tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182371262012-02-16T08:33:15.068-07:00I, like a mirror, have been shattered. But unlike the mirrors that remain unharmed, I now see reality from many angles.cypher-neohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16197697389039631811noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18237126.post-30886803581092522172010-09-21T09:09:00.000-06:002010-09-21T09:09:37.467-06:00

Google put up an interesting page this morning dealing with Transparency. As an international company, their primary goal is maximize free expression and access to information. To promote transparency around this flow of information, they built an interactive online Transparency Report with tools that allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google

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Google Inc. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Office Dr. Eric Schmidt took to the keynote stage at IFA today to preview new technologies – including tools for Android-powered smartphones that translate conversations from one language to another as you speak. This blogger would like to remind people that these technologies were considered the realm of science fiction only a decade ago.

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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Police were called to a day care, where a three-year old was resisting a rest. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate. The

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Held together by equal parts of resin, hardener, and Holy Spirit.

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So, several months ago I started playing this new game I saw called MyBrute The concept of the game was interesting. You start with a character/gladiator, and are given 3 fights a day to get XP and level up, making your character a much better fighter. There were two big problems with this game! The most common screen you'll ever see on MyBrute #1 - The MyBrute server is almost ALWAYS down! So a

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Ubuntu Linux 11.04 finally has a name; something more official sounding than "Maverick +1". Mark Shutterworth led the announcement with an entry on his blog. 11.04 will henceforth be called Natty Narwhal The Narwhal, as an Arctic (and somewhat endangered) animal, is a fitting reminder of the fact that we have only one spaceship that can host all of humanity (trust me, a Soyuz won’t do for the

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Official Monopoly Rules Page So I was playing Monopoly against my computer the other day and I had several ideas for changing the face of Monopoly. The rules of the game are listed above. Below are my proposed changes to the rulebook. JAIL - According to the official rules you land in jail if... you roll doubles 3 times in a row. That's an understandable rule! No one likes a lucky so-n-so who

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If you are looking for a particular package and don't know whether a ppa for it exists or not, then this tool can be really handy. PPAsearch (by wrinkliez) allows you to to search a ppa right from terminal. Just type in the name of any package and hit enter. It will list you all the available ppas. To install ppasearch type and run in terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wrinkliez/ppasearchsudo

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Image via WikipediaJust a year after the service was released, Google is announcing that it is pulling the plug on Google Wave. Google will maintain the service through the end of the year, and the technology will be rolled into other Google projects. Some features are already available as open-source components, and Google will offer tools to let users "easily 'liberate' their content from Wave

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So I just finished reading the article over on GeekTrio about the best Windows Errors Messages ever. We've all encountered stupid Windows error messages before. I encountered this error message in Excel. I was absolutely floored! The computer wanted me to enter a prime number larger than a googol! How many people, when suddenly prompted, can enter a prime number that large on the fly? Get

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Do not try to guess the root password, that is impossible. Instead, realise the truth... there is no root password. Then you will see that it is 'sudo' that grants you access and not the root password.sudo -V | -h | -l | -L | -v | -k | -K | -s | [ -H ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -b ] | [ -p prompt ] [ -c class|- ] [ -a auth_type ] [ -u username|#uid ] command sudo allows a permitted user to execute a

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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cElectronic Frontier Foundation - Cindy Cohnwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Episodes2010 ElectionFox News

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Just how bad was Windows Vista? Apparently, it's bad enough that 3/4 of Microsoft's business customers didn't upgrade, according to Microsoft. And the customer aversion to Vista is so strong, that Dell is charging customers $150 extra to downgrade and stay with XP! That's right! The retailer is now charging a whopping $150 for what Microsoft says is outdated software. I get accused of bashing

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So I've been playing an RPG with some friends for the last couple months. The game is Star Wars: Saga Edition. When we first began the game, the one thing I knew was that I didn't know much. Various things were later uncovered that proved this; we initially rolled the stats for our characters wrong which made them much weaker than they should have been; not even our GM fully understood how to use

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Image via WikipediaWhile looking at my geek code the other day, I realized that in my latest copy of the code I used "w---" for my Windows geekiness. The expanded entry for "w---" is "Windows has set back the computing industry by at least 10 years. Bill Gates should be drawn, quartered, hung, shot, poisoned, disembowelled, and then REALLY hurt." Why did I choose "w---"? I started thinking about

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This article was published in Volume Twenty-Seven, Number Two, Summer 2010 article of 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. I wanted to share it, since it offered much good advice.Why You Need a Grimoireby LeviathanNo matter how long you have been hacking, surfing, or working in IT, and especially in these uncertain times when your activity can be sniffed, parsed, logged, and archived, you need a

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This seems kind of like a no-brainer. I seriously want to know what kind of salary this person is earning to make an observation that dentists have known for the last 3 decades.For that kind of observational talent, I could be earning big bucks too!

