November 2011
3 posts
Mobile Malware Development Continues To Rise,...
What happens when anyone can develop and publish an application to the Android Market? A 472% increase in Android malware samples since July 2011. These days, it seems all you need is a developer account, that is relatively easy to anonymize, pay $25 and you can post your applications. With no upfront review process, no one checking to see that your application does what it says, just the...
Fake Science : Why Does Daylight Savings Time End?
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Comic Sands
Client: “The layout is pretty spot on, but the hooky letters—” Me: “The font, you mean?” Client: “Yes, the font. It’s too snooty. It’s not any fun.” Me: “I think it makes everything look quite professional.” Client: “It’s too cold… What’s that sand one I like? With the sand letters. Me: “I have no idea. I mean, I vaguely recall something called sand, but—” Client: “Comic sands! That’s it....
October 2011
5 posts
The formula for pizza!
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GEEKS ON BOARD a documentary on Vimeo
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irony-when life imitates art.
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Language Log » Three logicians walk into a bar
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xkcd: Eternal Flame
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Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote...
It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the...
September 2011
6 posts
Final night in house, for real this time, I think
My house is going up for auction tomorrow, for the seventh time or so, so I’m still not convinced it will happen. For the back story, read all the previous posts that mention “nomad”. I’ve decided to completely move out, so that the final transition will be easier. I’m moving two guys (both named Eric) into the place. In exchange for just paying the utility...
Oracle adding close source extensions to MySQL
What is most important to understand about an Open Core project is that it has nothing to do with an open source project. If you are depending on a single closed source component then you have to regard the whole project as a closed source project as you lose all the benefits of open source: You are depending on one vendor. You can’t do any bug fixes yourself and you can’t contract...
Vader Lumburgh
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Fake Science : Protect Against Hangovers
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BFE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The acronym BFE can stand for: Broad Future Education, a private tutorial school in Vancouver and Shanghai Bacterial Filtration Efficiency, a measurement of filtration efficiency of filtration systems such as surgical face masks. Base Flood Elevation, a level set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency based on 100 year flood models. Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit - Special...
August 2011
23 posts
China renames mountain after Avatar movie to...
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Screenshot of Steve Jobs's calendar
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Uninstalling Dictators... please wait...
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How to make your shopping cart suck less (via The...
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The Psychology of Color – Must See for Web...
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Of Empty Threats And Even Emptier Stores (from...
(I work at a large bookstore which is in the process of liquidation sales. One of the rules of this sale is that we don’t take any returns. There are huge signs all over the store that say, “Going out of business.”) Customer: “I want to return this book, but I don’t have the receipt.” Me: “I’m very sorry, ma’am, but we are no longer accepting returns since the store is closing.” Customer:...
"MySpace homepage goes down" - did anyone even...
MySpace’s usual homepage was replaced this evening with a puzzling message, leading many (including this reporter) to initially believe the site may have been hacked. That apparently was not the case. Visitors to the social network were greeted by a largely blank page topped with the browser title bar that read “All is wrong :(” where the MySpace name would normally appear....
New leukemia treatment exceeds 'wildest...
The Penn scientists targeted chroniclymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of the blood disease. It strikes some 15,000 people in the United States, mostly adults, and kills 4,300 every year. Chemotherapy and radiation can hold this form of leukemia at bay for years, but until now the only cure has been a bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant requires a suitable match, works...
London rioters took everything... except books?
In London in 2011, however, bibliophiles can breathe easy: despite the riots, books have tended to stay safely on their shelves, their subtle power blithely overlooked. When it comes to targets for looters, books are losing out to high-end jeans and Apple-made gadgets. One waggish employee at a Waterstones in Manchester reportedly declared they would remain open despite the ruckus. “If they steal...
New Zealand Mint to release Star Wars characters...
First ReleaseLegal Tender About the Design New Zealand Mint is proud to launch one of cinema’s most enduring and beloved franchises, Star Wars, as a legal tender coin set. These coin series will be hugely popular for both Star Wars devotees and coin-collectors alike. The first series includes ten Silver Plated base metal coins. A total of 40 coins will be released...
A compelling reason for Perl6
First, Perl6 is not “the next Perl5”. Perl5 will be alive and well for another decade at least, independently maintained and released. That’s happening quite efficiently and effectively already. (Translated: “I will quite possibly be able to continue making money off Perl5 for years to come”.) So, what is Perl6 then? It’s a different language. Businesses...
