I just totally wasted a CS Theory test. [Dances] I am the king of Algorithm design!

We use CLRS's White Book (And its scary that I am actually understanding it now, as math and I are not on a first name basis).

Course curriculum: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2005/cs3510_spring/lectures.html

Its so true.

Strongbad: Japanese Cartoons!

] The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges
] it has "crossed the line" with an anti-piracy tag which
] stops programmes being copied.
]
] The "broadcast flag" is a small bit of data attached to
] US digital broadcasts. It tells devices that receive
] digital signals the level of copy protection.
]
] From 1 July, any device that cannot read the flag will be
] illegal to make.
]
] But the panel of appeal judges said the Federal
] Communications Commission (FCC) should not dictate how
] devices work.
]
] "You crossed the line," Judge Harry Edwards told a FCC
] lawyer during arguments before a three-judge panel of the
] US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
]
] "Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the
] business of."

At least some judges get it. First of all the FCC shouldn't make mandates that solely benefit the MPAA. They are an agent of the government, and their decisions should be made solely on its benefit to the American people. Giving NBC the power to decide whether I am allowed to record "Law & Order" is not in my interest.

] They are also concerned that the rule would mean the FCC
] has the right to say how TVs, computers, and other
] devices capable of receiving digital signals, are built
] and used.

... Hmmm I could see that if the court favors the FCC, the FCC will basically have the power to regular how devices receive any digital content boardcast over the air. Such as Video and Audio streams traveling to my PC over wireless networking.

] The entertainment industry is concerned about technology
] that facilitates piracy
] It could also mean, they say, next-generation TVs and
] other receiver technologies are more expensive.

Take your lobbyists and their bullshit fear-mongering and go home. Just because most of SE Asia is pirating "24" doesn't mean that my TV needs to be more expensive. A kid sewing my Nikes isn't buying from you anyway, so don't tell me you lost billions last year.

I'd be very interested in a more detailed breakdown of their "piracy" stats. I want to see how many movies/TV shows are downloaded by *Americans* a year. I want to see the revenue numbers for movies and TV shows for the last 5 years. I want to see *exactly* how revenue matched predictions. I want to know revenue loss. And no, each download of a show of "24" does not translate to $29.99 DVD that now will not be sold. And I want a mathematical proof showing that US equipment needs to be more expensive to offset your "losses" due to US piracy.

] The UK digital terrestrial platform, Freeview, and other
] receivers do not employ a copy protection technology.

I love the UK. Even if they are rather socialist and have cameras everywhere. They don't let bloated businesses that fail to evolve their business plan fuck their citizens.

Court: FCC 'crossed the line' with broadcast flag

] 4. Remove every extraneous word
]
] You want to get up on a soapbox and preach? Fine. Get one
] and try your local park. You want to write for money? Get
] to the point. And if you remove all the excess garbage
] and discover you can't find the point, tear up what you
] wrote and start all over again . . . or try something
] new.

... uhhhh I like Steven King and all, but I can think of several of his books that are a few hundred pages too long. He'll have a good plot point or situation, and repeat it... for...ever...

Why wouldn't this rock bleed?

Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes (Stephen King)

] This Health and fitness calculator from Fitwise.com Includes:
] Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, Heartrate Zones, Ideal Weight,
] Percent Body Fat (Circumference), Percent Body Fat (YMCA), Risk
] of Chronic Disease.

I've been surfing around the web trying to find free exercise resources, like how to properly use gym equipment, count calories, etc. You'd think that as diet-obsessed as our country is, this would be easy to find. Quite the opposite though, the vast majority of stuff out there is nearly 98%+ advertising, "buy my book before I tell you anything" or "lose weight fast" BS.

Every so often though I find something useful -- Free sites that are relatively low on ads, which actually have some useful information or tools. This is one of them, with a webpage that has several handy little utilities for calculating various fitness percentages.

Other sites with relatively good information to ad ratios: (I'll get around to meme-ing them at some point):

http://exercise.about.com
http://sportsmedicine.about.com

http://thepumpingstation.com/beginner.html

The Pumping Station... oh god Elonka is posting porn again! :-)

Health and Fitness Calculators

Say something

If you see something... (JPG)

[looks at smiling mouse head in Squeak VM]

...

[Looks at watch, sees that 20 hours have gone by since entering the CoC]

...

[flicks off mouse]

Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After Hour
Work Is Never Over

I don;t know if I've memed Hack-a-Day before, but they are a great hardware hacking site. Anyway this projects takes lets you use household batteries to charge protable devices that can be charged over the USB port (like my cell phone and iRiver).

Really simple design. Using a voltage regulator, you drop a 9V to 5V, and attach it USB female connector.

DIY USB 'Battery' charger

] SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a
] simplified version. The real thing.

All your digital signatures are belong to us.

You have no chance to survive make new keys.

(well, not really new keys, but you get the drift)

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken

] There's not much finer in this life than "Just Before The
] Security Guard Notices The Bear" photos.

Just around the corner...