Your ballot is encoded to your public key (all citizens have a public/private key pair?) and your private key is your newSSN, which is long enough that it actually provides secure encryption (unlike current 9-digit SSNs (perhaps your SSN is a hash for some longer number?))
And how cool it is that U of M ppl broke the released version so quickly and thouroughly, and how I wish I had been able to see that first hand.
NASA
This guy's blog and so many amazing articles on it.
How cool
http://news.ycombinator.com/news is and the fact that I only two days ago went through a huge list of reddit channels, customized my front page, and now surf it about as often as I check boingboing (and the fact that Google Reader is NOT an acceptable solution for my blog-surfing needs... and that I'll probably end up doing a large-scale data-gather on all options, then suffering with something mediocre until I suck it up and write my own)
My favorite reddits at the moment:
This excellent new(ish) gourmet organic resturaunt near where I live and how much I want to go there for dinner, since they've started serving dinner and cocktails.
http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/ I.e. what sysadmins want from a cloud server, why they want it, how well different providers provide it, and what providers will do in the future- and the "style" of the providers.
Why I haven't gotten around to ripping this DVD of Sweeney Todd to a local version which I can use even while I don't have this inconvenient disc in my laptop, asking what I want to do with it every time I return from hibernation and confusing my startup processes by being potentially but not actually bootable. (Answer: how do you do that on Ubuntu, anyway? It's not something I've ever needed to do before. Put a bootable .iso on something, yes; burn a local copy of media from something, no. I'll pick a pretty tool and use it soon, yes yes.)
http://goo.gl/ and how amazingly excellent it is and why have I not been using this and look at all of the cool things that it can do! Although I was failing a copy-paste from it when my computer took a BSOD moment just a few minutes ago, so that's not really the best way to start a relationship.
The fact that attempting to connect to
picasaweb.google.com while using Chrome and KB SSL Enforcer makes Picasa wibble and then give me a "no ssh available" error, and whether this is repeatable, and whether I have the patience to test it right now.
Also, (what I was trying to elucidate when I ran into the previous point)
How much space I have on Picasa, and how I'm thrashing my upload and need faster internet.
Space I have in Picasa: 81 GB In use: 14 GB (17.29%)
All of that 14GB is pictures, poster drafts, screenshots... mostly pictures. From the last 4 years. Mostly tagged, although not well-tagged.
My current upload speed: ...not sure, but probably less than 3Mb. This is not a recipe for success.
My irrational fear that ThoughtWorks will for some reason decide that I'm not worth hiring after all and try to break my contract- which, considering that I'm an easygoing kid with no real clout in the world, they could probably do pretty easily. Like, I said, irrational. It would be incredibly bad business sense, for one thing. But still, I do sometimes worry- especially when I fail at something technical or when I start digging into whitehat exploits. Because, yanno, anything whitehat could be blackhat with a flip of an intention.
How cool the revamp of
http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-resurrected-by-secret-dev-team-101108/ is and whether I should try to install it on my W7 just to see what it's like. I did use LimeWire when I was a freshman, and probably while I was a sophomore, but I've lost all of my music and I live basically off of Pandora with a small local stash of celtic rock for when I have no network connection. I don't have any motivation to improve my torrenting situation. -shrug- The vast majority of the music I listen to is impossible to torrent because there are no peers for it. Maybe I should start uploading it, but I'm too lazy to do illegal things without a strong idealogical motivation.
The above leads to: BearShare, the RIAA paid torrenting site. Wait wtf rly? Yes, rly.
http://www.bearshare.com/ I guess if you don't care what you listen to, it's okay. There is some stuff on there which fits my picky sensibilities, but srsly... "
over 15 million songs & videos" ...that's like bragging that your... er. The analogy I want to make here is forbidden by good taste. Anyway. Only the ignorant think that 15mil is a high number in this context.
Always always always choose the "Custom Install" option. You never know what strange toolbar crap will be in there.
My cussing habits and the fact that I should switch back to using something mild like "dammit" or "bloody hell" before I end up sitting next to people who think that saying "GEE-sus onna stick" is inappropriate when I'm caught up in my own thoughts and something startles me out of them.
