There’s an article on IncGamers in which the author adds up all the money he and his wife have spent on World of Warcraft over the years, and then complains about how expensive it is. Now, I’m not a fan of MMOs, but I happen to disagree with his conclusion, for one very important reason:… Read More: The real cost of gaming »
…Hey guys, look! I made the black hole generator we were theorizing yesterday! See? I just have to press this button and This comes from a comment someone made on Slashdot earlier today. The idea is that bad programmers sometimes come up with clever ideas, often without thinking through the consequences. (Alternatively, good programmers sometimes… Read More: Engineers, if they were like bad programmers »
It looks like my daughter has developed a bit of an attitude problem: We sent this picture in to ThinkGeek (which is where we bought the shirt), and they posted it on the product page 🙂
A recent Bruce Schneier blog post got me thinking about boycotts. Specifically, the user “AwesomeRobot” made the following comment in response to another user who said they plan to forever boycott Sony due to the rootkits they put on music CDs in 2005: Boycotts don’t work unless you say you’ll buy from them again when… Read More: On boycotts »
A group of enterprising TI calculator programmers have taken it upon themselves to factor the 512-bit RSA keys used by TI to allow applications (and OS updates) to run on TI calculators. (For those of you who aren’t cryptographers: basically it lets TI decide what can run on the calculator and what can’t.) In response,… Read More: Texas Instruments shenanigans »