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WoW Moviewatch: Castlevania: Wisps of Dracula

2010-03-10T07:34:54Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
If you make it about half way through this and you're not laughing your ass off, you must never have waded through the awful morass that is fanfic. You're clearly a better person than I.

Your appreciation for Castlevania: Wisps of Dracula by Noblejazan will vary depending on your knowledge and experience with poorly written fan-fiction. The author took an "original story" written by a fan of the game Castlevania, and put it into machinima. Mind you, Noblejazan used an actual fanfiction. The resulting video is somewhere between a hyperspeed parody and a weeping nod to the phenomenon of fanfic.

Is an observer needed?

2010-03-10T02:02:00Z

kw: science, quantum theory

After writing yesterday's review of The Age of Entanglement, I continued thinking about the issues raised by entanglement and the "observer problem" that is at the root of the disagreements over the philosophy of quantum theory.

One of the thought experiments that probes the issue is Schrodinger's Cat. A live cat is placed in a box that contains a tiny bit of radioactive material, a detector, and some means of the detector triggering the release of poison gas when the detector detects a radioactive decay. The amount of radioactive material and the placement of the detector are designed such that there is a 50% chance the device will trigger within one hour.

When the box is opened after one hour, is the cat alive or dead? Just before you open the box, in what state is the cat? According to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, the cat is in a superposition of states, both dead and alive. Opening the box to observe the cat "collapses the wavefunction" (is there meaning in those three words?) and produces either a dead cat or a living cat, out of an ambiguous state.

Then there is an extension of the matter, the "Wigner's friend" version: Wigner steps out of the lab, and while he is gone, his friend performs the experiment. Well after the hour has passed, Wigner returns, to be told the result by his friend. Now we are one step removed. Before Wigner returns, is his friend in an ambiguous state, a mixture of happy over a live cat and sad over a dead one? Does some wavefunction collapse when Wigner returns?

I always ask, "How about the cat? Is it an observer?" I guess the answer is, "Not to a physicist." But to me, the detector is an observer! It observes the radioactive decay (or not) and takes action accordingly. You could replace it with a piece of sensitive film, and develop the film. There will be a spot, or there will not be a spot. Does the spot exist before the film is developed? When does the wavefunction collapse? Whatever that might mean, I say it collapses when the particle's motion is diverted or stopped.

Consider interference, whether carried out with light (photons) or electrons, or even with viruses (this has been done!). Let's use electrons. A beam of electrons passes trough one very small hole, which leaves a coherent, spreading beam. This then strikes a plate that contains two holes or slits. A photographic film placed a suitable distance beyond the two slits is exposed for a while, enough time for many thousands of electrons to strike it. Then it is removed and developed. The banded pattern that shows up on the developed film indicates interference, that the electrons behaved as waves when passing through the slits.

It is easy to figure out how to lower the current in the electron beam such that the electrons arrive one at a time; indeed, such that there is never more than one electron anywhere in the whole beam, from emitter to film, at any particular time. It takes a long time to gather thousands of "hits" on the film, but what do we see when the film is developed? We see the same banded pattern. This has been done. It seems to prove that each electron somehow goes through both slits and interferes with itself! Yet the banded pattern is made up of many tiny dots, each indicating where an electron struck the film. They just didn't strike the film in the "low" bands, and they did strike in great numbers in the "high" bands.

Where is the observer in this? Is it the person who develops the film? Is it the film itself? Crucially for this setup, if no film is put into the path of the beam, do the electrons still pass through space as a fan of narrow beams that would produce a banded pattern if film were ever put into place? I say they do, but some interpreters of quantum theory say that there is no pattern unless something is there to record it. And that shows just how crazy this all can get.

Actually, there are a few things that are already "observing" the electrons! The first hole, that spreads the beam and makes it coherent, has "observed" the positions of electrons and selected only certain ones in a narrow range of positions. This, by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, deflects them, though they have not, it seems, "touched" the edges of the hole. In actuality, they must have done so, their wave nature "feeling" the size of the hole so they'll "know" just how much to spread out! Sorry for the anthropomorphism here, but it is by far the briefest way to describe what is going on.

