How many unique such questions can you generate automatically?

Part of the advantage of a CAPTCHA based on random sequences of letters and numbers is that if done right it should be impossible to build a database of all possible CAPTCHAs and correlate them with anything the CAPTCHA generator creates.

Lol, you still had a parallel bus though, or channelized I/O or whatever you big iron types call it, not some CPU-driven molasses-based interface, right?

Yeah, with that super slow CPU driven bit-banged 3-wire bus connecting them and the 4K of RAM in the 1541 you could parallelize like it was 1899.

Citation needed. What spinning HDD uses wear leveling? Unless you mean sector sparing, but that's something different.

Or I guess it would not use any data network if it didn't contact a server. In the Slashdot tradition I haven't RTFI.

Because this would not use any traceable/loggable data network and may work in a situation where there is the cover of noise.

Maybe creation will just be so easy and commoditized that it isn't worth it to try to do it as profitable activity. Doesn't mean people won't do it. They'll do it for fun, or because they themselves need something. I'd love it if it was so easy to create a program I need that I could do it on my own without having to hire anyone or rely on someone else to come up with the idea and try to charge me for it. I don't ever see this happening, of course, but if it did, it's not a bad thing.

There isn't always a need for a middle man and no real reason to have one if one is not needed.

Nothing stopping you from using a PC as a router. 2 NICs + Linux or BSD, and some knowledge about how their respective packet filtering tools work, and there you go.

It is involved, and requires lots of networking knowledge, but a lot of fun.

how much longer until I can install Debian on my SIM card?

SSH over PPP.

Because I like transmitting and receiving at .56kbits/sec.

Barcodes aren't that difficult to decode. If you can't get a barcode reader, a program could likely easily decode it from a scanned image.

+1 Paperbak

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

> Tiled Resources

So basically 3D text mode?

I'll take my -1 Troll with cream and sugar, please.

Retrogression.

Here are some problems with that:

- Did you pay with a credit/debit card? If so, that shit's logged.
- Did you modify your appearance to foil the likely Internet-connected security camera watching the cashier? If not, evidence of your purchase is available there.
- Did you take the car you normally use to the store? If not, it's possible parking lot security cameras have identifying information on you, including a license plate number.
- Cell phone towers are at least capable of logging the towers and RSSI of MS's (i.e. cell phones) that communicate with them. It's possible if you've activated more than a couple phones that a pattern of movement, the correlation which could identify you, could be established against multiple IMSI's such as IMEI, ESN, etc. Especially if you use it a lot in single location like your house.
- Certainly the cell phone companies keep logs of the numbers dialed from a particular device. It's possible if you are statistically similar to previous units it can be said that your current phone matches usage patterns and can identify you.
- Sales records may indicate that an unusually large number of $15 cell phones have been bought at one location, revealing someone is trying to hide something.