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Researchers Reprogram Voting Machine To Run Pac-man
Philom writes "Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that electronic voting machines can be reprogrammed to steal votes, so when researchers Alex Halderman and Ari Feldman got their hands on a machine called the Sequoia AVC Edge, they decided to do something different: they reprogrammed it to run Pac-Man. As states move away from insecure electronic voting, there's a risk that discarded machines will clog our landfills. Fortunately, these results show that voting machines can be recycled to provide countless hours of entertainment."
Doesn't that mean we'll need an audit trail to verify a player's score?
"Corporate Dollars Reprogram Voters To Elect PACmen"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
We don't need people in government going around chasing ghosts.
We need to do something about the threat from space invaders.
At some point you can't get away with calling yourself researchers. What next "Researchers strap fireworks to cat"
If Namco doesn't like it they'll send the letter anyways. If if you're legally ok, is it worth hiring a lawyer to go to court and fight it? Namco (like most large companies) keeps one on staff, so sending him to court is just them using a paid for asset.
The sad truth is that in today's society, if a corporation says to stop doing something, it's usually smart to stop it. You can't afford to prove your innocence.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Actually I think we are in more danger from Asteroids than from Space Invaders.