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2012 Jun 1, 4:57
“From his first months in office, President Obamasecretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment
facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
security politics iran nuclear virus 2012 Mar 9, 3:30
With Facebook changing its privacy policy and settings so frequently and just generally the huge amount of social sites out there, for many of us it is far too late to ensure our name doesn't
show up with unfortunate results in web searches. Information is too easily copyable and archive-able to make removing these results a viable option, so clearly the solution is to create more
data.
Create fake profiles on Facebook using your name but with a different photo, different date of birth, and different hometown. Create enough doppelgangers to add noise to the search results for
your name. And have them share embarrassing stories on their blogs. The goal is to ensure that the din of your alternates drowns out anything embarrassing showing up for you.
Although it will look suspicious if you're the only name on Google with such chaff. So clearly you must also do this for your friends and family. Really you'll be doing them a favor.
technical facebook stupid internet privacy 2012 Feb 29, 3:05
I've been working on the Glitch Helperator. It is a collection of tools and things I've put together for Glitch. It has a few features that I haven't seen elsewhere including:
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Favorite Streets
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A notebook in which you can save information about interesting streets and later use it to find your way back to them.
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Birthday
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Find out how old your Glitch is and the date of your next birthday in Glitch time or Earth time.
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API Update History
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A history of changes to the streets, skills and achievements of Glitch noting when new ones are added and when existing ones are changed.
It also has an interactive skill tree, find nearest feature tool, and achievement display. If you play Glitch, check it out.
glitch tool glitch-helperator game 2012 Feb 13, 4:00
Most existing DRM attempts to only allow the user to access the DRM'ed content with particular applications or with particular credentials so that if the file is shared it won't be useful to
others. A better solution is to encode any of the user's horrible secrets into unique versions of the DRM'ed content so that the user won't want to share it. Entangle the users and the
content provider's secrets together in one document and accordingly their interests. I call this Blackmail DRM. For an implementation it is important to point out that the user's horrible secret
doesn't need to be verified as accurate, but merely verified as believable.
Apparently I need to get these blog posts written faster because only recently I read about Social DRM which is a light weight version of my idea
but with a misleading name. Instead of horrible secrets, they say they'll use personal information like the user's name in the DRM'ed content. More of my thoughts stolen and before I even had a
chance to think of it first!
drm blackmail blackmail-drm technical humor social-drm 2011 Nov 17, 3:30
Describes forward HTTP headers to explicitly list proxying information that might otherwise be lost.
technical ietf http http-header proxy 2011 Oct 20, 6:52
Wow, FTA: "Given all of this, reporter Charlie Savage of the NY Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the federal government's interpretation of its own law... and had it
refused. According to the federal government, its own interpretation of the law is classified."
technical 2011 Jul 1, 10:17"A method for obscuring location information is described. Both static and changing location information can be obscured. A single distance measure is input to the process; this parameter controls
the precision of location information that can be extracted by a recipient."
geoloc geolocation technical rfc standard reference 2011 Apr 27, 2:22"Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information"
The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.
copyright science lawrence-lessig video talk 2010 Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant
information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."
rest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical 2010 Jun 1, 6:46"Metalink describes download locations (mirrors), cryptographic hashes, and other information. Clients can transparently use this information to reliably transfer files."
technical internet download web url xml metalink 2010 Apr 11, 3:55Humour infographic backlash infographic.

information infographics humor technical 2010 Mar 21, 3:22Google Calendar Sync is an Outlook plugin that syncs your Google and Outlook calendars (you get to pick 1way and direction or 2way sync'ing). This almost looks like what I want but perhaps my feature
requests are too obscure for someone to have already implemented them:
Events marked personal added on my Outlook calendar should get full 2-way sync'ing with my Google calendar.
All other events added on my Outlook calendar should be assumed to have private company information and should get 1-way sync'ing with just the time and location - no attendees or subject or
desceiption.
All events added on my Google calendar should get full 2-way sync'ing with Outlook and there should be marked personal.
I doubt I'm going to find a pre-made app to do this so I guess I should get coding. Otoh, if they ever bring the updated Android OS that has Exchange support to my G1 maybe none of this would be
necessary...
google calendar outlook microsoft tool free technical 2010 Feb 4, 2:07Infographic oil paintings of things like the historical influences of avant garde or the life of Frank Zappa.
art design visualization information gallery infographics painting ward-shelley via:infosthetics 2010 Jan 11, 2:24Heat map of rental popularity of particular movies from NetFlix in various cities.
visualization movie netflix map nytimes flash information 2010 Jan 5, 6:38Lovely historical infographics. For instance, check out the topographical map of NY city from 1874.

information infographics graph design history via:kottke 2009 Dec 28, 9:27"This class represents a sensor event and holds informations such as the sensor type (eg: accelerometer, orientation, etc...), the time-stamp, accuracy and of course the sensor's data."
sensor android technical programming development reference accelerometer java 2009 Dec 28, 2:19"This document specifies Metalink, an XML-based download description format. Metalink describes download locations (mirrors), checksums, and other information. Clients can transparently use this
information to reliably transfer files."
xml download browser web url todo 2009 Dec 14, 2:20This just in: 'Gullible' removed from dictionary. Story at 11...
humor video via:bengoldacre media australia information communication