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Mouse Trap
^^Love it.  :-*

^ha ha haa!  ;D  :Amazing! Who could have guessed?  :D

In a Bering Sea battle of killer whales vs. fishermen, the whales are winning
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/06/18/in-a-bering-sea-battle-of-killer-whales-vs-fishermen-the-orcas-are-winning/
But they're just clever animals! Why could they possibly be doing this?
Maybe it's just for the halibut.



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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« on: May 29, 2017, 01:55 PM »
Laurel & Hardy Babes In Toyland Colorized
a.k.a. March of the Wooden Soldiers Colorized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IdIoORhID8&list=PL8xaHhw_qvnTA5hSjzqtF08M0jCl6yjS0

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Are youtube videos susceptible to this threat:
a) if not downloaded but watched online?
b) if downloaded and watched offline?

edit: I just received an update from VLC this morning.

And BTW, you don't have to manually choose subs (subtitles) to be attacked;  movies automatically load the subs activating the attack. IOW you won't be safe just b/c you chose not to enable subs: as per the first link in my ^last post: Many videos do not come with their own subtitles, but computer media players often automatically download special files from a central online repository.  Because they are perceived as harmless text files and use a variety of different formats, the software does not check them for viruses.

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I was just going to post my own news article about this: Hackers are hiding computer viruses in film subtitles, security experts warn; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/25/hackers-hiding-computer-viruses-film-subtitles-experts-warn/
I was also going to ask special permission to make duplicate posts in every DC 'video' thread I can find, but now I'll just leave it as a suggestion, as there are bound to be members who watch videos but never look at the Programming sub-forum and won't see this warning unless it's placed right in front of them on their fav threads.
I will also post a link here to CryptoPrevent Malware Prevention; https://www.foolishit.com/cryptoprevent-malware-prevention/.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: May 12, 2017, 08:06 AM »
Chicago - Beginnings - Such a knockout piece may have already been posted, but maybe not, so I'll take a chance. Also, the best audio I could find of it has no video, so I'll apologize again for that. But it grabs me so much; just think of when you first met your significant other, put this on, and feel the vibes.

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Next - a precognition film starring Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, and Julianne Moore.
It seems to me that I have heard one of the soundtracks in Next, in particular, #6 A Few Minutes of Your Time, as a full stand-alone classical music piece. Can anyone possibly help me to ID it; that is, the full classical musical piece #6 is based on?

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: April 29, 2017, 03:11 PM »
One day, I swallowed my pride and set it to play at Level Zero; and wonder of wonders, I actually began to make winning moves, until; it cheated. True story! Playing it at Level Zero, it lost it's Queen, and as I was about to move in for the kill, it gave itself another Queen, as a freebie. And it's new Queen didn't appear on any of the squares where Pawns normally change into Queens; it's new Queen appeared in a 'winning position' somewhere in the middle of the board. 'I felt the earth move under my feet', as the song goes. I was mentally staggered by the implications. GIGO was toast! The computer cheated on Level Zero! Even to think back on it; I'm not sure I ever completely calmed down, even to this day. A - computer - cheated; at chess. Somewhere within my Boris 2.5 was a hideous cyber-monster. True story. It finally wore out and quit working. Actually, looking back on it, I can see an element of 'humor' in it, if I put myself in the position of laughing--at myself, combined with a 'wake-up' groan, as in 'Welcome to the real world, you pathetic nerd'. :)

As my dad likes to say, "Computers are polymorphically perverse."  :D
^Yes. Or, as Claire Danes remarks ruefully in the beginning of 'Terminator 3', "Machines."  :D

Shivering little mouse saved from drowning after accidentally falling into man's aquarium.

Training Time with Matilda, cute little mouse.

Baby Mouse Daycare.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: April 20, 2017, 07:04 PM »
By the way, in refutation of GIGO (garbage in - garbage out) and "Computers don't make mistakes; people do," I once had an early portable electronic chess game, Boris 2.5 if I remember correctly. Yes, please go here; first release was February 1978, which seems about the time I got mine.
From Day One as a proud Boris-owner, I was so much 'in love' with it; the sight of it in the wiki article pic brings back a flood of memories and emotions (picture me as a young Boris chess 'emo').
But then cold hard reality began to set in. Boris was ruthless; I could almost never beat it at anything Level 1 or above, and it was programmed to insult you mercilessly when you made what it considered a 'dumb move'; such as "Have you played before?" and "Really?" and about 8 or 10 other equally devastating one-liners.
One day, I swallowed my pride and set it to play at Level Zero; and wonder of wonders, I actually began to make winning moves, until; it cheated. True story! Playing it at Level Zero, it lost it's Queen, and as I was about to move in for the kill, it gave itself another Queen, as a freebie. And it's new Queen didn't appear on any of the squares where Pawns normally change into Queens; it's new Queen appeared in a 'winning position' somewhere in the middle of the board. 'I felt the earth move under my feet', as the song goes. I was mentally staggered by the implications. GIGO was toast! The computer cheated on Level Zero! Even to think back on it; I'm not sure I ever completely calmed down, even to this day. A - computer - cheated; at chess. Somewhere within my Boris 2.5 was a hideous cyber-monster. True story. It finally wore out and quit working. Actually, looking back on it, I can see an element of 'humor' in it, if I put myself in the position of laughing--at myself, combined with a 'wake-up' groan, as in 'Welcome to the real world, you pathetic nerd'. :)

