Judging from some of the stuff at game cubicle forums, I have some guesses what they could do.
They could use 802.11 and multiple DS's as repeaters. I bet the protocols for DS games won't take up much bandwidth so repeating 20 other packets won't be too bad. You could probably play against people X hops away.
The other thing (something I've already done) is WiFi tracking. It would be relatively easy to do wifi tracking of people based on relative positioning and varying signal strengths. You could create a wifi based compass pointing you to anybody with a DS nearby (given 3 people with DS nearby). This could make for some interesting discovery ideas.
There was some cellphone game that was big in Japan that was on Slashdot awhile back that used real places (based on cell tower "gps") to affect game play. This could be another application of a similar principle.
This could be real fun if dealt with properly. I'd be impressed if they get this down right.
The article at osnews.com ran PearPC v0.1 and had a Finder infinite loop (last 15 minutes) which has been fixed since then. Pear PC 0.1.1 FPU: fixed fmaddx and friends (That means your Finder will no longer crash-loop)
Unfortunately it doesn't mention anything about the dock loop issue.
until i saw the video. Interesting concept in how it works, but I guess any two eyeBloggers can't talk to each other and expect it to work or talk to anybody wearing sunglasses either. Not to mention people talking when they aren't making eye contact. I'm surprised they aren't recording always (a la Steve Mann and his Wearable Computer camera) and associate the eye contact with a pitch of a persons voice to tag potential conversation that occured pre- or post-eye contact; if that's possible of course. I saw the "attentive TV"... I guess its great theoretically, but what about people who are afraid of things on tv and close their eyes to avoid it? I'm sure those who fear snakes would be most displeased to have an image of a snake paused when they close their eyes!
Simpsons episode that was on today was Homer as a juror in the "chowder" incident. I wonder if his glasses with drawn on eyes would fool this computation.
I didn't want to think about this but when I woke up in the morning, I had a possible answer. What if it should have been written sideways? D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. would be D.
O.
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You'd expect to see names on a tomb wouldn't you? What if the Holy Grail was actually a bloodline instead of a chalice (san graal vs sang raal ?). Maybe the originator identified a subset of the progeny of Jesus? I'm guessing 4-5 generations span a 100 years and we are looking at 2000 years so somewhere between 80-100 people (assumption: everyone has a child at age 20).
If this were all true, then someone has to trace back their ancestry to 10 forefathers with those initials.
I had a similar idea a few years ago - like August 2000. It was slightly more elaborate though. Basically, it was create a linux distro closely integrated with the internet and other users of the distro. Their would reside a main database that maintained the state of each individual installed OS. The OS would evolve through the following mechanism. Expert users would be allowed to change the OS as they see fit and install drivers as optimally as possible. The beginner users would then be "bound" to a list of experts that have identical matching hardware and one of those experts' "driver profiles" (set of drivers installed and similar configuration) would be used. Same thing could apply for software installation (minus the ultimately required custom sections - hostname, etc.). Intermediate users could switch between expert and beginner as they saw fit to optimize the system. Of course credentials for experts would have to be established and in essence the evolution of the OS is tied directly to the non-malicious nature of the expert and the level of trust that individuals have in others. Changes could be checked by a central body to validate some changes.
Yes yes. I know the privacy issues of this could be overwhelming, but it would have been opt in.
Is this a feasible approach for you? Probably not - multiple distros to hit in your solution.
I thought the poster was talking about formatting his harddrive for a month! I've heard of long format times, and pedantic byte zero-ing but a month is a helluva lot of time to format your harddrive. Unless you had some sort of crazy 400 terrabyte multi-harddrive system on a Pentium 100 that didn't allow you to format simultaneously.
4 years ago, I was thinking of a way to improve DCC transfers across IRC by splitting up files and creating a bit torrent (before BT was around of course) style client that would send the fragment files to various users via dcc and stitch them up later. Of course it would require using specific scripts or a client/bot. I did create a simple IRC client once and implemented DCC transfers. It was easy for me to identify NAT connections on both sides that prevented DCC transfers from working properly - good to know the protocol is finally catching up =)
I just wanted to know how people would react to the following prank that a colleague and I pulled on a brand new hire. I was a coop back then and a new hire was brought into the group. On his first day, after the formal introductions, we took him to lunch at an all you can buffet and encouraged him to stuff himself. Back at work, his boss gave him an extremely boring book and he sat there reading it. The temperature in our office is often cold when the air conditioning kicks in in the summer and wearing a t-shirt, he was a bit cold. Chilled, full and bored, it was 15 minutes before he went to sleep. That's when the fun began. The first dare put out was putting a post-it note on his monitor with the words "How was the nap?". That was simple. The next one I came up with was a little meaner: Take a picture of him sleeping. Still not really mean... someone inevitably falls asleep once during the year. The stakes were raised when I suggested we change his desktop background to the picture of him sleeping. So after transferring the picture to a machine (didn't have a digital camera so had to use a Sony DV camera and find the external card reader), we dropped it into a network share, and the biggest guy(6'4" - yet most nimble amongst us) snuck into his office, balanced between the chair and the desk and changed his wallpaper. 15 minutes later, the victim woke up to find a picture of him sleeping on his monitor and 4 people peering over his cubicle wall waiting for his reaction.
