http://www.rustyryan.net/blog enter the life of RJ Ryan... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:06:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s terrible. I’d elaborate if I weren’t under an NDA. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=134 So life has progressed a bit. Just finished sophomore year. I’m in Santa Clara, CA for the summer working for NVIDIA. Fun stuff . http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=133 Judge rebukes wiretap program - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com THANK YOU! I’m in disbelief… http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=132 Mises Economics Blog: The market strikes again lower prices!?!? damn those capitalists!!!! http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=131 YouTube - The truth “And I was like, oh. my. god. WHY did I wear SHOES today???” http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=130 Damien Katz: Signs You’re a Crappy Programmer (and don’t know it) this list is right on the money haha… i’ve seen so many of these.. and i have to admit.. after working on 3d rendering engines so often… i do look at most code and think oh man this is ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=129 MIDAS - Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System one of my roommate and my projects made the front page of MakeZine Here’s zack and my site about MIDAS, our dorm room automation system - MIDAS Dorm Automation System If you like our dorm room, you might want to check out my basement back ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=128 http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=127 Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved | CNET News.com … well that’s just great.. now they have a semi-precedent for monitoring email without warrant.. I mean, that is kind of a sensationalist headline, seeing as they asked the supreme court for permission with one person, but it could easily be ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=126 US plans massive data sweep | csmonitor.com so i’ve never heard of this.. but it’s pretty unsettling… i’m hoping that it when it got slashdotted that was just a sensational title about them spidering email… i’m not even sure how they would do it unless they were only to do it ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=125 EFF: Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T I was lamenting the fact that there’s no real way to stop the government from running the illegal wiretap program.. .because they’re the f’ing government, but then i realized that they don’t have the infrastructure to do that on their own.. they have to go through ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=124 ok so i get freaking swamped for a whole term at MIT, and what happens? tons of bullshit thats what.. just one such thing… French Parliament Votes to Allow Web File Sharing so apparently the french parliament is saying that THE REPRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHT WORKS ON ANY MEDIUM IS LEGAL AS LONG AS ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=123 Life Of A Tecker: Yay! A hack! decent coverage of the recent mario hack … rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=122 CNN.com - MIT fires professor for ‘research misconduct’ - Oct 28, 2005 true to its title, MIT is a meritocracy… this shouldn’t damage MIT’s reputation at all, rather it should increase its credibility. If you betray the truth you intend to reveal with fabrication, know that a true university will ditch ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=121 U.S. Passports to Receive Electronic Identification Chips gahhhhhh damnit … also if you haven’t noticed… i’m really really inactive… i’m at MIT and it’s kind of a time-commitment -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=120 Linspire.com - News nice… some indiana schools adopting linspire… like omg http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=119 Riot control ray gun worries scientists | CNET News.com oh my… ‘excrutiating pain.’ I’m glad our government has this technology, it will work quite for dealing with those pesky yet peaceful protestors on capitol hill once we completely give up our rights to the patriot act, terror war, et al. ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=118 CNN.com - House votes to extend Patriot Act - Jul 21, 2005 *smack self* stupid london, bleh i was ready to be done w/ that wiretapping provision in december… i’m writing my senator…i suggest you write yours if you don’t want to continue surrendering your rights… http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=116 Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space? wha? ridiculously cool… oh man… almost makes me want to be an astronaut just to play with things in low gravity. oh and i havn’t posted in a while… obviously… i’m working and enjoying ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=115 Fujitsu Announces Global Launch of its Contactless Palm Vein Authentication Technology : FUJITSU a new form of biometric security… interesting… i like the contactless concept… http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=114 UMHS Press Release: Nanoparticles transport cancer-killing drug into tumor cells heh. . maybe i wasnt so far off with my crazy nanotech BS presentation for tok…. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=113 Zero to 76,000 mph in a Second - Yahoo! News haha slashdot hails this as being one step closer to a rail gun… woot… too bad its the size of old DEC 10s… http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=112 Coming in out of the cold: Cold fusion, for real | csmonitor.com eh? ok.. that’s really cool if it’s true they’ve made a significant breakthrough… if not … meh its not any different than the past 10 years.. