Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites. The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, it’s [...]
Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form: 1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, [...]
A little after the end of the semester, I was thinking to myself “I need something to fill my time”. So, among other things, I started downloading and watching/listening to Stallman presentations from the FSF website (under the premise “if you have to drink something, it may as well be Kool-Aid”). So I watched like [...]
So, ages back, when I started getting comment spam of all sorts of different types, I set up a moderation queue and made a rule … basically, if you posted with 2 or more links in your comment, it’d go into that queue and I’d moderate it. I get email whenever there’s a successful comment, [...]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/bbc_horizon/ Yeah, so the meat is, a BBC pop sci show, “Horizons” did a recent episode on “Human v2.0″ talking about the idea of machine-augmented humans and such. A rich area to be sure (already having given rise to loads of actual good sci-fi, not to mention classic anime like Ghost in the Shell). But [...]
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