I am not sure about shrinking coins, but, it was very easy for me to make about 10 coins Hotter than Hell!!! (Thanks to my 2 yr old son)
Every morning when I leave for work, I grab a handful of change for soda money.
I am at work for around 5 hours when, I suddenly felt like my pocket was going to burn through my pants. I reached in my front pocket and quickly threw out everything I could grab. The burning contents of my pocket landed on the desk and all my coworkers started to look at me like I was some sort of insane madmad (but of course). I looked at the stack of coins that fell on my desk and also I noticed...... 1 rechargeable AA battery.
I had never seen the battery earlierwhen I was grabbing the coins and I was quite oblivious to the impending Solar Flare that was about to go off in my pocket.
I guess during the day, those coins shuffled themselves around until they finally completed the circuit. Once they did..... Owwwww!!!!
A coworker of mine reached out to grab one of the nickels on the top of the pile of coins. It had been 3 or 4 minutes later and quickly found out that they were hot enough for him to yell out in pain too.....:)
I was 10 yrs old when Asteroids showed up at the local arcade. Back then I had to resort to slave labor (Chores/Mowing Lawn) to afford the 25 cents to play video games. It wasn't too long before machine would start to eat my quarters. Luckily for me, as a 10 yr old the arcade attendants woulnt belive I lost my money and would just tell me to go away. I started to keep a tally of what machines were eating my money and how many times they ate it. Over the course of 10 yrs, this list was up to 34 dollars.( I only listed machines where the attendant would not refund my cash).
So any game I download that is currently on that old list of mine was not done so as an act of piracy, rather a REFUND/REVENGE + Interest...:)
Now all those Coke Can Modders out there really have a valid reason to be paranoid.
I can see it now....
Hey man, don't smoke any weed outta that Coke Can, Use the Pepsi one......You know with all these satellites that are tracking Sodacans these days, you can never be sure you aren't a "Winner"
1. Use Sysinternals psexec tool to remotely pop open a browser to a predetermined webpage.
2. If they have Wav file sounding for each of the various sytem events, I copy them to my machine and strench them out with Recorder until they are around 60 seconds long. Or Shorten them if they have long wav files. (This freaks them out)
3. Lock their mouse and keyboard via the registry. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContr olSet\Servi ces\kbdclass\] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current ControlSet\Servi ces\mouclass\] Set the Start Value to 4 to stop, 1 to start. Now when they reboot, No mouse, No Keyboard. (Be careful with this one, if they lose network connectivety, you may not be able to re-enable these easily)
4. Editing their Host file. If you know that they like to go to certain sites, Put that site in their Host file with an IP of a completely different site of your choice.
I highly recommend that you only do this to a good friend and be sure to not do it in a manner that would get you or the victim in trouble (Like violating company computer/network usage policies and stuff)
If MS can patch your Xbox remotely via their PhoneHome features, I wonder how long it will be before someone notices the open door?
I wonder if someone could setup their Modded Xbox as a Sacrificial Lamb. Then setup their sniffer and connect to Xbox live. After analyzing these packets,it may be possible for someone to develop a Virus/Worm that travels around looking to dump a corrupted update onto your Xbox to render it useless....
I have had those thermal receipts end up blank after a few months as well.
I scanned one of the now blank looking receipts into photoshop. I was able to play with the levels adjuster and most of the receipt was readable. I printed out the new one and stapled it to my old faded one. Fortunately I havent needed to return anything recently......knock on wood.....
Now every time that my wife starts giving me that 'idiot scientist' look whenever I pick up a fresnel lense or remove a laser from printers/copiers, I will have just a little more 'Grrrrrrrrrrr' in me when I bite back........
And I for one will do everything I can to NOT pay for this title. I don't want that company making ONE DIME off the dedicated work of a buch of coders and designers they cut.
Ummm..... I guess I understand your logic.
Note to self....
It is perfectly OK to screw someone over as long as you were not the FIRST person to screw them over.......
Bad enough they lost their jobs, now some people will not buy their game as a way of protesting against the company execs (Who I bet still have jobs).
