Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls
“What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken.”
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls
“What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken.”
Phone typo of the day: “granola bats”
Apple rebuts Amazon’s stance that ‘app store’ is a generic term
“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.” Um, good luck with that.
I've located the slides from the 1989 Discovery space shuttle landing (first mission after Challenger) that I went to see with my mom, brother, and a family friend. Now I need to find a place that will scan them before the final shuttle flight.
95% of spamvertised products handled by just 3 credit card processors
My dream Flash writing team is Grant Morrison writing Barry, Mark Waid writing Wally, and Geoff Johns writing the Rogues.
Lessons of Blippy: Just adding a social element isn’t enough to make people want to use something. via @techcrunch
Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
The CDC offers suggestions on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (or other disaster).
Easier, yes…but not necessary. Anyone remember a Zorro film from about 10 years back with Anthony Hopkins as retired Zorro and Antonio Banderas as new Zorro? It did well enough they made a sequel.
Other characters have legacy built into the concept, like the Phantom (maybe not the best example, because the movie tanked).
Maybe a better example: a big part of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film hinged on Will Turner following through on his father’s legacy, but Bootstrap Bill didn’t appear at all until they did the sequels.
Or, heck, Harry Potter – it’s all about this boy growing up and living up to the legacy of his parents and their generation who fought in a war. Harry’s parents are absolutely critical to his story, but they’ve been dead for 10 years when the first movie gets going.
So yes, a legacy character *can* be done in a movie. It may be *easier* to tell a story about the first guy, but it’s not *necessary.*
Two new local restaurants and an ice cream place, a trip to the pier, pictures hung in J's room, bookshelves finally put in place and books unpacked…it's like we're moving in or something!
I hope the guy standing casually next to the burning bus stop trash can & talking on his cell phone was talking to the fire department.
The sky *looks* hazy, but it's astonishingly clear. Local mountains are crystal, I spotted Mt San Jacinto from Torrance, & I could swear I saw the Hollywood sign from *Irvine*.
Barry’s been back for THREE YEARS. He’s been the focus of a Rebirth miniseries, had a major part in last year’s Big Event(tm), and had his own ongoing book, plus guest spots all over the DCU.
And here we have a gigantic, sprawling Flash-centric event (the first ever, I might add) with 5 oversized issues telling the main story, plus 16 miniseries and at least 4 one-shots telling side stories.
And DC is saying that nowhere in all of that could they find room for the guy who was The Flash for more than two decades? And you’re saying this is perfectly okay?
I don’t like to use the phrase “slap in the face” — it’s really overused IMO — but I think it applies here.
Delicious acquired by founders of YouTube. [dead link] Yahoo has been trying to unload its non-core services.
Planespotting. Was on the wrong side of the building to see Air Force One, but did manage to see a convoy of about 6 helicopters spiraling in to land a few minutes ago.
Asia’s out of IPv4 addresses & the rest of the world isn’t far behind. But the internet has barely started using IPv6.
Gee, I love how these “secure email” services train people to click on links in email and enter personal info on a website in response to the promise of critical financial documentation.