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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Aug 3, 12:18
I watched ep1 of Murder in the First last night and Taye Diggs followed me this morning. Coincidence? Or maybe he's into my CSP extension.
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Retweet of ericlaw

2015 Jul 26, 12:44
This is profoundly troubling, especially after learning that a recent mass shooting was executed via such a gun. http://www.wired.com/2015/06/i-made-an-untraceable-ar-15-ghost-gun/ …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Jul 1, 11:26
I had an ophthalmic migraine this morning. Black and white zig zags forming a crescent took 20mins expanding across my left field of vision.
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Retweet of velartrill

2015 Jun 29, 7:23
the year is "2027". strings are the only remaining data type
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jonahray: MIKAL CRONIN - “Say”A video I wrote/directed for...

2015 May 27, 3:07


jonahray:

MIKAL CRONIN - “Say”

A video I wrote/directed for FUNNY OR DIE.

It features Kurt Braunohler, Nick Thune, Nelson Franklin, Allan McLeod and Ryan Perez. 

ALL HAIL THE CHEVY

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jonahray: MIKAL CRONIN - “Say”A video I wrote/directed for...

2015 May 27, 3:07


jonahray:

MIKAL CRONIN - “Say”

A video I wrote/directed for FUNNY OR DIE.

It features Kurt Braunohler, Nick Thune, Nelson Franklin, Allan McLeod and Ryan Perez. 

ALL HAIL THE CHEVY

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Retweet of bcrypt

2015 Apr 12, 10:20
Ted Cruz's site doesn't really support HTTPS, so we can't say for sure that he's running for president. Could be anybody, really.
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laughingsquid:‘Find a Fish’, The Classic Surreal Intermission...

2015 Apr 8, 5:02


laughingsquid:

‘Find a Fish’, The Classic Surreal Intermission Sketch From Monty Python’s 1983 Film ‘The Meaning of Life’

Surprisingly often quoted ‘a fish fish fishy, oh!’ with my roommates in college.

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laughingsquid:‘Find a Fish’, The Classic Surreal Intermission...

2015 Apr 8, 5:02


laughingsquid:

‘Find a Fish’, The Classic Surreal Intermission Sketch From Monty Python’s 1983 Film ‘The Meaning of Life’

Surprisingly often quoted ‘a fish fish fishy, oh!’ with my roommates in college.

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Retweet of ginatrapani

2015 Apr 5, 10:42
Things you inadvertently teach your toddler to say: "Good job cleaning my bottom, Mama."
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Retweet of xeni

2015 Mar 29, 11:10
1. House 2. Dressed as house 3. Listening to house 4. Rendition of Brick House 5. While painting house 6. Onto House http://boingboing.net/2015/03/30/deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep.html …
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Retweet of PFTompkins

2015 Feb 19, 2:00
My car is really on my ass about having one remaining genie wish. pic.twitter.com/pyAHttfKXl
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Retweet of textfiles

2015 Feb 12, 9:15
My boss came out and spoke for five minutes in NYC and mentioning locking the web.... open. https://archive.org/details/bresterkahlenetgain …
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Retweet of __apf__

2015 Feb 11, 7:44
want to live the experience of a non-technical user? watch someone narrate what they think an ssl warning is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCIU7b5j-M …
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Retweet of ericlaw

2015 Jan 27, 11:08
I recently got a new Authenticode cert to continue to sign my code. It wasn't hard-- you should be signing too! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2015/01/28/authenticode-in-2015-signcode-with-certificate-on-etoken.aspx …
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The Interview ending interpretation

2014 Dec 25, 2:29

As the title suggests, spoilers for The Interview follow.

Towards the end of the movie, after Dave Skylark is shot, he miraculously has a bullet proof vest, blows up Kim Jong-un, finds a random tunnel and is picked up by Seal Team Six. These are the same details of the unbelievable scenario that Dave Skylark describes to Agent Lacey at the beginning of the movie.

This isn't a coincidence. Everything after Dave is shot is his fantasizing about how things should have gone as he dies in the interview chair. Unsurprisingly his fantasy closely matches his original ridiculous thoughts about how he would assassinate and escape.

This is similar to movies like Brazil in which the later fourth of the movie is the main character’s romantic fantasy as he is tortured and killed in real life. Or Total Recall where the end of the movie matches the description of the memories that the main character will have implanted at the beginning.

Its safe to assume that after Dave is killed, Aaron and Sook are captured and also killed.

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The Secret Life of SIM Cards - DEFCON 21 - simhacks

2014 Aug 16, 1:07

A DEFCON talk “The Secret Life of SIM Cards” that covers running apps on your SIM card. Surprisingly they run a subset of Java and execute semi-independent of the Phone’s OS.

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Gamers Messed With The Steam Sale, Then Valve Changed The Rules

2014 Jun 24, 3:51

Applied game theory 101: Valve’s Steam Summer Sale involves a meta game with teams of Steam users competing for daily prizes. On Reddit the players join together to take turns winning daily. Valve gets wise and performs an existential attack, changing the rules to make it harder for players to want to coordinate.

Still, that all the players joined together to game the system gives me hope for humanity. Its a self organized solution to a tragedy of the commons problem. Only in this case the tragedy is by design and is updated to be more tragic.

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On exploiting security issues in botnet C&C...

2014 Jun 23, 4:26


On exploiting security issues in botnet C&C software:

Hackers “are learning that it’s not so easy to write secure code,” Toro says. “Most of us in the business of securing our applications and systems know that bulletproofing software is an extremely expensive and exhaustive undertaking. Malware creators who have to look to their own defences would have to slow down the production of new attacks.”

FYI, if you want to know what it looks like when you hack a hacker, look no further than the seminal 1995 film Hackers.

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Mario Maker - Design Mario levels on the Wii U. Time to break...

2014 Jun 10, 3:57


Mario Maker - Design Mario levels on the Wii U. Time to break out my Mario level design documents from when I was 8.

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