Flutterby™! From 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

Plugging my fellow Petaluma Radio Players: Stephen Sorrentino on keyboards and assorted voices. Amazing! http://www.stephensorrentino.com/

http://www.wsj.com/article_ema...239060-lMyQjAxMTA1MzM1MTgzODEyWj

An inspiring article, and the kind of crazy shit that makes me enjoy when I'm working with certain africans. They often have a completely unrealistic optimism and "I can make this work" attitude.. which gets it done.

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Work, productivity and environment ]

Well, so much for the next coat of varnish on the bathroom trim (and the hour-by-hour forecast), here's the rain...

Traveling is suspicious behavior, and can trigger asset forfeiture. This police state thing is out of control https://www.techdirt.com/artic...ere-is-suspicious-behavior.shtml

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

Spent the afternoon sorting and organizing the square dance music I've digitized from old 45s. Need some punk or prog as brain bleach...

[ related topics: Music ]

Well, that was painful, but I now have 50 singing calls and cue sheets paired in Android SqView. Now to learn the rest of the singers...

Realized that with all of the devices in our house that get time from external sources, "setting the clocks back" is an anachronism

[ related topics: Real Estate ]

Oh, I have a bad feeling about interactions between MySQL sequences & transactions. Really wish we used a database instead of it.

[ related topics: Open Source Databases ]

RT Bob Ross, Game Dev ‏@BobRossGameDev:

If a script that was fine before now stops working, that's just it's way of letting you know it misses you and wants to hang out again.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Games Work, productivity and environment ]

Nice run, and chat about swing dancing, with a coworker, 3.1mi, 8:29min/mi https://www.strava.com/activities/425288887

How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service:

When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that's exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013. Faced with CenturyLink service that was slow and outage-prone, residents gathered at a community potluck and lamented their current connectivity.

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Net Culture Community Dan & Charlene's July 2003 San Juan Trip ]

A couple of different views of the same press release:

Homely men who misbehave can't win for losing: Attractiveness influences online daters, jurors

The researchers found that whether a man transgressed a social norm was a much greater put-off than whether he was unattractive. Normally women do not feel differently towards a homely man who toes the line. If that same ugly duckling, however, transgresses the boundaries of right or wrong, a magnified or "double" devil effect comes into play. He is then viewed in an extremely negative light, much more so than would have been the case if he were handsome.

The Unattractive Bias: Women More Likely To Shun Homely Guys After They 'Misbehave':

Homely men who misbehave can’t win for losing

The paper is Gender Issues: December 2015, Volume 32, Issue 4, pp 266-278 You’re OK Until You Misbehave: How Norm Violations Magnify the Attractiveness Devil Effect Jeremy L. Gibson , Jonathan S. Gore, behind a paywall.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Law Journalism and Media ]

Very Maxfield Parrish

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TextSecure and RedPhone on Android are becoming Signal, uniting w/iOS. You are using encrypted messaging, right? https://whispersystems.org/blog/just-signal/

[ related topics: Weblogs Cryptography ]

dear news media outlets: If you don't stop breaking permalinks, us bloggers are gonna have to copy and paste more to aid our memories.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Journalism and Media ]

Driving across highway 37. Huge flare at one of the refineries across the bay. They lose another hydro cracker at Chevron?

[ related topics: California Culture ]

Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped:

“In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system,” he said. “In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem and so not an issue of personal privacy, that today we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone.”

What happens when one of those core dumps contains password or key information? And Microsoft gets a subpoena?

[ related topics: Humor Privacy Microsoft Health moron Theater & Plays Law ]

I just wanna point out that you people complaining about vertical video are olds watching it on outdated horizontal screen devices.

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RT Laurel Krahn ‏@windowseat, on the switch from Twitter stars to hearts, put aside here because I clearly need to implement a favoriting system on Flutterby:

⭐️ Favorite

❤️ Like

🔥 Hot Take

😍 Marry Me

👆 Well Actually

🌠 The More You Know

🐾 Adorable

🎻 Tiny Violin

🐳 Fail

🌽 Corn Palace Intrigue

[ related topics: Music Sociology ]

Visit to the doctor over this bit tongue that's bugging me reminds me of how much of modern medicine is theatre.

