oprea.org

Awesome email from a developer to Pirate’s Bay, asking them to keep his Mac software torrent on their site.

It has come to my attention that the torrent located at [URL] is ridiculous.

Not only it requires installing APE plugin, and generating keyfiles using some scary tool, it contains an [expletive] *WINDOWS* program to verify the validity of this release. The “How-to” section in the description is just incomprehensible, and won’t be understood by anyone other than the writer of this description.

Clearly, the “cracker” Minamoto did a lazy job and don’t know how to crack software. It’s an [expletive] SINGLE BOOLEAN SWITCH that validates the licence, it doesn’t require any Application Enhancer tricks or whatever.

I demand that you don’t remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minamoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the better crack to be made, so that it doesn’t cripple the user experience of my beautiful program.

Astăzi, începînd cu 18:30, la sediul Institutului de Studii Populare se ţine a doua ediţie a Ceaiurilor politice Madame Blogary.

Detalii complete pe site-ul Madame Blogary http://blogary.ro/2010/08/reforma-electorala-tema-ceaiului-madame-blogary-de-astazi/

bulldogs.ro

Available at http://muro.deviantart.com. It works like a charm on the iPad.

This just shows why Adobe are running for cover trying to delay the final HTML5 standard to be published.

They should have seen this coming a long time ago, but instead of going back to basics with their Flash software they decided more is better. More features, more resources required, more, well, flash. And now that HTML5 is here they have a very expensive piece of software that nobody’s going to remember in five years from now.

It’s amazing how big companies behave like headless chicken when the market overtakes them. They should give up on Flash and embrace HTML5 like there’s no tomorrow. Instead, they will try to defend it in court and use whatever power they have left in their 90%+ (for now) market share to milk it. And one day, they’ll wake up and realize that nobody needs it. Hell, all these millions of people with iPads and iPhones know it already.

Larry Ellison:

From: Larry Ellison <larry.ellison@oracle.com>

Subject: Hey Jerk

Date: August 11, 2010 1:00:55 PM EDT

To: PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT <ped@mac.com>

Adelyn Lee went to jail for a year for falsely accusing me of sexual harassment. Why did you leave that out of your story you scum bag? Let me guess … your job is telling half-truths. Fortune Magazine must be very proud of you.

Victor Ponta (via Evenimentul Zilei)

Mircea Geoană e, din păcate, pentru noi, imaginea eşecului, a compromisului, a înfrângerilor şi a umilinţelor. Ceea ce ne deranjează când mai iese din când în când în faţă, nu este că nu e de acord, ci faptul că ne readuce aminte de acele vremuri triste.

Crin Antonescu, (inca) Presedintele PNL:

Sunt mânios că am salariul redus cu 25%

Old news, dar trebuie salvat pentru posteritate. Marele liberal este minios ca angajatorul dinsului a decis reducerea salariului din motive de insolventa. Poate ar fi mai bine ca statul sa dea citiva parlamentari afara, in loc sa le taie salariile.

Valeriu Stoica:

Exista doua mari pericole pentru PDL in aceasta perioada: fie panica, fie pasivitatea. Panica nu e justificata, pentru ca aceasta scadere in sondaje este fireasca in conditiile in care se aplica un program de austeritate, dar la fel de periculoasa ar fi si pasivitatea. PDL are nevoie de o perioada de stabilizare dupa acest soc al masurilor de austeritate si dupa acest soc electoral, are nevoie de asemenea de o perioada de relansare si toate aceste perioade trebuie strabatute pana in 2012, deci timpul este foarte scurt.

Ca de obicei Valeriu Stoica reuseste sa explice intr-o fraza ceea ce toti intuim dar nu sintem in stare sa articulam. Cel mai grav este ca nici PDL-ul nu pare sa inteleaga situatia in care sintem ca partid.

In Bell, CA, Overpaid City Officials Become Overpaid Retirees (Reason Magazine):

In addition to the $787,637 salary of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Bell pays Police Chief Randy Adams $457,000 a year, about 50% more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck or Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and more than double New York City’s police commissioner. Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia makes $376,288 annually, more than most city managers.

Articolul complet http://✜.ws/5u