I’m bored. So I want to try something weird, how many friends I can get in one night on Facebook, though I never interested in using social networking site, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook…

But after I add 20 friend or something, this message appeared: Warning! You are engaging in behavior that may be considered annoying or abusive.

This is the answer from Facebook (Marco Panzeri post it in this board):

“We have noticed that you recently received a warning from our system. You received this warning because Facebook determined that you were going too fast when sending friend requests, or because your friend requests were being rejected at a high rate.

Facebook aspires to be an environment where people can interact safely with their friends and people they know. Accordingly, we expect accounts to mainly reflect your “real-world contacts” and do not promote contacting strangers through unsolicited friend requests as they may be considered annoying or abusive. To prevent this type of behavior, Facebook has limits in place that restrict the rate at which you can use certain features on the site.”

Am I abusive? I know them. Ah, never mind. I should try something useful.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=harry

expected total number alive today | 214112 people
expected population fraction | 1 in 1093 people (0.091%)
expected rank | 246th
(using standard US mortality data)

 
I think Wolfram get better mathematical, statistical and scientific data than Google. It just not crawl to any web, and display every title, content, link with that word. It have reliable information source.

But you can’t search ‘what is the song at the end of prison break‘ and find Yahoo Answer for that question. Or something funnier: ‘What is the song i am thinking of…?‘

Lyse has become the largest fiber-to-the-home provider in Norway thanks to an innovative business model that asks customers to preregister before any fiber is dug, then offers them a $400 savings if they dig their own trench from the street to the home. So far, 80 percent of Lyse’s customers have broken out the shovels. (ars technica)

Me. I only have ADSL connection, with copper cable hanging around over my head, sometimes so ridiculous, and give an idea for ridiculous ads

I’m not asking for 10 Mbps, 30 Mbps, or 50 Mbps. Just a stable connection for my up to 2 Mbps. If they offer me product like that, I will accept it (Not so happy of course. Nobody want to dig a trench, or hire someone for a trench). For now, I found the basic rules How to Dig a Trench.

JAP (called JonDo in the scope of the new commercial service JonDonym - AN.ON remains free of charge) makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably.

Download: Macintosh. And to make it more easy you can install JonDoFox for Firefox. This make new user profile in Firefox. Just install this two application. It will do the rest.

My result: whatismyip: 118.96.*.* (before) - 141.76.*.* (after, using Technische Universitaet Dresden, free service)

UDP uses a simple transmission model without implicit hand-shaking dialogues for guaranteeing reliability, ordering, or data integrity. Thus, UDP provides an unreliable service and datagrams may arrive out of order, appear duplicated, or go missing without notice.

Examples: Domain Name System (DNS UDP port 53), streaming media applications such as IPTV or movies, Voice over IP (VoIP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and online multiplayer games etc. Remember that UDP is only concerned with speed. This is the main reason why streaming media is not high quality.

Don’t know why… but this past week my connection more trashy than usual.

This is the process, step by step:

1. Look at tv schedule: IMDb or Zap2it

Time difference between my location (UTC+7) and that schedule (Eastern Time Zone ~ USA & Canada ~ UTC-5) is 12 hours (11 for daylight saving time). I follow many tv series, prison break, heroes, himym, tbbt, mentalist, etc. Notice: sometimes they show old episode from the series.

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Yesterday, I found for the first time, Rapidshare server can’t be accessed.

“The server 272.rapidshre.com is momentarily not available. We are aware of this and are working to get this resolved.”

Then I waited for almost 12 hours, but the page still the same. So I try my luck, googling for the file name at google, find any other link for file with same size.

Just download any random link (must have same size of course), then combine the file with other rar split. And the result: first file I download match with the other. Just My Luck.

This is mine, when it’s stable:

Using mathematica:

In[5]:= Mean[{201.21, 213.4, 222.15, 214, 221.55, 212.22, 222}]
Out[5]= 215.219

In[6]:= StandardDeviation[{201.21, 213.4, 222.15, 214, 221.55, 212.22,   222}]
Out[6]= 7.57345

Conclusion: Accurate and precise

This when it’s gone crazy (Crimes like this happen almost everyday, many hours wasted then!):

Using mathematica:

In[2]:= Mean[{1.21, 130.4, 2, 0.66, 140.5, 0.61, 157.22}]
Out[2]= 61.8

In[1]:= StandardDeviation[{1.21, 130.4, 2, 0.66, 140.5, 0.61, 157.22}]
Out[1]= 76.0856

Conclusion: Not accurate nor precise a.k.a. trash

How can this happen to me? This happened more often in this past week. Up and down… up and down… I just hope this connection don’t occur when I do my pirate project.

It’s the same service with multicolr project by labs.ideeinc.com I posted last month. The difference is Google Images Search only have 12 color option (just blue, not dark blue or light blue), but it can crawl into many web pages, not only flickr. Great service!