openfly | 15 years ago | on: The Trouble With Meritocracy
Some would argue even democracy could not accommodate such things.
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openfly | 15 years ago | on: China Builds Enormous Optimus Prime Transformer
If they leave it at our gates, we probably shouldn't bring it inside... there could be more than meets the eye.
I'd down mod myself if I could.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen
On the negative side, the potential use of an engine as advanced as this in the world of 3D porn will almost certainly result in more furry sex.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
If not for the liberal use of cameras the world would never have heard of Neda in Iran. The US is effectively on a path to making it illegal to spread truth... maybe it is just a small sliver of truth. But I would rather be judged on that small sliver of truth than end up in a situation where it is my word against a police officer.
It's an interesting question though.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
The cops in all these cases should be charged with treason.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings
This is awesome, I'd love to see it done with mario mushrooms =P Progressive mushroom abuse leads to one long never ending trip...
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Netflix is coming to Canada this fall
Today it's netflix. Tomorrow they will throw off the yolk of British imperialism and embrace the inalienable rights to freedom that we've longed to share with them.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What web apps do you pay for?
flickr. that's about it.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
It's a spring chicken compared to Enlightenment.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: How can I get addicted to programming?
Kill your television.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: NASA to deploy PostgreSQL/Nagios on Space Station
NASA's commitment to open source is fairly great. And, postgresql is a really great database. If you haven't used it before, I highly recommend giving it a run.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Android PHP option planned for Javaphobes
Why can't they just let us us a gcc toolchain and be done with it.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access
Neat. Similar idea but definitely different.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Trail blazing innovators - Use Emacs
vi vs emacs war plz 2 not have.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access
It looks like a user could reset an environment variable, resulting in convincing the PAM module ( running as root ) to write a file somewhere the user should not be able to write. I assume since this could allow root access, it can overwrite something that can be executed as root by another process.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay
I read "The Search for God and Guinness", fun read even if you aren't religious ( I am not ):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20861910/The-Search-for-God-and-Gu...
Just saw this, I haven't given it a listen yer, but I do intend to. Looks fun:
http://www.thedigitalhubelevate.com/memoirs_of_guinness
Also Guinness makes their employment archives available to descendents of past workers, which is pretty neat:
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm
I agree.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: 'Robin Sage' Profile Duped Military Intelligence, IT Security Pro
ROFL this finally hit the news? I remember grilling the guy who invented her about her trying to friend me on facebutt. She's awesome.
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Prince: "The Internet's completely over,"
Pancakes...
openfly | 15 years ago | on: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
The only thing I dislike about the beagle board is that the generation 1 had a faulty USB interface. Also the Serial Connection is a 9 pin. I'd rather they just let me use a standard ft cable.
=/ Arm units are definitely cool. Look at the maple leaf, and other Arm 3 based units. Very very cheap stuff. Very very powerful.
Arm is definitely seizing control of the embedded device market, and linux with it.
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