Like a lot of you I’ve been playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution lately, and I couldn’t help thinking about whether or not I’d opt to get augmented. There are quite a few different ways characters are augmented in the game, many much more subtle than the half-machine protagonist. The thought of consciously choosing to replace a limb with a cybernetic seems crazy, but a number of characters seem to have chosen to do just that. Of course, it might be difficult to see an arm as “perfectly good”, when you can buy one that is “perfectly better”.

One of the most interesting concepts in the game though isn’t the arms, legs, and eyes- its the brain implants. At one point you might end up talking to a girl who has bought a chip to help her with analysis, so she can compete with other augmented brokers. This idea is much more scary than the thought of simply getting high-powered arms. The thought that “regular” humans might no longer be able to compete in business and education is not something touched on often in sci-fi. It takes the “bump” that an Ivy League education, or being president of an organization in college gives you and magnifies it. Imagine writing a resume where you list augments rather than skills! “I possess a Mitsubishi Advanced Calculations Unit, an Intel Statistical Analysis Engine, and an ARM Writing/Speaking Package”.

The game portrays augmentation at a stage of evolution where there is no question that augmented individuals are “better” than their normal counterparts. An interesting view though would have been to watch the debate as augmentations were right at the threshold of pushing that boundary. At what point did an ADD correcting chip give a student an unfair advantage, or an arm replacement give a person the ability to start punching through walls? The game’s narrative involves this debate, but far enough in the future that the issue is very black and white.

I for one hope this particular part of the future holds off longer than 2027. I doubt I’d opt to get a new limb or four, but an implanted chip could be crucial to compete. What about you? Would you choose to become less than 100% human to get a boost in one area or another?

The Kogan blog explains in simple terms why the high-priced HDMI cables are a rip-off, and I’ll repeat it here: HDMI signals are digital. That means it’s an all-or-nothing affair; unlike composite video and S-video, if you get any signal at all over HDMI, then you have all there is. There’s no such thing as “HMDI signal quality” because if the TV can detect the signal, then it can act on the signal, and there’s no noise (seen as “snow” and distortion on video, and heard as “hiss,” “hum,” and distortion in audio) like there is on an analog cable.

I’ll go so far as to say that anyone who tries to sell you a “premium quality” HDMI cable is trying to steal from you because he thinks you’re too stupid to know you’re being robbed.

Now The Inquirer has reported that Kogan has challenged a couple of large UK retailers to demonstrate a difference in cables in side-by-side “A/B” comparisons. Naturally, the retailers (who make as much as a 1000% markup on the cables) have declined.

Personally, I get my HDMI cables from Amazon. Shop carefully; I paid 99 cents for two cables, and got free shipping.

So, what to do? Build your own! The Chrome OS has a very small hardware resource requirement, which I have proven by installing it on an ancient Dell Latitude CSx. This little machine has no optical (CD/DVD) drive at all, a 500MHz CPU, and only 256 megs of RAM. It has no built-in wireless, not even an Ethernet port, so I am using PCMCIA cards for that. I replaced the hard drive with a CompactFlash adapter and a 16GB CF card from Amazon, and there’s still plenty of room. It won’t boot from USB, so I actually installed the OS on another, newer Dell laptop and moved my home-made SSD into the antique. It works!

Now, I’m not going to be watching live video due to the hardware limits imposed by chipping my own Chromebook out of granite (I think the frame rate is around 6fps on YouTube) but it proves that Chrome does meet my needs, so I can graduate to better hardware when the mood (and my budget)  takes me.

So, how would you make your own? Start by prowling the local pawn shops and find a reasonably-capable laptop or netbook. Be sure to check prices online before paying for it, most pawn dealers have a rather vague notion of the current value of a computer. Make the pawn dealer demo it for you, checking that the optical drive (if any) works, and that the wireless and Ethernet ports are functional (again, if any). Make very sure it can boot from the optical drive or USB! Look for cracks or blemishes on the case, and worn keytops; you can use those to bring the price down if you like to haggle.

If the machine you picked doesn’t have Ethernet, or Wi-fi, or 3G (most won’t have 3G), you’ll need to get appropriate card(s) for that. It’s best to get the 3G card from your cell provider anyway. I didn’t bother to get one, because I have no intention of paying for a data plan. If there’s no Ethernet and no wi-fi where ever I go, there’s nothing I need to see on the Web right then.

