I'm sorry I'm showing such a complete lack of remorse
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The ponies learned that their saronite shoes were not RoHS compliant and had a huge carbon footprint. So, they’ve switched to Five Fingers and Birkenstocks. They’ve also been studying the post-apocalyptic arts, because fortune favors the prepared.
Posted in Tech.
– July 19, 2011
I’m going to try and coin a new abbreviation, which I’ll explain for delicate readers as “WTF” Moment Explained. Had a conversation the other day where one of the people said something to the effect that “Barack Obama is dumb because he thinks there are 52 states.” I thought, “huh?” Turns out that was a reference to a campaign flub late in the last presidential run. Snopes.com has as good a rundown as any, including the actual video clip. Turns out there’s not much “there” there– despite whatever may have gotten churned up in some folks minds (apparently some have even taken this slip-up as evidence that Obama’s a Muslim), this pretty much sums it up:
The actual intent behind Senator Obama’s misstatement is easy to discern without the need to invoke an obscure international organization. He was trying to express the thought that in all the time he had spent on the campaign trail so far in 2007-08, he had visited all (48) of the states in the continental U.S. save for one (i.e., “one left to go,” excluding Alaska and Hawaii), but in his weariness he slipped up and started off with “fifty” instead of “forty.” (Note the long pause in the video clip between the words “fifty” and “seven.”)
Posted in Uncategorized.
– July 19, 2011
That and we can’t eat a slice of pizza now without thinking about this:
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Posted in Uncategorized.
– July 19, 2011
France’s new data retention law requires online service providers to retain databases of their users’ addresses, real names and passwords, and to supply these to police on demand. Leaving aside the risk of retaining all this personal information (identity thieves, stalkers, etc — that which isn’t stored can’t be stolen and leaked), there’s the risk of requiring providers to store plaintext unhashed passwords, as Bruce Schneier points out.
“unhashed” of course meaning “unencrypted”. “In the clear”. “Ripe for the picking.” This idea is, how you say, “trés stupide.” I can’t imagine that tech companies all over France aren’t now looking to move their operations elsewhere.
Posted in Tech.
– April 12, 2011
I doubt I’ll ever need this, but it looked so easy how could I not implement a cache system for the blog?
Posted in Tech.
– April 7, 2011
I know this isn’t his style, but dear god I would love for Obama to get in touch with his inner Jules next time he meets with Republicans to discuss the budget.
Posted in Politics.
– April 5, 2011
Yes, they really tore apart the cover, which is apparently a one-way trip. It’s interesting to see how the magic is done on it– there are more magnets than I would have expected.
…and yes, “magic.” I think Apple’s been a little silly with their prolific use of the word lately, but the cover does at first appear magical to me.
Posted in Tech.
– March 14, 2011
Wisconsin Republicans have succeeded in passing a bill that strips collective bargaining rights from public-sector unions. They did this by removing it from the overall budget bill, proving the lie that this has had anything to do with fiscal issues and everything to do with union-busting. The link above will provide a handy way for you to support the budding recall effort against the appropriate WI Republican senators and eventually Gov. Walker. We’ve already thrown in some cash.
My thoughts? This is the Republican M.O. Pick an issue that people don’t really support, lie about it repeatedly to try and build support. If that doesn’t work, shove the measure through using whatever means necessary. Frankly, I had expected them to pull another middle of the night vote on this one. Not to put too fine a point on it, but modern Republicans will not rest until this country is a dystopia featuring the worst elements of Dickens and Orwell.
Posted in Politics.
– March 10, 2011