He was shocked but took it well. Some others there stated they would have resigned on the first day if that had happened to them. I'm curious as to how many people feel that way.
I would think twice before saying that... I was hit with something two days ago which replaced my start up page with a rotating url list from inside a "c:\\winnt\\start.chm". I'm not sure if this was due to this exploit or other. I tried checking various AV sites and found no info on that filename.
Well, it's obvious that we should terraform Mars cause like a billion years ago, it was the then present Martians that terraformed Earth. The least we could do is return the favour and continue the cycle. Its well known fact that the Martians nuked themselves in one of their many World Wars and the legacy of life continues on in us. Maybe they some sent small rover here and attached was a bacteria hidden in the airbag somewhere and it was the actual start of life on this planet.
Whoops, my tinfoil hat fell off... let me get that before anything happens...
I guess I wasn't explicit enough. Computer machine multimedia center that doesn't have to download only locally available broadcasts but can get anything from anywhere. Now if everyone shares, you can get all the channels in the world. Imagine a P2P distributed encoder with redundancy. Way more machines than channels so you can redundant encoding of all channels available and share that source. Given a digital source and time sync, multiple encodes could be bit perfect (unlike analog conversions and timing issues as well as static signal loss) and people could share via BitTorrent across the world. Now that's Information being free... will it happen with media conglomerates scratching to hold their own? Probably not.
I wanted on demand television that you could find from mirc downloads and then eventually BitTorrent. The idea would be for a really nice multimedia center attached to your TV that would download shows that you missed or if you couldn't record it (conflicts). Updates for popular programs could be downloaded and installed when the user attempts to update (as opposed to a live update). Harddrive sizes are definitely big enough to handle. The only challenge in my last implementation (which includes HTTP, MiRC XDCC, FTP downloads) was the average joe creating Torrent files so they could share their favourites with their friends. There would need to be some sort of authentication security to prevent everyone from downloading as well.
IF you are into standards and having a uniform webpage in both Mozilla and IE, then you absolutely can't miss Mozie 0.7. It's amazing comparer which supports synchronous websurfing into panels and includes synchronized scrolling... all from the power of an HTA. PS, it's free (hence the plug).
I didn't see the option I chose as a young kid. Often your classmates will see you as smart and the reason to be hated is because you are doing well and the average joe is doing just that: average. So help out the class and make the teacher look good by helping everyone. Approach some people who are struggling and are quiet and once you get the ball rolling, people will approach you. People who feel indebted to you for helping them out in something that you consider extremely simple will reciprocate and help you without you knowing. If you have the "cool kids" saying hi to you in the hallways or sticking up for you, there's a less chance that others will put you down. Kindness begats kindness. Sorta like that movie "Pay It Forward".
The question then becomes is there any SecureMedia card to external CDrom convertors? A custom chip and plug in card converts the securemedia requests to cdrom accesses and bammm, you're in business! Seeing how most cd players can be powered by a AA or 2, power shouldn't be an issue.
"And while the national crime rate rose 2 percent from 2000 to 2001, Chicago rates have dropped 16 percent in the last three years. So all this information can and does prevent crime and save lives"
Beyond the obvious point that multiple factors affect a crime rate (from stricter policy to varying levels of people leaving the city) there is the fact that "all this information can" prevent crime and save lives but it neccessarily does not. Information CAN help but used inappropriately or not used at all could lead to nothing more than an incomplete system being updated for managerial reasons and being shunned by the users of the system. It's just like any other piece of software; it could be extremely beneficial but isn't unless used properly.
"fuck" 13 times "shit" 577 times "BUGBUG" 7462 times
having your source code stolen and released on the net for others to read... priceless.
