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20 Hilarious Programming Jargon Phrases You Should Use When Talking To Engineers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:04:00 +0000

20 Hilarious Programming Jargon Phrases You Should Use When Talking To Engineers:

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of question-and-answer site Stack Exchange, has a huge list of 30 new pieces of programming jargon that have emerged on the question-and-answer site.
Some of them are a bit obscure, but most of them are hilarious.
We've included some of the best ones below. You can check out the full list on his blog, Coding Horror.

Yoda Conditions: When a programmer writes the conditions for a piece of code in the opposite order for which you would expect to normally read them. (Instead of saying if(variable == constant), the code says if(constant == variable).)

Smug Report: A bug report submitted by a user who thinks he or she knows everything about a system, when he or she does not.

A duck: A feature added for the sole purpose of drawing attention to itself from management to be removed, avoiding unnecessary other changes in a product.

Refuctoring: Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a small series of changes, making it completely unmaintainable for anyone other than yourself.

Heisenbug: A play on "Heisenberg," a principle in quantum mechanics, a Heisenbug is a bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it.

Jimmy: A generalized name for a clueless or new developer.

Higgs Bugson: Another bug based on a physics phenomenon, a Higgs Bugson is a bug that's hypothetically predicted to exist based on other conditions, but is difficult to produce.

Unicorny: A feature so early in its planning stages that it might as well be imaginary.

Hindenbug: A catastrophic, data-destroying bug.

Fear-driven development: When project management adds more pressure, such as by firing engineers.

Hydra: A bug that, when an attempt to fix is made, introduces two new bugs. It's a bug that cannot be fixed.

Common Law Feature: A bug that has existed for so long that it is considered a feature.

Loch Ness Monster bug: A bug that has only been spotted by one person.

Rubberducking: Talking with other engineers to solve a problem.

Banana banana banana: Placeholder text in code that hasn't been implemented yet.

Reality 101 failure: Creating a program that does exactly what was asked, but the problem it's trying to solve was misunderstood and the program is basically useless.

Mad girlfriend bug: When you see something strange is happening, but the software is telling you everything is fine.

Hooker code: Code that is problematic and causes application instability.

Jenga code: The whole program collapses once you alter a block of code.

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Você pode ficar sem internet nesta segunda-feira por causa de malware – eis como resolver isto

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Você pode ficar sem internet nesta segunda-feira por causa de malware – eis como resolver isto:
À 1h da manhã (horário de Brasília), a internet vai ficar inacessível para cerca de 300.000 pessoas ao redor do mundo por causa do malware DNS Changer. Se seu computador estiver infectado, você não conseguirá entrar na internet a partir desta segunda-feira. Eis como verificar se você tem o malware – e como se livrar dele.
Estima-se que 300.000 pessoas serão afetadas. Vale notar que, apesar do número parecer alto, na verdade é um conjunto pequeno dos usuários de Internet (mais de 2 bilhões). Muito provavelmente, você não tem esse malware. Sério, não deve ter mesmo. Mas assim como todo malware, é melhor ter certeza.

O que é o DNS Changer?

Este malware redirecionava computadores para servidores DNS maliciosos, em vez dos servidores normais do seu provedor. Servidores DNS são como tradutores para a internet: eles convertem o endereço www.site.com.br em um endereço IP. Ele pega o nome do site que você digita, procura o servidor do site, e conecta você a ele. O malware DNS Changer, no entanto, manda os usuários para servidores diferentes sem você saber.
O FBI viu que isto estava acontecendo e decidiu intervir, prendendo a equipe por trás do DNS Changer e substituindo os servidores maliciosos por outros, limpos e seguros. Foi uma solução temporária que funcionou por enquanto, mas será desligada em 9 de julho, porque os servidores serão fechados – a ordem judicial para manter os servidores vale até amanhã.

Verifique seu computador

O DNS Changer afeta apenas computadores com Windows e Mac OS X. Ou seja, se você usa Linux ou dispositivos móveis (com iOS, Android etc.) fique tranquilo: eles estão limpos.
Saber se seu computador foi afetado pelo DNS Changer é extremamente fácil: basta visitar o DNS-ok.us, site mantido pelo FBI, para saber. Se aparecer uma imagem verde, tudo certo: você não tem o malware, nem nada a se preocupar. Simples assim.
No entanto, se aparecer a imagem vermelha e você estiver infectado, aí você tem que limpar seu computador.

Como eu tiro o DNS Changer do meu computador?

