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Coding Snacks / Re: Prevent some browsers executions

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 05:24 PM »

What does "accidental execution" mean exactly?

I don't understand what you are trying t accomplish.

-MilesAhead (October 13, 2014, 11:40 AM)

I would like the user, or myself, use a virtual machine to navigate. But he need the system to browse when using his digital certificate from a card writer. The rest from the virtual machine. That's the idea.

-Contro (October 14, 2014, 04:51 PM)

I see.  Thanks for the clarification. 

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Living Room / Re: driveless cars

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 05:08 PM »

^

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Living Room / Re: driveless cars

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 03:56 PM »

The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Is Far Murkier Than You Think

This covers the topic rather nicely.

One of the most popular examples is the school-bus variant of the classic trolley problem in philosophy: On a narrow road, your robotic car detects an imminent head-on crash with a non-robotic vehicle — a school bus full of kids, or perhaps a carload of teenagers bent on playing “chicken” with you, knowing that your car is programmed to avoid crashes. Your car, naturally, swerves to avoid the crash, sending it into a ditch or a tree and killing you in the process.

Oopsy Daisy...

-Stoic Joker (October 14, 2014, 03:10 PM)

This is when it gets fun.  The guy in the driverless car is no fool.  He has paid a mechanic to install a hack that not only offers control back to the human driver, but WiFi hacks the computer in the aggressor car that the human behind the wheel thinks he controls.  A menu is presented with several options including jamming on the aggressor's brakes(bypassing the anti-lock/anti-skid systems) on selected wheels, taking over steering(veer the aggressor's car into the ditch) and for a bit extra playing something over the aggressor's radio as deemed appropriately sarcastic.  For the softhearted there's also an option to set off the aggressor's airbags before impact.  For real meanies an option to set off the airbags after the aggressor driver is deceased. 

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 09:53 AM »

I wonder if there's such a thing as a consumer model cafe con leche machine?  That's the only coffee I like to drink now.  The machines the restaurants use have an espresso coffee maker with a siphon that heats the milk.  They make each cup individually.

-MilesAhead (October 14, 2014, 05:39 AM)

• is that steamed milk then?
• what, roughly, are the proportions milk to coffee?

(trying to figure the difference from a cappuccino)

There are consumer versions of those machines (most are expensive, some *very*); I make something like that at home with a traditional espresso pot and heat/whisk the milk (not too hot though, or you get that boiled milk flavour) - does take a bit of work...

-tomos (October 14, 2014, 08:40 AM)

They do get the milk fairly hot.  I see bubbles in it but I think that's from the siphon action.  How much milk varies per taste.  One of the women used to just put the small coffee cup to catch the espresso and add a taste of milk.  That was a bit strong for me so I asked for a bit more milk.  I have only seen one person make the coffee using a regular coffee pot.  It tastes OK but not as good as the restaurant version.  Fortunately the coffee prices where I get mine are very reasonable.  Small medium large is $1  $1.50  $2.00.

I've watched them make my coffee often enough if I had the machine I think I could get it right in 2 or 3 tries.  But I'm sure those restaurant machines are an investment.

Edit:  But to try to answer your question, most of them fill a small coffe cup about 1/3 with espresso.  The morning woman is very generous and will fill it up about 75% or more if I let her.  If you ask for it "medium" strength they probably fill to about 40%.  I didn't get the name of the coffee beans they use though.

Edit2:  The machine does have hot water under pressure for the espresso.  It must use that for heat exchange to the milk.  It heats it pretty quickly so that must be it.  I see them spray out some hot water into the carafe to clean it out especially if you ask for no sugar.

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Living Room / Re: driveless cars

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 08:10 AM »

Massachusetts, especially Boston, has been known for having driverless cars for decades.  It only takes one circuit of Boston Common to verify this. 

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Coding Snacks / Re: Prevent some browsers executions

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 06:12 AM »

Of course if you don't want anyone launching links you could take the quick and dirty approach of setting a default browser, say firefox.exe, then renaming the file to FFox.exe.

But then it's likely the Open With dialog would pop up anyway.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Prevent some browsers executions

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 06:10 AM »

I haven't messed around much with policies. But I do have a link with some Registry Tweaks for those who have a Windows version lacking a group polocy editor.


http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/#4621

Don't ask me how to use it.  I saw it mentioned and it looked like a good link to save. 

