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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 15, 2012, 11:16 AM »
I don't trust the OP's motive to be clean, he is just trying a new angle to continue his fight against Bartels Media.

By the way, clean, your post on Bits du Jour, the one that was 'censored', it was most likely deleted because it was way too long.
-Curt (November 14, 2012, 08:52 AM)

I'm starting to second this. I checked his last posts; they are all sorta on a theme. It's not clear why he thinks DC is censoring him too. I have a minor peeve when someone posts a "reactionary" post and then never replies again to the some thirty responses he gets.
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Living Room / Re: Rumors about a Microsoft branded smartphone surface
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 15, 2012, 09:23 AM »
@eleman - True. The article mentions that. But third time has always been the charm for Microsoft...
I just hope they don't get Siri envy and try to bring 'Bob' or 'Clippy' back.  :-\
-40hz (November 15, 2012, 07:05 AM)

"I see you are trying to make a Smartphone. Would you like to pattern it after the Zune? We could make the ad slogan CallsForSure."  :D
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Living Room / Re: Sinofsky resigns from Microsoft. Let's meet the new boss of Windows.
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 14, 2012, 07:44 PM »
From what I hear, there are apps to ...and de-ribbon MSOffice, woohoo!
-zridling (November 14, 2012, 05:33 PM)

There are and I used one for years, so if that's important we can go into a spinoff topic about that. :) Though lately once you could build your own ribbons I did that too.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 14, 2012, 10:36 AM »
@Tao - Couldn't say. Im not an advocate for BDJ. I have bought stuff through them I was generally happy with however. But that was also my characterization of their posting policies - not the official word of BDJ.

-40hz (November 14, 2012, 10:05 AM)

Unfortunately, see the five threads of Being Safe and Acta...., I distrust Official Words lately. "They" hire wordsmiths good at spinning "Fridge Logic", when in the end it is your post that is only rambling etc that gets deleted.

Fridge Logic - term comes from TvTropes (Warning, site known to induce lots of clicks!)
http://tvtropes.org/...php/Main.FridgeLogic

Slashdot used to have a legendary policy of "almost no deletetions ever" (The Church of Scientology got them once in an infamous incident.) But just last year they introduced a "Flag comment" button, which was almost ludicrous, since they had purposely spent fifteen years where the First Post (or second) was a known troll post.

So just to delete an entire post "because it rambles" bothers me, if true and proven.  That sounds too  close to those other threads of "rights being removed". Aka "Let's delete it if it's not Astroturf/Groupthink".
Edit: Excuse me while I spend the obligatory 15 minutes getting lost in TvTropes. :)


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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 14, 2012, 09:45 AM »
That does seem to be the main reason why posts get deleted there. If they ramble, go too far OT, or start getting repetitious, they tend to disappear.
-40hz (November 14, 2012, 09:28 AM)

That bothers me a little, I can see how the "inflammatory" posts could get modded out, but "rambling, and getting repetitious" starts to get a little close to the slippery slope for my taste. Because I bet rambling repetitious posts in *praise* of something probably stay, and only the critical ones disappear, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: create local webpage for archiving and organizing data
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 14, 2012, 08:51 AM »
I'll mention the Tree class of note organizer apps, just for a discussion point. You start in your tree, and type to your heart's content. The one I use lets you make new nodes with key commands, and when you are done the whole thing exports into a tree based web page. Later you can add/update your nodes, then push out the whole site again.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer about the diagrams, but it covers the other two cases well enough for me.
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Living Room / Re: Sinofsky resigns from Microsoft. Let's meet the new boss of Windows.
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 14, 2012, 08:31 AM »
Does anyone know if the Win8 Was-Metro push, was that Sinofsky's doing or Ballmer's? (Eew grammar fail!) Did Sinofsky resign now to get out before the ship sinks, or is it that theme again where you see one last milestone through then retire?
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 13, 2012, 09:24 PM »

Nah, I'm sure there's a couple more groups who would stay.  You know, the Slaves to the Machine, stool pigeons, and "people who have nothing to hide" .
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 13, 2012, 09:59 AM »
Heh - who is filing these things? I think there was this thing called the ci ... civ ... sorry, as a product of the US educational system that name is too hard for me. :p
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Living Room / Re: Interesting Internet Defamation Lawsuit - Statute of Limitations Reset Online?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 11, 2012, 11:57 AM »
It's also not clear if people can randomly look up posts they never were upset about before, and suddenly throw a lawsuit hissy fit.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 11, 2012, 07:22 AM »
Whee!
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Living Room / Re: Interesting Internet Defamation Lawsuit - Statute of Limitations Reset Online?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 11, 2012, 07:19 AM »
Well fooey, if the only criterion is "on the Internet", then the statute of limitations will *never* expire because someone will make it a point to keep juicy stuff and "re-publish" it as a service to lawyers and others.  >:(
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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 10, 2012, 09:14 AM »
  In other words, they're doing the same thing that law enforcement has been doing for years....Guilt by association....
-Tinman57 (November 09, 2012, 08:50 PM)

Maybe, but it's all different now with a patent!
-TaoPhoenix (November 09, 2012, 09:27 PM)

does that mean no-one else will be able to do it?
or just that they'll have to pay google ...
-tomos (November 10, 2012, 08:55 AM)

