I told him and TOLD him, not to text while approaching the base .. but nooo ...

Toad

Code sure could use some cleaning up (all those "foo's" !!!). But I suppose that (and obvious subroutines) would detract from the musical flow of the thing.

Clever, still.

Apparently no birds were harmed in the making of that video.

We'll probably never see the videos where they were :-)

Suppose, just suppose, you discover that if you tap three times on the side of an old-fashioned one-armed bandit, at a specific place and a specific speed, it pays off!

So you do this ten thousand times, win ten thousand dollars. And the casino finds out.

What's the charge? Wire fraud?

Nooo .. they'll grit their teeth, buy you a drink, and yank every damned one of those machines offline until they get the bug fixed.

So what's different now with this software glitch? And why blame the clever guy who discovered it?

Let the casinos take their hits and learn their lessons. This is NOT criminal, IMHO.

Back in The Day the name McAfee was significant and even important: the first (maybe, haven't looked it up) and certainly the most effective anti-virus product (and free!) when those sorts of problems first began.

Since then, he's just another rich guy who now has managed to get into serious trouble. Not interested, got problems of my own. Which don't involve being suspected of shooting my neighbor or evading local police, thanka verra much.

Screw LinkedIn and the horse they rode in on. If I get one more unsolicited LinkedIn message from some total stranger, I swear to the godz I'm calling in that airstrike the Air Force still owes me.

I know it needs a much greater difference between "hot" and "cold" ends to generate electricity .. but it's VASTLY simpler (e.g., no moving parts at all)!

I remember (vaguely) reading about this, a prototype plant down on one of Cuba's coasts, built in the 30's (?) by an American professor. It was basically a bunch of scrap iron (old hot water radiators?), cold end hanging down in a nearby handy ocean trench, hot end in some pools of water bulldozed out on the coastline, was just a test but generated 10KW .. presumably forever! (Or until the iron rusted away.)

I think it was in an Analog Science Fact and Fiction article back in the 60's, but can't seem to find it. But it always struck me as a remarkably simple, foolproof way to generate electricity! You can find modules and devices available on the Internet, but with very small output, really only toys. And then these guys, http://tegpower.com/, at a somewhat larger (and expensive) scale.

Odd that you don't hear more about it though, except for the occasional plutonium-powered satellite power supply and that sort of thing.

A hawk? I'm not impressed. A 35-foot pterodon, now we're talking! Plus one that big could carry missiles, huah!

http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/2012/02/remember-smithsonians-flying.html
http://www.edgeascension.com/index_files/Page2570.htm

http://www.edgeascension.com/index_files/image2497.jpg

Surely we can't deprive future battlefields of these wondrous autonomous machines! Oh, the humanity! No, wait ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)

http://www.whkeith.com/graphics/bolo-mark-xx.jpg

Someone _really_ needs to get a life!

Of course that precious bit of information will be just the thing to drop on any LOTR trivia freaks.

Toad

Same language, same solutions. How clever: now one hack can crack ALL the voting machines. Why, it'll be just like elections back in The Day .. in Communist countries anyway.

This is NOT rocket science, folks. The first link in the phone call, the first agency actually providing a "phone link", checks the calling number. No number? Disconnect immediately (or forward to the FBI or FCC). Is the Caller ID (number, not name) the same as the calling number? No: disconnect immediately (or forward to the FBI or FCC).

Number identified and verified? Great, let them make the call. The recipient can then identify the caller (absolutely, positively) and can then report or prosecute as he so elects.

Oh, this offends someone's sense of privacy? Screw you and your privacy: if you're going to call ME, you're violating MY privacy. So give a little, take a little. I am ready and willing to hang up on ANY caller who doesn't provide me a valid phone number. The problem right now is that it can be spoofed so easily. I get calls from 1-800-000-0000 all the time .. and the phone providers know it too and are doing damn all about it.

So you (and a million criminals) stay anonymous. Hey, how about dealing with the bastards running the robo-dialers, eh? Fix the problem, don't avoid it.

"Oh, we don't go down that road: too many robbers."

Riii-ight.

Did you intend that the Apple I and II be used by programmers (experienced or novice) to do any serious software development? Or did you intend (or hope) that commercial software development firms would do all that?

I ask because I tried hard to do just that, and failed miserably. The tools and resources, user exchange of software and programming tips, that sort of thing, just never happened with Apple. Hell, I did more serious development on a Commodore 64 (networked systems teaching CW (Morse code) send and receive to Special Forces radiomen) than I ever could on an Apple.

I ended up going the CP/M / DOS / MS-DOS / Windows route (with diversions into Unix) for that very reason.

Just wondering. Oh, and thanks for all the fish!

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall

Howling Wilderness of Computerdom [tm], they passed a law against any such shenanigans. The godz forbid we should actually have a CHOICE in our broadband!

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/05/nc-gov-anti-muni-broadband/

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/cities-consumers-lose-municipal-broadband-fight/Content?oid=2440390

Of course they also passed laws forbidding any study of global rising seawater .. outside the limits they felt were politically correct, that is.

Gotta love 'em.