In fact, just bury a server with a power supply (or tie it right into the grid), and have it broadcast an open SSID. That way you don't even need to unbury the time capsule. If you're married to this "25 years" idea, you can always put on a cron job that won't turn on the wireless for 25 years. (Just make sure to fix any date rollover bugs first)
Of course, by then, you'll be old. And from my experience, old people love to force others to look at pictures of their family. So what you should do, when the time is right, is ssh into the machine, and configure it to take advantage of every single wireless exploit that exists at the time. If anyone walks by with a vulnerable wireless device, have your time capsule take it over, and force the device to do nothing but display your photos, all the while while your voice shouts "LOOK AT MY KIDS! SHE WAS SO CUTE THEN!" (with the occasional GET OFF MY LAWN)
Basically, you have developers colluding with testers. The developer intentionally drops a minor bug into the system (inverting an AND and OR, for example). The tester magically "finds" it. The tester gets the reward, and splits it with the developer. Repeat until the system is scrapped.
My theory is that Google Earth does take good pictures of cows. The resolution isn't good in rural areas where cows normally reside, and it isn't economically feasible to take high-res photos of every single farm. So what they did instead was invested a bunch of money taking one really, really accurate cow picture. Then they did a global search and replace, replacing all the fuzzy cows with their one HD Cow. That cow happened to be facing north-- and thus, all cows seem to be facing north
For the lightning round, I'll suggest they only looked at one herd of cows, and since cows are herd animals, they were all pointing the same direction.
I don't have the newspaper article on hand, but a couple years ago in Toronto, someone was avoiding tolls on the 407 (Ontario's only toll road). They put their license plate on hinges, and attached a piece of string to it that ran through the car to the front. A tug on the string, and the plate flipped up.
And he would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling-- well, Ontario Provincial Police doing a blitz on the highway specifically looking for speeders, dangerous drivers and toll-evaders.
Name one painting, song, sculpture, poem, or play that has the intellectual depth of a sophisticated and intellectual video game.
Painting: There isn't a game on this planet that's broken my brain as much as Relativity.
Sculpture:After seeing some of Joe Fafard's work this weekend, I'm still waiting for some of his sculptures to follow me home and stare at me.
Photo: You didn't request the name of a photo, but I'll still provide one, because Man vs. Tank sure says a hell of a lot
Poem: Following the theme, I dare you to try to look at a poppy in the same way after reading In Flanders Field
Play: Oh, dear frog, where to even begin with this one. Hell, I'll just plug one of my sister's plays for this one, Bigger Than Jesus, if for no reasons other than even as someone who isn't religious, I found it enlightening-- and because the end of the airplane scene still haunts me.
Song:Rather than point out yet another example, I'll simple refer to the massive cross-pollination of video games and music. Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major, aka Raindrops, used in conjunction with a certain video game trailer
Nah, man, that's Bloody Mary armed with a Department of Homeland Security badge. Just don't say Bloody Mary's name three times, though. 'cause then she'll appear WITHOUT the badge. And then you get your ass whooped, because Bloody Mary is a )@*&#$*()U#J
A multi-shot camera would help. But so would multiple people. They could all work together as a team. Except not a huge team, because if one got caught, they could all get caught. What you should do, with your photographers, is divide them up into small teams. Each team would have no knowledge of the other team. These teams, or "photographer cells" could then get multiple pictures at multiple angles, without ever compromising the photography project as a whole.
Nah, they wouldn't use an already published ones. But you can expect posts like these to Yahoo Answers and Dr. Math at the rate of 12/hour:
ReasonBot07281 asks:
plz hlp need answer. whut iz proof for even numz?! not hmwork just wanderin the answers plz send quick tnkx!!!!!!!!!!1
Which will only get better once the users of said forums catch onto what's going on, and l33tteam's mechanical reasoner starts returning answers like "2=1+I like to lick balls". "For all x, there exists an n where the owners of this machine are fags".
represents a 'security threat.'... he was told he couldn't even photograph the lobby of a Hyatt Hotel."
Goddamnit, that totally fucks up my plans. Without those pictures, how the hell am I supposed to draft my plan to bomb the Hyatt Hotel? Knowing what the lobby looked like from one fixed angle based off photos from some random dude was totally vital to my ability to plant the bomb properly. Now how in the world could I possibly ever get hold of such pictures?
0 define ONE = 1
1 define TWO = 2
2 define ZERO = 0
3 define THREE = 3
10 my_I = ZERO
20 get irate email
30 post lame article
40 if my_I == ONE then my_I = TWO
50 if my_I == ZERO then my_I = ONE
60 if my_I != THREE then goto 20
70 goto exit
Because really, crappy articles deserves crappy pseudocode
How are they able to tell if I've accurately solved an unknown. If the word is "Yesterday" and I enter "Fucktard", not only will the society get some very wrong data, but I'll also have passed the CAPTCHA without entering the actual letters.
if it's an account that you use frequently, you'll also find out quickly that something is wrong, because your password will no longer work
This can actually bite you in the butt in certain cases. It used to be a way to abuse eBay. You and JoeScott are bidding on the same item, and it's coming down to the final minutes. You log out, then try to log in as JoeScott. Of course, you don't know his password. That doesn't matter. Just try five times. After that his account is locked out. It's a trivial matter for him to unlock it, but by the time he has, the auction is over, and you've won it without a costly bidding war.
