Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Slides from “Vulnerabilities in Home Networks”

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Attached please find the slides from my presentation on vulnerabilities in home networks. This talk briefly discusses the lack of security enabled by default on home routers as well as the browser exploits which will take advantage of these. Slides

Zune 2: Bigger Faster Stronger

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Simply put the new version of the Zune software is amazing. Microsoft took all the suck out of the last version and released something that rivals iTunes. Its podcast support is awesome now. Simple and to the point with an excellent browsing interface. The social actually ...

T-Mobile trademarks magenta

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Apparently one can trademark colors now. Gizmodo reports (via a long chain of sources) T-Mobile, in their copyright and trademark statements has managed to state that: T-MOBILE, the T-MOBILE logo, T-ZONES, the T-ZONES design, the HOTSPOT design, T-MOBILE MDA, T-MOBILE SDA, T-MOBILEWEB, the WORLDCLASS logo, the “digits” design, the T-MOBILE ...

Review: Zune Car Pack

Monday, September 17th, 2007

If you're looking for a way to make long car rides more frustrating than they already are try the Zune car kit. This kit retails at just under $80.00 and is not in the slightest bit worth recommending or far worse, purchasing. However, I was stuck between a rock and ...

Hakia: Alright I’m impressed.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

So maybe I was wrong. I looked more into hakia today. They actually have a pretty sweet search engine. It seems to utilize wordnet as well as some cool proactive querying. Hakia actually extracts queries from the webpage as its crawled. Thats pretty cool. Additionally they ...

Verizon Wireless:

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Why can Sprint release CDMA phones left and right and you are left in the dust. Explain why every other CDMA provider has discontinued the HTC Apache and you still sell it for $399! It's ridiculous. While Sprint is releasing new phones you hold off on the xv6800 and ...

Why we aren’t there yet.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

I'm in a surprisingly pessimistic mood today regarding AI. I was thinking about search engines. We rely on them daily. They take the vast content of the web and shrink it down into some ranked subset of relevancy to a query. There's just an arbitrary algorithm ...

Not an iPod

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Live from the nys fair. Sweet iPodish mp4 players.

Freebird!!!

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Heritage not hate? Well wasn't your heritage hating black people?

Moblogging FTW!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Moblogging FTW! Originally uploaded by one_i_blind Flickr + wordpress + lowres phone cam = low quality crappy blog! Let the deterioration begin!