But seriously, if i had the source (which i don't) and a whole bunch of free time, I'd go through it line by line and find all the errors and post up a patches page and send it over to Microsoft so that they could fix it. Too bad they don't have the balls to just say it's out in the open and ask the community to read it over and fix it for them:P I guess that's primarily because they don't have a strong community.
Sco should verify that their source isn't found in Microsoft sources. Heck, they might find those lines that they reported in the Linux Kernel probably in Win2000 kernel.
Imagine that!
Now we just have to wait for SCO to have a leak and everyone's dirty laundry is out in the open.
First off, I don't think this is security by obscurity. This is just another layer of communications like a handshake is to modems and faxes. Security by obscurity would be a rolling port that was say 22 from 6-9am, 25 from 9-12pm, 31 from time x to time y and so forth. Or perhaps they would give you a randomizer seed set at a January 1st, 12:00am of that year and you run the seed through X times where X is the number of hours since January 1st 12:00am. Even changing the port from 22 to 44 is security by obscurity.
That being said, what's the next application of this? HTTP? Port 80 only if 1337 was hit before. That could be how Slashdot subscribers could login... now that's 1337.
To preempt market backlash about the incompatibility of Xbox 1 games on Xbox 2, Microsoft has decided to set an unprecedented standard. Buy the Xbox2 and for a limited time, get a mail in coupon for a free Xbox 1! Now you have backwards compatability and Microsoft claims more Xbox1's were shipped increasing the market share against the Playstation 2... in 10 years, it won't like like a failure at all!
In the long run, I think Pepsi probably assumed that 20% at least of these winning bottle caps would be thrown out and as such they would have to pay less in the long run. They probably have a sweet deal with Apple pushing around $0.20 a song so would have been $20 million dollars at full value. 20% savings on that ($4mill) would have been worth it considering the advertising value is the same regardless of the number of redemptions.
I'd have suggested mounting the Remote Wonder instead of those other buttons. It's RF based with amazing range and the Mac Software is excellent and customizable down to the app. Plus, if he had made a small mount for it on the dashboard, it could be passed around to the people in the backseats to control the audio as well.
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Judging from some of the stuff at game cubicle forums, I have some guesses what they could do.
They could use 802.11 and multiple DS's as repeaters. I bet the protocols for DS games won't take up much bandwidth so repeating 20 other packets won't be too bad. You could probably play against people X hops away.
The other thing (something I've already done) is WiFi tracking. It would be relatively easy to do wifi tracking of people based on relative positioning and varying signal strengths. You could create a wifi based compass pointing you to anybody with a DS nearby (given 3 people with DS nearby). This could make for some interesting discovery ideas.
There was some cellphone game that was big in Japan that was on Slashdot awhile back that used real places (based on cell tower "gps") to affect game play. This could be another application of a similar principle.
This could be real fun if dealt with properly. I'd be impressed if they get this down right.
They should get the wave file from Unreal Tournament where the announcer says "DENIED!" whenever a packet drops.
Give out the grid in the first edition of next year and then give out the clues a few clues "over time" in the following editions.
:)
That should stretch a 2d puzzle into 3d and not make it complicated
The article at osnews.com ran PearPC v0.1 and had a Finder infinite loop (last 15 minutes) which has been fixed since then.
Pear PC 0.1.1
FPU: fixed fmaddx and friends (That means your Finder will no longer crash-loop)
Unfortunately it doesn't mention anything about the dock loop issue.
until i saw the video. Interesting concept in how it works, but I guess any two eyeBloggers can't talk to each other and expect it to work or talk to anybody wearing sunglasses either. Not to mention people talking when they aren't making eye contact. I'm surprised they aren't recording always (a la Steve Mann and his Wearable Computer camera) and associate the eye contact with a pitch of a persons voice to tag potential conversation that occured pre- or post-eye contact; if that's possible of course. I saw the "attentive TV"... I guess its great theoretically, but what about people who are afraid of things on tv and close their eyes to avoid it? I'm sure those who fear snakes would be most displeased to have an image of a snake paused when they close their eyes!
Simpsons episode that was on today was Homer as a juror in the "chowder" incident. I wonder if his glasses with drawn on eyes would fool this computation.
I didn't want to think about this but when I woke up in the morning, I had a possible answer. What if it should have been written sideways?
D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. would be
D.
O.
U.
O.
S.
V.
A.
V.
V.
M.
You'd expect to see names on a tomb wouldn't you? What if the Holy Grail was actually a bloodline instead of a chalice (san graal vs sang raal ?). Maybe the originator identified a subset of the progeny of Jesus? I'm guessing 4-5 generations span a 100 years and we are looking at 2000 years so somewhere between 80-100 people (assumption: everyone has a child at age 20).
