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But Burke said something on the hockey analytics panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last month that I took issue with. He expressed concern that statistics couldn't measure a hockey player's perseverance. For instance, he asked, would one of his forwards retain control of the puck when Zdeno Chara, the Boston Bruins' intimidating 6'9" defenseman, was bearing down on him?

The thing is, this is something you could measure. You could watch video of all Bruins games and record how often different forwards kept control of the puck. Soon, the NHL may install motion-tracking cameras in its arenas, as other sports leagues have done, creating a record of each player's x- and y-coordinates throughout the game and making this data collection process much easier.

Oh, and FiveThirtyEight launched recently. I don't visit news sites, but I may visit that one.

What Clients Don’t Know (and Why It’s Your Fault) by Mike Monteiro – An Event Apart Austin [corrected file] from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.

Thank you, NSView!

After making a big, bold promise to wire every corner of America, the telecom giants are running away from their vow to provide nationwide broadband service by 2020. For almost 20 years, AT&T, Verizon and the other big players have collected hundreds of billions of dollars through rate increases and surcharges to finance that ambitious plan, but after wiring the high-density big cities, they now say it's too expensive to connect the rest of the country. But they'd like to keep all that money they banked for the project.

Crooks.

Telecom Giants Drag Their Feet on Broadband for the Whole Country

Michael Tsai's Roundup of iOS 7.1 news has links to a few good things:

• iOS 7.1 vs iOS 7 | Polar
• Using your lock screen wallpaper for ICE info
• A recommendation to use 744x1392 for iPhone wallpaper
• How to completely turn off parallax wallpapers on iOS 7.1

I'll admit it. My previous 1Password Master Password was one of convenience. It was between 3 and 10 letters long, and contained few special characters.

But… my new password follows some of the guidelines set forth in Toward Better Master Passwords.

Thanks. I suppose I can tolerate being annoyed a little bit more for exponentially better security.

http://pastebin.com/9M1KvZzD

There's the traceroute.

Ho hum.

I've been paying $74.99 for my high-speed Internet with TWC. It's always worked really well, and I've had it for years and years. Including when I lived in Florida (Adelphia, I believe, was my ISP down there).

Even though new users can sign up for the same level of service I have for $54.99… (don't get me started…), my cost is apparently $79.99, and I've been paying only $74.99 because I'm in on a special deal.

We pay $31/month for Verizon home phone, and since we've all got cell phones now, I was charged with either ditching the home phone or perhaps trying Time-Warner for our home phone with their VOIP deal.

On the phone, I was told my bill would go up about $4.65 to add unlimited nationwide (including Canada and Puerto Rico) calling, with Privacy Protection (no listing in the phone book, private caller ID). So I signed up.

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Goodness, I hope not. But it looks like it's going to happen: One sentence and six charts to explain why Comcast is buying Time Warner Cable.

Putt-Putt Perfection

I just realized that I've been using BBEdit for over 15 years now, and the software was already pretty old when I started using it.

Yeesh.

And I still use it, and love it.

Every day.

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

A take-down of a take-down: Daring Fireball: From the Department of Fitting Facts to the Narrative

More than people thought.

TL;DR version:

Too long, didnt read? Basically: Unless Apple is omitting something or there's some backdoor tucked into their many-layers-deep encryption (which, while unlikely, isn't inconceivable) they really can't read your iMessages without a fairly insane amount of effort. Sure, they could theoretically brute force their way past your private key. Or they could scrap the entire system and replace it with something with glaring security holes, and hope no one notices.

The details are in the full post.

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You’re Using Your Camera’s Flash Wrong

Truth is, you shouldn't use the flash at a performance like that anyway. Not at a sports event, not at a school play, not on Broadway, not at fireworks, not at the Olympics — because your camera's flash is useless beyond about eight feet.

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Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm telling you to turn off the flash when it's dark out, but to turn on the flash when it's sunny?

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That's called a fill flash. Its purpose is to supply a little additional light for the subject to compensate for the overly bright background.

It's worth re-reading, especially as the iPhone's camera continues to get better in low-light situations.