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Offtopic: Hacking abilities vs Language skills

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Hacking Abilities vs Language Skills

Hacking Abilities vs Language Skills

Today I was reading and Ars Technica article on the Australian classification board getting its web site hacked when it occurred to me that hacking abilities and language skills must be inversely proportional. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a vandalized web site that had a legible message on it?

I imagine that the relationship is something like the graph above (nevermind its rough looks, I just quickly drew it up in Inkscape).

Let x = hacking ability
Let y = language skills
Thus y=k/x, where k is an unknown constant.

Offtopic: Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

A piece of popular wisdom (if there ever was such a thing) is held to be that the old jokes are the best.  Now a classic scholar has seemingly proved the point with the discovery of an ancient Greek version of the world famous “Dead Parrot sketch” featured on the classic Monty Python show.

A comedy duo called Hierocles and Philagrius told the original version, only rather than a parrot they used a slave.

It concerns a man who complains to his friend that he was sold a slave who dies in his service.

His companion replies: “When he was with me, he never did any such thing!”

Telegraph [via Slashdot]


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