If this were all true, then someone has to trace back their ancestry to 10 forefathers with those initials.
Then again, everyone says I'm full of crazy talk.
I had a similar idea a few years ago - like August 2000. It was slightly more elaborate though. Basically, it was create a linux distro closely integrated with the internet and other users of the distro. Their would reside a main database that maintained the state of each individual installed OS. The OS would evolve through the following mechanism. Expert users would be allowed to change the OS as they see fit and install drivers as optimally as possible. The beginner users would then be "bound" to a list of experts that have identical matching hardware and one of those experts' "driver profiles" (set of drivers installed and similar configuration) would be used. Same thing could apply for software installation (minus the ultimately required custom sections - hostname, etc.). Intermediate users could switch between expert and beginner as they saw fit to optimize the system. Of course credentials for experts would have to be established and in essence the evolution of the OS is tied directly to the non-malicious nature of the expert and the level of trust that individuals have in others. Changes could be checked by a central body to validate some changes.
Yes yes. I know the privacy issues of this could be overwhelming, but it would have been opt in.
Is this a feasible approach for you? Probably not - multiple distros to hit in your solution.
"your machine is formatted at least a month"
I thought the poster was talking about formatting his harddrive for a month! I've heard of long format times, and pedantic byte zero-ing but a month is a helluva lot of time to format your harddrive. Unless you had some sort of crazy 400 terrabyte multi-harddrive system on a Pentium 100 that didn't allow you to format simultaneously.
4 years ago, I was thinking of a way to improve DCC transfers across IRC by splitting up files and creating a bit torrent (before BT was around of course) style client that would send the fragment files to various users via dcc and stitch them up later. Of course it would require using specific scripts or a client/bot. I did create a simple IRC client once and implemented DCC transfers. It was easy for me to identify NAT connections on both sides that prevented DCC transfers from working properly - good to know the protocol is finally catching up =)
I just wanted to know how people would react to the following prank that a colleague and I pulled on a brand new hire. I was a coop back then and a new hire was brought into the group. On his first day, after the formal introductions, we took him to lunch at an all you can buffet and encouraged him to stuff himself. Back at work, his boss gave him an extremely boring book and he sat there reading it. The temperature in our office is often cold when the air conditioning kicks in in the summer and wearing a t-shirt, he was a bit cold. Chilled, full and bored, it was 15 minutes before he went to sleep. That's when the fun began. The first dare put out was putting a post-it note on his monitor with the words "How was the nap?". That was simple. The next one I came up with was a little meaner: Take a picture of him sleeping. Still not really mean... someone inevitably falls asleep once during the year. The stakes were raised when I suggested we change his desktop background to the picture of him sleeping. So after transferring the picture to a machine (didn't have a digital camera so had to use a Sony DV camera and find the external card reader), we dropped it into a network share, and the biggest guy(6'4" - yet most nimble amongst us) snuck into his office, balanced between the chair and the desk and changed his wallpaper. 15 minutes later, the victim woke up to find a picture of him sleeping on his monitor and 4 people peering over his cubicle wall waiting for his reaction.
He was shocked but took it well. Some others there stated they would have resigned on the first day if that had happened to them. I'm curious as to how many people feel that way.
I would think twice before saying that... I was hit with something two days ago which replaced my start up page with a rotating url list from inside a "c:\\winnt\\start.chm". I'm not sure if this was due to this exploit or other. I tried checking various AV sites and found no info on that filename.
I was thinking about this as well. The only rational reason that satisfies both sentences might be that he was arrested during the interview.
Well, it's obvious that we should terraform Mars cause like a billion years ago, it was the then present Martians that terraformed Earth. The least we could do is return the favour and continue the cycle. Its well known fact that the Martians nuked themselves in one of their many World Wars and the legacy of life continues on in us. Maybe they some sent small rover here and attached was a bacteria hidden in the airbag somewhere and it was the actual start of life on this planet.
Whoops, my tinfoil hat fell off... let me get that before anything happens...
I guess I wasn't explicit enough. Computer machine multimedia center that doesn't have to download only locally available broadcasts but can get anything from anywhere. Now if everyone shares, you can get all the channels in the world. Imagine a P2P distributed encoder with redundancy. Way more machines than channels so you can redundant encoding of all channels available and share that source. Given a digital source and time sync, multiple encodes could be bit perfect (unlike analog conversions and timing issues as well as static signal loss) and people could share via BitTorrent across the world. Now that's Information being free... will it happen with media conglomerates scratching to hold their own? Probably not.
