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Start Menu: Better Structure

By Gutza in Technology
Tue Feb 07, 2012 at 10:11:27 AM EST
Tags: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, OS, usability, ergonomy (all tags)

A Start Menu by any other name would be used just as much -- and optimized just as little: it gets cluttered within days, and unusable within weeks. And the Search function only gets you so far. I propose a universal, intuitive structure for the Start Menu (or similar) that should alleviate all related problems.

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4A 01-23-2012 LETTER Letter F/defendant To Court

By balsamic vinigga in Meta
Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 06:21:09 PM EST
Tags: Rusty is a Filthy Sodomote!, Jonathan Swift Sticks it to the Man, Meth Labs, Caltech, Anger, Prison, Transcription (all tags)

Michael David Crawford CFN: 205307
Clark County Jail
PO Box 1147
Vancouver, WA 98666-1147
law@softwareproblem.net (###) ###-#### Mobile

After My Release:
PO Box 6888
Portland, OR 97228

January 18, 2012

Your Honor,

Before you proceed with this letter please read the following quite short essay on my company's website: "Every Engineer's Solemn Duty" http://www.dulcineatech.com/ethics/whistle-blower.html.

That page is not yet linked from the rest of my website so you'll need to enter the complete URL.

Because an aerospace engineer by the name of Roger Boisjoly failed to fulfill his solemn duty by bringing to NASA Mission Control's attention that Cape Canaveral's temperature had fallen well below the rated specification of the O-Rings that sealed the gaps between the sections of the Challenger's solid rocket boosters, seven incredibly brave and completely innocent astronauts were killed in the most horrifyingly gruesome way - they are thought to have been still fully conscious when they struck the ocean - and America lost one-fifth of her shuttle fleet at a cost to the taxpayer of several billion dollars.

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What the Clark County, WA courts should know about K5.

By MDC Protector in Meta
Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 12:59:54 AM EST
Tags: (all tags)

The Clark County, Washington Superior Court has been made award of this website, http://www.kuro5hin.org, in the State v. Michael David Crawford case. Since the FAQ is woefully outdated, I thought I would take it upon myself to introduce any visitors from the court(s) of Clark County to the website.

Below are some facts you should know.

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Jetset Psychopath Pleads Guilty

By N0574 in News
Thu Jan 12, 2012 at 07:33:26 PM EST
Tags: FNH, murder, death, media, serial killers, news (all tags)
News

From the New York Times:

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman who became notorious as the prime suspect in the disappearance of an 18-year-old Alabama woman in Aruba in 2005, pleaded guilty in a Lima courtroom on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a casino. The case of the American woman, Natalee Holloway, who vanished during a senior class trip, remains unresolved despite being the subject of several books and television programs, as well as many lurid tabloid headlines over the years. The Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores, 21, was strangled in a Lima hotel room five years to the day after Ms. Holloway's disappearance. "I am truly sorry for this act," Mr. van der Sloot told the judges on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. He bowed his head as his lawyer argued that he had killed Ms. Flores in a state of "extreme psychological trauma" brought on because he was "persecuted" during the Holloway investigation. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence.

There's a partial transcript of Van Der Sloot's confession here. Basically he caught her reading an email on his PC, elbowed her in the nose and strangled her to death.

It appears he was psychotically paranoid, and that could be related to the torrent of accusations that he murdered Natalee Holloway. Or, it could just as easily be evidence that he is pathologically violent when it comes to young women.

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Ms. Drive recently wrote a diary entry on the Fat Acceptance Movement, which is the movement that promotes obesity as not only normal, but healthy. To quote Ms. Drive, "There is no reliable evidence at all that carrying the equivalent of a grown man (or more) in pure fat on your body might put your heart under strain or be bad for you."  Sorry Holly, but that's bullshit. Heart disease is the number one killer in America, even worse than lung cancer, and what is the number one cause of heart disease? Obesity. That there is a movement that promotes obesity as an acceptable lifestyle to our nation's children is no less disgusting than the tobacco companies' attempts to advertise cigarettes to children. When I responded to those candy cigarettes they sold in ice cream trucks with "Fuck the tobacco companies!", I made many enemies, but I was vindicated when scientists proved that smoking is unhealthy. I expect to suffer the same outrage but also enjoy the same vindication by my next statement: Fuck the Fat Acceptance Movement!

