September 2008
50 posts
Instillation abortion - Wikipedia, the free... →
This procedure resulted in Gianna_Jessen being born alive(a late term abortion survivor). Medical screw ups happen often, and people get injuried because of these screw ups, but that’s no reason to stop doing medical procedures.
“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than...”
– - Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Please discipline codegirl and make her code very... →
via anarchaia
Official Google Blog: Our position on California's... →
If marriage is no longer ‘the union between man and women’ , why should it still be ‘the union of only two individual human beings’
what about ‘the union of any number organisms’?
Parkinson's Law of Triviality →
DexOS →
“From the start, as you would expect from a OS based on a game’s console OS, optimizing for speed has been of paramount important in the over all design. To this end there’s no virtual memory paging, and only a single process is allowed (though that process can spawn multiple threads). The program runs in ring0, you have direct access to all hardware (including CPU and graphics)....
One Sentence archive - story #2495 →
Erlang Scheduler: what does it do? →
PHP: func_get_args - Manual →
WTF? This seems like a very bad idea. Maintainer’s nightmare.
Loper OS →
LeNtiL As AnYtHiNg →
“Our Philosophy is that the customer decides what they want to donate for the food they’ve eaten, they decide what it’s worth and give as they feel…We provide free food to countless people without drawing attention to their financial circumstances and encourage the interatction and involvement from people of all walks of life.”
Linux.com :: Track your missing laptop with Adeona →
assuming thieves aren’t computer literate enough to care about the security of their stolen computing systems might work for a while, until they catch on and start wiping the harddrives.
The problem of magic →
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke I’ve noticed an issue with a lot of people recently, a barrier that prevents people from understanding…
Fake popup study sadly confirms most... →
First we create a confusing and annoying UI system where it’s really easy to make a spoof user interface to trick users(remotely served untrusted UI, what kind of stupid idea is that?) and then we laugh at the users when they get tricked…who’s the idiot here?
jessta.id.au →
yay! My site is back up. My domain name expired and the provider was really unhelpful at renewing it.
Why the pilot of the Enola Gay has no regrets →
ST: One last thing, when you hear people say, “Let’s nuke ‘em,” “Let’s nuke these people,” what do you think?
PT: Oh, I wouldn’t hesitate if I had the choice. I’d wipe ‘em out. You’re gonna kill innocent people at the same time, but we’ve never fought a damn war anywhere in the world where they didn’t kill innocent...
Light Bot - Gameroo →
First time around 199 commands
UpStare →
“UpStare is a dynamic software updating system for multi-threaded userspace applications that applies immediate updates using stack reconstruction.”
dolt definition |Dictionary.com →
Code Reading - The Linux kernel doubly linked list →
interesting way to do a linked list
Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot →
This is what happens when people use the word ‘cyberspace’ idiots get confused and think it’s more than it is. Why would anyone hide their communication in WoW when they could use military grade encryption.
I still find it amazing what people get paid to research.
“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into...”
– Charles Babbage Great programming quotes - Stack Overflow
“Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only...”
– Charles Petzold Great programming quotes - Stack Overflow
“If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.”
– G. K. Chesterton
Movie: Primer (2004) →
Primer (2004) is an American science fiction film about the accidental invention of time travel.
“anybody who claims [to] fully understand what’s going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar.”
“During these brief inspections of his output, one of two things would happen....”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Programming’s Dirtiest Little Secret
The Programmer's Paradox: A Dependency Too Far →
Thought
The next time I see someone use the phase “in the cloud” in reference to software development I’m going to have to beat them senseless
“Stasticially speaking, the part of your disk that loses data is probably in the...”
– apenwarr - Business is Programming
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics →
woah, WTF?
“Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in “colonies,” and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning.”
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always...”
– John F. Kennedy
Two Letter Words with Definitions →
Another comic about CHROME. →
Browser history is a good reason to keep one’s private computer private.
Facebook botnet risk revealed →
I’ve got to get in on some of this ‘computer security research’ scam. It would be great to be paid to come up with bullshit.
Sophie Paterson - Australian Idol Top 24... →
My cousin is on Australian Idol. I’ve never watched the show.
“It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is...”
– The Ethics of Belief (via nelix)
August 2008
51 posts
Urban Dictionary: yaye →