This misguided logic ensures that the coder/developers who lost their jobs never see a kickback from any game sales (Provided they nogotiated royalty payouts when first Hired).
I can still remember back in the days when I would spend countless hours watching a 386 render a fractal in Fractint.
I would always show off all the cool (prerendered) images to my friends. The first thing that most people seemed to say is "kinda looks like a plant growing".....
The same Loons will showcase their true expertise by downloading only the JPGs files rather than pulling down the lossless GIFs. The rest of their night will be used to hit redial over and over trying to get into the Art Bell show. Eager to reveal how they are personally responsible for the term "Idiot scientist".
With these new "MAGIC" components included, I am curious on how long it will take for the following things to happen:
1. MS announcing an embedded version of NT for the Gibson.
2. The developers of products such as Soundforge,Cakewalk *& Protools get preloaded in package deals.
3. Slashdot features an article showing how easy it is to Mod the gibson with the latest Gforce card & monitor, mouse & keyboard connectors.
4. Not satisfied with only supplying the OS for the guitar, MS purchases Gibson.
5. All songs after this will begin with that happening and eternal windows startup wav file.
6. Slashdot post an article featuring the first Linux build for it.
7. A custom neck mod made with a slot for scanning your guitar tab in. (Embedded LED's light up green on frets and turn red on wrong notes)
8. The first Worm makes its rounds looking for predefined sequences and modifies the output based on it. (Ygnwie capped at 12 notes a minute or possibly the always unheard Church guitarist will have their volume adjusted to an audible level)
9. A small number of freshly networked guitar players attempting to break from the norms of society will stop speaking and develop a riff-only based form of communication. (Coincidentally following a profound LSD experience)
10. Actually the previous item may have already happened.
11. Terrorist are accused by homeland security as using embedded messages within a guitar which is reveiled when the correct 80's hair band solo is played.
12. Humans realize their diminishing fun while playing these devices and get back to their musical roots (Fart, Burping & beating on things with sticks)
13. Slashdot post its final article on the subject on the greatest MS Gibson guitar mod of all...... Firewood
During that first day, I was able to see the whole picture. Knowing that our department of 20 people was mostly gone leaving 1 person to man the shop, I used my freshly aquired 6 Sigma knowledge to realize that my skills were needed back at the shop.....
Reminds me of when I was in a college speed reading class, I dropped it after 2 days since I was done.....
Move to my old neighborhood If you want to get away from all anything Electronic, Hitech or basically anything that uses electricity. All you have to do is unlock your doors when you go to sleep.
Then when you wake up in the morning, you won't have any of those pesky electronic devices in your house anymore....(As well as cash, credit cards or food)
http://www.gakusoft.com Has King Kanji (Flashcard Based).
Their Site states...
"KingKanji is an award winning Japanese / kanji flashcard program that emphasizes writing as well as reading. It includes stroke animation and automatic feedback for over 1,200 characters including first through sixth grade Joyo kanji and kana. A flashcard may contain single or multiple kanji and kana along with the English meaning. Over 294 lessons are included and additional kanji lessons can be created using the included Lesson Editor, Microsoft Word XP/2000, or a Japanese word processor. Won 1st place! in the Association of Computing Machinery's Quest for Windows CE contest"
Although it doesn't have Japanese Arabic, it does English rather.
Many of the Wholesale Pharmacuetical distributors use Robotic order filling machines already. I worked for a couple of them a few years ago. I was impressed that they can use the total weight of the box to tell what may be missing due to a jammed machine, a double drop or the wrong item placed in slot by the stocker. I could see pharmacy's using robots, but I would want a phamacist double check my order (Nothing like getting my insulin at room temperature from a robot)
I remember when I first found Msagent and thought I would have it read some webpages for me while I was doing something else. I usually ended up listening to Menu's and index's.
Back when the Dotcom boom was at its height, I was constantly being slammed by my friends for not changing jobs. They would always talk about how now they make 20 to 40 grand more than me and I was being stupid for not quiting my somewhat stable job. For a while, I thought that maybe they were right.
