What rocks?

[Dusty Chalk]

Root beer flavoured Bottlecaps candy ... yes, I know you can get these, but it's just not the same ...

[Vertigo]

pop-rocks + mountain dew

[mjg]

the satisfaction of rubbing one out. fucking rocks my sox.

[Thaddy]

pop-rocks + mountain dew

A girl in my class actually thought that would kill you. I gave her a break though, I think the bleach might have seaped into her brain, killing off a few cells.

[magnum]

Three Floyds Pale Ale beer, it's a local micro brewery here in NW Indiana.

[Dusty Chalk]

Linux

[hungrych]

Me.

[PFKMan23]

Me.

Your hair, nothing else.

[hungrych]

[boodi]

what rock

[boodi]

what balanced rocks

[boodi]

OT gorilla on the rocks

[Dusty Chalk]

That rock. This rocks:

:rimshot:

[boodi]

to rock , or not to rock ..

[Dusty Chalk]

to rock , or not to rock ..

Well, that's an easy one for me to answer -- to rock! "Not to rock" just isn't an alternative.

[Dusty Chalk]

That rock. This rocks:

:rimshot:

There's supposed to be a picture there.

[tkam]

Now this rocks...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6265092168

[MrSlacker]

Now this rocks...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6265092168

What is that thing?

[grawk]

Pay attention in history class.

The engima machine is the code machine that hte germans (and japanese) used during WW2. That we were able to break the code and not let on is the real reason ww2 ended the way it did...

[Dusty Chalk]

What is that thing?

Dude, that's the Enigma Device. THE enigma device.

EDIT: What he said. Tres cool. Rocks.

[mjg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

the eniac was cooler, but slightly larger.. they used it to crack the engima cipher

http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

[grawk]

Pretty sure eniac enigma was cracked by hand mathematically. The ideas lead to eniac, however.

[mjg]

ENIAC had nothing to do with Enigma, though ENIAC rocked.

they used it to crack things encoded in engima. It was one of the applications it was used for, amongst other things. I've read that in a few places.

[mjg]

gawk is right also, alan turing who did help crack enigma was an important person in the development of eniac. maybe i'm smushing history together, but I do believe I read that somewhere.

http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=75

[grawk]

My understanding is turing, who cracked enigma, was primarily responsible for the concepts, but never participated in the actual design of the hardware. He was more the type to enjoy ideas but who found actual implementations boring. I could be mistaken, I'm not sure how much of the character Alan Turing in Cryptonomicon was real and how much was fictionalized.

In a bit of trivia, one of my college advisors was on the design team for eniac...