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Living Room / Re: The Pirate Bay - Domain Updates & Prison

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 03, 2012, 07:02 AM »

Fast forward to today and we have a new shadow group to spin, and once again Hollywood comes out with a TV show (Person of Interest) that "explains" how it's all OK ... And a good thing.

-Stoic Joker (February 03, 2012, 06:40 AM)

I have a hard time watching that show. It's fun in an "A-Team" way, but the underlying idea makes me sick.

-Renegade (February 03, 2012, 06:47 AM)

I know - same here - that's why I brought it up. ...It's really quite chilling.

I'm actually trying a new strategy to quit. We'll see how it goes.

-Renegade (February 03, 2012, 06:47 AM)

Me too, I've been on the natural tobacco for a week or so. The flavor sucks ...(but no [additive based] craving fluctuations)... So I think it's working. 

As for smoking... Is rectal cancer easier to deal with? 

-Renegade (February 03, 2012, 06:47 AM)

...Guess we 'bout to find out, Ay? 

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Living Room / Re: The Pirate Bay - Domain Updates & Prison

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 03, 2012, 06:40 AM »

Eventually the US authorities will figure out that big splashy actions only fuel the thing they're trying to stop. So as long as these very public domain seizures continue I don't think PB needs to worry too much. Because that means law enforcement is posturing and it's still in Puppet Theater mode.

I'd worry more once they start acting like it's no longer such a big deal, and only announce occasional actions or arrests, with maybe one or two big 'busts' per year. Once that happens, you know they've gotten serious. And you'll know it's gotten very serious once certain domains (and possibly the people behind them) start quietly disappearing from the net and the streets without a single word being said about it.

I predict once ACTA is signed in a few more places you're going to see media complaints about file sharing and piracy disappear from the news. Heavy handed arrests and seizures only risk fostering public support and sympathy for the 'wrong' people.

The proverbial "knock on the door in the middle of the night" gets the job done much more efficiently.

-40hz (February 03, 2012, 05:57 AM)

Torn from a page of the book called the 80s when the "War on Drugs" started picking up momentum. Hollywood helped garner support by glamorizing the "valiant warriors" with Miami Vice.

Fast forward to today and we have a new shadow group to spin, and once again Hollywood comes out with a TV show (Person of Interest) that "explains" how it's all OK ... And a good thing.

At this point I'm beginning to thing it would be pointless to quit smoking...as the volume of smoke going up my ass will give me cancer anyway.

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Living Room / Re: Who needs SOPA? Website accused of defamation is closed by judge

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 02, 2012, 06:02 PM »

It's really just an extension of: Who dies with the most toys wins.

-4wd (February 02, 2012, 05:54 PM)

Whoever dies with the most toys, still dies. There is no "winning" to it ... Just a bunch of greedy vicious self-righteous monkeys.

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 02, 2012, 02:21 PM »

I'm afraid i don't use any realtime drive monitoring tools.. i should.

-mouser (February 02, 2012, 12:30 PM)

I wasn't either, which is why my first clue was a clicking noise (oops). But I am now using the RAID controller's monitoring utility which I hadn't had installed before (because I hate clutter). Which is how I caught the subsequent (incorrect drive) failures so quickly.

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 02, 2012, 11:57 AM »

Despite the low-grade fiasco I went through getting a proper replacement drive. I still stand by my decision to use RAID5. Because even with the 4 array builds required before I finally ended up with the correct replacement drive ... My total down time was less than 10min. Data lost=0.

I also do regular backups of the really critical stuff to a file server, which also uses a RAID5 array.

I refuse to store a single byte in "the cloud", as I would frankly rather loose the data, than run the risk of having to explain its existence to some pompus ass in a robe...because the hosting provider got hosed in yet another bullshit sting operation.