Sure this may have been temporarily solved by not showing the usernames of opposing bidders-- and by bringing the Holy Hammer of Hell down on any IP that matches both "winning bidder" and "losing bidder logging in 10 times in a row"-- but we're a creative bunch and I'm sure we can figure out how to use the Password Recovery feature as a DoS attack.
I got locked out of my bank account because of that BS once (it wasn't a password reset though, it was a 2 step authentication, so it asked that on TOP of the password)
I don't play many games, but when I do they're either bargin-bin console games, or the occasional pirate ones. I would copy a game if I couldn't find a copy of it anywhere and I couldn't get it easily (such as Resident Evil 2), or because I wanted to try it out (Doom 3, cracked).
Like almost everyone else, I will gladly get a cracked copy of a game if the original has draconian copyright protection on it that prevents me from playing the game. If I know about such methods ahead of time, it can be a deterrent to even buy the game at all.
Now, as for paying for a game, there are two ways I'll do that.
I buy the game from a retailer or from your website if the price is reasonable. I'm not an "early adapter" that will shell out huge bucks to have it "right away". The last release-day game I bought was Mortal Kombat II for the Genesis.
By donation. I can see this being a better "pirate recovery" revenue stream for you. If I received a copy of the game without paying (via friend, pirate bay, whatever), and it's really, really good, I'll probably want to throw you a few dollars. I've done this with musicians and indie-movie makers. I'll send on not an astronomical amount, but a price that to the best of my knowledge is fair and sees you at least as much money (if not more) than what would have been your "cut" from the distributor-chain on a retail sale. (Sending a musician $5-$10 "cash" right to their pockets for a CD, eg). If the game had a message somewhere that was NON-INTRUSIVE* (can't stress that enough) that simply said "If you like the game and want to send me some money, here's how". Have a link to your website, which in turn has a PayPal button, or a place to send checks.
* Intrusive is anything that pops up in game, flashes at me, pre-game nag screens, or anything that delays start-up or game play. The old-style Doom-esque exit screen is fine. A note underneath the "press start to play" screen is fine. If anything shakes, moves or flashes, I'll be looking for a pirated edition. Example: FoxIt's free edition has a small box in the upper-right corner of the screen that changes color every few seconds that says "buy FoxIt Pro" over and over. It ends up in my periphery, and is UNBELIEVABLY annoying when trying to read a PDF. So much so that I just went back to Adobe's reader, and I HATE Adobe.
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Yeah, mean, 'cause like, when I have to do-- y'know, ctrl AND z at the same time-- that's a heavy, man.
My password is the middle step in any profit plan. Now I can't remember what it is. I hope my cookies never expire.
In fact, just bury a server with a power supply (or tie it right into the grid), and have it broadcast an open SSID. That way you don't even need to unbury the time capsule. If you're married to this "25 years" idea, you can always put on a cron job that won't turn on the wireless for 25 years. (Just make sure to fix any date rollover bugs first)
Of course, by then, you'll be old. And from my experience, old people love to force others to look at pictures of their family. So what you should do, when the time is right, is ssh into the machine, and configure it to take advantage of every single wireless exploit that exists at the time. If anyone walks by with a vulnerable wireless device, have your time capsule take it over, and force the device to do nothing but display your photos, all the while while your voice shouts "LOOK AT MY KIDS! SHE WAS SO CUTE THEN!" (with the occasional GET OFF MY LAWN)
You have to be careful not to breed a Defect Black Market
Basically, you have developers colluding with testers. The developer intentionally drops a minor bug into the system (inverting an AND and OR, for example). The tester magically "finds" it. The tester gets the reward, and splits it with the developer. Repeat until the system is scrapped.
I always beat it to get it out of the way early, but won't you know it, twenty minutes later, there it is again.
Oh, I'll play!
My theory is that Google Earth does take good pictures of cows. The resolution isn't good in rural areas where cows normally reside, and it isn't economically feasible to take high-res photos of every single farm. So what they did instead was invested a bunch of money taking one really, really accurate cow picture. Then they did a global search and replace, replacing all the fuzzy cows with their one HD Cow. That cow happened to be facing north-- and thus, all cows seem to be facing north
For the lightning round, I'll suggest they only looked at one herd of cows, and since cows are herd animals, they were all pointing the same direction.
I don't have the newspaper article on hand, but a couple years ago in Toronto, someone was avoiding tolls on the 407 (Ontario's only toll road). They put their license plate on hinges, and attached a piece of string to it that ran through the car to the front. A tug on the string, and the plate flipped up.
And he would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling-- well, Ontario Provincial Police doing a blitz on the highway specifically looking for speeders, dangerous drivers and toll-evaders.
Name one painting, song, sculpture, poem, or play that has the intellectual depth of a sophisticated and intellectual video game.
Painting: There isn't a game on this planet that's broken my brain as much as Relativity.
