Oh well, here I go again!
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The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones
This article explores the practice of “beeping” or “missed calling” between mobile phone users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile’s owner can pick up the call. Most beeps are requests to call back immediately, but they can also send a pre-negotiated instrumental message such as “pick me up now” or a relational sign, such as “I’m thinking of you.” The practice itself is old, with roots in landline behaviors, but it has grown tremendously, particularly in the developing world.
"India's model of reflective patriotism"
“All around the world, rising prosperity and rising patriotism go hand in hand. But what sort of patriotism is India’s going to be? “
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. ”
Removing the 'Register' button on Fonera 2.0n
uci set registered.fonreg.registered=1
uci commit registered
Installing unrar on Fonera 2.0n
echo option force_space >> /etc/opkg.conf
mkdir /usr/lib/opkg
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.1/brcm47xx/packages/libstdcpp_4.1.2-14.1_mipsel.ipk
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm47xx/packages/unrar_3.8.5-1_brcm47xx.ipk
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm47xx/packages/uclibcxx_0.2.2-2_mipsel.ipk
opkg install libstdcpp_4.1.2-14.1_mipsel.ipk
opkg install uclibcxx_0.2.2-2_mipsel.ipk
opkg install unrar_3.8.5-1_mipsel.ipk
Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
Or, the State of the End-User Environment / Programming Onion…
So, in a confluence of events, I have been lately looking at Scala and
yesterday spent some time looking at Pike / Thompson / Google et.
al.’s “Go” language for “systems programming.” And Guido halts Python
syntactic evolution before the job is done…
And it fills me with despair and anger.
An Empirical Study Into the Security Exposure to Hosts of Hostile Virtualized Environments
(pdf)”This paper investigates the state of popular virtual machine implementations for x86 systems, employing a combination of sourcecode auditing and blackbox random testing to assess the security exposure to the hosts of hostile virtualized environments.” Scary!
“ We were going to reach out to Godin yesterday, but instead figured we could write this story by aggregating what everybody in the world thinks of Squidoo, and then asking him to pay us $400 to remove the parts he may not agree with. ”
