November 2007
68 posts
Pronto condoms →
When I was getting laid I alway through condoms took too long. Pity they are currently only available in south africa.
Moore's 'law'
I hate it when people quote Moore’s Law like it’s an inevitable law of nature.
Moore’s Law is an observation made many years ago that is currently being used as a standard for how what time frame hardware manufacturers should release updates to the number of transistors in their products.
It’s not like every two years a new discovery is made that allow transistors to...
Film and game violence seen as a threat →
The main problem with a lot of psychological studies is that they are so intent on coming to a conclusion that they fail to take in to account many extraneous variables.
“The findings, which are reported in the Journal of Adolescent Health, support earlier research which showed that children who watch violent television shows and who identify with the characters and believe they are real...
Violence in media →
Today I came across this article: Film and game violence seen as a threat “The findings, which are reported in the Journal of Adolescent Health, support earlier research which showed that children who watch violent television shows and who identify with the characters and believe they are real are more likely to be aggressive as adults.” Later I found this: Childhood Exposure to Media Violence...
'Cupboard girl' will never reveal her secret |... →
“Her disappearance came about the time of a number of well-publicised disappearances of women and girls in Rockhampton, who were later found to be victims of serial killer Leonard John Fraser. Fraser was charged with Ms Ryan’s murder and her spectacular reappearance came in the middle of his murder trial.”
I find it strange that you can charge someone with murder without any...
Video: Michael Moore cut this scene from Sicko... →
They got a chainsaw murderer to work in a forest cutting down trees with a chainsaw…fuck you Norway!
“Voting is legally required for Australia’s 13.6 million enrolled voters,...”
– Howard concedes defeat in Australian elections - CNN.com
Jessta: I find it interesting that this is ‘unusual’. It has many advantages the main one being that gets around the general laziness of human beings.
nelix:Human beings that are to lazy to learn about politics and might as well...
Damien Katz: Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and... →
I’d add:
You haven’t written a useful working program in years
“Voting is legally required for Australia’s 13.6 million enrolled voters,...”
– Howard concedes defeat in Australian elections - CNN.com
I find it interesting that this is ‘unusual’. It has many advantages the main one being that gets around the general laziness of human beings.
Active parents make for active kids →
Studying of the obvious makes for a waste of money
“Web technology is certainly a controversial topic. Despite the fact that...”
– Bourne Shell Server Pages
In zombies we trust →
I don’t get it. This article show a complete lack of understanding of security and computer systems, but the author apparently has many years of computer security exprience and has worked for companies such as Microsoft.
Welcome to the OpenEEG project →
Interesting. I plan to make one.
printf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
%n - Write number of characters successfully written so far into an integer pointer parameter.
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
Bosses admit fat a hiring factor →
Makes sense
Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000... →
“Spiral Island is also his vision for low-impact sustainable living.” Amazing project, but this is hardly low-impact or sustainable. Imagine if everyone had their own floating island, it would no longer be recycling and end up being a huge use a resources. A plan for sustainable living has to be sustainable for the world’s current population and things like this don’t...
Movie deal for subway romantics →
The story isn’t even over yet and hollywood is already pouncing on it.
TypeError: string indices must be integers →
I’m writing a program in python, using the formencode module from www.formencode.org It’s great for validating form input for webpages. Python has many other extremely useful modules written for it that do a lot the work. But python is dynamically typed and this is a problem. Strong dynamic typing leads to fun errors like this: TypeError: string indices must be integers that bubble up...
QuantumG's home page →
A number of interesting bits of writing.
CodeMaestro » Magical Square Root Implementation... →
Oral sex gene helps male fish fake it →
“Men may be intrigued to hear that researchers have pinpointed a gene that makes females suck up sperm through their mouths.”
Microsoft Windows 7 ‘wishlist’ leaked →
These don’t sound like features for a new windows release. They sound more like tweeks made in a service pack.
Although I don’t see: ‘The whole interface shouldn’t freeze up while it waits for all network connections to TIMEOUT when I disable the network interface”
I'm Sure You Can Deal - Worse Than Failure →
Just..Wow!
Movie: Falling Down →
This movie is fucking awesome.
some people don't understand logic
< jessta> EternalKnight: interestingly enough gay men tend to have short hair
+ brett> jessta, crap
i have short hair and i aint gay
Firefox' Appetite for Memory →
memory leak, memory fragmentation - it’s the same thing. Allocated memory that is now unusable. Interestingly the fix for memory fragmentation is to allocate larger chucks of memory.
I can imagine this is quite a problem for browsers because they are constantly allocating space for large objects of hugely varying sizes: icons, photos,videos,html etc.
Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan →
The doesn’t mention how the trojan is activated, but I’m guessing it uses autorun(one of the stupider windows features).
Making Pancakes Like a Junkie →
Awesome!
Fedora 8 →
Damn it! Fedora 8 has many awesome features.
PulseAudio Sound Daemon →
Woah, why haven’t a heard of this before?
MySpace Hacked Using Simple HTML Exploit →
MySpace developers too stupid to properly filter css and html from comments.
Senators want Justice Department to sue P2P... →
“It would authorize the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits against people engaged in peer-to-peer copyright infringement—with the proceeds going to the company or person who owns the copyright.”
WTF?
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds →
The concept behind hushmail doesn’t really work at all.