[ related topics: Health Theater & Plays ]

Dear canned coconut cream copy writers: "Extra rich and thick" sounds more like someone's dream sugar daddy than what I want in my mouth.

[ related topics: Writing ]

Spam of the day:

If you wish to join the “GREAT ILLUMINATI WORLD WIDE“AND BECOME RICH, AND HAVE FAME IN LIFE Contact Us via email: [elided]@aol.com for more information

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Spam moron Monty Python Conspiracy ]

Damn Right Amazon Runs a Fucking Deficit and So Should America

[ related topics: Books moron ]

Elf Sternberg: Math quiz for the Christian right. Edited excerpt:

Math quiz: "Eisenhower weighed 214 pounds when he died in 1969. His body decays at 0.4% mass loss per year. Huckabee, Jindal and Cruz create a grand total of 24 hours of embarrassing bullshit every day. If you hooked Eisenhower's body up to a generator with 65% efficiency how much electricity could you generate between now and election day if Eisenhower spins in his grave at 1200 RPM?"

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Cool Science tolkien Mathematics ]

Learn C - Build your own LISP

So email from Whitehouse.gov giving me a link to read the full text of the TPP

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Okay, devops folks, this is pretty awesome: Uptime Funk - (Uptown Funk parody) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww&feature=youtu.be

[ related topics: Movies ]

Soooo... if you were an attorney trying to drum up national business against VW, how careful would you be to spell car models correctly?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Music Law Automobiles ]

OH: "thankfully, I suppose, there is a 36" concrete brick wall separating the engineering teams and the rest of the company"

Short loop, 2.2mi, 7:51 min/mi. Even with a podcast https://www.strava.com/activities/427654939

Counterweight wood standup desk

• http://imgur.com/6YyzgwG
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-yOB3qFKI
• http://mechanicallumber.com/desk-plans/

[ related topics: Movies Woodworking ]

Ben Carson is a good reminder that there are a lot of highly educated people successful in their professions who have no critical thinking

That thing where the $700 piece of hardware is missing two vinyl washers, so all work stops while a hardware store run happens.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

Lesson learned: cut the mirror on the front side

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After the third try to make a cherry wall plate ends in splinters, maybe it's time to knock off the power tools for the night.

Current Biology: The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World (PDF)

Here, we show that religiosity, as indexed by three different measures, is not associated with increased altruism in young children. Our findings robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam) were less altruistic than children from non-religious households. Moreover, the negative relation be- tween religiousness and spirituality and altruism changes across age, with those children with longer experience of religion in the household exhibiting the greatest negative relations. ...

Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds

[ related topics: Religion Children and growing up moron ]

FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades:

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

Via: Pseudoscience in the Witness Box: The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science.

Horror stories abound. George Perrot (profiled by Ed Pilkington of the Guardian) may have spent 30 years in prison based on erroneous forensic hair testimony. Mississippi bite-mark expert Michael West, about whom Balko has written extensively, was shown in a recent film jamming the suspect’s dental mold into the body of a young victim. Santae Tribble served 28 years for a murder based on FBI testimony about a single strand of hair. He was exonerated in 2012. It was later revealed that one of the hairs presented at trial came from a dog.

Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction

[ related topics: Politics Content Management moron Current Events Law Enforcement Databases Dogs Archival ]

I've been involved in the production of the Shotbox, it's cool to see it ramp up: http://www.shotwithshotbox.com/

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment ]

Another night teaching square dance at the Vallejo Pioneers. I learn something new about myself every time I pick up the mic.

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

The good news: I was able to take care of my lunch-time errand over the phone. The bad news: I didn't bring my running clothes today.

[ related topics: Current Events Sports Clothing ]

New England Journal of Medicine: Low Sodium Intake — Cardiovascular Health Benefit or Risk?

The authors suggested that the alternative approach of recommending high-quality diets rich in potassium might achieve greater health benefits, including blood-pressure reduction, than aggressive sodium reduction alone.

By way of Pass the Salt (But Not That Pink Himalayan Stuff), which has a slightly overstated headline, but on the pink salt notes that:

If you read down the list of minerals, you will notice that it includes a number of radioactive substances like radium, uranium, and polonium. It also includes substances that act as poisons, like thallium. I wouldn’t be worried, since the amounts are so small; but if anyone believes the trace amounts of “good” minerals in Himalayan sea salt are good for you, why not believe the trace amounts of poisons and radioactive elements are bad for you?

