On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:13:25 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Deep in the brain, well underneath the level of modern languages and
> consciousness, there is a deeper "machine language" of the brain. If you
> can write instructions in this machine language, you can control
> people's brains. Back
alex23 wrote:
> On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
>> or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
>> the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
>> witches.
>
> While I
On 24/12/2014 9:50 PM, alister wrote:
what feels like 3 or 4 chapters in & it is still trying to set the scene,
an exercise in stylish writing with very little content so far.
even early scifi written for magazines on a per word basis were not this
excessive (because if they were they would proba
On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
witches.
While I love SNOW CRASH, I do think it
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:20:10 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
their free-tier micro instances and
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-)
>>>
>>> How do yo
Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:50:22 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
>> or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
>> the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:50:22 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
> or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
> the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
> witches.
Yo
On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
>>> their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-)
>>
>> How do you know it won't create console ou
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
>> their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-)
>
> How do you know it won't create console output that stroboscopically
> infects you with a
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