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The coolest talk of this year’s Blackhat must have been the one of Sean Devlin and Hanno Böck. The talk summarized this early year’s paper, in a very cool way: Sean walked on stage and announced that he didn’t have his slides. He then said that it didn’t matter because he had a good idea on how to retrieve them…
#FirstSevenLanguages
Basic (Locomotive, Q, Visual)
Z80 Assembly
Pascal/Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
C
Yup, I don’t really use any of them nowadays.
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In the spring of that year, my travels brought me upon a previously undiscovered civilization. The people called themselves Ossians, and they lived in an isolated collection of villages in a remote part of South America.
Being remote as they were, their level of technology was understandably primitive. But I was surprised by the locals’ recent obsession with new forms of communication. It all started, they told me, when one of them discovered that by attaching a rope between two clay pots and stretching the rope taut, a voice uttered into one side could be heard on the other. (I neglected to tell them that even as a boy I had done this very thing with tin cans.)…
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Big, powerful battery, but still (barely) small enough to fit in large jeans pockets alongside a phone, for charging-on-the-go. Never seen it run dry, despite charging two phones each night of a two-night camping trip. Only downside is the the ports aren’t labelled and some (by design) have their maximum output limited, so if you don’t know which ones those are by heart – or carry the manual around! – then you might find that some devices charge slower than they ought to. Still a great device, and even comes with a set of USB cables (A to B-micro, as used by most smartphones) for your convenience.
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Perfectly fine socks at a fair price. Because losing or wearing holes in socks is sort-of my superpower, I stocked up (or should that be “socked up”?) with these and they’ve served me well.
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Nope, no luck this morning. Thought I’d be in with a chance of an FTF for sure, but I can’t find the cache.
Both my GPSr and my phone seem to think that the posted coordinates are about 18m directly onto what’s clearly private property (and Google Maps agrees too, not that it’s always as accurate as a real life observation at GZ). Either the GPS gods aren’t smiling on me this morning, or the posted coordinates are off. :-(
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Having difficulty getting closer than 18m away (according to my devices): looks like it’s in someone’s garden! Gonna assume that the coordinates are off (or the satellites hate me today) and just start searching in a wide area…
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McDonalds had to know what they were doing. The New Zealand branch of the franchise launched its “Create Your Taste” campaign with a special promotion: Design your own burger and get free fries and a soft drink for your trouble. Not a bad idea in theory, but then there’s the part where they let everyone share their hideous creations. There was no way that someone somewhere at the company didn’t speak up at one point and say “Hey uh, you know that the internet is just going to create the most offensive and terrible burgers possible, right?”
Doing IPv6 arithmetic by hand isn’t normally my idea of a fun night in, I swear. In other news, 128 bits is a LOT. https://t.co/JCAZ0Al9Wi
If you’re a tourist on one of “Jump Man” of Footprints Tours’ tours, I’m sure that the obligatory “jump for a photograph” moment at the end is a fun novelty. However, the novelty quickly wears off when you work in one of the library offices right next to their usual spot, and the call of “3… 2… 1… JUMP!” is the loudest thing you hear all day, each day, throughout the summer season.
Okay @oxfordgeeks, I think we’re ready for #ogn45 now. Any talks yet?
I’ve still got a belt-full of micro-slot ideas I should write.
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Found with tajasel and a toddler in tow. Cache was empty apart from the log, so we left a puzzle toy and a bouncy ball for future trades.
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Suspected missing, based on long string of DNFs and a good bit today finding no trace of it. :-(
