Have I really not posted in two months? Wow. In case you're thinking that this blog is dead, you're wrong. From the very beginning I was dedicated NOT to try to follow a schedule, and instead post only when I felt like posting. And I haven't felt like posting. Much.
OK, I forgot. Sue me.
I've got Rocky Road ice cream melting int he kitchen. I'll post when I feel like it, OK?
Thanks again, internet.
Your friend,
scikidus
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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
TwitterRep Bookmarklet
In support of the Iranian people, I've decided to help distinguish between the trustable users on Twitter and the non-trustable users. I built a bookmarklet to aide in this process.
FindTheRats, this one's for you.
TwitterRep <-- drag to bookmark bar
This code looks at a user's follower count, following count, and update count and alerts back a number. No saying how reliable it is (won't work for users with more than a million of any of those values, BTW), but it seems to do a good enough job of picking apart the wheat from the chaff.
Example time!
Good users:
mousavi1388 -- 712174233
iran09 -- 681975
TehranBereau -- 371922
persiankiwi -- 82745541
StopAhmadi -- 8964349
Change_for_Iran -- 149722592
Bad users:
simonjake -- 19
tahria -- 27
giti456789 -- 1
Toby1776 -- 18
iranianlecturer -- 174
serv_ -- 3898
Karmuk -- 89
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As you can see, the users you should follow have TwitterReps several orders of magnitude larger than those you shouldn't follow.
And by the way, I've got a TwitterRep of 46. Stop laughing.
Note: Just because you have a low TwitterRep does NOT automatically mean that you are un-trustworthy, as my account is an example. Just follow th converse: you CAN trust the sources with TwitterReps over, say, 50000.
Oh, and for the curious: aplusk has the highest TwitterRep (calculated manually) of 105,292,837,174.
Sorry, this is wrong. Both TheEllenShow and CNNBRK have higher TwitterReps, CNNBRK winning with a TwitterRep of 638,462,456,808, over 6 TIMES aplusk.
Also for the curious: the calculation scheme I use is:
b = # of following
a = # of followers
u = # of updates
TwitterRep = log10(10+u)*a*(a+1)/(b+1);
FindTheRats, this one's for you.
TwitterRep <-- drag to bookmark bar
This code looks at a user's follower count, following count, and update count and alerts back a number. No saying how reliable it is (won't work for users with more than a million of any of those values, BTW), but it seems to do a good enough job of picking apart the wheat from the chaff.
Example time!
Good users:
mousavi1388 -- 712174233
iran09 -- 681975
TehranBereau -- 371922
persiankiwi -- 82745541
StopAhmadi -- 8964349
Change_for_Iran -- 149722592
Bad users:
simonjake -- 19
tahria -- 27
giti456789 -- 1
Toby1776 -- 18
iranianlecturer -- 174
serv_ -- 3898
Karmuk -- 89
----------
As you can see, the users you should follow have TwitterReps several orders of magnitude larger than those you shouldn't follow.
And by the way, I've got a TwitterRep of 46. Stop laughing.
Note: Just because you have a low TwitterRep does NOT automatically mean that you are un-trustworthy, as my account is an example. Just follow th converse: you CAN trust the sources with TwitterReps over, say, 50000.
Sorry, this is wrong. Both TheEllenShow and CNNBRK have higher TwitterReps, CNNBRK winning with a TwitterRep of 638,462,456,808, over 6 TIMES aplusk.
Also for the curious: the calculation scheme I use is:
b = # of following
a = # of followers
u = # of updates
TwitterRep = log10(10+u)*a*(a+1)/(b+1);
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Last bit on Internal Recording for a while, I swear
So I went ahead and put the tutorials up on Instructables. It should be easier now. (Note: the PC one still needs some work.)
Mac Version
PC Version
Mac Version
PC Version
Saturday, January 10, 2009
In other news
My "Days Left in the Bush Presidency" counter in my browser has switched to counting in hours, minutes, and seconds. Huzzah!
Also, /b/ had DDoS'd itself. The internet is better now.
Also, /b/ had DDoS'd itself. The internet is better now.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
How Copyright Should Work
1. Copyright, as it is currently understood, should be abolished.
2. An internationally-recognized organization is set up, named perhaps the International Copyright Bureau (ICB).
3. When an artist makes a piece of artwork/music/software/whatever, he/she can decide to apply a copyright to it. If he/she decides to apply a copyright, he/she sends a copy of the artwork (hi-quality photographs of 3d-artwork are fine) to the ICB, along wiht contact information and other important info (like a title, description, tags for easy location in a database, what information may be allowed to be made public, etc.)
4. Much like an ISBN number, the artist in return receives a ICB-copyright number. These numbers should encode within them certain information, such as what # copyright this artwork is, and the time and date the artwork was copyrighted. (Perhaps some kind of hash could be used?) Anyway, Wherever the artist publishes the artwork/music/software/whatever, they should include a copy of this ICB #.
5. The ICB's database could be placed online, allowing anyone to locate and submit copywrited works and get in contact with artists.
6. Here's the controversial part: the artist has no rights controlling non-commercial distribution of the artwork. If, however, commercial distribution takes place, it can easily and quickly be shown that the artwork is copyrights and has been copyrighted for a period of time. Furthermore, companies interested in using the artwork commercially could quickly find out where they should send royalties and obtain permission from.
7. The ICB could employ pattern-checking software on incoming work with similar tags to make sure that it's unique.
8. The ICB would settle all disputes over copyright claims, therefore acting as an international copyright court.
9. Artists can still make money off their work: think about all of those artists that make money even though they release their music for free online. (Examples: The Capitol Steps, any band on MySpace, etc.)
Well?
2. An internationally-recognized organization is set up, named perhaps the International Copyright Bureau (ICB).
3. When an artist makes a piece of artwork/music/software/whatever, he/she can decide to apply a copyright to it. If he/she decides to apply a copyright, he/she sends a copy of the artwork (hi-quality photographs of 3d-artwork are fine) to the ICB, along wiht contact information and other important info (like a title, description, tags for easy location in a database, what information may be allowed to be made public, etc.)
4. Much like an ISBN number, the artist in return receives a ICB-copyright number. These numbers should encode within them certain information, such as what # copyright this artwork is, and the time and date the artwork was copyrighted. (Perhaps some kind of hash could be used?) Anyway, Wherever the artist publishes the artwork/music/software/whatever, they should include a copy of this ICB #.
5. The ICB's database could be placed online, allowing anyone to locate and submit copywrited works and get in contact with artists.
6. Here's the controversial part: the artist has no rights controlling non-commercial distribution of the artwork. If, however, commercial distribution takes place, it can easily and quickly be shown that the artwork is copyrights and has been copyrighted for a period of time. Furthermore, companies interested in using the artwork commercially could quickly find out where they should send royalties and obtain permission from.
7. The ICB could employ pattern-checking software on incoming work with similar tags to make sure that it's unique.
8. The ICB would settle all disputes over copyright claims, therefore acting as an international copyright court.
9. Artists can still make money off their work: think about all of those artists that make money even though they release their music for free online. (Examples: The Capitol Steps, any band on MySpace, etc.)
Well?
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