JavaScript has come a long way.
Running Linux in Your Browser
17. May, 2011
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How Your CV Could Look Like
12. May, 2011If you’re like me, then you’re also struggling with your CV. What to write? What to omit? Does that sound too bashful? Or too timid?
How about this one: Hagan Blount CV.
My next CV will probably not look like this but it sure got me thinking …
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Aspiring Writer
6. April, 2011Old but still great:
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define “great” he said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level. Stuff that will make them scream, cry, and howl in pain and anger!”He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
Source: Microsoft jokes
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Too Much Time on Your Hands? Try Minecraft
28. March, 2011I’m addicted to a new game: Minecraft.
It’s a bit like Lego: Everything is a brick, simple rules, no documentation. Unlike Lego, you got lots of bricks. Lots. The levels are huge.
I actually managed to get lost once. Fortunately, I built my house on the highest mountain that I could find (even above the cloud layer). Right now, I’m turning the mountain into a Swiss cheese 🙂
Besides carving your dreams out of a huge pile of rock, you can create stuff in a “crafting area” in your inventory. So far, I managed to craft shovels, hoes, picks, axes, stone, a bucket and a mine shaft trolley.
What can I do with leather?
Nah, don’t tell me, I’ll figure it out myself.
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Urban Hacking
17. March, 2011
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You like to hack the world? But graffiti feels too destructive?
Now there is another option: LED throwies. They are relatively easy to make, non-destructive and shiny.
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Fail Compilations
4. March, 2011Need a good, hysteric laugh? Watch TwisterNederland7’s monthly Fail Compilations. Ten minutes of good, political incorrect fun.
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Dilbert’s Boss is Right Once
21. February, 2011For the first time, Dilbert’s Boss gets something right: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-02-20/
At last: Filing patents is been patented!
11. January, 2011Just before the end of last year, a gaping hole has been closed in the struggle to turn the world in a lawyer’s playground: IBM has filed a patent that patents filing patents.
Whenever you apply for a new patent, you’ll have to pay royalties to IBM! It’s like the invention of the self-printing money! Well done! 🙂
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Funny comic against racism
5. January, 2011Imagine there was a place where animals were sentient. Cats, dogs, mice, pigs, lions, deer, sharks, mantis, bears, you name it. Imagine a family: Father is a rabbit, mother a wolf. They have three children: A hedgehog (adopted), a wolf (from a former marriage of the mother) and now a bunny.
Did I mention that predators eat their usual prey? As in “wolf eats hares.” And now, we even have a human toddler. Girlfriends with extremely good hearing. A cat that sells cars which run from static electricity produced as the driver rubs his/her fur against the seat. A wolf that acts as Easter Bunny. A carnivorous bunny. Safety rules when hugging hedgehogs. A company called “Herd Thinners” that does just that: Bring down prey for the impaired or lazy predators that hunt in a supermarket. There is yearly migration, a sentient tree, swapped princesses, hibernation. Mixed classes mean: Insects, birds, mammals – everything but fish. At least as long as you stay out of the sea. Natural job for a shark? Lawyer.
At least, if your wife doesn’t like the flowers, the husband can eat them.
And best of all: The comic is even better than my description. Say hello to Kevin & Kell. Start here.
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When Laziness Gets Expensive
9. May, 2011According to heise online (German, video in English), Professor Dr. Eugene Spafford estimates the costs Sony‘s EPIC FAIL to secure their PSN servers to be 21 billion dollars.
Wow. 21 … fucking … BILLION … dollars. That’s 70’000’000 PS3s. 70 million PS3s. 36 million iPhone 4s. 700’000 cars at $30’000/each. They must be doing pretty well to be able to afford such a loss.
And it’s not that they didn’t see it coming. Sony knew for months that their servers were outdated and missing crucial security patches. Well, someone decided that it wasn’t worth to fix that. So: EPIC FAIL. Again. And again. Will they ever learn?
That feels like the same arrogance which led to the lawsuit against geohot and graf_chokolo. Which probably made someone on the Internet so angry that they decided to give Sony this wedgy. Message to Sony: It’s not smart to be arrogant in the face of overwhelming odds.
You have, say, 1’000 people working to protect your assets. The world has a population of 7 billion (and you just lost 3 dollars to every and each of them) and the probability that one of them can kick you where it really hurts is about 1. At least.
Of course, the company is now using all its power to hunt down the little bastard. Sony, if you read this: Don’t be surprised if a 13-year old kid outwitted your whole security team.
Or rather the manager, who told the team not to fix those servers. But no, managers are never wrong. So the team must be punished. Fire them! All of them! Without supper! Serves them right! And don’t forget to sue the kid! Sue him to hell! Make sure he is not allowed to touch an electronic device ever again. EVER! It’s not your fault what happened! Try to create more DMCA-like laws! So you can sue more people! Get your engineering team to build a time traveling device so you can sue in advance! Force parents to divorce so they can’t breed anything threatening your revenue! Show the world who’s boss! Dictatorships never worked before but that should not stop you! It should rather encourage you! Grow by setting challenging goals!
See where the leads and why you can never win?
Making the world-wide security community hate you even more is your best bet! Trust me, I know at least as well as the guy who created this mess. And you trusted him, didn’t you?
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