Title: Target Acquisition
Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Nick Fury
Also on AO3

Clint Barton took the helicarrier down in a matter of seconds. Tony Stark wants to help him figure out what else Loki left behind. But first Fury needs them to deal with the other aftereffects of that attack, including the WSC's stupid-ass decisions.

(and yes, it's a fix-it)
( Nick Fury doesn't believe in interim reports. They tend to lead to stupid-ass decisions.Collapse )

Tony Stark took hours to hack the helicarrier; Barton's hacker arrow took it down in a matter of seconds. SHIELD isn't stupid, they'd have locked down his access before the crater finished collapsing. So how did they get taken down by their own tech?

Title: Internal Target
Tony Stark, Clint Barton
References to canon events for Iron Man and The Avengers movies (nothing explicit).
Also on AO3
( This isn't Star Trek, computers do not shut down just because something goes boom.Collapse )

"Livejournal updates UI; it doesn't suck"

They've got inline lj-cut expansion, just like DW has had for ages now.

"No, no, never send interim reports," said Miles. "Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must then either obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem."

In answer to the LJ "designer"'s question - "who needs comment preview?"



About 1.4 million LJ users, if the search results for "Error: Irreparable invalid markup" site:livejournal.com are to be believed

In what universe is this good UI design?

I wrote my first Apple program in 1980, when I was 15.

I saw a prototype Mac in 1984 when Apple was sending them around to colleges to drum up interest. The college wasn't interested; I was.

I wrote my first Mac app on a Lisa, when Inside Mac was a frequently-updated looseleaf binder.

In 1991, when I was in Texas trying to get a Silicon Valley job on Macs, a computer salesguy I knew was pessimistic. "It's a Windows world," he'd say. I always answered, "So I'll change it." I ended up working for the people from Xerox who'd given that fateful demo to Steve.

I was an Apple employee very briefly. I was probably the last person to interview for Copland. I ended up in hardware instead. It wasn't a good match, but when I moved on to Javasoft it did give me the incentive to push Sun and Apple to work closer together on Java - so much closer that I had an Apple office for the next 4 years.

I was there when the reverse takeover began.

I met Steve twice (not counting the time he was knocking on the IL1 door because he'd forgotten his badge). The first time, he knew who I was already (see above).

The second time: I used to bring my Aibo robot dog in and let it run around IL1. One day someone came down and asked if I had 15 minutes free, next thing I know I'm showing off the Aibo to Steve. Now, an Aibo has two reactions when it's been tipped over and righted itself - one of them is a head shake very reminiscent of Luxo Jr. That happened to be the one it picked for Steve; he was definitely amused.

Well, every secret you can know (Like a password or a special code)

And every token you can show (Like a smartcard or RFID)

And anything that's your bio (Like your retina or fingerprint)
Authenticates, authenticates!

Authentication's very slick,

Two of the three will do the trick,

I find it quite interesting,

You need a person, code or thing.

(OK, kind of reaching for the rhymes there...)

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Massive Dynamic
We do what we want
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones over there.
But there's no sense crying that we drove you insane.
When your friend and partner carved a hole in your brain
But the science got done.
And you stole a new son
From the people who are over there

Originally posted by azurelunatic at Sky not falling yet

http://news.livejournal.com/127507.html went out earlier today with some inaccurate information about the criteria for purging inactive journals. That entry has been edited; as of 22:24 2010 July 14 (Pacific Daylight Time) the associated lj_maintenance entry (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/128843.html) hasn't been, and still makes reference to outdated information.

Inactive users and communities will be notified that unless they take action (logging in, posting entries) they will be deleted & purged -- however, "inactive" is very narrowly defined in the actual plan.

The account must be (if a personal journal) not logged into, for 24 consecutive months; a community must go without new entries for 24 consecutive months. Users will be notified before this happens; community maintainers and moderators will be notified. Additionally, only journals with either zero entries or the single automatic entry that LiveJournal started posting to new accounts, will be affected. If a journal has more than one entry in it, it's safe. If a journal has only one entry in it, and it's something other than the automatic text supplied by LJ, it's safe. The feature isn't fully developed yet. Stay tuned to official LJ sources (which I am not).

Historically important stuff is therefore likely to be safe, unless somehow a world-shattering conversation broke out in the comments of someone's automatic first post (and those tended to actually be automatically posted privately, so immensely unlikely).

This also means that the people who were pleased by the thought that the person with three entries from 2001 who has that awesome username but hasn't touched their journal since 2001, will actually be in for a disappointment.

Why the fuck is ontd on my lj home page? Tell me there's a way to kill it with fire.

( Spoilers for the final two episodes of Doctor WhoCollapse )

Donna Noble
Take Which Doctor Who companion are you? (girls) today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.</p>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgWaD3cy6M

My iPad, tiferet's cat. No worries about scratches; glass is hard, claws aren't (patio doors get scratched by pets with sand under their claws).

Date:	2010-05-16 23:38
Subject:	Dear New Who writers
Security:	Public
Mood:	annoyed

Dear New Who writers:
( spoilers for latest episodeCollapse )

Name parsing fail:



Why? Because on the page where you enter it, the form looks like this:



To top it off, the complaint form looks like this:



The first computer-related job I had, they added the "Lee Ann Rule" to the names database just for me; the database designer had originally set it up so spaces were an illegal character.

Do not assume that the first space in a name is the first/last break; it annoys the hell out of the exceptions, and it screws up your database. Just give people two fields to enter, and let them put whatever they want in it.

in the proprietary software world 28% of those involved are women, in the free software world it is 1.5% (don't miss the dot);

I've always been in the proprietary software world at places like ParcPlace, Apple, and VMware, where they really *do* only care how good your code is.

Found here, and while the article is good, the comments prompted James Nicholl to give it a rightly deserved "memetic prophylactic recommended" tag.

( ... or, 'Aliens show up and the first casualty is characterisation'Collapse )

John/Rodney cuteness. Lacks about 20 words of being a proper drabble.
~~
( Movie NightCollapse )