September 2007
57 posts
iam.bmezine.com offline →
“IAM is offline until further notice. Draw whatever conclusions you wish. For now you should take a seat on the sidelines, maybe spike your gatorade.”
ModBlog - Betrayal →
“Over the last month or two Rachel and Jon have taken control of key aspects of BME without my consent in what seems to be a hostile takeover attempt.”
WTF
Kickin' the Darkness: Confessions of a Terrible... →
Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore... →
“I’d say 85% of them were misconfigured routers. They had the default passwords on them,” said Moore.
Computer security, it’s all completely pointless if you don’t change the default passwords.
Do You Write Like a Terrorist? →
“ A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write.”
“The Arizona group has been at this sort of research for a while, now — sifting through more than 900,000 Islamist web pages.”
What about the Christian extremists? The Anti-Abortionists? The Creationists?
Porn industry following RIAA's example →
No matter what they do it’s not going to stop people sharing this digital content, so they should just get used to it and adapt.
It’s a pretty simple solution. If you can’t stop people sharing your stuff, then create inventives for people to buy it directly from you.
There are plenty of sites that create incentives for membership by fostering a relationship between the...
SELinux vs. OpenBSD's Default Security |... →
The general opinion was that SELinux and its policy language are too complex, leading Damien Miller to note, “every medium to large Linux deployment that I am aware off has switched SELinux off. Once you stray from the default configurations that the system distributors ship with, the default policies no longer work and things start to break.”
I completely agree, everything I’ve...
“Programming is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”
– unknown
I tend to do the complete opposite.
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Indeed, and it’s a great solution to comment spam etc.
ArchView →
“ArchView is an extension of Firefox, which can open archive file online without downloading the whole archive.”
Internet Mail 2000 →
Interesting idea. Seems like an obvious way to do it and makes spamming far easier to detect.
Idea: Add-on to search all pages linked from current page.
Full Cost →
At Colorado State University they have developed solar panels that can be produced at less than $1 per watt, these panels should reduce the cost of generating solar electricity for roughly the same cost as other forms of generated electricity(Coal, Oil, etc). This is a good thing. But interestingly doesn’t take in to account the full actual cost of producing electricity using Oil or Coal....
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on... →
PHP is a horrible language, but rails is a framework and frameworks put restrictions on how you design your program and always lead to nasty hacks. I have the same opinion on object orientated programming languages.
“I was watching a DVD the other day, and it had all this anti-piracy information...”
– Sam Bowring on “Last Comic Standing” (via Rich Ernst)
Personal unit tests →
I should make some of these.
Online couple cheated with each other | The Daily... →
LULZ
Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not... →
“But for now, I still advise mainstream, nontechnical users to avoid Linux.”
I agree, but I also think nontechnical users should avoid Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX which have their own set of extreme frustrations for end users.
“Forgetting about the terrible STL, to me there really is no difference between C...”
– Andy Parkins
Caring for Your Introvert →
Indeed.
Futurists predict computers smarter than humans by... →
Wow, that’s damn close. With computers smarter than humans, many humans will be out of a job, I can’t wait.
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
– - Thomas Mann
Thought:
Some times I think that I’m making it hard for myself using gentoo, xterm and nano. Maybe I should use Kubuntu, it’s apparently easier to use and there are much more featureful text editors than nano.
But whenever I leave my cosy environment and venture out I find a disappointing world of crashing programs, weird behaviour and irritation and quickly retreat.
GitCheatSheet - GitWiki →
Nice.
Google Plans to Put Video Ads Into Search Results →
Wow, I wonder if google can do this without destroying it’s business. One of the main great things about google search is the lack of junk on the search pages. If this changes then people’s opinion of google will also change.
"USB Drive from Chinatown" - Off Topic -... →
Chasers get through outter check point at APEC →
“This is the most complicated security operation that Australia has seen since the Sydney Olympics - $250 million, several thousand people, it involves airspace protection corridors, maritime corridors, venue security,”
ummm…imagine if they weren’t actually trying to get caught?
For $250 Million I expect ‘magic’, if you can’t deliver ‘magic’...
AMD to open up graphics specs →
YAY!
Kozmo.com →
A venture-capital-driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVD rentals to Starbucks coffee in the United States.
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no...”
– Stephen King
“If you’re having fantasies about your wife’s sister, Blanton says to...”
– Print I Think You’re Fat
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein
Australia abstains on Microsoft's Office Open XML... →
I guess they don’t want to support nor piss off Microsoft.
Christian's promoting more censorship →
Hardly seems like news anymore.
GNU R
* checking R-2.2.1.tar.gz ;-) … [ ok ] * None of the needed Fortran Compilers (gfortran g77 f2c) is installed. * To install one of these, choose one of the following steps: * [1] USE=”fortran” emerge =sys-devel/gcc-4* * [2] USE=”fortran”...
Eric's Favorite Math Jokes →
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. Ian Ellis (ian@iglou.com).
“The problem, to use the vernacular of the slightly sleazier parts of the...”
– Coding Horror: Falling Into The Pit of Success
4chan /b/ - it’s everywhere.
The Blue Programming Language →
Worth a look.