Well, I don't actually use a terabyte, but I have been thinking on how to add a terabyte of swap to my desktop without making it slow.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Advice to people working on #NaNoWriMo and are having trouble meeting their quotas:
"Lemur CATTA is a system for Comment Annoyance Trapping by Testing Aptitude. It automatically protects blogs, forums, and other online conversations from annoying comments. Depending on its implementation, Lemur CATTA can block spammers, idiots, and assholes, without interfering with normal usage by qualified participants."
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Before, I had Bluehost shared hosting--given that I only needed a cheap place to store HTML and PHP files at the time I registered for it. Two years later, I need full control over the operating system--so VPS is the cheapest option.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
We didn't know our beings had already visited your planet. Was the being that you knew as"Michael Jackson" considered odd by humans?
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
There's clearly no intelligent life here. Let's disassemble all the atoms of the planet and use the energy to fuel the jump to the next star system.
- Victor Ganata
Take us to the Laugh-In cast. Their transmissions just reached us, and we want Dan Rowan and Dick Martin to rule our planet.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
"Can you please broadcast television signals to our planet?"
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Please allow us to procure Simon Cowell to launch a singing contest on our planet. Our population have mastered "Whole Lotta Love" and "I Started a Joke."
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
You are delicious! We shall call you all Daisy. What does it matter? Your brain is too primitive to understand us anyway. You will lead contented, short lives, never comprehending the end, or what "slaughter" means.
- Edward Coffey
The Dyson Air Multiplier reminds me of the Stargate.
* Finding that no sort of encryption has been used on the password when it was put into the database
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
[Peanut Gallery] Being told that "password" is not a good password
- i80and
the endless loop of creating a password, when they should just dish one out if it's got all these rules.
- anna sauce
I detest the confirm account email that does nothing. Or once you confirm via email, the 2 - 5 "welcome" emails they send you.
- Anika
Phew! I passed the test per all the above annoyances with the login system I wrote for my bebepool website - Whatever size string gets SHA'd (let's just say above 128) and no confirmation email at all.
- Micah Wittman
Only requirement is username 3 characters or more, and password 6 characters or more. When registering, instead of having the user type their password twice, it's typed only once in the create-a-new-account form and then it's confirmed by doing an actual regular login sequence to seal the deal and get in for the very first time.
- Micah Wittman
Very interesting design, Micah. Especially regarding the part where the user does an actual login sequence to test the password.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I think most people that believe the world will end in <insert date here> have actually lived through a previous failed prediction of the apocalypse.