edit... Hindsight can be an amazing enlightener; after all these years, looking back after having just written this post; a suspicion has come to me that the early Boris 2.5 computer could not possibly have cheated at Level Zero without someone having rigged it with sneaky programming to act that way. If so, and it's the only explanation that makes any sense now, the phenomenon must have long since been reported by others, tested, proven out (authenticated & verified independently) and very quietly corrected -all on the hush-hush- in later models. The 'proof' would have to come from searching out an early edition model Boris 2.5 that is in vintage condition, the equivalent of a 'like new' classic car 'barn find' (in this case; more like 'attic find') and played at Level Zero.
Other than that, all you have is my word as a foggy-headed 800 to 1000 human chess playing strength level (rank amateur) that my early edition Boris 2.5 actually did cheat and also gave insults, and that if mine did, others of the same vintage must have done so also. IOW, somewhere in the heart of every early model Boris 2.5 lurked hidden nonstandard coding to cheat at Level Zero and give itself a free Queen in a winning position, while heaping choice insults upon hapless amateur-level players. If anyone wishes to scorn my allegations and heap on top of me yet more insults, save your breath; I've already been insulted by a pro (at which I still marvel), and I specialize now at rating insults (rating insults, I say; not giving them) instead of rating chess players and chess computers. :P

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: April 20, 2017, 06:47 PM »
Sorry about my last post; the picture was too small to read even when enlarged; I enlarged it some more by cropping excess borders to make the mini pop-up window in the pic more readable now.  Um, this is putting me under pressure, because if I explain the 'joke' it won't be 'funny' anymore (ie 'Finagle's 1st Law of Telling Jokes). So I hope someone picks out what makes me think it's so 'funny'.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: April 20, 2017, 06:40 PM »
This pic is an actual screen-cap and not a touch-up job; see anything 'funny' about it?
Wargames pic.jpg
Spoiler
'Stats for nerds'


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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: April 20, 2017, 12:17 AM »
For 12 minutes of innocent fun-loving adolescent bro & sis duo's energetic and zany 'turnout not burnout', plz check out JUST DANCE 2017. I originally found her dance vid while looking for more rat vids to post at DC, found her meet my rats vid, liked that, and ended up going to her yt home page @ simplytasha.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: April 08, 2017, 06:57 PM »
I realized this thread is for 'short vids', so I moved my post for a full-length movie, 'The Doberman Gang', here.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: April 05, 2017, 10:40 PM »
Rat on miniature skateboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoReVhzFkpc

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« on: March 18, 2017, 06:57 AM »
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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: March 12, 2017, 01:26 PM »
Plz go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhrD8eNi-0
This is a Vietnamese vid, in which the little rat is 'rocking out' to the music. IOW, the music was not added afterward to the recording, but is part of the original video sound track, and the rat can hear it and is 'boogieing out' to the 'hip hop' as good as any human preadolescent child.
Either that, or it is a very clever fake-out, as betrayed by the distinct absence of any extraneous background sounds.  8)
edit-- Come to think of it, I wonder if the poor little guy is suffering from some sort of neurological disorder. The vid was originally posted 03-30-11, so according to this duckduckgo query, he's probably died of old age by now; so I'm obliged to finis my post with something sentimental, like "Fly high, little guy."
edit- Here's the way cool lyrics to the song track...what the heck, here's the actual lyrics.....
Trouble will find you no mater where you go, oh oh
No Matter if you're fast no matter if you're slow, oh oh
The eye of the storm and the cry in the morn, oh oh
Your fine for a while but then start to loose control
He's there in the dark
He's there in my heart
He waits in the winds
He's gotta play a part
Trouble is a friend
Yeah trouble is a friend of mine. oh oh

Trouble is a friend but trouble is a foe, oh oh
And no matter what I feed him he always seems to grow, oh oh
He sees what I see and he knows what I know, oh oh
So don't forget as you ease on down the road

So don't be alarmed if he takes you by the arm
I won't let him win, but I'm a sucker for his charm
Trouble is a friend
Yeah trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh

Read more: Lenka - Trouble Is A Friend Lyrics | MetroLyrics
http://www.metrolyrics.com/trouble-is-a-friend-lyrics-lenka.html

'Trouble' - Indonesia live performance



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Living Room / Re: Best Programming Jokes
« on: February 01, 2017, 05:28 PM »
Mouse test: Run all relevant self-tests for 'laser mouse'.
If 'clean'; depress left button, and move hand describing a series of on-screen B's. Check only with the upper case letter 'B' or the test will result in an automatic 'Fail'.
Lift finger from left button.
Wait ten seconds.
Lift mouse from mouse pad, and check to see if the mouse laser left a trail of letter B's anywhere on the pad. Even partial B's matter, so use a good light source and be as thorough as possible.
If no B's are found; Congratulations; your mouse is free from Ray-B's!

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Living Room / Desierto (2015)
« on: January 31, 2017, 07:20 PM »
Desierto (2015). I had to watch it in Spanish (of which I speak very little) and without subtitles, but I was on the edge of my seat and glued to the screen for almost the entire flick.

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There's a stand alone installer available here: https://www.microsof...etails.aspx?id=24872
I downloaded it and I'm ready to install; the file name is [dotNetFx40 Client x86 x64.exe]; it has "x64" in the title, so I thought I better check first with you -or anyone there- if that is only for 64bit OS, or will it work on my 32bit OS?

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Hmmm, I'm running Windows XP Home SP3, and when I clicked on 'update' to get mine via an update of my paid older version, I got this mssg:
.NET Framework 4 Client Profile Must be Installed on this machine! This is available through Windows Update [note: keeping your system current with updates helps prevent malicious items as well.
I'm not sure if or how to do the prescribed 'update' on my Intel Celeron CPU 2.66GHz machine.   :(
Well anyways, there's the offer in my last two posts here.  8)

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Screen shot:

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