Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
So a couple of weeks ago I heard the news that, on my old “high-school”, a teacher was put on non-active because he was having a sex-chat with a 12 year old girl on the internet while his laptop-screen contents were beamed onto a big screen in front of the entire classroom. (Dutch article here.)
Interestingly, [...]
No pictures inside…
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Life is what happens to you when you are too busy making other plans… Or rather, when you are sleeping…
Friday morning wasn’t the nicest of mornings: I woke up at 7AM as usual, went downstairs to open my laptop and make myself a nice cuppa. The laptop is usually right there on the table… but… [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
Why is Skype hogging my CPU?
I noticed Skype is utilising the CPU varying between 7 and 15 %. That’s insane, for a chat app ffs!
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
I never expected me to say this, but …
What the fuck is up with todays youth?
I was sitting in the train minding my own business, when at a certain station this older guy tried to unfold his foldable bicycle. Tried — because it didn’t work initially. All in all it was relatively amusing because you could hear the guy curse the bike..
Another [...]
On the banning of “sadist” media…
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Life is incoherent. Well not life — rather politics. Here’s what I mean….
You might have read the news that some Adult Only video game isn’t going to be released on any videoconsole because of its seemingly gory content (indeed, ManHunt 2)….
But the ‘funny’ thing is…. the moment they find that 4 year old Madeleine-kid [...]
Yippee — we only humiliated them…
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(Forgive my sarcasm today, I dunno what it is.)
I just read that Dutch military didn’t torture — it only ‘just’ humiliated. And that is supposed to be a relief as well, WTF?! What is the frigging difference?
Woohoo! We got a dead soldier now too!
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So the body of the one Dutch soldier that got hit by ‘collateral damage’ from the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, arrived back in the Netherlands yesterday.
That is great, because things were winding down over here — people stopped caring about those fucking wars.
Now again, the media can tell the people on how bad the [...]
Marten Fortuyn is only out for money…
So…. the brother of the politician that got shot dead in 2002, is going to sue the state, or at least two guys that were in government at the time. According to this news-article (Dutch), Mr. Fortuyn states that it is now time because he has had the time to get over it.
Well… get over [...]
So I was trying to Google a telephone number…
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…when suddenly Google suggested the following search term:
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
Now what the fuck is that?
Philips patents ‘fabric display’
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings |
I just read on Tweakers that Philips applied for a patent to a ‘fabric display’.
Couple of years ago, while watching the Snooker championships on TV, noticing the advertisements on the players’ clothes, I had this nasty vision that at one point, ‘internet-connected sponsorships-tags‘ could just change on the fly… (The patent doesn’t mention any network [...]
You screwed around as a teen, now why can’t your kids?
Couldn’t help but notice the ‘hype’ surrounding the article entitled ‘You Grew Up Playing Shoot’em-Up Games. Why Can’t Your Kids?…. Although the title of that article may sound grown-up and wise, personally, I think it’s a bullshit wise-crack because I seriously doubt it has anything to do at all with computer games at all.
You [...]
I got a voting-pass but I’ve lost the passion to vote
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
So, following last years November elections, the upcoming government has been formed and we’re up for another term with Yawn-Peter Balkenende as our prime-minister.
It’s not surprising to see that these criminals get away with an un-just war. No investigation into the Iraqcle (Iraq + Debacle) — it’s a fucking joke how easy they can get [...]
I hate cripple-ware!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have now got an Apple MacBook Pro to work on, which obviously has its pros and cons. Sure, the machine supports X11 to a certain extent but I don’t want to basically run 2 different window managers that look and act a bit differently. I have been [...]
Terrorists celebrate Christmas & New Years’ Eve
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So, last weekend, with the image of the Saddam Hussein getting hanged fresh in the memory of many, the ever-so-useless act of celebrating the new year started.
We can’t let our children play ‘Killzone’ or games in which they have to kill people — but it’s alllllllright, (no it’s almost obligatory), to show an anti-american dead [...]
Saddam Hussein probably hanged this Saturday
Although denied by some officials, the rumours started to spread that Saddam Hussein might be hanged this Saturday.
Civilisation eh.
Developed eh.
Free world eh.
And if you don’t like it, we’ll hang ya.
Hang the imperialists!
