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In TechDirt there is news of key Internet issues being addressed and resolved at last in the Middle East:

Just about any article in TechDirt now is utterly hilarious once you manage to get over the anger for the insanity.

But that one is particularly funny! ;D  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: A warning to anybody who is looking to purchase a VPS.
« Last post by Renegade on September 10, 2014, 01:44 AM »
the $0.91cent monthly fee

Uh... and you expected something different? That's a completely insanely low fee for a VPS. It's nowhere near realistic.

Take your lumps and walk away. It's not worth pursuing.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 08:59 PM »
PayPal to accept Bitcoin:

http://www.bloomberg...itcoin-payments.html


EBay’s PayPal Unit to Start Accepting Bitcoin Payments

EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal service will start accepting bitcoins, opening up the world’s second-biggest Internet payment network to virtual currency transactions.

“We’re announcing PayPal’s first foray into bitcoin,” Bill Ready, the chief of EBay’s Braintree unit, said at Techcrunch’s Disrupt SF conference yesterday. “Over the coming months we’ll allow our merchants to accept bitcoin. On the consumer side it will be a sleek experience.”

EBay, as the world’s biggest Web marketplace and operator of a global payments service, is the most significant business to date that’s embraced bitcoin. The move could potentially enable PayPal’s 152 million registered accounts to transact using the virtual currency, spurring wider use and acceptance of bitcoin, according to Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc.

“PayPal integrating bitcoin into Braintree is a very substantial development,” Luria said. “Not only will it make it possible for some of the fastest-growing apps to integrate bitcoin seamlessly, it opens the door for PayPal to integrate bitcoin into its main wallet functionality. If that happens millions of retailers will de facto be accepting bitcoin overnight.”


More at the link.
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 07:50 PM »
Somebody made an interesting poster:



In other whistleblowing news...

http://benswann.com/...tleblower-documents/

Update: Congressman’s Office In Possession of 100,000 CDC Whistleblower Documents?

Congressman Bill Posey’s office has confirmed exclusively to Benswann.com that a “very large number” of documents have been turned over by CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, who has admitted that the CDC suppressed information about the links between the MMR vaccine and autism in some cases.

According to Congressman Posey’s spokesman, George Cecala, “I can confirm that we have received a very large number of documents and we are going through those documents now. There are a lot of them, so it will take some time.” Cecala could not say exactly how many documents are in possession of the Congressman’s staff though sources tell me that as many as 100,000 documents have been handed over.

That's going to drive a lot of people bonkers & frothing at the mouth. On both sides.
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I've got the distinct feeling that Atwood & co. had an understanding that Gruber was pretty much a capital dick before they did much, and tried to deal with it as nicely as possible. But, that's just my own impression. I could be off base there.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 09:04 AM »
The Possession of Michael King

possession of michael king.jpg

If you're into horror, and supernatural horror, this is a fairly decent one. It's not the best out there, but it's still worth a watch. Horror is a hard genre to get down right. It's probably one of the most difficult. This film does a good job of balancing everything all the way around.

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 08:12 AM »
Bail-in :P
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Seemingly simple media player request
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 07:55 AM »
The tricky bit is to also be able to play a still (Tif, JPeg .....) after a video for either a fixed time or be triggered manually to then play the next video in the playlist which will then go to a still again and so on. 

I think you'll be best off creating a motion JPEG or short video clip with the stills.

And have a keypress to go to black if required.

That seems like a bit much to ask of a video player. Why would anyone ever need that?

My favourite video player is ALShow (used on my 3rd monitor mostly). It has a similar function for that (press ESC), but it minimizes itself to the taskbar notification area (system tray).

I think you need to rethink how the presentation will work. Most likely you will need human interaction there, especially for the stills.
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 09, 2014, 07:42 AM »
Hippogriff
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Here's the project:

* WebCheckStephen.zip (30.35 kB - downloaded 602 times.)

You can run the debug or compile it yourself. It's done in VS2010.

The WebClient method is actually better, but the way I have that there is a bit more visual with a control, etc. Also, you can actually surf with it.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 08:54 PM »
For those that like heavier stuff, Exodus - Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer):



Just don't post the lyrics to Facebook or you'll go to jail. Really. Exodus posted about it here. Gary Holt chimes in on the topic:

“The idea that an individual in this great country of ours could be arrested for simply posting lyrics to a song is something I never believed could happen in a free society,” states EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt.

Holt is one wicked guitarist. I saw him play with Slayer just after Hanneman took ill from a spider bite.
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 08:31 PM »
Truckly
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Living Room / Re: Google playing dirty, or being a nice guy?
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 08:14 PM »
Via google they leave it open so to be indexed.

I rather doubt this. Google web crawlers are likely run entirely differently on different IP addresses and wouldn't be sending the same HTTP header information.
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Living Room / Google playing dirty, or being a nice guy?
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 11:12 AM »
I'm sure a lot of people have noticed this, but if you visit a pay site you'll hit the paywall. However, if you hit the site through a Google search, you're good to go. Here's an example:

Search term: Queen ‘horrified’ that Scotland might go it alone

Link: http://www.theaustra...n.com.au/news/world/
queen-horrified-that-scotland-might-go-it-alone/story-fnb64oi6-1227050425460

Google redirector: https://www.google.com.au/url?
sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2F
www.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fqueen-horrified-that-scotland-might-go-it-alone%2F
story-fnb64oi6-1227050425460&ei=KtQNVPOFCoj18QWEpoHYBA&usg=AFQjCNFugi1j-
g6v6hQHYGgSbEPBP_KDZQ&sig2=jWjXoevRlFQSMwvhnZba8w

Now, it's nice to get the whole article, but is this boosting Google when you use a Google redirector link for other people?

Has anyone tried this on other search engines?
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 11:02 AM »
spaghetti
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 09:55 AM »
This is funny... but way too esoteric for the silly humour thread:



You have to watch it to the end though.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 09:44 AM »
Here's an excellent, simple explanation of elliptic curve point addition, which is used in elliptic curved cryptography like Bitcoin uses:



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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 08, 2014, 09:33 AM »
Balls
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Is it for Markdown, Standard Markdown, Github Flavoured Markdown, YankeesSuck, Dicknose Flavoured Markdown...?

FWIW - CommonMark has an online test here:

http://jgm.github.io/stmd/js/

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Fight! Fight!  :Thmbsup:

I want to see blood a crash a null pointer exception!
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I was already using a webBrowser control and was looking into using the HTML Agility Pack I got off NuGet to do this, but it is seeming like a pain in the ass...Also..I suck BADLY with Regex lol

You need to decide on which control you will use. I'll use the stock control here.

Code: C# [Select]
  1. private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
  2.         {
  3.             if (webBrowser1.DocumentText.Contains("No Messages Found")) {
  4.                 this.Text = "No Messsaged Found found";
  5.             }
  6.         }

That is all you need.
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Developer's Corner / Re: If programming languages were weapons
« Last post by Renegade on September 07, 2014, 10:25 PM »
Those were good!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by Renegade on September 07, 2014, 10:21 PM »
Trailerpark
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