Cool list!
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?content=question.htm
I've heard about a few of these before. The cool thing to remember is there is no right or wrong answers, the idea is to keep your cool and let your personality shine through as you explain HOW you would go about solving it. Novel twists are more important than brute force solves.
Two good articles on why this stuff is doomed from the start and a curse for consumers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15818852/site/newsweek
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/22/audio_from_xbox_hack.html
First, you're bright right? You wouldnt be fooled by one of these scam businesses would you? Shameful I know, but the truth is I thought exactly the same thing and I was scammed myself about 15 years ago, when I was a little older than most of you... Maybe someday I'll write up the whole story and put it on MY blog...
The scams are getting a LOT more convincing and they can totally devastate your life. The worst part is they are actively TARGETING smart people! They focus on people who they can say 'those other losers failed because they werent smart or driven like you are...'
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/archives/2006/11/network-marketing-is-a-big-fat-scam.html
Variety says it is official, VHS is dead. Someone let my Mom know please!
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953955.html?categoryid=20&cs=1
British passports cracked, we are scheduled to get this stupid technology soon in the US:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/11/17/065214.shtml
PS3 out, riots ensue:
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/11/17/1414252.shtml
Stupidest thing I've read this week, besides the Higher Education thing from yesterday:
http://www.todaystmj4.com/_content/news/topstories/story_5438.asp
Lots of interesting news up on the sites this morning, lots of stuff on the Japanese PS3 launch and the American media getting their Wiis and PS3s to play with (go to www.engadget.com or www.gametrailers.com to see some great unboxing and initial reactions, or even better, go to EB, Gamestop or Walmart and give the systems a try yourself).
Still think the HBO documentary on Hacking Democracy was all hogwash? Guy voted for himself and still got ZERO votes:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/11/zero.votes.ap/index.html
How to write a great resume:
http://www.rockportinstitute.com/resumes.html
Google says free cell phones for everyone (someday maybe)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061113-8206.html
Vista and Office 2007 already Pirated 40 days+ before retail availability (shocker)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061112-8204.html
Java is now opensource!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061113-8205.html
Zune launches tomorrow:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/11/13/1149228.shtml
Pogue says Zune stinks (I agree, version 2.0 will be a lot better, count on it):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09pogue.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Vista to feature lame startup sounds (MSNBC has a clip):
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/11/1945244
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72045-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2
Security theater really drives me insane. We make things more difficult
for people (and affect them mentally by scaring people needlessly!)
without putting REAL detterents in place. If we give in to these stupid
policies just to show 'hey at least we are doing SOMETHING' then the
terrorist have WON.
ETS (the makers of the SAT) seem to be cooking something like this up...
LA times looks at why net gambling is legal but offline isnt:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-ackman29oct29,0,656569.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Brits most spied upon country in west:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2761-2426874,00.html
The art of image altering (photoshopping)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/29/sunday/main2135644.shtml
For Halloween PCWorld has 15 freaky websites:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127508-page,1/article.html
Has Myspace already jumped the shark?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800803.html
Another free font collection:
http://neatfonts.com/
From the IP list. Spooky!
Sam
-----Original Message-----
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/26/schwarzenegger.consumers.ap/index.html
California shoppers, Schwarzenegger is watching you
POSTED: 2:54 p.m. EDT, October 26, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Gin or vodka? Ford or BMW? Perrier or
Fiji water? Does the car you buy or what's in your fridge say
anything about how you'll vote?
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign thinks so.
Employing technology honed in President Bush's 2004 victory, the
Republican governor's re-election team has created a vast computer
storehouse of data on personal buying habits and voter records to
identify likely supporters. Campaign officials say the operation is
the largest of its kind in any state, at any time.
Some strategists believe consumer information can reveal a voter's
politics even better than a party label can.
"It's not where they live, it's how they live," said Josh Ginsberg,
the Schwarzenegger campaign's deputy political director.
The idea is an outgrowth of techniques that businesses have long used
to find new customers. Using publicly available data, the Bush
campaign in 2004 knew voters' favorite vacation spots, religious
leanings, the music and magazines they liked, the cars they drove.
Few people might realize how much information is publicly available,
for a price, about their lifestyles. Companies collect and sell
consumer information they buy from credit card companies, airlines
and retailers of every stripe.
Using microtargeting, as the practice is known, Bush's campaign
teased out supporters in swing states such as Ohio. Schwarzenegger --
whose political operation is run by two Bush veterans, campaign
manager Steve Schmidt and strategist Matthew Dowd -- is ripping a
page from that book.
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Following on some other high profile contests for fans to remix their favorite songs, Peter Gabriel released a sound pack to help his fans remix Shock the Monkey. The winners and runners up have been announced!
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2006/gb20061018_117320.htm
The winning track is here:
http://www.realworldremixed.com/remix.php?remix_id=KZ2Y83edFlCVmBU.
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/10/digging_deepercreative_commons.html
(Almost) All of my Flickr photos are CC licensed. It is definitly cool when someone finds a piece of work that you have done and likes it enough to use it in their own projects. Sometimes you dont even know that they have done that, which is just fine with me, so long as they arent selling the derivative work.
Sam
http://outlook.monmouth.edu/Issues/06-Spring/04-19/The%20Outlook%20April%2019%202006.pdf
Not sure why I didnt hear about this when it went down. But consider
this: Even if Google removes the data from its cache, there is no
guarantee that anyone who ever accessed that data directly from Monmouth
or Google will have.
So what can you do? Well, first thing to do is try an 'Ego search'
every few months. Don't just use google, try some of the other sites
(and make sure they arent now using Google's search engine and data) =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_search
Also try a Technorati or other Blog search (Icerocket perhaps)
www.technorati.com
www.icerocket.com
http://outlook.monmouth.edu/Issues/06-Spring/04-19/The%20Outlook%20April%2019%202006.pdf
Not sure why I didnt hear about this when it went down. But consider this: Even if Google removes the data from its cache, there is no guarantee that anyone who ever accessed that data directly from Monmouth or Google will have.
So what can you do? Well, first thing to do is try an 'Ego search' every few months. Don't just use google, try some of the other sites (and make sure they arent now using Google's search engine and data) =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_search
Also try a Technorati or other Blog search (Icerocket perhaps)
www.technorati.com
www.icerocket.com