Once you find suitable hardware, you’ll need to download either Chrome OS (the “official” Chrome) or Chromium OS (a linux-based community-supported derivitive). Follow the directions on the download page to create a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive. By the way, I went with Chrome OS on my little antique, but I have made a bootable SDcard with Chromium on it and run it on newer hardware; it’s a lot prettier but still contains the same heart. Be sure to poke around on the Web page so that you know what the default username and password are!

Boot your pawn-shop-rescue laptop from the disk or USB drive you just made. If all goes well, you’ll be looking at the Chrome/Chromium desktop in a minute or so. Play with it a little. When you’ve decided you want to install it (it will boot faster that way), follow the directions here for Chrome OS or here for Chromium OS.  After you install and reboot, you can log in using your Google account (usually somename@gmail.com but in the UK and parts of Europe it might be somename@googlemail.com or somename@google.com).

Yes, it really is that easy! And if you are good haggler, you might have gotten that laptop for as little as $150, or even less! Mine cost $60 but it is admittedly pretty old.

Oh, about that home-made SSD; you’ll need to know first if your laptop has an IDE (aka “ATA”) hard drive, or a SATA hard drive. See pics below.  There’s a DIY SSD guide here. After you check that out, go to Amazon.com and search for “CF to sata adapter” or “CF to IDE adapter” and you should be able to find the adapter for under ten bucks. If your laptop is IDE, be sure to get the 44-pin adapter; the 40-pin jobs are for desktop systems and won’t fit. You can use any fairly recent CF card with at least 2 GB capacity. I found that the Kodak card I have won’t work, it can’t be made bootable, but all of my SanDisks work. Oh, and generally you’ll want to avoid the two-card adapters; they won’t fit into some of the modern narrow drive bays, because they are too thick. Once you assemble to card to the adapter, make sure it’s insulated (some don’t come that way, but thin plastic as found in those annoying clear plastic clamshell cases can be easily cut to fit with ordinary scissors), and substitute it in your laptop. Then go back and reinstall ChromeOS.

Enjoy your new, budget Chromebook!

IDE Adapter:

SATA Adapter: 

This past week, I was pleasantly surprised to find a new channel on my Roku player called “Crackle.” It was free (ad-supported) so I took a look at it. I found that it’s basically a Roku feed of Crackle.com, so you people using Home Theater PCs and other devices that can access the Web, and can play Flash videos, can access it too.

So I quickly poked around and found that Crackle has full-length movies, TV series, movie trailers, and original content, all free and ad-supported, more or less like broadcast TV. Now, the movies are not first-run stuff by any means; I watched a Godzilla film that probably dates to the Sixties, but I saw several others that are more recent, including both versions of Heavy Metal and more various Godzilla and Mothra movies than I even knew existed. I didn’t attempt to look at all of the offerings. Crackle also has such TV series as The Tick (woot!) and Bewitched. Later I checked out Crackle.com on my computer and perused some of the original content. One that I am definitely going to watch regularly is called Trenches. It’s science fiction, and the five-and-a-half minute “teaser” episode was probably eighty-five or ninety percent action, with spaceships and ground troops shooting things up with lasers and who-knows-what. Video is available up to 720p so if you’ve got your device hooked to an HDTV, be ready for a visual treat.

About those ads (it’s ad-supported, remember?): During my viewing of Godzilla, there were several “breaks” during which a 10-second blurb for Battlefield 3 played. That was it. It wasn’t long enough to go grab a soda and chips (but the Roku remote has a pause/play button so in theory I could have).

The description for Trenches, by the way, grabbed me: “The creator of Star Wars Revelations brings Sci-Fi online with a take-no-prisoners attitude reminiscent of Pitch Black.” If you’re any kind of a geek, I think it will grab you, too.

