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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - "invisible" Title pasting error.

« Last post by IainB on December 25, 2016, 06:07 PM »

The text in the clip is in the spoiler:

Spoiler

I had just selected the default Title "NOTE" and pasted over it with the clipboard string: "Words and Phrases to Lose in 2017" - which was the article title for the URL saved in the Memo pane.
Note the string is invisible in the Title in the Memo pane, though it is visible (correctly) in the Grid pane.
This was the second instance - the first was in the
lower clip in the Grid. It is inconsistently repeatable, but happens often. The invisible string will appear in the Title field in the Memo pane after a re-sort.

@mouser: This non-fatal, episodic error first occurred some time ago in CHS v3.6, and as it was a minor annoyance I did not think to mention it until today (using CHS v3.9) - when I recalled your request for feedback.
So I took the time to repeat it after its first occurrence today - just to see if I could repeat it - and I was able to do so, per the screenshot above.
I had never bothered before, because it was a minor issue.

However, it is an inconsistently repeatable error, as I can't make it occur every time I try, so I have not yet figured out the exact conditions to force it to happen, though it only seems to happen when something has been pasted (not typed) into the Title field in the Memo pane - whereupon the text "NOTE" in the Title field is cleared/deleted, but the pasted string is not yet displayed.

The "invisible" Title text of the changed clip in the Memo pane only becomes visible after the clips have been re-arranged in the Grid display, which can happen if the user clicks on one of the other clips in the Grid (whereupon the clip just edited is moved to the bottom of the Grid), or re-sorts the Grid. Either of those actions seems to force the CHS GUI display to be updated/re-displayed. I think that probably indicates that the bug may simply be due to a delay in displaying whatever is in the relevant display output buffer for the Title field in the Memo pane.

An additional note (may be relevant):
I am experiencing this error more frequently now, because I have changed my work processes to work around the problem of CHS not capturing the URL metadata of text clipped from some web browsers. I am now usually using Slimjet (a Chrome-based browser), and CHS does not capture the URL metadata of clips from Chrome browsers (though it is always captured in the Clipboard).

So I now have a frequently-used tedious manual workaround consisting of these steps:

• Select the text in the web page to be copied.
• Press CTRL+C (copies the text to the clipboard).
• Press CTRL+L (selects the URL in the address pane).
• Press CTRL+C (copies the URL to the clipboard).
• Open CHS main screen.
• Mouse-select the relevant clip for Step 2 in the Grid.
• Mouse-select the Notes column field for that clip in the Grid.
• Press CTRL+V (copies the URL to the Notes field for that clip).
• Mouse-select a point in the text of that clip in the Memo pane to place the cursor where I want to insert the URL also.
• Press CTRL+V (copies the URL into the Memo pane at the cursor-point selected).
• Select some of the text in the Memo pane for that clip, to use as a Title.
• Press CTRL+C (copies the text selected to the clipboard).
• Mouse-select the Title text (default is "NOTE") of that clip in the Memo pane.
• Press CTRL+V (pastes the current text from the clipboard over the Title text selected).
• IT IS AT THIS POINT that the Title text just goes blank (per screenshot above).

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DC Gamer Club / Steam Operator Valve Fined $2.1 Million for Refusing Refunds in Australia

« Last post by IainB on December 25, 2016, 04:33 AM »

Steam Operator Valve Fined $2.1 Million for Refusing Refunds in Australia
(Click on the link to read the article.)
Steam apparently had to pay punitive damages because they showed a total disregard for local Australian consumer rights laws governing refunds.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Fallout 3 (GOTYE) on Windows 10 Pro.

« Last post by IainB on December 25, 2016, 04:26 AM »

Just a note to say that on an HP Pavilion 15 laptop with an i7 processor, Fallout 3 GOTYE for a while now has no longer worked properly under Win10-64 Pro after the Anniversary update, and still doesn't after subsequent updates.
It still works on the Samsung-S3 laptop though.   

