Ian Dennis Miller

"Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:56:43 -0400

“Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.”

- Emily Dickinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Deshaker - video stabilizer

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:57:39 -0400

Deshaker - video stabilizer

Muppet Show Pitch (by lordreginaldwhore)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:44:42 -0400

Muppet Show Pitch (by lordreginaldwhore)

The Professional Tea Boy (by 3liChannel1)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:39:02 -0400

The Professional Tea Boy (by 3liChannel1)

"I really enjoy reverse engineering stuff. I also really like playing video games. Sometimes, I get..."

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:13:30 -0400

“I really enjoy reverse engineering stuff. I also really like playing video games. Sometimes, I get bored and start wondering how the video game I’m playing works internally. Last year, this led me to analyze Tales of Symphonia 2, a Wii RPG. This game uses a custom virtual machine with some really interesting features (including cooperative multithreading) in order to describe cutscenes, maps, etc. I started to be very interested in how this virtual machine worked, and wrote a (mostly) complete implementation of this virtual machine in C . However, I recently discovered that some other games are also using this same virtual machine for their own scripts. I was quite interested by that fact and started analyzing scripts for these games and trying to find all the improvements between versions of the virtual machine. Three days ago, I started working on Tales of Vesperia (PS3) scripts, which seem to be compiled in the same format as I analyzed before. Unfortunately, every single file in the scripts directory seemed to be compressed using an unknown compression format, using the magic number “TLZC”.”

- Static analysis of an unknown compression format - LSE Blog

Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:05:22 -0400

Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

"There are numerous policy issues that should be put on the table, not all of them a matter for the..."

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:48:36 -0500

“

There are numerous policy issues that should be put on the table, not all of them a matter for the federal government as some fall within provincial jurisdiction. I will highlight four and perhaps we can discuss more during the question period:

1. Moving ahead with the anti-spam rules, not diluted through regulation as some are calling for. Ensure swift passage of the just-introduced privacy measures. Moreover, the next round of privacy law review is due this year and we need tougher enforcement measures put on the table and retention of the principle of court oversight for mandatory personal information disclosure.

2. Copyright flexibility. Today and tomorrow’s e-commerce businesses rely far more on the flexibility of copyright law, not the digital locks that form a cornerstone of the current copyright bill. Other countries have adopted fair use or are considering the issue. Canada should do the same.

3. An equivalent for CDA Section 230 for Internet intermediaries is absolutely critical but would require provincial cooperation.

4. Removal of foreign investment and other competitive barriers in many of the sectors that touch on e-commerce. Moreover, foster a more competitive Internet environment with a set-aside for new entrants in the forthcoming spectrum auction. Note that Canada may have been the first with an online-only Netflix, but we also hold the dubious distinction of having had Netflix offer bandwidth reduced versions of its content due to data caps and high costs. The impact extends well beyond the consumer market as it directly affects e-commerce businesses as well.

Canada may have missed out on a generation of e-commerce leaders. We must not miss out on the next one.

”

- Michael Geist: Why Isn’t YouTube Canadian?

the understatement: “It’s A Brick” – Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:10:32 -0500

the understatement: “It’s A Brick” – Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem:

understatementblog:

Tesla Motors’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can largely destroy the value of the vehicle. If the battery is ever totally discharged, the…

"you’re 53 years old, you’ve been in prison from 20 to 26, you didn’t finish high..."

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:01:46 -0500

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you’re 53 years old, you’ve been in prison from 20 to 26, you didn’t finish high school, and you have a grandson who you’re now supporting because your daughter is in jail. You’re lucky, you have a job at the local Wendy’s. You have to fill out a renewal form for government assistance which has just been moved online as a cost saving measure (this isn’t hypothetical, more and more municipalities are doing this now). You have a very limited idea of how to use a computer, you don’t have Internet access, and your survival (and the survival of your grandson) is contingent upon this form being filled out correctly.

Do you go to the local social services office? No, you don’t. The overworked staff there says that due to budget cuts they can no longer do walk-in advising, and that there’s a 2 week waiting list to get assistance with filling out forms. You call them up on the by-the-minute phone you’re borrowing from your cousin (wasting 15 of her minutes on hold) and they say that they can’t help, but you can go to your public library. OK, so you go to your public library after work (you ask your other cousin to watch your grandson for the day since wasting those minutes has temporarily burned some bridges). Due to budget cuts the library no longer has evening hours, sorry, try again (and you also don’t get back the bus-fare or money you spent on a hack to get across town to the nearest branch, since other budget cuts closed the one in your neighborhood). OK, so you come back on the weekend. You ask the overworked librarian at the desk to sign up for a computer. She testily tells you that you’re at the wrong desk, and that sign-ups are at circulation. You feel foolish and go over to the circulation desk, who tells you that you need to sign up for a library card to use the computer. After filling out the forms the librarian starts to make your card for you, and informs you that she can’t process a card, since you have fines from 2 years ago that total fifty dollars. It’s an emergency, you say, you need to use the computer. She sighs heavily, informs you that it’s against policy, and then prints a guest pass anyway. You get 30 minutes at a time for a total of 2 hours per day. Computers are on the second floor.