By way of Elf Sternberg's salt craving.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Health Invention and Design ]

Fascinating article about airlines off-shoring airplane maintenance to cut labor costs: The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today

... US Airways and Southwest fly planes to a maintenance facility in El Salvador. Delta sends planes to Mexico. United uses a shop in China. American still does much of its most intensive maintenance in-house in the U.S., but that is likely to change in the aftermath of the company’s merger with US Airways.

Includes a long list of near disasters and disasters...

[ related topics: Aviation Current Events Real Estate ]

Really enjoyed calling for the Redwood Rainbows tonight. Nice to be able to break out the harder material...

[ related topics: Nature and environment ]

I could swear that somewhere recently I saw a collection of royalty-free square dance pictures. Can anyone jog my memory?

[ related topics: Photography Woodworking ]

Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects:

Then in July, a much anticipated talk at the Black Hat hacking conference was abruptly canceled. Alexander Volynkin and Michael McCord, academics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), promised to reveal how a $3,000 piece of kit could unmask the IP addresses of Tor hidden services as well as their users.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Law Law Enforcement Education Fashion Conferences ]

not too bad, short loop 2.3 mi, 7:46 min/mi. https://www.strava.com/activities/430944915

Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege https://theintercept.com/2015/...ds-of-calls-lawyers-and-clients/

[ related topics: Law ]

Just spent 40 minutes drilling 8 holes. Take that, you NaNoWriMo over-achievers! (Bathroom shower door mounting...)

Need spend some time with the plane to fit the bathroom vanity...

[ related topics: Photography Woodworking ]

The Atlantic: People Are Terrified of Sex. A look at why people reverse the relative dangers of HIV from an unprotected sexual encounter vs driving 300 miles (20x more likely to die in the car than to dying from HIV), and why when looking at how risky behavior might cause disease transmission that:

The results were surprising. Participants who read the story about someone unknowingly transmitting chlamydia —with a "mild" outcome—judged that person more harshly than participants who read about the swine-flu case where the other person actually died!

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Health Law Automobiles ]

Oh, hell. I thought I was normalizing Perl UTF-8 handling so that it worked in comments like it did in new entries, and it turns out it broke everywhere. Freakin' Unicode.

Time to rewrite the Flutterby CMS in C++.

[ related topics: Content Management Perl Open Source Invention and Design hubris ]

Re-Tumblr Violent Impudence:

llustress:

> *drops gender from my inventory to carry more items*

Might as well. It no longer has a purpose in-game, vendors won't give you anything for it, and it's bind-on-pickup so you can't trade it.

[ related topics: Games ]

Friend needs a lower end commuter bike. Is it possible to ethically buy one used, or are they all stolen?

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Friend needs a lower end commuter bike. Is it possible to ethically buy one used, or are they all stolen?

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Facebook quiz claiming "only 4% of people can answer this correctly"... uh: Pick two numbers between one and 50 to match a random one?

Lorem Ipsum generator of the moment: Bob Ross Lipsum:

When you do it your way you can go anywhere you choose. Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be. In nature, dead trees are just as normal as live trees. We must be quiet, soft and gentle. Just pretend you are a whisper floating across a mountain. In life you need colors.

[ related topics: Nature and environment Bay Area Theater & Plays Boats ]

What makes the Internet great: YouTube video illustrating the dangers of steel things near MRI machines.

[ related topics: Cool Science Movies Net Culture Video ]

I have seen one of these as a commercial product, but should we go this direction, like the idea of building our own: Instructable on building a toilet top sink that lets you use the tank refill water for hand-washing. Of course if you use soap then this turns the tank into greywater, which... well... probably best used only in places where the toilet sees a lot of traffic.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

So you probably knew that More than 20,000 apps auto-root Android devices:

Lookout detected more than 20,000 samples of the trojanised adware disguised as legitimate top applications that include Facebook, Candy Crush, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. Malicious actors repackage and inject malicious code into very many popular applications discovered in Google Play, then later publish them to third-party app stores. Lookout believes many of the apps are fully functional.

Although, to be fair, so far most of this is occurring in those third-party app stores, but it is reason to be skeptical of your device. However...

