No way! You could play that in an ANSI interface! But the RIP version was kinda badass. I used RIPterm as my client, but I think there was at least one more.

Christ, I played that game forever.

Amen.

Nope. It's already been done. For nearly 25 years, I think (it's referenced in Dennett's "Elbow Room"). The computer can track the position of your pupils in relation to the screen, and since eye movement is made up of tiny ballistic trajectories, the computer can figure out where your focus is going to land next, and can "clear" the data at that point, and then "garbage" the data at the point that your eye is no longer looking at. People take in groups of symbols in chunks when they read and then hop over to the next bit and the computer can switch data faster than a person can notice, so the person who's reading the screen sees nothing but normality, while anyone who's looking over your shoulder (unless they had the exact same focus at the exact same time, which is incredibly unlikely) only sees gibberish.

Note that it only works with text. I'm not sure it would work with any sort of non-text graphical information.

=FUD. I have never seen an article penned by him (or her) that does not over-exaggerate the facts of the matter. The silverlight player has been out for a few months now. To have 480-odd complaints in that time, considering the size of Netflix's user base, while not great, is not that significant.

The implementation of silverlight is still an important problem because of the DRM and the possible incompatibilities and bugs, but it is nowhere a "disaster".

kdawson does nothing positive for slashdot. He should be removed. His entries sound like the worst kind of hellraising politics.

While Google might be a little shifty when it comes to privacy, I'd have to say that this lands them some good points in my book. Combine this development with the recent ability to see Ancient Rome in Google Earth, I'd have to say that there's more than greed motivating this corporation. Of course, there's always the idea of increasing mindshare, but I really doubt that Rome in 3d and Life's photographical archives are really going to win them any immediate popularity points. Well, at least not as many as some other things that are within their financial means.

Dammit, I still like Google. And it's because of this nerdy and amazing shit that they do seemingly at random.
I know that they'll stagnate, and I know that I'll have a damn good reason to hate them at some point, but, just in the category of "cool shit done," I'm going to have to admit that I'm a huge fucking fan.
I want to read the entirety of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in pdf? No fucking problem. Thanks to Google.
I don't know very much about the mechanism of power, but if power is knowledge, then Google's done a lot to index it for our use. And for that I'm grateful.