(Yes, I’m looking at a particular one of my cob loggers as I’m typing this.)
and then this.
Archive for July, 2013
The American Conservative via Hacker News – 10 Ways to Save Barnes and Noble.
#2. Cultivate your ‘secret sauce’: the serendipitous experience of discovery.
Add opportunity for discovery by using more tables than bookshelves. “Physical discovery is the secret sauce of retailing and publishing.”
– Simon Lipskar, Writers House, Wall Street Journal…
#7. Downsize your image.
Create a “community franchise,” like Washington, D.C.’s Ace Hardware stores: “The owner names each of them after its neighborhood, but the small chain benefits from the buying power and branding of a national distribution network.”
– Lydia DePillis, Washington Post
Out of the 10 suggestions the first 4 seem the most useful. Suggestion 5 just seems stupid to me but maybe it would work.
Slashdot – Announcement of a new collaborative editing program.
Not normally the kind of thing that you would probably be interested in, but the comments make it all worth while.
The Verge – Virus tricks man into turning himself in for child porn
tl:dr – Guy is surfing the net gets a ransomware message from “the FBI” takes computer to local police station they find child porn.
The scammers don’t get their $500 but overall a happy ending to that particular story.
I knew you guys were just sitting around thinking, “You know what I sure wish Chad would post some more music, we haven’t had any since ‘Scream and Shout’.”
Well fret no more fellow blog denizens I have heard your pleas and in response I bring this offering:
and with that I close another day of blogging
Slashdot – UCSD Professor Develops App to Geotag “Dangerous Guns and Owners”
‘ The app description states: ‘The Gun Geo Marker operates very simply, letting parents and community members mark, or geolocate, sites associated with potentially unsafe guns and gun owners. These locations are typically the homes or businesses of suspected unsafe gun owners, but might also be public lands or other locations where guns are not handled safely, or situations where proper rights to own or use any particular type of firearm may not exist.’
Someone needs to develop an app to geolocate where the dangerously stupid exist. Just sayin’
Ars Technica – World’s First 3D Printed Rifle Made in Canada. Fires a Single Shot
Maker immediately geotagged
Hacker News – How Bad is That Lake at the North Pole?
Short answer, much ado about very little.
Ars Technica – NASDAQ Hacked, 160 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen
Dates from 2005 to 2012. It was a series of SQL Injection hacks over a period of years. I wouldn’t be surprised if over the course of this case it also turns out that credit card numbers were stored in plain text.
Gizmod0 – What Superheroes would post to Instagram
Personally I bet Superman would be an upskirt creeper with his x-ray vision, but maybe that’s more of a Tumblr thing.
Just the stuff that caught my eye this morning –
Ars Technica – Millions of Smart Phones Susceptible to Hijacking.
(T)he defects allow attackers to obtain the encryption key that safeguards the user credentials. Hackers who possess the credentials—including the unique International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the corresponding encryption authentication key—can then create a duplicate SIM that can be used to send and receive text messages, make phone calls to and from the targeted phone, and possibly retrieve mobile payment credentials. The vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by sending a text message to the phone number of a targeted phone.
I blame Microsoft and George W. Bush.
Schneier on Security – Prosecuting Snowden
Basically he feels like it isn’t worth it. In a way I agree, prosecuting him just feeds his need for attention and personally I have come to the conclusion that the information he is providing is either made up or out of date (mainly based on the fact that his claims are always released with no corroboration)
Schneier on Security – A link to an article on the attempt to sue the NSA.
LA Times – Cybercrime may be costing the US economy up to $140 billion and 508,000 jobs per year.
New methodology, actually decreases previous estimates which ranged up to $1 Trillion / yr.
Apparently they decided to use some economic models and instead of surveying affected companies when they started getting answers in the range of Eleventy Gazilion Trillion Billion and claims of missing Picassos stored in the trunks of the hacked servers.
More from the Verge
Triangulation Twist
Posted: July 21, 2013 by socklessjoe in Democratic morality, Fun With Media, News, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped, UncategorizedThe press is fawning over Obama’s supposedly revealing and honest remarks about race, the most extensive of his Presidency we’re told.
On its face, this is classic Clintonesque triangulation. But upon closer inspection, it seems Obama has recently invented a novel technique in American politics. Obama’s twist on this classic triangulation is to simultaneously occupy two angles of that triangle.
