I believe you are referring to hashing, and the duck in question was a costume ;-)
I can neither confirm nor deny the ability of duck-clad hashers to navigate by sporadic moonlight. >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Gadi Evron >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 11:25 PM >To: Peter Evans >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [funsec] Duck! > >On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Peter Evans wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:52:49PM -0600, Gadi Evron wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah >wrote: >>>> The Moon is set to pass closer to the Earth on Friday evening than >at any other >>>> time during the past 15 years. >> >>> And ducks are affected how? >>> :o) >> >> I know this one, ducks navigate by triangulating celestial bodies >rather >> than the more traditional birds that have organic compasses. >> >> Ducks don't fly much at night when it is cloudy because they are >unable to >> get a fix. However, should they get a glimpse of the sun or moon, >then they >> can triangulate their location to the nearest goat AND find their >way back >> from the pub. >> >> The moon being closer means it appears larger, causing the ducks >to question >> the veracity of the almanac as it appears to be deeper into winter >than their >> built in clock would have them believe. Resulting in navigation >issues due to >> curvature of the earth and goats facing the wrong way. Or, to put >it in >> layman's terms, they miss their usual drinking holes and end up >coming home >> completely sober! >> >> This evolutionary defect was going to be fixed in duck 2.0 but >they >> never happened because costs skyrocketed, budgerigar overruns and >the likes. >> > >*applause* >!!! > > >>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/7779294.stm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >> >_______________________________________________ >Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
