Geek Stuff category archive
No Place To Hide 0
The snaring economy wants to shadow you like a cheap detective.
Meta: QOTD 0
For those who breathlessly wait for QOTD to arrive every day, I have created a QOTD category and moved all the QOTDs (there are almost 2500 and counting) into it, with the help of a nice little WordPress plugin called “Batch-Move Posts.”
The plugin works very nicely, though it could do with clearer instructions.
Aside:
I would have preferred doing it with an SQL query, but I couldn’t find where in the tables WordPress hides the link between the categories and the posts, as it’s changed since I first started using WP.
Droning On 0
Once more, it’s only a matter of time . . . .
At one point, Joseph Roselli allegedly flew the drone as high as 1,500 feet, which is restricted for use by Philadelphia International Airport.
Roselli was charged with risking a catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person, court records show.
Aside:
I was in my local drug store the other day. They had quadcopters for sale on the toy rack.
Thinking is a lost art.
Facebook Frolics 0
There’s another word for “fake news,” y’know. When I was a young ‘un back in the olden days, we called it “lies.”
Twits on Twitter 0
Noah Smith thinks he knows what Twitter’s problem may be.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Twits on Twitter 0
Daniel Ruth doesn’t get the fascination of twitting.
Follow the link for Exhibit B &c.
Selfie-Stuck in the Mud 0
Selfie Sticks are officially passe.
How do I know? There’s one for sale in my most recent Publisher’s Clearing House mailing. (PCH is one of my secret vices. Entering the sweepstakes is cheaper than entering the lottery, and the odds of winning the big one are just about as good. A first-class stamp is a cheap price to pay for a dream.)
The Snaring Economy 0
“Sharing” works both ways.
A District Court grand jury last week indicted the homeowner, Christopher Gregory Rogers, on five counts of capturing an image of the private area of another person, a gross misdemeanor, court records show.
Geeking Out 0
Fluxbox on Slackware —Current with qmmp playing The Abandoned Room, the GKrellM usage monitor (bottom right), and (shaded) Terminator and Firefox on my new-to-me Gateway monitor that I picked up for 15 bucks at the local DAV thrift store.
(The wallpaper automatically changes every 30 minutes because I wrote a script. I do like my pretty pictures.)
The Hottest Thing in Tech 0
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Rumor is that Samsung’s new model will be the “Samsung Nova.” Initial reports are that it’s a blast to use.
Hack Reporting 0
El Reg interviews breach expert Troy Hunt, who is skeptical of the spate of reports of government-sponsored data breaches. A snippet (emphasis added):
“Blaming state hackers has become like a ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse,” he added.
El Reg caught up with Hunt for 30 minutes shortly after he spoke about data breaches and other matters at the ScotSoft conference in Edinburgh on Thursday.
He said that large datasets such as the LinkedIn cache were commonly dumped online by hackers when when they are “no longer profitable to sell”. There are exceptions to this rule such as Ashley Madison, where hackers immediately leaked the purloined data as wide as possible in an effort to embarrass and pressurise the business.
Details at the link.
