Why am I not surprised that the VueStar patent trolling made it to one of my favorite geek comic strips, User Friendly?IANAL, but the thing that worries me most is not that VueStar is gonna grab millions from Google - there’s no way they could successfully prosecute anything in the US - but what’s gonna ...

Here’s an interesting example of how a poorly implemented pseudorandom number generator cost a game show over $110,237 in 1984.See also this Wikipedia article.So remember, kiddies - always seed the RNG, even with something simple like RANDOMIZE TIMER.

Via Lancerlord:The folk behind Million Blog List are trying to figure out how long it’s gonna take to sign up 1,000,000 blogs at their wiki.I just added myself at #135. Lancerlord’s at #134.If you feel so compelled to join, go right ahead.

I haven’t had this much fun in a long time, and it certainly felt awesome to be following the news on Twitter, almost instantaneously. There were lots of fantastic, historic moments, which I have decided to commemorate with the Acidflask AWARE Awards.Best momentsBest Rosa Parks tribute: NMP Siew Kum Hong, for having been asked by ...

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I have a job after I graduate.Boston calls.June.soon.