Paul Cull @pdcull@mastodon.social

Something to cry about...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-brazil/amazon-com-should-share-web-domain-name-rights-brazil-says-idUSKCN1RF2T7

Amazon vs the Amazon... everything that is wrong with the internet in one recent news story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/world/americas/amazon-domain-name.html

If you or a non-profit that you know and love use a .org internet domain name, be advised that the ICANN registry want to remove the price cap limit that only allows the annual registration for such domain names to go up 10% each year.

This will mean that individuals and non-profits may soon be priced off the internet. If you don't want that to happen please visit this link and let ICANN know why this is a bad idea.

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Service_DomPriceIncrease_20190425

How to remove dangerous firearms from NZ society:

1. Make them illegal
2. People hand them in to the cops.
3. Oops..

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/112274005/firearms-taken-from-palmerston-north-police-station

A really good explanation of killer software.

Somehow the software development industry lost the backups of 40 years of knowledge about serious software development - my
guess is that Silicon Valley wiped them!

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

Bad timing: Kinder Surprise with KKK balloons sold in Christchurch petrol station.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/rolleston-woman-finds-unsavoury-surprise-kinder-egg

It get worse:

"A worker at nearby Ward Demolition said he understood the fire had started in a room of the Argus Fire Protection site that monitors fire alarms.

He said a worker had heard the alarm go off in the building and when she returned with a fire extinguisher, the roof had caved in."

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/112181170/buildings-roof-on-fire-in-aucklands-onehunga

Guess which fire alarm company is going to become famous on the fail blogs:

New Republican Version:

@natecull I thought this was a photo of my COBOL class back in ''82 but, of course, we were still using punched card back then.

Taxes

Where do I sign up?

In 2387...

Weird citrus golems...

Reminds me of my school days...

Windows could really get you into trouble at times:

NZ vs US:

Facebook Builds Firewall To Keep Google Plus Refugees Out

https://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-builds-firewall-to-keep-google-plus-refugees-out

It's only uranium...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/brazilian-drug-gang-opens-fire-on-convoy-of-trucks-carrying-nuclear-fuel