Flaming one company and praising the other — while both companies are trying to accomplish the same goals — really makes you look like an idiot.
| by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Internet & Technology, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
So, a lot of negative stuff about the PS3 I read this morning. Lately there was some rumours about stacks of PS3s at numerous stores, like as if nobody wants them. Today another story on Slashdot about PS3s freezing up — reportedly.
Anyways, I wouldn’t have given this any more attention if I didn’t catch somebody [...]
Terrorism-suspect being extradited to the US
Wow — some Dutch terrorism suspect is being extradited to the US.
That isn’t at all ‘news’ or anything, but I find it most interesting here (in my opinion anyways) that he will be the first guy tried for terrorism in the US since the 9/11 attacks.
Impotent government — they couldn’t even catch one on [...]
Un-effing-believable…
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I just caught this disgusting video on eBaums’ World.
Nice — these are the guys, ‘the brave western soldiers’, that are supposed to bring and sustain peace? No wonder these guys get shot at all the time — how the hell would you react if some invading force did that to your kids? Or taunted them [...]
The ‘joys’ of computerisation…
Things can go wrong — about 800.000 times.
Forgive my sarcasm, but wasn’t making this type of stuff illegal supposed to cure all of this? *very deep sigh*
The ‘industry’ really should stop lobbying to criminalise crackers and direct their ammo at the ones that are really responsible: the companies that allow for these type of fraud [...]
Cute…
Cute.. I quote:
Players and creators of video games could face imprisonment for acts of virtual violence under draft legislation being drawn up by two of Germany’s state governments.
It could’ve been an article on The Onion but sadly — it ain’t no joke. ‘Der’ Man wants to illegalise in-game violence thinking that it will prevent kids [...]
The fallacy of male birth-control
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You might have noticed that I don’t want to have kids (the reasons as to why are beyond the scope of this little blurb though — but I’m sure you’ll believe me when I say that, to sum it all up, it’s really best for the kid). To accomplish this my girlfriend uses some method [...]
Just don’t let me see you shoot no dogs…
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It’s bad enough to kill a man — but shooting the dog too is a wee bit excessive, don’t ya think?
Damn cops…
I guess the truth really, really is inconvenient…
I have just caught this article here and it sickens me how, the ‘free world that the terrorist envy‘, is all run by money. I just hope some of the parents are wise enough to teach their kids, though… I mean, yeah, they’re American, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all morons, even a retard [...]
“Minority report” slowly becoming a reality…
I just read this article about psychologists [that] are putting together a list of the 100 most dangerous murderers and rapists before they have committed any such crimes.
That’s pretty scary — especially if mix that news with a little bit of this and a little bit of that…
Hot-linking not allowed..
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As I noticed a lot of the bandwidth of this website is going to ‘waste’ because some people like to use images stored on this server in their signatures or posts on other forums, I tinkered around a bit with PHP and Apache’s Rewrite Engine and cooked up a configuration that ought to reduce this [...]
Am I the only one… ?
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Am I the only one here that sees the potential for abuse here by creative, corrupt, cops aspiring to be movie-directors?
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
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I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
And in a couple of years, Linux users are terrorists, undermining our freedoms…
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So, Microsoft has made the bold claim that their intellectual property is in it.
Oh my fucking god. This is serious because there are plenty of stupid people in this world to believe that crap. Fuck, the critical majority, in each and every issue, is dumber than a horses ass and knows just enough to [...]
Oooooh a student got abused and tazed by police — so now what?
I just caught this sick shit through The Register…. Guy gets tazed by cops because he couldn’t show an ID card.
“Stand up or you will get tazed again?”
What the frigging fuck? Of course, everybody says it’s a bad thing. Sure, I’m not saying that it isn’t….
But, I don’t know what upsets me more here. The [...]
Heh
In case you missed it, I just read on The Register about the Sun reporting on 2 guys showing up at the UN’s London headquarters to demand recognition for their religion…
I’m waiting for the frigging pope to start yapping about looking and acting like a Jedi is a threat to integration…
Lucht (Air)
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Some lines of poetry were playing through my head trying to get to sleep last night, and I was surprised that I remembered them this morning after. So obviously, I quickly logged-on to scribble them down before I’d forget.
Update: Last night (16th today), it happened again — so I changed a few lines and also [...]
