The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
-- Bertrand Russell
Archive of posts filed under the Computing category.
Quote of the Day
Captcha FAIL
(via Bad Astronomy)
dms.h
Looks like someone is actually using some free software I developed.
It’s like this some days…
xkcd: Computer Problems
Classmate.com still sucks!
As if there is any doubt classmates.com sucks… Classmates to pay up to $9.5m to settle suit over phantom friends Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school [...]
MySpace CEO resigns
MySpace CEO resigns after less than a year He resigned when it finally dawned on him that he was CEO of Myspace. I was just over at Myspace. What a shitty, filthy neighborhood that has become. Street performers, hookers and runaways everywhere. — Marc Maron Someday, I want to go to a site that proclaims [...]
Astronauts now able to access porn from space
NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection. Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system Friday, when [...]
HAL’s Birthday
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you. — HAL 9000 (2001: A [...]
How Fanboys See Operating Systems
(via email)
Black Screen of Death
Malware suspected of ‘Black Screen’ issue Malware has been blamed for a problem with the Windows 7 operating system, dubbed the ‘Black Screen of Death’. Some Windows users are confronted by a totally black screen after they log on to their system. Initially it was thought that Microsoft’s own security update could have caused the [...]
