Someone just ruined his sister's life. I guess.

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So today I found this article on a maximally obfuscated, still esthetically pleasing C program to generate perfect mazes. To quote the article: »That means that there should be exactly one path between any two cells in the maze, understandably a highly desirable property of mazes.«Here's the program code that generates random mazes and in itself ( Read more... )

Why buying stocks is a bad thing
Stock owners are company owners and thus profit from company profit. Since stock shares are easily bought and sold on stock markets, stock owners only keep shares that promise maximum profit. Also, as they are the company owners, they employ the managers and tell them what the company goals are. Usually, that's ( Read more... )

Whistleblower: NSA surveilled everyone 24/7:
he had been tasked with monitoring the communications of specific groups, which he described as an attempt "to try to harpoon fish from an airplane," which he contrasted with the "collecting all the fish" approach of data miners. Among those targeted, said Tice, were American reporters and news agencies ( Read more... )

Uproar as top police cleared of attack on Genoa G8 protestersEnrica Bartesaghi, the head of a pressure group formed by victims' relatives, told the Guardian: "My daughter was beaten so badly she was taken to hospital. She will receive €5,000 [£4,300]. Unfortunately, ours is no longer a civilised country. The sentence is an insult [to her ( Read more... )

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Government Has Not Waived Its Sovereign Immunity for Claims Arising under the DMCA... the Air Force refused Blueport’s offer to license the software and thereafter modified the program’s object code without permission to allow its personnel to continue using it. Blueport brought several claims for copyright violations, one for copyright ( Read more... )

Nick Dave on the bloody battle of GenoaLying on his face in the dark, bruised and scared, he was aware of police all around him, massing to attack the Diaz Pertini school building where 93 young demonstrators were bedding down on the floor for the night. Covell's best hope was that they would break through the chain around the front gates without ( Read more... )

blow it up. :-D

no?