] Check boxes if:
] 1) You will be 65 or older on January 1, 2006
] 2) You are blind

... yes, this is on the website!

2005 Withholding Calculator

] If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next
] to the name of each person with an MBA, you'll learn
] something important about business school. You don't even
] hit an MBA till number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike.
] There are only four MBAs in the top 50. What you notice
] in the Forbes 400 are a lot of people with technical
] backgrounds. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison,
] Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Gordon Moore. The rulers of the
] technology business tend to come from technology, not
] business. So if you want to invest two years in something
] that will help you succeed in business, the evidence
] suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an
] MBA. [3]

A long article, but worth every word. Takes some of the myth and shines a light on the fears of starting a company: finding the right people, VC, doing "business," etc.

How to Start a Startup

k wrote:
] ] Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith was
] ] interviewed by CBS' 60 Minutes and says the third and
] ] final prequel will not likely receive the PG rating the
] ] previous five films have received.
] ]
] ] "I don't think I would take a five- or a six-year-old to
] ] this," says Lucas, "It's way too strong."
]
] [ Note that just because a movie is PG doesn't mean it has to
] be childish and silly.

Movie rating does factor in to what movies I want to see. For example, I refused to see AVP, because I felt with such an intense back history, the story could not be told properly and still have a PG-13 rating. Higher ratings typically translates into more mature or adult story line.

That said, there are times when I will see a movie and be shocked by just how good it was. National Treasure was a good example of this. Even though it was PG, tt had a nice dash of history, some fun break-in and chase scenes, and I really enjoyed it.

RE: Ep III to be PG-13 (gasp!)

] This is a clothing label from a small American company
] that sells their product in France.
]
] Here's the translation of the French part of the label.
]
] * Wash with warm water.
] * Use mild soap.
] * Dry flat.
] * Do not use bleach.
] * Do not dry in the dryer.
] * Do not iron.
] * We are sorry that Our President is an idiot.
] * We did not vote for him.

Saw this on Kobi's (baudburn's) blog

Tag: We are sorry that Our President is an idiot.

alex crimmins wrote:

]hello, my name is alex. i found your website about the backddor
]password and i have a few questions. i programmed the stuff into
]my ti 84+ and the first program, "fortres", worked fine. the
]second one on the other hand give me the same message when i try to
]use it, "err: syntax". i dont know why it is doing this. i have
]tried it many times, and had my friend jack make sure i programmed
]it right. i even re-programmed it to make sure. and i was also
]wondering when i run the first program is says, "acidus fortres
]cracker?" then i put a number in, i have been using 1 for the
]number, and i was wondering if there is a specific number i need to
]use. please email me back, it would be really appreciated. thank
]you

Dear Alex,

I am not going to tell you the specific number you need to put in. I am sorry the program doesn't work for you. The instructions on how to use the program, as well as the input you need to make it work are well documented on my website and elsewhere on the Internet.

Alex, the very fact you have to ask me this question means you don't have a single clue as to what you are doing. Instead of trying to hack your middle school's computers by reading some article you obviously didn't understand and typing in a program that you have no idea what it does, try something else. Like basketball. Or maybe field hockey. Because Alex, at least for right now, hacking computers is not for you. You are going to get caught. Or run some program which destroys something. Or you'll email someone asking about a program and they will send you something that will crash your machine. Or it will install a keylog to capture your parents banking info and relay spam for some crazy Russian. If you continue blindly doing this, you are going to hurt someone or destroy something, when all you really wanted to do is have fun.

Suddenly Alex, you are yet another 13 year old kid who, while not really wanting to do anything "bad" and really not doing all that much damage, will appear on my local nightly news cast. I'll hear some District Attorney who is eyeing the governors office and wants to make an example of you, telling the talking heads that you are a cyber terrorist. And then my friend, you will get fucked. You will be fucked beyond your wildest dreams. And when John Q Public turns on his TV at night at hears some self-important DA telling them to thank the sweet lord Jesus they stopped the evil Alex before he stole 500,000 credit card numbers and started world war 3, then Alex, John Q Public gets pretty damn scared. And when that happens we get Congress passing poorly-worded bullshit laws. And that effects me.

Alex, you might think I am being an asshole, you might think I am being some 31337 hax0r pig, but trust me I am saving you from a world of hurt. You need to take my email address and you need to rip it up. You need to tell your friend Jack that he needs to stop. Because you don't know what you are doing and from what I can tell you are not smart enough to *not* fuck up your future.

I don't want to see you on the news Alex, so stop the bullshit and start thinking.
Acidus

] Magnetic Stripe Snooping at Home

[ Billy makes the front page of /. Go billy! -k]

I was rather surprised myself. When SS was /.ed in August, I had submitted the link, and it was a slow news day. I imagine this was because of the Make article (and hence the credit to Billy Hoffman).

On a side note I received my copy of Make last week and it really is damn cool. Excellent layout, beautiful graphics. People should check it out.

StripeSnoop on /.

Nice reference for MLA style bibliographies.

Bibliography Style Handbook

] "The only time I saw Bill Gates was at the building
] dedication," said Google founder Sergey Brin. "Gates was
] coming down the hall with the department chairman and he
] asked 'What operating system do you have running on all
] these PCs?' Well of course they were all running Linux,
] but the chairman kind of coughed and said the department
] used many different operating systems."

'What OS do those PCs run?'

I just totally wasted a CS Theory test. [Dances] I am the king of Algorithm design!

We use CLRS's White Book (And its scary that I am actually understanding it now, as math and I are not on a first name basis).

Course curriculum: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2005/cs3510_spring/lectures.html

] 4. Remove every extraneous word
]
] You want to get up on a soapbox and preach? Fine. Get one
] and try your local park. You want to write for money? Get
] to the point. And if you remove all the excess garbage
] and discover you can't find the point, tear up what you
] wrote and start all over again . . . or try something
] new.

... uhhhh I like Steven King and all, but I can think of several of his books that are a few hundred pages too long. He'll have a good plot point or situation, and repeat it... for...ever...

Why wouldn't this rock bleed?

Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes (Stephen King)