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Living Room / Site for linking to sites you don't like
« on: September 04, 2014, 12:45 AM »
I just happened across this:

http://www.donotlink.com

link without improving "their" search engine position

...

Who uses donotlink?

Skeptics, bloggers, journalists and friends on social media use donotlink to link to scams, pseudoscience, misinformation, alternative medicine, conspiracy theories, racist / sexist blog posts, etc. without improving the search engine position of the site they are discussing.

Here's a link to DoCo:

http://www.donotlink.com/bhm8

It's slightly different than a shortener. Check the link above to see.

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Living Room / What age is too young for a mobile phone?
« on: September 03, 2014, 08:57 AM »
Apparently, the age is getting younger for marketers:

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/09/02/kids-with-cell-phones-how-young-is-too-young/

Many metro Detroit kids headed back to class on Tuesday with the pencils, pens, notebooks and lunch — but what about a mobile phone?

How young is too young?

A study by the National Consumers League says 60 percent of U.S. parents offer cell phones to 10 and 11-year-old children.

...

“So by the time they turn 6, 7, 8, they’re very comfortable with the mobile devices.”

More at the link.

But, one of those things to think about. e.g. How many adults actually know how to manage a mobile device properly? :P

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Living Room / Android security mystery – ‘fake’ cellphone towers found in U.S.
« on: September 02, 2014, 12:05 PM »
Android security mystery – ‘fake’ cellphone towers found in U.S.

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2014/08/28/android-security-2/

Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security – but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science.

The fake ‘towers’ – computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the “baseband” chips built to allow them to communicate with their networks, can eavesdrop and even install spyware, ESD claims. They are a known technology - but the surprise is that they are in active use.

The towers were found by users of the CryptoPhone 500, one of several ultra-secure handsets that have come to market in the last couple of years, after an executive noticed his handset was “leaking” data regularly.

Its American manufacturer boasts that the handset has a “hardened” version of Android which removes 468 vulnerabilities from the OS.

Uh, yeah. Ok. More at the link.

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Developer's Corner / /r/ShittyProgramming
« on: August 30, 2014, 09:12 AM »
http://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyProgramming

I think a few people here will get a few laughs. :)

e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/shittyprogramming/comments/2ev14v/18_arguments_later/

Code: C [Select]
  1. void part3( __global struct triangle *triangles,__global uint *tri_num, __global float4 *c_pos, __global float4 *c_rot, __global uint* depth_buffer, __read_only image2d_t id_buffer,
  2.        __read_only image3d_t array, __write_only image2d_t screen, __global uint *nums, __global uint *sizes, __global struct obj_g_descriptor* gobj, __global uint * gnum,
  3.        __global uint *lnum, __global struct light *lights, __global uint* light_depth_buffer, __global uint * to_clear, __global uint* fragment_id_buffer, __global float4* cutdown_tris)
I'd like to thank firstly myself for being an amazing programmer, and secondly OpenCL for being literally hitler


More good stuff there as well. :)

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Living Room / Get ready to be unemployed - "Humans Need Not Apply" - CGP Grey
« on: August 30, 2014, 03:07 AM »
I suppose this is no surprise to anyone, but CGP Grey has another short film that some may find entertaining:



Kiss your job good-bye?


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