Then there are the two holes or two slits that turn a portion of the beam into two beams that can interfere with one another. They also "observe" electrons, and select certain ones which are in the "right" range of positions to pass onward.

This leads to my conclusion: anything that disturbs a particle's motion can be considered an observer. The universe was ticking along quite nicely for a long, long time before there were brainy macroanimals about who could think they were somehow privileged to be "the observers".

And one more consequence of the Uncertainty Principle: no particle is ever at rest. When a barrier "stops" a particle, that particle is either destroyed or it takes up a different kind of motion within the material of the barrier. Typically, bosons such as photons, if they are not reflected or refracted, are destroyed and turn into phonons (heat), while fermions such as electrons or protons "join" the material of the barrier, where they either travel through the bulk thereof or become bound in some way and take up vibratory motion that accords with the temperature of the material (they also release some of their kinetic energy as phonons). Even at "absolute zero" (0K), a little jitter remains, having the value of Planck's Constant divided by two pi. So I conclude that a particle has no existence unless it is in motion. Perhaps a "particle" is simply kinetic energy objectified.

Typography Joke

2010-03-08T23:00:32Z

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Spectrum Analyzer showcases HTML5 Audio's potential

2010-03-09T22:00:00Z

Filed under: Audio, web 2.0

You know those IQ test questions, "An apple is to an orange as a ________ is to a wall"? Well, HTML5 is to HTML4 as a photon torpedo is to a snowball hurled by a sleepy five-year old. Or something. If that sounds jumbled, it's just because HTML5 is challenging my notion of what HTML even is and that's making me very confused.

The HTML5 Audio Data API is just one example of what can be done with HTML5. It's an audio visualization, done completely in HTML5. It's so bleeding-edge I wasn't even able to view it properly -- you need patched versions of Firefox 3.7 alpha for it to render. I did watch the Youtube video (after the break), and once you get past the mind-numbing music and realize you're not watching Flash, it's actually kind of cool.

I just hope that when HTML5 finally catches on I'll be able to figure it out well enough to stay relevant. Feeling old here!

[Via: Ajaxian]

Spectrum Analyzer showcases HTML5 Audio's potential originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown

2010-03-09T21:08:37Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
I didn't note this when it hit, and it's obviously going to continue to be a big deal, so read on if you didn't know.

Apple suing HTC over 20-odd patents before both the US District Court and the International Trade Commission has certainly caused some chaos this morning, but we thought we'd take a quick breath now that we have the complaints and tease out exactly what patents are at stake here. Of note, most of the patents were granted in the past year, but overall they span a range from 1995 to February 2. Yes, last month. That's a pretty big gap, and most of the patents are pretty dry and technical -- and none of them cover anything like pinch-to-zoom. In fact, you might remember #7,479,949, "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics" -- we blew apart the myth that it was Apple's "multitouch patent" back when Cupertino was making noise about Palm. It's impossible for us to say exactly how this case is going to play out -- just like the Apple / Nokia lawsuit, it could settle tomorrow, or it could last for 10 years -- but what we do know is that Apple's going after Android as much as it's going after HTC. Some of these patents are from 15 years ago and cover OS-level behavior, so it's hard to see how they can relate only to HTC's implementation of Android and not Google's OS as a whole. Yeah, it's wild, and while we're not going to blow out all 20 patents to sort out what they mean -- not yet, anyway -- we can certainly walk through the claims. Let's see what we've got.

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Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tron Legacy Trailer - Trailer Addict

2010-03-09T20:15:33Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
It's always nice to see BB get work, and there's something about me that gets sentimental when I see recognizers and light cycles.

Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe

Polyamory Is Wrong!

2010-03-08T18:00:40Z

Exclusive: Abraham Lincoln Responds To ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ News

2010-03-09T15:24:40Z

Earlier this week, we reported that Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov had signed on to produce a film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s recently released book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The news of the plans for a Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunters movie was not all that surprising, considering the popularity of Grahame-Smith’s Jane Austen zombie mash-up Pride [...]

