{"id":16621,"date":"2012-08-17T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T22:53:33","slug":"roundup-week-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/08\/roundup-week-of-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Week of Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been an odd week. Team Fortress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/mvm\/\">Mann vs Machine<\/a> was released, and it&#8217;s quite fun if you can find a match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mann vs. Machine\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4cfo0f88Ug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/ybmmh\/we_are_engineers_and_scientists_on_the_mars\/\">The Engineering Team behind Curiosity did an AMA.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While simultaneously being smart, witty and awesome, these engineers went fairly in-depth about the Mars rover Curiosity, including what programming language they use, and what their favorite tool on the rover is. Hint, it&#8217;s a frikkin&#8217; laser. How awesome is that? Just go read it, because the other commentors also have a lot of good input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/08\/windows-8-store-will-reject-all-apps-with-word-metro-in-title\/\">Microsoft can&#8217;t quite figure out the &#8220;Metro&#8221; ordeal.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t use the word Metro, or you&#8217;ll get rejected,&#8221; has become &#8220;Don&#8217;t infringe on third party trademarks.&#8221; After Microsoft replaced the term &#8216;Metro&#8217; with &#8216;Windows 8 Interface,&#8217; there&#8217;s been all sorts of talk about why. I guess now we know that it&#8217;s because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/08\/microsoft-metro-out-windows-8-style-ui-in-amid-rumors-of-a-trademark-dispute\/\">supposed infringement<\/a>. I wish they&#8217;d have come up with a better replacement name, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2012-08\/17\/ebay-bans-spells\">eBay bans &#8216;intangible&#8217; items.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a quick second-hand curse, you&#8217;re out of luck. Online auction house eBay has banned intangible items such as spells, curses, advice, magic or anything else they consider to be &#8216;metaphysical.&#8217; The ban also includes &#8216;magic potions&#8217; and items like &#8216;magic rings,&#8217; which are tangible, but the true value is in the intangible properties. Groups have popped up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/petitions\/dont-ban-our-psychics-on-ebay.html\">protest<\/a> the ban, mainly because it appears that only the occult, pagan and witchcraft beliefs are being banned, while&nbsp;rosaries, crucifixes or religious medals are still allowed, despite their intangible properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/16\/3247092\/judge-to-apple-youre-smoking-crack\">Judge asks Apple&#8217;s lawyers if they&#8217;re &#8220;smoking crack.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Koh, who is presiding over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-08-16\/apple-may-owe-samsung-422-million-royalties-witnesses-say-1-.html\">Apple\/Samsung<\/a> <del>debacle<\/del> trial really wants to keep it on schedule. So much so that when presented with a list of an additional 22 rebuttal witnesses, she said to Apple laywer&nbsp;William Lee &#8220;unless you&#8217;re smoking crack you know these witnesses aren&#8217;t going to be called!&#8221; The discussion didn&#8217;t end there; during the tense meeting, with the jury absent, Judge Koh said that the time of the meeting would be deducted from their trial time because they were being unreasonable. I&#8217;m kind of glad there&#8217;s a level head in that courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pod2g-ios.blogspot.fr\/2012\/08\/never-trust-sms-ios-text-spoofing.html\">iOS susceptible to easily spoofed SMS.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple, who has never done anything wrong, seems to be close to ending that streak. An independent researcher has uncovered a flaw in iOS, which has remained in place through the current iOS 6 beta v4. The flaw is due to the message headers that SMS &#8211; or text &#8211; messages use. There is a spot for &#8220;origin&#8221; number and &#8220;reply-to&#8221; number. iOS only sees the reply-to number, which means you don&#8217;t know who actually sent the message. That means that <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/WE22d\">some hacker<\/a> could send a message to you, supposedly from a your girlfriend, and claim that they&#8217;re leaving you for Bill Murray. That&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/08\/private-justice-how-hollywood-money-put-a-brit-behind-bars\/\">Hollywood Lawyers put British man behind bars.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like a bad movie plot: Lawyers from Hollywood play the part of public prosecutors in Great Britain, use their own private surveillance as testimony, and manage to send the poor sap to jail. It&#8217;s not a movie, it&#8217;s what happened to&nbsp;Anton Vickerman, the 38 year old man who once ran surfthechannel.com. I&#8217;ll tease you with this quote, then send you on your way over to read it:<em> &#8220;FACT, not public officials in the UK, was the driving force behind Vickerman&#8217;s prosecution. Indeed, FACT effectively took on the role of a private law enforcement agency. Private investigators hired by FACT first identified Vickerman as the administrator of STC and built the case against him. His assets were frozen at FACT&#8217;s request by a government agency\u2014which was itself funded by FACT. And when the UK&#8217;s public prosecutors decided not to press charges against Vickerman at all, FACT initiated a criminal prosecution on its own dime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2012\/08\/hybrid-conversion\/\">Tennessee students create $3000 plug-in hybrid kit.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The dual-electric-motor setup gives a gain of between 50-100% in terms of fuel economy, and the kit can be adapted to &#8216;almost any car.&#8217; The battery will be the size of a carry-on bag, and fit in the trunk. Once the rear electric motors kick in, the front tires don&#8217;t have to do as much work, saving quite a bit in terms of fuel economy. Aimed at in-town commutes, the range is about 35-40 miles, and caps at 40mph before going all-gas. If you could pay just $3000 and pimp out an old Accord like this, would you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makr.io\/\">Diaspora goes full meme.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"741\" data-attachment-id=\"16624\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/08\/roundup-week-of-wonder\/makrio\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?fit=563%2C741&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"563,741\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"makrio\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?fit=563%2C741&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?resize=563%2C741&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16624\" title=\"makrio\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?w=563&amp;ssl=1 563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?resize=227%2C300&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?resize=300%2C394&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/makrio.png?resize=180%2C236&amp;ssl=1 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Diaspora, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/09\/diaspora-on-the-inside-its-like-google-without-the-google\/\">the competitor to Facebook that almost was<\/a>, has decided to take a page each from Pinterest and the Cheezburger network.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/makr.io\/\">https:\/\/makr.io\/<\/a>, the new site from Diaspora, allows users to upload images, add text and share. 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It&#8217;s best not to discover this at work, since you <em>do<\/em>&nbsp;have a job to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1670571\/will-twitters-new-rules-squash-upstart-ui-innovations\">Twitter revises API rules, screws developers.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter, voice of freedom overseas, has decided that it only wants apps to look like they want. They&#8217;ve revised their API, and have effectively killed startup developers by limiting new apps to 100,000 users. They&#8217;ve also stated that current apps over 100,000 users can grow to twice their current size, but no larger. 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