Happy 2nd Anniversary at Brick House to TWiT!

Big fan of TWiT, about half the podcasts I listen to are produced by TWiT, appreciate the great work they do.

"On Wednesday, July 24th, TWiT will be celebrating the second anniversary of our move to the TWiT Brick House.  At 3PM, we will be recording a special episode of Triangulation with Leo Laporte as the guest, interviewed in-studio by Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane." ~http://inside.twit.tv/blog/2013/7/17/twit-brick-house-2nd-anniversary-72413.html

Wish I lived closer, so I could join their open house, see link above for information on the open house.

One NFC Ring to Rule Them All

NFC Ring by John McLear

I really hope this is successful, looks like a very practical solution to smartphone security for average people IMHO.

iPhone 4S and newer, and most Blackberry's (with correct settings for MicroSD card) have good device security if locked with strong password, but entering strong password on touchscreens is a major PITA!

I am thinking this would provide a way to use a very strong password, without having to manually enter it all the time, so if your smartphone was lost/stolen, your data would be secure.

Their Kickstarter link http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclear/nfc-ring

Their Blog is at http://blog.nfcring.com/
Their Webpage (future main site?) http://nfcring.com/

I like the Rackspace NFC ring Hacker challenge for DEFCON (can win $100 of  free hosting) see
http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/steal-my-nfc-ring-data-at-defcon-for-100-dollars-of-free-hosting-with-rackspace.html or http://blog.nfcring.com/uncategorized/rackspace-nfc-ring-challenge/

Sacriel streaming DayZ

Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/sacriel

Haven't had chance to watch Sacriel stream for some time, IRL getting in the way T_T

So NSA admits they listen to everyone?

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jul/17/nsa-surveillance-house-hearing:

"John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform "a second or third hop query" through its collections of telephone data and internet records in order to find connections to terrorist organizations. "


"A three-hop query means that the NSA can look at data not only from a suspected terrorist, but from everyone that suspect communicated with, and then from everyone those people communicated with, and then from everyone all of those people communicated with."

Home Story Cup VII (HSC) stream is up

Update:  Stream A is up on Twitch now http://www.twitch.tv/taketv

Update:  Stream B for HSC http://www.twitch.tv/TaKeTVBStream
also other streams on Twitch for HSC seem to be working and are listed on TL http://www.teamliquid.net/

Update:  stream crashed and is still down for me, but up for some of my friends

HSC Stream is up at http://taketv.net/

Via TLO's Tweet:  "you'll find the stream for #saveHSC on http://taketv.net  now! Sorry for the delay ;;" ~https://twitter.com/LiquidTLO/status/348429765365088257

TwitchTV Outage & HSC VII delay

Twitch was down for a while, now I believe it is up in limited ways/areas, many people getting 403 Forbidden error, official post about it from Twitch.TV here http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/06/site-outage-passwords-and-stream-keys-reset/

So far they are saying they were not hacked, rather their "web CDN made a requested change without obeying our caching ruleset," but they are forcing password reset because of issue.

If you read the comments, it sounds like they discovered more problems after they made that blog blog posts or initial tweets.

In addition to their blog site, you can follow Twitch's main Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchTV, or their support Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchTVSupport

They are working on getting things backup and running ASAP.

HSC (Home Story Cup) was delayed an hour from what I have seen on Twitter from Rotti:
"We were supposed to start at 13:00 CET but it might be 14:00, depends if Twitch tv is working fine or not, I'll keep you guys posted!"
~ https://twitter.com/RotterdaM08/status/348393076617797632

Note I have world clock at top of Blog, starting with Korean time, to make figuring out time zones at a glance easier.

I will post updates if possible when they become available.

Tags:  TwitchTV, HSC VII, streaming, PSA

Minecraft Water Trap

Elegant Drowning Trap From http://www.youtube.com/user/AkifHD?feature=watch

Via http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Monster_Spawner_traps#Flow_Trap

Found this while waiting for Dreamhack, I will have to try it out, have a Zombie spawner on a map that I set up as a quick simple grinder, had river near spawner and just dug out enough for river to push Zombies to one wall were I can hack at their legs.

This would make it a lot more efficient, and wouldn't take much work to add.

ATC 2013 - MATCHDAY 11 - ROOT GAMING VS. TEAM ACER

When: Friday June 14, 2013  [Sat 00:00 KST] Fri 17:00 CEST/ Fri 11:00 EDT /Fri 08:00 PDT
 
Today's match http://acer.taketv.net/news/atc-2013---matchday-11---root-ga-12-06-13-16468

Standings http://acer.taketv.net/news/standings-13-03-13-17943

Streams (No English streams yet):

• http://www.twitch.tv/taketv
• http://www.twitch.tv/ogamingtv2
• http://www.twitch.tv/theargietv
• http://www.twitch.tv/theargietv

VOD's:  http://acer.taketv.net/

SC2 HSL Season 2 Playoffs Ro8

Come watch some High School League SC2 play.

Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/hsstarleague/

Teamliquid link http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=412391

Reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1f1wx5/high_school_starleague_ro8_everestmenlo_hs_vs/


Ro8 Schedule:

7pm EST - TPHS vs E/MHS casted by Gemini
9pm EST - LMHS vs SHHS casted by TBD
9pm EST - YLHS vs CHS casted by TBD
11:30pm EST - HHS vs SMHS casted by TBD

Problems & Solutions for Apple ID 2 Step Verification (2 Factor Authentication)

Though I blogged about this when it first came out, http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2013/03/apple-adds-2-step-verification-2-factor.html

I learned a couple of important tidbits today about it: 1) Verification does not follow when phone is replaced, 2) You need to type recovery key, not cut and paste it.

Thanks to Jeff Kibuule for tweeting about these issues https://twitter.com/jeffkibuule/status/333765576226914305

That is where I learned about these problems.

I agree with Jeff that Apple Store employees need to be aware of this issue when they suggest swapping phones for customers.

I hope this saves people from some headaches!

Also really suggest people that use this two step verification have more than one Trusted Device, and more than one hard copy of the Recovery Key securely stored, because even if you are trying to recover lost password, you will still need a minimum of two of the 3 following: 

• Apple ID password
• Trusted Device [ SMS capable phone OR iOS device with Find My iPhone enabled]
• Recovery Key [14 digit Recovery Key Apple provides, they say print and keep in a safe place]

Reference Links:

• Apple ID: Frequently asked questions about two-step verification for Apple ID:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570
• Apple ID: Can't sign in with two-step verification:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5577
• [Trusted Devices] Apple ID: About SMS and two-step verification:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5593
• Turning off two-step verification for your Apple ID:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5631
• Jeff Kibuule's Tweet about these issues https://twitter.com/jeffkibuule/status/333765576226914305