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After all the child sex abuse cases that the Catholic Church has fielded in the past decade, this news item shocked me! I had two thoughts immediately that I decided to blog.First, I was wondering if anyone would accuse the Pope of solicitation for this. I don't understand how anyone could fall for this a second time. Why would anyone who had been raped/sodomized under the guise of spiritual

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This comic makes me laugh a lot more than it probably should, especially since if I ever got sniped, I know I would totally fail. I've actually seen this problem before too and I never managed to solve it in the same day. I would be a very easy person to snipe.Except you have no reason to snipe me; I'm not worth any points at all...

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Check out this interesting article I discovered.I would like to use this article as a response to people who tell me that they don't like Linux because it doesn't run the programs they prefer. The reason I love Linux over Windows, is that Linux also doesn't run the programs that you don't prefer.There are 3 reasons Linux doesn't run all the programs that Windows does, adequately covered in that

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Cartoonist Caldwell Tanner of College Humor suggests that web browsers can be compared to modes of transportation.Are his descriptions accurate?

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Here's a story that has millions of people up in arms. You can read the complete article on the EFF website.I don't know if there is any nice way to blog about this. All I can say is, forgive me for trampling on your die hard personal opinions (if you still maintain those personal opinions after reading the EFF article)... but, here I go.After Geohot released a hypervisor hack that made

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Ubuntu's future 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with Lucid Lynx 10.10, the operating system will be switching from IEC units (base-2) to SI units (base-10) that will

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I was quite amused by this word that I found on Word Spy.My only question is this: Are thumbo's, like art, defined by the eye - or brain - of the beholder? My parents have tried for years to successfully integrate txtspeak and chatspeak into their phone texts, and fail horribly every time. They abbreviate the wrong words, or try to abbreviate already shortened accepted txtspeak text into

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It is amazing, and rather disconcerting, to realize how much software we run without knowing for sure what it does. We buy software off the shelf in shrink wrapped packages. We run setup utilities that install numerous files, change system settings, delete or disable older versions and superseded utilities, and modify critical registry files. Every time we access a Web site, we may invoke or

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wikiality n. Reality as defined by a consensus, particularly in a collaborative endeavor or by majority vote such as Wikipedia. Origin: a Stephen Colbert-inspired "word of the year," Wikiality is a blend of the words Wikipedia and reality "Any user can change any entry and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And

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hestekor.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) is a good example of a barbershop quartet. Very funny, I must have played with this Flash program for 20 minutes, laughing most of the time.

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Amazing Stop Motion Video CreationThis is a truly cool video. In 5 minutes, the designer takes you on a journey through one day in his life, which is animated like a video game! You'll never see more motion in stop motion as with this...

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A post from AmIWrongOrRight.com written by 'CompuGuy': If we assume that the Universe has no edge, then we can assume that the Universe has no definite middle, either. So it could be said that any given person or place is at the center of the Universe.So far, 78% of people agreed. Cast your vote!

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To unsubscribe from all email spam services you must first purchase a Craft-O-Matic Adjustable Subscription Cancellation Unit. The unit can be obtained from most hardware stores and dental clinics. Be sure to obtain the proper permits to operate the unit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Food and Drug Administration, and Underwriters Laboratory in Washington D.C. USA.Be sure to

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I went to the doctor's office a few days ago for a routine psychiatric examination.I hate psychiatrist's!! My disability is massive brain trauma (I'm missing 1/4 of my brain; no exaggeration). What I need is a neurologist, not a psychiatrist. But, Colorado Medicaid sent me to see this dude so he could examine the inner working of my thought processes.He asked me questions and gave me an exam

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YAY!!I finally managed to raise enough money to get a DeviantArt subscription. I'm officially a DA member now, and a DA beta tester.Now that I'm subscribed I'm going to get my prints account going. Unfortuantely, those of you who asked for certain Terragen pictures to be prints won't get them (unless you want a watermarked picture; I don't have the original prints anymore), but there will be many

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I've been absorbed in a new computer game lately called PixelShips. In this side-scrolling game you are able to fly up to 160 different ships up to 99,990 different arenas to complete various missions, earn upgrades, capture enemy ships, etc.I enjoy playing PixelShips because it's a new game for me to hack. Most people don't get as much enjoyment as I do by finding out different hacks and cheats

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I'm not sure why I'm writing this. I think it's because I want to rant about a question I was asked the other day.I showed a friend of mine my website (he liked it), which contains links to other sites where some hacking programs could be found. There are lots of programs there like, compilers, decompilers, hex editors, emulators, web site designers, etc. Most of the programs are free or

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So I was looking in my refrigerator the other day for something to eat and I realized there was nothing there... Time to go shopping.I don't have a car, so all my shopping is either done with my parents (who can chauffeur me around from store to store), or alone (where I walk from store to store). Of these two options, neither is very appealing.Walking is very tiring, especially when you're

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So I've been looking for a new hard drive in the last few weeks, something to replace the frequent-crashing-way-too-slow-way-too-small-10Gb-hard drive that I have right now.I checked out Geeks.com for a good deal and found one there, but it sold out before I got all my money together.So I checked out NewEgg to see if they had any deals. I found a great deal on a 250Gb, 7200 rpm, 16Mb cache hard

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