IBNeko's Journal-Nyo~!

http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

For quite a long time I've been intending to post some sort of commentary on the music industry - piracy, distribution, morality, those types of things. I've thought about it many times, but never gone through with it, because the issue is such a broad, messy one - such a difficult thing to address fairly and compactly. I knew it would result in a rambly, unfocused commentary, and my exact opinion has teetered back and forth quite a bit over the years anyway. But on Monday, when I woke up to the news that Oink, the world famous torrent site and mecca for music-lovers everywhere, had been shut down by international police and various anti-piracy groups, I knew it was finally time to try and organize my thoughts on this huge, sticky, important issue.

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A very, very well written piece. Then again, I'm biased, of course.

Official Apple iPhone Paper Clip: http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/03/iphone-returns-from-service-with-official-iphone-tool/

A guy who can duel-wield guitars... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-B4sjUve3E

I made this: http://www.recipezaar.com/8384 (Scampi Style Chicken Thighs) today. It was... mediocre. :\ Oh well, it means I'll have leftovers and stuff for lunch tomorrow. Yay!

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I found was-green-vegetables today, as I visited the fridge. If I didn't know better, it waved and winked at me, before I reached in, and exiled it to the trashcan.

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Oh, yeah, and I beat Kingdom Hearts I. Total hours: around 40. Meep. Am looking at FFXII now. Unless anyone has any suggestions?

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And now for a few completely different things...

By way of porsupah, http://www.furaffinity.net/view/249835/ (Image here, broken URL to ensure people don't click by accident: http://data.furaffinity.net/art/touchmybadger/ 1160527511.touchmybadger_mothafuknsextoy.jpg). No, it's not safe for work - It contains the words, "...Sex Toy!!!" and a very crudely drawn sex toy. No nudity though, just... improper usage of a sex toy. "I'm the dildo unicorn!". I snerked.)

reCaptcha: Translating books in captchas! A good idea, although I don't have anything that requires me using it. The perl module is here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Captcha-reCAPTCHA/lib/Captcha/reCAPTCHA.pm

A few iPhone bits:
http://anderson-technologies.com/archives/5 (Mac iPhone Activation tool)
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2155149,00.asp?kc=EWKNLEDP070607A (Eweek article reviewing the iPhone)

Not as thick as I'd like, but maybe I could be creative and make it larger, using twice the amount of ribbons?

Found the spiffy Origami book as well. Am probably ordering it.

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First, the dailyWTF: http://worsethanfailure.com/Comments/Broken-Communication.aspx

Props to Michael for covering for the hardware engineer. I'm just amused that they were able to sneak the server back in. And then say, "Oh, we just rebooted it".

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Facebook information could be sniffable: http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/26/sniffing_private_facebook_info/

It only implies that someone could guess and check to see if you have some specific words on your profile. So they would have to know you, and then maybe have something specific they're looking for. Which could or could not be a problem. It's a bit like bruteforcing a password: trying different combinations over and over, but unless bruteforcing the password, a correct guess only tells you that it's correct, and does not grant you access to the account.

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CIA has decided to reveal their balls "family jewels": http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/pl_afp/usintelligencecia. Link to the documents here: http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/06/26/the-cias-family-jewels/

I've discovered http://speeddemosarchive.com/. Where people post their fastest play-throughs of games.

There's Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Zelda, Mario RPG, Kingdom Hearts II... and the obvious Mario Worlds and Megaman.

::glee:: It's almost like playing the game again, except with much less effort, and the every so often "Oh, wow... I didn't know you could do that" or "Hehehe, damn monster..."

Alas, there's no Kingdom Hearts I, or Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete

The alarm clock that runs away from you:
http://www.nandahome.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNGnkY_S6I


Self-Combusting toilets in Japan:
http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/16/z_series_menace/

(on a side note, it apparently features "pulsating massage spray, power dryer, "tornado wash" flush". Kinky?)


Bad news for the internet radio people:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/17/0123234&from=rss
"Net Radio Appeal On Royalties Rejected" - so now they have to pay more, which means more online radio stations will go out of business, and we'll have less to chose from. RIAA, you guys are fucking idiots. Or is this the pride-saving slow-suicidal exit?

Yay, there's a newspaper article in the Washington Post suggesting that stupid cellphone companies shouldn't lock down their phones:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802169.html

There's some (IMO) stupid counterarguements about competition and stuff. Granted, I just skimmed and haven't really read, so I may have skipped over something that I shouldn't have skipped.

Remote-Exploit.org, the people who supply BackTrack, a Linux Live Distro focused on penetration testing, apparently has security courses online. I need to take those.

http://www.remote-exploit.org/courses.html

And via Mark R., pretty wallpapers! http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.php?sort=date

Sunsets are pretty...

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5 page paper completed in 6-ish hours. Not... too bad? Proofread. Due in 5 hours. Whee. Time for bed.

For when you have snippets of the melody, but you don't know the song name...

There is now: http://www.midomi.com/

Using flash to connect to your microphone and record, it'll then analyze and figure out what song you tried to sing. It was able to match "Do You Hear The People Sing?" when I sang a bit of that, so... it's not bad.

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html

Audio recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q (I was hitting my head against the desk at about 3 minutes into the clip.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAVKOElCkz4

Essentially, this guy was told that he would be charged: ".002 cents per kilobyte."

But when he got the bill, it was $71 dollars. He was charged at the rate "$.002/KB". That is, .002 dollars per kilobyte.

I am astonished that all the people he was calling couldn't understand the difference. Kinda scary, actually.