Those chores are my meditation.
It's like climbing a big mountain. If all you think about is "left, right, left, right, ..." you'll soon get bored to death and you'll never make it to the top.
If you manage to enter the zone, it can actually be a very pleasing experience.

Except for the fact that Randal wrote "U.S. Scientists: Proud" for a european achievement. (http://xkcd1446.org/img/r_16-25-00_MZ7aAUNWN5.png).
I realize NASA worked on some parts for this project, but it still looks a bit like chauvinism.
He then corrected it (http://xkcd1446.org/img/r_16-55-00_bD01qtUkFk.png).

It looks like CCD artifacts to me (http://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/ccd/CCD_artifacts.html).
It sometimes happen when movement or very bright light sources (e.g. the sun or metallic parts of solar panels) are involved.
I still like my old Nikon D40 sensor thanks to its very fast flash-sync, but I get weird artifacts when shooting into the sun.

PS: I just checked wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29), and CCD sensors are used on Philae.

Exactly. I've been coding for 70% of my life and I still learn a lot every day.

Thank you.

+5 Insightful.
But to quote another /. headline today : "When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem"

I'm actually surprised, because I thought the only rule for intelligence agencies was :
"Do what the fuck you want, but don't get caught."
It's pretty obvious they target everybody, especially people holding potentially sensitive information (e.g. lawyers and journalists).
I don't understand the need for such a policy, and I understand even less the need to disclose it.

A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar.

The mathematician sighs. "I'd like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There'll always be some finite distance between us."

The engineer gets up and starts walking. "Ah, well, I figure I can get close enough for all practical purposes."

Given the number of hits on pron sites for "Russian teen anal", I dare say Russia doesn't have anything against sodomy.

Yeah right.
Something like this http://www.gergely.risko.hu/de... would never get committed.

Predicted sea level rise over the rest of this century (~85 years, not 50) is low enough that the routine level maintenance around New Orleans (a city that basically sits at or below sea level) will easily handle the problem.

*) If you mix this slow sea rise with more frequents hurricanes, it might not be worth it or even possible to handle the problems. New Orleans wouldn't look so good after 2 one-year-apart Katrinas, even if the sea only rose 3mm during that time.
*) Please feel free to tell Bangladeshis they're stupid and should stop dying when the sea level rises.

Depending where you live, the publisher may have added an arbitrary delay themselves - ie the game is not released yet where you are... Even with a delayed crack, the crack may become available first in some places.

And the few who will buy because a crack isn't available yet could well be outnumbered by the people who decide not to buy as a result of seeing or reading about the game being unstable and/or causing other stability problems outside of the game (eg some drm schemes come with background processes or drivers which cause problems even when the game in question isn't running).

Instead of wasting so much effort on ever more complex (and thus error prone) DRM schemes, they should retask those developers to actually improve the quality of the games themselves.

What's more annoying is those download sites which force you to download in the browser, rather than giving you a link that you can pass to wget...

I always used to run wget instead of using the browser, back in the days of dialup and netscape 4.x where the browsers would almost always crash long before a large download had completed. But there are also many cases today where downloading with the browser is just horrendously inconvenient, like when im downloading something only to upload it again to a colocated server (where my upstream speed at home is 1/10 of the download).

I like it because I wrote it, and I'm more intelligent than Torvalds and Ts'o.

Sincerely,
Lennart Poettering

I don't know if I'm being paranoid, but I'm pretty sure there are backdoors in every major open source project : gcc, the linux kernel, ssh, gpg and bash to name a few.
They've been either actively introduced by NSA/FSB/... or found and jealously kept secrets.
It's not like recent history has proven this theory wrong. :-/