TRANSACTION LOG FOR VOTE SERVER User authenicated as John Doe, given token #AA-01431940-F294. Token #AA-01431940-F294 was used to vote for canidate Jane Doe. ATTEMPT TO USE TOKEN #AA-01431940-F294 AFTER INITAL VOTE - subsequent vote ignored.
Of course, the next logical step would be: ATTEMPT TO USE TOKEN #1F-00031337-1337 - TOKEN INVALID: have some sort of checksum (like credit card numbers). As well as: ATTEMPT TO USE TOKEN #AA-01431940-F294 - TOKEN NOT YET VALIDATED: if they manage to figure out how to generate working tokens, can't use them until someone authenticates and gets them. That, or you could simply have subsequent votes on the same token CHANGE the vote for that token. -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
My bad - wasn't aware that most EEPROMs are erased one byte at a time; must have been thinking of Flash memory (which is erased in blocks). -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
Though, in most cases, NVRAM isn't really RAM, but a sophisticated EEPROM (in which you can erase specific bytes instead of the entire chip). -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
That's the nice thing: MAME doesn't do this. It emulates the hardware as closely as possible, so it looks and sounds (and, hopefully, feels) like the real thing. MAME is even nice enough to have the option to use special videomodes so you get visible scanlines, making it look even more like the real thing. -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
Actually,.NSF files aren't sound samples, they're programs; chunks of 6502 code (ripped from the ROM with certain subroutines highlighted in the.NSF header) that write to the various registers in the NES CPU to produce the sound. The main problems are that you need a special player to play them (though most newer NES emulators can play them), the player must be accurate enough to play it properly (some games do rather odd things that just happen to work properly on the Real Thing), and you need to be an expert at 6502 assembly to be able to rip one. Though they are nice and small:). -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
I don't know about EPROMs erasing themselves, but I believe Capcom CPS-x (unsure) cabinets held the game code in battery-backed RAM in a grey box that would drop the voltage if you tried to open it. A nice way to copy-protect the game (you open it, you erase it), but it also means that once the battery dies, the game is gone (self-erase). -- Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
though electrolysing [very] dilute sulfuric acid has the nice effect of giving you hydrogen and oxygen, which you can then burn back into water again. --
...until the spent nuclear fuel somehow manages to leak out into the soil. And knowing nature, it will happen. And there goes the nice solution. The only nice solutions today are using wind, water, or geothermal power, though fusion looks to be promising (if we can manage to get more energy out than we put in just to keep it going). --
Okay, so I was wrong about liquid nitrogen, but liquid Helium is definitely going to make your semiconducting CPU a superconductor, which will result in your CPU not working very well. --
As for proving the impossibility of His existence:
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. --
Semiconductors don't work very well as superconductors. And I believe liquid nitrogen is cold enough to make them start superconducting. Then again, I could be wrong... --
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Isn't Minnesota west of Michigan? (i.e. over to MN as opposed to up)
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if (ismoderator(reader)) hidemessage(this);
ATTEMPT TO USE TOKEN #1F-00031337-1337 - TOKEN INVALID: have some sort of checksum (like credit card numbers).
As well as:
ATTEMPT TO USE TOKEN #AA-01431940-F294 - TOKEN NOT YET VALIDATED: if they manage to figure out how to generate working tokens, can't use them until someone authenticates and gets them.
That, or you could simply have subsequent votes on the same token CHANGE the vote for that token.
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My bad - wasn't aware that most EEPROMs are erased one byte at a time; must have been thinking of Flash memory (which is erased in blocks).
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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
Though, in most cases, NVRAM isn't really RAM, but a sophisticated EEPROM (in which you can erase specific bytes instead of the entire chip).
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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
That's the nice thing: MAME doesn't do this. It emulates the hardware as closely as possible, so it looks and sounds (and, hopefully, feels) like the real thing. MAME is even nice enough to have the option to use special videomodes so you get visible scanlines, making it look even more like the real thing.
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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
Actually, .NSF files aren't sound samples, they're programs; chunks of 6502 code (ripped from the ROM with certain subroutines highlighted in the .NSF header) that write to the various registers in the NES CPU to produce the sound. :).
The main problems are that you need a special player to play them (though most newer NES emulators can play them), the player must be accurate enough to play it properly (some games do rather odd things that just happen to work properly on the Real Thing), and you need to be an expert at 6502 assembly to be able to rip one.
Though they are nice and small
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Your friendly neighborhood mIRC scripter.
I don't know about EPROMs erasing themselves, but I believe Capcom CPS-x (unsure) cabinets held the game code in battery-backed RAM in a grey box that would drop the voltage if you tried to open it. A nice way to copy-protect the game (you open it, you erase it), but it also means that once the battery dies, the game is gone (self-erase).
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2*H2O(l) + [2*Na(aq)] + 2*Cl-(aq) -> H2(g) + Cl2(g) + [2*Na(aq)] + 2*OH
though electrolysing [very] dilute sulfuric acid has the nice effect of giving you hydrogen and oxygen, which you can then burn back into water again.--
It's also possible that they just memorized the strings themselves or merely copied them from their rootkit documentation.
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2*Na(s) + 2*H2O(l) -> 2*NaOH(aq) + H2(g)
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...until the spent nuclear fuel somehow manages to leak out into the soil. And knowing nature, it will happen. And there goes the nice solution.
The only nice solutions today are using wind, water, or geothermal power, though fusion looks to be promising (if we can manage to get more energy out than we put in just to keep it going).
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Okay, so I was wrong about liquid nitrogen, but liquid Helium is definitely going to make your semiconducting CPU a superconductor, which will result in your CPU not working very well.
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As for proving the impossibility of His existence:
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
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Oh well, my bad. But I believe LN2 causes other problems with the CPU (or so I've been told)...
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Semiconductors don't work very well as superconductors. And I believe liquid nitrogen is cold enough to make them start superconducting. Then again, I could be wrong...
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...a Beowulf cluster of these?
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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If you try to hack the software to get rid of the banners, they'll start charging you $10/month.
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Not certain if this pertains to only Winfire e-mail accounts or e-mail accounts anywhere (if it's the latter case, eww...)
All that, and you have to put up with the ads. Anything else I missed?
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Huh? What? I...I don't know that...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGGHHHHHHH!
(as he is thrown into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)
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I've seen plenty of odd ideas for genetic engineering in science fiction books, and now they have taken a tiny step closer to reality. I can imagine people trying to engineer the perfect sports player - enhanced muscular development and endurance. Then comes the down side - people could start engineering the perfect warriors....
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You're right. We call them script kiddies (or crackers). Unfortunately, most news sites either have never heard of a script kiddie or they think people will read cracker as biscuit, so they use the word hacker instead. They figure it's close enough.
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My guess is that the typo (ASCII versus ASCI) in timothy's article was the reason CmdrTaco's article survived.
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Nike gets sued for having their domain hijacked and therefore having some ISP suffer from all the extra traffic.
:)
This doesn't quite make sense.
Thank god people weren't thinking this way back in February, or the targets of mafiaboy's flood would have been sued for the same reason.
Unless they were and I just wasn't paying attention...
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Look on the bright side: your home access is probably nowhere near as expensive, unless you've got some ridiculous ISP which charges by the minute (i.e. more than $1 per minute).
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