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K5 Images of the Year (2011)

By N0574 in Culture
Sun Jan 01, 2012 at 10:57:02 AM EST
Tags: images, YFI, 2011 (all tags)

Over the past year I have meticulously scoured the entire internet in search of the finest images available anywhere on earth. The results of my laborious and time consuming research can be found in the following list:  

10. IMG BLOG OF YR: PICAPIXELS
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9.  MANDATORY HENTAI OF YR: water water
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8. DIGITAL DRAWING OF YR: Sadly, digital art is dead
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7. CAMWHORE OF YR: whoever she is
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6. NON-NUDE BABE OF YR: hotter with a bit of clothing
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5. NUDE BABE OF YR: Ms Shiny Shorts; with honorable mention to an anon .tw-babe
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4. COSPLAY CHICK OF YR: Erotic Cosplayer Ushijima
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3. POLITICAL IMG OF YR: fuck the police (Guardian); honorable mention to CNN
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2. GIF IMG OF YR: imgur's most viewed .gif of 2011; honorable mention to Optimus Marlboro
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1. TEH IMG OF YR:.JPG Jet-Puffed Marsh Mallows (Kraft).

That's right folks, 2011 was the year of The Consumer. The consumer of 'various bullshit', and the consumer of images too.

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I support SOPA

By messybuu in Politics
Fri Dec 30, 2011 at 02:28:40 AM EST
Tags: SOPA, politics, Internet, technology (all tags)
Politics

I support SOPA. To admit this online is the most unpopular action one could take on the Internet as GoDaddy.com recently learned; it is equivalent to admitting you're a Jew in Nazi Germany. The average netizen sees the legislation as the devil, but I look past the FUD and see the many benefits it offers.

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A Brief History of the ASCII Penis

By Trollaxor in Internet
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 11:39:07 AM EST
Tags: ASCII, penis, Trollaxor (all tags)

Man has always sought to create, and has indeed done so since time immemorial: mathematics, civilization, language. Some of his modest efforts have reached the realm of art, especially as influenced by the primacy of his ability to create. And it is that very intersection that we discuss today: the ASCII penis.

(From http://www.trollaxor.com/2011/11/brief-history-of-ascii-penis.html)

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Anyone who has had sexual intercourse with Eric S. Raymond and/or uses Linux should go and get an HIV test immediately.

(http://www.trollaxor.com/2011/11/warning-beware-of-sex-with-eric-s.html)

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Ogg Frog Magazine #7

By MotorMachineMercenery in Meta
Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 08:30:15 PM EST
Tags: ogg frog, michael crawford, dicks (all tags)

NUMBER SEVEN  NUMBER SEVEN  NUMBER SEVEN  NUM
   ___  ____ ____   _________  ___  ____
  / _ \/  __|  __| |  __| '  |/ _ \/  __| #7
 | | | : |__  |__  |  __|  :_| | | : |__
 | |_| : [_ | [_ | |  | | _  | |_| : [_ |
  \___/\____|____| |__| |_||_]\___/\____|

NUMBER SEVEN  NUMBER SEVEN  NUMBER SEVEN  NUM

           OoO
 YES YES!  | |         __ __
 I'M   o__/  |       /(o_:_o)
 COMING `.__ \      (  ______)
 RIGHT UP   \ '.    / ( ===============
 YOUR FROG   \  '--'   \__|         o
 ASS!! UGHH!! \          (_        /|__ O
               \           `--....'     o
  .-----.       |           _____..-----O
 |       |.--.  |       ___'
=========:    \ |      /  /)
 |-(>)-(<|     \|     / `-/
 |    _) |  /   \    /   /|
  \__(__)| :     \  /   /_|_____  
  /O_____| :|     .      .      '''.
 | o     __)'.____\___|__/          |
 |  O..-'    \    |    \_____.-|    .
  \     _\    \  /|____|       |   /
   \\    /'----.'     __)_____ |  /
    \\         |      __)      | :
     \\________|________)      | :_____O
      \_________/        '.    (__     o
       \            .     |______ `-..O
        \          | '..-'

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