I am really tempted to get an iPhone and build a flip-out keyboard for it. It all depends on how hackable the 3G version is, so we'll see.

Idea: An application that lets you see if your friends have voted yet, and if not, lets you send them a reminder. Optionally, an "I voted!" badge on your profile or some sort of rewards system.

The data is already public record.

Cool, creepy, or just plain annoying?

I didn't end up going to SHDH (I wound up going to an awesome boat party in Seattle instead), but I'm in the bay area now. Alexei and I made a reservation for a bay view room, and I signed a receipt for the bay view rate, but they gave us a shitty hillside room (with a view of their glorious HVAC units, no less, and half the size of the hillside ( Read more... )

Are any of you planning on going to the next SuperHappyDevHouse? I'll be in the area from the 18th to the 22nd for the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, but I'm considering going down a day early to go to SHDH. Do you have somewhere I could crash that night? Also, if anyone wants to meet up, I'll probably have some free time down there ( Read more... )

The RFID tag on it didn't lie -- it was actually in the security lab. tamiaka hid it in one of the drawers so Tracy's assistant could stand on the desk to install the clock.

So yay, I have mobile Interwebs again!

Hours at school = 12
Hours of sleep = 3
Sidekicks lost = 1
Amount of research done = 0

Oy. And I still have about an hour of work to do before I can pass out.

CPU fan just died in one of my Linux servers. Luckily, I caught it before the CPU melted, but I need to keep the machine down until I get a chance to fix it (which might be somewhat hard to do, since it's part of the heatsink, and the heatsink is for a Slot A CPU). It wouldn't be so bad except that it provides DNS/NAT/etc. services for the LAN (and ( Read more... )

This is what CSE 321 (discrete math) does to people with deviant minds:

supersat: Show that when you one less cup than there
are girls at a party then 2 girls must share one cup
pigeonhole is behind EVERYTHINGS!

I just received a month-plus old email from Facebook. I went to check the headers to confirm that yes, it was really stuck in their email queues for that long. But another thing jumped out at me: the IP address of the action originator was also included! Not only that, but the subdomain of the page used to generate the action was also included ( Read more... )

Yes, it's 2007. Yes, everyone's had over seven years to get this stuff right. And yet, the bugs still persist:


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