On the HP Pavilion 15 laptop, the symptoms are, whether the game is launched:

• (a) via the link for the Steam GOTYE launch icon, or
• (b) directly via the Game Launcher icon,

- though the usual warning about "This app might not work correctly ... under this version of Windows...", everything seems to work just fine, even after a "continue" from last game saved or a specific saved game is selected from the menu.
What happens then is that the game starts to load and one or two statistics reports (number of things killed, etc.) are displayed about the loading game, then the game crashes with a nondescript Windows apology being displayed. This is consistently repeatable.

I checked that the files listed above for C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Redist\DirectX were all present and correct, and ran DXSETUP.exe - which completed OK - but it seemed to make no difference, and still the game crashed exactly as described (as above in this comment).

It also seems to make no difference whether one enables the Intel Integrated Graphics processor or the NVIDIA Geoforce GPU.

Fallout New Vegas seems to work fine with no probs though.

Stumped. Very frustrating.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by IainB on December 25, 2016, 01:16 AM »

Yes, as @CWuestefeld seems to suggest, the construction and maintenance/perpetuation of the entirely artificial antithetical divide doesn't have to be tolerated/accepted or "bought into" by the people - that would certainly not have been the purpose of the plebiscite - people were not being asked to vote for that, nor would they probably have imagined that they were voting for such a negative and nonconstructive end.

At best the current situation would seem set to hinder the progress towards the peaceful completion of proper democratic due process, and at worst it's going to risk potentially fomenting unrest and further antithetical division. Sure, maybe the latter might be a deliberate and ulterior unscrupulous objective for some in the game, and if it is, then it certainly seems to be succeeding in tightly winding up an awful lot of people and even apparently inciting them toward violence, but that's another matter - one cannot control events, but one can control how one responds to events. One does not have to let other people wind one up to the point of becoming a hothead where one could even consider committing violence towards one's fellows who have a differing point of view - if one doesn't want that to happen.

Either way, whilst things like the Snowden legal aid fund are apparently being misused as a sort of political football by proponents of one side of the divide or the other, then an unknown number of the silent majority are likely to look askance and withhold their $donations - I mean, it currently seems as though the people making the request for funds could be less interested in actually using it for Snowden's ultimate benefit than they are interested in using it as a gravy train for unscrupulous lawyers whilst they kick the political football around as a distraction. (Hey, it's a living - right?)

So the concern would be that one's donation could very probably end up being not very well-spent for the deserving purposes one had thought it would have properly and legitimately been intended for.
For example, this politically agnostic non-American was going to press the button to donate to the Snowden legal aid fund, until he saw that unfortunate gratuitous line, whereupon the brakes went hard on.
I mentioned above the work I had done on contracts with charitable organisations (including oxfam.org, lepra.org.uk, orderofstjohn.org). They operated along unambiguous, transparent, strong and consistent principled and ethical guidelines.
Donating to them was thus very much a matter of trust that one's $donation would fund delivery of service/support to the object of the charity, and similarly for the Snowden legal aid fund, though it is not a charity nor of similar type. However, by their own actions, the Snowden legal aid people have essentially ensured that not only will this potential donor withhold making a $donation now, but also probably in his lifetime.

I have only once before taken such a course of action, and that was with an NZ charitable organisation (no names, no pack drill) which was eventually exposed as having for several years apparently knowingly supported a parasitic, greedy and unscrupulous CEO who basically rode on the back of the charity, living the life of O'Reilly, including (from memory) excessive personal credit card spending, house loans, first class air travel everywhere on needless/pointless international trips, etc. It seemed to be a clear case of systemic corruption and tolerance of corruption, with very little proper prudential or fiduciary oversight/governance.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 11:43 PM »

":...you're either completely blind to the current political clime within this country - or you're indulging in wishful thinking. ..."
_____________________________

-40hz (December 23, 2016, 09:18 PM)

Oh, I think you are probably correct in that I am indeed arguably "...completely blind..." regarding the US political climate. I just don't understand it - never have really. It all seems so irrational - actually, "moronic" is the term that probably best describes it from my perspective. I detest that sort of behaviour from otherwise apparently intelligent adults, though I do understand (from observation) that not all such people are necessarily able to reason.

