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Living Room / Re: Yahoo! accounts hacked... two years ago!
« Last post by Deozaan on September 23, 2016, 01:48 PM »
I just saw that this was mentioned in this other thread:

The Hostile Email Landscape
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Would you care to share the method, if you remember it ? Thanks.

He just did:

if you click No, you will only get what you've asked for
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Living Room / Yahoo! accounts hacked... two years ago!
« Last post by Deozaan on September 23, 2016, 01:40 PM »
Yahoo just announced yesterday about this hack that took place 2 years ago:


yapoo.jpg


Yahoo announced on Thursday that the account information of at least 500 million users was stolen by hackers two years ago, in the biggest known intrusion of one company’s computer network.

In a statement, Yahoo said user information — including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions — was compromised in 2014 by what it believed was a “state-sponsored actor.”


from New York Times
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Living Room / Re: Trying to remember quote about design and beauty
« Last post by Deozaan on September 22, 2016, 06:47 PM »
Sounds like something James Dyson said:

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?
« Last post by Deozaan on September 22, 2016, 12:09 AM »
Wow! That's awesome! :)
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Removed Firefox Hello

Admittedly, it's not a feature I ever really got the chance to use, but I liked the idea of it. I'm kind of sad to see it go.
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Living Room / Re: Slow motion trained birds
« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2016, 06:21 PM »
It's funny to see what looks like the slow reaction of the others who are trying to film the birds. Maybe it's just the camera angle, but to me it looks like most of the people trying to take video/photos are not tracking the birds fast enough as they fly.
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Is anyone finding that the newsletter is being marked as spam by your email provider?

It wasn't marked as spam for me. I'm using Gmail.
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Would it perhaps be easier to copy/paste your articles into something like Google Docs, adjust the formatting a bit (as needed) so it knows how to update the table of contents, and then export as PDF?

It might not take very long in each article to select the title and headings and change their formatting as appropriate, especially if you use keyboard shortcuts.
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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?
« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2016, 02:25 PM »
I've had the same experience. But I've been waiting a while, and have seen nothing official, so I think I'm going to take my chances.

That's how it works. It's not a week after you first think about ordering it. It's a week after you actually do order it. :D
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Living Room / Re: The Walled Garden Closes In
« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2016, 02:18 PM »
I never got into the portable game systems (I tried the Playstation one back when they first came out), but apparently Nintendo did test these waters, in much the same way, for much the same reason, with the same response, though it didn't hurt sales.  But they figured out a way to get it back in with their next iteration, which says something IMO.

I'd forgotten that the GBA SP didn't have a headphone jack. That didn't bother me as much as the fact that the GBA Link Cable connection was right next to it, and some games that connected to the GameCube, such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles or Zelda Four Swords, used a GBA Link Cable connector that covered the power port. So if your battery got low, you couldn't charge and play at the same time. This was made even more aggravating in a game like Zelda Four Swords where if the game lost a connection to the GBA for more than a couple of seconds, it would kick you out to the menu.

"Yeah, you know the last 45 minutes you've spent trying to finish this level with 3 of your friends? Well, all that time was wasted and the progress lost because one of you dared to let your battery die."
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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?
« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2016, 01:27 PM »
I've heard murmurings that the S2 will be out soon, but not sure that I want to wait- we know how amorphous 'soon' is.

In my experience, "soon" usually means about a week after I've purchased the older product. :mad:
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Living Room / Re: How to stop friends getting notified of my posts in groups?
« Last post by Deozaan on September 17, 2016, 02:32 PM »
I couldn't help but think of the old joke "Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this."  Doctor's reply:  "Don't move your arm like that.  That will be $50."  :)

You can tell it's a really old joke because the doctor only charges $50. :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: MakeUseOf.com Selection of Best Portable Apps
« Last post by Deozaan on September 16, 2016, 08:29 PM »
Cool to see Skrommel and Skwire's apps made the list!
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Deozaan on September 16, 2016, 08:01 PM »
You can tell it's not a real product because the Apple logo is so small.

Also, gives new nightmares to:

http://appleplugs.com/
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Space Engineers
« Last post by Deozaan on September 15, 2016, 01:33 PM »
Necro-thread, arise!

