codes that had been used in
Sendmail 5.

The pieces fell into place, all at once, and I again choked on the
dregs of my now-cold latte. When the consultant had “patched the
server,” he had apparently upgraded the version of SunOS, and in so
doing *downgraded* Sendmail. The upgrade helpfully left the
sendmail.cf alone, even though it was now the wrong version.

It so happens that Sendmail 5 — at least, the version that Sun
shipped, which had some tweaks — could deal with the Sendmail 8
sendmail.cf, as most of the rules had at that point remained
unaltered. But the new long configuration options — those it saw as
junk, and skipped. And the sendmail binary had no defaults compiled
in for most of these, so, finding no suitable settings in the
sendmail.cf file, they were set to zero.

One of the settings that was set to zero was the timeout to connect to
the remote SMTP server. Some experimentation established that on this
particular machine with its typical load, a zero timeout would abort a
connect call in slightly over three milliseconds.

An odd feature of our campus network at the time was that it was 100%
switched. An outgoing packet wouldn’t incur a router delay until
hitting the POP and reaching a router on the far side. So time to
connect to a lightly-loaded remote host on a nearby network would
actually largely be governed by the speed of light distance to the
destination rather than by incidental router delays.

Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell:

$ units
1311 units, 63 prefixes

You have: 3 millilightseconds
You want: miles
* 558.84719
/ 0.0017893979

“500 miles, or a little bit more.”

Original author unknown

Helsingissä on noiden lisäks ainakin katuun maalattuja valvontakameroita. Jatkossa pitää tarkkaavaisemmin kattoa seiniä.

- Gogacolaa, 1,5l pullo
- Mämmiä saatana! (saatavana) mainos kaupan ikkunassa
- Mansi- ja mustikoita (aivan huippu!)
- Äidinpakastus pusseja
- Roilerinleike
- Naistennahka hanskat
- Kodinkoneliike mainostaa: Pakastinarkku ja ruhonleikkaaja
- lasten päästä vedettävä sänky
- Abbelsiineja
- Joulukusimyynti
- Mahdolliset puutteet ja virheet hinnassa huomioitu
- Tamppoonitarjous, koot mini, maxi ja meedio
- Äitiys-hortsit
- Kissanliha pullia
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- Torin kahvilanpitäjä mainostaa: Luteeton piirakka (Gluteeniton)
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>>
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MAINOKSIA LEHDISTÄ, TV:stä

Kuolinilmoitus lehdessä: Syvästi kaivaen, lastenlastenlapaset
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01) Badgers Badgers Badgers

02) Lightning Bolt

03) Play Him Off Keyboard Cat

04) Drinking Out Of Cups

05) Star Wars Trumpet

06) Autotune The News

07) Don Hertzfeldt’s “Rejected”

08) Bear attack local news

09) Snow Driving

10) Blood

11) Texts From Last Night

12) Canceled World Of Warcraft Freakout

13) Jesus Held Hostage

14) Chubby dances to Beyonce Single Ladies

15) Simon’s Cat

16) Maru And The Small Box

17) Maru And The Big Box

18) Crying Sorority Girl

19) Shoes

20) Christian Bale Freak Out

21) Ladder Promo Goes Wrong

22) Home Shopping Ladder Blooper

23) Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video

24) Tom Cruise Scientology Video

25) Reporter And Anchor Fight On Live TV

26) Apache

27) Lip dub of Flag Pole Sitta

28) Brokeback To The Future

29) Drunk History Vol. 1

30) Otter’s Holding Hands

31) Recordable Cylinder accident

32) End of Ze World

33) What What In The Butt

34) Nintendo 64

35) Mark Gormley’s “Without You”

36) Hamster Mug Shot

37) 7-Year-Old Takes Car On Joyride

38) S*** My Dad Says

39) Alice

40) Ninja Cat Comes Closer While Not Moving!

41) Seven Legged Spider

42) Show Me Your Genitals

43) Cat On A Roomba

44) Denny Blaze Average Homeboy

45) Aleksey Vayner’s Impossible Is Nothing

46) Kittens Inspired By Kittens

47) Inmates Dancing To Thriller

48) 2 Girls 1 Cup Grandma Reaction Video

49) Two Cats Talking To Each Other

50) LonelyGirl15

51) The Show with Ze Frank

52) Slap Chop Rap

53) F*** My Life

54) Dick In A Box (Uncensored)

55) Jonathan Coulton

56) Red House Furniture

57) Turtle Has Sex With Shoe

58) Bizkit The Sleep Walking Dog

59) Stains The Cupcake Dog

60) Interior Crocodile Alligator

61) Surfer On The News

62) Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

63) Photobombers

64) Baman Piderman

65) Boxxee

66) Inspired Bicycles By Danny MacAskill

67) Monkey Waiters

68) Homemade Waterslide

69) Breakdancing Baby

70) Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along

71) Perfect-o-date

72) Dude Perfect (Amazing Basketball Shots)

73) JK Wedding Entrance Dance

74) Yes We Can

75) Her Morning Elegance

76) The Chairperson Falls

77) Noah Takes A Photo Of Himself Every Day For 6 Years

78) The Fall Of Edgar

79) Sweedish TV Host Pukes

80) I Can Break These Cuffs

81) WHOAHHHH!!!

