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myspace.com

· · 🌡️ 82°F

Sorry we weren't able to find "paul visco" " on MySpace.com



Holy crap, I went on a little tour de myspace for the first time today - it kind of gives me that scummy feeling I get after hanging out at the pink.

Robert at work told me that Nick Battaglia, someone he knows, knew me. The name sounded familiar but I couldn't exactly remember who it was. So I searched their name online and ended up at ,which led me to myspace, which led me to see a hole bunch of people I know tangentially but did not know were interrelated. I realized through the connections that he was in fact the younger brother of someone I went to school with.

It all took me back to @chris

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Buffalo Rising

· · 🌡️ 34°F

What is going on with Buffalo Rising these days? I seems like it only gets slower and slower on my broadband connection. I hate the way it loads in chunks and takes so long. Sometimes it takes almost 30 seconds to load a single page. I am going to inspect it more today and see if I can figure out what is causing the delay.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph Google Kangaroo

· · 🌡️ 39°F

I think the google logo in reference to @theecarey #347 is in fact Jesus, Mary and Joseph as kangaroos. I think making it kangaroos makes it somehow removed from being a true manger scene but I think that is what it is. A pseudo manger scene.

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On another note, who knows more about the etheopian war with somalia. According to google news, ethiopia ( a christian nation) attacked Somalia (an islamic nation) with fighter jets. Where do you think ethiopia got fighter jets from? The last thing I remember about ethiopia is that they couldn't even feed their own people.

Buffalo Rising

· · 🌡️ 45°F

Has anyone els enoticed that Buffalo Rising has been offline since the storm @paul #4679 . I wonder what happend as I think their servers are housed out of town. A new version or a storm related disaster?

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Firefox Vulnerability

· · 🌡️ 58°F

I love how the news jumps on shit before confirming it.

Here is the story from Ars Technica

Firefox is loaded with security flaws, according to a hacker duo that presented at this year's ToorCon. Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi used a session at the show to highlight what they have called "a complete mess" that is "impossible to patch" in Firefox's JavaScript implementation. According to the pair, the implementation is home to at least 30 possible exploits, all of which they plan to keep to themselves. CNet's Joris Evers brought the story to light this past weekend, but reports are surfacing everywhere.



Here is the Mischa Spiegelmock's repsonse as posted on the mozilla developer network site.

Update: Possible Vulnerability Reported at Toorcon

We got a chance to talk to Mischa Spiegelmock, the Toorcon speaker that reported the potential javascript security issue referenced earlier. He gave us more code to work with and also made this statement and agreed to let me post it here:

The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous.

As part of our talk we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this, and I personally have not gotten it to result in code execution, nor do I know of anyone who has.

I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources, and I certainly haven't used it to take over anyone else's computer and execute arbitrary code.

I do not have 30 undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities, nor did I ever make this claim. I have no undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities. The person who was speaking with me made this claim, and I honestly have no idea if he has them or not.

I apologize to everyone involved, and I hope I have made everything as clear as possible.

Sincerely,

Mischa Spiegelmock


I am fascinated by ebay asbestos

· · 🌡️ 62°F

I am always looking up asbestos on ebay because I am so amazed that people sell the stuff still. Is it even legal?

This one is by far the weirdest. I can't imagine who would want it and why?

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The original box that contained Keene Corporation Thermasil Calcium Silicate and Asbestos Pipe Insulation from Keene Industrial Insulation, Trenton, New Jersey. The cardboard box is labeled as shown in the images. Images 7 and 8 show the item as it contain the pipe insulation. This item does not include the asbestos pipe insulation, just the box. The box will be shipped folded.

Warning: This material contains asbestos and asbestos exposure can cause asbestos-related illness. This item will be shipped wrapped in plastic.



Robot Eating Candid Frat Boys

· · 🌡️ 74°F

I like to make robots that do random tedious tasks for me. to It's a great way to feel in control of your life. Sometime they are really complicated to build because of the security and protections that people create to make Mr. Robot have a hard time eating his web food. This one was really easy to make. In fact I included to source code minus the gallery URL so that you can see how it works.

