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Morons oppose security
Today, ImageShack was hacked by some anonymous children seeking to get their manifesto out there. If nothing else, it does a good job of showing off that the differently-abled can still master basic computer security tools ( Read more... ) -
On critique
With the recent spate of money-making, blockbuster films that are heaping piles of suck, people complain that it's unfair to call a movie bad- it's just opinion. There are no objective standards ( Read more... ) -
Idea Mining
So, I've been doing "this thing", the thing being "idea mining". I'm the sort of person that gets all sorts of random ideas during the day. At the time, they always strike me as interesting, but they're always transient. Idea appears, it looks interesting, and then it's forgotten as I go back to the actual task at hand ( Read more... ) -
Ship of Theseus
The Ship of Theseus is one of those old philosophical saws. It came up in conversation the other day, and so I skimmed the Wikipedia article, only to be surprised that none of the sources cited took the same attack to the problem that seemed intuitive to me ( Read more... ) -
Safe Communications
Given the events transpiring in Iran, now's a good time for more people to fire up Tor, an "onion router". Essentially, it's a Peer-to-Peer anonymizer that helps keep your Internet traffic confidential. The more peers on the Tor network, the better the network performs and the more anonymous it is ( Read more... ) -
Riots in Iran
At this very moment, things are spiraling out of control in Iran. Frightened by a suddenly politically active youth bloc, the government did the only thing you can do if you're a repressive, theocratic, and generally vile government: it tampered with the election results. It didn't just tamper- "tampering" implies that they wanted to conceal their ( Read more... ) -
Would you like some money for doing nothing? No? Well fuck you then.
Minna and I haven't been too hot on buying a house. We're saving a big wad, and waiting for the right thing to come along. We're not going to stress about it, we're not going to angst over it. Our apartment is nice, cheap, and enough for anything we need ( Read more... ) -
On the Order Of
Programmers, when they're really concerned with being efficient, will often start talking about "Big O" or "Order". There's a lot of interesting math behind this, but what it boils down to is a very simple concept- how many operations does it take to solve a certain problem, using a certain algorithm? I'm going to simplify things here, ignore the ( Read more... )
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