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

2010-03-09T14:56:47Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
This smells like an impractical approach in the wild. You need physical access, at which point you should just use simpler methods like keylogging or other existing tools. Plus the timing would be crazy.

Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by tweaking a device's power supply. By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password. With a small cluster of 81 Pentium 4 chips and 104 hours of processing time, they were able to successfully hack 1024-bit encryption in OpenSSL on a SPARC-based system, without damaging the computer, leaving a single trace or ending human life as we know it. That's why they're presenting a paper at the Design, Automation and Test conference this week in Europe, and that's why -- until RSA hopefully fixes the flaw -- you should keep a close eye on your server room's power supply.

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gay Prostitution Scandal Hits Vatican

2010-03-04T19:34:00Z

I can't fucking wait to hear how Ill Papa tries to wriggle out of THIS one!

"Put on some music, swallow a Viagra, and adelante!" That's the headline in Europe today following reports that a papal aide used an intermediary in an elite Vatican choir to solicit young male choristers and seminarians for prostitution. Police wiretaps are expected to result in charges against Angelo Balducci, 63, a Papal Gentleman, as lay attendant are called, and the former chairman of the Holy See's Public Works Department, which is itself caught up in a corruption investigation. According to police, Balducci regularly contacted Chinedu Ehiem Thomas, a Nigerian man who sings in St. Peter's Cappella Giulia, to engage the sexual services of young male members of the choir, along with seminarians and undocumented immigrants seeking residency status. The Cappella Giulia is the official choir of the St. Peter's Basilica and performs at many solemn Vatican functions not involving the pope, who is accompanied by the Sistine Chapel choir. Ehiem, 40, who goes by the nickname Mike, and his assistant Lorenzo Renzi, 33, allegedly arranged for prostitutes for Balducci several times a week. The two men are said to have operated a network of aspiring young priests, choir members and sometimes recruited foreigners seeking to secure their immigration status.

Go to Gay News Watch for a few transcriptions of the wiretaps. "You'll get up to 2,000 euros ... Do not touch his balls. You need the money."

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Zombies and Vampires and Literature, Oh My: Seth Grahame-Smith at the Brattle

2010-03-07T17:00:00Z

An Evening with Seth Grahame-Smith
Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Monday, March 8
6 to 8 pm
$5 tickets from the Harvard Coop

Much as Somerville is the birthplace of the Monster Mash, Seth Grahame-Smith is the pioneer of the Monster Movement in literature. Though the idea of blending monsters and literary classics was first conceived by Jason Rekulak of Quirk Books, Rekulak chose Grahame-Smith to pen the wildly popular Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This is the book that causes you to do a double-take on the T when you see a seemingly demure Austenesque book cover gone horribly dead flesh. The text relates how the Bennet sisters train for zombie combat in addition to courtship. The "mashup" of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice set the stage for other monstrous works: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is already out, and zombie sequel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls will come out at the end of March.

Zombie revolution aside, Grahame-Smith is actually at the Brattle to talk about his latest book: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. This psudeobiography paints Lincoln as a battler of the undead in addition to slavery. Not surprisingly, a movie version (by Tim Burton) is already in the works. Horror films inspiring books inspiring books inspiring films: what a delightfully disturbing progression.

Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs

2010-03-08T19:13:01Z

Shared by Dave
wow...their sample chart is pretty amazing

Last year, we released a public data search feature that enables people to quickly find useful statistics in search. More recently, we expanded this service to include information from the World Bank, such as population data for every region in the world. More and more public agencies, non-profits and other organizations are looking for ways to open up their data and expand global access to this kind of information. We want to help keep that momentum going, so today we're sharing a snapshot of some of the most popular public data search topics on Google. We're also launching the Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs.

Popular public data topics on Google
We know people want to be able to find reliable data and statistics on a variety of subjects. But what kind of statistics are they looking for most? To help us better prioritize which data sets to include in our public data search feature, we've analyzed anonymous search logs to find patterns in the kinds of searches people are doing, similar to the patterns you can find on Google Trends and Insights for Search. Some public data providers have asked us to share what we've learned, so we decided to put together an approximate list of the 80 most popular data and statistics search topics.