De acordo com o DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG), você pode usar estas ferramentas para consertar seu computador. São ferramentas gratuitas, mas a maioria dos antivírus deve funcionar também. Faça um backup dos seus arquivos antes de usá-las:

Hitman Pro

Kaspersky Labs TDSSKiller

McAfee Stinger

Microsoft Windows Defender Offline

Microsoft Safety Scanner

Norton Power Eraser

Trend Micro Housecall

MacScan

O pessoal da Naked Security explica todo o problema e ainda fez um vídeo – é um bom lugar para procurar por dicas visuais para remover o DNS Changer do seu computador.
Depois que seu computador estiver limpo, é só voltar a aproveitar a internet que você conhece e ama. Vale repetir: o malware DNS Changer só afeta uma fração dos usuários da internet. Mas se ele lhe afetar, tire-o. Já. [DCWG, Naked Security, PCMag]

Foto por Stepan Kapl / Shutterstock

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Google I/O 2012 - Keynote Day 1

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Iron Man Doing His Job:

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Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:05:00 +0000

Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy:

E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only to you and the people you choose to share them with.
We’ve been sharing secrets for centuries, but the Internet runs on a special kind of secret sharing called public-key cryptography. Most secret messages depend on a shared secret—a key or password that everyone agrees on ahead of time. Public-key cryptography shares secret messages without a shared secret key and makes technologies like SSL possible.
Cryptography is a scary word: it conjures thoughts of complex equations and floating-point arithmetic. Cryptography does have a lot of math, but it’s more about keeping and sharing secrets.

A Simple Secret

Telling my best friends a secret is easy: I find a private place and whisper it in their ears. As long as no one is listening in, I’m totally secure. But the Internet is full of eavesdroppers, so we need codes.
We’ve all been inventing codes since we were children. I created this simple number code (actually a cipher) when I was 5:

a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5…

It fooled my friends, but not my parents. Simple substitution ciphers are based on a lack of knowledge. If you know how they work, then you can decode every message. The experts call this “security through obscurity.” Letter and number substitutions don’t work on the Internet, because anyone can look them up on Wikipedia. For computer security, we need codes that are still secure even if the bad guys, or your parents, know how they work.
The most secure code is still easy to use: a “one-time pad.” One-time pads have been used for centuries, so they don’t even need computers. They played a big part in World War II, when each pad of paper with the key numbers was used only once.
Let’s say I wanted to send you this secret message:

I love secrets

First, I’d turn the message into numbers using my simple cipher from when I was 5. (I’ve heard rumors that other people had this idea first, but I don’t believe it.)

Then I’d mash my keyboard to generate a random key string for my one-time pad.

Now I can add the two strings together. If my number is greater than 26, I would just wrap it around to the beginning. So, i(9) + e(5) = n(14), and o(15) + t(20) = i(35 - 16 = 9). The result is an encrypted string:

Decrypting the string to get the secret back is easy. We just subtract the one-time pad: n(14) - e(5) = i(9). Follow that pattern through the entire message, and you can securely share a secret. You don’t even need a computer: just work it out with a pen and paper.
This function is called a symmetric-key algorithm, or a shared-key algorithm, since it uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt the message. Modern systems can safely use the pad more than once, but the basic idea is the same.
The one-time pad is totally secure because the bad guys don’t know how we got the encoded letter. The n could be i + e, j + d or any other combination. We can use our shared secret (the one-time pad) once to share another secret.
But there’s a fatal flaw. We need to share the one-time pad ahead of time before we can start sharing secrets. That’s a chicken-and-egg problem because we can’t share the pad without worrying that someone will snoop. If the bad guys get the one-time pad, then they would be able to read everything.
One-time pads help me share secrets with my best friends, but I can’t use them with strangers such as Amazon or Facebook. I need a way to share something publicly that doesn’t compromise my one-time pad. I need a public key.

The Public-Key Backpack

Public-key encryption focuses on a single problem: how do I prove that I know something without saying what it is? An easy concept to help us understand this is a backpack full of weights.

I want to prove that I know which weights are in my pack, but I don’t want to tell you what they are. Instead of showing you all of the weights separately, I’ll just tell you the total. Now you can weigh the pack and see if I’m right without ever opening it.
If the pack weighs 20 kilos, then you wouldn’t know if it has one 20-kilo weight, twenty 1-kilo weights or something in between. With a large number, you can be pretty confident that I know what’s in the pack if I know the total; you don’t have to see inside. The weight of the backpack is the public part, and the individual weights are the private part.
This basic backpack enables us to share a secret without really sharing it. If we each have a backpack, then we can both share secrets.
The backpack works well enough for smaller numbers, but it isn’t useful in the real world. Backpack algorithms were a mere curiosity for decades. Then RSA changed everything.

RSA

RSA was the first public-key encryption system that worked in the real world. Invented more than 30 years ago, it coincided with the introduction of the more powerful computers that were needed to run the big numbers. RSA is still the most popular public-key encryption system in the world.
The basic premise of RSA is that factoring large numbers is difficult. Let’s choose two prime numbers: 61 and 53. I’m using the numbers from Wikipedia’s article on “RSA” in case you want more details.
Multiply these two numbers and you get 3233:

61 × 53 = 3233

The security of RSA comes from the difficulty of getting back to 61 and 53 if you only know 3233. There’s no good way to get the factors of 3233 (i.e. the numbers that multiply to make the result) without just looking for all of them. To think of this another way, the weight of our backpack is 3233 kilos, and inside are 61 weights weighing 53 kilos each. If you make the resulting number large enough, then finding the numbers that produced it would be very difficult.