This journal includes random male nudity provided by the internet, so just stop now if you are someone or somewhere that should not be/does not want to be involved in that.

Someone left 217 galleries (11,379 images) of mobile phone/candid pictures of men at frat hazing, in speedos, drunk out of their minds, at the lockeroom, at the nude beach, mooning, showing off, playing sports, camping, in a sauna, at mardi gras, peeing on the street, at stag parties, in amsterdam, etc available for Mr. FratBot to eat.

It's almost what you would consider "guys gone wild." But frankly, more it's also kind of "guys gone normal" because it is a lot more "normal" for guys to do get crazy than girls.

I decided to include Mr. robots guts here in case it helps anyone else out getting started building their own robots. Of course robots do not need to only eat scandalous picture, you can try applying this to some ordinary web tasks as well.

I a removing the actual URL of the gallery to prevent them from getting hit too many times. If you really need it, you could always email me.

I can translate the code for you a bit into english. It says, "Don't worry - I am someone using Internet Explorer not a robot. I a just going to loop through your overly simplex file structure and eat every image that you site has. Mr. Robot eats.

Don't scroll past the code box if you don't want to see a sample of the robots collection.

[box]
<?php
echo "starting...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";

ini_set('max_execution_time',-1);

class eatFratBoys{
    public $baseUrl = 'http://OMMITTED_FOR_THEIR_SAKE';
    public $serial=0;
    public $begin_gallery=1;
    public $end_gallery=217;
    public $current_image;
    public $opts;
    public $context;
    public $debug =0;
    public $directory ="pics0";
    
    function __construct(){
        $this->serial = count(glob($this->directory."/*.jpg"));
        
        echo date('m/d/y h:i:s');
        $this->time_start = microtime(true);
        $this->opts = array(
            'http'=>array(
            'method'=>"GET",
            'header'=>"Accept-language: enrn" .
         "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)rn"
            )
        );
        $this->context = stream_context_create($this->opts);
    
        for($this->current_gallery=$this->begin_gallery;$this->current_gallery<=$this->end_gallery;$this->current_gallery++){
            echo $this->current_gallery;
            $this->eatImages();
        }

    }
    
    function eatImages(){
        
        for($this->current_image=1;$this->current_image<60;$this->current_image++){
        
            $pic = $this->baseUrl.'/'.$this->current_gallery.'/pic/'.sprintf("%02d", $this->current_image).'.jpg';
            
            if (($fp = fopen($pic, "r", false, $this->context))) {
                
                $meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
                if($this->debug==1){
                    print_r($meta);
                }
                
                if($meta['wrapper_data'][8] == "Content-Type: image/jpeg"){
                    $this->savePic($pic);
                }
            } else {
                echo "nError loading image:".$pic;
            }
                
        }
    
    }
    
    function savePic($pic){
        if(!is_dir($this->directory)){
            mkdir($this->directory);
        }
        file_put_contents($this->directory."/".$this->serial.".jpg", file_get_contents($pic));
        $report = "n".$this->current_gallery.",".$this->current_image;
        file_put_contents("report.txt", $report, FILE_APPEND);
        echo $report;
        $this->serial++;
    }
    
    function __destruct(){
        echo "nending...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";
        $total_time = (microtime(true)-$this->time_start);
        echo "nTook a total of ".$total_time.' seconds';
    }
}

$grabImages = new eatFratBoys();
?>
[/box]

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I'll add comentary for fun.

