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Last week I purchased a cheeseburger at McDonalds for $1.58. I handed $2.08 to the young woman behind the counter. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while staring blankly at her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me back two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she started crying in frustration. Why do I tell you this? Because of the evolution in teaching math in the United States over the past six decades:
May 29
This made me LOL. I’m using Windows Vista speech recognition because of my cubital tunnel syndrome. I was dictating an email, spoke the word “bummer,” and Windows Speech typed “Ballmer.” Do the Microsoft programmers know something we don’t?
May 28
A Michigan couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier.
Because of their hectic jobs, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So the husband left Michigan and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down to join him the following day.
The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email for messages from relatives and friends.
After reading the first message, the widow screamed and fainted. Her son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, then read the computer screen:
May 27
Check out this funny comic about how the HR Department reads your resume versus how other programmers read it:
May 22
You must be a programmer geek if you think this is funny:
May 21
Want to snoop on your friends’ porn viewing habits? Then follow these simple steps:
Step 1. Copy and paste some code into a widget on your website or blog.
Step 2. Send you friends to the webpage where you put the widget. Their porn history will be captured in the widget.
Step 3. See what porn sites your friends have been visiting by looking at the widget you put on your website.
How does this work? The widget takes advantage of a security leak in the web style sheets (CSS). Your web browser displays links you have visited in a different color. The code mentioned above displays a list of porn sites and detects which sites have been visited based on the link color. The best/worst part of this trick is that will likely never be fixed because it is a fundamental feature of the Web browser.
We installed this on one of our blogs, and it failed to catch any of the porn sites that we’ve visited. I guess ProgrammersLoveMeganFox.com isn’t considered porn.
May 18
Since terrorists have no problem violating the human rights of innocent citizens, it’s difficult to imagine a terrorist being dissuaded by Google’s App Engine Terms of Service:
2. Your Account and Use of the Service
2.1. You must provide accurate and complete registration information any time you register to use the Service. You are responsible for the security of your passwords and for any use of your account. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify Google immediately.
2.2. Your use of the Service must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and ordinances, including any laws regarding the export of data or software. You agree not to use the Service in the design, development, production, or use of missiles or the design, development, production, stockpiling, or use of chemical or biological weapons.