The dark nature of capitalism…
| by in Belegana, Random Rantings |
I couldn’t resist to use the same title for this post as the one I recently read on connecting*the*dots — because, hey, the following is also the dark nature of capitalism…
This morning, there was some news on TV (can’t help it — my girlfriend always turns the damn thing on in the morning), that earlier [...]
Death to corporate mafia!
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When I read shit like this it makes my fucking heart bleed.
PROPRIETARY software emperor Microsoft has struck a deal with the Linux reseller Novell to make it easier for customers to use both Linux and Microsoft’s Windows software.
The deal will make the Vole a SuSE Linux seller and will mean the pair will share technology. [...]
Recording an end-user’s movements on a website — copyright infringement?
This post on Slashdot got me thinking of something that I’ve been thinking about a couple of years ago.
Who says that websites aren’t already recording your movements?
I mean — earlier in this century I was thinking that, when you are a big corporation, and you have some ‘comments, complaints & suggestions‘ section on [...]
It’s 2006 and this world still stinks…
Last night I had a hard time getting asleep and couldn’t resist thinking about the sorry sick state our world is in, the way that it is getting spinned out of control caused mainly by the corruption-prone mechanics of politics and economics.
About how megalomanic people are put in powerful positions and how they, slowly and [...]
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’…
Reading about that ATM hack again today I was thinking this:
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’, how can we expect voting machines to tell the truth?
Jehova’s Witnesses at my door…
Ah — the joys of working at home… Not only are you able to do practical things like, be home to let some ordered goods arrive or go to the bank opened at times a normal person is working, but you also get to meet all those nice people trying to sell you crap.
For instance, [...]
A new coffeeshop has opened in town I grew up in…
If you remembered, I once posted about my favourite coffeeshop being shut-down in the city I used to grow up in. The municipality shut it down because it was too near a school; and the owners didn’t have a, well, completely ‘clean’ sheet. (Hell, to me its a few home-dealers going legit, which is a [...]
OM-MF-G
Just discovered this here (by following a link, by the way, in one of the comments below this other amazing story):
He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key [of the Diebold voting machine], and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in [...]
Supermarkets on the spamming-tip
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The Albert Heijn, some big groceries store-chain in the Netherlands, is going to start to spam its customers utilising Bluetooth technology. It is a test, and currently only active in one establishment.
According to this article (Dutch, of course), only people that have Bluetooth enabled when entering the shop will be targetted, and only after they [...]
Plane returns to Schiphol…..
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
….and none of the arrested people have been taken into custody because of ‘terrorism’.
Now that comes as a surprise… </sarcasm>
FUD, War On Truth, Terror, Fear, Netherlands
Defining ‘to google’…
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to google (/ˈguËgÉ™l/): To constantly nag about ones trademark being used in the wrong context.
Example usage
“If Bayer googled then we wouldn’t use the word ‘Aspirin’ for generic pain-killers.”.
Definitions, Humour
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
Homeland Security Scare System
Reading all the stuff about the recent ‘foiled’ terrorist attack, I GIMP’d together this thingy. I present to you, the Homeland Security Scare System:
It should be obvious when what level should apply.
Humour, Homeland Security, War On Truth, Propaganda, Fear
Aircraft bomb plot thwarted in Britain..
NY Times reports that a bomb plot has been thwarted, a plot which would create “mass murder on an unimaginable scale”.
Now that’s a hilarious thing to say. How the hell does the press decide what I can’t imagine? I see all the destruction, read stories about the millions of millions of deaths by the hands [...]
It’s official: Vulgar lyrics linked to early sex by teenagers
Wow, these guys really deserve a Nobel-prize or something.</sarcasm>
Sheesh — did they really have to research this? When will they realise it’s the nakedness on TV too?
Dumb shit like MTV showing a too-young-a-girl crawling over the floor singing “I’m a slave — for you”, people think that doesn’t influence a childs’ mind?
In Holland we got [...]
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
Oh no the sky is falling: Terrorism-suspect arrested in the Netherlands
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
So the media finds it again necessary to turn up the heat (i.e. scare-monger some more) here in the Netherlands. During some routine check the police arrested a guy that was on an international all-point-bulletin type of thing. The person was suspected of slaying 15 people and, of course, of taking part in a terrorist [...]
Shifting away responsibility and blame…
So, de Van Der Sloot case is in the news again.
It really makes me sick how parents rather point the finger at someone else, whereas they are just as responsible for this situation in the