Flutterby™! From 2014-11-01 to 2014-11-30

./ user binarylarry on Systemd: "Remember how awesome pulseaudio is? Well what if we made your ENTIRE SYSTEM that awesome?"

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These are dark desperate times...

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And then one day we realize that despite our beliefs, it's not butter.

Scott Rumschlag has built a Fletcher style Jupe expanding table (assembly time lapse video), and a video of it in action

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Gonna be the most over-engineered toilet paper holder ever...

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Why don't we just measure time from sunset rather than noon and skip the whole "daylight savings" thing? Why not variable length hours?

Yeah, Flutterby isn't Tumblr or anything, but Gloria Brame tossed this up on her Facebook page today and I had a very needed LOL:

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DIYers/contractors: Do we rent a $65/day tile saw, or buy a Craigslist $500 one and sell it after the tile is done?

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So, caught in a lie over the FAA tapes about the TFR and restricting press access, St. Louis County PD Chief Belmar doubles down. #Ferguson

Damn, we're losing Errol and Melody. $685k asking. Wanna be our neighbor?

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"I didn't want to play the Watson to his Sherlock, unless he was willing to reenact some pretty specific fan fiction" -- Lauren Harris

So Amazon is giving free photo storage, but charges hundreds a year per terabyte for non image data. How are they monetizing your memories?

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How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.

I recently had an exchange with someone whose opinion was instrumental in certain technologies you use every day, in which he was talking about mesh networking, I suggested that the famous Gupta and Kumar paper kind of put a damper on that, and his response was to scoff at the information theorists and suggest that some undergrad will come along and prove them all wrong and have I seen what's happening with mesh messaging?

I'm also reminded of the numerous "digital scent" accessory startups we've seen over the years, people claiming that they'll be able to ship peripherals in months when you can talk to any physiologist about scent and discover that, no, we're nowhere near knowing the "primary colors" of scent.

So, yeah, tech investors are gullible, playing for that next big breakthrough, not doing due diligence. Possibly because social media at this point is where the big dollars are, but is clearly headed towards a commodity advertising market, with huge shifts possible (MySpace?) so is extremely risky, and if you're gonna throw that money somewhere, throwing it at other impossible ventures is just fine.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Consumerism and advertising Journalism and Media Machinery Currency Economics ]

Be sure to wash your hands very thoroughly after using hand sanitizer: PLOS ONE: Holding Thermal Receipt Paper and Eating Food after Using Hand Sanitizer Results in High Serum Bioactive and Urine Total Levels of Bisphenol A

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Brownback's reelection means that we get some longer term data on what the Laffer curve really looks like...

Context elided to protect the innocent: "consultants", "technical assistance", "customers"... this kind of implies... uh... no nice way to say this... "ties". Which, yes, means short declarative sentences, words of Germanic derivation, and superlatives, not comparisons.

There has been some discussion in my various circles about the practice of providing pedestrians at crosswalks buckets with orange flags in them, so that drivers have a more visible target indication that the pedestrians are on the playing field. This is my favorite response. RT Authentic Mitch Vars ‏@mplsmitch:

Problem Solved - Put these at all crosswalks

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I'm not fond of the name "Drone Boning", but this is some cool octo-copter shot landscapes of northern California that happen to have people fucking in it.

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Dan Savage: Should the Duggar Girls #FuckFirst? Yes, they should. Duggar boys, too. And so should you.

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RT Friedrice Nietzsche ‏@tinynietzsche:

If I was a butterfly, I'd be like "fuck time travelers"

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When Stephenson wrote Snow Crash, the metaverse was the novel environment. Now, finding interaction in the physical real world is.

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I'm a fan of @RobKroese's books, and am excited about his new publishing venture... http://westmarchpub.com/Raffle.aspx

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FBI Arrests Former SpaceX Employee, Alleging He Ran The 'Deep Web' Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0.

[ related topics: Health Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Fashion ]

You’re not as strange as you think: sex study:

In a recent study, researchers with the Université du Québec and the Philippe-Pinel Institute of Montreal surveyed 1,516 people in the province — about half of them men and half women — to learn about their sexual fantasies.

