we should collect the best darwin award pics from irene. here is a start.
Tag: stupid
Yeah right, MTA
Silliest MTA PSA: “don’t display cell phones or other electronic devices.”
Perversion Tracker
And all for only $0.99? Great giblets of glory!
It turns out that building, eating, sharing, and enjoying tacos involves exactly this:
While we thumb-thrashed about in confusion, muttering, “build? eat? share?!… enjoy?”, our armpits smelled something like a 9.3. We adopted this as the official rating for More Tacos! 1.0. May there never be a change to that version number, Pajenco LLC.
making fun of the app store since 2008
Literally Unbelievable
the gullible are legion
Failed redactions
Timothy Lee has conducted a study of improper redaction in PACER, the US court records system. Sensitive information like social security numbers are redacted in these records, but sometimes the redaction is accomplished by drawing a black box over the text in the PDF; the text is still present in the PDF file, it’s just not displayed, and it’s easy to recover. Out of 1.8m PACER documents, there were ~2000 documents with redaction rectangles. Examining them by hand revealed 194 documents with failed redactions.
ah, the good old blackout doesn’t work with pdf, eh? and another story. this is why lawyers should not run governments: incompetent in the small, incompetent in the large.
We discovered this classified information by opening the slide “Award Actions Trend Data”, right clicking over the chart titled “Award $,” choosing “chart object,” and then clicking “open” to see the hard figures Everett used to create the graph.
heh. i thought that presentation was interesting for its geeky content. but now i guess i will take a closer look at the pdf.
Joost may have accidentally leaked 3 months’ worth of deal plans through hidden data in a PDF.
License Mafia
the license raj comes to the us
In the 1950s, when organization man ruled, fewer than 5% of American workers needed licenses. Today, after 30 years of deregulation, the figure is almost 30%. Add to that people who are preparing to obtain a license or whose jobs involve some form of certification and the share is 38%.
Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey
The sooner the mba scam is shut down the better.
US Internet Kill Switch
they’ll make sure their forthcoming legislation “contains explicit language prohibiting the president from doing what President Mubarak did.”
what you get when people with the understanding of internet = tubes write legislation.
Border Bias
people underestimate the potential risk of a disaster to a target location when the disaster spreads from a different state, but not when it spreads from an equally distant location within the same state.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 