U.S. Accidentally Releases List of Nuclear Sites... oh, brother....

U.S. Accidentally Releases List of Nuclear Sites - NYTimes.com

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I want to believe...

Military: US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft

It's a late night at M$ (again)...

It's a late night at M$ (again)...

Abaddon wrote:
so yesterday I asked Vanessa to marry me and she said yes! I'm so happy and excited, so spread the word...the wedding will probably be sometime in fall of 2008, other than that I don't really have any details yet...

--Mike

Congratulations! Marriage is an awesome expression of love and a great way to grow as people. I hope that you two are very happy.

RE: I'm engaged

Very cool...

"Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."

Slashdot | Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows

thanok wrote:
Background Check - Resources the no.1 source of Public records in the Internet. Background Check Anyone in United States.

Hmmm... let's see. "We are in a hazardous environment so taking a closer look at the people you associate yourself with can be a good idea."

Well, $50.00 isn't exactly cheap, but it would be nice to take a closer look at the people that I (am going to) associate with. :)

RE: Background Check Anyone - No.1 Source of Public Records

Acidus wrote:

There is an elusive euphoria stage of Red Bull consumption where you are unbelievably productive and yet task that seemly take hours take only about 27 minutes or so. That was the odd thing. It always seemed 27 minutes later. I like to call this stage "Fry-Time" in reference to that Futurama episode where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee and time slows to a crawl. Fry-Time occurs only in a narrow band on the line between total exhaustion and caffeine-induced heart attack and is a difficult stage to reach. I've hit Fry-Time maybe 3-4 times ever. 2 of those times have happened in the last 2 weeks.

Then, there is the "attention deficient disordering" stage. This stage occurs beyond Fry-Time and before the caffeine-induced heart attack phase. In this phase, you want to be productive. You are aware of all the work you need to accomplish as well as its importance. You feel motivated and excited about all your projects. In fact, it feels like you are in the Fry-Time stage. But you aren't. You are ADDing. Because as soon as you try to do something. You can't. Halfway through your brain jumps to thinking about another task and you stall. Its like OS scheduler that has so many jobs to do it spends all it time context switching instead of actually making any progress on any of them. This is an extremely frustrating phase because you know what's happening. And the very act of noticing that you are being scattered brained brings to mind all the tasks you still need to do which makes you think about how cool some of them are and suddenly you aren't doing any more work on whatever it was you were working on. You've context switched to another job.

What a cool description of something that I've tried to verbalize to others regarding energy and caffiene drinks. Red Bull is certainly safer than Jolt, which used to be a teeth-hurting mainstay for me.

RE: Taming the Bull

Palindrome wrote:

Catonic wrote:
Damn.

Here's to you Mr. Wizard. Thanks for the introduction to science.

I second that emotion!!This is very sad news!

That was one of the coolest shows when I was a kid. It's sad that my kids will never see him.

He'll be missed.

RE: 'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89 - Los Angeles Times

adam wrote:

Jello wrote:

SierraNightTide wrote:
As children, we live boldly, seldom afraid or embarrassed to seek out what we want or to speak our minds. As we grow older, we tend to fold our inquisitive and creative minds and place them into a secret drawer while we chase career opportunities. Most times, or at least for most people we leave the drawer untouched, afraid that it might obstruct us in our career success as we conform to society’s acceptance of living.

Are you kidding? As a child I was terrified to be different. As an adult I came into my weirdness.

my bouts of psychosis have taught me the value of being normal (something often much underrated [people scoff and laugh at "the straight world" without understanding that they're often the median and core of our civilisation and usually they're honest, decent and tolerant]). I have also learnt that if i want to be tolerated i must tolerate in return.
Although it has to be said that different cultures have different attitudes towards conformity. I am lucky enough to be English and in my culture the eccentric is often valued.

There were times growing up where I revelled in being different. I think when you "grow up" you are supposed to lose your imagination, your sense of curiosity and your dreams. This should never be the case. People like us need to not worry about what "society" thinks about our idiosyncrasies.

If we look at the "normal" world, we see a lot of people who, at least on the surface, appear to be well adjusted, productive menbers of society. These are the people to watch out for. These are the people that we find out are the psychopaths, etc.

RE: The Difficulty of Being Different

The initiative is being spearheaded by the SANS Software Security Institute, which this year plans to offer a series of tests designed to measure an individual's ability to identify software programming errors that contribute to security holes

Interesting... a test for your coding skills.

Prove that your code-fu is 31337!