“There are many things found in the general population that don’t fit the definition of ‘normal,’ ” said Christian Joyal, the paper’s lead author.

The study is What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?, Christian C. Joyal, Amélie Cossette and Vanessa Lapierre, 30 Oct 2014 in the The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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Insecam offers feeds from seventy three thousand default password web connected cameras around the Internet. Via Gizmodo.

In other "Internet of Things" news, you can pay Amazon to put a snooping microphone in your home.

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Transportationist: Death by car: Are you more likely to die from a crash or breathing its toxic emissions?:

It turns out, Deaths by Crashes is larger, according to official sources, but not as much as I expected. And, the answer depends on what metric you use.

CityLab digs a little deeper:

Circling back to the original question, whether car crashes or auto emissions is deadlier, we find any answer requires additional parameters. Strictly speaking, Americans appear more likely to die from auto emissions. In terms of wasted life potential, crashes seem the bigger danger. If anything, the absence of a clear single answer is a revelation in itself, suggesting that the problems are more on par than we typically treat them.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Automobiles ]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

And then some asshole slapped an Arduino on his back and deprived him of free will: Washington Post: Cyborg cockroaches can hear you call and scurry to the rescue, or NCSU press release: Cockroach Cyborgs Use Microphones to Detect, Trace Sounds.

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How Yahoo can buy the best startups, without Google getting in the way? It's simple: look for startups whose founders want to quit in disgust and have their projects canceled a year or two later.

(Hat tip to Tara)

Pointergate may be the most racist news story of 2014 over states the case a little bit, mostly because holy crap, we have Ferguson Missouri this year. But it's your moment of cultural relevance today (more on Pointergate at MeFi), and then...

I know nothing about the Twitter account @TheBlackGuyX, but someone mentioned this series of tweets in conjunction with Pointergate, and I seriously hope there are some big-ass lawsuits in the works:

> From the depths of my heart ... I unapologetically hate police officers ...

> One of our male students was arrested this morning ... Because he looked like a criminal ...

> So ... we don't allow our students to come in to the building if they're late (even a minute) ... so they usually run to beat the time

> This morning one of students ran several blocks to school because he was "running" late

> he's young Black and has locs ... That's what a criminal looks like to police ...

> He ran and got into the school and immediately went to the directors office ....

> The cops ... about 20 ran through the school looking for him like monkeys out of a zoo ... As if this was a drug bust in a trap house

> They got to the director's office, barged in and slammed the student on the table ... So much for having this school as his safe haven

> Me and the director are yelling telling the officers to relax and ease up ... They took him out of the office and slammed him on the wall ..

> At this point it's beyond excessive ... They pat him down and found nothing so thy said they're taking him in for running

> we're trying to explain that he may have been running because he wanted to come to school ... they yelled bullshit ...

> So all we could do is try to keep the student calm while they take him away ...

> what's more is that they had another student who was running with him & she was screaming & crying to me "I was just tryna get here!"

> they let her out of the after traumatizing her for about 30 minutes but they took the other student in cuffs ..

> I couldn't hold back the tears ... Those images ... him being slammed on the director's desk in front of the director and I ...

> My fuckin head hurts ...

> He ran from the police to get to a safe space which was school ... but they the cops didn't care about that they had a black boy to arrest

> He was arrested for running RT @Nisi_Can: @TheBlackGuyX my gosh. What happened to the male student in the end?

According to the tweet stream, the kid has now been released, but holy crap: This is not how police should be doing community relations.

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Is there anything more laughable than people in ties holding shovels for project "ground breaking" ceremony publicity stills?

Running late to school while black? That's a beatin'. @TheBlackGuyX has a series of tweets http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/20571.html

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Eventful email: "Nickelback - coming to your area". Not sure what to do with that information, other than shelter in place.

Learning about marble. Just cut the curve on the right.

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Limited number of tiles requires careful planning...

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At some point.. you have to deal with a client purposefully yanking power cords on servers just to corrupt the system. On their previous vendors system they could do it, restore the database from a backup from the previous day and pocket most of the cash received since then...

It seems to be collusion of a flock of cashiers and a lowly IT tech that worked weekends.