Also in phone security news today... Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC. I've heard rumblings of this, but http://www.silverpush.co/#!/uab is claiming to listen via libraries embedded in various applications on your phone to signals played in the audio tracks to ads on various other devices, like television and desktop computers, to link those sources to you...

I can put a Post-It™ over my cell phone's cameras, but... How much for a hard mic switch on my next phone?

https://twitter.com/alvarombed...tatus/664898795516387329/photo/1

[ related topics: Wireless Music Photography Technology and Culture Robotics Current Events Television Embedded Devices ]

When the production directory contains a "./ATTIC/index_new.perl.save" file. Dated January 20th, 2012.

[ related topics: Perl Open Source Invention and Design Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment hubris ]

Reminder: Pittsburgh's "Get Stuffed With Love" program provides Thanksgiving meals, and not... uh... http://alleghenywest.org/get-stuffed-with-love/

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

Bathroom shaping up. I would post pictures, but I ran my phone through the wash last night...

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That portion of post-project clean-up where the house is such a disaster ya just don't know where to start.

[ related topics: Real Estate ]

The thing I didn't have backed up off my phone: My podcast list. Trying to recreate that now...

still need baseboard, and the vanity drawer and doors

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Sunset alert!

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US-based iPower Technologies has discovered that body cameras sold by Martel Electronics come pre-infected with the Conficker worm (Win32/Conficker.B!inf).

[ related topics: Photography virus Current Events Law Enforcement ]

And more

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Still more

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Yet another

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Super productive weekend, culminating in a bunch of prep work for my square dance calling gig tomorrow. I'm actually feeling prepared!

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

Italy: Town pays people to cycle to work

A similar scheme was introduced in France in 2014, with mixed results. While a six-month trial found that paying people to cycle to work did increase the numbers doing so, the majority had been using public transport, rather than private vehicles. Of those making the move from cars to bicycles, most had already been carpooling.

[ related topics: Current Events Work, productivity and environment Monty Python Pedal Power Bicycling ]

RT Lexi Alexander @Lexialex

The entire South puts on the Nativity play in their church during Christmas. Which is about a Middle Eastern couple desperate for shelter. ☹

[ related topics: Religion ]

Mostly loving my new LG V10, except that my truck's FM converter doesn't draw enough current to tell the phone to use the headphone jack.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Bay Area Machinery ]

I have been trying to work on my singing voice for square dance calling. Many callers have mediocre voices and are still super entertaining to dance to, but I really enjoy the stand-outs like Jet Roberts and Deborah Carroll-Jones who really make the singing calls shine.

With that in mind, the kind of voice I don't have: David Bowie & Freddy Mercury sing "Pressure", vocals only, with no instrumental tracks (YouTube).

[ related topics: Movies Astronomy Work, productivity and environment ]

RT Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed:

If we allow refugees into the US, Americans could be killed in mass shootings at schools and theaters.

Oh.

Wait.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama ]

A leisurely chat + run with coworker, 8:08 min/mi, 3.1 miles: https://www.strava.com/activities/434012766

RT Brian Jordan @jordanbrianl:

Just a couple of tweets reminding everyone that it's all "one water" & less drinking water demand creates interesting wastewater challenges

RT Brian Jordan @jordanbrianl:

Water demand is falling (drought/conservation/etc) but sewer loads (as pounds/day) cont increasing

#EverybodyPoops

RT Brian Jordan ‏@jordanbrianl:

There are also corrosion problems as everybody poops-drought or no drought-but there's less water to carry it away

[ related topics: Photography ]

If you wonder how the Eastern Bloc managed to enforce typewriter registration, look at the anti-cryptography movements happening now...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Cryptography ]

Wait: So RedTube is the advertiser supported video site and YouTube Red is the for-pay one? Now I'm really confused...

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Video ]

FAA says avoid 3rd parties for drone registration. https://t.co/uFi6S9xwiG Yesterday's Meh was a palm sized one w/camera, for $24.

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More for the bandwidth bet: Comcast's data caps are 'just low enough to punish streaming'

[ related topics: broadband ]

RT tom henrich @tomhenrich:

Error message: "Invalid User Id";

What about my ego and super-ego? Are THOSE valid?

