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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Josh on July 22, 2012, 07:54 AM »If facebook were done in the Windows 3.11 days...
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The Power Pwn may look like an ordinary power strip, maybe with an included surge protector, but it's far from it. Network administrators and IT staff in general need to be wary of this one: it can do much more than meets the eye.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Cyber Fast Track program helped funded the development of the Power Pwn. Pwnie Express, which developed the $1,295 gizmo, says it's "a fully-integrated enterprise-class penetration testing platform." That's great, but the company also notes its "ingenious form-factor" (again, look at the above picture) and "highly-integrated/modular hardware design," which to me translates to: it's the perfect tool for hacking a corporate network.
The world of the brogrammer is a vague and hazy place of stereotyped sex humor and pseudo-serious trend pieces. And earlier this year we determined that the brogrammer never was.
And yet... Microsoft had to make a public apology recently, after it was discovered that some sniveling, man-child coder had written BIG BOOBS into a piece of computer code that connects the Linux kernel to a Microsoft "virtualization" product. In fact, the offending characters were: oxB16B00B5. (Squint your eyes a little, you'll see.)
On his blog, Linux developer Matthew Garrett wrote:
"At the most basic level it's just straightforward childish humour, and the use of vaguely-English strings in magic hex constants is hardly uncommon. But it's also specifically male childish humour. Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys club where girls aren't welcome."
How can you disagree with someone personally preferring something for their own use?
-40hz (July 19, 2012, 07:50 AM)
By using words.-Tuxman (July 19, 2012, 08:12 AM)
By using words that make no difference in preference?-wraith808 (July 19, 2012, 11:10 AM)
ROFL!-Stephen66515 (July 07, 2012, 06:56 AM)
You can tell those lyrics aren't accurate.
Because the cake is a lie.-Deozaan (July 07, 2012, 06:03 PM)
If you want a software advisor program, I highly recommend SUMO... It has an extremely large database and has very few false positives in the results. Nothing else I have seen comes close.-hpearce (July 01, 2012, 06:21 PM)
That open source stuff might have a future after all.-zridling (June 25, 2012, 12:40 AM)
Although VLC is so mediocre in terms of video/audio quality? Respectable.-Tuxman (June 25, 2012, 06:20 AM)
nice pre-order offer! Josh! you missed the Steam link!Special Offer
People who pre-purchase Quantum Conundrum on Steam will be automatically entered into a drawing for a chance to have their portrait painted by the artists of Quantum Conundrum and hung in the manor in the game!
No purchase necessary. See the official rules here.
Note: the official rules link opens a PDF file.-lanux128 (June 06, 2012, 09:54 PM)
Kim Swift has built a name for herself as a creative indie game developer. She was the lead designer of Valve’s highly original Portal game. While a student at Digipen, she co-created a project dubbed Narbacular Drop, which served as the inspiration for Portal. She won Game of the Year and Innovation awards in 2007 at the Game Developers Choice awards.
Swift also worked on Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. She left Valve in December 2009 to work for Airtight Games. There, she began work on Quantum Conundrum, a zany Portal-like physics game with a sense of humor. The game will be published this year as a downloadable title by Square Enix. We recently caught up with Swift for an interview. Here’s a transcript of our talk.
Source?We like Windows 7: it's faster than VistaIt only has different default settings which is not OS-related.-Tuxman (June 02, 2012, 09:44 AM)
Source?makes better use of your system resourcesSame.
Source?is packed with interesting features, and looks great, too.No.
Interesting. I sure would love to get back to using Opera-jgpaiva (May 31, 2012, 07:06 AM)
It is beginning to look like Facebook’s management and development team are abandoning Google Chrome support. As of today, Facebook’s “unsupported web browsers” page has removed the Google’s web browser and replaced it with Opera.
The choice Facebook has made regarding supporting Opera may not be as farfetched as you may think due to the Social Network’s rumored plans to acquire Opera. This recent change in browser support definitely emphasises on some form of Facebook to Opera relation, so the rumour behind the acquisition could be true.
I bet he watched Buffy too!-Carol Haynes (May 31, 2012, 03:26 AM)
