Homage to Icarus

It’s been said before, but a person’s first foray into free cul­ture of any type is often to scratch an itch. For me, my first Wikipedia edit was undo­ing van­dal­ism on the Hernando de Soto Polar page con­flat­ing him with the con­quis­ta­dor of the same name  —  replac­ing his actual birth date with 1500-something, etc.
It’s some­what disappointing […]

Thank you to the Sci-Fi Channel (and/or who­ever ends up own­ing them) for get­ting it and let­ting me down­load BSG off your web­site in a flash thing.
Also, Scott Ian is the moth­er­fuckin’ man, though I think Baltar is very clearly sup­posed to be a Factured Fairlytales ver­sion of Jesus (the beard was the giv­away, I thought). […]

Point
Counter-point

So Slipshod Slashdot has a story up on a Chinese cryp­tog­ra­pher who found a short­cut through the SHA-1 scheme two years ago. While I’m not a cryp­tog­ra­pher, it appears to be eas­ier to forge mes­sages or crack hashed pass­words which use the SHA-1 algo­rithm. Unfortunately, even read­ing the com­ments at +5 puts the num­ber of […]

“It’s not enough that you sell your wak­ing life for min­i­mum wage, but they get your dreams for free”
Monday night, I had my first C# dream.
I later dreamed I ran into an old friend of mine from High School, who I haven’t thought of recently. Charcoal grey and white tiling, just pass­ing her by, until I noticed […]