That "I missed my Big Chance" feeling faded quickly once I started noticing those same people asking if I "Wanted frys with that"............
Drug Lab Equipment from http://www.scientificsonline.com/
Help fight terrorism by showing those children featured in commercials on how they can make their own drugs. No longer will poor little Sarah have to feel guilty about how she funded some evil Drug Cartel when she got her last fix......
Errrrrr, Maybe not:)
SuperGlue
Scriptors modifying a Mcafee update to be pushed to the clients accidently placed a directory path in the wrong place in the registry
The SzUser, SzDomain, SzPassword values contained the path c:\program files\virusscan\mcafee
All 15000 clients would pass this to the BDC's & PDC's creating a semi DOS attack on any domain the machines were added too... This one caused many headaches.
One of our techs making modifications to the logon scripts accidentally fatfingered the word REM.
Instead of REM *******.*** John Doe Modified script on xx/xx/xx it read REN *******.*** John Doe Modified script on xx/xx/xx
As the clients would log on the domain, random files would change the word John.
We thought at first that we were experiecing a new unknown virus update. Until the tech who made the error stepped up to the plate and claimed that he had done it....
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking along the lines of a very large amount of Match Heads balled up in Aluminum Foil.........
Weeeee
I am not sure about shrinking coins, but, it was very easy for me to make about 10 coins Hotter than Hell!!!
...... 1 rechargeable AA battery.
..... Owwwww!!!!
:)
(Thanks to my 2 yr old son)
Every morning when I leave for work, I grab a handful of change for soda money.
I am at work for around 5 hours when, I suddenly felt like my pocket was going to burn through my pants. I reached in my front pocket and quickly threw out everything I could grab. The burning contents of my pocket landed on the desk and all my coworkers started to look at me like I was some sort of insane madmad (but of course).
I looked at the stack of coins that fell on my desk and also I noticed
I had never seen the battery earlierwhen I was grabbing the coins and I was quite oblivious to the impending Solar Flare that was about to go off in my pocket.
I guess during the day, those coins shuffled themselves around until they finally completed the circuit. Once they did
A coworker of mine reached out to grab one of the nickels on the top of the pile of coins. It had been 3 or 4 minutes later and quickly found out that they were hot enough for him to yell out in pain too.....
SuperGlue
I was 10 yrs old when Asteroids showed up at the local arcade. Back then I had to resort to slave labor (Chores/Mowing Lawn) to afford the 25 cents to play video games. It wasn't too long before machine would start to eat my quarters. Luckily for me, as a 10 yr old the arcade attendants woulnt belive I lost my money and would just tell me to go away. I started to keep a tally of what machines were eating my money and how many times they ate it. Over the course of 10 yrs, this list was up to 34 dollars.( I only listed machines where the attendant would not refund my cash).
:)
So any game I download that is currently on that old list of mine was not done so as an act of piracy, rather a REFUND/REVENGE + Interest...
SuperGLue
Just Great.....
Now all those Coke Can Modders out there really have a valid reason to be paranoid.
I can see it now....
Hey man, don't smoke any weed outta that Coke Can, Use the Pepsi one......You know with all these satellites that are tracking Sodacans these days, you can never be sure you aren't a "Winner"
Only Users Lose Drugs,
SuperGlue
I have always liked doing the following things.
r olSet\Servi ces\kbdclass\]t ControlSet\Servi ces\mouclass\]
1. Use Sysinternals psexec tool to remotely pop open a browser to a predetermined webpage.
2. If they have Wav file sounding for each of the various sytem events, I copy them to my machine and strench them out with Recorder until they are around 60 seconds long. Or Shorten them if they have long wav files. (This freaks them out)
3. Lock their mouse and keyboard via the registry.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentCont
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Curren
Set the Start Value to 4 to stop, 1 to start.
Now when they reboot, No mouse, No Keyboard. (Be careful with this one, if they lose network connectivety, you may not be able to re-enable these easily)
4. Editing their Host file. If you know that they like to go to certain sites, Put that site in their Host file with an IP of a completely different site of your choice.