Who had the camera in this place whatever it is?
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Artistic Takes
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Of course there were hundreds of at the computer with web cam pics. I wonder if this guy even knew anyone was recording his web cam.
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Lots of farting on drunk guys heads. I am glad I never get this drunk, but @terry does and I have an idea for next time now, lol.
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Just when you think no one saw it.
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Random crowd pics.
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Random sporting feats.
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Of course lots and lots of mardi gras.
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Enough mooning pics to make a werewolf howl, lol. This one seems particularly and outrageously dangerous.
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What do you think the story behind this one is?
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Are they fighting or is it some frat initiation game.
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Fuck waiting in line.
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Now peeing in a line, thats another story. There are about 150 of those.
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Even sadam gets peed on.
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Is this what the pro lockeroom is like. I suppose those sportscaster ladies have it good.
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Isn't that a foul of some sort?
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What can this be about besides being drunk.
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Go team, there are so many of these that I wonder if it is normal.
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Lots of dorm room craziness
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And lots of showing boners hidden behind clothes.
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There were lots of automobile pics. I picked the silliest ones to share. But there were hundreds of just like random dude, proud of his car/body.

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And from the nascar collection

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Mac, making you hard, mile after mile, haha.
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I think this one is the funiest of all. They look so scary and mean but then together they look like stuffed animals. Does the bulldozer do something for soeone, because there were lots of men on bulldozer pics?
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You don't get to see any of the more hardcore ones, sorry.

youtube, blog media and buffalo blogs

· · 🌡️ 67°F

A sidenote: While @matthew and @terry went canooing today, I spent my whole day working on my thesis. I wrote a lot more the last couple of days. It should really be done within a week. I cannot wait to put this part of my life behind me so that I can go back to doing what I do best. Speaking of which did anyone visit and make a gallery

On another side note:
One thing I noticed when writing my thesis is that by the end of the summer we should have about 16,000 journal entries under our belt. Add 14,000 images and a multitude of other media formats.

Why do I keep finding references to wnymedia.net as buffalo only blogging community. I think it is fair to say we beat them to that by a long shot and that our network of journal writers are much more of a comprehensive community then they have.

"Marc Odien... wnymedia.net Dude is responsible for creating Buffalo Blogger Central... In a lot of ways, his is responsible for turning or should I say taking the whole Buffalo blogworld to new heights... "

So onto the main feature:
youtube
The youtube : slogan is "broadcast yourself." I think it is a great slogan for a great conecpot but what I am seeing less and less of is peoples personal broadcasting content. There seems to be a tremendous amount of copyrighted television shows and other copyrighted media. This is deifnaetly going to endanger the entire youtube site. Ironically they were just sued by Robert Tur the guy who filmed the Reginald Denny for having the copyrighted video on the site. Instead of asking the to take it down, he sued demanding $150,000 for each of the 1,000+ viewings that occurred. Youtube then took down the video. AL the blogs refering to it now have a big gaping hole.

I am curious what is going to happen to all the blogs that refer to youtube if it goes away. I never want to make my blog dependent on some outside media server. In fact that is why you cannot link in any external media data on your elmwoodstrip.org journal as I want to maintain its long term storability integrity of the data as a historical document.

One day when youtube away and it will be so tragic to watch as all the blogs that reference those videos becoming meaningless, like pulling the threads out of a quilt. Does no one else think about this? It is like putting all your eggs in one basket. Or worse yet, it goes really corporate, and even though you wrote an entry refereing to a one free video, they then make the readers pay to see it.

Part of the beauty of digital media culture is the fact that data gets replicated and protected through sheer multiplication factor. If everyone posts their video content to youtube and then youtibe goes away, will everything go away.

Mobile Pic Porn

· · 🌡️ 74°F

I knew it would finally come to this . I wish I had thought of it. There are men and woman, a little or big something for everyone.

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I want this so bad

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Slowly the whole internet went away

· · 🌡️ 71°F

I cannot get to any of the web. It slowly wittled away until there was nothing left. I have now had no internet for two hours which is really putting a cramp on the research I was doing on mobile video formats - argh.

I cannot restart my router because @terry is fucking playing warcraft.
Then I remembered that my fancy phone was also a modem that gets speeds of aroudn 300k/s and decided to use it with my laptop. Thank god for that. I am my own access point now, it is a real sense of frreedom that I can brig broadband with me. I still hate warcraft. It makes every evening sound like "Argh, swish, stab, blech, blech, blech, argh, kling, kilng smash" I would record it on my phone but it is busy being used as my internet connection.