Talking of shuffles, I saw one that specifically blocked moving an item back into the place it had just come from. The programmer couldn't understand that that is a perfectly valid random operation.
Posts by Will Godfrey
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Random numbers aren't, says infosec boffin
Google's new parent Alphabet owns abc.xyz – and, yup, there's already an abc.wtf
Pi-eyed: Microsoft ships slimmed-down Windows 10 IoT Core for gizmos
US govt: Any thoughts on ICANN running the internet? Any at all? Speak your brains NOW
Cloud computing’s refuseniks: How long can they hold out?
Power Bar: EE was warned of safety risk BEFORE user was burned in explosion
BOFH: Knitting bobble hats on the steps of the guillotine
Pale backside of lovely Luna flits past in imagery from 1 million miles out
Secret US-Pacific trade pact leak exposes power of the copyright lobby
Wait, what? TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin
Windows 10 Start menu replacements shifting like hot cakes
Hacklands introducing geeks to something called 'outdoors'
Global spy system ECHELON confirmed at last – by leaked Snowden files
NASA: 'Closest thing yet to ANOTHER EARTH' - FOUND
Hark, the Hacking Team angels sing, it’s not us who’ve actually sinned
Beaten blokes hate the women who frag them in online games
WIPO whistleblowers beg UN for protection as probe into possible corruption starts
Americans find fantastic new use for drones – interfering with firefighting
Oi, Europe: join in the sharing economy fun, yells Gov.uk
The Ruskies are coming for you, NSA director tells City bankers
SourceForge staggers to feet after lengthy STORAGE FAIL outage
Sunday 19th July 2015 22:51 GMT 
Re: Marketing
Good point. I must admit I was surprised at the length of time its been taking. I wonder if the asset strippers bean counters senior staff have been removing expensive and 'unnecessary' backup systems.
I also thought it interesting that SourceForge and Slashdot are on the same hardware these days. Eggs & baskets?
What makes our planet's clouds? Tiny INVISIBLE CREATURES. True story
Cyber-security's dirty little secret: It's not as bad as you think
SourceForge goes TITSUP thanks to storage fault
Saturday 18th July 2015 13:35 GMT
Yes, I pretty much came to that conclusion but when you leave 'home' it's a good idea to also leave a forwarding address. We've done that for the project itself, but where can we point the users to for an equivalent for the mailing list? I don't have the facilities for setting up one myself - besides it shouldn't be dependent on just one geriatric.
It's all a bit of a mess!
Friday 17th July 2015 22:32 GMT
Still down
and still no news.
My main concern now is the users list, which is also inaccessible this time. Unfortunately github doesn't run a list server as far as I know.
It's not a huge list for our project but it's not tiny either, so the idea of sending bulk BCCs to keep people up-to-date is not exactly appealing.
Friday 17th July 2015 06:36 GMT
It's a pile of poo
SC has been down more often in the last 6 months than the previous 6 years. This time even their mailing lists are down.
They are bleeding projects as people get fed up with the outages. The one I work on (Yoshimi) is now mirrored on github, and if this continues we may make it our default repository.
You Musk be joking: Tesla's zero to 60MPH in 2.8 SECONDS is literally 'ludicrous'
Shout, shout, Elliott loses out. Samsung will merge with itself after all
Brit school software biz unchains lawyers after crappy security exposed
Google robo-car in rear-end smash – but cack-handed human blamed
'Ugly Reddit commentards made me doubt humanity'
Four Brits cuffed as global cyber-crime forum Darkode busted
Free internet for kids! Obama's offering free internet to kids! (Yes, there's a catch)
Unredacted: ICANN's hidden role in fierce battle over .Africa rights
Samsung promises win over hedge fund Elliot as investor shrieks 'NO'
New Horizons: We've got a pretty pic of Pluto. Now let's get our SCIENCE on
Hacking Team: We're the good guys, but SO misunderstood. Like Batman
Sunday 12th July 2015 20:46 GMT 
Total Reality Detachment
They hoard all these vulnerabilities knowing that millions of people are put at risk by them, then make a business of selling software using them - to just about anyone with the money, as is now revealed.
They have the extreme arrogance to assume nobody else could have discovered the same issues, or maybe they simply don't care. They don't properly secure any of the information, and when the inevitable happens they (apparently) can't even see, let alone accept that they've been total shitbags.
Anyone who knowingly and deliberately endangers people for the sake of money is, in my book, the absolute lowest form of slime.
Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue
PLUTO SPACE WHALE starts to give up its secrets
Brit teen who unleashed 'biggest ever distributed denial-of-service blast' walks free from court
Office 365 prices 'to rise by up to 13 per cent'
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
