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One Ring Rules the MIT Dome
Patiwat Panurach writes "The Great Dome of MIT was overtaken on the morning of Monday the 17th by a great golden ring, inscribed in red Elvish with text that translates to: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows."
Compared to MIT's history of frankly, wicked cool Hacks (What the students and faculty at the nerdiest of the nerd schools call prectical jokes) this one is pretty lame. Topical, but lame. See the MIT Campus Police Car Hack for one of the better ever performed.
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The MBTA (The T) is a subway in Boston, but runs as trolley cars in Cambridge. One night, a swarm of MIT students surrounded a stopped trolley car.
And welded it to the tracks.
y Friends Dad was student there at the time. His report is the only evidence I have that this happened. Any one else know about it?
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the lock was the earliest security feature they added to a site(I'm guessing that site was a bathroom or front door at first) and it was the easiest to get past. Even your average 12 yearold can figure out how to pick a lock with the proper tools and a little patience(neither of which that 12 year old probably has). Now we're talking about some guys at MIT. I'm sure that they could get past even a mid to high level electronic lock. I know that I've figured out how to open the electronic locks at my school with nothing more than a bad credit card.
Pat
Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
For you people at MIT, there is a mural of
Middle Earth on the sixth floor of Building 24
painted by yours truely some time ago.
MIT used to have lots of wall murals, but they
come and go.
The new coffee house one in the Infinite Corridor
is neat.
They probably mean building 20, an asbestos-tiled "temporary" structure built in 1943 during World War II that went on to be a vital place of innovation for 57 years. It was finally decomissioned and destroyed this year, but not before MIT pranksters made one last comment: sticking an MIT "discard property" tag on its side, a tag that indicates MIT has dropped it from inventory and the item can be removed. (Usually done for smaller pieces of MIT equipment, of course.)
Information on building 20:
http://tmrc.mit.edu/bldg20.html
After seeing a couple of hacks appear here on /. , I am half tempted to start my own chapter of the Hack group here at the University of Wyoming. Although it would just be a flagrant ripoff of MIT, it might give a couple talented engeneering students an excuse to something (instead of getting drunk!).
Would this bea good idea, or just looked down apon?
Would the University (or any school for that matter) be willing to accept the hack team as one of there own?
How do you recruit people to do it?
And most importantly: How would you fund such a project? Those hacks have to cost some money!
Well just an idea as I search though the hacks done at MIT. I'll look forward to your replies.
~Brandon
One fairly noticable difference is that most Arabic letter connect to each other, while it seems that Tengwar character do the same.
Solution to blink tags: wrap them in another blink tag, with a javascript delay loop, so they cancel each other out