Sagacious Himself — brevity in circumlocution – suffering genius

August 3, 2009

solving the google picasa local storage problem

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 4:17 am

google picasa is a storage glutton… encourage google to support adobe lightroom with web picasa

the problem:  infinite space a logical contradiction

the solution:

suggest a google analog of layers in a file… both reknowned photoshop and painter support layers.. even GIMP

consider a set: original, mod file (layers), and output file.   Incremental changes are made to google mod file and final output available online.  No need for large amounts of space

July 15, 2009

the future of commenting? past come alive: voice

Filed under: CIO, DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 4:55 pm

comments in voice?

http://vocaroo.com/

July 12, 2009

google voice is much creepier than gmail

Filed under: CIO, DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 3:24 pm

google voice is much creepier than gmail

creepier than gmail owning a slice of your digital soul through cross correlation of search results, ads, and EVERYBODY you ever interact with on their other platform tools?  Google will cross identify your surfing (through searches and ad presence) and email habits against those of your circle of friends, family, business associates, and website visitors (should you use their widgets);  Should they be unable to identify you per se they certainly will if you volunteer your credit card to purchase international calling minutes.

I spent about an hour with the number picker, got a really really really cool phone number that I am in the midst of porting out.. so it was awesome in that respect only.

Google Voice might seem impressive to someone who has never tinkered with voip.

Better option: Orgasmatron VPS with Vitelity ITSP with voip.ms and callcentric backups.

July 10, 2009

much needed search engine features: learn the spam I wish to avoid

Filed under: CIO, DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 10:35 pm

server side search engine spam result filtering.. hueristic?

Sure, there are some nifty greasemonkey UserScripts for hiding undesirable search results.  I don’t want to see evil blog scrapers (IP piracy).  I don’t want to see offers to buy illegal drugs when researching a drug.

Learn what I do NOT want to see and NOT-return it for my query.  This need not require signin and microsoft’s new BING engine implies.   Hueristic server side search engine filtering is a must have especially as it would be cheaper than hiring assassins to find and kill spammers.

[IE8 sucks: no native FORM spell checking as you type]

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June 2, 2009

NXP TV543 — hello developers? TVersity to HDTV made easy… or PNX5120 .. new HD LCDs have built-in ethernet ports

Filed under: CIO, fair use — Sagacious Himself @ 12:28 pm

ethernet H.264 / MPEG-2 to TV _ Philips NXP HDTV

http://nxp.com/#/aip/aip=[aip=456]|pp=[t=aip,i=456]

IPTV and plays well with DLNA

@devs:

http://ashling.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320

– why wait for developers to produce a LOW COST “media extender”? NEW Philips HD LCDs sport built-in ethernet ports!! oooh

PNX5120 (series 9000 LCDs)

• PNX8543 Video and аudio processor
• PNX5120 HD-NM FHD 100Hz Video Back-End Processor
• EP3C25F324C7N FPGA (“Local Contrast”)
• HD1816AF Hybrid Tuner
• DRX3926K Demodulator DVB-T,DVB-C
• TDA9996 HDMI Switch
• TPA3123D2PWP Class D Power Amplifier
• DP83816AVNG PCI ethernet media access controller and physical layer (MacPhyter-II).

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June 1, 2009

spintronics femtosecond hard drive a data pipe dream

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 10:58 pm

femtosecond data pipe dream hard drive

spintronics yay? 

device availability speculation has only been happening for more than a decade

Colossal Storage has had a few patent on petabyte spintronics hard drives since 2000:

http://colossalstorage.net/spintronics.htm

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naturally employing CYA grammar the speculation continued:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2006/Jan/02-spin-drag.html

could prove to be either an advantage or a disadvantage for future spintronic technologies.

 

Well before then Ratheon (US gov) was experimenting with biological storage mediums.

SLC SSD is the now- and  future replacement of HDD, the slowest component in today’s desktops.  Holographic storage will replace both bloootardray and HD-DVD (the current winner despite the hype).  Inphase Technologies has already demonstrated 500 Gb/in

> ten years back: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor

the USSR plan of destroying education from within has succeeded: we now have a Marxist as Executive in Chief.  Both China and the once former USSR now wag their respective fingers at us.

verizon makes it easy to use neighbor’s FIOS

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 9:26 pm

Verizon fires laser into foot with FIOS CPE defaults

abandon the sinking RoadRunner infrastructure ship… as much as verizon sucks FIOS is the better choice (as long as there are no install glitches or funky flags)

someone, Kyle Anderson, as I warned would take the time to correlate SSID to key:

http://xkyle.com/2009/06/01/my-wireless-cracking-tool/

The foolish default state of BOTH residential- and business FIOS (FTTP as opposed to superior ARCH) CPE is WEP with “random” SSID/key assignments on (raped) OpenRG with mixed hardware.  Brilliant.  WEP has been cracked for how long now?  Why not default to WAP in WPA2-PSK AES or at least WAP off?  No, that would make sense, and require end users to understand the technology they use.  In verizon-l0gik potentially awesome CPE is further crippled with feasture limitation-, Microsoft style “are you sure”-, SEVERE bugs some basic QA would catch, phenominally poor L1 tech ’support’ (to upsell $150/yr premium soho tech consultation), [ad infinitem it seems] .. 

Kyle’s FIOS Wireless Cracking Tool (coralized to save Kyle bandwidth)

Kyle’s FIOS Wireless Cracking Tool v2 (coralized)

 Comnically FIOS 50/20 package has some other issues like 45Mb/s links that will cause more fun down the line (pun intended)

Motivate verizon to correct FIOS CPE by letting your neighbors cover your ultraband internet costs for the next few months:

http://xkyle.com/2009/03/03/verizon-fios-wireless-key-calculator/

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free XP n2n compile to compete with hamachi?