In Praise of Perl and the Llama (a review of my...
What? another book on learning Perl ? But,I thought that Perl was dead! On the contrary, Perl is alive and well as demonstrated by Perl Myths (http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/03/08/perl-myths/) But, are people in this age of VM’s and PHP ruling the Internet still using Perl? Indeed yes: Perl is recognized as a force by the industry as demonstrated by 25 Reasons Why Perl Keeps Rising...
Airflowing (creative team management) launches...
Today is a special day at flowing because we are starting commercial operations. It’s a long awaited moment for us, so we wanted to share some happiness :D So we’re starting to sell our main service. You can reach airflowing here and see its plans and pricing here but we are not making a big deal about this technical fact. Actually we are conveniently using the natural obscurity of a...
The Downside of Stealing in a Small Market
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Rockwall Accident Miracle - YouTube
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Be the first of your friends to like this post!
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McDonalds Wi-Fi Guide. Windows VS Mac
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Easy being green, it is not.
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Aragorn is one smart cookie
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Netflix Relief Fund
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Apple vanishes MySQL from Mac OS X Lion Server...
But Padir and Doherty also argue that separate from any legal threat, Oracle’s approach is open source development is, at best, unclear. “The roadmap of MySQL is uncertain,” Padir says. “Sun had an open source strategy. Oracle’s strategy is all about business.” Padir points out that Postgres is under a BSD-style license, which is more lenient than the GPL....
All The Cool Kids Use Ruby
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Why Canadians aren't allowed to use tarsnap - an...
Why are citizens and residents of Canada not allowed to use Tarsnap? What do you have against Canucks? I don’t have anything against Canadians — in fact, I am one. I do have something against sales tax. Dealing with federal and provincial sales taxes would not only mean dealing with extra paperwork; it would also mean figuring out whether the government considers me to be ...
July 2011
19 posts
Not bad for "free" wifi at a bar... 33 megabits...
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There’s Yer Culprit - a graphic of US creditors...
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jobs.perl.org: 20+ PERL DEVELOPERS NEEDED IN...
We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, Mason, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more! Our software development basis is SCRUM = Agile Are you ready to relocate to a beautiful, vibrant city in Europe and join an international, result driven, fun & dynamic work environment? Because of our continuing growth we are in search of 20+ Perl Developers for our headquarters in...
India Government’s Use of Hotmail, Gmail ‘Recipe...
Singh’s staff’s use of a free e-mail account is typical of most government workers, who log into Hotmail, Google Inc.’s Gmail and Yahoo! Inc.’s e-mail to conduct official business. They also list those addresses on agency websites and business cards. Bureaucrats avoid the government system because it covers only 10 percent of federal employees, doesn’t include the latest security patches...
New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio...
Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. Arnebeck asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to “input data” and thus alter the results of Ohio’s 2004 election. Spoonamore responded: “Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which...
But, isn't that what the escalators become when...
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Filed in the "say what??" department: Northeast...
NEW YORK (AP) — The extreme heat that’s been roasting the eastern U.S. is only expected to get worse, and residents are bracing themselves for temperatures near and above boiling point. via news.yahoo.com Yes, that’s how it reads. “near and above the boiling point”. Read the comment thread as well. Posted via email from The Posterior of Randal...
TSA tests "next generation" detection equipment
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I touched the Lion. Nothing happened. False...
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Who is this? Old movie from 20s or 30s projecting...
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Coming soon to git - "generation numbers" (says...
Ok, so I see that the old discussion about generation numbers has resurfaced. And I have to say, with six years of git use, I think it’s not a coincidence that the notion of generation numbers has come up several times over the years: I think the lack of them is literally the only real design mistake we have. And I absolutely *detest* the generation number cache thing I see on the...
@zaphodharkonnen There is nothing in this...
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World Blog - Is high security backfiring in U.S.?
I’d never been through one of the machines that takes somewhat-but-not-that-blurred naked images in the United States before. I’d only been in one in Iraq. In Baghdad, I had to go through an earlier model of the machine before I was allowed to enter a courtroom for the trial of Saddam Hussein. That seemed reasonable at the time. There were millions of Iraqis who wanted to kill Saddam, or to at...