Cool stuff you've found on the web

[linflas]

well, i don't remember where i've been to, something like 45/46.. and finally forgave it

EDIT : not... i'm on 54

[Bit]

Silly thing that

[Jan]

25 Worst Passwords of 2011

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. ragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passwOrd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

(http://teck.in/25-worst-passwords-of-th ... hdata.html)

I just love the "letmein" one.

[Gambit37]

Oh dear! My employer uses the same password for everything. All their secure data, website logins, email accounts -- everything! I have told them many times how dumb this is but they do nothing about it saying "it's too hard to remember different passwords." It might be OK if the password itself was a bit more secure, but it's a lateral shift of their company name + the number 2 added to the end!

[Jan]

Perhaps you all know this one, but I found it only today and it really made me laugh.

The fall of Barad-dûr - the conspiracy uncovered:

http://moviecarpet.com/iwave/images/7/o ... -rings.jpg

[Jan]

British Army Answerphone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlVqz3Mq ... re=related

[Gambit37]

Flyboard Zapata -- very cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8kEHjQ ... r_embedded

I don't understand French though -- could someone give a quick summary of the inventor's explanation of how it works?

[ChristopheF]

It consists of a tube connected to a jetski turbine. Adaptable on any jet ski engine.
100 hp allow to fly about 2m high
150 hp allow to fly around 5-6m high

Rotation of the tube to allow easy turns

There are 3 versions:
1st: for rent, initiation, learning usages. A person is on the jet ski is managing acceleration. The user manages only the height with his feet.
2nd: the user is autonomous to start, stop and can manage the speed himself
3rd: in the future (1-2 years), they'll build a dedicated machine to replace the jetski, to get even higher performance and higher fly speeds, around 40 km/h (with jet ski of 250 hp they get only a 25 km/h fly speed)

[Gambit37]

Thank you Christophe, very much It looks strange in operation, as if the water isn't moving fast enough to keep it up -- and that it's in fact being held up by invisible wires!

A very strange, but interesting invention!

[Jan]

Well, it's basically a civilian version of the awesome Harrier jump jet.

[Ameena]

Omfg this thing is so cool...my dad showed it to me earlier...

http://uk.akinator.com/

It's one of those things where you think of the name of a character and it asks you questions to try and guess what you were thinking of. It even guessed right (first time!) when I thought of someone's avatar from a series of Minecraft videos on YouTube*!



*Honeydew (aka Simon) from the Yogscast, if you're wondering

[beowuuf]

Oh yes, this was quite impressive ages ago, so it will be fun to play aroudn with it now it's been trainign al lthis time!

[beowuuf]

LOL. Ok, it had one false hit to start with, then managed to find Ray from In Bruge, the film I just watched! And I managed to confuse it by hitting 'really existed' in stead of 'not existed'. Plus I wasn't sure about somethign spoilery that it thought was a definite.

[Gambit37]

I defeated it with my first try!

[beowuuf]

What did you use?

[Gambit37]

Alistair Reynolds, Author.

Weird thing is, it suggested it in the list when I went to add it at the end...!?

[beowuuf]

It tells you a list of expected answers to answers you gave, so someone might have done it before with different answers

[Ameena]

Either that or it may have had several possible things that you might have been thinking of, and didn't manage to ask the right questions in time to narrow it down enough by the time of the third guess.

[Jan]

Well, I thought "Winston Churchill", it took 25 questions, one wrong guess (N. Chamberlain). The 14th question was "Is your character from the 'A Song Of Ice and Fire' series?" and the 24th question was "Has your character been hired by another club in summer 2007?" All my answers were "expected" except for four "Don't know" for very specific / simple / non-sense questions for which I would have to go into Sir W. Churchill's biography (all the expected answers were "?" anyway). I can't think of anything more simple.

EDIT: On the second attempt with the same person in mind it took him only 14 questions. Some of the questions were different. His 6th question was "Is your character in Shake It Up?", I said "No" and the expected answer was "?". Oh, my, I think these guys should feed their databases with some more data.

[beowuuf]

many people are. It sounds rediculous, but I was asked some weird questions to get to Colin Farell's character, but obviously it just depends on the trees that are being built up

[Ameena]

Well, I was thinking of a particular thing, and after a few questions I had...
"Is your character green?" (Yes)
"Is your character from Minecraft?" (Yes)
"Does your character explode?" (Yes)
...all in that order, one after the other. But I still then had about three other random-seeming questions after that before it guessed what I was thinking of .

[beowuuf]

LOL, you'd think it would have it by then, wouldn't you

[Gambit37]

I tried "Lone Wolf" and "Worzel Gummidge" and it got both of those.

I tried "Samantha Everett" from the game Gray Matter, and I beat it, but it did suggest her name when I added it to the list at the end. Same thing with Bloodbeast from Deathtrap Dungeon.

Pretty good stuff

[Ameena]

Yeah, it's guessed every character from Portal, and has guessed (though sometimes not till the third guess) every Yogscast Minecraft character I've thrown at it. It also knows stuff from 80s kids' shows - a friend of mine tried Bucky O'Hare and some stuff from programmes I'd not heard of and it guessed them too. I've also tried minor characters from other games - Sugar-Lips Habasi from Morrowind and Rakanishu from Diablo II were both guessed on the second try, I believe. The only real person I've tried was Enid Blyton and it got her first time. I have beaten it several times and had the name not in the list, however.

[oh_brother]

Yes, I like this program. I played Lord Chaos and it did not guess it, although it was an option at the end. I played again with the same idea and it got it. (I tried Gothmog a few months ago - not surprisingly it did not get it. Must try again).

I then thought of Westian (main character/hero/star in Time's Champions), and it guessed "your own character" which is close enough.

I am surprised Winston Churchill defeated it, normally it gets anyone that other people would have chosen before. Even obscure characters from modern video games.

[Jan]

I am surprised Winston Churchill defeated it, normally it gets anyone that other people would have chosen before. Even obscure characters from modern video games.

LOL. I'm surprised that you're surprised. Hundreds of obscure Japanese videogames have their Wikipedia entries longer than that of Sir W. Churchill. "Diablo 2" entry is longer than "Tory".

[beowuuf]

Plus it depends if lots of people have muddied the water with their answers. We don't know by what margin its expected answers were formed/

[linflas]

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/ ... 4gg6qb.jpg

[ian_scho]

MOO!

[Zyx]

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=11028
Nice 8 bit effect.