Apparently the city of Tempe, AZ is the first major city to deploy free wireless internet within the bounds of its city for... well, anybody with a wireless card I guess.
Quite the daunting task, and it'll be interesting to see how this works. I imagine if this works to anybody's satisfaction we could hopefully see stuff like this show up in other major cities *coughVancouvercough* so that wardriving becomes a pseudo-thing of the past.
It's definately providing an interesting framework for the whole computer-car hybrid that I'd like to see. My friend Ryan (greenwire) has a computer already hooked up into his truck with an LCD panel, mainly seems to use it for music listening. I like the idea of a wireless interface on there (I think he has one by now.... Power wardriving!) and using a comp with a wireless connection on it as your virtual briefcase (transport from home comp to car via wireless router, drive to work, transport from car to work comp via similar wireless router). Using rsync and autosaves and whatnot you could keep a decent sync between the comps.
Ian first pitched an idea like this to me about 2 years ago.... "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Honda Civic."
It's a strange interesting world out there.... Let's keep going!
I like finding neat little snippets of useful information around the internet. The real power in this was once shown to me when my friend Amber showed me a video of someone entitled "Zen and the Art of T-Shirt Folding", in which a woman showed a stupidly crazy, simple, yet effective way of folding t-shirts so that the front logo always showed up, the t-shirt is centered and well folded. I wish I had a link, but sadly I have no such will to go google it.
What I do offer today is a wilderness survival tip courtesy Drew on pod6.
How to make a solar-powered lighter using just a coke can and a chocolate bar.
Apparently the chocolate can polish the bottom of the can enough so that it goes from translucent/eggshell to a solid gloss, and you can use this glossy reflective bowl to reflect the sun's light and light a piece of wood.
Useful, yes. I don't think I've ever been on a camping trip where I haven't had chocolate bars and pop cans at the handy.
It seems that people are talking more and more about these hash-reversers that are known to screw up copywrited material in p2p systems and whatnot. Also talking about setting up viruses and the like with a bunch of binary data that causes it to md5-hash to the same program.
What I find most amusing about it is that all it really takes is some second hash function to also be compared to ensure the right file is being downloaded. If you thought it was tough to reverse-engineer a single hash function, what about two concurrent ones?
They seriously can't win.
BBC reporting on the latest news from Japanese medicine: Cell transplants leading to natural production of insulin for a diabetes patient.
I never really got to realize fully what diabetes means to someone with it until I started hanging out with my friend Dalyn. She had (still has) to check her blood sugar I believe thrice daily and needed a daily insulin shot, sometimes more. And she was always being conscious about the foods going into her system. It's like being a vegitarian except you have a little digital vampire to help you along the way.
But yay. Medical procedure exists that can cure diabetes completely? This is most definately good news.
Cute little flash animation involving a bunny and sex. According to Paul: "Oh, It's SFW, unless you work in a convent."
Threw it on here because I think this is probably one of the better animations technically that I've seen on the interweb. Enjoy!
A while ago, Ian first introduced me to the great idea that is VoIP: Basically, that you have a phone ethernetted to your comp, and you dial: two-four-dot-three-nine-dot-one-five-eight-dot-one-nine.... huzzah, your friend's etherwired phone rings and you start talking over a streaming audio line.
Well, now the CRTC has noticed VoIP in a bit of more serious/official light, and they have now ruled that 911 services must be made available by VoIP providers (from google news). Huzzah! Hopefully we'll see this being phased in over the next five years, with any luck it can come bouncing in with the ipv6 upgrade that will become necessary as more and more ip addresses go missing.
MUX, everybody's favourite Vancouver Live PA Rave Acid Techno artist has an interview talking about gear. Go Drew! The article itself is pretty good, and looks at a few different vantages of electronic music production, mainly looking at controllers and giving a bit of a software-vs-hardware overview.
As always, Drew's balanced opinion about the whole matter of hardvssoft is levelheaded and. for lack of a better word, right.... Here's a snippet:
“I don't think anyone can honestly say that any all-hardware rigs are cutting edge anymore. If you want to be cutting edge, you have to do something different, and that's only possible with flexible tools,” Smith admits. “Do I care? Hell no! The biggest rock musicians still use the same Fender Telecaster and Marshall stack that was popular 30 years ago.”
find_slang("werd")->make("mad");
Hot damn! If anybody needs to know ANYTHING about the FLESH LIGHT! apparently I'm your man. Or at least google ranking will think I am for the next kabillion years or something.
As a result, comments (lightly used while I still posted here by actual human beings, but used lightly nonetheless) have been disabled until I get unlazy enough to put in one of those Is-This-Human test plugins.
However, now that the blog hath been cleaned (anybody want a massage by a barely 18 coed? I KNOW WHERE TO FIND HER!!!) I can go back to pretending that the little snippets I have of interest around the internet are actually paid attention to. And now I can continue to delude myself because, heck, people'd post comments if they _could_, right?
Heheheheh. All part of my master plan:
1) Become teh popular on teh interweb
2) Make Marty my 'ho'.
3) ?
4) Profit!