Now, let’s see what else is available; visit each link for full details:

• Crackle.com (mentioned above).
• Everyone knows about Hulu by now. Personally, I’m not impressed, but many people love it. I find Hulu to be a resource hog, requiring about twice the amount of computer compared to every other method of getting TV over the Internet. Your mileage may vary; try it for free and see if it meets your needs.
• Boxee has quite a range of shows, plus there is a list of live streaming TV maintained in the Boxee forums
• Eclipse.tv is an app meant for Google Chrome; possibly you could make it work with another browser if you’re that masochistic. It aggregates links to many other video sources. Incidentally, I am running it on my Chromebook.
• YouTube while not as easy to search as some other methods, now carries full movies in addition to user-submitted material.
• Netflix has both streaming and disk-by-mail services, and carries movies, TV series (I am currently getting Season 1 of Torchwood, a Doctor Who spinoff) and documentaries which have appeared on cable channels like Discovery and The History Channel. You can even get full seasons of Mythbusters which is great for those weekends when you just want to blow stuff up, but you live in a no-explosives zone.
• Amazon steaming video rentals range range from free on up.

There are several others that I am currently reviewing; I’ll edit this blog if I find any worth your time.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave since June of 1999, you know that most people like the convenience of digital music and movies. You also know that the record labels (RIAA) and movie studios (MPAA) have been falsely claiming for that entire time that piracy is cutting into their “legitimate” sales. I’m going to tell you (and them, but I already know they won’t pay any attention) how to make piracy unattractive, improve their public reputation and customer relationships, and (probably) increase sales.

A system to do all this must be easy to use, convenient, and safe.

In order to do this, you need to create a digital distribution system that is easy for the consumer to use, allows the consumer to access his purchases on every device that has the hardware capability to play the media you have sold him (convenience), make it affordable, and maintain tight security over the consumers’ personal and financial information (to maintain trust).

How to make it easy to use? Web-based rentals and purchases, without any proprietary garbage like iTunes, etc.

How to make it convenient? Eliminate DRM (or as I believe it should be called, adhering the the truth-in-advertising principle, “Technology Users’ Rights Denial Systems,” or TURDS for short). Make it possible to access music and video on every device that is capable of playing the media; PCs, Macs, and Linux systems can all handle Web-based media, smartphones can download files and play them locally (this is preferable to streaming over 3G/4G/LTE because of both reliability of the signal, and bandwidth caps by cell carriers; most smartphones also have Wi-Fi capability), set-top boxes like the Roku and Patriot Box Office can stream like a PC, and other portable devices can sync to a desktop or laptop computer system through USB, bluetooth, or Wi-Fi.

By making it affordable, you play to the consumers’ sense of fairness and allow him to feel smug about buying your product, instead of pirating it. According to a study in 2009 (and many others since then), music pirates actually buy ten times as much as they “steal.” If you make it easier to buy, and price your product fairly, you can increase that ratio quite easily; people want to obtain music and videos honestly, but the RIAA and MPAA have made it difficult. Personally, I think under a dollar per track for MP3 music (the “gold standard”) is fair for music, and the same for a one-time rental of a video stream. Purchase of the a video should be less than ten dollars for newer releases, and five dollars or less for older ones. It’s also important to ensure that the one-time rental actually can be watched all the way through, with fast-forward and rewind capabilities, even if the consumer gets all the way to the end of the video. The easiest way to do this is to not start the rental period until the consumer actually starts the stream, and not terminate it for 24 hours after that. That way, if he’s interrupted during the viewing, he won’t feel cheated, because he knows he can go back later that day or the next day and pick up where he left off. Rental periods should *not* arbitrarily start when the purchase transaction is made. If you allow me to rent a movie today and watch it later in the week, I am more likely to rent several movies when I have a couple of spare bucks, rather than buying a candy bar or other snacks. Netflix, of course, is the way to go for the consumer; “all you can eat” for under ten bucks a month. With that price, there’s no incentive to pirate videos that are available on Netflix. Of course, the movies that aren’t on Netflix remain as piracy targets.

Purchased music and video should be downloadable in a customer’s choice of formats; MP3, FLAC, and OGG should be available for music, and video should be accessible in MP4, WMV, DivX, and possibly other formats, in a variety of resolutions, to accommodate different playback devices. At the very least, 720P and 1080P formats must be available. Ideally, the purchaser should be able to log in to his (Web-based) account and download the video in any format at any time, on any computer or device, once it has been purchased, and continuity of access plans MUST be made; the consumer needs to know that, in the event Blah Studios goes belly-up, whoever purchases the remains will continue to provide access to content the consumer has paid for, or else the consumer will feel a lack of trust, and probably choose to obtain the video another way – one which will not gain any money for Blah Studios.

