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Living Room / Initials That Meant More Than They Realized

« on: September 10, 2012, 01:29 PM »

Did you know that the Microsoft “Critical Updated Notification Utility” was originally named the “Critical Update Notification Tool” (CUNT)? Comment from there: "Which makes me think the Microsoft one was intentional by some programmer prankster." by Presidential Fitness

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General Software Discussion / Re: Difficulties with JottiQ & Virus Total

« on: September 07, 2012, 04:44 PM »

Do you think that Google buying the company will end these problems?

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Living Room / Re: Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye With The Leap

« on: September 07, 2012, 04:38 PM »

Maybe, but it is infamous from it's AOL days.

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Living Room / Re: Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye With The Leap

« on: September 07, 2012, 11:22 AM »

Stoic Joker: Isn't that just a later version of AOL's "Me too".

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Living Room / Most BitTorrent users being monitored by copyright agencies, study finds

« on: September 05, 2012, 03:42 PM »

All BitTorrent pirates here that were bothered by the results of this article, reply with "Arghh!"

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Living Room / Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye With The Leap

« on: September 05, 2012, 03:34 PM »

How many here would like to use their computer the way he did in 'Minority Report'? This article says you can do that with this product.

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Living Room / Re: Did Obama’s iPad Just Get Hacked?

« on: September 05, 2012, 01:51 AM »

LastPass has a tool to check, but it's being made out to be a bigger deal than it apparently is.

“Since AntiSec removed all the personal data from the data they released, this hack doesn’t present much risk to end users,” said Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle, a compliance auditing firm that works with companies such as Facebook and Mastercard. “UDIDs in isolation aren’t a big deal. In fact, Apple used to permit apps to spew UDIDs all over the place, so there’s a lot of UDID data already in the public domain. For awhile, there were a lot of apps using UDID and personal data to track users activity and selling it to advertisers.”

The larger question is why did the FBI have all of those UDIDs?

-wraith808 (September 04, 2012, 04:31 PM)

Let me guess. Investigating IMs and tweets again?

-40hz (September 04, 2012, 05:19 PM)

Most likely it's old stuff.

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Living Room / Re: Did Obama’s iPad Just Get Hacked?

« on: September 04, 2012, 07:50 PM »

The FBI says it wasn't their laptop that got hacked and they don't have the Apple Device IDs. So, did Obama get hacked or is this a prank to scare people?

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Living Room / Did Obama’s iPad Just Get Hacked?

« on: September 04, 2012, 04:14 PM »

Just found this article, did any of the Apples here get pied?

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Living Room / Re: Win XP emoji font needed

« on: September 02, 2012, 07:48 PM »

Problem solved! I printed the article in Firefox as an .xps file(a Microsoft thing) and using the XPS viewer(came with Windows XP) saw that I had everything there. I searched for a .xps program that could save it as something more generally used and found Convert Files which converted that into a .pdf file.

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Living Room / Re: Win XP emoji font needed

« on: September 02, 2012, 12:25 PM »

app103: Firefox 15 displayed most of the emoji fine(see screenshot below). But when I tried 2 pdf printing add-ons, I got terrible results(see attachments). Is there any add-on that can export this article with the emoji?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 27, 2012, 01:12 AM »

OK, I used Google Image Search to find this page. This seems to be the source of the picture. The content of the site strongly supports this opinion.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« on: August 26, 2012, 07:09 PM »

Cumulated clouds.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 26, 2012, 06:49 PM »

Renegade, where did you get the Seuss picture? I was wondering how they got the fonts to match.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 26, 2012, 06:43 PM »

Does anyone know of a fruit punch with real punch, the kind that leaves you bruised and bleeding(the revenge of the fruit that got pureed to make it)? I can imagine a picture of a battered guy with a caption related to that.

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Living Room / Amazon.com toastabag

« on: August 23, 2012, 12:41 AM »

Is this something you use or would like to? The pictures show just plain toast, but the manufacturer's video shows making toasted sandwiches with it.

   

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Living Room / The Googler Who Looked At The Worst Of The Internet

« on: August 23, 2012, 12:33 AM »

Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly consisted of reviewing things like bestiality, necrophilia, body mutilations (gore, shock, beheadings, suicides), explicit fetishes (like diaper porn) and child pornography found across all Google products — an experience that he found “scarring.” The company refused to make him a full-time worker, keeping him on contract status without much of a support system.

What is your opinion of his experience?

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: August 23, 2012, 12:26 AM »

Would any of you run MIT Scratch on a Raspberry Pi?  Would you do it if you had a lot of mosquito bites?

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Living Room / Re: 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography

« on: August 22, 2012, 11:27 PM »

They also did this: A camera that can see around corners. The video for that is here and here.

     

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 21, 2012, 02:22 PM »

You can always tell when the self-employed people aren't very busy as they seem to post a lot more at DC then...

-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 07:56 AM)

For those people I have these:
World's Geekiest License Plates (2012 Version)   http://www.cio.com/s...de1?source=ctwartcio

Tech Survivors Geek Technologies That Still Thrive 25 to 50 Years Later  
http://www.cio.com/s...5-to-50-Years-Later-

The Evolution of the Desktop GUI  
http://www.cio.com/a...n_of_the_Desktop_GUI

For the desperately procrastinating, I have these(Let me know if they should be in a different topic):  

How to theoretically turn a sphere inside out    
http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related

A camera that can see around corners    
http://www.cnn.com/2...a-corners/index.html

Visualizing Light at Trillion FPS, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab    
http://web.media.mit...raskar//trillionfps/

Let me know if you want your mind blown. I have some links to Mind Blow videos.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 19, 2012, 02:28 AM »

For those who didn't understand the "his name is Mudd" reference, here is an article explaning the history and meaning of the phrase.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 18, 2012, 02:05 PM »

More stuff that you just can't make up...

http://www.huffingto...rida_n_1792366.html?

Jackmeoff Mudd Arrested In Fort Lauderdale

A South Florida man with an unfortunate name -- or a strong commitment to pranking police -- was arrested last Friday on a litany of charges in Fort Lauderdale.

Jackmeoff Mudd, 54, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.

There are more crazy names there, e.g. "Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop".

Seriously? Yep.

-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 08:02 AM)

I guess Jackmeoff expects the worst since "his name is Mudd".

City names can be funny also: 11 wackiest signs for actual cities

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Living Room / Re: How to Make Your Lost Phone Findable

« on: August 14, 2012, 11:14 AM »

knowingly sold a phone flagged as lost or stolen could be found guilty of Possession of Stolen Property.  It really is very easy to check the status, so ignorance is a pretty weak excuse.

-Edvard (August 14, 2012, 09:53 AM)

Let us know how to check this out. I'm sure someone out there is in this situation.

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Living Room / How to Make Your Lost Phone Findable

« on: August 14, 2012, 01:02 AM »

This is an article about phone apps you can install to find your phone when you lose it: Find My iPhone,(and for Android phones) Where’s My Droid and Plan B. The author isn't theoretical, he had his phone stolen and recovered with one of these programs. You can't use them if your phone is part of the Robot Rebellion.

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Living Room / Re: Win XP emoji font needed

« on: August 14, 2012, 12:13 AM »

I searched the Chrome Web Store for emoji extensions and tried 3 of them. The 'Emoji' extension(see below) showed a whole block of older images, but only those. The "Show Me Emoji!!" extension showed all the images I tested in the document, but you had to highlight them and they showed in a separate window(useful, but not what I was looking for).