Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
This reminds me of a depressing episode with a friend of mine, who had to help a panicked woman get into her car after the batteries in her remote died. She apparently didn’t realize that the ignition key — attached to the same keychain as the remote — could also open the door. The article …
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Just goes to show that armed robbers aren’t, as they say, “ze smelliest fish in ze drawer.” 😉
Apparently the only thing preventing IPv6 from taking over was a lack of support from peer-to-peer file sharing programs. Whatever works, I guess.
Interesting article. It makes a good point, and one that I (and apparently most other people too) hadn’t consciously considered before: [C]onsumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended …
This might be the original “rule of thumb.” I can see how it would work in theory, but I’m not sure I’d trust it in practice.
Like many boys, I spent quite a bit of time in my younger years trying to figure out how to throw a knife so that it would stick in whatever I was throwing it at, to no avail. Maybe this will help answer the question for future generations… though I shudder to think of the …
Hm… so, at least in South Africa, carrier pigeons are faster than broadband data connections. And 4GB in two hours is a very respectable bandwidth, too. I wonder if this was RFC 1149-compatible? 😉 (More on it here. I’m not surprised that someone else made the same connection, though I am surprised that no one …
Nuts and bolts? How twentieth-century! These days we just Velcro bridges together!
Um… isn’t that kind of assumed? 😉
I’ve long suspected something like this too. Depression just didn’t make sense unless it offers some kind of survival benefit.