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Living Room / Re: XBone (XBox One) and Microsoft's desktop view

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 20, 2013, 07:47 PM »

  They've got another way of boning everyone hidden somewhere.  I think it's pretty sad that you have to connect it to the internet and register it just to be able to use it.  What about the people that don't have internet?

  I wouldn't buy one anyway......

-Tinman57 (June 19, 2013, 07:28 PM)

If they don't already have, they may implement it in the future. See Sony's removal of boot to other os option from PS3.

-eleman (June 20, 2013, 12:48 AM)

  Yeah, I remember that.  Hard to believe that they pulled that one off....

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Living Room / Re: Bug Bounty From MS

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 20, 2013, 07:43 PM »

Do we send the bugg reports to MS or the NSA?

-Stoic Joker (June 19, 2013, 08:00 PM)

  Don't matter who you send it to, the NSA will get a copy BEFORE the intended recipient does....

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Found Deals and Discounts / Browser Song Lyrics

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 20, 2013, 07:34 PM »

  IT'S FREE!

Tweak your browser to show YouTube song lyrics

06.20.2013 7:07 AM

Available for all the major browsers, this handy extension lets you sing along to your favorite music videos.

http://www.pcworld.c...ube-song-lyrics.html

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Living Room / Re: Google forbids resale or lending of Glass

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 20, 2013, 07:31 PM »

  I predicted this somewhere in the forum.....

Google Glass panic triggers rise in facial-recognition blockers

06.19.2013 12:20 PM

Researchers in Japan have come up with a novel way to keep your face out of other people's snapshots taken on digital cameras, smartphones, and possibly Google Glass.

http://www.techhive....nition-blockers.html

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 20, 2013, 07:21 PM »

  Aaron's Law sounds like some good legislation, if it gets passed....

The Internet and all those who care about Aaron Swartz took a big step forward today

Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Ron Wyden just introduced "Aaron's Law", which would fix some of the worst parts of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), including those which make it a potential crime to violate terms of service agreements -- that fine print that nobody reads at the bottom of a website.

The CFAA is the law under which Aaron and other innovators and activists have been threatened with decades in prison. It is so broad that law enforcement says it criminalizes all sorts of mundane Internet use: Potentially even breaking a website's fine print terms of service agreement. Don't set up a MySpace page for your cat. Don't fudge your height on a dating site. Don't share your Facebook password with anybody: You could be committing a federal crime.

It's up to us to keep the Internet open, a place for sharing ideas, exploration and activism -- not for stifling creativity and criminalizing innovators.

As the bill's sponsors put it in a Wired.com Op-ed, "The events of the last couple of years have demonstrated that the public can speak loudly thanks to the Internet. And when it does, lawmakers will listen."

Let's make sure they hear us. Join us in calling on Congress to pass "Aaron's Law."

http://act.demandpro...ign/aarons_law_intro

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Living Room / Safe Harbor Law Amendment

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 19, 2013, 07:45 PM »

U.S. states' attorneys general to take aim at Internet 'safe harbor' law

06.18.2013 1:26 PM

Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action.  The group is circulating a draft letter that it plans to send to the U.S. Congress, pressing for an amendment to the federal law that currently broadly protects Internet publishers and service providers from responsibility for third-party content on their sites.

http://www.techhive....safe-harbor-law.html

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Living Room / Bug Bounty From MS

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 19, 2013, 07:42 PM »

Microsoft unleashes bug bounty program — for betas, too

The software giant's bug bounty program will aim to fix security flaws, bugs, and vulnerabilities even before products are released.

http://www.zdnet.com...betas-too-7000016956

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 19, 2013, 07:34 PM »

  It's all just a "Grand Illusion"....

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Living Room / Re: XBone (XBox One) and Microsoft's desktop view

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 19, 2013, 07:28 PM »

So, right after posting that round-up, they have now reversed course.

Xbox One Will Not Require Internet, Restrict Used Games

That 180 seems very unlike them.  I'm still suspicious...

-wraith808 (June 19, 2013, 05:17 PM)

  They've got another way of boning everyone hidden somewhere.  I think it's pretty sad that you have to connect it to the internet and register it just to be able to use it.  What about the people that don't have internet?

  I wouldn't buy one anyway......

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Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 19, 2013, 02:45 PM »

   If at first you don't succeed, your probably doing it wrong.....