Finally, the consumer needs to know that his information will not be sold (other than as part of the necessary baggage to ensure continued access) nor easily stolen; Sony’s PSN and SOE are perfect examples of what you should *NOT* do. The bare minimum of security consists of:

• Require a secure connection for rentals and purchases (HTTPS: or whatever comes after it)
• Encrypt usernames
• Use a one-way hash to verify passwords, and never store the actual password at all.
• If you absolutely must store credit card information, store it using strong encryption, and in an electronically-isolated way so that an intruder can’t gain access to both usernames and cred card data with a single intrusion. It’s better to not store it at all; consider using a third-party payment processor, so that you don’t ever need to “see” the actual method of payment.
• Keep all of your servers up-to-date with security patches

And that’s the basic business plan for digital music and video. Let me know if you start one up; I’ll try it out!

McAfee fails to detect the virus (in my experience, this is not unusual. I would NEVER use McAfee or Norton security products. But that’s jsut me, the computer professional. Your mileage may vary.).

In order to get rid of it, follow these steps:

1. Reboot your computer into “safe mode with networking.”
2. Download and install Malwarebytes Antimalware (the free version will be fine for this purpose).
3. Update MBAM and run a full scan of your system.
4. Remove any malicious software found.

Optional (but recommended): If yo uare running Norton or McAfee security products, dump them. In my experience, while they will give you a “warm fuzzy” feeling that you are protected – you aren’t. After removing it, install instead Microsoft Security Essentials or Comodo Anti-Virus.

Afterwards, reboot into normal mode and immediately scan again. This step is essential.

Good luck – and may the Bytes be with you!

Example spam IM:

A base on Mars is right behind a base on the moon in terms of space expectations. Despite that, the closest we’ve come is sending rovers to send back pictures and take samples. Sure, we’ve discovered water on the red planet, but we’re still a long way away from sending people to Mars. The Wikipedia page for Mars exploration is lacking in almost any detail about manned missions, as is NASA’s page. The “Mars to Stay” wikipedia entry and the page for Manned missions to Mars both feature a lot of good information about putting humans on Mars, however the fact remains that the earliest dates for launch are placed many years out- with NASA hinting that they might be ready by 2037. 27 years from now.

Teleportation

We can probably thank Star Trek for making teleportation something that we expect in the future. The technology has showed up in countless video games and films, being treated more like a given future tech than a barely plausible possibility for transportation. This article from IBM research is a good read, and has links to other articles, but makes the point that we are nowhere near being able to teleport objects, let alone people. Teleportation is an incredibly difficult concept, presented in an extremely simplistic way in pop culture. Consider that we aren’t close to sending people to Mars, and teleportation is- at it’s core- the disassembling and reassembling of atoms in the same way they were assembled before being transmitted. Imagine how difficult it would be to send something as simple as a die from one place to another, and then consider how complex humans are compared to dice. Any opinions?

Screaming Bee claims that PocketFart is the best farting software for your Windows Mobile device. Actually, it may be the only farting software for your Windows Mobile device. We can only hope…

Anyhow, if you’ve always wanted to be able to create the sounds without the olfactory evidence, and if you have a Windows Mobile device, this software is for you – and the rest of your 9-year-old buddies (sober; 30-year-old drunks will probably like it, too). Enjoy!

Header image stolen gleefully from Scott Johnson and used without permission. I don’t know where he got it. I don’t really care, either.

Weapon of choice of Aliens, Moon Men, and future humans. The problem with ray guns is that while they’re a great idea, no one ever really sat down and figured out how they would work. Because of that, (and probably other things), we’re still firing bullets at each other.

In addition, our ideas of future weapons have changed, perhaps to accommodate our realization that ray guns aren’t as simple as we had thought. Sure, Star Trek and Star Wars still utilize ray gun type weaponry, but the more recent additions to our ideas of the future still use bullets. Halo, Mass Effect, Avatar- humans travel around space in all of them, but despite that, still use bullets.