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=111 “Biggest Hacker” Caught so this guy hacked and damaged >$1billion on us military computers.. i’m surprised he didn’t have an ‘accident’ -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=110 http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=109 NewScientist.com Goldfish Bowl 3d screens this is pretty awesome.. they use this polycarbonate snowdome type device mixed with a custom made projector/videocard tyep device which cuts 3d models into slices and projects them into various parts of the globe.. the result is a 3d image which can be viewed by walking ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=108 Merriam-Webster Online Favorite Non-Dictionary Words woot is apparently the third most preferred non-dictionary word nice -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=107 Digital rights management embedded in Intel chips intel’s new line will have DRM built in… joy so now … not only will I have any control over music I purchase, but the person who sold it to me will be able to monitor how much I listen, what I listen to, ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=106 hi btw, i went through 3 weeks or so of hell doing AP/IB testing… but now it’s summer and i’m r-e-l-a-x-i-n-g…but shit like this is keeping me from that… Minnesota court takes dim view of encryption | CNET News.com so now posession of encryption tools is essentially criminal intent in minnesotta.. wonderful… ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=105 Grenade near Bush was live … now seriously… why would you give a speech to a huge crowd in the middle east… did you expect to not get a grenade thrown at you ? http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=104 Yahoo forces RIAA staff cutbacks… - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _ so the idea is… that as unlimited paypermonth services go down in price, is that an equitable price for the cost of listening to unlimited pirated music? So if Yahoo charges $5/month, doesn’t that mean that the max in damages ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=103 RFID Journal - Group Studies RFID to Stop Digital Piracy ok anyone who reads this, this seems really stupid to me… it would be very easy to circumvent an RFID embedded dvd… now when they pass dvd images around theyll just include the hex dump of the RFID chips data that ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=102 The Office - Funnyfox a group of funny commercials created for Firefox http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=101 IOL: Science & Tech this is amazing, researchers have discovered a way to operate a fuel cell that works using the glucose in blood cells with the of a non-toxic oxidizer (Vitamin K3, which is also found in the body). The implications for this are huge for nanotech (no pun intended ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=100 Schneier on Security: REAL ID This is pretty much required reading on the upcoming national id card. Bruce Schneier is one of hte most well known and leading cryptologists in the field, he does not talk out of his ass. He’s written papers against the concept of a national id card ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=99 Student suspended for cellphone call from mom in Iraq ok, so the kid refuses to get off his cell phone in school because he was talking to his mom who had been in iraq for a year…. he got freaking suspended for the rest of the year, WTF i mean, policy is ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=98 Federal appeals court strikes down Broadcast Flag - Engadget - www.engadget.com / thank god…. the FCC shouldn’t have that much authority http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=97 SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Bruce Schneier on Cryptography bruce schneier, another interview on the direction of cryptography… in this particular interview its mostly about the direction of hash functions with the recent cryptanalytic success against SHA-1. Schneier is always great to hear from, the interviewer asked stupid questions though…. -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=96 Non-terror-related wiretaps on the rise a followup to an AP report on the libertarian party blog… i don’t feel like commenting.. ill probably rant and make some un-founded accusations or something rash like that then regret it later… whatevs -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=95 Puts & Calls: Mellifluous discord Response from Roger Dannenburg so the president of the riaa lectures about stealing, and is smacked down by carnegie mellon compsci/music professor Roger Dannenburg about RIAA royalty fraud woo, hooray for morals america! -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=94 almost *smirk* U.S. House approves bill to end death tax very nice, hopefully this will go through… a death tax is just like any other tax: a way for the government to distribute, or rather hide facts about its money management. Removing the death tax may lead to augmenting other taxes, but ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=93 http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=92 bill gates envisions cars that don’t crash pretty interesting stuff.. gates is now looking into making some of this technology we dreamt of in the early nineties a reality http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=91 Azureus, an open source bittorrent client just released a new specification for a decentralized bittorrent which would remove the need for trackers, etc. This is really significant, although it would remove the ability to search through torrents, which kind of defeats the purpose, but oh well.. its still a ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=90 again and again I get up and say I only want to get it right I only want to do the right thing but all these demons harass my soul I won’t be today I’m alone again no one can make that alive no one can say they’re better, not when all this freedom you get is a lie again ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=89 DomainWorks: Go Daddy Passes Network Solutions as Top Registrar well, godaddy has much better prices… and network solutions has a really stupid way of registering things, so it kinda makes sense. Is rustyryan.com in my future? nope… taken it’s actually an …interesting… site - i would check it out here -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=88 