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Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 18, 2013, 06:27 PM »

It has always bothered me that we have massive radio telescopes (SETI), that for years has sent out messages

-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)

"The science known as SETI deals with searching for messages from aliens. METI (aka "active-SETI) science deals with the creation of messages to aliens. Thus, SETI and METI proponents have quite different perspectives."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI

-tsaint (June 17, 2013, 02:11 AM)

  I guess you missed this part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI

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Living Room / Re: E3 Day 3 Test driving 'Fantasia'

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 17, 2013, 08:39 PM »

I have mixed feelings about things like this in much the same way I have misgivings about things like music mash-ups.

From my wholly personal and arbitrary perspective, I think it provides people with a false sense of creativity, and has more in common with someone rearranging the place settings at a table, rather than cooking up a tasty meal.

I  think if it encourages and inspires someone to begin to create their own content (from their own resources, skills and ideas) it's great. But if it becomes its own thing, then it's just another variant of "air guitar" where somebody is pretending to be artistic when they're really not going much beyond being clever or entertaining.

But that's probably just me.

-40hz (June 15, 2013, 08:13 AM)

  It's kind of a form of plagiarism, is it not?

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Living Room / Re: Legitimate app breaks popular encryption - EFS, BitLocker, TrueCrypt ...

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 17, 2013, 08:37 PM »

I am wary of programs that generate passwords / passphrases.

-ewemoa (June 14, 2013, 09:07 PM)

  Don't know why, it just creates ascii words that you can copy and paste.  For instance, I'm going to create a password using Pins with the template Cv#9cUcvCl9v.  The result (set for 20 passwords) is Me!5rIcuZl9a, To_0cUvyKz7y, Ki)6bSruVk0u, Du)1dXsyXa4a, Xo(6xEjoMt2i, etc etc etc.  You can use whatever template you want and however many characters you want.  Nothing hidden, no buried codes, etc etc etc.  If Pins was some kind of malware program, they wouldn't have been on the market for all this time without someone raising the BS flag.....

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Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 16, 2013, 08:59 PM »

It has always bothered me that we have massive radio telescopes (SETI), that for years has sent out messages into the cosmos

-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)

I was under the impression that radio telescopes received rather than emitted and that the SETI  program searched for signals

-tsaint (June 13, 2013, 09:18 PM)

Realized Interstellar Radio Message projects - In 1974, a largely symbolic attempt was made at the Arecibo Observatory to send a message to other worlds. It was sent towards the globular star cluster M13, which is 25,000 light years from Earth. The first Interstellar Radio Message (IRM), the "Arecibo Message", http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Arecibo_Message was transmitted in November 1974 from Arecibo Radar Telescope. Further IRMs Cosmic Call, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call Teen Age Message, http://en.wikipedia....iki/Teen_Age_Message Cosmic Call 2, and A Message From Earth http://en.wikipedia....A_Message_From_Earth were transmitted in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2008 from Evpatoria Planetary Radar.

Additional information on messages sent outward from Earth at: Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia....estrial_Intelligence Active SETI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI List of interstellar radio messages. http://en.wikipedia....ellar_radio_messages

Paper projects - A large number of paper projects also exist. For example, directed by Douglas Vakoch at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, the Interstellar Message Composition Project is charged with designing messages that could presumably be sent to extraterrestrials that convey basic scientific or mathematical principles, as well as human altruism. Vackoch's idea is to send a message of reciprocal altruism because hopefully any extraterrestrials would reciprocate with a reply back.

Vakoch has founded "Encoding Altruism", a workshop that started in 2003 in Paris that brings together anthropologists, philosophers, physicists, astronomers, theologians, musicians, and artists to address the challenge of communicating with extraterrestrials in a language and syntax that would be intelligible to an alien civilization. Vakoch's most recent research is highlighted through the Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley.

  And then there were the satellites we launched with all of Earths info and messages from everyone from scientist to presidents, and the new optical (laser) signals we're now sending....

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Living Room / Re: The Coffee/Caffeine Thread!

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 16, 2013, 08:16 PM »

@Tinman57

ok, tried the Mocha Java - I had to order it..just because....

+1 for the flavor seal bag
+5 for the free sample of another coffee, did not expect it, but it was in the box when I opened it

It is more like medium dark roast coffee to me.
If you like dark roast, the Anniversary Blend from CBI (Coffee Bean International), is hard to beat.
And I have to warn you that it may spoil anyone that tries it.

-cmpm (June 14, 2013, 07:22 PM)

  I'm not into dark roast, too acidic for me and I just don't like the taste as much.  Dark roast are for the people that enjoy strong coffee.

  Yep, new customers of Coffee AM get's a free sample of other coffee.  They also have a flavor of the month you can sign up for where they send you a small sampling of different flavors every month.  I can't remember how much it cost though, but if you want to try different blends it might be right up your alley.....

