Monthly Archives: November 2014

7th Underhanded C Contest Going on Now

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The Underhanded C contest opened to challengers yesterday and continues though New Years day 2015. This year's challenge features oversharing sites and National Security Letters in its theme, but with a twist in that the surveillance function is to subtly leak information about the act of surveillance. Last year's challenge involved a social media theme as well, though with a different angle for mischief. Challenges from past years are featured on the site which feature solutions perfect for ramping up a person's paranoia about software quality.

War of Life Closing

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Parimutuel wagering game War of Life operating as S.WOL published their closing statement today. War of Life offered wagering based on the outcome of cellular automaton simulations. A distinguishing feature of War of Life was that it offered a more nuanced system of bet weighting than simple time weighting could offer. Shareholders will be issued a one time payment of 2978 satoshis per share which reflects the present book value of the venture. The clean closure of War of Life follows the example set last year when Satoshi Dice ended their public security and went private.

Disney Patents "Piracy Free" Search Engine

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Disney has been awarded a patent on a "piracy free" search engine technology according to Torrent Freak. The patent was originally filed in April of 2012and describes a mechanism based on "authenticity metrics" relative to a search term that is used to rank results. The presumption is that emphasizing "authenticity" of in presenting search results would diminish opportunities for content unfavorable to the "authoritative" arbiters of "authenticity" to be presented to users of the search engine. Continue reading →

Qntra (S.QNTR) October 2014 Statement

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For the month of October, 2014, Qntra published 145 articles for a word count totalling 40352 words.

Author word count is as follows:

BingoBoingo 4411 – ADD7 A9A2 8F85 E5EF 1F51 904F 309B B8D7 F325 1143

cazalla 16621 – FD9F B3F7 3B5A E849 9A02 F0C5 21B9 818A 468F 4AD0

hanbot 356 – EA0F AD90 985B 3025 576A 5061 454B 0FC0 BC07 B87E

devthedev 413 – 57AD 057E 646B 305C 8D6E CBF0 36C0 C430 8271 5843

princessnell 15675 – 4CD4 4F67 A64D 9DFB D0E0 E0CA 460D 2982 1C89 56A4

Mircea Popescu 347 – 6160 E1CA C8A3 C529 66FD 7699 8A73 6F0E 2FB7 B452

thestringpuller 1642 – 6ACE 36E7 86F3 9A4A DC45 06DE 0FF2 943D A179 E169

pete_dushenski 502 – E662 5CC1 4638 C4CA 4046 94E9 1657 4992 9F9A 6BDD

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