IFILM - Short Films: I Am Drugs haha i love the guy on PCP, he’s so goofy and the crack-whore is so… charming -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=87 Storage Technology hitachi is getting the word out about the latest developments in hard drive technology with their new didactic yet fun ad campaign, ‘get perpendicular’. Whew, straight from the days of schoolhouse rock, hitachi shows through song and dance their perpendicular oriented servo technology its quite touching really… -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=86 judge upholds universities’ rights to protect their own students’ identities 2 North Carolina State University students used the university network to download music illegally. The RIAA subpoenaed to reveal the identities, but the courts upheld their right to protect their students: “We would never condone music piracy,” attorney Michael Kornbluth ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=85 Yahoo! News - Smart Alarm Clock Set for Perky Wakeups i need this! Wouldn’t it be great to combine this with Clocky? I always have such a hard time waking up, I have to set like 5 alarms and hide them from myself. -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=80 Intelligent plastics change shape with light - MIT News Office this is pretty dern cool… http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=82 news @ nature.com - Black holes ‘do not exist’ - These mysterious objects are dark-energy stars, physicist claims. very interesting, would this mean that a black hole is not actually an anomaly? rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=83 heres the linup for Ultra 2005…. i dont think i have _ever_ been more upset its all going on right now and i’m in indiana Ampitheater Paul Van DykTiesto (2 Hour Set)Paul OakenfoldFerry CorstenJunkie XLChristopher LawerenceKevensInfected MushroomSkribbleDonald GlaudeNu NRGEdgar V. Soundstage MobyRITM (RABBIT IN THE MOON)The Crystal MethodArmin Van BuurenSander KleinenbergInfusionPete ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=71 This is awesome. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=72 RELEASE: Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld apparently that article i forged about cancer curing nanorobots won’t always be that crazy… -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=73 yay daft punk is back, and their new cd is really good (buy it!) -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=74 Today: Erging 10,000 meters in 40 minutes : 650 calories i just had steak and shake bacon double steakburger w/ cheese cup of chilistrawberry/chocolate milkshake w/ hot fudge approx 1600 calories :( oh so good, yet oh so bad http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/19290.htmhttp://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/19312.htmhttp://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/19343.htmhttp://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/19362.htmhttp://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/19360.htm *pouts*-rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=75 publication of code weaknesses now illegal in france what a joke.. -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=76 Google knows everything! hooray for douglas adams… ihope the upcoming movie doesn’t suck -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=77 ninjatune.net.videos http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=78 Never, ever put babies in the dryer! -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=54 Digital Ink Prototype Uses Nanotech Ntera, Dublin based nanotech startup has developed a NanoChromics Display (NCD), which they squeezed into an ipod to demonstrate its awesomeness. When this technology gets perfected to have a higher refresh rate and larger size then these will probably end up replacing LCD in general due ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=59 Napster copy-protection bypass heh, well now that its hit the media people are heralding it as the demise of applied-DRM, too bad this method is nothing more than the equivalent of taking the audio output and playing it to a file. There’s no way to stop people from removing DRM, if ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=60 Microsoft designs upgrade incompatibility with Wine Users of wine, the windows emulator for linux, found that the new Microsoft update portal, Microsoft Downloads, is actually designed to check for Wine and to bail if it detects it. The free software community is half incensed, half bummed about this… shrug, I feel ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=61 Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken: “SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing.” omg omg omg omg omg holy crap this is a big deal… wow.. im kinda stunned, i didnt think it would ever really happen, heh… oh well, now everyone implementing sha-1 ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=62 House backs major shift to electronic IDs | CNET News.com ok, so it got through the house, but make sure to let your senator know if you feel like it shouldnt get any further! -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=63 support our troops *chuckle*-rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=64 Oppose HR 418 - Real National ID Act The national ID that is proposed in HR 418 will use RFID technology. Remember in Minority Report where the government could log where you were last scanned in by your retinae? It will be kind of like that except your ID card will ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=65 NPR : The Barrons: Forgotten Pioneers of Electronic Music mmm… started it all http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=66 andPOP | Matchbox Twenty Guitarist Leaves for ‘Personal’ Reasons booty http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=67 Human trials for AIDS vaccine begin in Pune - The Economic Times nice http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=68 Happy 100th Birthday to Ayn Rand, or at least, she would be 100… anyway… i’m celebrating -rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=69 “and we all went mental… and danced. i get my kicks on channel six. i get my kicks on channel six…to the off-peak…electricity.and the light blinds my eyes. and i feel dirty.and the light blinds my eyes. and i feel…so…shaken in my faith.here comes ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=70 CNN.com - Freedom of what? - Jan 31, 2005 these dern kids dont know the 1st amendment??freedom of … err what was that again? damn they must not be learnin’ me good enough in skewl, oh shit, am I allowed to say ‘damn’ on the internet??? derrrr hmm, teacher never taught me ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=41 RFIDAnalysis.org so… when we get around to rfid microchipping people …. