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Stupid liberals and Micro$oft crap code.
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Jul 29 07:36 UTC 2003 |
Various pinhead pundits have weighed in on a purported plan by DARPA to
set up a bookie system where up to 10000 experts can bet on such things
as the next major terrorist event. The liberal talking heads are
chattering about how horrible or useless or stupidly moronic or waste of
money, yadda yadda.
Not only is the purported program (personally, I think it is an _Onion_
article behind all the nattering) based on sound scientific grounds that
in the past has found a sunk sub and a lost nuke-bomb but something like
it is already in place at the Dept. of Homeland Security for example
although privately funded. I'm sure it is not particularly exceptional.
As of last friday the official word on when a viral or worm exploit of
the M$ RPC dick-stomp was 7 to 10 days. However, the most bet of the
pool where real people put up real money was 5 days. Its like betting
the track favorite to show. Thus all of you running a modern M$ OS have
about 24 to 48 hours to download and install the "service pak". Happy
Hunting. If I wuz to bet, I would bet on the track favorite to show in
that race. If I were to bet in the case of the Pentagon terrorist line
being accurate if such a program of collective intelligence of 10K area
experts ever gets off the ground assuming its not an _Onion_ in the
first place - I would bet the track favorite to show.
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gelinas
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Jul 29 13:39 UTC 2003 |
Heinlein used/demonstrated that technique in _Friday_: Ask an intelligent,
capable person to prove/disprove that the outbreak(s) of the Black Plague in
the Middle Ages were the result of conspiracy. Give her some time to look
into the matter, then wake her up in the middle of the night, from a sound
sleep, and ask, "When will plague next break out?" The answer is likely to
be accurate, because based on a lot of information processed in an
"interesting" way.
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