2005-04-01
Apr. 1st, 2005 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewx- Apple founder Jobs joins IKEA
- Google Gulp
- Desktop USB Fondue Set
- More storage at gmail
- Shakespeare monkey theory not true for Macs
- Water On Mars
- Brad's Corner
- New political party
- Freshwater sharks in the Manchester Ship Canal
- History of European toilet paper holders
- Several NetBSD jokes and a Debian one
- nationstates.net shut down by the Department of Homeworld Security
- Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq (and someone who was taken in)
- Electrocute
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suggestions posters who do not read the rules - Two lumps
- New Labour lines up countryside role for Charles
- boringboring.org (parody of Boingboing)
- RFC4041 ("No avian carriers were harmed in the production of this document.")
- Little Gamers shut down for torrent dealings. (I've no idea what Little Gamers is though...)
- Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion (with a Space: 1999 reference! Yay!)
- FasterCard, the Credit Card Touring Cyclist's Credit Card
- Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
- Cisco to merge with Nabisco
- iCopulate
- A word from Spamusement's sponsors (link likely to go stale...?)
- Charles Stross Attains Posthuman Status had me in giggles
- Several people noticed strange goings-on on the livejournal update page
- Optimizing Darwin's idle loop
Anyone spotted any more yet?
Thanks for the additions; keep them coming...
Additionally:
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Date: 2005-04-01 10:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-01 10:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-01 10:41 am (UTC)The latest News post is a fairly obvious one.
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Date: 2005-04-01 10:58 am (UTC)If it's acccelerating, it may even reach infinity, but that'd be difficult to provide. I wouldn't be surprised if google didn't branch out into spoft drinks, the brand'd sell, wouldn't it? :)
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:12 am (UTC)Actually, I'm not sure infinite (or at least, unlimited) storage is completely impossible. If you can offer an upper limit that's so high most users will never reach it, then just removing the cap altogether seems plausible. Assuming the service is restricted to legitimate use for personal email, which might be difficult to enforce, but theoretically at least, it's hard to imagine how users would ever go over a few tens of GB.
At the moment Google don't seem to be too concerned about people using their Gmail accounts effectively as a free idrive. But I don't see why they shouldn't say, no upper limit but if you go over 10GB we'll check you're really using the account for personal rather than business purposes.
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:18 am (UTC)[1] Assuming infinite refers to aleph-null. Aleph-null + 1 would be the same. Aleph-1 would be... hard, and require some sort of analog storage. Omega would be logically impossible, I *think* :)
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Date: 2005-04-01 03:40 pm (UTC)And that's not counting spam.
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Date: 2005-04-01 04:41 pm (UTC)I'm trying to think of a way you're receiving three to four orders of magnitude more email than I am! I mean, I'm sure I'm on the low end of the scale but that's a huge difference. I suppose if you're regularly using email to share huge files?
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Date: 2005-04-01 05:34 pm (UTC)OK, extrapolation is bad and I should actually keep some statistics on this, but it's probably OK as a handwavy sort of thing.
My total mail archives since 1999 are about 400M, the archives for the three years before then are still on (about 20) floppies...
As a worrying counterpoint. "All spam" aimed at me seems to double every 3-6 months and "Unfiltered spam" every 6-9.
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:06 am (UTC)It's very scary.
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-01 11:29 am (UTC)Wikipedia's toilet-paper-holder article probably counts.
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:31 am (UTC)... and switches to a Dvorak keyboard layout by default (http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pckbport/pckbd.c)
... and adds Tetris to the set of things bundled into /rescue (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/04/01/0008.html) (anyone would think NetBSD developers had nothing better to do)
Debian stops accepting new maintainers and cancels non-Cabal accounts (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/04/msg00000.html)
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Date: 2005-04-01 12:19 pm (UTC)RFC 4041 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4041.txt)
Boring boring (http://boringboring.org/)
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Date: 2005-04-01 12:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-01 12:34 pm (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4400535.stm
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Date: 2005-04-01 03:30 pm (UTC)From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_1%2C_2005/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia
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Date: 2005-04-01 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-04-01 08:03 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?mode=full
has a little gotcha hidden in the "update journal" button..
(verified by checking the source)
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Date: 2005-04-01 08:04 pm (UTC)It is indeed true, though.
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