#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

HavenCo's Gilbert & Sullivan Journey
posted by coderman at 2006-06-11 20:01

coderman: "Nobody put a gun to Ryan's head to go out to Fantasy Island, er, Sealand." - lol
coderman: "While he didn't explicitly instruct DEFCONers to go hack HavenCo, he was kind enough to point out 2 Mbps of denial-of-service traffic would do it and provided IP addresses to the audience." - lol2
seti: there actually were chicks at Sealand at various times. (with deepest apologies to M.)

Mein Fraulein,
posted by Tonus at 2006-06-11 08:58

Tonus: "I hear the weather in the South is good this time of year. Won't you call me? 678 248 2352".

Programming Perl, 2nd Edition
posted by also at 2006-06-11 08:21

also: "How warm is it? Perl is the only language with an officially sanctioned thingy. A thingy, as defined by the authors, is 'a value that is sort of like an object, that you may or may not know the name of, but that you can refer to via references from which the thingy dangles, metaphorically speaking.'"
also: "What else would you expect from the folks that brought you the elusive and oft unseen $_ variable?"
also: on why this thingy could be useful
also: or alternatively, why you need to get your head checked.
also: yet another web Perl tutorial ;)
also: really why references can be very useful: passing a ref to a subroutine is much quicker than passing a copy a substantial amount of data (since sub's copy the vars they are passed)
also: that paper seems a bit old .. says you can't return values from a sub, which is defo not true now
also: then again it may be a typo ;) YMMV
also: and subs automatically do copy now ..
also: yet another perl tutorial
also: nothing tells me when it is cheaper to use a ref and when cheaper to pass by copying
also: does dereferencing cost? If i'm going to dereference the ref several times, is it cheaper to make a copy?
also: what happens internally if I run a regex on a dereferencing ref to the string?

All the Shills in one place
posted by huslage at 2006-06-11 05:22

huslage: Scoble-shill is going to work here from being gainfully employed by Microsloth.
huslage: Stupid
huslage: Bubble 2.0
also: don't you mean "Technorati"? That's what the website calls them
also: The war is no longer with the Shills. The war is with the Technorati. The war was never with the Shills. The Shills are, and always have been, our friends.
also: :d

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8442381086256955513&sourceid=zeitgeist
posted by cryptomail at 2006-06-11 02:53

http://www.jameyhecht.com/RobertFKennedy.html
posted by also at 2006-06-11 02:50

also: gimme back my <table>s

NSA said to be eyeing MySpace to pinpoint possible terrorists
posted by coderman at 2006-06-11 01:38

coderman: "By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons," writes article author Paul Marks.
coderman: "The recent takedown of the Pirate Bay trackers and other enforcement efforts can be seen as an extension of totalitarian interests applied across the Internet," he added.
coderman: "In particular we know that #infoanarchy and other 'radical hacker channels' are under close surveillance as part of numerous efforts to thwarte the nefarious plotting of terrorists attempting to blow up the world and even mars."
also: OH NOES
also: <Feds> We've been watching your activities for a while, mr coderman. You've been a naughty boy. I'm afraid we're going to have to charge you, with voyeurism, you dirty pervert.
also:
also: seems we are haunted by the zombie of J. Edgar Hoover