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humour

02.07.08

How to become a millionaire without doing much Howto, humour | View Comments
Time is money, right? And how do you measure richness? If I have a lot of money to throw away, does that make me rich? See where I'm getting at? If I spend a lot of time doing nothing, that means I'm a rich man, since I can throw away the most valuable asset I have which is time - the only asset I can never possibly buy back. Written from the depths of a deep coma at work thinking about life, the universe, and everything. 42.
05.09.07

My Very Own Circumvention Device Internet, humour | View Comments
This one was too much fun to let it go: Slashdot tells us that the folks over at Freedom to Tinker have created a script which generates a random 128 bit integer number, and uses this number to encrypt a haiku for which they own the copyright. They then give you all the rights to decrypt their haiku with the number generated for you (after all, it's their copyright). That's all very nice, but what's the point? The point is, that number has just become your very own circumvention device, which, if it falls in the wrong hands, allows people ...