I have always been politically agnostic anyway - and that is regarding NZ and UK politics also. Most politics seem to me to be a farce - or at least, they would be a farce if the protagonists weren't so damn invested of themselves in what was going on. The absolute antipathy between the US groups seems to be almost palpable - it seems to be pure hatred/retaliation for real/imagined wrongs, at times. How could that be "healthy" by any definition? "Never mind the argument, feel the hatred" - sort of thing.

I saw a cartoon the other day that compared the recent US election to a choice for voters between using one or the other revolvers of the two candidates to play Russian roulette, with the difference that the Trump gun was loaded with only 3 live rounds and the Clinton gun was loaded with the full 6 rounds. I thought that probably could have summed up the dilemma faced by voters pretty well, though I don't know whether it was a fair/accurate comparison.
Certainly, you would seem to be correct that "...men of goodwill are conspicuously absent from the debate", except that it seems to be no longer a debate but violent intransigent disagreement bordering on open fascism, at times.

Either way, it would seem to be a mistake to mix political bigotry up with begging, if indeed the objective were to fill the begging bowl with as many $donations as possible. Any fule kno dat.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 05:58 PM »

Still on the subject of potential pardon for Snowden: I had an email from DemandProgress.org that reads:
(Includes two embedded links to donations page.)

Dear X,
Edward Snowden is one of the most important whistleblowers in American history.
Snowden's leaks about the far-reaching NSA surveillance led the agency to limit its bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records.1
But Trump and his CIA director have already said they consider Snowden a traitor. And since Snowden is currently living in exile in Russia, he'll be at the mercy of Trump's buddy Vladimir Putin.
With less than 30 days left before Trump's inauguration, Snowden's time is running out.
Will you chip in $5 to help call on President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before he leaves office?

The U.S.’s top lawyer, Eric Holder, has said that Snowden's leaks were a "public service."2 In an interview, he recognized that while the leaks were technically illegal, they prompted an important debate.

In less than 30 days we will inaugurate a president who has said Snowden is a traitor.3 Trump's pick for CIA chief agreed, saying Snowden should be brought back to the U.S. and tried for treason.4

Donald Trump has said that he wants to have the power to spy on his political enemies.5 It's only because of whistleblowers like Snowden that we, the American public, have any real chance to stop him.

We're calling on the Obama administration to pardon Edward Snowden before Inauguration Day. Will you chip in $5 to help free Snowden?

Thanks for standing with us,

David Segal, Demand Progress

DONATE
Sources:
1. NSA ends bulk collection of US phone records, Al Jazeera, November 28, 2015

2. Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed 'public service' with NSA leak, The Guardian, May 30, 2016

3. Ibid.

4. Benghazi Investigation and Hillary Clinton's Emails, C-SPAN, February 11, 2016

5. Donald Trump’s most chilling comment on the DNC hack had nothing to do with Russia, Vox, July 27, 2016

PAID FOR BY DEMAND PROGRESS (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Join our online community on Facebook or Twitter.

You can unsubscribe from this list at any time.
_________________________

Embedded in the email is a little box that says:

Obama has less than 30 days
lo pardon Edward Snowden.
Otherwise, Snowden could be
forced to live the rest of his life
in exile—or worse. Will you
chip in S5 to help call on
Obama to do the right thing
before Inauguration Day?
I'll donate

_________________________

So one can make a donation at the donation links to the actblue.com website, if one would like to help.
From what is mentioned on that website, I'm not sure, but it seems it could be a general-cause donation site, possibly with "Democrat"-inspired ideals - though I could not see that it specifically claims to be such.

That might, however, explain the curious gratuitous line in the body of the email from DemandProgress.org:

____________________________
"...at the mercy of Trump's buddy Vladimir Putin..."
____________________________

It beggars belief that, in requesting $donations for the general cause of Snowden's legal aid, the request would be couched in such terms as to include such a deliberate, gratuitous innuendo regarding the president-elect, thereby risking potentially provoking an adverse reaction and a withholding of funds from the human majority - the "basket of deplorables" - who voted for him.

