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

Perspective: Why Johnny can't code
posted by coderman at 2006-09-15 22:40

http://darkmonkey.org.uk/4/Main/1118/
posted by rik at 2006-09-15 20:44

http://www.r6rs.org/
posted by est at 2006-09-15 19:47

Use liberty dollars and go to jail?
posted by coderman at 2006-09-15 18:01

coderman: ok, that's it. it is now officially time to revolt! ;P

Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe
posted by seti at 2006-09-15 13:54

Better fuel cells
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 13:25

NickleHydride: 30% solution in water contains more hydrogen than the same volume of liquid hydrogen "at room temperature, and it's stable, non-toxic and cost-effective"
NickleHydride: wikipedia entry

<Google> Celebrate your appropriately constrained freedom to read
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 13:12

NickleHydride: <google> ok, fuckit, here's some old banned books to keep you busy while today's govt gets about banning what matters now
seti: war is peace, copyright is expired
NickleHydride: <google> govts .. plural
NickleHydride: <google> or corporates or whatever .. we didn't say that
NickleHydride: the stuff: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/
NickleHydride: <google> while you read them, we'll just quietly record your ips for reference next time .. don't let us distract you :)
NickleHydride: <google> oh! page 43, that's a good one!
NickleHydride: <google> got my 27bstroke6 right here, pal
NickleHydride: <google> you haven't felt yourself to be .. exploited?

Top 10 cameras on Flickr
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 13:11

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 12:57

NickleHydride: shitloads of old science classics

27BStroke6 s2453.pdf spy-on-who-the-fuck-they-like bill
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 12:51

NickleHydride: in other news, help-other-govts-spy-on-whoever-the-fuck-they-like for the $$$
NickleHydride: when they're writing software like this the trade imbalance can only get worse!
seti: "That Bill Shall Not Pass," vowed Reid, Senate Minority Leader.
NickleHydride: got your 27BStroke6 right here, pal.
fridge: Land of the freely-monitored.

90% of internet not to feature youtube links in ten years time, predicts slashdot.org
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 12:40

fridge: How many websites that were around 10 years ago no longer exist?
NickleHydride: the "value" of youtube is the 90% of the internet pointing links at it

The "well duh!" factor: voting machines still broken
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 12:36

http://video.feber.se/2006/09/byt_ut_processo.html
posted by seti at 2006-09-15 12:29

seti: English subtitles.

Yahoo Mail _Very_ Beta
posted by fridge at 2006-09-15 12:24

NickleHydride: http://mail.yahoo.com/ ?
fridge: Logging in to the beta site takes you to the non-functioning URL above

http://autopackage.org/
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-15 10:59

NickleHydride: cross-distro linux app packages
NickleHydride: dependencies and stuff are controlled and provided, rather than required, I guess
NickleHydride: and it's sexy
seti: a bit like applications for Mac OS X, then
NickleHydride: except they don't pretend to be disks and need to be loop-mounted and 'ejected' using a non-intuitive 'garbage bin' metaphor
NickleHydride: hmm it grabs some 'support code' package from the net (or uses it if you've grabbed it for it)
NickleHydride: it's a bash stub with binary something
seti: welcome to DLL Hell, Linux users
NickleHydride: and it uses GTK to prompt for root pw to install .. I seem to remember GTK devs warning against using GTK for that kind of stuff
NickleHydride: it tells me 'a menu entry for app X has been added' but it didn't add it to my windowmaker menu :\
NickleHydride: nor did the informative console output tell me what was installed for the app, although it mentioned some stuff that was installed for the 'one-time' autopackage 'support code' installation
NickleHydride: oh and it thanks me for my patients.
NickleHydride: $ which inkscape
NickleHydride: /usr/bin/inkscape
NickleHydride: so it installs things into your system paths ... welcome to fucked up system hell, linux users
NickleHydride: $ inkscape
NickleHydride: inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libcairo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
NickleHydride: oh well.
NickleHydride: # package remove inkscape
NickleHydride: # package remove autopackage-gtk
NickleHydride: /me teaches folk about ./configure, make, and google
NickleHydride: and ldconfig and PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
NickleHydride: and freshmeat.net
NickleHydride: and gnome and why not to use it

http://bsdstats.org/
posted by seti at 2006-09-15 10:05

Economic Freedom of the World index
posted by fridge at 2006-09-15 09:44

NickleHydride: graph is on p13 (pdf page 33)
NickleHydride: measures "personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property" by examining " (1) size of government; (2) legal structure and security of property rights; (3) access to sound money; (4) freedom to trade internationally; and (5) regulation of credit, labour and business."

Arnold smoking a joint. Why did I miss this?
posted by cryptomail at 2006-09-15 04:01

IAEA: U.S. report on Iran "outrageous and dishonest"
posted by seti at 2006-09-15 02:02

The continuing Hans Reiser mystery
posted by est at 2006-09-15 01:31

est: ooh..he dropped out of school after eighth grade. i waited until after ninth

DAD! I CAN'T KILL MY PATIENTS!
posted by Mutiny at 2006-09-15 01:31

Mutiny:
NickleHydride: I read "panties"
NickleHydride: Dad, I can't kill my panties!