Television shows seldom get computer stuff right, so I shouldn’t be surprised. But then I heard this humdinger on CSI New York during the 1 minute I was watching it. After I simultaneously guffawed and snorted in derision, I changed the channel.
Posts Tagged ‘stupidity’
GUI interface for VB to track IP addresses
Posted: 29 December 2008 in UncategorizedTags: csi new york, stupidity, television, visual basic
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It doesn’t inspire confidence in a jobs posting site when you get results for job salaries like this: I must admit, I am surprised. I thought for sure being a Republican paid better than raping people, or at least paid the same. Time travelers have an unfortunately low salary. Obviously, they are too stupid to [...]
StupidFilter
Posted: 13 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: comments, machine learning, nlp, stupidfilter, stupidity
Now here’s a great idea. StupidFilter is an open-source project with the goal of rooting out and destroying stupid comments in blogs, wikis, YouTube, flickr, and just about any place morons are allowed to voice their opinions. Pulling this off would allow me to read the comments on Flickr without wanting to rip my eyeballs [...]
You have no soul
Posted: 9 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cmu, food drive, humor, righteous anger, soulless bastards, stupidity
There’s a food drive going on in the School of Computer Science at CMU right now. I came in yesterday and found this sign: I think if I were running the food drive and found the container full of trash, I would have vomited the hot blood of righteous anger in a similar fashion.
We are screwed
Posted: 9 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: bees, biology, bumblebees, environmentalism, fatalism, global warming, honeybees, pollinators, stupidity
Not only are honeybees disappearing, but bumblebees are going the way of the dinosaurs too. Bumblebees pollinate roughly 15% of crops, which are worth about $3 billion dollars. While there isn’t a definitive cause yet, the National Academy of Sciences has reported that a combination of habitat loss due to housing developments, intensive agriculture, pesticides, [...]
Don’t wash windows – become a prostitute
Posted: 29 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: dumb laws, gypsies, italy, politics, rome, stupidity, weird news
A friend of mine sent me an odd story about how Italian police officers are now spending their time: stopping the heinous crime of washing your car windows at a stoplight. At first, I thought, well that’s a bugger-all odd thing to be concerned about (I always think to myself in incorrect, bastardized British slang). [...]
Surprise! Everest kills old people better.
Posted: 16 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: everest, media, mountains, old people, statistics, stupidity, weird news
Mt. Everest, that bastian of adventure that draws thrill-seekers and wall street brokers with nothing else left to accomplish alike, is three times more likely to kill people over 60. No kidding. Actually this shouldn’t be as obvious as it seems to be, since apparently old people adjust to higher altitudes more quickly and have [...]
Inbred Mice and Appalachia
Posted: 14 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: appalachia, linguistics, medicine, mice, north vs south, quotes, racism, stereotypes, stupid scientists, stupidity
Wired has a story on the fact that almost all the mice used in laboratory research today are descended from a few inbred mice about a hundred years ago. It seems like there are advantages to having inbred mice in terms of experimental control, which may have been part of the original motivation. The fewer [...]
social operating system – n. A social networking site like Facebook or MySpace that seamlessly integrates activities, including entertainment and shopping, to become a platform for online living. (Wired News) I’m always on the lookout for new words. This one isn’t especially innovative, but the last phrase caught my notice. Online living. Indeed. Now I [...]
