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Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner

Posted by timothy on from the time-on-hands dept.

leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder Jeff Breidenbach of PARC has made GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, GNU Chess and DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..."

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  1. Checkmate! by gpinzone · · Score: -1, Troll

    I win!

  2. CZ3C#M4T3, Y00 100Z3, 5UX0R! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Firstus postus, beeeeeotchae!
    I am the owner of UNIX!
    Bow down and worship my 'l33t c0d1ng 5ki115!





    pleeeeeease?!!!




    Mom said I could have first post!

  3. Wow! by tomakaan · · Score: 1, Troll

    It never ceases to amaze me what worthless (but cool) things people come up with when they have time on their hands and technology to waste. Don't you all work!!

  4. Re:Is there anything like Slashdot only good? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you enjoy bland groupthink from 15-year-old whiny Libertarian lawyer wannabes, I would recommend Kuro5hin.

  5. Re:Solomon-Reed Article text (slashdotted) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    (Barry A. Cipra is a mathematician and writer based in Northfield, Minnesota. Rob Malda is a fat linux zealot with no marketable skills from Potipsco, New York)
    *cough*
  6. other uses for the brand gnu eyecon0meter(gpl) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that's right, when you're done playing with yourself, ucann take a moment to cypher out whois going to be the victims of the hollowcost planned buy the Godless greed/fear based corepirate payper liesense softwar gangster nazis from upon the pacific crest annex of capitollist hill?

  7. No one wants you here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go back to France.

  8. Play Go instead . by Thinkit3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's far better. You can't be a nerd without playing Go.

    --
    -Libertarian secular transhumanist
  9. This is the problem with Linux by FatAssBastard · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have all these (admittedly talented) programmers spending all this time on worthless projects when they should be spending time on something worthwhile, like a consistent user interface, easy OS install, or a decent media player.

    Until the Linux Community learns this very important lesson, Linux will continue to be relegated to second class citizen status to superior OS's like Windows XP or MacOS X.

    --
    /.: why the hell am I here?
  10. Warning do not use this program ! by Krapangor · · Score: -1, Troll

    Due to the viral GNU GPL license everything you put on the scanner becomes open source if you use this program.
    The main GNU leaders believe the intellectual property has no justification and must therefore turned into open source at any possibility.
    Furthermore it's very likely that SCO will claim ownership of everything you scanned (this includes your wife and cat) due to the Unix IP violations in the Linux kernel.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
  11. MOD PARENT DOWN AS PLAGIARIST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mean people suck.