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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)
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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)
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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)
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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?
Full Story (37 comments, 862 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)
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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)
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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)
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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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