April 18, 2009
FCAT Special
My school recently got a D rating, mostly due to students scoring low on standardized testing because they fall asleep. Now it isn't the whole school conks out when pencil hits paper, but the principal still asked us (The TVProduction Class) to create a video motivating students to do well on the test. In turn we asked him how he looked in camo.
To produce this we spent four days shooting, a Cannon GL2 camera, a tripod, and occasionally an external mic (for safety). For the last bit we had a custom frame built by Wood Shop class and covered it in white banners. Nobody but our class, Wood Shop, and the administrators knew what would happen, in fact, we put out the word that these students should be sent to the main office if seen, and regarded as dangerous. We had to hide them all day! :D Enjoy!
April 03, 2009
Sometimes you just can't be mad at them...
I had the sad misfortune of ending up in a pop-up today; some stupid blog promoting getting rich by hosting links on Google or some equally redonkulous proposal. At first, I started to get mad, but then noticed something.
This joker says he's from Miami. All scams and cons say they're from Miami. What the hell? I never knew we had such ideal market conditions. Something's fishy. check out this source code:
In case you don't follow, what's happening here is Scott is looking at your IP and comparing it to a region. You see, the internet (yeah that big thing you're on) is arranged like a city. You're IP address can be equated to a real address and looks like this:
111:222:333:444
or
72:23:127:5
where four different numbers are separated by colons. You can think of the four numbers as State, City, Street House. What does this have to do with Miami? Read on.
The numbers can only be so long. Specifically, they can go from 001 to 255. All Zeroes aren't included because they'd look like a computer error (lost power). Why is there a limit? Because digital data is sent as binary numbers, which are counted in multiples of two. to express 0 or 1, you only need one character. With two characters, you can express the numbers zero through three (00 , 01 , 10 , 11 ) the value of each character is two times the value of the previous (1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , etc). This is what makes multiples of two so important in digital (why do flash cards and drives come in 8 MB, 16 MB, 64 MB, 128, 256, 512, etc.? Because those are multiples of two). 255 is the highest number that can be expressed with only 8 characters in binary (written 11111111). But what does binary have to do with Miami? Read on.
But wait, if the numbers only go up to 255, does that mean there can only be 255 states, 255 cities, 255 streets, and 255 houses? No. Because it's a counting system, each of the 255 states has 255 distinct cities, so the total number of internet connected machines can not exceed 255^4 (255 *255 *255 *255=2 562 890 625). Or can it? I'll discuss workarounds in a later post.
In order to maintain peace, IP addresses were sold to companies, and it's illegal to use one you haven't bought. But seriously dude, wtf does this have to do with Miami?
Each ISP buys portions of the Internet's IPs and then leases them to you. You tell your IP to every website you go to (so it knows where to send the page). The script above makes note of the IP, then runs it through a database, figuring out a general idea of where the reader is accessing the internet from, then uses that area in the text.
My only question is: Why would I give money to someone just because he's from my area? I don't know, but I can't even be mad at them because of their ingenious methods.
This joker says he's from Miami. All scams and cons say they're from Miami. What the hell? I never knew we had such ideal market conditions. Something's fishy. check out this source code:
Thank you for visiting my site. This is Scott Hunter. I grew
up in the <script src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js">
/script><script type="text/javascript">/script>, <script type="text/javascript">/script>
area. This is my story on how filling out one simple online form
changed my life. Basically I actually make around $5,500 to $7,000 a
month from Google. Not a ton of money. But, very solid and good. I was
able to replace my previous job’s income, working less than 10 hours a
week on my computer at home.
In case you don't follow, what's happening here is Scott is looking at your IP and comparing it to a region. You see, the internet (yeah that big thing you're on) is arranged like a city. You're IP address can be equated to a real address and looks like this:
111:222:333:444
or
72:23:127:5
where four different numbers are separated by colons. You can think of the four numbers as State, City, Street House. What does this have to do with Miami? Read on.
The numbers can only be so long. Specifically, they can go from 001 to 255. All Zeroes aren't included because they'd look like a computer error (lost power). Why is there a limit? Because digital data is sent as binary numbers, which are counted in multiples of two. to express 0 or 1, you only need one character. With two characters, you can express the numbers zero through three (00 , 01 , 10 , 11 ) the value of each character is two times the value of the previous (1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , etc). This is what makes multiples of two so important in digital (why do flash cards and drives come in 8 MB, 16 MB, 64 MB, 128, 256, 512, etc.? Because those are multiples of two). 255 is the highest number that can be expressed with only 8 characters in binary (written 11111111). But what does binary have to do with Miami? Read on.
But wait, if the numbers only go up to 255, does that mean there can only be 255 states, 255 cities, 255 streets, and 255 houses? No. Because it's a counting system, each of the 255 states has 255 distinct cities, so the total number of internet connected machines can not exceed 255^4 (255 *255 *255 *255=2 562 890 625). Or can it? I'll discuss workarounds in a later post.
In order to maintain peace, IP addresses were sold to companies, and it's illegal to use one you haven't bought. But seriously dude, wtf does this have to do with Miami?
Each ISP buys portions of the Internet's IPs and then leases them to you. You tell your IP to every website you go to (so it knows where to send the page). The script above makes note of the IP, then runs it through a database, figuring out a general idea of where the reader is accessing the internet from, then uses that area in the text.
My only question is: Why would I give money to someone just because he's from my area? I don't know, but I can't even be mad at them because of their ingenious methods.
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