But i never have time to implement.
I wanted on demand television that you could find from mirc downloads and then eventually BitTorrent. The idea would be for a really nice multimedia center attached to your TV that would download shows that you missed or if you couldn't record it (conflicts). Updates for popular programs could be downloaded and installed when the user attempts to update (as opposed to a live update). Harddrive sizes are definitely big enough to handle. The only challenge in my last implementation (which includes HTTP, MiRC XDCC, FTP downloads) was the average joe creating Torrent files so they could share their favourites with their friends. There would need to be some sort of authentication security to prevent everyone from downloading as well.
IF you are into standards and having a uniform webpage in both Mozilla and IE, then you absolutely can't miss Mozie 0.7. It's amazing comparer which supports synchronous websurfing into panels and includes synchronized scrolling... all from the power of an HTA. PS, it's free (hence the plug).
It's in the mozillazine.org news page.
I didn't see the option I chose as a young kid. Often your classmates will see you as smart and the reason to be hated is because you are doing well and the average joe is doing just that: average. So help out the class and make the teacher look good by helping everyone. Approach some people who are struggling and are quiet and once you get the ball rolling, people will approach you. People who feel indebted to you for helping them out in something that you consider extremely simple will reciprocate and help you without you knowing. If you have the "cool kids" saying hi to you in the hallways or sticking up for you, there's a less chance that others will put you down. Kindness begats kindness. Sorta like that movie "Pay It Forward".
The question then becomes is there any SecureMedia card to external CDrom convertors?
A custom chip and plug in card converts the securemedia requests to cdrom accesses and bammm, you're in business! Seeing how most cd players can be powered by a AA or 2, power shouldn't be an issue.
"And while the national crime rate rose 2 percent from 2000 to 2001, Chicago rates have dropped 16 percent in the last three years. So all this information can and does prevent crime and save lives"
Beyond the obvious point that multiple factors affect a crime rate (from stricter policy to varying levels of people leaving the city) there is the fact that "all this information can" prevent crime and save lives but it neccessarily does not. Information CAN help but used inappropriately or not used at all could lead to nothing more than an incomplete system being updated for managerial reasons and being shunned by the users of the system. It's just like any other piece of software; it could be extremely beneficial but isn't unless used properly.
"fuck" 13 times
:P I guess that's primarily because they don't have a strong community.
"shit" 577 times
"BUGBUG" 7462 times
having your source code stolen and released on the net for others to read...
priceless.
But seriously, if i had the source (which i don't) and a whole bunch of free time, I'd go through it line by line and find all the errors and post up a patches page and send it over to Microsoft so that they could fix it. Too bad they don't have the balls to just say it's out in the open and ask the community to read it over and fix it for them
Sco should verify that their source isn't found in Microsoft sources. Heck, they might find those lines that they reported in the Linux Kernel probably in Win2000 kernel.
Imagine that!
Now we just have to wait for SCO to have a leak and everyone's dirty laundry is out in the open.
First off, I don't think this is security by obscurity. This is just another layer of communications like a handshake is to modems and faxes. Security by obscurity would be a rolling port that was say 22 from 6-9am, 25 from 9-12pm, 31 from time x to time y and so forth. Or perhaps they would give you a randomizer seed set at a January 1st, 12:00am of that year and you run the seed through X times where X is the number of hours since January 1st 12:00am. Even changing the port from 22 to 44 is security by obscurity.
That being said, what's the next application of this? HTTP? Port 80 only if 1337 was hit before. That could be how Slashdot subscribers could login... now that's 1337.
To preempt market backlash about the incompatibility of Xbox 1 games on Xbox 2, Microsoft has decided to set an unprecedented standard. Buy the Xbox2 and for a limited time, get a mail in coupon for a free Xbox 1! Now you have backwards compatability and Microsoft claims more Xbox1's were shipped increasing the market share against the Playstation 2... in 10 years, it won't like like a failure at all!
In the long run, I think Pepsi probably assumed that 20% at least of these winning bottle caps would be thrown out and as such they would have to pay less in the long run. They probably have a sweet deal with Apple pushing around $0.20 a song so would have been $20 million dollars at full value. 20% savings on that ($4mill) would have been worth it considering the advertising value is the same regardless of the number of redemptions.
I'd have suggested mounting the Remote Wonder instead of those other buttons. It's RF based with amazing range and the Mac Software is excellent and customizable down to the app. Plus, if he had made a small mount for it on the dashboard, it could be passed around to the people in the backseats to control the audio as well.