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Science

Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts 784

Anti-Globalism writes "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that's actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process. If the findings of some political scientists are right, attempting to correct misinformation might do nothing more than reinforce the false belief."
Image

Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps 280

Toramir writes "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."
Networking

Best DNS Service With API Access? 221

netaustin writes "My company runs quite a few media websites, mostly on Drupal, and about half on ec2. We have a good server setup with ec2 which allows us to route requests through Pound, a cluster of Varnish servers, then a cluster of Apache servers. We manage 50 domains (one per state) like this. Problem is, anytime things change, we have to manually adjust DNS for all 50 states, which is very boring and usually causes negative side effects too as we can't ever adjust all 50 DNS entries at once. We'd like to just change DNS providers and be done with it, but there are a lot of options, and I don't often shop for DNS services. I use EveryDNS for my personal domains, but I don't think they provide an API and it'd feel a little dishonest to reverse engineer the forms on their site since they're an esteemed donations-based service. I wouldn't feel bad about doing that to DNSPark, but they have a CAPTCHA image accompanying their login form, so goodbye DNSPark. I found a couple services that seem to do what I'm looking for, but they both feel a bit Microsoft-y and since I only want to change once, I want to get this right. Advice?"
Communications

Google Unveils First Android Phone 546

danieltdp writes "Google finally officially launched the first Android-enabled mobile device to hit the market. As expected, the first Android phone will be the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1), a device with a large touchscreen and a slide-out physical keypad that will run Google's new mobile platform." You might also not be at all surprised to know that Google is working on an Android competitor to the Apple App store.
IBM

IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha 200

barnackle writes "In addition to threatening to leave certain standards organizations over the OOXML shenanigans, IBM created new guidelines for its own participation in those organizations in an attempt to pressure the ISO and ECMA to be more fair in their approval procedures."
Security

US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks 205

Amber G5 writes "SecureWorks published the locations of the computers from which the greatest number of cyber attacks were attempted against its clients in 2008. The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country, and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from computers within its borders. This was followed by Brazil with over 166,987 attempted attacks, South Korea with 162,289, Poland with 153,205, Japan with 142,346, Russia with 130,572, Taiwan with 124,997, Germany with 110,493, and Canada with 107,483."
Communications

Is There a Linux Client Solution for Exchange 2007? 385

CrazedSanity writes "I have been working at my state job for about 7 months now, using the Exchange plugin for Evolution to check my email. Very recently the higher-ups decided to migrate to Exchange 2007, which effectively destroyed my ability to check my email through any method other than webmail (which means I have to constantly refresh/reload the webmail window). I'm sure somebody else has encountered the problem, but I'm wondering if anybody has come up with a working solution?" Note: CrazedSanity's looking for a client that will work with Exchange in a situation where replacing the Exchange install with an open-source equivalent isn't an option.
Announcements

Journal Journal: 116 pics of assorted ladies 8

Just to show that I can use curl as well as wget: of course, now you can have fun writing it in perl for a change :-)

#!/bin/bash

User Journal

Journal Journal: Okay friends, here's some more 5

And this time NO TYPOS (I hope).

#!/usr/bin/perl

# sample url http://www.hardloveart.com/34/inf8.0015.jpg
for ($i = 1; $i <=8; $i++) {
for ($j = 1; $j <= 15; $j++) {
if ($j < 10) {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/000$j.jpg -w4";
} else {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/00$j.jpg -w4";
}
`$cmd`;
}
}

About 7 megs of pix, 120 images.

Announcements

Journal Journal: I'm B-A-A-A-C-K !!! 4

Corrected Script - transposed an el and a one" (thanks to Nucleardog for pointing out I made a fuckup). Corrected script below :-)

Sorry for the hiatus (holidays, stupid dog that eats EVERYTHING, work, etc., but I'm back, and here we go with another simple script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$site="www.met-art.com";
$dir= "g1";
$file="met-art_fl_00";
$ext=".jpg -w 4";

Anime

Journal Journal: Anime Pr0n?! and a (bigotted racist) new foe ... 22

Well, I guess it had to happen - Anime porn.

And thanks and welcome to the 25 people who friended Porn Whitelist today :-) (guess I'll have to come up with something special for the 100th sooner than I would have thought ... darn)

So, here's a script to download more pix.

Upgrades

Journal Journal: Close enough - heres 11,000 pix 4

Posted under "Upgrades", so you can (ahem) upgrade your collection.

Yesterday I wrote that if we got this journal up to 50 people friending it, I'd post a script that get a decent chunk of pr0n.

Well, 47 friends/fans is close enough among friends so:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=105;$i<=859;$i++) {
`wget -r www.pornodonkey.com/$i/1176.html`
}

User Journal

Journal Journal: Some curl 3

As promised, I've found something fairly large (several hundred meg - thousands of pix, both thumbnails and full-sized) for when we've got 50 people who have friended this blog. In the meantime, here's some quickie curl commands to get 5 meg of porn (or you can convert it to wget as an exercise for the reader).

curl http://www.nikkygalore.com/w200412/d10-2/pics/pp[01-20].jpg -o "nikkygalore.com.#1.jpg"

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