Public And Private Keys

Unlike the one-time pad, RSA uses the public key to encrypt information and the private key to decrypt it. This works because of the special relationship between the public and private keys when they were generated, which allows you to encrypt with one and decrypt with the other.
You can share the public key with anyone and never reveal the private key. If you want to send me a secret message, just ask for my public key and use it to encrypt the message. You can then send it to anyone you want, and you’ll know that I’m the only one who can decrypt the message and read it.
I could send you a message in the same way. I would ask for your public key, encrypt the message using it and then send it to you to decrypt. The popular program Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) worked like that. We’re secure as long as we both keep our private keys private.
Exchanging keys is made even easier by special key servers that allow you to search for people and find their public keys.
Public-key encryption also works in reverse to provide digital signatures. Let’s say I want to write a message and prove that I wrote it. I just encrypt it with my private key and post it. Then anyone who wants to check can decrypt it with my public key. If the decryption works, then it means I have the private key and I wrote the message.
RSA is relatively simple: take two numbers (the private key), apply some math, and get a third number (the public key). You can write out all of the math in a few lines, and yet RSA changed the world. Business doesn’t work on the Internet without public-key encryption.

RSA And HTTPS

We use public-key encryption every day with HTTPS. When you access Facebook, Twitter or Amazon with HTTPS, you’re using a simple encryption mechanism like the one-time pad, but you’re creating the pad with public-key encryption. Without HTTPS, anyone else at Starbucks could read your credit-card number, Facebook password or private email while sipping a latte.
Amazon has a certificate from a company named VeriSign. The certificate certifies that Amazon is Amazon, and it contains its public key. Your browser creates a special key just for that session and encrypts it using Amazon’s public key. Then it sends it over the Internet, knowing that only Amazon can decrypt the session key. Once you’ve exchanged that secret key, you can use it as the one-time pad to protect your password and credit-card number.

You could keep using public-key encryption for the whole session, but because of all the math, it’s much slower than the one-time pad.

RSA And GitHub

Another place many of us use RSA is GitHub. Every time you push a change to GitHub or pull from a master branch, GitHub has to make sure you have permission to make the change. It gets its security through a secure command shell using RSA.
Remember when you set up your GitHub account and followed some commands to generate keys?

You used the SSH-Keygen tool to generate a new RSA private/public key pair. Then you went to your GitHub account page and entered your public key.
Now, when GitHub needs to authenticate you, it asks your computer to sign something with your private key and return the signed data. With your public key, GitHub can confirm that the signature is authentic and could only have been produced by someone who has the corresponding private key—even though GitHub itself doesn’t have that private key.
That’s better than a simple password because nobody can snoop it. And if GitHub ever gets hacked, your private key won’t be in danger because only you have it.

Sharing Passwords

When WordPress.org was “hacked”, it wasn’t really hacked. WordPress plugin developers, like everyone else, have accounts on other websites. They also reuse their passwords. When hackers cracked those other websites, they used the stolen passwords to log into WordPress.org and make malicious changes to plugins.
Most people use the same user name and password on multiple websites. That makes your website only as secure as everyone else’s. Public-key encryption changes that. Because you never have to share your private key, it doesn’t matter if other websites get hacked. If an attacker breaks into GitHub and gets your public key, they can’t use it to impersonate you or log in as you on other websites. Only someone with your private key can do that, which is why your private key remains safe on your computer. Using public-key cryptography makes GitHub much more secure.

GitHub Gets Hacked

GitHub was hacked recently, but not because the encryption failed. Real-world security breaches are caused by problems in implementation, not in math.
In this case, the hacker was able to exploit a hole and add his public key to the Ruby on Rails repository. Once the key was added, GitHub used it to verify the hacker’s identity and granted him access. We’re lucky this hacker was friendly and told GitHub about the issue.
Once the problem was fixed, you could keep using your private key because GitHub never had it to lose; it stayed on your machine. Public keys saved GitHub from serious problems.
The weakest link in GitHub’s security was in the mechanism that allowed clever users to add public keys to other projects without being authorized. The math was perfect, but the implementation wasn’t.

Public Keys In The Wild

Knowing the fundamentals is essential (you might say the key) to writing secure applications. The math is complex, but the basics are simple:

There are two main types of encryption: shared-key encryption, such as a one-time pad, and public-key encryption, which uses public and private keys.
Shared-key encryption is faster, but sharing the keys is difficult.
RSA is the most popular public-key encryption algorithm, but a few others are in general use, as well as some cool experimental systems.
Public-key cryptography works best in combination with other technologies.
Don’t ever share your private key with anyone.