You go up to the second floor to find a total of 20 computers with a waiting list of 15 people. You do some quick math in your head, and realize you’re probably going to be here for a while, so you walk over to the magazine section, and read People while you wait. Finally, it’s your turn. You walk over to your terminal, and your time starts ticking. Your breath seizes in your chest, and you realize you have no idea what to do. You have the form that they gave you at the social services office, which has an address, which you sort of know what that does, but you can’t quite remember – 17 minutes, by the way. You try typing X City Social Services in a box at the top, a page comes back and says “address not found” with a list of things below it. You’re panicking, because there’s a line forming (there always is) and the library will probably close before you can make it back on – 10 minutes, by the way. After a little more fumbling and clicking you have no luck, you’re kicked off, and immediately someone is standing behind you to use your computer. You relinquish your seat, and head back down stairs. You’re about to leave, already trying to think of who you know who has a computer who might let you use it, and might know about filling out these forms, but the only person you can think of is your friend in the county, and taking a bus out there would be awfully expensive.

”

- California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter

Date: Tuesday, Oct 17, 1995

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:11:47 -0500

Date: Tuesday, Oct 17, 1995
From: "Brian Allen Brushwood"
Subject: Fury
To: "Teller"

All right. I have put it off long enough. I told myself I would wait to write you until I had something meaningful to say, but I have been sitting on your address (figuratively) for months now, and am fed up with waiting. The fact is, Teller, I am furious at you. Not for offending anyone, for being outrageous, or for being so inventive with your magic, but because you were there first. In Genii magazine, you make a brilliant point of explaining that regardless of the true origin of a trick, whoever is most famous performing it OWNS it (I believe you cited your new "ownership" the bullet catch). Unfortunately, I don't believe you extended this idea far enough. This concept reaches all the way into the very attitudes and styles of performance. In short, because of Penn and Teller, I cannot be angry at magic, at least not on stage.

"sleepyti.me bedtime calculator You should try to fall asleep at one of the following times: 11:00 PM..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:47:05 -0500

“sleepyti.me bedtime calculator You should try to fall asleep at one of the following times: 11:00 PM or 12:30 AM or 2:00 AM or 3:30 AM Please keep in mind that you should be falling asleep at these times. The average adult human takes fourteen minutes to fall asleep, so plan accordingly! sleepyti.me works by counting backwards in sleep cycles. Sleep cycles typically last 90 minutes.”

- sleepyti.me bedtime calculator

M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video) (by noisey) Okay. I love...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:43 -0500

M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video) (by noisey)

Okay. I love M.I.A. This was easily the most excellent vignette on Vicki Leekz, and I’m really happy to see it become a standalone track… because it’s totally sick. Now that it’s been cleaned up and paired with a great video, I think it bodes well for the future.

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT WE, THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in..."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:20:03 -0500

“BE IT RESOLVED THAT WE, THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in order to form a more perfect Union, by, for and of the People, shall elect and convene a NATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY the week of July 4, 2012 in the City Of Philadelphia to prepare and ratify a PETITION FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES on behalf of the Ninety-Nine Percent of the People of the United States to be served upon the United States Congress, United States Supreme Court and President of the United States prior to November 6, 2012.”

- The 99% Declaration

PBS - Tesla Master of Lightning (by PRoagie420) Note to self:...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:22:03 -0500

PBS - Tesla Master of Lightning (by PRoagie420)

Note to self: watch this PBS documentary about tesla.

Mining Facebook Data: Most "Liked" Status and Friendship Network | (R news & tutorials)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:38:26 -0500

Mining Facebook Data: Most "Liked" Status and Friendship Network | (R news & tutorials)

"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:39:40 -0500

“

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond to crises, and maybe even to foresee them.

The information comes from a document released on 19 January looking for companies who might want to build a monitoring system for the FBI. It spells out what the bureau wants from such a system and invites potential contractors to reply by 10 February.

The bureau’s wish list calls for the system to be able to automatically search “publicly available” material from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for keywords relating to terrorism, surveillance operations, online crime and other FBI missions. Agents would be alerted if the searches produce evidence of “breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats”.

”

- One Per Cent: FBI releases plans to monitor social networks

One can only dream (via TTC Fantasy Maps - The Intrepid)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:03:39 -0500

One can only dream

(via TTC Fantasy Maps - The Intrepid)

Fat_Neckbeard comments on Even if Facebook doesn't participate in a blackout, a surefire way to make sure it's users are made aware of the Act is to just send your Mom a message saying that by forwarding the information to everyone on her friend's list, she'll get a iPhone from the ghost of Steve Jobs.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:58:44 -0500

Fat_Neckbeard comments on Even if Facebook doesn't participate in a blackout, a surefire way to make sure it's users are made aware of the Act is to just send your Mom a message saying that by forwarding the information to everyone on her friend's list, she'll get a iPhone from the ghost of Steve Jobs.

BBC News - What really caused the eurozone crisis?

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:38:35 -0500

BBC News - What really caused the eurozone crisis?:

Interesting explanation for Europe’s financial problems.

"Pandigital WikiReader Handheld Electronic Encyclopedia With Full Wikipedia. Preloaded &..."

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:52:43 -0500

“Pandigital WikiReader Handheld Electronic Encyclopedia With Full Wikipedia. Preloaded & Updateable!”

- Pandigital WikiReader Handheld Electronic Encyclopedia With Full Wikipedia (843967000559) | eBay