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6 months ago

in Finally Fast Software Scam on BestTechie.net
not to be a dick, i think its shit too, but they dont claim that finally fast was features in those papers, it was their parent company, and they were featured for different reasons. http://www.ascentive.com/about_us/awards_press....
that page has links to the articles
I agree completely with the vid

8 months ago

in Playing Online Games on the Playstation 3 on Polycat.net
The 720p thing is probably because they think the game looks better with your TV doing the upscaling. Most PS3 games can't actually render at a full 1920*1080 anyway. At the very least you should try both (maybe even a blind trial if you can get someone to help you) and see which looks better to you.

9 months ago

in What A Disaster on The Jed Report
It get's even worse(/better, depending on your point of view). There's a part two:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/25/13345/4...

The first 3 minutes of of this was not in the original clip and is not in the transcript. Who would have thought, they actually edited out the worst parts... Those 3 minutes are mindboggling.

10 months ago

in From the perspective of a game publisher on Sore Thumbs
Specialisation in reviewers is a ridiculous idea. If your FPS guy only does FPS and your racing guy only does racing who reviews something unique like Spore? Not only that, but if someone who primarily plays, say, FPS games really likes a rhythm game or RPG when they're disinterested in the genre as a whole that's actually the best indication that it's worth playing.
Reviewers should state their backgrounds, but they don't have to have any background in particular. This isn't objective: all viewpoints are valid, and having a spread available allows readers to find one that matches their own.

10 months ago

in John McCain Trashes American Workers on The Jed Report
The point is that McCain thinks $50/hour is a trivial amount of money. Definitely not enough for any (American) man with respect for himself to take on hard labor.

But in fact, $50/hour is twice the average income and more than 7 times the federal minimum wage.

Now that's out of touch.

10 months ago

in John McCain Trashes American Workers on The Jed Report
Let's do the math. 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 50 weeks per year (assuming paid holidays, 2 weeks vacation). $50/hour ads up to a full year salary of $100,000...! McCain thinks Americans wouldn't work for that? The people he was talking to probably don't even make half that. Median household income in the US is ~$50k.

If this wasn't made for an "out-of-touch" ad I don't know what is. I'm amazed you found the video (though would be great to also have the part just before this clip where he says that "we all know there are jobs Americans just won't do".

11 months ago

in Starbucks: Inflation and Devaluation of a Brand on The Marketing Technology Blog
I know what you mean, I tried a starbucks ``espresso'', because I thought that there would be no way that such a large, well-known chain could be that bad. And it was. But I go to a nice place in Sydney, where they roast the beans in the cafe, and know me by name. It's nice.
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Daniel I've been a Barista for almost a decade. I've worked at one of the best coffee shops I've ever experienced, and I've seen what makes a coffee shop great. I worked at a Starbucks for about two months one summer, having known nothing about it. I had to quit that job. Every bit of skill I'd acquired from my experience as a Baritsa went out the window when I put on that apron. My job had nothing to do with coffee (which was horrible anyway). I'd say about 90% of job, on a daily basis, had more to do with upselling and "looking" busy.

I don't know why anyone would go to Starbucks except they simply don't know any better. There are small privately owned coffee shops that are guilty of the same thing too though. Where I live, there isn't a single place to get a decent cup of coffee.

1 year ago

in Updates on Drew Yao’s Terrible Ruby Vulnerabilities on Matasano Chargen
Re: the crash on 1.8.7-p22, I have forwarded it on to the Ruby security team.

The test case does not cause a crash in the patched version of 1.8.6 that will be going out in a Mac OS X update soon. The patch that Ruby ended up with was not the same as the one that I sent them.

1 year ago

in Reinstating "55," Are They Crazy?! on National Motorists Association Blog
Our driver training is not good enough to support 100 mph speeds. Drive in Germany for a while and you can appreciate what an entire country trained in proper lane discipline can do. We don't have that here and probably never will.

2 years ago

in Analyzing Mac OS X Applications 101: CrashReporter and Malloc on Matasano Chargen
You can also set developer mode by running /Developer/Applications/Utilities/CrashReporterPrefs.app/

For more malloc debugging, check out guardmalloc (man libgmalloc) and libMallocDebug (export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libMallocDebug.A.dylib)

2 years ago

in Hot Off The Matasano SMS Queue: CanSec Macbook Challenge Won on Matasano Chargen
Re: the people complaining about a rule change: The rules always specified that it would get progressively easier.

See
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydav...
and
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/142/464216...

which were both posted long before the contest started.

2 years ago

in Amazon Soon Opening DRM-free MP3 Store on Bob Caswell
Maybe this will attract people who download music illegally now.

2 years ago

in Mystery Vulnerability Theater 3000: Part I on Matasano Chargen
Actually, 0x62626262 is bbbbadness.

2 years ago

in Five Reasons To Ignore John Gruber’s OS X Security Punditry on Matasano Chargen
"On supported platforms, Microsoft takes advantage of CPU “no-execute” memory protection. Apple’s current support for the same chip features is bypassable."

Can you give more information on this? Is it just because OS X doesn't have ASLR, so attackers can use ret to libc?

3 years ago

in Search Champs grilling MSN execs on Scobleizer
Thanks Robert--I agree on the China thing. Does MSN have an official policy on China? (If it's better than Google's, please do use it for PR advantage!)

3 years ago

in Search Champs grilling MSN execs on Scobleizer
Robert,

I appreciate that you're posting about this. However, with Google getting more evil and MS becoming more open (in large part thanks to your example), I was becoming far more open to MS. But I'm glad that Google is using this as PR: It makes it clear that caring about your users' privacy is a competitive advantage. And one that Google clearly beat MS and Y on: Enough so that there's no way I'd ever consider using MSN again unless you made a clear public statement that Mr. Gates would sooner go to jail that comply with a subponea from the government.

MS needs to make a strong public signal that you care about privacy; particularly if you want InfoCards to take off. Maybe MSR witholding any funding from Berkeley as long as Mr. Stark works there?

Dan

4 years ago

in Automatic images for headlines on Huddled Masses
One feature that would be very cool is a max-line-length setting so it will wrap long titles on to two lines. Thanks.
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