How you fight Daesh: More pics of ballsy topless Lebanese girls burning #ISIS flags…

United States states which have surrendered to ISIS / Daesh:

Thanks to Tucker Fitzgerald @TuckerFitzG for the image

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Meet two amazing women who are still working at the age of 102. Yes, 102.:

Everyone asks the centenarians: "What's your secret?"

The answer is pretty simple: work.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

Visualize This: Mapping Regions Polluted by Rigged VW Diesels

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

OH on asking consent before offering advice: 'Is this a "Fuck'em" conversation or a "Fix-it" conversation?'. Brilliant summary.

After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Cryptography ]

RT Martin Munson @wickedimproper:

Spoiler Alert: Your honor roll student ends up in a cubicle.

ARJES VZ 950 E - stationäre Metallzerkleinerung / stationary shredder for scrap metal (YouTube video). The van/box truck at 1:50...

Beats the Muffin Monster...

[ related topics: Movies Machinery Video ]

Uranus might be full of surprises. Uranus is a gas giant.

"Most of the more than a thousand planets discovered around other stars are similar in size to Uranus," Karkoschka said. "They are too far for us to be able to measure their rotational profiles for the foreseeable future, but with an improved knowledge about Uranus, we might be better able to draw conclusions about their interior structure."

[ related topics: Invention and Design Current Events ]

OH awkward question for this millenium: "uh...what...size is your Diffie-Hellman prime...?"

Bike toy lust of the moment:

• Reductivist ringtool emergency bicycle multi-tool.
• IndieGogo for Hedkayse, "The world's first soft but safe, multi-impact, one-size-fits-all, foldable cycle helmet".

[ related topics: Games Bay Area Pedal Power Bicycling ]

Fogle is also claiming that the Subway diet upped his sex drive. That spokesperson thing dies hard! https://twitter.com/hipsterocracy/status/667488647751471104

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Public Transportation ]

Humans are the Gogurt of the dinosaur world.

Ambiguous email subject lines of the moment: "Can I silence experimental warnings in someone else's package?"

Shadow forwarded along this Customers Suck thread about parking an adult-sized pedaled tricycle in a parking lot "automobile" space. Instructive on several fronts, especially in terms of how people think about separated infrastructure.

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Automobiles Pedal Power ]

Intelligent Agents speaking to each other?

Or: Guy posts article to LinkedIn looking for people to collaborate on a protocol for intelligent agents to talk to each other. Does

:0

* ^From:.*linkedin.com

/dev/null

Count?

WebGL water http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

Ugh. Somehow Strava cut off a bit short. Lunch run 8:08min/mi, 3.1 miles. https://www.strava.com/activities/436205262

Not terribly surprising, the VW 3.0 liter diesels were also cheating. I think this means that this includes the vehicles with DEF..

http://mashable.com/2015/11/20...utm_campaign=buffer#ruhTUqg_Ukq8

Post-run snack, a very tasty Walnut Fig Bar from Kessons Kitchen with amazing vanilla flavors! http://www.kessonskitchen.com/

Suspension Bridges of Disbelief:

... I can accept messianic alien orphan superheroes and skyscraper-sized battle robots, but I will not stand for inaccurate portrayals of structural mechanics. It's fine to bend the laws of physics if the plot warrants it, but most suspension bridge mistakes are so needless and stupid that their only function seems to be irritating engineers.

Via JWZ

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Weblogs Robotics Mathematics Government hubris ]

7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

git-raccoon - Go through the repository's history and and rearrange things.

Federal agents took more money and stuff from Americans in 2014 than burglars did. Civil asset forfeiture resulted in $4.5b of revenue...

That $4.5 billion figure is shocking on its own.

But it's even more shocking when you put it in this perspective: in that same year, FBI records show burglars took only $3.9 billion from Americans.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Currency ]

Pausing to unload the second truck fill of gravel to line our catch basin beside the shop. One wheelbarrow at a time...

[ related topics: Machinery ]

Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome is the Wrong Metaphor. On why people feeling "imposter syndrome" in your organization is a symptom of broken process.