Sculpture:After seeing some of Joe Fafard's work this weekend, I'm still waiting for some of his sculptures to follow me home and stare at me.
Photo: You didn't request the name of a photo, but I'll still provide one, because Man vs. Tank sure says a hell of a lot
Poem: Following the theme, I dare you to try to look at a poppy in the same way after reading In Flanders Field
Play: Oh, dear frog, where to even begin with this one. Hell, I'll just plug one of my sister's plays for this one, Bigger Than Jesus, if for no reasons other than even as someone who isn't religious, I found it enlightening-- and because the end of the airplane scene still haunts me.
Song:Rather than point out yet another example, I'll simple refer to the massive cross-pollination of video games and music. Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major, aka Raindrops, used in conjunction with a certain video game trailer
Nah, man, that's Bloody Mary armed with a Department of Homeland Security badge. Just don't say Bloody Mary's name three times, though. 'cause then she'll appear WITHOUT the badge. And then you get your ass whooped, because Bloody Mary is a )@*&#$*()U#J
Only if they build them as a regular shaped building, and make all the residents take an Oath of Fealty
I just uploaded a picture of Escher's Relativity, and broke Microsoft.
A multi-shot camera would help. But so would multiple people. They could all work together as a team. Except not a huge team, because if one got caught, they could all get caught. What you should do, with your photographers, is divide them up into small teams. Each team would have no knowledge of the other team. These teams, or "photographer cells" could then get multiple pictures at multiple angles, without ever compromising the photography project as a whole.
Nah, they wouldn't use an already published ones. But you can expect posts like these to Yahoo Answers and Dr. Math at the rate of 12/hour:
ReasonBot07281 asks:
plz hlp need answer. whut iz proof for even numz?! not hmwork just wanderin the answers plz send quick tnkx!!!!!!!!!!1
Which will only get better once the users of said forums catch onto what's going on, and l33tteam's mechanical reasoner starts returning answers like "2=1+I like to lick balls". "For all x, there exists an n where the owners of this machine are fags".
Goddamnit, that totally fucks up my plans. Without those pictures, how the hell am I supposed to draft my plan to bomb the Hyatt Hotel? Knowing what the lobby looked like from one fixed angle based off photos from some random dude was totally vital to my ability to plant the bomb properly. Now how in the world could I possibly ever get hold of such pictures?
0 define ONE = 1
1 define TWO = 2
2 define ZERO = 0
3 define THREE = 3
10 my_I = ZERO
20 get irate email
30 post lame article
40 if my_I == ONE then my_I = TWO
50 if my_I == ZERO then my_I = ONE
60 if my_I != THREE then goto 20
70 goto exit
Because really, crappy articles deserves crappy pseudocode
How are they able to tell if I've accurately solved an unknown. If the word is "Yesterday" and I enter "Fucktard", not only will the society get some very wrong data, but I'll also have passed the CAPTCHA without entering the actual letters.
What are you talking about? That was the most influential period for me. It's when I learn the most important lesson in life: DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY!
This can actually bite you in the butt in certain cases. It used to be a way to abuse eBay. You and JoeScott are bidding on the same item, and it's coming down to the final minutes. You log out, then try to log in as JoeScott. Of course, you don't know his password. That doesn't matter. Just try five times. After that his account is locked out. It's a trivial matter for him to unlock it, but by the time he has, the auction is over, and you've won it without a costly bidding war.
Sure this may have been temporarily solved by not showing the usernames of opposing bidders-- and by bringing the Holy Hammer of Hell down on any IP that matches both "winning bidder" and "losing bidder logging in 10 times in a row"-- but we're a creative bunch and I'm sure we can figure out how to use the Password Recovery feature as a DoS attack.
You mean a "Wish-It-Was" two-step authentication.
Whenever I look at my mailing list requests, some guy with the address fuck@you.com keeps signing up. What does that say?
Hey, you. NO LOAFING!
I don't play many games, but when I do they're either bargin-bin console games, or the occasional pirate ones. I would copy a game if I couldn't find a copy of it anywhere and I couldn't get it easily (such as Resident Evil 2), or because I wanted to try it out (Doom 3, cracked).
Like almost everyone else, I will gladly get a cracked copy of a game if the original has draconian copyright protection on it that prevents me from playing the game. If I know about such methods ahead of time, it can be a deterrent to even buy the game at all.
Now, as for paying for a game, there are two ways I'll do that.
* Intrusive is anything that pops up in game, flashes at me, pre-game nag screens, or anything that delays start-up or game play. The old-style Doom-esque exit screen is fine. A note underneath the "press start to play" screen is fine. If anything shakes, moves or flashes, I'll be looking for a pirated edition. Example: FoxIt's free edition has a small box in the upper-right corner of the screen that changes color every few seconds that says "buy FoxIt Pro" over and over. It ends up in my periphery, and is UNBELIEVABLY annoying when trying to read a PDF. So much so that I just went back to Adobe's reader, and I HATE Adobe.
Do they call you John, the Phisher Man?
Give him a break. He was just trying to think inside the box.
It's like not reading the article, but missing. (Apologies to Adams)