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Ogg Frog Magazine #6

By MotorMachineMercenery in Meta
Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 06:38:02 AM EST
Tags: ogg frog, michael crawford, ascii art, rippit, ogg (all tags)

            ____
   _________|\___\_
  |\.-------| |   |\
  | \\       \|_[]|\\
  |  \\             \\
  |   \\ ____________\\                 
  |    +---------------+
  |    |  _____  ____  |  TAKE THIS YOU IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
  |    | |_   _||  o | |       
  |    |   | |  | .--' |
  |    |   |_|  |_|    |            \// ______ _ ___   
  |    |               |          <o[_] -----   -- --
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  |    | # # # # # # # |   _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____
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  |    | # # # # # # # |  MAGAZINE
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  |    | # # # # # # # |                 JOE STACK ISSUE
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The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product

By cockskin horsesuit in Technology
Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 01:52:24 PM EST
Tags: sodomy, horsecock, GayForCrawford, The Secret (all tags)

After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawford's secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest with the K5 community.

Full Story (29 comments, 1159 words in story)


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Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs

By imon2nd in Technology
Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 02:18:46 PM EST
Tags: cars, automobiles, recalls, software, toyota, recall, gas pedal, value engineering, engineering, business (all tags)
Software

Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyota's recent travails provide some food for thought.

Full Story (23 comments, 1338 words in story)


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15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL

By BottleRocket in MLP
Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 06:38:59 PM EST
Tags: Glenfiddich, sye, culture, LilDebbie under the turf, i am better than you (all tags)
Culture

Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this year's winner of the National Football League's MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well of receivers to outscore the Saints. The deadly accuracy of the Saints under Drew Brees will be tested by the solid defensive front of the Colts, albeit possibly without perennial Pro-bowler Dwight Freeney.

Drama abounds. Both teams are top seeds in their respective conferences. Peyton Manning will be competing against the team his father quarterback'd for 11 seasons. Although the Hall of Fame is a certainty for Peyton, a win would cement his legendary status. A Superbowl win for Mr. Brees might punch his ticket to the Hall of Fame. His team, the New Orleans Saints, plays every home game in the Superdome: a living reminder of a tragedy that took place in their city five short years ago.

Amid all this pageantry, the expectations of a scoring frenzy, a tale of avarice and thievery is shouted down. For who would have guessed that the NFL, a seven-billion-US-dollar-per-year enterprise, could be considered a non-profit?

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Our Trip to Cuba

By Xpat in Culture
Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 11:45:06 PM EST
Tags: Culture (all tags)
Culture

It's next to impossible to get an objective opinion on Cuba. Most Americans can't go there and form their own opinion. We went there because it promised to be an affordable family vacation with a direct flight from Quebec that avoided any of the latest TSA nonsense. If any of my American friends want a firsthand account of place that's been off limits to them since before I was born, here it is.

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Tweaking K5

By mirko in Meta
Wed Jan 20, 2010 at 07:32:15 PM EST
Tags: CSSodomy (all tags)

Some loosy penis has loads of fun shitting around page-lenghtening and/or widening comments or diar(rh)ies.

I suggest Rusty fixes that annoyance by adding a tiny bit of code in K5.

Full Story (33 comments, 92 words in story)


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Building Houses - One Bullet at a Time

By GhostOfTiber in Culture
Wed Jan 06, 2010 at 01:27:29 PM EST
Tags: Race War, racism, classism, New Orleans, Sandbox, Moral exposition (all tags)

I almost went to New Orleans back in 05.

I feel like the guy who took the next train, only to realize the train is slowing down because theres a wreck ahead on the line.

At the time, it was a doldrum in tech, and my Day Job had offered anyone willing to go down up to three weeks of free vacation days for the trip. Given that I know a bunch of housing contractors I figured it was a good way to learn. The best way of learning is fucking up someone else's project, and NOLA had just that.

Given that it's 2010 and no-ones been prosecuted yet, it's probably safe to tell the story. I'm still going to screw around with it so don't take it as absolute canon.

Full Story (53 comments, 3985 words in story)


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Firefox Has Too Many Developers

By Trollaxor in Technology
Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 09:13:08 AM EST
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, Trollaxor, World Wide Web (all tags)

In its last several releases, everyone's favorite Open Source browser has become an unstable mess of add-ons, plugins, and other hacks that chew up memory like a fat kid with a chocolate-dipped corn dog. In fact, just last week, SecurityFocus released news of a devastating exploit in Firefox 3.5.5 that they blame squarely on its unstable architecture.

From its infancy Firefox has been the product of collaborative effort, unifying code from hackers worldwide. But thanks to the Hayes Law, we see that there is a "sweet spot" to such a development style, and that Firefox has long since left it behind. In the chart below, we can see that the number of Firefox developers has increased exponentially since 2002, and that number will more than double in 2010.

But it's time to be honest: either Firefox, as a modern web browser, will have killer performance on 64-bit, multicore Intel chips or it's not worth downloading and installing. And since, as we have seen in the recent past, that Firefox is actually getting slower with each release, Firefox is certainly a waste of time for anyone who takes their web browsing seriously.

[http://www.trollaxor.com/2009/12/firefox-has-too-many-developers.html]

Full Story (48 comments, 676 words in story)


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NetBSD: Bankrupt Software Distribution

By Trollaxor in Technology
Mon Dec 14, 2009 at 04:44:06 PM EST
Tags: BSD, NetBSD, Trollaxor, Unix (all tags)

Hot on the heels of their NetBSD 5.0.1 release, the NetBSD organization is gearing up for NetBSD 6.0, due in about half a year ("The sixth major release for the six month of 2010!").

To make that happen, NetBSD is asking its industry partners, users, and anyone with spare change to contribute US$60,000. Matt Thomas, of NetBSD's core group, says the money will allow for "network performance improvements and embedded and realtime optimization," meaning NetBSD can finally move onto specialized hardware, an area NetBSD has struggled with in the past.

But is the ultimate goal of $60,000 appropriate for the BSD family's middle child? Is NetBSD a good long-term investment of that kind of money? Is NetBSD even worth the nearly $8,000 raised so far? Why invest in a bankrupt operating system?

[http://www.trollaxor.com/2009/12/netbsd-bankrupt-software-distribution.html]

Full Story (23 comments, 803 words in story)


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Some lessons in online affiliate sales.

By creature in Internet
Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 03:31:00 PM EST
Tags: marketing, internet, business, lessons, experience (all tags)
Internet

I recently read a thing about someone who made $200 a month through an Amazon affiliate store. This struck me as an interesting way to make some folding money. Could I do the same thing? The short answer: no.

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