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Last Updated: 11/7/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Divorced
Age: 28
Sign: Sagittarius

City: London
Country: UK
Signup Date: 8/13/2005

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Saturday, November 07, 2009 
It would seem that since I set up an account on youtube in 2006 (I remember the days before accounts when it was just a window... no relateds etc)...

I've watched 10,294 videos since setting up that account. Wild.
6:29 AM 
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Friday, November 06, 2009 
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 
Mike Patton, former Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman and current Peeping Tom/various revolving projects noisemaker has lent his howling voice to the Will Smith film "I Am Legend".

The film, which we mentioned yesterday, jacks some of Clint Mansell's "The Fountain" score in its trailer, is apparently utilizing Patton's Cookie Monster growling and effects-heavy voice to create the sound of the creatures in this post-apocalyptic big budget late season tent pole film.

"Sure. I was up for it. It was really fun. It was literally four hours straight of screaming my head off to a movie screen - basically improvising with action on a screen. It was bizarre. Yeah, it was cool."
9:20 PM 
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 


hehehehehe
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 
how to make money by the loss of value in a currency:


Instead of issuing gold certificates, a government converts gold into currency at the market rate by printing paper notes. A person redeems an ounce of gold for its value in currency, keeps that currency for a year, then trades the currency back in for an amount of gold at market value, which may yield a different amount of gold from that started with if its price has increased or decreased during that year.

So basically the less your money is worth, the more the bank likes it, it's profitable.

The fact that the US dollar is used for foreign trade in massive excess of the value of the US economy, when the dollar loses value, the people using the dollar who currently have stashes of it... they pay.

So I get you to sell me a rolls royce for £10,000 and next week the £ is now like the yen or lire, you'd be pissed, that'll just about buy you some shoes.

Welcome to the weimar republic.
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Monday, October 26, 2009 
Artificial Intelligence and the dawn of Fully Autonomous Robot Surgeons
    In May 2006 the first AI doctor conducted unassisted surgery on a 47 year old male to correct heart arrythmia, the results were rated as better than an above average human surgeon. The machine had a database of 10,000 similar operations and so in the words of its designers was "more than qualified to operate on any patient", the designers believe that robots can replace half of all surgeons within 15 years
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 






multiparting etc.



My favourite bit is the rosenan experiment.





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Saturday, October 17, 2009 
Everything occurs at the CPU, essentially. And it is sequential; one at a time. NOTHING on your computer runs simultaneously, even on dual processing because one of those CPU's has to wait for the other to finish :P. It's simply breaking up what one CPU would have done anyway, ONLY IF the programmer designed it for duo core (threading according to that architecture). Oftentimes you can hit ctrl + alt + del and see a process like a game consuming 50% of your CPU because that game, like most every other program to date isn't designed for duo core. ANYWAY, back on subject:
Everything in the computer occurs in steps of finite time, ONE by ONE. This time is known as the system clock, which runs at a certain MHz. Let's say its 133Mhz. However the CPU runs faster, yet on the same clock speed. How? It runs, as set in the BIOS (check yourself), at a multiplication factor of the system clock. So say it runs at 9x (system clock), or 9 x 133Mhz = 1297 or 1.3 GHz. So the CPU can do 9 operations before System bus (which runs at the speed of the system clock) will be accessed (if needed) to get something from RAM, an HDD, or a device. As a computer user, the only thing you ever do on a computer is play around with the CPU, using an application to do this for you. THE CPU then reads/writes to every thing else in the computer... the CPU controls the rest of the computer. As a programmer you control the CPU much more closer. Obviously you can't do shit on a computer if you don't understand it, and you can see where programming comes in as a need to know. Also, multiple programs ONLY seem to run on a computer simultaneously, but they are, in reality, being given a small fraction of time to run, in a priority queue, then kicked off the CPU by he OS's CPU scheduler, given to the next process in line. For the noob, process = program. Program = simple user level talk.
The goal of any hack is to get access to the CPU essentially. Obviously root or and admin account would be prime access to run the best applications BUT if you can inject your own code in there during a user session (often called shell code) to give you such an account or higher level system privilege then you are in.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 
Yup. I saw this back in 1995 in my brain. It is a reality now. The 3D rendering is done server-side, and then streamed via video to the hand.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009 
It's very simple. Omegle is an IM client which puts you in random one-to-one chat with a person who is called stranger... another person just like you. At any point anybody can hit the disconnect button, the game is seriously minimal.

You can have some very weird conversations on here, and TBH I'm at a bit of an advantage considering my typing-fu is pretty strong, and I am prepared to use prepared munitions of copy-paste from monty python scripts.

It's a pretty good demonstration of the evils of the tower of babel principal. No name, no shame. Without a name, people talk quite differently.

I think this one was the most fun encounters I had in my little experiment with the site, the classic one-two takedown.



Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: horny m 19 looking for girl to exchange nudes
You: I could just do a google image search and game you if you'd like
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 
It's been said many times that the modern post SEZ chinese industries are the masters of copying, reverse-engineers of considerable ingenuity. Whatever exists, they can replicate. 

All of the internet staples: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. Copied in loving detail.

It's rather impressive that they even duplicate the look and feel, there's a saying in music "bad composers borrow, great ones steal outright". The makers of these sites are hardly trying to disguise their influences.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 
The thing about design is that it's influenced by what problems you can recognise, you can't start solving them without being aware of them.

This is in many ways a question of fashion: what are the current automatic solutions to problems. People get carried away with these fashions.

In this house, it's fully nuclear. Fully electric. Fully plastic.

Often by following a particular fashion, a particular set of problems with prescription solutions, the world will just teach you what the problems are, the solutions create problems.

The Monsanto House of the Future (also known as the Home of the Future) was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA from 1957 to 1967. It was sponsored by Monsanto Company. The design and engineering of the house was done jointly by Monsanto, MIT, and the Disneyland Imagineering department. The fiberglass components of the house were manufactured by Winner Manufacturing Company in Trenton, NJ, and was assembled into the house on-site



A future without problems? by Monsanto.

Scary.

This made me laugh:

The building was so sturdy, that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers. The building was ultimately demolished by using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The reinforced polyester structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.
The reinforced concrete foundation of the House of the Future was never removed. It currently exists in its original location, now found in the Pixie Hollow attraction. The foundation has been painted green and is currently in use as a planter.

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Monday, October 05, 2009 
F**in nutter from the isle of skye.









This is where it originates from.



But TBH, in a city you never know when you might need to bunny-hop a traffic fence.
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Monday, October 05, 2009 
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 

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