From experience of having done quite a few large contracts for the fund-gathering arms of large international charitable organisations (including oxfam.org, lepra.org.uk, orderofstjohn.org), I learned two overlapping cardinal rules (and principles) that they all follow:

• never publicly discriminate amongst nor stigmatize one's donors - i.e., all donors are welcome and all donations are gratefully received.
  
  
• equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur (Latin) - translation: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
  Since horses' teeth grow over time, checking their length is a way of gauging old age, and therefore a sign of mistrust towards the giver. Never question the authenticity of the donation or the person making the donation.
  _________________________
  

Thus, whilst many people reading the request for donations might want to donate to Snowden's fund, I could imagine that many potential $donations might be withheld simply because the donors could have been put off by the political bigotry implicit in that gratuitous line about Trump. Goodness knows how many thousands of dollars in withheld donations that single line could have cost the cause.

Go figure.
Talk about cutting one's nose off to spite one's face. It seems cretinous to me, but then I never could understand the divisive, partisan and antithetical dichotomy apparently created by and seemingly fostered by American political camps, when we are all brothers under the skin.

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Living Room / Short animated video - the Employment.

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 07:56 AM »

I am unsure what this short animation is actually trying to say, but it seems to say a lot about working for a living:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Special Christmas offer on for Wonderfox Video Converter Factory Pro v11.0

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 07:37 AM »

Good news. There is a special Christmas offer on for Wonderfox Video Converter Factory Pro v11.0.
Go to: http://www.videoconv....com/christmas/?em12

Install it, launch it, register it with the license key given in an attached document file
Key is: VC-HDPB-B931700782-319DF5FC04-9CD690FFFD (Valid before January 7th, 2017)

I already had an unregistered installation of v11.0, so I just had to enter the license key to register it.
Works fine.   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.39.0 - Dec 22, 2016

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 05:48 AM »

@mouser: Thanks. I have dl CHS v3.29 (portable ,ZIP version) and it's going fine.

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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process

« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2016, 05:22 AM »

@Renegade: Yes, as you say, of course it's garbage science, but some people might quite rightly ask: "What's wrong with publishing it?" The alternative might be, for example, to (say) call it "fake news" or something, and then censor and censure the authors and put them in prison for nothing more than being nutjobs or simply exceedingly barmy.

Fortunately we have stopped the inhumane process of locking all barmy people and nutjobs up. It's not their fault that they seem to occupy a widely different reality to the rest of us.
As a child, I was fascinated by the concept of monasteries and convents. I asked my mother why these men and women would lock themselves up like that with groups of people who all believed the same sorts of things. She said that they had anomalous beliefs and thus had difficulty fitting in with a society that did not share their beliefs, and found that they were happier in the sort of "tribal lockups" (echo chambers) afforded by the convent/monastery. There they were happy and their collective energies could often be directed to doing useful/good things for others - enabling them to live potentially productive/useful lives -  rather than them being inhumanely locked up and whiling their lives away in the quiet Hell of a lunatic asylum.

The problem comes though, when people with strongly-held anomalous beliefs and views take to a public stage and adopt a charismatic messianic stance, and people start to fall under their spell. So an Austrian nutjob like Hitler, for example, could lobotomise a whole nation of apparently intelligent German people, who would then blindly follow him to perdition. He could do no wrong, and therefore, by following him - and by extension - neither could they (QED) - as the Nuremberg trials revealed. (Ring any bells?)

Such leaders do this by creating a hateful false and artificial dichotomy between "people who think correctly and believe correctly as we do" and those who don't - the "Others"). The "Other" will be variously regarded as being stupid, evil, deplorable unbelievers, or similar, and thus they are not real people deserving of a life of freedom and tolerance, and so must be variously converted, rehabilitated, re-educated, imprisoned, beaten up, or (at worst) tortured and beheaded/killed and have their property expropriated. Since the "Other" is not a real person like we are, then there is no ethical wrong in treating them like the scum/deplorables/unbelievers that they are - it is entirely legitimate to do so. This is simple fascism, and it seems to have invaded and permeated religion, Science and politics alike - including (say) from recent scary examples in the US, the EU, and of course the Middle East.

