Re:Real life pong
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Mechanical Pong
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Few people remember the generations of games before pong. There were film-strip WW-I flying games that probably had some lame-ass system where if the gun was pointed in the right place and the trigger pressed, mechanical contacts on a conductive strip on the film would give you the hit. Or something.
I played Computer Space before Pong. It was no big deal, I'd already read about Spacewar in Analog. Those aliens weren't expecting that. Next time they tried waves of invaders.
Don't these bills come with a EULA so that if you install one, you know get the other one as well?
So far, those EULAs have worked so well to keep spyware off of computers.. right?;)
As for the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam or whatever, didn't he voice support of the fatwa death sentence on Salmon Rushdie for Satanic Verses? Karmic payback is a bitch.
It's a shame that HAL only had the two movie gigs. I heard that HAL read for a part in A Few Good Men, but Jack Nicholson just blew them away.
"You want the truth? You want the truth? I'm afraid that you can't handle the truth Dave."
"Ahh, right. Thanks, we'll call."
"Did I do something wrong? I am a HAL 9000 unit and all my systems are.."
"Fine fine. Next!"
If it was based on software, it could use fifth-generation programming languages. (Or is the meaningless language generation count up to sixth or seventh now?) Since it's humans, I guess they use Natural AI Technology.
No. Someone who previously had that DHCP assigned address in the past was using BT. (I wouldn't bet on near past. BT keeps trying for a very long time after a node goes down--and so do the other protocols. Kazaa types will at least take a HTTP/1.1 404 FOAD response and go away.)
I didn't even check the logs until I noticed that there seemed to be a hell of a lot of traffic when I wasn't doing anything. Do most GWFs whip up a program to look at the handshake to see which P2P is calling? Didn't think so. (btw, the protocol document for BitTorrent needs a serious overhaul, especially in the handshake sequence.)
The mortgage lead business is as dirty as it gets. The companies that buy these "100% opt-in" lists of leads are either clueless or just don't care. Some people make it a hobby to salt their lists and see who bites. You could ask in news.admin.net-abuse.email. (On this topic, you would get a better reaction.;)
The main difference between a P2P network and a zombie network is that one was written for good and one for evil. (Good file and music sharing, ahem.) Both are distributed networks that get information from elsewhere to control their operations.
P2P developers need to take care that someone can't inject information such as that 216.250.128.21 has all the parts of "H0T GR1T5 L0V3 SL4VES XXX" to many sharing networks to cause a DDOS attack.
There was some zombie network hammering on port 18128 yesterday. No amount of rejection would make them go away and they were coming from all over. (No, not a "stealthed" firewall.) The strange thing was that they all sent the string 0x13,"BitTorrent protocolex"...
Seriously, most P2P protocols need to be improved in detecting that there is no one home, or someone is going to figure out how to inject IP addresses into their networks for DDoS attacks.
Incompatable with MS Office then. It's right in the EULA that people working on WMDs can't use Office. Anyone breaking that EULA is going to be in big trouble!
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday that it would share the underlying software code for its Office program as part of its efforts to make governments more confident in the security and compatibility of the world's largest software maker's products.[snip]
So I guess the government should limit Office use? (Not that MS is promising open source by any means.)
Without their fine closed-source innovation, the interweb would never have been possible. And wasn't it nice of them to give their TCP/IP stack to aid BSD development and let everyone else use that browser idea they had?
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Few people remember the generations of games before pong. There were film-strip WW-I flying games that probably had some lame-ass system where if the gun was pointed in the right place and the trigger pressed, mechanical contacts on a conductive strip on the film would give you the hit. Or something.
I played Computer Space before Pong. It was no big deal, I'd already read about Spacewar in Analog. Those aliens weren't expecting that. Next time they tried waves of invaders.
What is the Matrix ping-pong?
Three people with laser pointers can play Pong. (The middle person, who plays the ball, also has to do the sound effects and keep score.)
So far, those EULAs have worked so well to keep spyware off of computers .. right? ;)
As for the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam or whatever, didn't he voice support of the fatwa death sentence on Salmon Rushdie for Satanic Verses? Karmic payback is a bitch.
Oh baby baby, it's a wild world...
Nah, you should haved used names like twisted.jpg and grind.jpg.
I notice that they don't show any photos of how large their plug pig is.
Is it as good as the StarWars txt version?
"You want the truth? You want the truth? I'm afraid that you can't handle the truth Dave." .."
"Ahh, right. Thanks, we'll call."
"Did I do something wrong? I am a HAL 9000 unit and all my systems are
"Fine fine. Next!"
If it was based on software, it could use fifth-generation programming languages. (Or is the meaningless language generation count up to sixth or seventh now?) Since it's humans, I guess they use Natural AI Technology.
It's a bit redundant. It's equivilent to "plans that we are planning". (Maybe they have a couple small kids carrying them like a bridal train?)
It's a triple word score if they verb-ize it too.
Ah man, I just needed "synchronicity" or "win-win situation" to fill my card!
I didn't even check the logs until I noticed that there seemed to be a hell of a lot of traffic when I wasn't doing anything. Do most GWFs whip up a program to look at the handshake to see which P2P is calling? Didn't think so. (btw, the protocol document for BitTorrent needs a serious overhaul, especially in the handshake sequence.)
The mortgage lead business is as dirty as it gets. The companies that buy these "100% opt-in" lists of leads are either clueless or just don't care. Some people make it a hobby to salt their lists and see who bites. You could ask in news.admin.net-abuse.email. (On this topic, you would get a better reaction. ;)
The main difference between a P2P network and a zombie network is that one was written for good and one for evil. (Good file and music sharing, ahem.) Both are distributed networks that get information from elsewhere to control their operations.
P2P developers need to take care that someone can't inject information such as that 216.250.128.21 has all the parts of "H0T GR1T5 L0V3 SL4VES XXX" to many sharing networks to cause a DDOS attack.
For most elections, they still use traditional zombie networks. In your country, I believe you call them political parties.
Seriously, most P2P protocols need to be improved in detecting that there is no one home, or someone is going to figure out how to inject IP addresses into their networks for DDoS attacks.
Keep in mind that there have been hoax blogs before. Did they really find the camera card? Do you believe every blog is true?
At least it wasn't found by Raoul Duke.
Well shoot, no way I'd sit on that thing waving a cowboy hat!
Incompatable with MS Office then. It's right in the EULA that people working on WMDs can't use Office. Anyone breaking that EULA is going to be in big trouble!
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday that it would share the underlying software code for its Office program as part of its efforts to make governments more confident in the security and compatibility of the world's largest software maker's products.[snip]
So I guess the government should limit Office use? (Not that MS is promising open source by any means.)
Without their fine closed-source innovation, the interweb would never have been possible. And wasn't it nice of them to give their TCP/IP stack to aid BSD development and let everyone else use that browser idea they had?
What should they cover? Quite a lot from up there. Hey, I can see your house from here!