When it comes time to implement public-key cryptography in your application, don’t. RSA and other algorithms are already implemented in all major languages. These libraries include extra security features such as padding and salts, and they have a lot of testing behind them.
Most security flaws come from poor implementations and misunderstanding about the libraries. You don’t have to write your own cryptography libraries, but you do have to know the fundamentals so that you can use the ones that are out there.
Illustrations in this article were provided by Robb Perry.
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Summary for Week of May 11th

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Summary for Week of May 11th: The key stories for the week were the elections in France and Greece, and JPMorgan’s $2 billion trading loss on a synthetic credit position. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the losses were due to “egregious mistakes”, “sloppiness" and that the "portfolio still has risk”. This doesn’t appear to be a systemic risk, just poor risk management at JPMorgan.

The Greek political situation is unsettled, and the Europeans have said they support Greece through the next election on June 17th. After that … who knows? There is a strong possibility that Greece will leave the euro not long after the next election.

This was a light week for US economic data. The trade deficit was a little higher than expected, but most of the data improved slightly. The 4-week average of initial weekly unemployment claims declined, small business confidence improved, and consumer sentiment improved, and there were more job openings in March.

In an under reported story, both Fannie and Freddie reported improved performance due to “stabilization of house prices” in certain areas. The sharp decline in "for sale" inventory appears to be supporting house prices, and inventory and house prices continue to be key stories for 2012.

Here is a summary in graphs:

• Trade Deficit increased in March to $51.8 Billion

The trade deficit was above the consensus forecast of $49.5 billion.

The first graph shows the monthly U.S. exports and imports in dollars through March 2012.

Exports increased in March, and are at record levels. Imports increased even more. Exports are 13% above the pre-recession peak and up 7% compared to March 2011; imports are 3% above the pre-recession peak, and up about 8% compared to March 2011.

The second graph shows the U.S. trade deficit, with and without petroleum, through March.

The blue line is the total deficit, and the black line is the petroleum deficit, and the red line is the trade deficit ex-petroleum products.

Oil averaged $107.95 per barrel in March, up from $103.63 in February. Import oil prices were probably a little higher in April too, but will probably decline in May. The increase in imports was a combination of more petroleum imports and more imports from China.

• BLS: Job Openings increased in March

This graph shows job openings (yellow line), hires (dark blue), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.

Jobs openings increased in March to 3.737 million, up from 3.565 million in February. The number of job openings (yellow) has generally been trending up, and openings are up about 17% year-over-year compared to March 2011. This is the highest level for job openings since July 2008.

Quits increased in March, and quits are now up about 8.5% year-over-year and quits are now at the highest level since 2008. These are voluntary separations and more quits might indicate some improvement in the labor market. (see light blue columns at bottom of graph for trend for "quits").

All current employment graphs

• REO Inventory for Fannie, Freddie and the FHA

This graph shows the combined REO inventory for Fannie, Freddie and the FHA (FHA through Feb 2012).

The combined REO inventory is down to 203 thousand in Q1 2012, down about 18% from Q1 2011.

The pace of REO acquisitions will probably increase following the mortgage servicer settlement (signed off on April 5th); and dispositions will probably increase too.

• CoreLogic: House Price Index increases in March, Down 0.6% Year-over-year

From CoreLogic: CoreLogic® March Home Price Index Shows Slight Year-Over-Year Decrease of Less Than One Percent

[CoreLogic March Home Price Index (HPI®) report] shows that nationally home prices, including distressed sales, declined on a year-over-year basis by 0.6 percent in March 2012 compared to March 2011. On a month-over-month basis, home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 0.6 percent in March 2012 compared to February 2012, the first month-over-month increase since July 2011.

This graph shows the national CoreLogic HPI data since 1976. January 2000 = 100.

The index was up 0.6% in March, and is down 0.6% over the last year.

The index is off 34% from the peak - and is just above the post-bubble low set last month.

• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 367,000

Here is a long term graph of weekly claims:

The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims decreased to 379,000.

This decline in the 4-week moving average followed for four consecutive increases.

This was close to the consensus of 366,000. This is two consecutive weeks with initial unemployment claims in the 360s, after averaging close to 390,000 over the previous 3 weeks.

All current Employment Graphs

• NFIB: Small Business Optimism Index increases in April

This graph shows the small business optimism index since 1986. The index increased to 94.5 in April from 92.5 in March. This ties February 2011 as the highest level since December 2007.

Another positive sign is that the "single most important problem" was not "poor sales" in April - for the first time in years. In the best of times, small business owners complain about taxes and regulations, and that is starting to happen again.

This index remains low, but as housing continues to recover, I expect this index to increase (there is a high concentration of real estate related companies in this index).

