March 2009
50 posts
Miru Kim's Nude Self Portraits : Blog :... →
Get naked in drains!
Solving the 'problem' of 'child porn'
09-03-27 01: 15 < david> lol
09-03-27 01: 15 < david> now hold on
09-03-27 01: 16 < david> this could all be solved by a much simpler solution
09-03-27 01: 16 < david> outlaw cameras!
09-03-27 01: 16 < david> although only outlaws will have cameras then... hmm
09-03-27 01: 18 jessta starts mixing up egg whites
09-03-27 01: 20 < jessta> probably better ban eggs and glass
09-03-27 01: 20 < david> aight, i've got it - all light waves of a visible wavelength are banned within australia
09-03-27 01: 20 < david> that covers the visible component of child porn
09-03-27 01: 20 < jessta> we could just cut everybody's eyes out at birth
09-03-27 01: 21 < jessta> ...or we could just ban children
09-03-27 01: 21 < david> lmao
09-03-27 01: 21 < david> that wold solve it
09-03-27 01: 21 < jessta> it's much easier
“…because a new law required them to increase the length of time that a...”
– Cities Upset That Increasing Yellow Light Time Length Reduces ‘Revenue’ | Techdirt
“I have this problem…when I meet new people, I don’t realise, always,...”
– YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
libexplain 0.9 →
‘I think it’s totally awesome, in the category of “why hasn’t this existed for n years” awesome.’ — Parker san
“There is something incredibly...”
– Hacker News | Zed Shaw’s Free Hackers Union
South Oak Cliff High School 'held cage fights for... →
STEEL CAGE MATCH!
The Freehacker's Union →
Should do something like this.
Silent victims opt for jobs over workplace... →
Standing up for one’s rights has always resulted in negative consequences. But the consequences of not doing it are worse.
macuyiko:
Exploit in Intel CPUs found to allow a very stealthy rootkit… uh-oh! http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825
Oh, that’s fairly ungood.
“This external public display of soft porn contributes to the unwanted...”
– News.com.au
Oh shit! We don’t want children to think that sex is normal, or that stripping is a legitimate career they might start thinking and making choices for themselves…and it’s all down hill from there.
File systems and 'binary blobs' →
“If the only effective way to use your filesystem is to use a database instead, then that indicates that you have not written a filesystem that is useful to typical application developers who enjoy…
“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sun newspaper doesn't know what the internet... →
dawnowar:
Reblogged from onemoretimewithfeeling who got it from michaelikesit:
“But rather than cashing in on his invention, selfless Sir Tim, 53, set up a foundation in 1994 to ensure the web was free for everyone to use.”
And for that, Sir, we thank you.
The Internet(started in ~1969) is much older than 20 years and is a world wide inter-connecting TCP/IP network. Sir Tim Berners Lee...
“The laws are designed to dismantle criminal bikie gangs by declaring illegal the...”
– Bikie gangs unite to protest South Australia’s anti-bikie laws |News.com.au
Outlawing symbols and people association with symbols is ridiculous
Unit Testing: first or last?
drealmer:
Testing is good, and so is unit testing. But how beneficial is TDD? TDD implies that you write the tests first, then write the code that satisfies them. A study from 2005 compared the results from a small sample of two CS student teams, one doing TDD and the other one writing tests after the code. It showed interesting results, but it’s not easy to figure out a conclusion, and it seems...
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Writing lengthy philosophical or argumentative messages to babes on okcupid
Plan to warn women of violent men and monitor... →
“Jacqui Smith told the Observer that serial perpetrators of domestic violence could be monitored in a similar way to paedophiles, allowing police to identify and alert any new partners to their records in the hope of preventing future abuse.”
Sounds like it would prevent future abuse, by preventing future relationships. Obviously a person acting in a manner that violates other’s...
“Call me paranoid but finding ‘/*’ inside this comment makes me...”
– C Compiler Errors (For Real). [rec.humor.funny]
“I run Bingo Card Creator, which makes educational bingo cards for teachers and...”
– How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software
WTF? People pay for that kind of stuff?
“Clause 8 of the Abortion Law Reform Act, passed by the Victorian Parliament in...”
– Abortion law under challenge | theage.com.au
That’s kind of screwed up, what a stupid clause.
PETA Hires Strippers for New Anti-Fur Ad Campaign →
(via sooshi)
wait what? Who’s being exploited? You don’t know these women, you don’t know how they feel about their place of work. But obviously because they are women they must be being exploited, because everyone knows that women are completely powerless and unable to help themselves.
“He began medical training and, during an internship at a hospital, he was...”
– John Backus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Little man computer - Wikipedia, the free... →
mike's web log - Simple stupid →
“When in doubt, simplify: Worried you’re not using the right words? Use simpler words.”
“This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My computer...”
– Microserfs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scooping the Loop Snooper — Geoffrey K. Pullum →
fab13n comments on C++? Really? Is using C++ a... →
February 2009
62 posts
macuyiko:
My main hard drive is failing… I’m losing faith in WD.
You should probably have more than one ‘main hard drive’, hard drives fail no matter which brand you buy and they all have warranties that cover their expected life time(usually 3yrs).