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Living Room / Re: Lifehacker: critique - the decline and fall?

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 09:56 PM »

The decline of Lifehacker may have something to do with it being a Gawker site.
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-Deozaan (December 21, 2016, 09:23 PM)

Aah, I see. Thanks. I had not realised that.

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Living Room / Lifehacker: critique - the decline and fall?

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 08:10 PM »

Time was when I considered the Lifehacker blog to be an essential item in my RSS feed agggregator - formerly Google Reader, now bazqux - but now, alas, not so much.

It's not that my tastes have changed particularly, but I am about to permanently delete Lifehacker blog from my bazqux feed-reader, because, quite frankly, it has become variously boring, useless and insubstantial.
Instead of it being full of seriously clever and useful tips n'tricks to - well, hacking one's life (as it was previously) - it now seems to have become a sort of Pinterest, focused on assorted vacuous, touchy-feely new age junk. In short, nothing like the meaty thing it used to be. Maybe what it used to be was unsustainable? I don't know, but I rather miss it anyway.

So I am disappointed. Yes, as a realist, I do understand that things are in state of perpetual dynamic change, but, from being arguably a leader, Lifehacker seems to have progressively sunk into an irrelevant editorial mediocrity, where its blog seems to be a list of apparently relatively fatuous content. It apparently does seem set on becoming irrelevant - much like the UN seems to be set on becoming (per George Bush).
One wonders: Is this the likely fate of all seemingly "good ideas" that manifest themselves as ideas only - unsustainable, no matter the number of camp-followers?
One suspects that it's all about "monetisation" and the inexorable drive to the bottom.

For example, today (2016-12-22):



Sheesh.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.38.0 BETA - Dec 16, 2016

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 07:00 PM »

CHS v2.38 BETA still running very nicely on my Win10-64 Pro super-discounted (>50%) Dick Smith closing-down-sale Intel i7 Pavilion 15 laptop (a nice laptop, but not without its shortcomings).
CHS is now blazingly fast, and, after years of teeth grinding sluggishness - finally, a pleasure to use!       

For Christmas(??), before you wrap it up, I would respectfully request that that you consider these changes (already suggested elsewhere on the DC Forum):

• restore/ensure the source URL capture to the Grid "Notes" column (I am really missing this. Users wanting this have to tediously manually work around the problem).
• OCR of any embedded text in image clips (most users would probably be able to make use of this).
• Enable the optional display of Grid fields (meta data) as selectable, editable and actionable rows beneath the Memo display (most users would probably be able to make use of this, and it would circumvent real and ergonomic problems of editing the Grid fields).
• restore/correct the meta data for image clips where the CHS image file has been edited (e.g., by SC). (Relevant to all users.)

There is also one new request:       (ingratiating smiley)

• Enable wiki-like - (say) [[link]] - linking between CHS records - maybe by new/smart use of SQL virtual folders(??).

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Living Room / Re: NASA’s Curiosity rover finds more evidence that Mars was once habitable

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 06:21 PM »

Journalists' editors are constantly seeking insubstantial but eye-grabbing headlines to turn dross into gold and catch the unwary reader's attention.
Statistically, there must be zillions of potentially habitable (by "life as we know it, Jim") planets in the universe, so I'd probably be more inclined to pay attention to this particular exciting headline:

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence that Mars was once inhabited.

I'm not absolutely sure, but I seem to recall as a child reading something by Swedenborg (I think it may have been his Arcana Coelestia) where it was indicated that Mars had indeed once been inhabited by life - now departed, but with a now residual spiritual dimension.
Who knows? He may well have been right!
His Arcana Coelestia certainly impressed me as having a solid philosophical construction, though he was apparently a bit of a heretic in his time.

