La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

Liens du 24/07/2011

‪きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - PONPONPON‬‏ - YouTube

ponpon…

Euh.. Karl ?

http://blogmarks.net/user/karlcow/marks/ (étiquettes : OMGWTF japon)

Digital Picture Frame Snatches Photos from Public Wi-Fi Networks « How-To News

The picture frame is made from an ancient Pentium II laptop, a custom frame built by Artrageous, and some handy duct tape. It runs Debian and the application used to snatch pictures from the Wi-Fi connection is Driftnet, a "program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes".

Je me demande si un PIC (à la Arduino) aurait la puissance de faire ça, et de le faire tourner sur une pile de 9V ? Voire de faire ça avec du papier électronique (bien mieux que ces écrans LCD avec leur angle de vision réduit).

http://blogmarks.net/user/karlcow (étiquettes : sentiment de vie privée wifi publicité)

TwitLonger: Dear Google, I would like to bring to your attention a few things before I disconnect permanently f

I do not care that a Google service is free. That is Google embracing a “You don’t like it? Too bad, it’s free anyway” approach. Free or not, all users are in the Google orbit and it is through advertising to us, their base, that Google has made the billions of dollars they have. There is no other corporation trading stock at the level of Google that does not offer customer support, plain and simple.

Et il a mis 6 ans à s'en rendre compte, c'est ça le plus triste.

(étiquettes : google don't be honest)

Google started deleting business profiles on google+ | Google-Plus.com

We have warned users from creating business profiles on google+ since google is working on profiles for business exclusively and plans to keep the current Google+ primarily focused on consumer.

Google+ n'est pas pour les gens, Google+ n'a pas d'utilisateurs : Google+ c'est pour les consommateurs.

(étiquettes : google régie publicitaire)

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Même NoLife a du censurer Ponpon

Posté par Zap, le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 à 11:41 #

Liens du 22/07/2011

Internet Activist Charged in Data Theft - NYTimes.com

La lecture de l'acte d'accusation est un véritable feuilleton.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/ (étiquettes : aaron swartz priceless)

Pas de gilet pare-balle à la prochaine Gay Pride - Journal d'un avocat

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Le Dimanche 17 juillet 2011 à 16:47 par Damien B

Pour ces cas, les forces de l’ordre utilisent des FAMAS (5.56 mm NATO, en service dans l’armée), des FR-F2 (7,62mm NATO)

N’empêche, tirer au NATO ça pue mais ça ne fait pas bien mal. Ça serait vraiment dangereux s’ils tiraient avec des munitions normées OTAN par contre.

(étiquettes : Natto franglais eolas)

Q: I don't understand book lengths. How can books have the same number of pages but have different word counts?

Books need to be a predictable size; they have to be manufactured to a price, stored, transported and displayed. Then they have to fit on home bookshelves. People tend to like books that are easy to read, handle, and store. We generally like and need novels to be certain sizes. If you picked up a diary-sized novel in a series one day and the sequel was the size of a family bible, you'd probably find that annoying. I know many readers won't buy hardcovers and wait for mass market paperback editions simply because the regular size of "MMPBs" fits their bookcase, or is easier to carry around.

So, production editors and typographers do a very clever job of smoothing out that big variation using white space and font sizes to get more words on each page - or fewer. They're so good at doing it that a manuscript of 100,000 words can be made into a book that is identical in overall size to one up to twice the length. Don't believe me? Pick a few books at random, do a word count, and then look at the appearance of the pages. You won't notice it unless you're looking for it.

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Page count doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't tell you how much book you're getting for your money. And, to be brutal, if your evaluation of any book is based on how many words you get rather than the impact it has on you and how well it's written - well, that's just dumb. Sorry, but it is. It's not like a pound of apples for 50 pence being better value than a pound for 75 pence. You're not being short-changed if you get a shorter novel. And left wanting more is not being short-changed. It's what good books are supposed to do.

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So don't get hung up about counting pages. A book is as long as it needs to be to tell the story. Just open it, and enjoy.

(étiquettes : page)

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Liens du 13/07/2011

ASCII by Jason Scott / Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late

I am telling you this because I am grabbing you by the fucking collar and shaking very hard because it is obvious you need to be shaken very hard and told that this is it. This is the endgame for floppies. We went over the hump, and the chances of rescue are slim to none now, but there are still chances. It’s a chance that needs to be taken now.

Vos disquettes 5"1/4 meurent, la mémoire s'en va, le dernier moment pour essayer de sauver cette mémoire arrive incessamment très vite.

(étiquettes : memory leak)

I still don't understand - <Glazblog/>

With another hat on: I'm currently on the Aurora branch.. however I can't upgrade to Fx 7 since none of my extensions are supported. As we've moved through the versions, the TLC of extension developers for their projects has disappeared and the time-to-release for their patches has skyrocketed. I've already given up working on add-ons myself because.. well, frankly, I have a life to worry about. Between reviews, bug fixing and keeping up to date I'd lose all my free time to maintaining them.

With yet another hat on: I work in an enterprise and influence decisions regarding browser adoption. I cannot recommend Firefox in any context, where before I most assuredly could (and from a position of strength).

La nouvelle politique de Mozilla : tu ne sais pas ce que tu vas avoir, mais tu sais ce que tu vas perdre. Une bonne gestion à la WHAT TF.

http://embruns.net/logbook/2011/07/12.html (étiquettes : mozilla firefox dtc)

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Investissez plus pour gagner plus

Et deux condensateurs à changer, deux. C'est quand même dommage de mégoter sur quelques maos et avoir un produit qui lâche bêtement : à moi Wervicq-Sud.(Cyberpunk, 2011/07/09 18:11) lien permanent

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C'est l'intérieur de ma 'bête' alors ? Si tu peux réparer, tant mieux (il me manque beaucoup).

Posté par lalou, le dimanche 10 juillet 2011 à 18:02 #

C'est tout à fait son intérieur Les condensateurs sont commandés, on verra s'il n'y a que ça d'endommagé quand ils seront montés.

Posté par Damien B, le dimanche 10 juillet 2011 à 20:13 #

Hope so !!

Posté par lalou, le dimanche 10 juillet 2011 à 22:47 #

Liens du 05/07/2011

Trans-Atlantic Time Trap - The Daily WTF

On most computers, including the developers', the code simply set the system date to the current month, day and year. On the French computers-where dates use the DD/MM/YYYY format-the code swapped the months and the days.

La grande habitude américaine : "on most" signifie en fait "aux USA".

(étiquettes : wtf)

SourceForge.net: GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters

What really disappoints me, however, is the reaction by the general open source community. Check Twitter and you’ll see a flood of hate against SF.net. Have we forgotten that we’re all in this “open source” thing together? Do we not realize that it’s not a “popularity” contest, and that number of commits does not necessarily indicate a number of stable, released and downloadable projects? What GitHub does is awesome, and I fully support them in their efforts.

En même temps "git" en anglais c'est un connard, et "GitHub" c'est le point de rassemblement des connards. Qu'attendre de plus ?

(étiquettes : git mastuvu)

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