2010 Mar 3, 2:52Roomba hack that runs OCR on all text it can find in the house and then indexes and lets you search. Also it still vacuums.
roomba hack google vacuum search ocr 2010 Feb 27, 10:06A web browser add-on security research paper that describes the Google Chrome security model. "We propose a new browser extension system that improves security by using least privilege, privilege
separation,
and strong isolation. Our system limits the misdeeds an attacker can perform through an extension vulnerability.
Our design has been adopted as the Google Chrome extension system."
security design google chrome firefox addon plugin web browser technical research adam-barth system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2010 Feb 26, 10:12Interesting stuff about Google determining synonyms based on folks changing their search queries.
google search synonym machine-learning english language technical 2010 Feb 26, 2:42Adam Barth has tons of papers on web browser security.
adam-barth security web browser privacy javascript google chrome research technical 2010 Feb 22, 5:52Analysis of Facebook friend connections by US cities to determine partitioning of the US.
blog visualization facebook social map geo network graph 2010 Feb 22, 3:55Hilarious Internet illiteracy generates tons of confused comments on RWW: '... We've determined by looking at our traffic stats that people are doing Google searches for "facebook login" and coming
upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button and assume that RWW is the "new Facebook." Sigh. The Internet Is Hard.'
via:kottke facebook internet identity openid 2010 Jan 14, 2:54Wow: "If the report's findings are correct, it suggests that the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies."
internet google china security politics privacy 2010 Jan 12, 9:02"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could
operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."
google china politics privacy censorship internet web search 2010 Jan 11, 12:26Hulu lets you search through the textual captions of their shows
video tv hulu search caption accessibility 2010 Jan 6, 2:17Not shocking that papers freely available on the Internet are cited more than those not freely available... "Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited
significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. ... not because of a quality bias from authors self-selecting what to make OA, but because of a quality advantage, from users
self-selecting what to use and cite, freed by OA from the constraints of selective accessibility to subscribers only."
via:bengoldacre science paper citation internet 2009 Dec 18, 2:36"I somehow ended up reading about spite houses (homes built specifically to piss off a neighbor) this evening, which I had never heard of before. Flickr has several when you search the tags,
including the sad story behind this house in Connecticut."
humor spite hose flickr image 2009 Dec 10, 2:31If you want to be a jerk about answering a question on the Internet, 'Let Me Google That For You' is perfect!
google humor web internet search 2009 Nov 27, 6:10"What follows is a brief description of the method we have developed for encoding arbitrary shellcode as English text. This English shellcode is completely self-contained, i.e., it does not require
an external loader, and executes as valid IA32 code."
security polyglot intel paper research programming hack obfuscation english language technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2009 Oct 29, 10:43"Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair (ARMAR) explores the use of augmented reality to aid in the execution of procedural tasks in the maintenance and repair domain." Giant goggles hooked up
to a G1 give 3D overlays over the mechanics view to point them to and help with the current task.
video augmented-reality 3d research 2009 Aug 31, 4:12"If you search Google for ascii art, the Google logo itself will turn into... ASCII art."
google ascii art humor logo via:waxy 2009 Aug 25, 7:10Research paper modelling zombie infection. "The key difference between the models presented here and other models of infectious disease is that the dead can come back to life." Also, love the
references section with "Snyder, Zack (director), 2004 Dawn of the Dead" next to things like "Bainov, D.D. & Simeonov, P.S. Impulsive Differential Equations: Asymptotic Properties of the
Solutions. World Scientific, Singapore (1995)."
humor zombie research via:schneier math science health apocalypse system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2009 Aug 24, 9:52Notes on how bin diff'ing tools work and thoughts on defeating them. "We call the threat "1-day exploits". Just few minutes after the release of patches, binary diffing technique can be used to
identify the vulnerabilities that the security patches are remedying."
exploit security binary diff tool research technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2009 Aug 24, 3:11"It turns out that flipping a coin has all sorts of non-randomness", includes link to research paper and blog post with gems like: "If the coin is tossed and caught, it has about a 51% chance of
landing on the same face it was launched"
security random coin coin-toss
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