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Living Room / Re: British companies to face big fines if data breaches occur

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 06:00 PM »

@Stephen66515: Had you intended a discussion on the OP - and if so, then what? -  or were you just posting the OP for information purposes? (Thankyou for posting it anyway.)

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Living Room / Re: British companies to face big fines if data breaches occur

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 05:57 PM »

Yes, do try to keep up @wraith808.   

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Living Room / Re: EU court rules against UK data retention laws

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 05:50 PM »

Note that: (my emphasis)

Europe's highest court said "general and indiscriminate retention of data" by governments is unlawful and cannot be justified within a democratic society. ...
__________________________

-Stephen66515 (December 21, 2016, 12:51 PM)

Slight irony there: The EU can tolerate it, because it is not a democracy (it's a federal state run by unelected "representatives"), but it's telling the UK how to suck eggs anyway.

However, though they may have it right if they are effectively saying that the law is "bad" per se, it would be a non sequitur ("does not follow") to say that it "...cannot be justified within a democratic society", because, well it just has been justified within a democratic society - i.e., the UK parliament passes the laws, and, last time I checked, the UK parliament is a pukka democratically elected body - unlike the EU, which is not.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - use of audio in note-taking

« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2016, 12:57 AM »

I have mentioned in this thread the very useful/clever features of OneNote. Of particular relevance is OneNote's use of audio as a datatype.
If you don't know what the heck I am talking about and if you'd like to find out more, there is a good introduction from PCworld.com - here: How to record audio with OneNote to supercharge your note-taking

EDIT 2017-01-07 0131hrs: See also my notes on page 1 of this discussion thread - Searching for information in audio notes in OneNote.

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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process

« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2016, 07:11 PM »

^^ Depressing and breathtakingly moronic.
I know, I know. I should have taken your warning and not clicked.   

Looking on the positive side though, at least the Internet has enabled the authors an avenue to freely express themselves and publish that expression - which, I guess is what it's probably all about in both cases. Sort of "Self-actualisation" - maybe even cathartic "baggage-release".

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Living Room / How To Stop On Snow With ABS Brakes

« Last post by IainB on December 19, 2016, 06:54 PM »

Thought this was interesting and probably relevant here:
How To Stop On Snow With ABS Brakes

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Living Room / Re: How SneakEmail Once Saved Me From A Phishing Attack

« Last post by IainB on December 19, 2016, 04:42 PM »

Yes, I have used opayq (now blur) from https://abine.com
It's proved very handy, and it's $FREE - though there are $PAID options.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Exclusive Giveaway for DonationCoder - HD Video Converter Factory Pro

« Last post by IainB on December 18, 2016, 06:47 PM »

I don't know whether this offer continues indefinitely for DC members, but I thought I should update this, thread since I have migrated to another laptop and recently installed the latest versions of my copies of:

• Wonderfox Video Converter Pro: (now v11.0) though I only have occasional need to use this software, it seems to be very well-designed for what it does (convert video from one format to another).
  Unfortunately, the licence for this has expired. (So it only converts the first 5 minutes of any video.)
  
  
• Wonderfox DVD Ripper Pro: (now v8.1) and still a great product IMHO and still relatively very fast - I just did an HQ rip of one of our movie DVDs with it and it took approx. 25 mins - DVD Shrink would have typically taken about 50mins. for a standard quality rip.
  Fortunately, the licence for this is current. (Which is what I expected it was intended to be.)
  

Both products:

• are relatively easy to use,
• have a relatively intuitive interface,
• use standard settings by default, so there's no need for the user to know much about videos or formats - though there seem to be plenty of options in settings for more expert video users who might want to change things about.
• have good online support/video tutorials.

I shall check with @dapeping regarding the intended life/use of the special offer Wonderfox Video Converter Pro licence, as I wasn't too sure what to expect about that.

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Living Room / Short Video - Doco about a thief, made using the hacked phone he stole.

« Last post by IainB on December 18, 2016, 02:08 PM »

An inadvertent but interesting study of human nature - the thief's and the man who made the documentary.