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

If you think software development needs to be more like engineering, change the wiper blades on your car: That's a century of development.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Software Engineering Automobiles ]

iTunes and Windows 10 developers should think more about the "explain how to do this over the phone to your elderly acquaintance" use case

[ related topics: Microsoft Law ]

Documents: The Domestic Email Collection Program The NSA 'Killed' In 2011 Was Actually Just Offshored:

New documents obtained by Charlie Savage of the New York Times (as the result of a FOIA lawsuit) show that the NSA may have killed off its bulk collection of US persons' emails back in 2011, but it quickly found another way to obtain these -- a way that circumvented restrictions on domestic collections.

[ related topics: Politics Invention and Design Software Engineering New York ]

No coworker, so ran my 3.2 mi, 7:41 min/mi loop alone https://www.strava.com/activities/438205750

My mom brought a couple of snack-ish things on her last trip, including a few of the Epic Bar offerings. Bison bacon cranberry: meh. Chicken sriracha: Pretty good.

[ related topics: tolkien Food Travel Birds Food - Bacon ]

Joe Nord: New Dell computer comes with a eDellRoot trusted root certificate:

Observe, the eDellRoot certificate is a trusted root that expires in 2039 and is intended for "All" purposes. Notice that this is more powerful than the clearly legitimate DigiCert certificate just above it, which spikes more curiosity.

Reddit: Dell ships laptops with rogue root CA, exactly like what happened with Lenovo and Superfish.

Krebs on Security: Security Bug in Dell PCs Shipped Since 8/15M:

It's unclear why nobody at Dell saw this as a potential problem, especially since Dell's competitor Lenovo suffered a very similar security nightmare earlier this year when it shipped an online ad tracking component called Superfish with all new computers.

Edit/Addendum: Dude, You Got Dell’d: Publishing Your Privates:

In the wild, we discovered a SCADA system associated with the water treatment facilities of a city in Kentucky using the eDellRoot certificate for HTTPS.

And it turns out the Bluetooth drivers shipped with their own signing certificate!

Dell apologizes for HTTPS certificate fiasco, provides removal tool.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Machinery Woodworking ]

Full moon rising over the office park

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Oh, look, the Minneapolis terrorists didn't use encryption either: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1...-activists-days-before-shooting/

[ related topics: Cryptography ]

Please a working example of modern HTML and loading the right image for given widths? No combo of tags with srcset seems to be working.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

In a town where every restaurant is trying to be the next Denny's, it's nice to find slightly quirky

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Don't know if it's worth trying to find a collector...

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Blast from 1979:

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It's been going on for a long time

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Need to find someone who restores old boats to sell this beast...

Edit so I can find it: Scott Andrews pointed me towards

• The Antique Outboard Motor Club - Dedicated to the Preservation and Restoration of Antique Outboards.
• Joe Outboard.

[ related topics: Photography Boats Machinery ]

The place we are staying at has this in the kitchen. We are stumped.

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Wider shot of that kitchen thing for scale

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And now we're into the emotional attachment and memories part of the clean out. Even more fishing stuff

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The canvas still holds up. From the WW2 Pacific front.

[ related topics: Photography California Culture ]

The "pa"is a generation before even that

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Yet another Lenovo exploit http://www.csoonline.com/artic...facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Hard to capture, but at our B&B this weekend the walls and the ceiling are subtly different shades

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It's official: I'm already sick of Christmas music.

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One of the ways Fresno is different: I'd expect pitchers of real cream at an upscale breakfast joint near home

[ related topics: Photography California Culture ]

Currency from the Republic of China, other things in this box suggest pre WWII

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Currency from the Republic of China, other things in this box suggest pre WWII (with picture)

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Anyone know what that first word is? It's watch parts

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Initials carved deep into the handle

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$2750 in (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) coins

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WWI era currency

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For polishing the insides of watch bearings, apparently

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I have worked with #80 drill bits, and after the shaft, these bits are super tiny

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Some things we recognize, and some things we're guessing at. Diamond papers are abrasives?

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Different stages

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Some of these parts are obvious, but I don't yet know what "pin stems" are for

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So, in honor of "cyber" Monday, who y'all gonna ... uh ... "cyber" with? </aol>

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L.A.F.A.B.L.E - Large Agile Framework Appropriate for Big, Lumbering Enterprises

Dell's Tumble, Google's Fumble, And How Government Sabotage Of Internet Security Works

[ related topics: Weblogs moron Net Culture ]

Here's how VW will fix its 1.6- and 2.0-liter diesel engines (in Europe)

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