] PFC Viewer is a Java application I developed to view and
] export the contents of the AOL Filing Cabinet, also known
] as the Personal Filing Cabinet.

Shame this guy isn't releasing his code (oh course its a JAR, so decompiling jave byte code produces meaningful code). Over the years my Dad has needed me to extract email for dead AOL installs. This might be a fun afternoon of reversing engineering to figure out the latest PFC file format.

PFC Viewer Home

] Episode 78 - Cryptography (original air date: 01/11/2005)

Stankdawg's web radio program -- I was co-host for this week's episode. Check the link to download the MP3. We talked about some "Cryptography 101" stuff, including a brief overview of the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code and Kryptos. We ran out of time discussing the Cyrillic Projector, but may cover it in a future show.

Thanks to SD for inviting me!

Elonka :)

Binrev rules

Binary Revolution - The Cryptography Episode

] Isn't it Cobb County, rather than DeKalb County? I heard the
] story on NPR this evening and the federal court is in DeKalb
] County, I believe, but the case involved the school board in
] Cobb County.

Yes it is, and many memestreams, such as Palindrome, Janelane, and myself are all wonderful products of the public schools of Cobb County.

Even when I was in Middle School in the early to mid 90s, I remember crazy policies trying to silence evolution (though they didn't try that shit in HS).

6th grade science was the first time I ever heard about Evolution, and I remember the teacher perfacing it with "Today I'm going to talk with you about something, but you are not allowed to ask me questions about the material, because I am not allowed to answer them..." And in that lesson she didn't even come close to talking about Man-from-apes. She stuck with the "classic" examples of evolution, like the fossil record of horses evolving a hoof.

RE: DeKalb County Schools must remove evolution stickers...

] This unavailable element is represented by a radiation
] hazard symbol. If we had a visible quantity on display
] here, you would be dead.

The Periodic Table like you have NEVER seen

The algorithm generates recommendations based on a few customers who are most similar to the user. It can measure the similarity of two customers, A and B, in various ways; a common method is to measure the cosine of the angle between the two vectors:
...

Overview of Collaberative filters, cluster models, and other recommendation algorithms.

IEEE: Amazon's Collaberative Filtering, Cluster Models

] This step that we have taken has implications for all
] search engines. These engines crawl the public web
] without asking permission, and cache and reproduce the
] content without asking permission, and then use this
] information as a carrier for ads that generate private
] profit. We are convinced that if citizens scrape Google
] and strip the ads, and make the scraped results available
] as a nonprofit public service, that this is legal. This
] is especially the case if there are public policy
] concerns behind the scraping.
]
] Google Watch has been the most prominent critic of
] Google's outrageous privacy policies for more than two
] years. This is why we started the proxy, and it's why we
] continue the proxy. We invite Google to serve us with a
] cease and desist letter as a first step toward resolving
] this issue. So far, we have yet to hear from Google's
] lawyers. By releasing the source code for our proxy,
] we're trying to escalate the issue.

While I have been uncomfortable with the Google Cookie and saving the full 4 octets of an IP since Decius pointed it out to me, this is not the best way to address it. Interesting to see the copyright implications if this escalates.

Scraping and ad-stripping Google's results

] Part of me wants to applaud Microsoft and say that this
] is a very good thing for their customers, albeit a move
] that is long overdue. The other part of me says that this
] is a band-aid approach and a funny way for them to admit
] defeat - because it's holes in Microsoft's operating
] system that built the entire spyware industry to begin
] with.

] It's like selling people a toaster that could catch fire
] at any time, but then offering a free fire extinguisher
] to put out those fires as required. Is this the best
] they can do?

Microsoft Anti-Spyware | The Register

I have a god, and his name is Wilpig. He has all the Videos from PN8 up. Meanwhile, the videos from IZ1 are still in a box somewhere...

Phreaknic Videos

] PhreakNIC has had between 300-400 attendees per year for the
] last three years. I think you can remove the "possibly"
] qualifier before "even smaller."

I'd really be interested in the attendee rate at the Interz0nes. Rockit and Johhny are rather biased sources. Its hard to gauge number of people at these things, because not everyone shows up to all the talks, and some people pay for the con and only come to one or two events. I only go to certain talks, and never really hang out with the gamers or the Rootwars or the Hacking 101 rooms. And a lot of 101ers never come to the other talks. Here are my estimates for the Interz0nes

1: ~125 +-10
2: ~275 +-50
3: ~250 +-25

Interz0ne 3 felt like it had less people than IZ2, (of course, any observations I can make about IZ2 are probably wrong as I had a lot of shit to handle!)

Other cons I've been too:

Hope: ~Too many
Phreaknic 7, 8: 300+ sounds about right
Toorcon 2004: 500+

Con attendence

These things are basically 20gig iPod Photos on crack.

Basic Specs:
-220 x 176 color screen (64k colors? maybe?)
-20 gig hard drive
-MP3 OGG and WMV playback
-JPG/BMP/GIF Pictures
-Reads TXT files! Ebooks anyone?
-Xvid Video playback at 10fps (can hack up to 24fps) with new firmware
-16 hours of battery life
-Acts an external hard drive
-USB On-the-go. Download pictures directly off your digital camera/devices (With firmware upgrade)

Here is the steal! They are listed on Best Buy's website at $329.99. However most stores they will ring up at $266.99 or even $214.99. The Best Buy at Northlake (285 and Lavista) sells them at $214.99. The cool part is, Best Buy has to match prices, even their own! Simple ask them to check the availablity of the product at other stores, which will also show the price at the other stores. Jill and I went up to the store off Pleasant Hill (up 85, 3 exits outside 285) and it rang up $266. When we told them to check the Northlake store, they knock the price down.

Supposedly, these are being discontinued. However all the stores we checked with were still receiving new shipments. The service lady that told us that kind of sucked, and seemed to be wrong.

This is a great deal! Sure movie playbakc isn't great, but it wasn't even an originally planned feature! $214 for an external 20gig USB 2.0 HDD, with OGG support, Picture viewing, AND limited video. That rocks my world!

Holy crap! iRivers H320: MP3/OGG/Pics/VIDEO for $216!