The Louis Vuitton Cup is a series of match races that lead up to the America’s Cup. So what do you get when you send a team that has an unlimited supply of money, all the experience that money can buy, a venue that’s made for sailing, and arguably the fastest boat on the water?
You get a bunch of losers. There won’t be an America in the America’s Cup this year– BMW Oracle, the USA’s entry, got eliminated by the Italians today.
My local paper’s website has started allowing users to comment anonymously on stories. Yeah, that’s just the clever, edgy thing to improve their flagging circulation. As evidence I give you today’s story on the grocery workers’ contract talks. The story itself is fine, but scroll down to the comments.
Hey, U-T! get a clue: I don’t read the paper to get silly, bigoted comments from mouth-breathers who think the way to add emphasis to their words is to add a whole bunch of exclamation points!!1!11!!!!! Yeah, nothing says “rational discourse” like run-on sentences in all caps saying that what we need is more and bigger Wal-Marts. I’d accuse them of being poorly thought out, but thinking is obviously a skill they haven’t learned.
I can’t believe that none of you geeks bothered to let me know the “comments” function wasn’t working. (it is now.)
Then again, I can’t believe that I didn’t test it after migrating to the new host either.
… where it is illegal for you to know this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (For the non-technical, that’s a hexidecimal number. We programmers prefer that notation. In decimal, it’s 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640.)
Why is this number special? It’s the encryption key that controls the DRM (Digital Restriction Management) for every high definition (HD-DVD and BluRay) DVD sold to date. If you are a very talented programmer, you can use that magic number to decrypt and back up your original DVDs. A consortium of media companies claims they own it, and under the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act, they can censor anyone who publishes it.