This weekend the cashiers and the IT technician involved learned about the offsite replication slave. Took me a while to merge it all back together, but no missing data. There is a nice chunk of Saturday cash sales missing.

It'll be interesting to watch this play out, from many many miles away.

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A symptom of our times: I can buy a talking toilet paper spindle, but not a metal one with a finish that'll last more than a year or two.

In Friedman's: "customer service needed at the vanities". Uh... "Yes, you look amazing!"

Also at Friedman's: an awful lot of customers need assistance with rope and chain, and for some people "wall anchors" is a tongue twister.

So Estonia's "e-citizenship": not content to just trade it for coupons and discounts, now we'll *pay* to be rid of that pesky privacy.

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"Baked and Popped"? This can only be a drug reference, right?

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Might be an interesting read, but it's behind a paywall: Autism Plus Versus Autism Pure Christopher Gillberg, Elisabeth Fernell, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders December 2014, Volume 44, Issue 12, pp 3274-3276. From the abstract:

The reported prevalence of autism is going up and up. We propose that some—even much—of the increase in the rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is driven by “Autism Plus”. Autism Plus refers to autism with comorbidities (including intellectual developmental disorder, language disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), and this is what is now being diagnosed by clinicians as ASD. In clinical practice, a diagnosis of ASD much more often entails that the child will receive support at school and in the community, which is not the case for other diagnoses. ...

I guess I kind of thought this was already a given.

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I'm all for legalization, but I really didn't need to ride through that huge cloud of marijuana smoke on the Joe Rodota trail this morning.

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The Nor: All Cameras Are Police Cameras, in which your narrator takes a walk around the new London wall (with some historical notes about the old ones) and discovers that:

... For carrying a camera, I was told, I could be taken to the station and charged with “Going Equipped”, a provision of the 1968 Theft Act which determines the imprisonment for up to three years of anyone carrying equipment which may be used to commit a burglary. ...

[ related topics: Photography Invention and Design Law Enforcement ]

Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls: RPX wants to protect small companies from patent threats. Premiums start at $7,500..

The company stays in control of its case, but there are "controls in the policy" regarding how it can react to an offer to settle. "This isn't a line of credit," said Scola. "If you want to make a statement to the NPE community, and fight to the death—that's not what we're doing."

And, of course, RPX is all about buying up patents. So, yeah: protection racket.

Via MeFi: Nice startup you have there...

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Mozilla teams up with the Tor project: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/partnering-mozilla

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Extrajudicial theft: US DOJ helping cops circumvent state restrictions asset forfeiture amounts. https://www.muckrock.com/news/...nov/10/asset-forfeiture-article/

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OwnCloud is pissing me off: What's the easiest way automatically upload new photos from my phone to my own server?

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Looks like the solution to that OwnCloud problem is BotSync.

Every time you accidentally click on a Food Network recipe, eHow, or a page with stilted SEO speak? That's the web Google is bringing you.

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"*Indicates outliers excluded from analysis": On a data set graph, always a strong indication that real science occurred...

RT Kevin Johnson ‏@bykevinj:

Violent crime in U.S. continues decline http://newsle.com/article/0/195125437/ … via @newsle

RT Kevin Johnson ‏@bykevinj:

Police killings highest in two decades http://usat.ly/1ujU6de via @usatoday

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Microsoft open sources .Net Core: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet.../12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx

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Minimal change order on the re-wiring progress inspection, I can do those things and call in the final!

Simitator - Social Imitator - generators for fake Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Answers, and other pages

Scary things on a lunch time walk: dude free-hand cutting on a portable table saw.

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RT Marc Davis ‏@marcedavis:

Nico Sell CEO @myWickr: "I run a company and I can't use any cloud services, because I read all their privacy policies" #pii2014 #privacy

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Adult sized Underoos? Can we have Garanimals next? http://io9.com/holy-underoos-a...lt-sized-and-better-t-1658506481

That "why did they ever think this could possibly work correctly?" moment when debugging concurrency problems in someone else's code.

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The worst part about these link-baity headlines is that we've all seen that video already. Half a decade ago.

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Insert confused look and raised eyebrow here....

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Friedman's again: "Customer service needed at the shower stalls." ... "uh, yeah, can you soap up my back?"