82) Crazy Frog Brothers

83) Spiders On Drugs

84) Peter Pan Guy

85) I Kiss You

86) Big Dog

87) UALUEALUEALEUALE

88) Banana Phone

89) XKCD

90) Wii Fit Hula Girl

91) You Suck At Photoshop

92) Canon Rock

93) One Red Paperclip

94) Million Dollar Homepage

95) Look At This F***ing Hipster

96) A Vodka Movie by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric

97) How To Start A Dance Party

98) Seeing My Dog The Day I Got Back From Afghanistan

99) Hamster On A Piano And Pop Corn

Lisää väärinkäyttö ohjeita, mua ainakin on facebookissa useasti ärsyttänyt se että kaikkia kavereita ei voi kutsua ryhmään tai tapahtumaan mukaan. On tilanteita jossa valitse kaikki mahdollisuus yksinkertaisesti helpottaisi elämää huomattavasti.

Kaikkien valitseminen onnistuu suhteellisen vaivattomasti kun vaan muistaa että facebook on suureksi osaksi koodattu javalla. Tämä mahdollistaa javascript puukotukset suoraan selaimen URL kentästä. Boratin sanoin, Great success.

Pienen pohtimisen jälkeen päädyin seuraavanalaiseen koodipätkään tuon valitse kaikki toiminallisuuden toteuttamiseksi.

javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Ohjeet asiaan vihkiytymättömille, alku olettaa että olet jo valmiiksi ryhmässä tai eventissä johon haluat kutsua ihmisiä.

1. Valitse invite friends to event kotimaisella kielelläsi.

2. Tyhjennä selaimen URL rivi

3. Liitä tältä sivulta kopioimasi koodinpätkä URL  kenttään

4. Lähetä kutsu kaikille kavereille.

Siinä kaikki taas tältä kertaa.

Originally published: 12/28/09, 12:10 PM EDT
By Jeff Houck

If there was an award for best quote of the year, our money would be on Richard Fisher, the director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division.

Fisher was interviewed in October by National Public Radio after NASA scientists discovered a mysterious ribbon of hydrogen around our solar system.

The layer, a sort of protective barrier called the heliosphere, shields us from harmful cosmic radiation. Its existence defies all expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.

Fisher’s response: “We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”

In other words: We don’t know what we don’t know until we know that we don’t know it.

Life is funny that way. You think you’ve got the world wrapped up in string, only to watch some bit of news come along to unravel your comprehension of how things work.

One thing we did expect: that 2009 would be full of strange and wonderful revelations.

A prediction for 2010? Same thing as this year, only different.

Here’s a list of stuff we culled from 2009 that may have come as a surprise:

1. Domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and use them to find food.

2. Grumpy people think more clearly because negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking.

3. High cholesterol levels in midlife are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia later in life.

4. Analysis of Greenland ice samples shows Europe froze solid in less than 12 months 12,800 years ago, partly due to a slowdown of the Gulf Stream. Once triggered, the cold persisted for 1,300 years.

5. One mutated gene is the reason humans have language, and chimpanzees, our closest relative, do not.

6. Obesity in teenage girls may increase their risk of later developing multiple sclerosis.

7. A fossil skeleton of an Aardonyx celestae dinosaur discovered in South Africa appears to be the missing link between the earliest dinosaurs that walked on two legs and the large plant-eating sauropods that walked on all four.

8. Women who have undergone successful breast cancer treatment are more likely to experience a recurrence if they have dense breast tissue.

9. Babies pick up their parents’ accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.

10. Surfing the Internet may help delay dementia because it creates stimulation that exercises portions of the brain.

11. The oldest known silken spider webs, dating back 140 million years, were discovered in Sussex, England, preserved in amber. The webs were spun by spiders closely related to modern-day orb-web garden spiders.

12. Scientists have discovered how to scan brain activity and convert what people are seeing or remembering into crude video images.

13. Pumpkin skin contains a substance that inhibits growth of microbes that cause yeast infections.

14. Hormones that signal whether whales are pregnant, lactating or in the mood to mate have been extracted from whales’ lung mucus, captured by dangling nylon stockings from a pole over their blowholes as they surface to breathe. (This method could allow scientists to study whales without having to slaughter them.)

15. The higher a patient’s body-mass index, the less respect he or she gets from doctors.

16. The blue morpho butterfly, which lives in Central and South America, has tiny ears on its wings and can distinguish between high- and low-pitch sounds. The butterfly may use its ears to listen for nearby predatory birds.

