The Happy Moron

From CBC : Federal Transport Minister John Baird is probing whether airlines are following the rules requiring staff to see the faces of all passengers, including those wearing veils.
By now, news stories of police seeing this or that on YouTube and catching stupid criminals are old hat.
The billions of youtube videos and facebook [...]

It’s time to learn why you can’t trust anything on the internet.
Today we’re going to dive into the world of statistics and have a look at Selection Bias. And because we’re talking about the internet, we’re going to demonstrate the principle of selection bias by looking at Blaxploitation films on IMDB.
I’ve listed below the ratings [...]

I didn’t know people were doing this stuff. I should have guessed.
To me, these stories illustrate something about the internet.
At work are basic, understandable human forces and fundamental human problems. Kids like to party.
On the one hand, the internet gives us a power that we’ve never had before. An individual can organize an event that [...]

There’s nothing magic about the internet.
It’s nothing more than a reflection of the people on it. Where there is a demand for something, someone will supply it. Minority focused search engines? Pornography? The Bible?The Manga Bible?Mexican Hitmen?
Look at my tag cloud – it’s a reflection of my concerns and interests. Look at my blogroll – [...]

I consider little knowledge in computing to be mandatory. Usually the price of ignorance is bourne by the one who is uniformed.
Botnets are a different kettle of fish. In this case, the price of ignorance is bourne by the public. I think knowing about Botnets (their existance, their fundamental nature, their consequences) is a matter [...]

I say this only because I don’t understand, and because I am (in some respects) a technical person.
All people seem to want to use the internet for is to play stupid little coffee break games.
It doesn’t make any sense. Here we have a global communications medium allowing you to connect with like minded, interesting people [...]

Today I wrote a piece of evil code.
Now, I’ve been known to write shoddy code, buggy code, broken code and naive code, but this was none of these. It was thought out, tested, worked as advertised and was reasonably complicated.
For the record:
//This is a block of evil code that ignores good programming style and design [...]

…because of this.
It certainly sounds like a movie plot: hiring an Mexican hit-man over the internet. But there’s a dark and sinister truth at play here…
If you die at the hands an internet Mexican hit-man, you die for real…
The dark and sinister truth is that no matter how you try to ham it up, there’s [...]