For those of us with a memory longer than that of a goldfish, we recall that the administration has been active in the racial instigation surrounding the Zimmerman trial, and has even spent small amounts of public money promoting anti-Zimmerman hate rallies. The main culprit in the administration’s persecution is Attorney General Eric Holder, who refuses to allow George Zimmerman to even get his gun back following his acquittal. Eric Holder’s continued employment is Exhibit-A that the administration is not being honest about racial politics.
The Left’s actions in the Zimmerman case can only be viewed as self-promotion and perpetuation of the professionally aggrieved, the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world. Few following the legalities of the case expected a guilty verdict, and serious claims of prosecutorial misconduct have been leveled. The “black community” was set up for disappointment, sold a bill of goods that was unlikely to be delivered. One almost feels bad for those who were led to believe Zimmerman’s acquittal was unthinkable in a just society when in fact the acquittal was quite likely. Many knowledgeable commentators have noted that the case should never have been brought for lack of evidence.
Sadly, it seems the lapdog media will not only allow this blatant hypocrisy to continue, but will laud it.
Where the fuck have I been?
At first I was pissed off at bad stuff happening to me, then I just realized the world was stuck, like a record skipping.
It’s all the same shit over and over, I’m waiting for the next turn of the wheel before I get back into blogging. I mean, it’s all just the same shit over and over again. AQ (Saudi Arabia) V Hezbollah (Iran) in Syria, Obama flouting the law with the GOP fecklessly whining about it, the economy fucked, allies pissed at us, enemies laughing, what’s more to say?
I want to post this in reply to DPUD’s post about the LCP, I wrote it in the comments but I figured I should include a picture and I need the dashboard here to figure out how to do that.
So here goes
(It took a bunch of takes to get the pic just as the bullet was leaving the barrel)
I got a Sig SC (sub-compact) 250, it’s fucking awesome.It cost mid-$400s with deluxe-type, tritium night sights.
It’s somewhat bigger than the LCP and the rest of the .380s or even 9mm pocket stuff, but .45ACP.
It’s just about the size of my hand, so still pretty small.
With a Blackhawk, inside the belt, holster, you can’t even see I’m carrying. I even put it in the cargo pocket on my cargo shorts occasionally.
The grip is small, my pinky hangs off, but that’s the classy way to drink tea so I figure, it’s the classy way to shoot. I’m sure I could get mag-extenders to fit my pinky, but it fires so smoothly so two fingers are enough.
I’m not used to double-action only, I always fire handguns in single-action mode, so that took some practice, but not much. I also should have done that (practiced double-action firing) long ago, so it’s actually helpful.
I almost bought one of those LCPs or maybe an LC9, I like the Ruger best for pocket .380s and 9s. Notice the rounded edges on it, if you’re sticking a gun in your pocket you don’t want sharp edges catching on stuff, but I kept delaying it until I saw the 250SC and you can’t argue with .45ACP.
Well you can, but you’ll lose.
It’s also convertible to 9mm and .40 S&W, I don’t know if I’ll get he conversions, but it’s there. You can buy it in any of the three calibers, but if you can get .45ACP, why would you get 9mm? It’s not as if the cost is all that different right now. $38 for 50 vs $32.
I’m pretty well disgusted with Beretta.
I got the Storm pistol and hated it. I mean, I took it shooting once and never again, I ended up selling it.
It was sloppy.
The sights sucked and the action was loose. I liked the 14 round mags (.40 S&W), but that’s about it.
I’ve become a Sig guy, of course, I don’t see any more black, scary pistols in my future so it’s moot,
but that’s my advice for people asking.
Now, since I notice there’s been a decided lack of hottasery since I’ve posted, hottassery.
Not on the recommended list. Fucking hurts like a motherfucker, I’m both blessing and cursing my seatbelt. Did I mention wear your MOTHERFUCKING SEATBELT? Morons who know me on a more personal level might get this tribute, farewell, O’ Taurus, to that great highway in the sky,
I didn’t think the government ever ran out of money to destroy things
Posted: July 8, 2013 by aliceaitch in Geektasticity, Government FAILThere’s so much fail here, I don’t know where to start. For $800K, I would have gladly fixed all their computers, guaranteed.
[The Economic Development Administration, who, incidentally, have an ugly-assed website]’s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped—sparing $3 million of equipment—because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.
As best I can figure, this is the EDA’s broken windows attempt at fixing the economy.
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