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2014, 05:39 AM »

But now? Forget it! I'll just have to use one of these.

Hmm, I wonder if there's such a thing as a consumer model cafe con leche machine?  That's the only coffee I like to drink now.  The machines the restaurants use have an espresso coffee maker with a siphon that heats the milk.  They make each cup individually.

You could just use a flavored bean.  But I guess for home use you just make an espresso then heat milk in the microwave or on the stove and add it to taste.  Many Spanish people like it very sweet.  So if you try it make sure to tell the person making it "no sugar" or they're likely to dump a heaping teaspoon into the little metal carafe that catches the coffee.  Then add your own sugar to taste.  I find it great with no sugar at all.  The only factor being the proportion of milk and coffee.  There's no need to use cream since using a lot of milk doesn't chill the coffee.  Buy good beans instead of cream. 

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Coding Snacks / Re: Prevent some browsers executions

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2014, 11:40 AM »

What does "accidental execution" mean exactly?

I don't understand what you are trying t accomplish.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2014, 05:27 AM »

Here's a bug list thread on Windows 10 Forums.

One on the list.. if you expand the Taskbar such as making it double height, after logoff or reboot it goes back to the default single height.  

Edit:  I'm running it in VMPlayer.  Drag and drop files from the host OS to W10 guest is a bit flaky.  Also downloads caan be incredibly slow.  Whereas W7 32 and 64 bit Guest OS the downloads and drag and drop copy seem normal.

I tried to set up W10 English x64 but it kept hanging 50% into Configuring Devices.  The 32 bit went on fine.  But installing VMware Tools I had to resort to D:\setup.exe from the Run line after I was logged in.

From what Big Muscle says, the Glass is likely to be limited as it was on W8.  Unless the customization aficionados can provoke some improvement from MS.

Edit2:  The other wrinkle I didn't like, even when logged into the built in administrator account, the dropdown to change Windows Update setting is grayed out.  For now I just disabled the service.

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2014, 02:50 PM »

Taxing air has already been proposed...

-Renegade (October 12, 2014, 10:48 AM)

I wish I could remember the name of the stand-up comic.  One of his jokes was about being behind on his utilities, so they shut him off.. including air.  He acts like he's leaning against a lamp post spare changing.  All out of breath he says "man, could you ahh ahh ahh, spare some change for some air?"  
The audience tried to laugh big because they thought it was funny.  But they were behind on their air bills.  

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2014, 09:52 AM »

The next step is the coffee mug.  There will be something nasty in the DRM coffee(like paraquat in pot) that will only be neutralized by drinking it from the DRM Mug.  Of course you can only drink your coffee at home.  If you get in your car the mug will no longer ameliorate the foul tasting ingredient.  (Unless you purchase the mobile licensing rider.)

Metering the air isn't far off I'm afraid.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launch everything within a folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2014, 09:07 AM »

Glad it looks useful to you.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launch everything within a folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2014, 06:44 AM »

When you say "Launch all urls contained in folder or subfolders" do you mean files with .url extension?  If so you can recursively copy every file in a folder tree to another folder using rcopy.  If you copy them to an empty folder named URLS under UrlPack(which is created the first time you run UrlPack,) then you can use UrlPack to launch them all.

You may download both from http://milesaheadsoftware.tk/

Please read the readme.txt files included in the downloads for usage.

As example of rcopy command line, make sure rcopy is in a folder in your Path.  CD to the top of the folder tree with the urls in a command prompt.  Assuming the URLS folder is in C:\Utils\UrlPack\URLS
rcopy *.url C:\Utils\UrlPack\URLS

Edit:  Using a batch file you could delete all *.url files in the URLS folder, run rcopy then run UrlPack.  UlPack is single instance so it shouldn't matter if it is already running.

You could pass the root folder to the batch file and put a shortcut in SendTo.  Then you could just right click the folder and run your batch from SendTo menu.

Edit2:  Just use "%1" in the batch file to substitute the source folder path.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Safe Internet

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 11, 2014, 02:15 PM »

I'm not sure how the program would work.  But I have a couple of suggestions to do with the issue.  If your friend uses Firefox or chrome browser get him to use Privacy Badger AddOn.  I haven't tried the chrome one.  But for FF you just install it and go with the defaults. No options to set.