This video illustrates the sad excuse we have for a ray gun today; more a “hot tickle” gun than a red or green laser blast.

What do you think, are ray guns still the future of weapons? Personally I think that railguns, coilguns, and energy weapons are the new ray guns. Sure, there may be some point in the future when the typical soldier is issued an Lasgun or phaser, but I think those days are a very long way off.

Sure, you might consider a Roomba a robot maid, but while it may clean your floor, it’s no butler. If a massive amount of science fiction literature was to be believed, we should all have had android Alfreds by now. Japan is getting closer to this particular prediction, because for whatever reason they seem to like robots a whole lot more than we do. When Honda’s ASIMO grows about 2 feet taller, and can walk up stairs safely, we’ll at least get the drink serving robot. Then we just need to put vacuum cleaners in its feet and call it a day.

Moon Colonies

One of the quickest ways to tell if someone is a nerd is to ask how they feel about NASA having to scrap their plans for a moon base. Besides that however, moon colonies really felt (and feel) close to happening! After all, 41 years ago we managed to land on the rock, you would have thought that somewhere between 1969 and 2010 we would have set up some sort of permanent structure. At this point our best bet is probably a privately funded moon base, so Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Google, do the future a favor and help us start moving off this rock on to others.

The Future Isn’t Here… Yet. is a new weekly column that will look at predictions that science fiction and pop culture were sure we would have by now. To suggest anything, please comment!

BattCursor shows the remaining battery charge in percent directly under the mouse cursor, and offers many other battery-saving features, including dim down the display brightness when inactive, automatically disable the Windows Sidebar, Aero Glass and much more.
And the best part: It costs nothing, worth seeing

BattCursor (no relation to the Caped Crusader) gives you a free method of managing your laptop’s battery usage that is so much better than the built-in “management” tools in Windows, you’ll wonder why Microsoft didn’t steal it think of it themselves.

The author’s native language is apparently German, but the translation is perfectly understandable in the application itself, and only mildly odd on the Web site.

Recommended!

So it’s Monday, Labor Day, around nine PM, and I don’t feel like going to bed yet. So I asked the wife, “Want to watch a movie?” She says, “Do we have time?” “Sure!” I reply, “We can watch a dozen or so!”

So, during the next hour, we watched Freddy vs. Jason, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pulp Fiction, Highlander, The Big Chill, Night of the Living Dead, Titanic, The Shining, It’s A Wonderful Life, The Exorcist, Alien, Jaws, War of the Worlds, Star Wars, King King, and Rocky.

“How is that possible in just one hour?” I hear you wondering. Well, we watched the 30-second Bunnies Theater condensed versions of all of those movies (which actually are closer to a minute long each). They are all rated “AC” for “Adult Content,” and I would not recommend them for young children, but honestly, of the actual movies I have seen versus the 30-second Bunnies version, I would have to say the the bunnies did it better; not “just as well,” but better!

To quote from the Netflix synopsis: “If you don’t have two hours to watch your favorite movie, get the 30-second, laugh-out-loud version here, acted out by adorable animated bunnies. Jennifer Shiman created this award-winning series and she, along with Douglas McInnes, provide the voices.”

So, to make this review as condensed as the 30-second Bunnies Theater, I’ll cut it short here, and just tell you that there are 3 seasons available on Netflix Watch Instantly, and I look forward to watching all of Season 3 tonight! Don’t wait: Get your bunnies on!

Repo! takes place in the not-so-distant future.  After a devastating epidemic of organ failure that wipes out millions, GeneCo, a pharmaceutical company, and its founder Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) come to the rescue of the destitute, offering organ transplants on a payment plan. Because these organ transplants are so affordable, they soon become more than just a necessity. They become the latest fashion trend. “It’s what’s on the inside that counts.”  In addition, GeneCo releases Zydrate, a powerful and highly addictive painkiller for dealing with the trauma of organ transplant. With the increase in frivolous organ transplants, there are eventually those who cannot keep up with their payments. To combat those who fall behind, Largo gets government approval for the creation of Repo Men, assassins who hunt down those who owe and take back what that cannot pay for.  In addition, to keep up with the demand for Zydrate, an underground market develops, selling a lesser version of the drug extracted from the dead.  Largo learns that he has an incurable disease and worries about finding an heir to his vast empire; his three children (Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, and Ogre) regularly engage in less than savory activities and are a complete embarrassment to him. In the midst of all this is Shilo (Alexa Vega) who is stricken with a blood disorder and kept confined to her room by her overprotective father, Nathan (Anthony Stewart Head).  She longs to be a part of the outside world. When Shilo’s life collides with that of Largo and Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), the voice of GeneCo, everything is turned upside down.