Published on 13 Dec 2016
After my phone got stolen, I quickly realized just how much of my personal information and data the thief had instantly obtained. So, I let another phone get stolen. This time my phone was pre-programmed with spyware so I could keep tabs on the thief in order to get to know him. However, to what extent is it possible to truly get to know someone by going through the content of their phone?

In the Netherlands, 300 police reports a week are filed for smartphone-theft. Besides losing your expensive device, a stranger has access to all of your photos, videos, e-mails, messages and contacts.

Yet, what kind of person steals a phone? And where do stolen phones eventually end up?

The short documentary ‘Find My Phone’ follows a stolen phone’s second life by means of using spyware.

Although you’ll meet the person behind the theft up close and personal, the question remains: how well can you actually get to know someone when you base yourself on the information retrieved from their phone?

Do you want the full story behind the film? You can contact me in order to answer all of your questions by means of an interview (I’m proficient in Dutch and English), or to invite me to a film festival.

[email protected]
anthonyvdmeer.nl
#FMP
Dutch version can be found here: https://vimeo.com/191763814

-IainB (December 18, 2016, 02:03 PM)

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Living Room / Interesting "stuff" - Doco about a thief, made using the hacked phone he stole.

« Last post by IainB on December 18, 2016, 02:03 PM »

An inadvertent but interesting study of human nature - the thief's and the man who made the documentary.

Published on 13 Dec 2016
After my phone got stolen, I quickly realized just how much of my personal information and data the thief had instantly obtained. So, I let another phone get stolen. This time my phone was pre-programmed with spyware so I could keep tabs on the thief in order to get to know him. However, to what extent is it possible to truly get to know someone by going through the content of their phone?

In the Netherlands, 300 police reports a week are filed for smartphone-theft. Besides losing your expensive device, a stranger has access to all of your photos, videos, e-mails, messages and contacts.

Yet, what kind of person steals a phone? And where do stolen phones eventually end up?

The short documentary ‘Find My Phone’ follows a stolen phone’s second life by means of using spyware.

Although you’ll meet the person behind the theft up close and personal, the question remains: how well can you actually get to know someone when you base yourself on the information retrieved from their phone?

Do you want the full story behind the film? You can contact me in order to answer all of your questions by means of an interview (I’m proficient in Dutch and English), or to invite me to a film festival.

[email protected]
anthonyvdmeer.nl
#FMP
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by IainB on December 18, 2016, 02:33 AM »

I had been puzzling for some time over the US government's absolute refusal to pardoning Snowden, despite their having what is - on the face of it - an encouraging and "safe harbor" policy stance towards whistle-blowers.
Then I read this today on the David Icke website:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks.)

Obama Calls Alternative Media 'Domestic Propagandists"
BY DAVID ON 17 DECEMBER 2016 GMT ACTIVISM,  USELESS MEDIA
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Obama Calls Alternative Media 'Domestic Propagandists
BY DAVID ON 17 DECEMBER 2016 GMT
Tags: ACTIVISM,  USELESS MEDIA

‘The war on alternative media intensified today when Obama blamed talk radio and other “domestic propagandists” for the rise of “fake news.”

“If fake news that’s being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it’s not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect,” Obama said. “It doesn’t seem that farfetched compared to some of the other stuff folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.”’

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Of course they can't pardon him and must keep him as a social pariah. He has lifted the proverbial stone and pointed out for all to see these creepy-crawling, slithering, maggoty creatures that have been living under that rock for years, with us all oblivious to them meanwhile.
And Snowden has said "Look! Maggots!" - and oops! - there it is, the US State Government.
Furthermore, the Snowden information has been distributed by organs not authorised or approved to do so by the US government. They were not the Official Government Propagandists, you see. So, they must not be believed, because they do not speak for the Ministry of Truth.

Pardoning Snowden would be a politically suicidal move by the US government, since it would be an open and frank self-admission of what a canker government - and especially its secret services - has become on the American and world societies and geo-political fronts.
The lie must be - has to be - maintained, at all costs.