I highly recommend that you only do this to a good friend and be sure to not do it in a manner that would get you or the victim in trouble (Like violating company computer/network usage policies and stuff)
SuperGLue
If MS can patch your Xbox remotely via their PhoneHome features, I wonder how long it will be before someone notices the open door?
I wonder if someone could setup their Modded Xbox as a Sacrificial Lamb. Then setup their sniffer and connect to Xbox live. After analyzing these packets,it may be possible for someone to develop a Virus/Worm that travels around looking to dump a corrupted update onto your Xbox to render it useless....
Image booting up your non modded Xbox to.....
Someone has Hexxed your Xbox......
SuperGlue
I have had those thermal receipts end up blank after a few months as well.
I scanned one of the now blank looking receipts into photoshop. I was able to play with the levels adjuster and most of the receipt was readable. I printed out the new one and stapled it to my old faded one. Fortunately I havent needed to return anything recently......knock on wood.....
SuperGlue
I shouldnt of read that...
Now every time that my wife starts giving me that 'idiot scientist' look whenever I pick up a fresnel lense or remove a laser from printers/copiers, I will have just a little more 'Grrrrrrrrrrr' in me when I bite back........
SuperGlue
Ummm..... I guess I understand your logic. Note to self.... It is perfectly OK to screw someone over as long as you were not the FIRST person to screw them over....... Bad enough they lost their jobs, now some people will not buy their game as a way of protesting against the company execs (Who I bet still have jobs). This misguided logic ensures that the coder/developers who lost their jobs never see a kickback from any game sales (Provided they nogotiated royalty payouts when first Hired).
But Officer....., They Stole the car first!!SuperGlue
My thoughts exactly...
Hmm, he just now discovered fractals???
I can still remember back in the days when I would spend countless hours watching a 386 render a fractal in Fractint.
I would always show off all the cool (prerendered) images to my friends. The first thing that most people seemed to say is "kinda looks like a plant growing".....
SuperGlueBooger
The same Loons will showcase their true expertise by downloading only the JPGs files rather than pulling down the lossless GIFs. The rest of their night will be used to hit redial over and over trying to get into the Art Bell show. Eager to reveal how they are personally responsible for the term "Idiot scientist".
SuperGlueBooger
With these new "MAGIC" components included, I am curious on how long it will take for the following things to happen:
...... Firewood
1. MS announcing an embedded version of NT for the Gibson.
2. The developers of products such as Soundforge,Cakewalk *& Protools get preloaded in package deals.
3. Slashdot features an article showing how easy it is to Mod the gibson with the latest Gforce card & monitor, mouse & keyboard connectors.
4. Not satisfied with only supplying the OS for the guitar, MS purchases Gibson.
5. All songs after this will begin with that happening and eternal windows startup wav file.
6. Slashdot post an article featuring the first Linux build for it.
7. A custom neck mod made with a slot for scanning your guitar tab in. (Embedded LED's light up green on frets and turn red on wrong notes)
8. The first Worm makes its rounds looking for predefined sequences and modifies the output based on it. (Ygnwie capped at 12 notes a minute or possibly the always unheard Church guitarist will have their volume adjusted to an audible level)
9. A small number of freshly networked guitar players attempting to break from the norms of society will stop speaking and develop a riff-only based form of communication. (Coincidentally following a profound LSD experience)
10. Actually the previous item may have already happened.
11. Terrorist are accused by homeland security as using embedded messages within a guitar which is reveiled when the correct 80's hair band solo is played.
12. Humans realize their diminishing fun while playing these devices and get back to their musical roots (Fart, Burping & beating on things with sticks)
13. Slashdot post its final article on the subject on the greatest MS Gibson guitar mod of all
Almost Sober,
SuperGlueBooger
During that first day, I was able to see the whole picture. Knowing that our department of 20 people was mostly gone leaving 1 person to man the shop, I used my freshly aquired 6 Sigma knowledge to realize that my skills were needed back at the shop.....
