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(Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks?

Wolfger writes "Continuing the recent (useful) stupid theme: I've recently become a BlackBerry user, and I'm in love with the obvious(?) tricks, such as installing MidpSSH to access my home box remotely. But I'd like to know what more experienced Crackberry addicts can share."

Selling Stolen Stuff On eBay is Stupid

Selling stolen stuff on eBay is stupid. Selling stuff you stole from famous people on eBay is even worse. What were these people thinking?

Mayor to town folk: You're too stupid to work with

You can't call Bill Beck the mayor of "stupid" town anymore. The former St. Anthony mayor resigned from his post at a city council meeting Wednesday night, but not before telling off the townspeople and his fellow city council members.

Do smartphones make you stupid?

I don’t own a smartphone (though I have rented them for special reporting stints). In addition to being too cheap to pay for the gizmo and the monthly charges, I’m concerned that a smartphone would become a tax on my time and my mind—compelling me to constantly check e-mail and the latest news on the Web. Which would diminish my ability to sense, perceive, and think. Yes, I’m questioning whether iPhone and Blackberry make people stupid.

The Baltimore Sun Andrew Ratner On Blogs column: Virtually, no defining political moments

Modern presidential politics have often been defined by turning points in a campaign, typically when one candidate does or says something stupid. Or, if not stupid, at least something that reminds many voters of the misgivings they already harbor about the candidate.

Banksy's new show outshines the Turner prize shortlist

Sometimes I feel like Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull when he's in prison, banging his head against the wall until it's bloody, sobbing "You're so stupid, so stupid." Banksy really pissed me off - until I saw the 2008 Turner Prize exhibition. I don't have much feeling for this man's scratchy cartoon rats and his bloody obvious politics, and the omnipresence of his coffee table book seems a manifestation of cultural laziness. How can anyone see depth in his clod-hopping jokes? And depth is what matters in art. The inner life is what matters.

DO IT TODAY: 'Top Chef' Premiere

A new season that will, no doubt, cook up an even better way to prepare pork belly. A set of 17 knives — and their owners — make up the new batch of chef-testants, cooking out of a jumbo kitchen in New York City. Tonight, host Padma Lakshmi, whom we love because she’s a supermodel that is happy to eat 17 little meals a day, will inaugurate the season with its first Quickfire Challenge (yes!), and chef Tom Colicchio will pepper every episode with biting gastronomical how-to’s. You won’t remember every chef tonight, but three of note include: Fabio, who is William Shatner’s private chef; Jamie, who is cook-savvy with absinthe; and Richard, whose motto in the kitchen is: “Keep it simple (stupid).” Please, let him call everyone “stupid,” please.

Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I

Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.

Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I

LinuxPlanet: "Akkana Peck shows how you can speed up your Web searches with custom bookmarklets-- you don't need to be an ace coder to create your own; it's easy, fast, and powerful."

Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I

Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.

(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?

Count Fenring writes "Since the Vi version of this question was both interesting and popular, let's hear from the other end of the spectrum. What are your favorite tricks, macros, extensions, and techniques for any of the various Emacs? Myself, I like 'M-x dunnet' ;-)"

5 Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I

Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.

(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks

careysb writes to mention that in the same vein as '*nix tricks' and 'VIM tricks', it would be nice to see one on regular expressions and the programs that use them. What amazingly cool tricks have people discovered with respect to regular expressions in everyday life as a developer or power user?"

(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?

haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"

(Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

So the other day I messaged another admin from the console using the regular old 'write' command (as I've been doing for over 10 years). To my surprise he didn't know how to respond back to me (he had to call me on the phone) and had never even known you could do that. That got me thinking that there's probably lots of things like that, and likely things I've never heard of. What sorts of things do you take for granted as a natural part of Unix that other people are surprised at?

When does brave become stupid?

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Cloud Computing Is for Stupid People - Richard Stallman

In an interview published by The Guardian on Monday, Richard Stallman says "The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity. Cloud Computing - where IT power is delivered over the internet as you need it, rather than drawn from a desktop computer – has gained currency in recent years. Large internet and technology companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon are pushing forward their plans to deliver information and software over the net But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.

News week in review: stupid users, LHC woes, Windows reverse engineering, and more

If you've spent any time working in IT or helping friends and family troubleshoot their PCs, you likely have a low opinion of most users' common sense. A study made public this week confirms what we had long suspected: most users really aren't very smart when it comes to dealing with popups. Despite warnings about the possibility of installing malware, users in a study mindlessly clicked on dialog boxes just to make them go away.

Google fixes world's most stupid bug

Google has issued a fix to the G1 handset, to stop it executing commands just because they appear in an entered text message - preventing punters from rebooting the handset just by typing the word "reboot".

No such thing as a stupid question?

Yesterday morning alone, I fielded six ridiculous questions, all via telephone calls from the same client, Mr. Down.

Hey New York Times! Fix Your Stupid iPhone App

If you'll allow me, I'd like to unleash a small personal diatribe. I promise it'll be brief. But I've been suffering through the buggy pile of crap that is the New York Times iPhone app for long enough.

Artificial intelligence: Machines that make us look stupid

Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet, 1956. Robby was handy for performing menial tasks for his master Dr Edward Morbius, but he was not the brightest bot on the block

This week in gEEk: It's the stupid economy; Apple sour on Blu-ray; Samsung looking for a SanDisk bargain?

Ed SperlingOffering news and business analysis for the design engineer, Managing News Editor Suzanne Deffree filters the electronics industry's developments and trends to explain how what's happening in the board room today can impact the tech innovation of tomorrow.

REST for Java developers, Part 1: It's about the information, stupid

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for creating, maintaining, retrieving, and deleting resources. REST's information-driven, resource-oriented approach to building Web services can both satisfy your software's users and make your life as a developer easier. This article, the first in a four-part series by REST expert Brian Sletten, introduces the concepts that underlie REST, explains the mechanisms that RESTful applications use, and explores the benefits of REST.

How my conversation with Jabberwacky the talking robot went

Stupid questions get smart arse responses, but why would a robot or more pertinently Artificial Intelligence robots be able to write a blog post for me?.... and quite rightly Jabberwacky told me to figure it out myself!

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