Monday, September 19, 2011

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  • WHO’S afraid of Internet fraud?
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    Consumers who still pay bills via snail mail. Hospitals leery of making treatment records available online to their patients. Some state motor vehicle registries that require car owners to appear in person — or to mail back license plates — in order to transfer vehicle ownership.

    tags: technology

  • It’s been 70 years since an Indiana photographer visited New York City and returned home with an amazing collection of holiday snaps.

    But Charles Weever Cushman’s pictures are even more impressive today, as they were taken on pricey colour Kodachrome and look far more recent than they actually are.

    He went around the city taking photos of architecture such as the Brooklyn Bridge and other parts of the Manhattan skyline - and it’s hard to believe they were taken while World War Two was going on.

    tags: culture

  • This is the true story of the app that was fixed by a crash. We travel back to join fish mid-debugging:
    I'm dumbfounded. The thread is just gone. And not just any thread: the main thread.
    I don't even know how you make the main thread go away. exit() gets rid of the whole app. Will pthread_exit() do it? Maybe it's some crazy exception thing?
    See, I've got a bug report. Surf's Up: Epic Waves doesn't work on this prelease OS. Last year, the game giddily ran through its half-dozen splash screens before landing on its main menu, full of surf boards and power chords. Today, it just sits there silently, showing nothing but black, getting all aggro. The game hasn't changed, but the OS did, and I've got to figure out what's different.

    tags: programming

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