You can read the complete list at this link (PDF), but here's the top 20 to get you started:

1. School comparisons
2. Unemployment
3. Population
4. Sales tax
5. Salaries
6. Exchange rates
7. Crime statistics
8. Health statistics (health conditions)
9. Disaster statistics
10. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

11. Last names
12. Poverty
13. Oil price
14. Minimum wage
15. Consumer price index, inflation
16. Mortality
17. Cost of living
18. Election results
19. First names
20. Accidents, traffic violations

You'll notice some interesting entries in the list. For example, we were surprised by how many people search for data about popular first and last names. Perhaps people are trying to decide what to name a new baby boy or girl? As it turns out, people are interested in a wide range of statistical information.

To build the list, we looked at the aggregation of billions of queries people typed into Google search, using data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google Trends and internal data tools — similar to what we do for our annual Zeitgeist. We combined search terms into groups, filtering out spam and repeats, to prepare a list reflecting the most popular public data topics. As a statistician, it's important for me to note that the data only covers one week's worth of searches in the U.S., so there could be seasonal and other confounding factors (perhaps there was an election that week). In addition, preparing a study like this requires a fair amount of manual grouping of similar queries into topics, which is fairly subjective and prone to human error. While imperfect, we still think the list is helpful to consider.

The Public Data Explorer
As you can see, people are interested in a wide variety of data and statistics, but this information is only useful if it's easy to access, understand and communicate. That's why today we're also releasing the Google Public Data Explorer in Labs, a new experimental product designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. With the Data Explorer, you can mash up data using line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts. The visualizations are dynamic, so you can watch them move over time, change topics, highlight different entries and change the scale. Once you have a chart ready, you can easily share it with friends or even embed it on your own website or blog. We've embedded the following chart using the new feature as an example:

This chart compares life expectancy and the number of births per woman over the last 47 years for most economies of the world. The bubble sizes show population, and colors represent different geographic regions. Press the play button to see the dramatic changes over time. Click "explore data" to dig deeper.

Animated charts can bring data to life. Click the play button in the chart to watch life expectancy increase while fertility rates fall around the world. The bubble colors make it quick and easy to see clusters of countries along these variables (e.g., in 1960 the European and Central Asian countries were in the lower right and Sub-Saharan Africa in the upper left). The bubble sizes help you follow the most populous countries, such as India and China. These charts are based on the Trendalyzer technology we acquired from the Gapminder Foundation, which we've previously made available in the Motion Chart in Google Spreadsheets and the Visualization API.

With a handful of data providers, there are already billions of possible charts to explore. We currently provide data from the same three providers currently available in our search feature: the World Bank, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, we've added five new data providers: the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the California Department of Education, Eurostat, the U.S. Center for Disease Control, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. We're excited that all around the world new data providers are deciding to make their information freely available on the Internet, enabling innovators to create interesting applications, mash up the data in new ways and discover profound meaning behind the numbers.

We hope our list and new tool help demonstrate both the public demand for more data and the potential for new applications to enlighten it. We want to hear from you, so please share your feedback in our discussion forum. If you're a data provider interested in becoming a part of the Public Data Explorer, contact us.

Posted by Jürgen Schwärzler, Statistician, Public Data team

Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin's Creed 2 unplayable

2010-03-08T17:29:33Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
DRM fail... talk to the guys who bought those DIVX players from Circuit City in the 90s how well that works out for you.

Earlier today, our tips inbox and the official Assassin's Creed 2 forum were set ablaze by incensed owners of the PC version of the aforementioned Italian revenge epic. According to numerous reports from prospective players of the game, Ubisoft's DRM authentification servers have crashed, forcing some players to suffer lengthy login periods when booting up Assassin's Creed 2, and locking some folks out of the game entirely.

A Ubisoft representative responded to a particularly rage-filled forum thread, stating "clearly the extended downtime and lengthy login issues are unacceptable, particularly as I've been told these servers are constantly monitored." The representative added "I'll do what I can to get more information on what the issue is here first thing tomorrow and push for a resolution and assurance this won't happen in the future." We've got a really great suggestion for how to make such an assurance: Find a less abominable DRM policy.