Every day when I scanned with SuperAntiSpyware I would have 52 or 53 tracking cookies.  After badger I have zero.

The other thing is ToolWiz TimeFreeze.  It is free.  Set it to start disabled but running when Windows starts.  That way you can turn it on manually from the tray icon and you don't have to reboot to turn it off.  It uses shadowing to redirect disk writes away from the system partition.

If you want to actually download something just save to another disk or partition.

The TimeFreeze I did notice it running just slightly.  But badger you don't feel at all.  It just filters out cookies the site doesn't need to run without you having to do anything.  No clicking allow this or that.  Automatic.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: All possible combinations of letters and numbers with options like 2 character

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 10, 2014, 06:46 AM »

With only one occurrence of each character it may be feasible.  But allowing repetitions I'd have to ask someone into advanced mathematics the possible permutations.  I don't think it's a job for scripting.  Perhaps a computer language for mathematical combination generation(I have no clue what language that is though.   

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 09, 2014, 05:20 AM »

^ The end of Pime looked like they were angling for a sequel.  Too bad it never happened.  

Spoiler

Like, one of them could go into the past and show them how he finally discovered how to into the future.

One thing interesting about time travel is that any technology,especially brought into the past, would have to be self contained.  A cell phone is no good without the supporting towers and phone network etc..  Something like an atomic blaster pistol a la Forbidden Planet may be brought back to the stone age but there'd be no way to recharge it.  Edit:  except to time jump to your blaster charger setup at "home" or wherever.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fetching Preview never loads?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2014, 01:57 PM »

I should come clean.  There was a problem introduced by latest smf forum update a few days ago; i just fixed it 5 minutes ago and was teasing you guys 
So it should be working now.

-mouser (October 08, 2014, 12:59 PM)

Let's try it out.




Yup.  It does work.  Mouser I wonder if it would be possible to simply paste images from clipboard instead of using img tag or uploading a file.  It's way more fun.    (Since you seem to be in the mood for fixing stuff today.)   

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fetching Preview never loads?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2014, 12:49 PM »

"Fetching Preview never loads" - started happening a LOT for me, a couple of weeks back. A real PITA. Firefox - latest ß version.
My workaround is to copy all the comment text I have written, then Ctrl-R to reload the page then reply again, pasting the copied text. It usually (not always) works. I thought it was probably a cache/buffer problem.

-IainB (October 08, 2014, 10:31 AM)

Are you using Lazarus?  I haven't had an issue with losing text with it.  I've only run into this a few times.  I forget what steps I took when it happened.  Back button or whatnot I don't remember.  I just remember I didn't lose what I typed.

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Living Room / Re: will they know?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 07, 2014, 10:24 AM »

They might not get your password but they can easily monitor the DNS lookups your system makes.  If the name being looked up is something like supersleezyporn dot com that gives it away. 

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 07, 2014, 10:20 AM »

^To be honest the only change in my life from Dr. Who was setting aside time to watch the episodes.   

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fetching Preview never loads?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 07, 2014, 05:14 AM »

FF 32.03 here

I.m running Cyberfox 64 bit.  Same version.

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 06, 2014, 06:14 PM »

Much more slick production, of course, but what use is that?  It looks much like any other slick modern made-for-TV film.  People used to snigger at the cheap production of classic Dr. Who, but maintaining any sort of willing suspense of disbelief of a big ask with a show of this kind.

-rjbull (October 06, 2014, 04:18 PM)

I loved the cheesy special effects of the old Dr. Who.  The idea of the Police Box disguise being "stuck" was a brilliant way to avoid spending money.  Sophisticated SciFi is fine but there's something that makes me laugh when somebody is "mind controlled" by a spinning wheel of cardboard with a spiral painted on it.  I guess that's part of the appeal of Tom Baker.  I had the feeling he was laughing at the chintzy props even as he was taping the show.

I think I liked Eccleston in the new show partly because with high production values the camp thing  doesn't work as well.  He played it more straight ahead beat the bad guys.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fetching Preview never loads?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 06, 2014, 02:55 PM »

Thanks for the replies. 

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Site/Forum Features / Fetching Preview never loads?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 06, 2014, 01:48 PM »

Fetching Preview never loads?  I'm just wondering if it's only me seeing this.  No big deal.  I nearly always have to edit to fix typos so preview isn't central to my posting strategy anymore.