17. The ochre starfish or sea star pumps itself up with cold seawater to lower its body temperature when exposed to the sun at low tide. It is equivalent to a human drinking 1.8 gallons of water before heading into the midday sun, scientists say.

18. The eyes of the mantis shrimp possess a feature that could make DVDs and CDs perform better. By emulating this structure, which displays color wavelengths at all ranges, developers could create a new category of optical devices.

19. The calmest place on Earth is on top of an icy plateau in Antarctica known as Ridge A, several hundred miles from the South Pole. It is so still that stars do not twinkle in the sky because there is no turbulence in the atmosphere to distort the light.

20. The thrill of driving a sports car makes the body produce more testosterone. The findings suggest a biological explanation for why some men buy a sports car when struck by a “midlife crisis.”

21. Remains discovered in China of a flying reptile named Darwinopterus could be a missing link between short-tailed pterodactyls and their huge, long-tailed descendants.

22. Bagheera kiplingi, a jumping arachnid from Central America, is the first known vegetarian spider. It eats nectar-filled leaf tips rather than other animals.

23. A massive, nearly invisible ring of ice and dust particles surrounds Saturn. The ring’s entire volume can hold 1 billion Earths.

24. A new chemical compound that mimics the body’s ability t o fight bacteria could be added to cleaning detergents to prevent bacterial infections in hospitals.

25. Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. The fungi, discovered in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico, glow constantly, emitting a bright, yellowish-green light.

26. Hormones in oral contraceptives might suppress a woman’s interest in masculine men and make boyish males more attractive to her.

27. Women who revealed about 40 percent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up. Any more than 40 percent and the signal changes from allure to one indicating general availability and future infidelity.

28. Communities of 850 species of previously undiscovered insects, small crustaceans, spiders, worms and other creatures were found living in underground water, caves and micro-caverns across Australia.

29. The human body emits a glow that is 1,000 times less than what our eyes can detect.

30. If you’re trying to attract a partner, an athletic body helps, but a good-looking face is more important.

31. Cockroaches hold their breath for five to seven minutes at a time through a respiratory system that delivers oxygen directly to cells from air-filled tubes. One reason they hold their breath may be to prevent their bodies from getting too much oxygen, which could be toxic to them.

32. Earth was bombarded in 2008 with high levels of solar energy at a time when the sun was in an unusually quiet phase and sunspots had virtually disappeared.

33. Scientists have discovered female eggs in the genitalia of a third of all American male smallmouth bass and a fifth of their largemouth cousins. Female bass occasionally show signs of male testes in their reproductive organs.

34. Nearly all animals emit the same stench when they die, and have done so for more than 400 million years.

35. Previously unknown molecules called hydroxyl radicals are produced by nature and are believed to act as cleaning agents that scrub away toxic air pollution in Earth’s atmosphere.

36. A new species of giant rat was discovered in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea. At 32.2 inches from nose to tail and 3.3 pounds, it’s thought to be one of the largest rats ever found.

37. Differences in body odors produced by people who are more prone to insect bites show they have lower levels of fruity-smelling compounds in their sweat than those who are resistant to mosquitoes.

38. A chemical component in broccoli can protect the lining of arteries from blockage that leads to angina, heart attack and stroke.

39. The length, curl and texture of a dog’s fur are controlled by only three genes.

40. The speed of U.S Internet broadband lags far behind other industrial nations, including Japan, Finland, South Korea, France and Canada.

41. Polar bear skulls have shrunk 2 percent to 9 percent since the early 20th century. It’s the result, scientists theorize, of stress from pollution and melting habitat.

42. A mysterious disease that killed off more than a third of American honeybees in 2007-08 may have been caused in part by a virus.

43. A group of deep sea worms dubbed “green bombers” are capable of casting off appendages that glow a brilliant green once detached from their bodies. The tactic is believed to be used by the worms to confuse attackers.

44. A flesh-eating pitcher plant that grows more than 4 feet long can swallow and devour rats that are lured into its slipperlike mouth to drown or die of exhaustion before being slowly dissolved by digestive enzymes.

45. An orchid on the Chinese island of Hainan gets hornets to spread its pollen by producing an aroma identical to that made by bees under attack. The hornets feed on bee larvae, so when they get a whiff of the alarm pheromone, they head to the orchids figuring bees are inside.

46. More than 350 new animal species were discovered in the eastern Himalayas, including the world’s smallest deer and a flying frog.

47. The spleen is a reservoir for huge numbers of immune cells called monocyte. In the event of a serious health crisis, such as a heart attack, wound or infection, the spleen will disgorge them bloodstream to help defend the body.

48. The Amazon River is about 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.

49. A close relationship with a caregiver can give Alzheimer’s patients an edge in retaining brain function over time.

50. Watermelon is more efficient at rehydrating our bodies than drinking water. It contains 92 percent water and essential rehydration salts.

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