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Dilbert Hiding On Your CPU

Posted by Zonk on from the they-need-hobbies dept.

Case_Argentina writes "Interesting article and photos on News.com about a guy who does microscopy photography discovering hidden images in computer chips. The images, made by tiny wires connecting the deeper layers of the chip, were left there by engineers leaving messages to competitors, or just having plain fun. Snoopy, Daffy Duck, Dilbert, Dogbert and lots of silicon characters and images can be seen at The Silicon Zoo." Update: 10/15 06:27 GMT by Z : As some readers have pointed out, if history serves you can look forward to reading about this again in 2007.

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  1. Quite Ammusing by Kickboy12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes you wonder where they get the ideas from. Hypothetically speaking, I'd probably mark my chip with a giant penis. Why? The world may never know.

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    1. Re:Quite Ammusing by Baddas · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean a very, very tiny penis... Remember that these are micro or nano scale features.

  2. I've often had the feeling by mctk · · Score: 5, Funny

    that Alice and her fist of death are hiding on my cpu.

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  3. The article is absolutely true. by deft · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once saw the virgin mary in a chip.... I have it for sale on ebay, hoping golden palace will pick it up... or at least a fanatic catholic.

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  4. Re:A very cool site, but it's been around for a wh by Shanep · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was new to me about six years ago, anyway.

    I suppose everyone has heard of this, but for those that may not have... I remember many years ago seeing an image of tracks on Pentium silicon which spelled "bill sux".

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  5. I've seen one of those..... by ndruw1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw the first 3 letters of the word "viagra" somewhere on my motherboard.....oh wait