For Larry, a Washington Post article on the evolution of research about possible links between concealed carry permits and crime, from Lott & Mustard in '97 to Donohue currently. More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement

[ related topics: Weblogs Invention and Design Civil Liberties Guns ]

BLTAvocado with tomatoes from our garden and honey lavender bacon from Sonoma Meat Company,

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Kickstarter for "The Seedsheet", CNC deposition of seeds on a sheet that you then lay out in your garden, with online layout:

... Then peruse our expansive selection of vegetables, fruits, and herbs to build the garden of your dreams. As you build, watch as we display your estimated germination percentage, the days until harvest, and the money you're saving! ...

Or: You're too damned lazy to put the seeds where you want 'em, and what about early starts?

[ related topics: Movies Graphic Design Currency Gardening ]

Concerned about the fact that HTTP2.0/SPDY is end-to-end encrypted, the big players have banded together to form the "Open Web Alliance", where "Open" means "we can monitor and inject stuff into your web browsing". Evil, evil, evil.

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Bwahahaha: If 50 Shades of Grey were actually written by a Seattleite:

Mr. Grey’s profile picture on OKCupid was a shot of himself standing in front of a huge window. Ana laughed at the terrible photoshop job; he had crudely pasted a shot of Seattle’s skyline behind him, not realizing that the view point was actually somewhere in the middle of Puget Sound.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Heinlein Architecture Seattle ]

Is Texas getting ready to kill an innocent man?. Really the wrong headline, but "is Texas ready to kill an innocent African-American man for a murder seemingly committed by a white police officer?" is probably too long.

Via MeFi.

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Quite possibly the best Twitter juxtaposition I've seen.

From https://twitter.com/csix/status/534440086750769152 and https://twitter.com/BurritoAlPastor/status/534440021458038784

Fascinating: New England Journal of Medicine: The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine, including a great chart on the difference in what we died from in 1900 (TB, pneumonia, gastrointestinal infections, etc) vs what we died from in 2010 (Cancer and Heart Disease).

Via Vox: What kills us, in one chart.

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TRUSTe pays $200,000 to settle charges that it deceived consumers: Company failed to conduct yearly reviews of sites it certified as safe.

Good business model: Sell the right to put a trademarked image on a web site. When busted, pay a pittance. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[ related topics: Bay Area Consumerism and advertising ]

Barbie fucks it up again.

Via MeFi.

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Hilarious: Greenheart Games: What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go (in-game) bankrupt because of piracy?

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Things we love to hear from vendors: "We don't provide guidance on [that aspect of our product], you'll need to consult a professional."

If you wanna get up in arms over politicians lying to dupe a stupid electorate, its Christie & LePage, not Gruber: http://www.theguardian.com/com...lling-me-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox

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Because I know at some point I'm going to want to reference this again: Egg Master (YouTube short infomercial)

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Prosecutor whose misconduct sent an innocent man to prison for 25 years gets 10 days in jail. And this is news because a prosecutor is actually being held accountable.

Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. ...

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False rumors do not propagate like True ones:

On Twitter, claims that receive higher skepticism and lower propagation scores are more likely to be false. On the other hand, claims that receive lower skepticism and higher propagation scores are more likely to be true.

The above is a conjecture we wrote in a recent paper entitled Investigating Rumor Propagation with TwitterTrails (currently under review). Feel free to take a look if you want to know more details about our system, but we will write here some of its highlights.

I snarked about Facebook, and @takis_metaxas replied:

@danlyke @dweinberger @hananc Indeed, some results on Rumor Cascades on FB show difference. I think it has to do with the interface

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Not helpful, Google translate (I checked, it's a German industrial band)

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Favorite tools for down-converting Unicode to ASCII? (and Swype knows about Unicode, but not ASCII? I weep.)

Hey, more science suggesting that mixing programmers with people on the phone in an open office: really bad idea! http://www.fastcompany.com/303...ilent-office-productivity-killer

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Video of Collin Graver's wooden bicycle (Video), a major improvement on his first version (YouTube). All wood, including the drive train.

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The iconv parameters you are looking for are "--from-code UTF-8 --to-code ASCII//TRANSLIT"

Woot! Electrical work permit is signed off and final!

