DEFCON 16

I've been waiting to go to defcon since my freshmen year of high school but never got the chance to go. Hell, i even remember asking my parents if i could take a bus out there when i was 16. Well finally now i have the chance and i get to stay at a friends baller timeshare. Sweet.


Oh, btw, i'm typing this on my eee pc. Way too cool.

New developments in CAPTCHA tech

http://alipr.com/captcha/

taken from slashdot.org

Researchers at Penn State have developed a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA technology for next-generation computer authentication. A user is asked to pass two tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite image, and (2) annotate an image using a word selected from a list. These images shown to the users have fake colors, textures, and edges, based on a sequence of randomly-generated parameters. Computer vision and recognition algorithms, such as alipr, rely on original colors, textures, and shapes in order to interpret the semantic content of an image. Because of the endowed power of imagination, even without the correct color, texture, and shape information, humans can still pass the tests with ease. Until computers can 'imagine' what is missing from an image, robotic programs will be unable to pass these tests. The system is called IMAGINATION and you can try it out." This sounds promising given how broken current CAPTCHA technology is.

Happiness is

-ASUS Eee PC 4G Surf - Galaxy Black Intel processor 7

-Transcend 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Mode

-A-DATA Turbo 8GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SD/SDHC)

I've never felt so compelled to click the overnight shipping option as i did a few moments ago. The only thing keeping me from doing so was the fact that i have my last calc test coming up, and i want to spend my time reading myself for in instead of playing with my new toy.

Master plan includes the following: 1) create awesome web site, 2)use new lappy to code awesome web 2.0 applications, 3) make millions by selling personal information to private companies.

I'm also trying to find an awesome decal to put on the cover all the while trying to not look like a high school kid decorating his new trapper keeper. I'm between trying to find TIG images off of hacked.net, hackaday.com and pauldotcom.com.

I'll post pictures after assembly.