I find the idea of old photo/data degradation strangely comforting. Even digital data seems to be unable to escape the law of entropy (don't mention the black holes). On another note; if corrupting data/photos was a…
I grew up, not with the satan idea, but was told that there was a relation between the apostle Peter and the symbol. The reason for that was that Peter was crucified upsidedown. They argued why someone would use it as a…
In the past, you could program on the C64 in a kind of symbol code. The keys on the C64 had all graphics symbols on them (ascii?) and if you used them while programming in Basic it was possible to use these symbols as a…
I made your statement a little more accurate. "THOU SHALT MAKE SURE CHILDREN UNDERSTAND [our version of] RIGHT AND WRONG!." You're welcome :)
Thanks for the link, I reread it. Nice story but I think I can guess his current password now: "Plus, if you’re interested in more of this, I’m writing a book!" :)
Yes, this! Exactly to the point. This is in my view THE argument against all-out snooping. It is about control, not about criminality.
"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance…
This is funny AND insightful. Reminds me of folding proteins. So, I guess it is a good moment to point to http://folding.stanford.edu/
The problem now is not the tv anymore. I grew up and have now to deal with the distractions of this age and time.
I have done this and I agree. "News" gives a single side view on the world and it is hardly an uplifting one. Personally I strongly belief that the general public opinion is negativer then needed caused by negative…
I went to the code.org site, looked around and tried the objective-C version. I was (positively) surprised that it did work because I am not in the USA at the moment, meaning it's not blocked for non-USA access. The…
I can totally understand your frustration that shines through. Basically I agree with you. 8 years ago I saw the start of an explosion of new languages/frameworks/etc. All solving 1 of more things of a bigger problem.…
Tor browser (package tor-browser-2.3.25-15_en-US, latest bundle) does have Javascript disabled by default. Please check options-content->enable Javascript. If I am mistaken I am delighted to hear otherwise.
I like these kinds of perspectives :)
Not jealous, just surprisingly misinformed and perhaps narrow minded :) Hope that India is going to work on the communications side of things, exciting times indeed!
I think it is a little bit odd to create a page that shows every fuck-word it can find in the world, call it "fbomb", having an About page whereby one only talks about the "F word" and "F-Bombs" while trying very hard…
I always realy like these kind of data. Not in a morbid sense but just to see the real data instead of marketing driven FUD. Another thought that I always have seeing data like this is that it gives a clear view where…
Indeed! I was going to remark the same. Also a side effect of digital zoom is that it is not perfectly sharp. You see this already in the example pictures. After all, digital zoom is more of an effect then real zooming.…
I work at a small company as the only software engineer (indeed sofware is not the core business here). My annual salary is around 40K euro. 3 years ago we started a huge project and hired extra manpower (4 persons x 3…
A program listing as screensaver (KolibriOS). Now, that is cool.
Although sounding a little bit cynical, there is unfortunately some truth in it: if thinking was important then the smartest people could be found on the highest positions. Clearly that is not the case (with a few…
Despite having a curious mind I still find things I didn't know about. Being 42 I experience this while feeling a combination of frustration and delight. I am working on the silly frustration bit :) BTW I read the book…
I find the idea of old photo/data degradation strangely comforting. Even digital data seems to be unable to escape the law of entropy (don't mention the black holes). On another note; if corrupting data/photos was a…
I grew up, not with the satan idea, but was told that there was a relation between the apostle Peter and the symbol. The reason for that was that Peter was crucified upsidedown. They argued why someone would use it as a…
In the past, you could program on the C64 in a kind of symbol code. The keys on the C64 had all graphics symbols on them (ascii?) and if you used them while programming in Basic it was possible to use these symbols as a…
I made your statement a little more accurate. "THOU SHALT MAKE SURE CHILDREN UNDERSTAND [our version of] RIGHT AND WRONG!." You're welcome :)
Thanks for the link, I reread it. Nice story but I think I can guess his current password now: "Plus, if you’re interested in more of this, I’m writing a book!" :)
Yes, this! Exactly to the point. This is in my view THE argument against all-out snooping. It is about control, not about criminality.
"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance…
This is funny AND insightful. Reminds me of folding proteins. So, I guess it is a good moment to point to http://folding.stanford.edu/
The problem now is not the tv anymore. I grew up and have now to deal with the distractions of this age and time.
I have done this and I agree. "News" gives a single side view on the world and it is hardly an uplifting one. Personally I strongly belief that the general public opinion is negativer then needed caused by negative…
I went to the code.org site, looked around and tried the objective-C version. I was (positively) surprised that it did work because I am not in the USA at the moment, meaning it's not blocked for non-USA access. The…
I can totally understand your frustration that shines through. Basically I agree with you. 8 years ago I saw the start of an explosion of new languages/frameworks/etc. All solving 1 of more things of a bigger problem.…
Tor browser (package tor-browser-2.3.25-15_en-US, latest bundle) does have Javascript disabled by default. Please check options-content->enable Javascript. If I am mistaken I am delighted to hear otherwise.
I like these kinds of perspectives :)
Not jealous, just surprisingly misinformed and perhaps narrow minded :) Hope that India is going to work on the communications side of things, exciting times indeed!
I think it is a little bit odd to create a page that shows every fuck-word it can find in the world, call it "fbomb", having an About page whereby one only talks about the "F word" and "F-Bombs" while trying very hard…
I always realy like these kind of data. Not in a morbid sense but just to see the real data instead of marketing driven FUD. Another thought that I always have seeing data like this is that it gives a clear view where…
Indeed! I was going to remark the same. Also a side effect of digital zoom is that it is not perfectly sharp. You see this already in the example pictures. After all, digital zoom is more of an effect then real zooming.…
I work at a small company as the only software engineer (indeed sofware is not the core business here). My annual salary is around 40K euro. 3 years ago we started a huge project and hired extra manpower (4 persons x 3…
A program listing as screensaver (KolibriOS). Now, that is cool.
Although sounding a little bit cynical, there is unfortunately some truth in it: if thinking was important then the smartest people could be found on the highest positions. Clearly that is not the case (with a few…
Despite having a curious mind I still find things I didn't know about. Being 42 I experience this while feeling a combination of frustration and delight. I am working on the silly frustration bit :) BTW I read the book…