There’re three types of mass storage: NAS, SAN and NSA 😂
— Random Internet Troll
https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/593528317568880641
Dilbert On Meetings
This Dilbert on meetings is so true it hurts. 😂
Übergewicht senkt Demenzrisiko
Ein weiter Beweis dafür, dass der Verein zur Pflege des Wohlstandsbauches einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Volksgesundheit leistet. Wissenschaftler haben die Gesundheitsdaten von fast 2 Mio. Briten über 20 Jahre ausgewertet und kommen zum Ergebnis, dass Übergewicht das Demenzrisiko senkt.
Normcore
Normcore is the word! 😀
Facebook Tracking People Who Have Opted Out of Tracking
Facebook specifically and individually tracks all people, even those who aren’t FB users. Using the opt-out mechanism you’re even worse off, since setting the opt-out cookie makes you uniquely identifiable (again).
During the opt-out process, Facebook sets a long-term identifying cookie and then uses this to track visits to pages that have a Facebook social widget. In other words: “for those individuals who are not being tracked by Facebook (e.g. non-users who have never visited a page on the facebook.com domain, or Facebook users who clear their cookies after logging out from Facebook), using the ‘opt out’ mechanism proposed for the EU actually enables tracking by Facebook” (emphasis in original).
When you opt-out …
[…] Facebook promises to stop collecting browsing information, or use it only specifically for the purpose of showing advertisements.”
So, of what use is it then?!?
Truthiness of the IS’s islamicness
Daniel Haqiqatjou and Dr. Yasir Qadhi have compiled concise and to the point arguments on what’s wrong with debating (or trying to prove) the “islamicness” of the IS.
Bye, Bye, TUAW
In retrospect I must admit, I was wondering why my TUAW news feed had dried out … when it started spewing Engadget junk, I knew something was wrong. A quick Internet search confirmed my fears: TUAW is no more, AOL killed it. :'(
Not all is lost … there’s still a glimmer of hope … several writers have found a new home at Apple World Today … but still no news on what’ll happen to Chris Rawson’s rumor roundups. :'(
https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/579653083736723456
A different cluetrain
Charles Stross jots down some rules that govern contemporary politics … I cringe because I think they may be true … and the comments only make it worse. :/
Synchronize directories between computers using rsync (and SSH)
Best of 31C3
These are my favorite talks from the 31C3 so far. 😀
I found this command line magic gem some time ago and was using it ever since.
I started using it for synchronizing directories between computers on the same network. But it felt kind of clunky and cumbersome to get the slashes right so that it wouldn’t nest those directories and copy everything. Since both source and destination machine had the same basic directory layout, I thought ‘why not make it easier?’ … e.g. like this:
It uses rsync for the heavy lifting but does the tedious source and destination mangling for you. 😀
You can find the code in this Gist.