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The black hole draws you inexorably inward. Time slows. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I'd diddle little umdidlie... if she weren't my half-sister. Abortion prevents pedophilia. In more ways than one!   Notice to all users of the Holodeck: There are safety protocols in place that cannot be deactivated without the approval of two commanding officers or the captain to protect users of the Holodeck from potential harm. However, every time the Holodeck is ever used in a nontrivial manner, no matter what the safety protocols say, the Holodeck turns into a deathtrap. Unless you believe yourself to be adept at constructing a forcefield from your communicator and 19th century Earth tools, or you're at the very least not wearing a red shirt, you are strongly advised not to attempt to use the Holodeck until a designer comes up with a safety protocol that doesn't kill you whenever somebody looks at it funny. Even when you're not on the holodeck. Or in the same quadrant. Or time period. In fact, if you are wearing a red shirt, Starfleet may not be the job for you  |
dead emailsI wonder, how many dead email addresses are there out there? And by that, I mean not only how many email addresses just aren't checked any more, but also how many dead people have them? You can get a free gmail, yahoo, windows live (hotmail), yahoo, or other email account and they never close unless you specifically request it, so my question is this: How do dead people's email addresses go away? Or another view: in a hundred years, 80% of the email addresses in any system could be email addresses of dead people that keep accruing spam and nothing else, that keep taking up space on servers for no reason. A similar idea applies to free website hosting. I could make a "geocities" webpage (well, not this century, but something similar... Geocities is like Coke or Kleenex) and it would never go away. It used to be that hotmail accounts would automatically close if not checked every 90 days, but they have since gone to never closing an account unless you specifically request. I made an ICQ account (remember ICQ?) like 10 years ago, stopped using it 8 years ago, but still remember my ICQ number (24869373) so I tried logging in, and all of my contacts were still in the list! The Internet is the ultimate pack rat. At some point, I think we need to give the Internet a stern talking to about cleaning up its room. We don't need more data centers: we need less data, and a good way of cleaning up. No feedback yetLeave a comment |
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