I haven't played this game in forever--not because it's not fun, but because it's still in Early Access and I tend to not buy/play Early Access games.

Right now this game is on IndieGameStand's Pay What You Want deal, with a minimum price of $6 for a Steam key.

Here's one of the more recent devlog/update videos:

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Deozaan on September 13, 2016, 06:07 PM »
We just released another beta update. This one took a lot longer than previous ones, but is also packed with more fixes and changes.

With this release, we fixed one of the major outstanding known issues, which was that you could complete a level and get game over at the same time if you happened to fill all the meters with your last move or just as time ran out. That shouldn't happen anymore. We also gave the game a graphical overhaul in some aspects, improving the visual quality on higher resolution screens.

But probably the most notable visual change is something that I think is a good compromise between what Jibz was requesting ("dice-like" images that rotate) and our desire to make it look good without confusing people too much. We've added guides to the cubes which will show you which direction you need to swipe each cube to get a certain color to appear. Take a look at these before and after images:

Cubiq - Green Sword - Before & After.gif

In the image above, you can see that you would swipe from the top down to get yellow. Or from the right to the left to get red. Et cetera.

Cubiq - Forge Meters - Before & After.gif

The image above is just a before and after shot of the higher quality images used for the meters. Please note that there is some dithering in the above GIFs to reduce filesize which lowers the quality a bit.

Visit the website for the full changelog.
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It would be fun(?) if the nick for the IRC Client wasn't always "DC-App_" by default. Maybe you could follow the current trend of doing a randomized name with an [adjective] [animal] format.

  • Angry Koala
  • Joyous Giraffe
  • Sleepy Bear
  • Indifferent Honey Badger
  • Hungry Sloth

Just keep in mind that Freenode has a 16 character limit on nicks. So longer ones, like "Indifferent Honey Badger" won't work.
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Today my PC didn't wake up from sleep properly. :(
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Deozaan on September 10, 2016, 07:34 PM »
This is how every error message should be represented:
https://httpstatusdogs.com/

Most of those were pretty good. :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: The Walled Garden Closes In
« Last post by Deozaan on September 09, 2016, 05:42 AM »
I'm not sure that this necessarily has something to do with DRM though. I mean, I can't see an explanation as to why it would.

Did you read the linked article?
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Living Room / Re: The Walled Garden Closes In
« Last post by Deozaan on September 08, 2016, 08:40 PM »
I dunno how I feel about it. On the one hand, it's "progress" and in a couple of months there will be plenty of earphones with the new connector. I can see this as being desirable if the new connector were something open and ubiquitous, like USB-C (which isn't quite ubiquitous yet, but will likely get there within a couple years).

On the other hand, it's Apple, and their connector is proprietary so they can charge you $75 for an adapter which costs them $0.35 to make. Either that or $125 for some Bluetooth earbuds.

Also, reading that article you linked has caused me to consider some other possibilities that I hadn't thought of before. :-\
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Thanks! Someone recommended Tropico (3?) to me a few years ago and I never got around to trying it out. Now I can. :)
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by Deozaan on September 07, 2016, 02:28 PM »
I recently attended a lecture about studies and data on marriage and families (and how/why they're important to society). Thinking economics was just about money/finance and stock markets/exchanges, I was puzzled about why an economics professor was giving the lecture. I voiced my confusion to someone sitting nearby and was informed that economics covers a much broader scope than simply money, and had a book recommended to me: Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan.

Naked Economics Cover.jpg

Finally! A book about economics that won’t put you to sleep. In fact, you won’t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it’s a necessary investment—with a blessedly sure rate of return. Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask, the breezy Naked Economics gives readers the tools they need to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not so dismal science.

The author promises that there will be no charts, graphs, or math formulas in the book. He explains in plain English what economics is, and perhaps more importantly, why it matters.

I had no idea!

I'm finding the book (and topic) fascinating so far. And even though I'm currently only 2 chapters into it, I'd recommend it, especially as an introduction to economics.
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I'm about go put my machine to sleep for the night. We'll see if it goes back to having problems waking up the display after sleep. Wish me luck!

First day after sleep with the old drivers installed: It woke up from sleep properly! :Thmbsup: Hopefully the problem is resolved for good. :D
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