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Mental note: Rogaine for the groomsmen.
Right on time, another NYTimes Style article that makes me want to take a hatchet to babies and puppies. How do they do that so well?
That's unfair to the hard working men and women at the Style section. It took years of practice to achieve that level of incompetence and triviality; you shouldn't dismiss it so easily.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 12:20 PM on July 24, 2008
Astro Zombie: most reductions are covered under insurance, you should contact your provider for more details.
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at 12:35 PM on July 24, 2008
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And DJB's $500 is safe for another day
What's amazing to me is that every major vendor is vulnerable
As alluded to in the Matasano and the title, djbdns was never vulnerable to this.
Also there are plenty of vectors that don't rely on SSL being spoofed for DNS to be a Big Problem. Kaminsky himself has done some pretty excellent/hilarious work with spoofing DNS to get at internal network resources (now kittensplayingfootball.com resolves to a hilarious image, two... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:04 AM on July 10, 2008
Some pre-Black Hat details on the attack.
Matasano has a blog post that hit my rss reader (but not their website...) with more. Basically it combines cache poisoning (racing to resolve AAAA.VICTIM.COM, AAAB., etc.) with Additional RRs that are in scope of the domain to force the poisoning up from the spoofed subdomain. If I read it right, it leads to cache poisoning of the entire, arbitrary domain for the resolver as a whole and anyone who queries it.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:27 PM on July 21, 2008
Zero Day's summary. I don't really see where they get off calling it a 'debacle.'
I certainly didn't expect the embargo to last till August but I don't reasonably see what anyone involved could have done differently. Sure Matasano probably should have exercised tighter control on their part and they're eating crow for it but besides that this looks like a decent compromise (hell, nearly exactly 15 days of 30) between the full-disclosure crowd and the disclose-later... [more]
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at 8:22 AM on July 22, 2008
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Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
The treatment of this has been absolutely execrable from every level. The excising of the content was bad, doing so silently was worse, not having a prepared plan for when (not if, the internet always finds out) this caused drama was astonishing and the treatment of the whole affair as a "petty blog fight" and "splashing gasoline around" is just petty, grade-school nonsense. You don't silently delete posts on a blog (justly) known for championing transparency without igniting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 10:29 AM on July 1, 2008
Well, if they're talking about Xeni, it depends on how loose their definition of "girl" is.
What the fuck? Not. Ok.
Flagged, deleteme
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at 6:03 PM on July 1, 2008
It amazes me how people can get so caught up in their side of things that they can so completely lose sight of how people who aren't already convinced will see their actions. Especially people in positions of high public visibility, not to mention editorial control.
Take a moment out of your devastating rebuttal and imagine that someone came into the discussion right now no context, no back story, nothing. Does your sentence sound sensible? Rational?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 7:36 PM on July 1, 2008
As UbuRoivas mentioned I wonder how much cstross and jscalzi in particular are responding to the Cory Doctorow Hate-a-thon early in the thread vs the more rational conversation here at the bottom?
And I think the "Why does anyone care" argument is a canard: when a website can nearly singlehandedly change the course of legislation (Canadian DMCA) by provoking its readers, the goings on at that website are pretty spectacularly care-worthy.... [more]
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at 10:21 AM on July 2, 2008
Disagree. If anyone deserves kudos for all the effort towards fighting Bill C61 (and all the Bills before this one), it should go to Michael Geist, who's been providing Cory with all those luscious links.
Effort yes, results though? Boing Boing has (had?) the audience to mobilize lots of annoyed geeks, something that certainly looked like it had some effect. I'll back down from "nearly singlehandedly" though I think the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 12:54 PM on July 2, 2008
jscalzi: my main concern was people doing a pile-on on some folks I know before there was enough information to know who was involved with what
Absolutely. The irony, of course, is that the reality was pretty close to the least-charitable guesses.
squeak: And, imho, providing links to the efforts of others isn't quite as laudable as the actual work that has been put into everything thus far.
Absolutely.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:45 PM on July 2, 2008
Compared to Sprint, Boing Boing is feeding off of a vastly smaller user base and a vastly more informed and fickle one too I'd bet. You'll never lose *all* your customers/readers/whatevers to a bad reputation, but you can easily lose the smart ones leaving you with a race to the (rarely profitable) bottom. Just look at slashdot. It was on top of the world for a while there, but I haven't been there in months and I don't know anyone who has. Reddit is doing the same thing as we speak, seemingly... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 2:26 PM on July 8, 2008
I dance dance dance and I dance dance damn you Artw.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 7:06 PM on July 8, 2008
Joel Johnson: I never foresaw the furor over "unpublish".
This, and similar statements are the part I Just Don't Get. I know you won't respond but I feel the need to ask anyway. Do you see how, from the outside, silently "unpublishing" contradicts directly and forcefully with image many people have of Boing Boing? How the further censoring of any hint of dissent fueled it? How different the public perception of Boing Boing is from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:43 PM on July 18, 2008
To be clear I'm *not* saying "how didn't you see it coming?" What I'm really asking is with hindsight can you see how it looked from the outside?
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at 5:48 PM on July 18, 2008
Takuan must be performance art. Or satire. Or the first attack of a surrealist AI bent on conquering us all.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:49 PM on July 21, 2008
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Espresso on Ice is Not Okay
Yikes.
Getting a new job is a lot harder than finding another coffee shop. I'm with the barista on this one, and I think all coffee tastes like feet.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 9:19 PM on July 16, 2008
Is it not instructive...
Not really; you're begging the question with your phrasing. The barista and the coffee shop have an equal right to serve the products they wish to serve as long as it doesn't 'hurt anyone' vs the institution/authority figure of consumerism knowing best (the customer is always right, the barista's job is to serve me what I order, etc).