• Consumer Sentiment increases in May to 77.8

The preliminary Reuters / University of Michigan consumer sentiment index for May increased to 77.8, up from the April reading of 76.4.

This was above the consensus forecast of 76.2 and the highest level since January 2008. Overall sentiment is still fairly weak - probably due to a combination of the high unemployment rate, high gasoline prices and the sluggish economy.

• Other Economic Stories ...

• LPS: House Price Index increased 0.2% in February

• Lawler: Table of Short Sales and Foreclosures for Selected Cities

• Sacramento: Percentage of Distressed House Sales increases slightly in April

• Lawler: REO inventory of "the F's" and PLS

• Fannie Mae reports $2.7 billion in income, REO inventory declines in Q1 2012

• The economic impact of stabilizing house prices?

• The Declining Participation Rate

• Housing: Inventory declines 21% year-over-year in early May

How Tech Is Changing College Life [INFOGRAPHIC]

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:31:00 +0000

How Tech Is Changing College Life [INFOGRAPHIC]:
College students today are more tech savvy than ever before. Just how important is technology to their academic lives?
More than 90% use email to communicate with professors and 73% say they cannot study without technology. Seven in 10 take notes on keyboards instead of paper, virtually all students who own an ereader and most use digital tools when preparing a presentation.
All that tech has caused something of a dependency too — 38% of students can’t go more than 10 minutes without checking their smartphone or other device. All told, students spent $13 billion on electronics in 2009.
Community college students are less digitally connected than students at four-year schools, but more and more people are making the Internet their education gateway. Twelve million students take at least one class online today — in five years, that number is projected to exceed 22 million. By 2014, analysts say, more than 3.5 million students will take all of their classes online.
This is all according to research compiled by Presta Electronics. Presta used material from the Pew Research Center, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mashable and other sources to put together the infographic below. Check it out for the full picture of how technology is changing college students’ lives.
Do you think technology is changing college for the better — or are there downsides?

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Hey... I love History!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:55:00 +0000

Hey... I love History!:

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The Power of Running

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:32:00 +0000

The Power of Running:
Runner
I was thinking that with so many people burning calories by running, if only that energy could be harnessed it might put a dent in the energy crisis. So for fun, I compared the energy exerted by runners to other worldly things that consume energy.

Feel free to put the above infographic on your blog by pasting the embed code below into your blog:

<a href="http://www.runner.com/the-power-of-running" ><img title="power-of-running" src="http://www.runner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Power-of-running.jpg" alt="The Power of Running Infographic" width="568" height="2280" /></a>



<br /> <a href=http://www.runner.com>Runner.com - Information and Inspiration for the Runner</a>

Total calories burned by core runners in one year equals 4,234,278,397,440
That’s enough to power the electricity needs for 1,771,622 homes for a year.
That is equivalent to all the homes in Los Angeles and San Francisco combined
Total energy used by all core runners is equivalent to 177,162,208 gallons of gasoline
That’s enough to power a Boeing 747 around the world 1,093 times
That’s also equivalent to the energy expended by 177 atomic bombs the size of Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Calories a man runner burns per year of running equals 175,386 which is enough to power an LCD TV for 107 days
Calories a woman runner burns per year of running equals 119,574 enough to power a clothes washer for 6 months
An average woman running a marathon will burn enough calories to power a 60 watt bulb for 8 days
An average man running a marathon will burn enough calories to power a laptop computer for 8 days
For a half marathon, a woman runner will burn enough calories to charge cell phone for more than 21 days
For a half marathon, a man runner will burn enough calories to run a clock radio for over 3.5 days
The total calories burned by all finishers of the New York City Marathon equals 145,154,457, that is enough to light up NYC for 7 .5 hours

The figures used are for the core runner, which is a person that runs fifty or more times per year. Many sources were used to derive this information. Since there are many variables involved, I used averages (i.e. for runners weight, miles per week, LCD TV size, etc) so the results are estimates. Primary sources include, General Electric, Running USA, Runners World, Popular Mechanics, msnbc and the University of Washington.
Runner - Information and Inspiration for the Runner

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:06:00 +0000

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video:

Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View's head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks you through it in the above YouTube video. The short answer? Lots of backend firepower and, you know, a few years in the search game. If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today's version of the site does what it does. If you're thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you'd be half-way right, but as Matt's delivery is so engaging, we're def hoping there'll be a follow up.

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lemons? Melons?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:01:00 +0000

Lemons? Melons?:

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Seems legit.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:21:00 +0000

Seems legit.:

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Emma Watson in Short Shorts

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:14:00 +0000

Emma Watson in Short Shorts:

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Canon unveils EOS-1D C and C500 4K Cinema cameras, two new lenses ahead of NAB (updated)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Canon unveils EOS-1D C and C500 4K Cinema cameras, two new lenses ahead of NAB (updated):

In a departure from its last introduction as dramatic as the C300's Hollywood launch itself, Canon has quietly announced two additional cameras to sit alongside the company's former lone flagship. You may have caught a glimpse of the EOS-1D C at the C300 launch, but what six months ago was a mere mock-up has actually become a reality, likely to ship sometime this year. More out of left field, however, is the C500 -- a higher-end version of the C300 that adds several shooting modes, dual 3G-SDI ports and a larger, permanent grip. Both cameras can capture 4K video, but in substantially different ways.

