3 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: OH HEY HOW YA DOING - "Since the thing is a security nightmare, it might as well be a complete and total nightmare, like the ones where you wake up and then find out you haven't actually woken up"
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9 month ago
nelson : Eve boot.ini postmortem - How a game developer destroyed the Windows install of thousands of customers
deusx : about the boot.ini issue - EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog - "From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things don't go according to plan."
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16 month ago
deusx : When are typos deadly? Nethack. :: semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel - "A typo caused the untimely demise of my latest nethack venture. I ate a cockatrice corpse, instead of wielding it, while on the astral plane, poised to completely decimate the current top score."
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deusx : Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Comes Back to Haunt United States - washingtonpost.com - "We started with Iraq in the 'axis of evil' side, when we thought they did not yet have nuclear weapons, and that sent the signal to others that they better get them quick"
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deusx : 365 tomorrows - In Hindsight… - "Although we cannot see Saturn, I’m sure the view of your new mini-star is quite spectacular from Earth, especially at night."
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Microsoft Vista speech recognition demo gone bad - Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Rod Begbie : Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video - "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" [via] #
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27 month ago
merlinmann : Dell Investigates Report Of Laptop Explosion - "There's an investigation going on right now. When something like this happens, we want to know why."
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36 month ago
deusx : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (God's Wrath) - D'oht, I've been HAD. False: "Good satire neatly straddles the divide between the believable and the incredible, and the Dateline Hollywood article quoted above achieved that balance so well that many readers mistook it for a straight news article."
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50 month ago
Andy Baio : Googling for credit card numbers - made possible by Google's number range operator [via] [via]
deusx : Google Search: visa 4356000000000000..4356999999999999 - Oh, shit. Credit card numbers anyone?
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52 month ago
deusx : Akamai goes postal, kills Microsoft, Symantec, Google, Apple, Lycos... - "Ironically, one of Akamai's main selling pitches for its technology is that it prevents there from being a single point of failure"
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52 month ago
deusx : Bank's clients in limbo - "In one of the worst messes since banks put their faith in computers, today is the fifth day in which the Royal Bank of Canada cannot tell its 10 million Canadian customers with any certainty how much money is in their accounts."
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