Reminds me of when I was in a college speed reading class, I dropped it after 2 days since I was done.....
SuperGlue
I was only able to attend 1 day of the 6day Six Sigma training.
1/6th Sigma, Leanest of the Lean.
SuperGlue
Wait just a second.....
Unidentified Flying Objects?
Has anyone notified our Homeland Security of this potential threat?
All it takes is a couple of these so called "Ufo's" flying around us and then WHAM!!!!...
If they don't blast a new moon outta us, they will surely rob us of all our valuable plastic grocery sacks.
SuperGlueBooger
Move to my old neighborhood If you want to get away from all anything Electronic, Hitech or basically anything that uses electricity.
All you have to do is unlock your doors when you go to sleep.
Then when you wake up in the morning, you won't have any of those pesky electronic devices in your house anymore....(As well as cash, credit cards or food)
SuperGlueBooger
http://www.gakusoft.com Has King Kanji (Flashcard Based).
Their Site states...
"KingKanji is an award winning Japanese / kanji flashcard program that emphasizes writing as well as reading. It includes stroke animation and automatic feedback for over 1,200 characters including first through sixth grade Joyo kanji and kana. A flashcard may contain single or multiple kanji and kana along with the English meaning. Over 294 lessons are included and additional kanji lessons can be created using the included Lesson Editor, Microsoft Word XP/2000, or a Japanese word processor. Won 1st place! in the Association of Computing Machinery's Quest for Windows CE contest"
Although it doesn't have Japanese Arabic, it does English rather.
Here is the best chemisty set out there....
a s/ 2002/fr1219.htm
.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/quot
Maybe you can get your hands on some of the estimated:
61 Grams of LSD
10,987,000 Grams of Amphetamines
9,501,000 Grams 2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine
Or pick your favorites from the list of Schedule I/II's that can be produced next year in the US
SuperGlue
SuperGlue
Many of the Wholesale Pharmacuetical distributors use Robotic order filling machines already. I worked for a couple of them a few years ago. I was impressed that they can use the total weight of the box to tell what may be missing due to a jammed machine, a double drop or the wrong item placed in slot by the stocker. I could see pharmacy's using robots, but I would want a phamacist double check my order (Nothing like getting my insulin at room temperature from a robot)
SuperGlue
I was wondering the same.
I remember when I first found Msagent and thought I would have it read some webpages for me while I was doing something else. I usually ended up listening to Menu's and index's.
SuperGlue
Back when the Dotcom boom was at its height, I was constantly being slammed by my friends for not changing jobs. They would always talk about how now they make 20 to 40 grand more than me and I was being stupid for not quiting my somewhat stable job. For a while, I thought that maybe they were right.
That "I missed my Big Chance" feeling faded quickly once I started noticing those same people asking if I "Wanted frys with that"............
SuperGlueBooger
Drug Lab Equipment from http://www.scientificsonline.com/ Help fight terrorism by showing those children featured in commercials on how they can make their own drugs. No longer will poor little Sarah have to feel guilty about how she funded some evil Drug Cartel when she got her last fix...... Errrrrr, Maybe not :)
SuperGlue
Ooops, 2nd example....
Scriptors modifying a Mcafee update to be pushed to the clients accidently placed a directory path in the wrong place in the registry
The SzUser, SzDomain, SzPassword values contained the path c:\program files\virusscan\mcafee
All 15000 clients would pass this to the BDC's & PDC's creating a semi DOS attack on any domain the machines were added too... This one caused many headaches.
One of our techs making modifications to the logon scripts accidentally fatfingered the word REM.
Instead of REM *******.*** John Doe Modified script on xx/xx/xx
it read REN *******.*** John Doe Modified script on xx/xx/xx
As the clients would log on the domain, random files would change the word John.
We thought at first that we were experiecing a new unknown virus update. Until the tech who made the error stepped up to the plate and claimed that he had done it....
SuperGlueBooger
No doubt... Lots of things for their Psych Warefare department to play with...
I am Glad the Military Police didnt have these when I was a Army Dependant Tripping on Acid back in Hawaii.......