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The $15,000 1D C, which has the same chassis and still shooting features of its less-abled cousin, the EOS-1D X, pipes 4096 x 2160 8-bit 4:2:2 video to a CF card at 24 fps. Unlike the X, however, the C swaps a headphone jack for the X's PC socket, that's usually used for hooking up strobes. The higher-end C500 requires a dedicated external recorder, but offers two full-RAW output options: 4096 x 2960, that will be better suited for motion picture capture, and 3840 x 2160 for 4K TV. Both of these modes offer 10-bit 4:4:4 at 60 frames-per-second. There's also a half-RAW option, at 4096 x 1080 or 3840 x 1080 resolutions, also 10-bit 4:4:4, but at 120 fps. The C500 also includes dual CF slots, but that recording option is only available for 1080p (which can be captured to CF concurrently). Both cameras support Canon Log Gamma, empowering colorists to correct color in post production with more versatility by capturing additional information and a higher dynamic range.

Gallery: Canon Cinema EOS-1D C and C500

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VERY Impressive Real-Life (Human) Disney Princesses

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:00:00 +0000

VERY Impressive Real-Life (Human) Disney Princesses:

This is a small series of photographs by Ryan Astemendi of Disney Princesses in real life. As amazing and accurate as they all are, I couldn't help but notice there was something missing. "Ariel?" Bingo.

Hit the jump for four more and a bonus Jessica Rabbit BECAUSE WHY THE F*** NOT?

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Thanks to britbrit, who puts all the Disney princesses to shame INCLUDING Ariel. Bold, I know, but I stand beside it.

How to Install Chrome OS on a Netbook

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:20:00 +0000

How to Install Chrome OS on a Netbook:
So I was rummaging through some junk I had in my garage the other day and I ran into my old beloved, but now completely useless, Asus 1000HE netbook! Wow, that segment vanished just as quickly as it appeared! Anyway, it’s still a decent little computer, so I didn’t want to give it away. It was running Windows XP, but I wanted to try something new.
Other articles I read online suggest installing Linux (Ubuntu, JoliCloud, etc), but I wanted to give Chrome OS a try since I had NEVER played around with that operating system. After a little bit of research and a few hiccups, I was able to get it installed and working! In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps (and troubleshooting) steps to get Chrome OS installed on your old netbook.
First things first, where do you go about getting a copy of Chrome OS? Well, it’s open source and free, so you can download the source code from here:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
Hmmm, download source code, install Linux, build Chrome OS, then install it! Wow, that’s not easy. Luckily, someone else has done that for us! The awesome dude(s) at hexxeh build each nightly build of Chrome OS for you and even have an installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux that installs it onto a USB stick and makes it bootable! Yippeee! Can’t get any easier than that.
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/index.php
First, go to the link above. You’ll see it says Vanilla. There are two types of Chrome OS downloads created by hexxeh: vanilla and lime. Vanilla is straight conversion of Chrome OS released by Google into a build.

Lime has a few extras that make it much more compatible with different hardware. Now that may sound nice, but I tried to install Lime first on my netbook and it basically got stuck on a blank screen when booting. I downloaded Vanilla and it worked just fine and it detected all my hardware (sound, wireless card, etc).

I suggest you download Vanilla first and give that a shot. If it doesn’t work, then you can try Lime. Or if it does work, you can try Lime too later on. It’s a fairly fast process and installing Chrome OS from the USB stick took literally 5 minutes. It’s not like installing Windows that can take hours at times.
Ok, so where do you download it? Scroll down the hexxeh page and you’ll see the builder applications:

Obviously, if you’re on a Mac, download the Mac builder application and if you’re on Windows, download the Windows one. I’m on a Mac, so you’ll see Mac screenshots, but it’s the same procedure on either OS. Run Chrome OS Image Creator and you’ll get this screen:

Here is where you choose the Lime or Vanilla version. It’s the last 3 days of each build. I just picked Vanilla and the latest version by date. Then click Next. You’ll be asked to select a USB stick to use, so plug that in now if you haven’t already. It should be greater than 4 GB.

Click Next and you’ll be asked whether you are sure you want to erase the memory stick.

Click Erase and the program will begin to download the version of Chrome OS you had chosen. After downloading, it will write it to the USB stick.

Finally, when it has completed, you will see the following message:

Click Finished and take out your memory stick. Now you have to go to your netbook and change the boot sequence so that the memory stick boots first before the hard drive. On my Asus, I had to have the usb stick connected before pressing F2 to get into the BIOS settings.

