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Bane_
Profile Joined October 2005
United Kingdom494 Posts
April 21 2010 03:44 GMT
#1061
And there was me off trying to find out about power thresholds in neural networks, top-k algorithms, threshold cryptosystems and the like...perfect reading material for ~4 in the morning.
GreggSauce
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States566 Posts
April 21 2010 03:45 GMT
#1062
On April 21 2010 12:42 iLoveKT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2010 12:41 SonuvBob wrote:
On April 21 2010 12:38 bas1c wrote:
I don't like that only about 5% of the people reading this have a chance to figure the puzzle out. We aren't all tech geniuses.

But the tech geniuses have no shot at challenges like "post of photo of you and a girl under a traffic light" from the scavenger hunt. Overall it balances out.

why couldnt they?


hes trying to say geeks can't get girls

but failing miserably

maybe theres sarcasm somewhere

or maybe i'm just bitter
Must not sleep, must warn others
MinoMino
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway1103 Posts
April 21 2010 03:45 GMT
#1063
Why are you guys raging? There's been 4 keys given out to these clever puzzles. 15 keys were just given out by taking a picture of yourself with a piece of paper, 10 were given out just by writing in a thread the other day, another 10 in IRC. Not to mention all the keys in the scavenger hunt and FFAs. Just look at the numbers and think about them.
Blah.
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9106 Posts
April 21 2010 03:45 GMT
#1064
On April 21 2010 12:41 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2010 12:38 bas1c wrote:
I don't like that only about 5% of the people reading this have a chance to figure the puzzle out. We aren't all tech geniuses.

But the tech geniuses have no shot at challenges like "post of photo of you and a girl under a traffic light" from the scavenger hunt. Overall it balances out.


They could just have their robot gf do it durrr
Ursad0n
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States523 Posts
April 21 2010 03:46 GMT
#1065
How does he make all those links exist?
Like if i wanted to make a little site thing with some text to practice html what would i have to do?
You make it sound like there's a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens. I mean, life is chaotic and it's often unfair. I know it is for me.
Kyhol
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2575 Posts
April 21 2010 03:46 GMT
#1066
I just wish I didn't spend all of my focus on this god forsaken contest, I just lost 10$ on pokerstars.
I enjoyed the contest regardless. I don't think I've ever refreshed a website that much in my life!
Wishing you well.
LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
April 21 2010 03:46 GMT
#1067
I like these mini games. But how about making one that is easier?
tendron
Profile Joined April 2010
Jamaica21 Posts
April 21 2010 03:46 GMT
#1068
so we had to change the source port of the outgoing tcp connection to whatever number we got?
julian.delphiki
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia22 Posts
April 21 2010 03:47 GMT
#1069
On April 21 2010 12:43 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2010 12:40 julian.delphiki wrote:
P.S I know I'm not the only one who just found out that they didnt even have a chance at this beta key challenge.

You should've known as soon as you saw R1CH's name on the post.


=(
dustinm90
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada4 Posts
April 21 2010 03:48 GMT
#1070
On April 21 2010 12:46 Ursad0n wrote:
How does he make all those links exist?
Like if i wanted to make a little site thing with some text to practice html what would i have to do?


When a mommy and daddy site love each other enough, they make links exists, and 9 months later, a little site thing appears.
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-21 03:48:49
April 21 2010 03:48 GMT
#1071
Even if you didn't understand it, I hope some of you learned what a source port is and how your browser and OS make connections to websites. The reason the number varied is due to your browser opening multiple connections, each with a different source port, or your OS using ports for other programs (eg if you had torrents running, your numbers would probably jump all over the place). It's good to know how this Internet thing works.

Fun trivia: Ever randomly have a site fail to load even though you were just on the site, and then on a refresh it works? This can be due to your ISP blocking ports. Some ISPs in an attempt to control viruses and worms will restrict traffic from certain ports, and if the ISP filters are incorrectly configured and your OS happens to randomly choose the port that is blocked, that one connection will fail.
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
TL+ Member
LodiDodi
Profile Joined April 2010
United States30 Posts
April 21 2010 03:48 GMT
#1072
On April 21 2010 12:38 bas1c wrote:
I don't like that only about 5% of the people reading this have a chance to figure the puzzle out. We aren't all tech geniuses.



the tech guru was given a key to distribute in his own manner, so even though i didn't win (and really had no chance because i don't get tech stuff) you can't be bitter about it. grats to winner.

NEXT CONTEST PLZ!!!.
What is brown and rhymes with Snoop? Dr. Dre
RumZ
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States956 Posts
April 21 2010 03:48 GMT
#1073
On April 21 2010 12:46 tendron wrote:
so we had to change the source port of the outgoing tcp connection to whatever number we got?


