#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

government is tracking the phone numbers reporters use in an effort to root out confidential sources.
posted by coderman at 2006-05-15 22:11

coderman: i love the comments

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-05-15 19:45

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cxw
posted by cryptomail at 2006-05-15 19:42

Those T-Shirts
posted by seti at 2006-05-15 15:08

seti:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2332
posted by bk at 2006-05-15 15:00

bk: Nintendo shook the E3 big players pretty hard :)

http://search.cpan.org/~roode/Readonly-1.03/Readonly.pm#COMPARISON_WITH_%22use_constant%22
posted by also at 2006-05-15 10:52

also: Perl "use readonly" comparison with "use constant"
also: works the way constant should have, but at 1/20th speed

I, for one, welcome our new illegally tapping, spy satellite-abusing overlords.
posted by seti at 2006-05-15 09:26

seti: and not just me - 63% of US citizens claim to agree with traffic analysis performed on them on US soil by the NSA.
also: in a telephone survey, no doubt. YES, ME TOO, I THINK IT"S GREAT> THANKYOU MR BUSH.
also: WE ARE ALL MORANS> THE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS WAS CORRECT.
also: this seems to another one of those times were they figure if they do more and more bad stuff, eventually we'll get tired of complaining and go away .. then they can do more bad stuff and get away with it
seti: less badly-executed Newsweek poll

file name compatibility and easy access for MacOS, Unix and Windows
posted by also at 2006-05-15 09:06

also: however, a bunch of the characters allowed by this rule-of-thumb still need escaping from interpretation by the shell
also: nother opinion
also: pretty much the only filename allowed is 'jeffrey'
also: and for strict compliance, it should all be upper case, JEFFREY
also: note, no quote marks
also: maybe CDROM joliet unicode characterset is a better cross-compatible filename standard
also: or strict ISO9660: UPPER CASE letters and numbers with _