Fans of chess were outraged when the queen piece was added
“scacchi alla rabiosa” (“madwoman’s chess”) faced a backlash from 16th-century gamergaters
(tags: gamergate funny 16th-century history chess gaming games queen)
Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling
Prisoners built computers from parts, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the administrative network. ‘The Ohio Inspector General says investigators found an inmate used the computers to steal the identity of another inmate, and then submit credit card applications, and commit tax fraud. They also found inmates used the computers to create security clearance passes that gave them access to restricted areas.’
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Funnily enough, this is exactly what Ross Anderson warned about 10 years ago re patient record digitisation in the UK. ‘Occupational therapists working for an employer, doctors working for insurance companies, a dietitian, an optometrist or a dentist or their staff can view the [patient] record and see if individuals have a sexually transmitted disease, a mental illness, have had an abortion or are using Viagra.’
(tags: privacy heaith australia myhealthrecord data-protection data-privacy healthcare medicine)
Stiff Upper Lip by Alex Renton review – the damage boarding schools have done | Books | The Guardian
Holy shit:
Stiff Upper Lip is studded with startling stuff. Discussing the importance of football, for instance, in 19th-century public schools, he drops in the line that “in Charterhouse’s version a small boy was the ball”. I blithely went over that one, thinking he meant “a small boy was [expected to crouch on] the ball” or similar; but it was no typo. In a cheery kickabout on Good Friday, 1924, the Earl of Sussex’s son died from his injuries – _having been [used as] an actual football_.
(via Eva Wiseman)(tags: football public-schools uk school history murder insanity charterhouse alex-renton education)
Kenny Bastani on Twitter: “Visualization of a serverless event-driven architecture”
yup
(tags: funny gifs animation serverless aws architecture omgwtfbbq)
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Awesome StackOverflow answer for detecting “similar” images — promising approach to reimplement ffffound’s similarity feature in mltshp, maybe
(tags: algorithms hashing comparison diff images similarity search ffffound mltshp)