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June, 2007

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Cease and Desist

Cease and Desist
I think I’m one of the few individuals who doesn’t straight up hate spam. Sure, getting spam emails is mostly annoying, but I’ve decided that I’d have a little bit of fun with ‘em. For instance, I have a cease and desist letter I wrote up that I send to spam [...]

Modern Scientists

Modern Scientists
As I mentioned a little bit earlier there are some great things that modern scientists and researches have accomplished. Overall, however, I’m not too impressed with our scientists. My reasoning for not being impressed is how easy it is these days to make observations, predictions, and discoveries. These days, if you [...]

Quickly Learning Disappointment in the Human Race

Quick Learning
I’ve always considered myself to be a quick learner. When presented with a new task of some sort I almost never look into it beforehand. I find it exceedingly rare that when I start attempting something I’ll be unable to finish it. Whether it be setting up an application, performing [...]

Social Networking

Social Networking
There are definitely a ton of social networking sites out there, I need not list them off. However, I think they are entirely misguided and almost entirely useless. MySpace was originally intended for California Partying. Facebook was originally intended for College kids. This extends to both standard dating style pages [...]

How HD DVD Keys Work

How HD DVD Keys Work
AACS contains several parts that have different roles. Some of those have been permanently broken while others have been temporarily “opened”. Calling AACS dead or not dead has no meaning.
The functions of AACS could be divided this way:

Copy protection
Modification/Decryption protection
Renewability and revocation

Copy Protection
If you can copy a disc and [...]

Security Through Absurdity