I do sorta mean that. Two variants.
1. Govt DHS and gang get it for free to Keep You Safe. Upsetting but boring.
2. Everyone else has to pay Google, or cleanroom their own versions. That is the funny - haha part for me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 10, 2012, 08:06 AM »
The most popular daily paper in Germany is the "BILD", some rainbow press which is full of lies, except the sports part.
Don't mix up popularity and quality.
-Tuxman (November 10, 2012, 06:49 AM)

Well, when it comes to mainstream media, I think the purpose *IS* to lie. Does anyone actually believe anything on CNN anymore? They've been outed for being PAID to air "stories" as "news" - yes it is as bad or worse than it sounds. So, BILD is probably doing a pretty "good/quality" job. :D
-Renegade (November 10, 2012, 07:52 AM)

Changing slant slightly from "cotton candy stories" to the "political poll stories" side, murmurs have indeed begun to emerge why so many of the analysts were wrong, and one theory is that they were trying to create their own self fulfilling news. It's like the old movie villain trick saying, "just give up, Mr. Obama, you'll never win." (Right after Team Romney notices they blundered and hoping that Team Obama doesn't notice!)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 10, 2012, 07:41 AM »
That's one nasty Devil~! :D

For the Windows ZIP utility... It's so poor and awkward to use that I wouldn't consider it worth using under any but the most dire circumstances. It just takes too long to use - it's miserable.
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 11:56 PM)

From the Unzip side that's what led me to my unzip coding snack from Chris G here. I get it, from 2001 when unzipping was new to the masses, they needed those dialogs. But when it came to "here's 10 files to unzip", 10 clicks each became a bit much!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 10, 2012, 07:31 AM »
The most popular daily paper in Germany is the "BILD", some rainbow press which is full of lies, except the sports part.
Don't mix up popularity and quality.
-Tuxman (November 10, 2012, 06:49 AM)

Unfortunately often popularity is *inverse* to quality, because of that "aggregate the middle" effect. Did y'all see the *geographical* space of the Presidential race? If you didn't understand the population distributions you'd think Romney would have crushed it. So if you were just doing a "driving poll" and not by phone, asking people their candidate, the result would have sounded like the Badger song for Romney.
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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 09:27 PM »
  In other words, they're doing the same thing that law enforcement has been doing for years....Guilt by association....
-Tinman57 (November 09, 2012, 08:50 PM)

Maybe, but it's all different now with a patent!
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 08:05 PM »

Tom over at Gunnerkrigg Court just posted this nearly undefinable tease picture near/at the end of the current chapter today.

http://www.gunnerkri...images/jonesface.gif

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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.12.01 - Apr 22, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 05:47 PM »
ARGH! My suppositions were correct... but mouser cheated!  He abbreviated it ESR!
-wraith808 (November 09, 2012, 10:25 AM)

Does Eric S. Raymond like this? : )
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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 05:42 PM »
WTF!?!
Would you care to understate that just a bit more?
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 09:54 AM)

Okay, so if Apple spies on you with this technique, they have to pay Google licensing rights for it! But I'll bet the Govt gets a free license to use it, so they can Keep You Safe. Or something...

But yes, so if your friend uploads a song, *you* get put on a watch list!
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Living Room / Re: Apple Apologise to Samsung - yeah right!
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 05:33 PM »
Then they were hiding the apology with javascript, etc.
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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 09:37 AM »
More links in the Orwellian chain.  >:(

http://tech.slashdot...guilt-by-association
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association
""Guilt by association is defined as the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty. It's also at the heart of U.S. Patent No. 8,306,922, which was awarded to Google on Tuesday for Detecting Content on a Social Network Using Links, the invention of three Googlers. In its patent application, Google argues that if an individual posts content to social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. 'that is illegal (e.g., content violating copyright law, content violating penal statutes, etc.), inappropriate for minors (e.g., pornography, "R" or "NC-17" rated videos, adult content, etc.), in contravention of an end user licensing agreement (EULA), etc.', then their friends 'may be likely to post content to their profile pages related to similar topics.'"

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Living Room / Re: The Pre-emptive Censor - Dotcom Loses ME.GA Domain
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 08:13 AM »

Meanwhile there is a site at http://www.kim.com  !  ;)

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Living Room / Re: The Pre-emptive Censor - Dotcom Loses ME.GA Domain
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 09, 2012, 08:11 AM »
What if the guy attempted to register a site in some 100 countries at once? (All the little ones) Wouldn't the news story that "all 100 countries at once denied his registrations" make waves?

In other news, those 100 small countries would then make a name for themselves, rather than what I at least perceive as harmless obscurity right now.

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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.12.01 - Apr 22, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on November 08, 2012, 06:28 PM »
My goal of keeping options to a minimum was an utter failure as those here who know me predicted:
-mouser (November 08, 2012, 03:28 PM)

I don't know much of your dev style but this sentence just made me giggle.
(Early goal) "I know, I'll keep it simple!"
(Actual dev time) "Ooh, I can make it do this, and this, and this ..."
Result: Yay lots of features!!   ;D
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