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 4:58 pm

almost hamachi alternative: n2n  (EPC-Virtual Multiplayer Lan [alpha])

http://subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1075858 [client, no supernode (server)]

1. The TAP adapter is from the OpenVPN package. ( there are some vista 64 issues afaik ) [[Himself will test windows 7 (vista sp3)  when SLC SSD >64g is available on a BIOS-flexible ASUS mobo with 16+g of RAM .. for future >8 stream CableCard applications]]
2. the DHCP server & network is a service provided by [pieterbaarlo].
3. the Gui is only a gui written in realbasic, and a frontend to the following tools.
4. the n2n core is created by ntop.org
5. forcebindip is created by r1ch.net

XP n2n gui alternative:

http://www.vpnhosting.cz/index.php/N2n-na-VPNHosting.cz.html

 n2n allows use of any private address per RFC1918

n2n supernode in VMWare seems entertaining… I’ll toy with that in a bit

http://luca.ntop.org/n2n.pdf

 

 

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April 21, 2009

OS integrity does not wane with use: OSX

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 4:24 am

OSX: the X11 of the future.  Transition sponsored by microsoft

thanks microsoft by making OSX more appealing by the hour

March 30, 2009

hulu certainly does NOT need to store flash shared objects (SOL : flash cookies)

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, circumvention — Sagacious Himself @ 9:38 am
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DENY hulu the privilege of storing flash shared objects (SOL) in your Local Storage

DENY hulu.com the privilege of using local storage for flash

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Flash settings manager is NOT capable enough.  flash player hack?  Currently it only sports a whitelist:.

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DRM urinates on the American way.  STOP hollyfascism in its tracks at hulu.  Thankfully no elaborate tools are required.  Obviously, though not to the cretins, my objective is not piracy.

[105% NoSquint zoom had been in effect prior to all screen captures]

block ALL hulu ads with ONE adblock plus filter

March 29, 2009

blocking ALL hulu ads with merely FOUR adblock plus filters

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, circumvention — Sagacious Himself @ 4:30 am

yes, only four filters will kill all interstitial hulu ads.. mwahaha

configurable security policy joy

.. taking advantage of the hollywoodifizing of browser technology ;)

Circumventing hollyfascism is trivial. The hollyfascists will never win.

Configurable Security Policy (CAPS) extension for firefox oh so close

Filed under: CIO, DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 3:26 am

rally the troops… please? Sure this is an OLD idea. Is now it’s time?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1154

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7478

http://people.mozilla.com/~bsterne/content-security-policy/

link to evil-google withheld

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/06/site-security-policy-open-for-comments

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security_Policies

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html

NoScript is only a tiny slice the user’s CONTROL

Though extensive RT content filters ought not be happenning within the browser: use hardware appliances for that.

This will be my last Microsoft OS laptop (XP).

MY hardware MY rules. Mine is the last word.

March 17, 2009

goog-411 disingenuous about caller ANI – caller id blocking fruitless

Filed under: CIO, voip — Sagacious Himself @ 6:22 am
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google free 411 disingenuous about caller ANI

using star codes to block caller id will NOT prevent an ANI enabled line from fetching your information.

http://mobile.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76433&topic=14471

If you choose to connect to a business through the GOOG-411 service, your caller ID information will become visible to that business. We do not share your information with anyone except in the limited circumstances as outlined in our [alleged] privacy policy.

To avoid having any information associated with your phone number in the future, just block your caller ID before you call. With many phone services, you can do this by dialing *67 before the phone number. In most cases, you can also block your number through the menus on your mobile phone. For specific details on how to block your caller ID, contact your service provider. [be sure not to ask them about 'Automatic Number Identification']

“we won’t harvest your caller-id using ANI, honest, even if you block it, cuz we can’t see it then, but we’ll be able to pass it onto the next party”

google: powered by hippies with new money

more amusing: goog-411 sucks in comparison to microsoft’s offering: 800-2255-411 (800-CALL-411)

try it: http://gizmocall.com/18002255411 or with one of these SIP URI

sip:18002255411@tf.voipmich.com
sip: 18002255411@carriers.us
sip: 18002255411@sip.tollfreegateway.com
sip: 18002255411@tollfree.sip-happens.com
sip:18002255411@tollfreetollfree.com

other free toll free termincation providers

don’t like gizmo/skype?  FlaPhone.com is a pure flash (to you) SIP client

worship at the google altar? dial away otherwise use the SIP URI for goog to try it without being tracked and catalogged.

February 12, 2009

how foolish are myspace users? NEVER buy raped music: mp3s are only acceptable for free

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 10:32 am
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Open letter to snocap: mp3s are only acceptable for free

Snocap.com the iTardtoons for myspace is hocking mp3s.  yay?

NO.  Money ought fetch FIDELITY music:  DVD audio, CD audio, or FLAC

February 6, 2009

aviary software subscriptions: less control and less privacy privacy for consumer

Filed under: CIO — Sagacious Himself @ 4:12 am

 software subscriptions: less control and less privacy privacy for consumer

say NO to (online) software subscriptions

run application code LOCALLY to retain privacy, power, and control

http://aviary.com/home?beta

NO. absolutely NOT.

My workproduct is assured mine when produced LOCALLY and stored LOCALLY.

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pro packages offer “more file privacy.  gee, that’s peachy.  LOCALLY installed software offers TOTAL file PRIVACY.

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