I went to Boot at the top and then selected Hard Disk Drives. Note that Hard Disk Drives won’t even appear unless you have connected your USB stick. Also, you should turn off your netbook, plug in the USB stick and then turn on the netbook and go into the BIOS settings. If you try to connect it while in the BIOS settings already, this option won’t show. Now you’ll be able to move up the USB stick in the boot priority.

Now exit and let your computer boot up. You should see the Chromium screen pop up on your netbook!

If you see this, you’re good to go now! You can now run and play around with Chrome OS on your previously useless netbook! On the next screen, you’ll be asked to choose the language, keyboard and a wireless network. Hopefully, depending on your netbook, it will show a list of wireless networks here, which means it can recognize your wireless card. If not, you’ll have to try the Lime version or a different build.

It’ll then check for updates and if nothing is found, will take you to the sign in screen. Here you need to enter your Google account email and password.

Lastly, choose your profile pic and then you’ll be brought to the Chrome OS desktop, which for me was some green grass.

Enjoy the new netbook with Chrome OS! If you had any trouble installing Chrome OS on your netbook, post a comment here with your specs and the problem and we’ll try to help! Enjoy!
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Android SDK updated, emulator now natively supports x86

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:48:00 +0000

Android SDK updated, emulator now natively supports x86:

Google updated its software development kit (SDK) to revision 17 today, bringing a few new features and plenty of bug fixes. While developers would do well to check the source link for the full changelog, what's most exciting here for Android enthusiasts is that x86 is now supported natively in the emulator on Windows and OS X. If you've ever used the Android emulator on a computer, you'll likely know well that it was painful to use — and very slow. Google says that the emulator now runs at "near native speed," thanks to contributions from Intel. The emulator now has "experimental" support for multitouch input from a tethered Android device as well, which should help developers test out their software more realistically on their...
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Blogger Adds Advanced Webmaster Features

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:45:00 +0000

Blogger Adds Advanced Webmaster Features: Blogger blogs are no longer that limited. After adding support for static pages and favicons, Blogger added some new advanced features to the "search preferences" section of the settings page.

Now you can edit the description meta tag without editing the template. If you edit the description meta tag for the entire blog, you can also write descriptions for your blog posts. This is useful because Google's snippets sometimes rely on this meta tag.

For the first time you can create a custom 404 error page for a Blogger blog without buying a domain. Just "enter an HTML message that will be displayed on the Page Not Found page instead of the generic message." Google has some tips for creating useful 404 pages and there's even a widget powered by Google search that shows related links and a search box with appropriate search suggestions.

You can also create custom redirects, but only for internal URLs. For example, you can redirect http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/mailto to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-mailto-links-using-gmail-in-google.html. Make sure that you leave out the first part of the URL (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com) when you create the redirect.

There are also options for customizing the robots.txt page and robots header tags. It's probably a good idea to use Blogger's robots.txt page as a template (http://yourblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt) and only add some new pages you want to be ignored by search engines.

Lady Gaga aos 19 aninhos

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:44:00 +0000

Lady Gaga aos 19 aninhos:

Por mais “estranha” que ela seja, eu sempre achei a Lady Gaga muito gostosa bonita, e depois de ver essas fotos continuo afirmando o mesmo.

Post roubado na caruda do: Chongas

Dog Memes IRL

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Dog Memes IRL:

Submitted by: adrian29

Posted at: 2012-03-01 15:38:22

See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/3068383

Download APKs from the Android Market with a Chrome extension

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Download APKs from the Android Market with a Chrome extension:

APK Downloader is a Chrome extension that does exactly what its name advertises -- download APKs from the Android Market site. Getting the tool up and running takes quite a bit more work than your average browser add-on, requiring you to edit the Chrome shortcut to disable SSL error warnings, but it's hardly rocket science. This should make sideloading apps much easier and give you a chance to try software yourself, even if a developer seems to think its app wont work with your device. There is, of course, room for abuse and it does violate the Market's ToS -- so try it at your own risk. If you're unfazed, hit up the source link for complete instructions.

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20+ Pieces of Superhero Mashup Art

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:03:00 +0000

20+ Pieces of Superhero Mashup Art:

Sure superhero fan art can be fun on its own, but you know what’s better? Non-superheroes suddenly transformed into amazing men and women of comic book lore. Sure they might not be as good at saving the world, but from an aesthetic perspective, they’re way more fun.

Futurama

Perhaps one of the most epic superhero mashup artworks around is this great Futurama X-Men Meld by DeviantArt user Gottabecarl. Can you identify all of the characters in this massive artwork? Be warned, you might have to head to his DeviantArt page just to be able to see them all in their full scale.

