Yeah, except your Cisco-and-NSA-compromised router with the "if pktaddress=nsa.gov then allow" rule hidden and permanently on will just pass it and not log or tell you anything... As a plus, your Microsoft-and-NSA-compromised systools won't show the traffic, either.
This is obviously nonsense to you and me, but now the NSA thinks this is a viable vector! Imagine all the billions of tax $$ they will now waste researching and trying to crack it!
This is what we need - more crackpot theories of infection/subterfuge vectors to keep 'em busy.
Yes, they do. They use hardware acquisition modules (A/D) then use windows apps and touchscreens for the UI so response time is not important. These things cost $20,000.00 or so, give or take $10K.
Oh, I don't know, who calculates an extra four hours to get through the security theater at the airports?
Twelve years ago, THAT would have been a joke.
Most had 3 types, rolling ball, pendulum and slam switches in various places. Yeah, in unattended locations you could sometimes get away with putting matchbooks under the legs but it would move the pendulum that much closer and make the tilt that much more sensitive, but it would counteract the greedy asshole location owners who jacked the hell out of the back legs to make the average game time less than 30 seconds. THAT was like playing pachinko!
I used to love Xenon too, one of the first talking games, and one of the first to use an "upper layer" (tube/ramp) table layout.
"Try for Tube Shot!"
You obviously never mastered tilting. The only way to play pinball prior to the mid 1980's was to learn to use "english" or nudging to make the game more than a "pachinko" experience.
I was lucky enough to have a Dragon's Lair game to evaluate! Set up for free play in my office no less
There were several PC versions of the game made, most sucked because they were 16-color graphics (or less!) even in the days of V/SVGA. They finally made a decent port of it eventually. Check some of the abandonware sites like theunderdogs, etc. you can probably find a copy floating around.
Maybe pointless nowadays, but if you have the time or inclination, you can walk through it and learn the sequences for free, at least.
My vote is for pinball. The randomness makes every game unique, whereas the other games are either repeating scenes or levels and once you learn them by rote, all the fun and interest is gone.
Employee-Employer Loyalty (and vice versa) DIED the same day that "Personnel" became "Human Resources".
Go ahead, you can quote me...
Funny the way that works...
Funny the way that works...
Everyone knows Dimondium is crap! Dimondillion is the way to go...
You remember the whole Mayan calendar thing, and some other cosmic alignment that occurred sometime around then as well. Much to everyone's disappointment, the world did not end either of those times...
Sou you can hang yourself after you realize you just wasted your life.
Theeeeyyyyyyre Baaaaaaack! At least around Chicago area. Twinkie the Kid rides again!
But they are scaled down! They are about 2/3 of their former size. Probably to make the caloric claims sound less outrageous, but they taste the same.
I also am getting tired of the zombie crap, the world didn't end in 2012 - get over it, already...
My rule #46:
The number of skeletons in [most famous person]'s closet is usually directly proportional to how sanctimonious or pious they act in public.
Illinois has also been doing this for several years, especially around the Chicago area.
There are some locations where they have signs up stating that "No Toll is Being Taken" and others that are not marked. The transponders they used to use had displays and beeped when accessed, I imagine that's why they put up signs, people used to notice accesses. Of course, the new replacement ones do not have any external indicators that they are being polled so that allows them to interrogate them anytime silently.
They are now also interrogating them at small antenna sites between the major toll gates for traffic flow analysis, but AFAIK they are not using them anywhere but on the tollways. It is not known if they are gearing up to do speed measurement or anything nefarious with them, I don't think they can get away with that since not all vehicles have them.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