[Thanks, Marc!]

Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin's Creed 2 unplayable originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to Teach Yourself Programming

2010-03-08T05:00:05Z

Seriously, why is everyone in such a rush?

Internet access 'a human right'

2010-03-08T08:52:59Z

Almost four in five people worldwide see internet access as a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

Do Some People Confuse Public and Private Buzz Messages?

2010-03-08T14:33:28Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
That last one kills me. Yeah, Facebook users will have a harsh learning curve.

Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don’t know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail’s Buzz search sounded a bit odd. One of the conversation, for instance, was by a person who only follows one person and only has one follower. Then again, how would this misunderstanding come about, if that’s the case, as Buzz says “Public on the web” next to the Post button, and doesn’t offer a field to address only a single person? Gmail puts private emails and public buzz messages in one app, one click away in the interface... is that enough to trigger misunderstandings? I’ve obfuscated some parts in these screenshots.

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Mamiya announces DM40 medium format camera

2010-03-08T14:21:45Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
So, before compression, that's 80MB per image. Yikes.

Mamiya has announced the price and availability of its new DM40 medium format camera and a digital back of the same name. Priced at $21,990 for the camera and 80mm f/2.8 lens D series lens, and $19,990 for the digital back, they will start shipping from this month onwards. The camera incorporates a 40MP, 44 x 33 mm sensor and features true 16 bit/channel RAW capture, an ISO range of 80-800 and can capture images at 0.8 seconds per frame.

Variable Speed for YouTube Videos

2010-03-08T13:16:31Z

If you’ve opted in to YouTube’s HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser’s player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago.

YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable browser with the h.264 video codec (i.e. Chrome but not Chromium, Safari v4+, or IE with Google Chrome Frame). Videos containing ads continue to use the Flash player.

YouTube has implemented a variable speed control for their HTML5 videos. Next to the play/pause button is a small arrow. When clicked, it opens up a panel containing a slider and two icons: a hare and a tortoise.

As you can probably guess, moving the slider towards the hare makes videos play faster, and moving the slider towards the tortoise makes them play slower.

The pitch of the sound is compensated, so that the audio doesn’t become squeaky at high-speed and deep at low-speed. However, the audio adjustment is not quite smooth enough for listening comfortably to accelerated speech, even at the minimum speed-up.

The “slow speed” feature works well for action replays. The “fast speed” feature is great for quickly finding the part of a move that you want to watch. But the audio processing needs to be just a little better before it will be practical to save time by watching long talks at an accelerated pace.

I used Safari 4.0.4 on OS/X Leopard to view the HTML5 videos and to take the screenshot, because Firefox on my Linux computer doesn’t have the h.264 codec.

[Thanks Qrczak!]

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The MMO Report: Thursday, March 4th - G4tv.com

2010-03-05T20:19:08Z

Shared by Aaron Sherman
I've loved this video blog about the MMO industry in the past. It's just the right mix of news and humor. But nothing I own can play this right now. my browser renders a gray square (tried disabling EVERYTHING in Firefox, but no player), my phone (Droid) does the same and the last time they uploaded a show to YouTube was November. Why does everyone have to roll their own video on the Web?! Can't we just use what already works?

What a week. Between the PS3 crash of March, 2010 and the drama between Activision and Infinity Ward, it's been a bit crazy around the office. But not crazy enough to dissuade Casey Schreiner from bringing his particular brand of awesome to the table. 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Den Fjerde Vaeg - Med Alle Vinkler i Samme Retning

2010-03-04T04:52:45Z

I have not heard much music, especially that which is rock-oriented, sung in Danish. It is really a beautiful language. The quartet Den Fjerde Vaeg (The Fourth Wall) sings exclusively in Danish and I suspect uses a lot of Danish music influences, both traditional and classical. The songs on their album titled Med Alle Vinkler i Samme Retning is epic and orchestral but its main strength is the powerful vocals of My Lambertsen. Some of the tracks like “Skyggespil” are a little too dramatic for my taste but overall this is a beautiful album.

The album is available in 320kbps Mp3 from the Filophoni netlabel.

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