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

The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
posted by coderman at 2006-11-14 23:55

coderman: "The nature of the deal was such that both the Commodore 64 for the frontend and the existing QuantumLink host system (a brace of Stratus fault-tolerant minicomputers) for the backend were givens." - LOL Stratus!

The New Yorker: THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH
posted by lemonodor at 2006-11-14 23:54

coderman: for the record, i have insurance and i still neglect my teeth.
coderman: nothing like the fright of an oral surgeon staring at the monstrosity that is compacted wisdom teeth deeply rooted to build an aversion to high impact maintenance in addition to preventative measures in general...
seti: good read on economics of healthcare systems, the folly of the "Moral Hazard" theory, and more

Spooks Working Overtime
posted by coderman at 2006-11-14 21:31

coderman: "never underestimate worse"

super-lambda to the rescue!
posted by coderman at 2006-11-14 20:05

Will It Blend?
posted by seti at 2006-11-14 19:39

rechump: ... then they came for the guys with big rubber band balls ... but I didn't have a big rubber band ball, so i did nothing.
posted by TimLearysHead at 2006-11-14 14:09

TimLearysHead: in what crazy fucked up totalitarian country do they have to hold you for 12 hours after finding your blood tests clean?
TimLearysHead: 9/11 is the new Y2k. Wait for the blowback next year when 40 security consultants are applying for every one security job .. and the other 39 wondering why they weren't retrained and looking for some way to make a buck. Oh, and lock the car door and keep the window up while you are at stop lights.
seti: they don't have to hold you, it's just that the police feel that the majority of people they arrest are worth fucking over even if they're innocent, so the procedures all call for fucking over arrested people

How manyt product placements could that physics prof fit into his first 5 minutes of his video?! FFS!
posted by TimLearysHead at 2006-11-14 13:47

TimLearysHead: skip it, check out Feynman instead
TimLearysHead: remind me to bt these lectures

If stupidity could be detected in DNA, and some was found at a crime scene in Boston, the A.G. would have to rent Gillette Stadium to hold all the Barnstable suspects.
posted by seti at 2006-11-14 13:16

rechump -- kinda -- GnuPG release: Version 2.0.0 compliant with the OpenPGP and *S/MIME* standards (not S/MIM)
posted by TimLearysHead at 2006-11-14 13:06

TimLearysHead: see yesterday chump
TimLearysHead: S/MIM is not some new crypto standard, its a typo

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/newto/
posted by TimLearysHead at 2006-11-14 12:50

TimLearysHead: <IBM> As is usually the case with Wikipedia, its articles [are] a "good place to start."
TimLearysHead: http://disclaimer.com
TimLearysHead: *"Power Architecture technology is always fully buzzword-compliant (it will even happily run all of your Web 2.0 applications for you)."
TimLearysHead: <IBM> We wrote the fucking book, yo.
TimLearysHead: "satisfaction per watt"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/286601/dry_ice/
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-11-14 07:57

Zerodhero: Fun with Dry ice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5H5r4_CoJo&eurl=
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-11-14 07:55

Zerodhero: Whats a Ho?

Georgia PM says Russia preparing for war
posted by est at 2006-11-14 06:46

http://programming.reddit.com/info/qeqp/comments/cqog8
posted by lemonodor at 2006-11-14 06:04

North Korea said Monday its atomic weapons programme is designed to protect South Korea from a US nuclear threat
posted by fridge at 2006-11-14 06:03

http://www.break.com/index/stop_motion_piano_and_drums.html
posted by cryptomail at 2006-11-14 02:43

Algorithmic trading
posted by coderman at 2006-11-14 01:53

coderman: "Steve says: When I worked at the leading Citicorp R&D facility in the late 80s we did a lot of algorithmic trading, Black-Scholes, etc., especially currencies and derivatives (this is when I first heard Orlin Grabbe's name, as he founded a major derivative family)."
coderman: "Many people are surprised to learn that money center banks earn 25%+ of their profits from the currency trading desks."
coderman: "The most successful currency trader, a game only the very liquid can play, was a Montana/Wyoming rancher. He regularly handed Citicorp its hat, as it were."
coderman: GOTO 10

Interview with the Girl with a One-track Mind
posted by seti at 2006-11-14 01:34

Israel Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in Lebanon
posted by seti at 2006-11-14 01:28

seti: most likely that depleted uranium was used to creat the shell casing - nothing to see here, move right along.
seti: "... A smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud."

The glamourous life
posted by cryptomail at 2006-11-14 01:13

cryptomail: <est>tock shakr