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NSA insiders suggested shutting down the logging of American phone call records, but the Obama administration nixed the proposal.

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Hey NowThis/Steve Bogart is back and blogging! http://nowthis.com/2014/11/so-much-to-re-learn.html

Since when is 5' of snow for Western New York "epic"? The Blizzard of '77 was 70", and 10'-15' accumulations happened. #uphillbothways

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Morning has broken. Let's try power cycling it, see if that fixes it.

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Your identity model needs to let some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love, and some people call me Maurice.

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RT Len L ‏@eelronhubbard:

Saw a "try Jesus" bumper sticker. Resisted urge to fix syntax and add "catch (DeityNotFoundException e) { return false; }"

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RT Eλf Sternberg ‏@elfsternberg:

The STD argument is a technological limitation. Food variety has become ubiquitous due to tech. So has sex.

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NY Times: The Secret Life of Passwords. A surprisingly good little read on the sociology of password selection.

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Email from Trotec reminding me that lasers qualify for the Section 179 Tax Deduction. Everyone: That's how you drum up holiday business.

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Unless I move big files, my phone uses about 32 meg of mobile data per day. That's 2.3 hours of our first ISP's dial-up time.

The changing face of aging: 93 year old woman marks 75 years with the same company.

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So many questions...

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Service reps take note: there are no jobs which can't be automated.

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Jess Jacobs - On Wasting My Time – The Numbers. In which a patient records the visits and time spent on healthcare:

Outpatient visits were ‘useful’ if it resulted in a change to my treatment or I underwent a test/treatment. Appointments consisting of prescription refills without dose changes, advice I already knew, or second requests for the same thing were counted as useless visits.

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RT Yoni Appelbaum ‏@YAppelbaum:

Journal spams request for article. Researcher submits, "Get me off your fucking email list." It's accepted.

The question is: How many cites does that article have in MedlinePlus?

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Google Contributor may be an elaborate experiment to prove people prefer ads to paid content

The boss has malware, again..., in which a Reddit contributor describes discovering malware coming from an e-cigarette USB adapter thing. Careful what you plug into what, kids!

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And so it begins...

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Charlene getting her demolition on

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And we may go with a larger window, and get rid of that awful plastic on the outside of the wall...

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And the old tub is out. Sucker was heavy, glad I'll have 3 other people for the new tub on Monday.

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Hey, http://mackenab.com/ is blogging again. Fingers crossed for a weblog resurgence!

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I know I've done that, but never for the full height, by hand...

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Insulation in, tomorrow morning the tub arrives and gets mortar bedded on that plastic

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Symantec is banging the drum about an espionage virus/malware tool they dub Regin, that's been around since 2008, and that they suggest must have been deployed by a government.

The Verge: Highly-complex malware has secretly spied on computers for years, say researchers: Trojan is likely state sponsored, has attacked Russian, Saudi internet providers and telecoms since 2008

Now might be a good time to re-read Ken Thompson's Reflections On Trusting Trust.

As I just wrote on Facebook:

So I need to dance a little carefully about what I've seen where, but this line stood out: "Attacks on telecoms companies appear to be designed to gain access to calls being routed through their infrastructure."

I have recently seen the output of some telecoms switching data, because that data was supposed to be XML, and the strict XML parser that was consuming that data was complaining about some really grotesque constructs in that data. Several people looking at that data said "oh, yeah, this stuff is just gross", but my first reaction was "I don't understand this whole system, but this looks like the side effects of an attack on some system" (which isn't this one, because this one is detecting it and complaining).

Telecom data is horrible. It's easy to send trash through Caller ID stuff. Not my field of expertise, but ... yeah ... I really suspect there are some gnarly overflows somewhere out there in the switches, and we all just think the data is trashy.

[ related topics: Web development Music Content Management virus moron Net Culture ]

Violent killings by Utah police outpace deaths by gangs, drug dealers and child abusers.

The Salt Lake Tribune recently reviewed records for 300 violent deaths over a five year period, and found that deaths from police violence were the second most common type of killing after intimate partner violence in Utah.

This is why nobody wants to keep stats on police violence.