Kind of, to change your power level, you had to change at what point you were accessing the data 'from.'

The random chance of someone simply winning Rich spoke about that could simply just happen, was someone already being at the right place spamming the refresh and hitting it.

Who knows what location that would have had to be from though.
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
April 21 2010 03:49 GMT
#1074
On April 21 2010 12:48 Joey.rumz wrote:
The random chance of someone simply winning Rich spoke about that could simply just happen, was someone already being at the right place spamming the refresh and hitting it.

I purposefully picked a port that was outside the range of default ports used by Windows and most routers in an attempt to minimize this.
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
TL+ Member
enigmatic37
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany13 Posts
April 21 2010 03:50 GMT
#1075
On April 21 2010 12:48 R1CH wrote:
Even if you didn't understand it, I hope some of you learned what a source port is and how your browser and OS make connections to websites. The reason the number varied is due to your browser opening multiple connections, each with a different source port, or your OS using ports for other programs (eg if you had torrents running, your numbers would probably jump all over the place). It's good to know how this Internet thing works.

Fun trivia: Ever randomly have a site fail to load even though you were just on the site, and then on a refresh it works? This can be due to your ISP blocking ports. Some ISPs in an attempt to control viruses and worms will restrict traffic from certain ports, and if the ISP filters are incorrectly configured and your OS happens to randomly choose the port that is blocked, that one connection will fail.


we're ready for another lesson
Glufs
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway78 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-21 03:52:10
April 21 2010 03:51 GMT
#1076
On April 21 2010 12:45 MinoMino wrote:
Why are you guys raging? There's been 4 keys given out to these clever puzzles. 15 keys were just given out by taking a picture of yourself with a piece of paper, 10 were given out just by writing in a thread the other day, another 10 in IRC. Not to mention all the keys in the scavenger hunt and FFAs. Just look at the numbers and think about them.


I wasn't complaining about the puzzle only being solvable by IT-people (and the puzzle + the hints were very clever), but about it not having a disclaimer saying so. I wouldn't mind key contest for the first person to post a video of themself doing a mactwist 1080 in a halfpipe, because I would know I didn't have to waste time trying to do it.
Ursad0n
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States523 Posts
April 21 2010 03:52 GMT
#1077
On April 21 2010 12:49 R1CH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2010 12:48 Joey.rumz wrote:
The random chance of someone simply winning Rich spoke about that could simply just happen, was someone already being at the right place spamming the refresh and hitting it.

I purposefully picked a port that was outside the range of default ports used by Windows and most routers in an attempt to minimize this.

R1CH, u always have links that go to these blank pages with contest rules on them, how would someone like me go about making them?

i mean this: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/Key.php
You make it sound like there's a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens. I mean, life is chaotic and it's often unfair. I know it is for me.
Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
April 21 2010 03:53 GMT
#1078
R1CH is awesome when it comes to education, it should be like this in IT classes ^_^
I don't think I've ever wished my opponent good luck prior to a game. When I play, I play to win. I hope every opponent I ever have is cursed with fucking terrible luck. I hope they're stuck playing underneath a stepladder with a black cat in attendance a
Hrrrrm
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2081 Posts
April 21 2010 03:53 GMT
#1079
On April 21 2010 12:48 R1CH wrote:
Even if you didn't understand it, I hope some of you learned what a source port is and how your browser and OS make connections to websites. The reason the number varied is due to your browser opening multiple connections, each with a different source port, or your OS using ports for other programs (eg if you had torrents running, your numbers would probably jump all over the place). It's good to know how this Internet thing works.

Fun trivia: Ever randomly have a site fail to load even though you were just on the site, and then on a refresh it works? This can be due to your ISP blocking ports. Some ISPs in an attempt to control viruses and worms will restrict traffic from certain ports, and if the ISP filters are incorrectly configured and your OS happens to randomly choose the port that is blocked, that one connection will fail.


I would like to know how someone would go about doing this Quick and Simply in windows?
alot = a lot (TWO WORDS)
LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
April 21 2010 03:53 GMT
#1080
On April 21 2010 12:52 Ursad0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2010 12:49 R1CH wrote:
On April 21 2010 12:48 Joey.rumz wrote:
The random chance of someone simply winning Rich spoke about that could simply just happen, was someone already being at the right place spamming the refresh and hitting it.

I purposefully picked a port that was outside the range of default ports used by Windows and most routers in an attempt to minimize this.

R1CH, u always have links that go to these blank pages with contest rules on them, how would someone like me go about making them?

i mean this: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/Key.php

You see that word staff in there.

I think only staff members have access to create that website
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