Around the time this website was made, I was building an application for a big company in Spain that was to run as a Java applet and required the code to be signed.
They did not yet have their own certificates so I had to make my own CA during testing and sign the code, and I wanted to make sure that they did not forget to switch to their certificates later, so instead of signing the code with my name which some bureaucrat might decide to not bother changing, the code was signed by Britney Spears.
They noticed it, got the joke and made sure to switch certificates for the release. Everything went well thanks to Britney.
It's only impressive if you've become accustomed to the unfortunate trend of forced obsolescence and the desire of many to justify useless recurring "maintenance" busywork. Basic HTML and CSS will always work.
I love the idea of this but the mention of Hedy Lamarr could be confused as parody too when she was in fact an incredibly intelligent engineer and physicist.
Has anyone made a ranked list of the most mentioned people or historical facts on HN. Hedy must be on there somewhere:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hedy+lamarr
Meanwhile Dolph Lundgren has an actual MA in Chemical Engineering. It's a pity we can't get him to do something like this in earnest to teach engineering concepts.
From Wikipedia "...Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical
engineering from the
University of Sydney in 1982...."
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They did not yet have their own certificates so I had to make my own CA during testing and sign the code, and I wanted to make sure that they did not forget to switch to their certificates later, so instead of signing the code with my name which some bureaucrat might decide to not bother changing, the code was signed by Britney Spears.
They noticed it, got the joke and made sure to switch certificates for the release. Everything went well thanks to Britney.
2023 (37 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763307
2021 (168 points, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626532
2016 (94 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872658
I remember this, presumably from slashdot 20,years ago
You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp...
Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.
Anyway it reminds me of the deep fake of Kim K and Nicki Minaj explaining subnetting: https://youtu.be/KcgyGYTnk4M?feature=shared
I thought this thread is a good place to share this fact.
Exactly, that was a bit puzzling.
Excerpt from https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/remarkable-rise-dolph-lundgren/ "....As a result, he was awarded a full ride to the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Scholar..."
The above Wikipedia article says Dolph quit studying at MIT after two weeks for acting career.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland#Science
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