Muppets

If there was anyone Muppet that best matches Wolverine, DeviantArt user Rahzzah totally nailed it as Animal. That being said, I don’t know how well Beaker would serve as any superhero. He’s not exactly the bravest Muppet around. Personally, I think casting Miss Piggy as Phoenix seems like a much more natural choice.

Community Characters

When the jury was still out on whether or not Community would be renewed for another season, artist Aviv Or expressed his feelings on the matter by showing just how much he thought of the show’s characters. Personally, I adore the idea of Abed playing the role of Professor X.

The Smurfs and Archie

Ever wonder where Mystique got all those tiny skulls on her belt? Caanan Grall has the answer with this single frame that explains so much about her back story. While it might not be as informative, his take on Clark Kent taking over for Archie is certainly just as entertaining.

Ren & Stimpy

Have you ever wondered what Batman and Robin would be like if they were mixed with a grouchy Chihuahua and a obese house cat? DeviantArt user Stejam13 has your answer with this wonderful combination of the classic comic and the legendary Nicktoon, Ren & Stimpy.

Meowvel Vs Catcom

Marvel Vs. Capcom might be a great game, but there was definitely something missing. Fortunately, DeviantArt user Suzuran figured out what the missing element was –cats. Finally the game concept has been fully fleshed out.

Marvel Cats

Speaking of Marvel and cats, as it turns out, there are plenty of artists with the same idea of combining these two wonderful things. Ryan King imagined what would happen if kitty Electra got a hold of a scratching post.

Rose of Izzy’s Squiggles knows just what Spidercat would do with his amazing web-shooting abilities.

And Katie Cook knows why Spidercat (along with most super felines) would be terrible at rescuing people. All of these artists have other Marvel kitty mashups at their sites, so if you like their styles, don’t forget to click the links.

Ghost Rider Kitty

Matthew Warlick might not have multiple kitty hero mashups, but his feline Ghost Rider certainly stands on its own with its flaming skull and sweet leather jacket.

Charlie Brown

Who knew that the Peanuts gang could blend so seamlessly with the stars of Hellboy? Artist Francesco Francavilla certainly did, and that’s why his Hellbrown mashup seems so darn perfect.

Prince

I know I’m not the only one that could never accept Prince as a tough guy in Purple Rain. Of course, if you just switched him out with Batgirl like artist Cliff Chiang did, now you have a believable story line.

Mickey

When Disney took over Marvel, artist Alfredo Lopez Jr. immediately realized that this would become the natural progression of the comics. On the upside, Mickey has probably never looked so cool before.

Angry Birds

What happens when Angry Birds team up to take on the forces of darkness? Ryan of Dirty Splash Back can show you with his massive collection of images of the birds decked out in hero costumes. His blog has tons more superbirds, but I think it’s seriously lacking pigs in villain outfits.

Ralphie

You’d think that wearing a pink Galactus costume would at least be slightly less embarrassing than a giant pink bunny suit, but it seems poor Ralphie is just as miserable either way. Of course, maybe artist Andy J. Hunter has gotten to the real root of the problem in this picture –Ralphie doesn’t hate the costumes, he just hates pink.

Stormtroopers

If stormtroopers are evil and Venom is evil, then the two together must be evil squared, which means spidertrooper has a heck of a fight on his hands if he’s ever going to get out of this one. If you like this image, then don’t miss DeviantArt user JonBolerjack’s gallery where he has even more stormtrooper comic book mashups for your viewing pleasure.

Scott Pilgrim

Yes, Scott Pilgrim already was a comic book, but for all those who complain it is too “girly,” DeviantArt user Whoisrico has just the solution to make it a little more manly –mix it up with the X-Men.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

How do you make the Ninja Turtles even more awesome? Turn them into Marvel Characters, of course. And while the turtles themselves are cool, artist Dean Fraser’s take on Shredder turned into Magneto might just be the coolest mashup he’s done yet. Need another weird level to his work? How about the fact that all of these mashed up characters are done for his Springfield Punx blog, which means they’re done in the style of The Simpsons…as if The Simpsons wanted to include the Ninja Turtles, but wanted them to be Marvel characters as well. Is your mind blown yet?

Amy Pond

Delivering Kiss-O-Grams is a hard job, particularly when it involves traveling across the universe through time and space. Who knows though, maybe the job is a bit easier in the D.C. Universe as captured by artist Michael Magtanong.

Daria

Something tells me that apathetic Daria wouldn’t exactly make the best superhero. In fact, I wouldn’t want to put my life in the hands of any of these X-Men, no mater how well-drawn they are by artist SRA.

http://www.outpost-daria.com/art_sra.html

I’ll admit, there are way too many of these to fill one Neatorama article, so if you have some favorite superhero mashup art that wasn’t included here, please share a link to it. The more the better! Of course, you might have an idea for a mashup that hasn’t been done yet. If so, please share it in the comments, you never know, maybe someone else will see it and make your vision a reality.