Comment Time to fire up my old server again! (Score 1) 55
Tribes 1 with Chivalry mod v2 with addons. (No clientside install required.)
Lets get some parabolic disk jumps going!
Comment In 1996.... (Score 1) 430
I already had my first webserver up and running via a 115200kbps ROLM phone network connection.
I was using ICQ (I was one of the first users of ICQ. 565xxx number) and it *wasn't* owned by AOHell.
IRC is where you got warez from as well as pr0n. Undernet and Alternet were usual hangouts.
I bought my first Seagate 1GB harddrive. ($250 at the time)
19" CRT monitors were the big boys at the time. (With the exception of a few high end graphics stations in the media labs.)
Comment Re:D.E.H.T.A. (Score 1) 545
Ahh yes, the bunny & girl escort quest.
"Hey little girl, there is a frikken road RIGHT OVER THERE WHERE THERE ARE NOT WOLVES and BEARS!"
Sometimes they put quest npc's in dumb locations.
Wyrdone - Shadowsong-US, Alliance.
Submission + - Turing Test - AI Program Found Guilty in Court
AtomicSnarl writes: An AI program has been found guilty of practicing law without a license, and the conviction was upheld in appeals court! Which is to say, the operator of said expert system was held responsible for this act.
This means the program has passed the Turing Test for legal accountability for it's "behavior". Civilization and Technology have gone round a corner on this one! Where next?
This means the program has passed the Turing Test for legal accountability for it's "behavior". Civilization and Technology have gone round a corner on this one! Where next?
Submission + - Microsoft's HIP: What Do Internet Security and Cat
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft Research demos technologies that may turn up in Microsoft or third-party products, including Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access), a technology that uses the identification of photos of cats to ensure that humans, not interactive scripts, are accessing certain websites.