[ related topics: Health Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Need to do some shuffling and arranging, but the tub is here!

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Big data fail

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THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION RESPONDS TO THE GRAND JURY’S DECISION NOT TO INDICT POLICE OFFICER DARREN WILSON IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF MICHAEL BROWN.

WASHINGTON, DC – The National Bar Association is questioning how the Grand Jury, considering the evidence before them, could reach the conclusion that Darren Wilson should not be indicted and tried for the shooting death of Michael Brown. National Bar Association President Pamela J. Meanes expresses her sincere disappointment with the outcome of the Grand Jury’s decision but has made it abundantly clear that the National Bar Association stands firm and will be calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue federal charges against officer Darren Wilson. “We will not rest until Michael Brown and his family has justice” states Pamela Meanes, President of the National Bar Association.

Or: RT Columbina ‏@EccentricFlower:

LRT: You got that? THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION. Effectively saying they consider McCullough an embarrassment to their profession. #correct

[Edit: Apparently there's quite a bit of dispute on this point: http://www.stltoday.com/news/l...a36b-5f2d-93b3-8a4f83c0351b.html ]

And RT Joshua A.C. Newman ‏@JoshuaACNewman:

Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, responsible for presenting the case against Wilson, was raising money for him. http://littlegreenfootballs.co...ise_Money_for_Ofc._Darren_Wilson

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Your Backlash Against Sarah Lacy Is Misplaced: Resent the attention she’s getting? Uber singled HER out.

And some good thoughts on how we assign credibility.

RT Philip DeFranco @PhillyD: "No matter the side you're on I think we can agree we need cameras on every cop. To protect whichever party is in the right. #Ferguson" https://twitter.com/PhillyD/status/537080812957470721

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"Later, the other virgins came too, saying 'Lord, lord! Let us in!'" #PornOrBibleVerse?

Holy crap. The Google gamers have fallen into completely random Markov chains, and are getting on the front page.

The real takeaway from Ferguson? St. Louis needs a winning sports team so area PDs can have regular practice dealing with rioters.

Seems a shame to bury that gorgeous hardware deep in a wall

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Tub bedded in place, drain attached, filling with water to let it settle in to the mortar.

Tub bedded in place, drain attached, filling with water to let it settle in to the mortar.

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Via Larry: Belgian man reinvents bicycle wheel, complete with YouTube video. Has a splined coupling between the rear wheel and the sprocket, so you can remove the rear wheel and leave the sprocket cluster in place. Looks pretty awesome.

[ related topics: Weblogs Current Events Pedal Power Video Bicycling ]

Sta.Li - Static Linux

... is based on a hand selected collection of the best tools for each task and each tool being statically linked (including some X clients such as st, surf, dwm, dmenu),

It also targets binary size reduction through the avoidance of glibc and other bloated GNU libraries where possible (early experiments show that statically linked binaries are usually smaller than their dynamically linked glibc counterparts!!!). Note, this is pretty much contrary to what Ulrich Drepper reckons about static linking.

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source California Culture ]

Bitcoin, virtual money: User's identity can be revealed much easier than thought.

In their new study, researchers at the Laboratory of Algorithmics, Cryptology and Security of the University of Luxembourg have shown that Bitcoin does not protect user's IP address and that it can be linked to the user's transactions in real-time. To find this out, a hacker would need only a few computers and about €1500 per month for server and traffic costs. Moreover, the popular anonymization network "Tor" can do little to guarantee Bitcoin user's anonymity, since it can be blocked easily.

[ related topics: broadband Invention and Design Currency Education ]

From Greasemonkey scripts to augment tags for cross-site social web features to Cloud to butt, all the cool features are happening in browser plug-ins these days:

BitTorrent site PopcornCab released a user script that adds Torrent links to the MPAA's "What To Watch" website.

[ related topics: Movies Machinery ]

I want a browser plug-in that blocks websites written in the passive voice, symptom of click-baity bullshit.

Huh. Was hoping to use Weather.com for their hour-by-hour forecasts, but the web site seems totally broken this morning.

Slowly, but ... bathroom progress

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Spent the morning running screws, ran out of tape while mortaring joints.

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