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 16, 2013, 08:08 PM »

Riddle:  What is really annoying and never stops.  No... not Pawn Stars... junk mail.

After over 3 years of emails and phone calls... the crap has slowed from a deluge to a drizzle.      ...not stopped.

... death, taxes and junk mail.

-crabby3 (June 14, 2013, 01:54 PM)

  I solved my spam problems with good software that deletes them before I even download them on my pop3 server.  The phone call problem I solved with a call-blocker.  Now if I can only solve the taxes and death..... 

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft keyboard sticking keys

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 16, 2013, 08:01 PM »

Does anyone know of a way to set up hotkeys or mouse wheel to control volume?

-bit (June 13, 2013, 02:16 PM)

  Look in your sound card properties.  I have that option with my Audigy 2 ZX.  I also came across a free app that would allow you to use your mouse wheel to control volume, but I've slept since then and can't remember when/where....

-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 07:08 PM)

Try Volumouse by Nir Sofer.  Been using it for years, works like a charm.  And you can set the control key for the mouse wheel in case you have something else that conflicts.

-barney (June 13, 2013, 08:17 PM)

  Yes!  That's the one I was talking about.  I have an older version backed up, but I don't use it anymore since my mouse software includes that option...

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Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 07:25 PM »

Hmm, I'd put it 50-50 that super aliens are "nice". The basic theory is that aggression isn't sustainable etc etc. I'd put it more likely that we'd be considered "cute pets" or maybe an anthropology lab world. But more basically the timeline is just so tight - I'm not at all certain we'll still be "this race" 500 years from now. We could end up in a resource scarce dystopia not from WWIII, but just really maxxing out the "easy resources" and then when a glass of water is $12, a big bad epidemic of Bird Flu Six will spiral us down into the dark ages again via brain drain by losing 500 million people in a too-specialized world. So then when the aliens get here, we'd be back in twilight again.

-TaoPhoenix (June 13, 2013, 07:17 PM)

  Hmmmm, I'll have some of what he's having....     I think your right about the resources, but one thing you omitted was the population of the earth eating up all the resources.  Geeze, we're already past 12 BILLION people when the earth can only safely support 2 billion, or so the scientist say....

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 07:19 PM »

  Stoic Joker, by looking at your "Chopped" post, methinks you have a very good understanding on this.  +1000

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Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 07:11 PM »

I think more along the lines of the Marvel comic epics, where some kind of cosmic egg is being incubated in the center of the earth, and the job of humans is to protect the egg until it hatches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_X

-superboyac (June 13, 2013, 05:24 PM)

  We're doing a pretty sorry job of it then, look what we have already done to our planet.....

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft keyboard sticking keys

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 07:08 PM »

Does anyone know of a way to set up hotkeys or mouse wheel to control volume?

-bit (June 13, 2013, 02:16 PM)

  Look in your sound card properties.  I have that option with my Audigy 2 ZX.  I also came across a free app that would allow you to use your mouse wheel to control volume, but I've slept since then and can't remember when/where....

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Living Room / Re: Where all those rules against possibly upsetting peole will soon lead all of us

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 07:05 PM »

  Everyone knows that the "Grey's" have very thin lips and a small mouth, this guy ain't foolin' no one!   

  But, that's about where it's heading in the U.S. too.  We're already dabbling in public "Thought Machines" that apparently can tell if your up to no good.  I read about that over 10 years ago, they probably have it perfected by now.  Next, The Dream Police, and I'm not talking about Cheap Trick either.....

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Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 06:55 PM »

"This too shall pass."

-pilgrim (June 13, 2013, 07:28 AM)

  My mom's favorite quote!   

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Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 06:54 PM »

  Your going to have to explain the word "foma" to me.  I tried looking it up but couldn't find it in Websters dictionary...   

-Tinman57 (June 12, 2013, 08:14 PM)

"Harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. " IE:     Beneficial lies.

-Stephen66515 (June 12, 2013, 09:08 PM)

  Oh, you mean "Little White Lies".   

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by Tinman57 on June 13, 2013, 05:37 PM »

  If so many people are for our gov't spying on us, and if our gov't isn't doing mass spying as accused, then why did they make it top secret and deny (lie) everything up til the end?  The reason is because they know it has become Orwellian.  They know it is wrong constitutionally and morally.  They know the majority WOULD NOT approve of this communistic tactic.
  As for all the people they claim support it, it just proves the theory of American sheeple.  Our forefathers would be ashamed as I am.....