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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

Wow!

Why do people with obvious talent and ability do this sort of vandalisim?

Probably otherwise they'd either have to work for the church or goverment....

I would not prosecute the hacker either ..... it is harder to get ahold of someone in custody and I think I would have some things to say up close and personal to them.


To me this would be the thing the Anonymous hackers would be attacking because it brings about the discussion of more monitoring of the internets and more government control. Hackers policing themselves so society did not have to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

If I was a lawyer, I would be organizing a class-action lawsuit against Apple and Google for their lax security of personal information. (win or lose, the lawyer still gets several years of pay and high profile advertizing)

A related link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2186270/Google-forced-22million-fine-spying-Safari-users-STILL-refuses-admit-wrong.html#ixzz2389Ofs00

I've got an HP computer with a 350 megahertz pentium II processor. Stored on it are 247 80's and 90's era coin-op video arcade game ROMs. "5" on the keyboard is equivalent to someone inserting a quarter. It's my 13 year old self's dream come true. It's not even hooked up to the internet. Hack that.

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My younger son has a similar set up except we hollowed out a Sega Gensis game console and fit a mother board, hard drive, fans, and usb connected retro game contollers. The on/off button activates the system which uses a built in emulator program to give him access to all of the old Nintendo, Sega, and the like games from his childhood stored on the hard drive (hidden inside a hollowed cartridge inserted in the console) and beyond. It is a stand alone system, but it does hook up to the 55" big screen I gave him instead of a regular monitor. He does game captures for uploading to YouTube with a group of friends.

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

That's very cool. I have a cousin who did that, only he used a PC. I fired the old pentium up last night. My mistake, I only have 227 ROM's. To successfully build a cabinet, I'd have to map the buttons correctly for each and every one, sometimes for up to 4 players. I'd include a regular mouse in place of a trackball when that type targetting was required. Mock rifles and grenade launchers I liked but I always hated trackballs. A fighter pilot joystick would be a must. I could also use it as a pointer if I fashioned a gun that fit over it.

Too much work. Most of the games play better with a modern, conventional controller anyway. Certainly wouldn't mind a fancy cabinet with one of those attached and a keyboard and mouse strategically accessible when needed.

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