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=42 http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=43 Gates’ way: $750 m for kids- The Times of India god, only 750m? wtf is his problem *edit* 1/31/05 - ok.. so some people didn’t get it, this is _sarcastic_ http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=44 ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Court Strikes Down Federal Obscenity Statute “Now that DOJ can’t fight porn anymore, maybe they’ll have to divert all those resources back to fighting terrorism.” heheh legislating morality is pointless, then you breed generations who know only not to do something because “it’s illegal” ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=45 Yahoo! News - FBI Fights for Limited Document Searches blah, the fbi sucks… then again, no one likes someone poking around in their dirty closet… its either me or the fbi who has misunderstood the point of FOIA… im guessing its them…. hmm rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=46 EFF: Press Room “Libel Case Could Chill Speech Online” libel?? pfffttt http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=47 local6.com - Education - Women Lack ‘Natural Ability’ In Some Fields, Harvard President Says hmmmm….. sucks for him if he was misunderstood although… sometimes you have to consider your audience, even if you believe that plus i don’t really believe that his daughter naming the trucks daddy/baby can be ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=48 HRP robot - plyojump.com …. awesome ++ http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=49 Joel on Software - Back to Basics oh man, this guy put into words what i’ve felt for years http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=50 Slashdot | RIAA Loses DMCA Subpoena Case Against Charter … cool, win for privacy… loss for damage prevention by americans though… if the RIAA cannot personally identify users it is prosecuting then the only way one can know that they are under investigation before they are brought to court is by ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=51 Egeland backs down a smart move, asshole I know he says he was misinterpreted and he didn’t actually say these things, i don’t buy it. Too bad the UN posts videocasts of every press conference they have… here. He did say it, sure he was speaking ‘in general’ but come on, of ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=52 U.N. official slams U.S. as ’stingy’ over aid hrm, while i was gone on break, UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the US was being stingy with aid and should raise taxes in order to give more money to the U.N. This is messed ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=53 RJ’s take on the MIT logo http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=35 Toshiba unveils 80GB micro drive | The Register i predict an 80gb ipod or ipod photo in the near future… just as light as their micro 60gb. How the hell did they pull that one off? probably just didn’t have to add another platter… anyway… yea ive liked toshiba ever since ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=36 Robbers scared off by Playstation game get jail time and who ever said the Grand Theft Auto games were a bad thing?? http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=37 BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Brainwave’ cap controls computer: this is beyond amazing, Earlier this year, a team at the MIT Media Labs Europe demonstrated a wireless cap which read brain waves to control a computer game character. mmmm, anyway http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=38 so my left eye has been twitching since the end of october, i’m actually really annoyed by it after more than a month, so i googled it: eye-twitching.com “Although the causes of eye twitching can’t always be determined, a number of every day factors can contribute. According to Dr. Muris, these ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=39 Fear Based Control interesting article, hmm. http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=40 hrm, mrs. libby would have you believe that ayn rand wasn’t very influential… right Center for the Book: Library of Congress … yea, not influential at all http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=23 “If you hold the irrational as your standard of value and the impossible as your concept of the good, if you long for rewards you have not earned, for a fortune or a love you don’t deserve, for a loophole in the law of causality, for an A that becomes ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=24 I wish i had a jetta people tell me they’re girly, why?? http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=25 __ ____ ____ ___ ____ _ / /_ ____ __ _____ _____ / __ ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=26 wow, this was like a year ago when my band played at some open mic night. crazy how time flies. krehzy! good ol’ nostalgia *sigh*-rj http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=27 REJOICE! New York Times > Ashcroft Resigns (a collective sigh is heard across the nation) “scary john gets his strong arm on he doesn’t like the fact i’m not happy with the blackjack” ... http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=28 *laf* http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=29 omg *has a seizure* http://www.rustyryan.net/blog/?p=30