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Google? No privacy? Oh, Capt. Obvious was here.-Tuxman (February 14, 2010, 11:14 PM)
January 28, International Data Privacy Day 2010
Ixquick, the world's most private search engine, and its U.S. brand, Startpage.com, today announced the release of a new proxy service that allows users to surf the web with complete privacy. The proxy lets users browse websites safely and anonymously, without passing on any private, personally identifiable information to the websites they view.
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The proxy service is covered by the same privacy policy that has made Ixquick the industry leader when it comes to search engine privacy. Ixquick does not record IP addresses, make a record of users' searches, or record details about proxy usage. The company's data collection practices are third-party certified with the "European Privacy seal" and widely considered the best in the industry.
The proxy service is being launched today, January 28th, to celebrate international Data Privacy Day.
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Damn, and I was thinking about getting into gaming in 2012. Figured by then I'd have the money.Zaine.-zridling (January 13, 2010, 05:56 PM)
But a few days ago were you saying "Twenty-nine"? Or "Twenty-Oh-Nine"?-Innuendo (January 01, 2010, 10:36 PM)
Years ago I looked up what they called the first decade of the 1900s. Most used the term "aught," as in 19-aught-7, or "Back in 'aught-04' we ate dirt and were glad to have it!" I've since said 20-aught-1,2,3,... 9 to the quirky faces of my friends. You might also ask, will the same "TeeVee" people say "Twenty-one hundred fourteen" in the next century!
-zridling (January 03, 2010, 03:45 AM)
"Uh, where are we going?... And why are we in this handbasket?"
)VideoLAN Project to launch VLMC video editor.
The VideoLAN Project developers behind the popular open source VLC Media Player are expected to officially announce the addition of a new video editing project by the end of the month.
Originally the announcement was expected during the VideoLAN Dev Days meeting in Paris, now concluded. The VideoLAN Movie Creator, also known as VLMC, will be a free cross-platform video editing tool that offers the "features to realise semi-professional quality movies", while remaining "simple and user-friendly".
Some years ago, I upgraded ImageMagick, only to find that all my server-side code-- which automatically generated thumbnails from uploaded images-- had started spewing all over itself, chewing up CPU, and creating some of the most hideously deformed thumbnail images ever. See, I was used to using the following command:
# mogrify -geometry 60x999 blah.s.jpg
...to scale the thumbnail proportionally to 60 pixels wide, with the height being whatever is consistent with the same aspect ratio and 60 pixels wide. A 600x400 picture would become a 60x40 thumbnail. The "999" was a special key number, you see-- it told ImageMagick to scale proportionally. Apparently they'd never bothered to code a proper option for only specifying one dimension, so this hack was the best they could do.
So I upgraded, and found that my thumnails were now... 60 pixels wide, and 999 pixels tall. They'd removed the special handling.
Now I use "9999" for that command. It's still an awful hack, but at least it isn't chewing up my CPU as it tries to blow everything up to a thousand vertical pixels every time someone uploads something. At least, until they change something else and I have to make it "99999".
Never worked for me BTW.-Edvard (September 10, 2009, 10:28 AM)
I've been experimenting with hypnogogic and lucid dream states since I learned about them in college.-40hz (September 10, 2009, 12:47 PM)
Trust me. I'm VERY conservative with my privacy settings, don't even have a picture of myself as my profile photo and I don't use ANY apps.#6: Finally a REALLY good excuse to END my facebook account.Just set reasonable privacy settings, limit the information you share, and don't install crap apps? Problem solved-Edvard (September 09, 2009, 12:13 PM)-f0dder (September 09, 2009, 05:45 PM)
