#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2004, 2005

last updated at 2005-01-19 23:58

you think being in a different country will protect you? not if you're deemed inconvenient. with butchering madmen holding the reigns of global power, everyone is in danger.

Composable memory transactions

coderman: "Writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult, and is of increasing practical importance. A particular source of concern is that even correctly-implemented concurrency abstractions cannot be composed together to form larger abstractions. In this paper we present a new concurrency model, based on transactional memory, that offers far richer composition."

Where Did The .ORG Money Go?

seti: apparently to Isoc
coderman: my peertech.org domain demands to know the answer!!! i feel so used...

Atomic Increment

Scientists Peer Into Circuitry of Live Animal Brain

coderman: "Put simply, this technique allows us to see the brain seeing," R. Clay Reid, professor of neurobiology and the lead researcher said Wednesday. "It's an entirely new way of looking at brain function."

Fastest way between two points, according to Microsoft

seti: not this one again..!
Zerodhero: Chump wasn't up earlier
coderman: Total Distance: 1685.9 Miles ... uhhhhhhh
coderman: that's 240 miles as the crow flies.
Zerodhero: Total Time: 47hrs, 31 mins
seti: it's not like this URL hasn't been all over teh_intarweb today or anything...
Zerodhero: seti is throwing a fit about this today

Cuttlefish wimps 'dress as girls'

coderman: " We found that female mimickers could successfully deceive the consort male and that they were able to position themselves near the female in 30 out of 62 attempts"
coderman: this appears to be the method employed by "metro-sexuals" who dress and act gay enough to be percieved as less threatening, while retaining the voracious hetero-sexual appetites of the male population.

Live forever?

coderman: WE MUST STOP THIS! Think of the impact on copyright!!!
coderman: this guy is a programmer. nuff said.
coderman: ;)
coderman: "I hope you like a good English beer, as that is one of the main (open) secrets of my boundless energy as well as a good part of my intellectual creativity (or so I like to think...)." -- I LIKE THIS GUY

http://www.cityarts.net/n.jay.html

How not to respond to conservative minority writers

coderman: i hate bush and neocons and all their lackeys... but this is just tasteless and disturbing.
   

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