Ugh. I just read that affidavit.

That is some seriously messed up shit. I've seen a lot of crazy stuff on the internet, but that makes me feel a bit sick...

If she actually DID the kill the poor sap, and we find out that she posted about it beforehand on her FB page, everyone would be up in arms... "Why didn't someone do something about it? This could have been prevented!"

We can't have it both ways.

I recently heard an NPR article about this kind of thing.

Using real time MRI, someone could be presented with flashcards of common objects (screwdriver, igloo, flower, etc). When they thought about those objects, certain areas of the brain lit up.

The scientists said that when you think of a screwdriver, there isn't a single "screwdriver" area that lights up. Instead, you think of how it looks, what it feels like in your hand, what it's used for. You might think of construction workers, or your favorite screwdriver in your workbench at home. So lots of areas in the brain "light up".

What's amazing to me is that it appeared to be the SAME AREAS for DIFFERENT people.

As an example of this, the NPR production assistant (who was just visiting and helping with the interview) got hooked up to the MRI and was shown the flashcards. The computer, by looking at her brain, successfully guessed 10 out of 10. Even though the computer "learned" from someone else!

I suppose someone who'd never seen a screwdriver before wouldn't have the same sort of response, so it's probably limited to people with the same cultural backgrounds.

Pretty neat stuff.

ModeX FTW!

http://xkcd.com/606/

"The cake is a lie!"

Well this isn't an argument!

Fascinating.

Up until this moment, I had no idea there was a Penske vs. U-HAUL religious war, complete with fanboys! I learned something today!

Did I miss it somewhere? It would be interesting to know the retail cost at time of purchase for each computer.

I knew/knew of the submitter (Hi Bill!) in college. He had a real hard-on for Atari's. Still does, apparently. :)

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You're lucky! There were a hundred and twenty six of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road...

I lol'd

Put a keylogger on it.

Advertise this fact to people who borrow the computer.

Or not.

I still remember my first Diamond Monster 3dfx video card. I bought it moments after seeing a demo, because it was just that awesome.

I then remember downloading the 3dfx patches for games like Tomb Raider and Interstate '76 (what a great game that was)...

Good times. We take so much for granted these days.

I cracked my first game using "debug" a long time ago... It was "Speedball II, Brutal Deluxe", which remains in the running for Best Video Game Title Ever.

FWIW, I didn't do anything with the crack. It was my own legal copy of the game. I just wanted to see if I could do it. One little NOP, and the whole call to the copy protection subroutine was canceled. Ha!

Did anyone actually read the search warrant? There's a LOT more in there than "using Linux".

Changing grades, hacking into unauthorized systems, non-trivial harassment...

This is one of the most misleading headlines I've seen in a long time.

"And when we wrote it, we checked for overflows, underflows, error status and illegal input."

And you also wrote bugs that you didn't immediately realize you were creating.

Not all bugs are due to laziness. Sometimes people make mistakes, or misunderstand requirements, or the operating parameters change, or, or, or...