Drink Urine

Celebrating the establishment of a closed loop water recycling system aboard the ISS, the astronauts drank water recycled from waste and ambient moisture.

In a Maldivian perspective, that sorta undermines the high impact value of the four-letter equivalent of the Maldivian profanity “drink urine”.

From a religious perspective, one may wonder if it is Halaal or WWJD or how other parts of the world see it.

In a movie enthusiast’s perspective, Kevin Costner already been there done that ages ago.

And once people begin to realise that the water they drink contains molecules from the urines/excreta of people and also other animals and plants and not some miracle water from the sky, and possibly accept it as fact, we might even start to see [your favourite brand] marketting bottled recycled urine in the future. And what more, it would cut down the cost on “mineralising” it too.

And to think, this was such a simple solution to shortages in the world’s most precious resource.

Bottoms up y’all. Drink to your health.

What grown-ups should know about their kids hacking

I was browsing around and happened to find this gem of an article titled “Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?” on the website Adequacy - News for grown-ups.

Besides ranting about how he is an enlightened, modern role model of a parent, he talks about how to identify possible hacking activities.

• He claims that Flash is a hacker tool.
• And that AMD chips are inferior, security disabled copies of American chips made by third world countries using child labour in sweatshops.
• And that "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond are hacker manuals.
• And that spending more than 30 minutes on a computer means that the kid is DOSing others by accessing the command prompt of other computers.
• And that Quake is an online meeting place for hackers.
• And that BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system made by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. And that the only way to remove Lunix is by replacing the hard disk because it cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
• And that hackers tend to dress in bright, day-glo colors.

And a lot more ...

With this kind of profiling the law enforcement authorities won’t have a problem finding hackers. All I could do was ROTFLMAO! But on a serious note, it is not hard to find people with similar views who would base their conclusions on such understandings.

It does look like a parody site as the rest of the articles show the same trends. But it did remind me of the time when people used to say that #kotari was a channel in mIRC which stood for Maldives Internet Relay Chat.

Ignorance... is bliss.