One of the most fascinating and elements of this movie is the use of comic panels for plot exposition.  Rather than flashback or lengthy explanations, the characters’ pasts are divulged through highly stylized comic panels, some animated, some not.  It’s extremely effective and ties in well with the equally stylized cinematic direction.

The score is reminiscent of Rent, Rocky Horror, and Sweeney Todd; there are a lot of power chords and heavy drum beats. As with any good musical, you definitely find yourself humming bits of the songs even after one viewing. One of my few complaints about the music is that it seemed in a few places to try a bit to hard to make itself an opera; there were a few songs that fell flat and seemed to exist purely to avoid dialogue. Even those songs, though, are well performed.  Unlike some musical films of late, there weren’t any actors picked solely for their star power hoping the audience would ignore their less than stellar singing.

There are a couple of caveats that I would be remiss if I didn’t mention. First, if you do not like musicals, chances are you will not like this movie.  While it isn’t technically an opera, it’s very much more song than dialogue.  There’s really no getting around that. Secondly, if you have a problem with blood and gore, you may very well have a hard time watching this. This movie is graphic and definitely not for the faint of heart.  While the blood and gore tends towards the more ridiculous and outlandish, there are parts that are still tough to take. It is, after all, a story involving the repossession of internal organs… and they’re not afraid to show it.

If you can get past those two points, I highly recommend this film. The story, cast, art direction, and score all work to create a really great and unique movie experience.

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When I think of Sci-fi, the same picture always pops into my head.  A geeky guy with thick, dark-rimmed glasses sitting in a room filled with posters of Albert Einstein, Godzilla, the periodic table and such, holding a dinosaur in one hand a computer mouse in the other. Not a scene most women would picture themselves in, myself included. But I am amazed at how many of my guy friends expect me to know everything there is to know about each and every Sci-fi show, movie, book and television program out there. I’ll admit that I do enjoy the occasional show on the Sci-fi channel (now SyFy), but I do not, however, feel the need to know every character’s name, occupation, family history or tag line.

My perception of the Sci-Fi genre changed in May, when my friend invited me to see the new Star Trek film with him. After begging him to ask someone else, he offered to buy my ticket and snacks. I figured at the worst, I would have wasted a couple of hours of my time. At best, I would get to spend time with my friend and snack on some irresistible movie popcorn. Walking into the auditorium, I could sense excitement in the air. Maybe it was because I was one of the few women in the audience. My mind instantly flashed back to the nerd in the room scene, but I figured I could stick it out for my friend’s sake. I mean, how bad could it really be? The best thing about watching a movie with a room full of geeks is silence. This is pure movie enjoyment at its best.

The movie started with a bang and I found myself wrapped up in the plot immediately. Me. A girl.  As a matter of fact, I was captivated from the moment the movie started and found myself crying within the first 5 minutes. After a few looks from the nerds around me, I quietly excused myself, headed to the restroom and cleaned myself up. Intact once again, I headed back to the auditorium ASAP, determined not to miss another second. Although there were times that everyone was laughing except me (I had no clue what the jokes were referring to never having watched any of the Star Trek series), I was pleasantly surprised at how much I truly enjoyed the movie. It didn’t hurt that the movie featured some major eye candy. Hubba, hubba, hubba.  I liked it so much in fact, that I took my friend to the drive-in a few weeks later to watch it again – my treat this time.

So, from time to time, I think I’ll give my friend a break. He’s a great guy and Sci-fi isn’t really all that bad. I now have a greater appreciation for those who love it and I’m beginning to understand why. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll be able call myself a Sci-fi geek.  For right now, I’ll settle for buying my very own copy of Star Trek when it hits the stores on November 17th. Hope to see you there!

Learning to Love Sci-fi