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at 7:33 AM on July 21, 2008
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I'm the Batman
I feel like someone is fucking with my internet connection and everyone else is either seeing a) a different metafilter or b) a different, funny animated gif.
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at 11:20 AM on July 18, 2008
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MIT TechTV
Kind of sparse content-wise but it looks promising.
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at 10:01 AM on July 18, 2008
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Watchmen Trailer is Up. It's not good.
The visuals so far are astonishingly close to the paper versions, that alone won them some points.
Nobody's allowed to make a Transmetropolitan movie though. You hear me? Nobody.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 3:07 PM on July 17, 2008
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So, how do you spell it?
July 16, 2008
The Economist Group
The Economist Building
111 West 57th Street
New York
NY 10019
USA
Sir,
On behalf of all right thinking people everywhere allow me to congratulate you on your victory. You will delight to hear that you have won a prize of One (1) Internet. You may confirm your receipt of this notification and retrieve your prize... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 7:22 AM on July 16, 2008
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They were applying his own paradigms for learning
Oh god. LOGO brought me into computers like so many others; this feels irrationally personal. I'd heard and read bits about Papert and his work since, but never really grokked the scope of his work.
TBIs scare me more than just about anything else. It's terrifying to have your seat of self be demonstrated to be physical, fallible and fragile so viscerally.
Every good thought I can think of to him and his family.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 6:49 PM on July 15, 2008
MIT's Get Well Seymour! page is quite nice too.
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at 6:52 PM on July 15, 2008
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The Doom of Super Mario
Humans don't have 3D vision. We have 2D vision with partial heuristic depth perception. It's a great achievement for a passive system with only two cameras but it's a far cry from actual 3D information.
I'd like to see a real 2.5D interface. Like a stereoscopic wmii (tiling) window system with depth cues for out-of-band information. Following eye focus for the pointer and fuzzing/dimming/inactive windows would be awesome. Then notification events could be bright both... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 9:00 AM on July 15, 2008
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Tony Snow, 1955-2008
Shilling, no matter how vile, doesn't overrule my sorrow for the way cancer kills. I'm sorry for the man and his family.
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at 8:49 AM on July 12, 2008
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chomp
davejay: A friend-of-a-friend had a riced WRX with all the manufacturer tuning labels. A gas station attendant asked him what kind of car a "Prodrive" was.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 4:39 PM on July 11, 2008
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The $6.9 Million Man | Woman
From the very sparse detail in the article it sounds like the second methodology should be omitted completely. The spending-to-avoid risk metric is pretty well established and the fact that another method is so wildly lower implies that it's measuring something confounding like class differences in risk appreciation or something.
Anyway I'm not near enough of a wonk to speak authoritatively on this but I wanted the thread to have some content that isn't "you can't... [more]
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at 3:36 AM on July 11, 2008
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Can I has stock quotes?
I'm just glad the WSJ didn't get as far as copypasta. That juxtaposition would have violated some fundamental law of time and space.
And yeah, occasionally mars has got win an award for either worst euphemism or most grave misunderstanding ever.
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at 10:58 AM on July 10, 2008
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America's Pastime
Shit my nogoodnik friends and I started a treehouse on a large apartment building's private property. We knew it wouldn't last, and we didn't bitch to anyone when it disappeared one day. Kids don't respect property lines and they never will. When they disrespect it you either ignore it or bulldoze it if it's a problem, the kids will find another place and likely have more fun complaining about The Man and rebuilding it Just Like Last Time, But With A Moat And Possibly Lasers.... [more]
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at 10:24 AM on July 10, 2008
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Boyz 2 pipettemen
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Reference #3.27bc1a45.1215646823.32a4e40
Riveting. Metacafe, I'm disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 4:42 PM on July 9, 2008
The video is up at the manufacturer's website.
I wanted to hate it, but it was hilarious.
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at 5:09 PM on July 9, 2008
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Words like mother-blank!
Bad teachers and schools beget bad students, some of whom grow up to become teachers and the glorious cycle of life continues. The good students, of course, either flee from the system as fast as their little legs will carry them or bravely fight the system for a year and a half before being politicked into oblivion.
Kids who never learn become adults who can't learn who become voters who can't evaluate the evidence. Faith based government is the direct result of our... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:28 AM on July 9, 2008
would we be all a-flutter here if the book in question was "Mein Kampf"? (oops, Godwin) , "The Anarchist's Handbook"?, "Biography of Larry Flint"? [insert own ludicrous title here]? I'm thinking not.
Speaking only for myself: if the students were old enough for the material to be appropriate (high school is far past that point IMO) I wouldn't object to any of those.
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at 10:10 AM on July 9, 2008
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"Loaded with soul...under control"
First of all, these are million dollar apartments. If that's middle class, I'm in abject poverty.
Upper middle class maybe, but maybe not. There are two real estate markets in the US, New York and everywhere else, metrics that make sense here are meaningless everywhere else and vice versa.
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at 9:52 AM on July 9, 2008
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wobniaR eht revO erehwemoS
A game I worked on at an internship used the "record in reverse and imitate" trick to get just that weird sound for some of the vocals (they might have actually been my vocals now that I think about it). It's not hard if you've got decent attention to detail. Singing it is, I'd imagine, substantially harder.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 9:29 AM on July 3, 2008
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Mrs. Green?
From what I've heard about what goes on in (New York) ERs of all stripes, I'd literally need to be carried in before I'd step one foot inside.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:35 PM on July 2, 2008
spicynuts: I'm not relying on hearsay. I'm glad you had a good experience but as I'm sure you're aware the plural of anecdote is not data.
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at 2:16 PM on July 2, 2008