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Living Room / Re: SOPA: Alt view - You need to be Shakespeare or Picasso to Avoid Content Scraping

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 01, 2012, 11:47 AM »

also i must say one more example. the mighty Steve jobs is a legend. Because capitalist america love heroes of the money. Best trader who make more money is a legend. What about dennis Ritchie? He made a operating system with simple gui. He wrote a genius programming language the C. In last 30 years many program writen with c. But none give copyright to him. If he was taking patent price 50 bucks from each program written with C language and made the press release show by himself, he could be richer than bill gates and more famous than Steve jobs. That's a modern nikola tesla - Thomas edison story. Everyone appreciate businessman edisson for selling them lamp. But no one give any single cent to nikola tesla forinvention of A.C.

-cybermen007 (February 01, 2012, 10:51 AM)

 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Citrix issue

« Last post by Stoic Joker on February 01, 2012, 06:57 AM »

The utility (best I could tell from a quick read) is for troubleshooting clipboard chaining issues. It appears from what you described above that Citrix isn't playing nice with CHS's attempts to be part of the CB chain (bogus output vs. no output). So... I figured it would be interesting to see what if any error/explanation it gave for feeding CHS ("Citrix ICA Client") a garbage string. Does it even see it as a valid part of the CB chain? Or is it ("intentionally") pragmatically ignoring it, because it's miffed about something?

Just a Thought

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Citrix issue

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 31, 2012, 11:34 AM »

I've only encountered Citrix a few times, but a bit of Googling turned up a Citrix utility here that might be of some use.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 31, 2012, 11:26 AM »

Please just nuke the whole planet now. Why the slow descent into madness? Let's just get it over with...

-Renegade (January 31, 2012, 08:04 AM)

Damnit man! Not until December! We can't be jumping the gun .... If we blow the planet too early the roaches won't be ready to sign the new lease ... And god knows who'll try to take over then (probably another bunch of stupid monkeys...).

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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 31, 2012, 11:19 AM »

Think 'avoidance conditioning' and it all becomes clear.

-40hz (January 31, 2012, 09:42 AM)

Just the fact that you knew the name of it - off the top of your head presumably - makes me a bit uneasy... 

But the "head on a stake" bit is truly an accurate description of the feds motive.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 31, 2012, 06:49 AM »

Well, I never saw any connection between "Sod's Law" and "Sod off".
British colloquialisms.
"The poor sods [unfortunate people] had to endure all that warfare in the trenches" <-- is Sod's Law. Something bad/unpleasant was likely to happen to you [an unfortunate person] as a result of enlisting or being conscripted into the army for WW2.

"Oh, sod it" <--a bad/unfortunate thing just happened to me. As in "Just my sodding luck." Similar to "Oh, bollocks."

"Sod off" <-- a very rude imperative to "go away". ("Sod" in this case coming from "Sodomite".) Similar in intent to "F*** off" or "Bugger off".

You don't need to paint your face with woad to use these expressions either.

-IainB (January 31, 2012, 12:10 AM)

Hm, okay...thanks. But I gotta say it does rather sound like groups 1 & 2 of your examples get screwed too.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 30, 2012, 07:36 PM »

Is there any correlation between Sod's Law and the expression Sod Off?

-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2012, 05:07 PM)

Who were you directing the question to?            

-IainB (January 30, 2012, 07:06 PM)

Anyone that knows the answer ... I'm really just curious if one is the origin of the other.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 30, 2012, 05:07 PM »

What could go wrong? Calculate the odds on this web page, using Sod's Law.

-IainB (January 30, 2012, 04:12 PM)

Is there any correlation between Sod's Law and the expression Sod Off?

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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 30, 2012, 03:27 PM »

I ran into this article at Forbes magazine. It's by Larry Downes and it's called: Who Really Stopped SOPA, and Why?

-40hz (January 30, 2012, 12:49 PM)

Damn! I loved the Declaration of Cyber Independence bit. We the planet says no (hehe).

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Living Room / Re: Knowledge Is A Universal Natural Resource - Locking It Up Hurts Everyone

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 30, 2012, 11:33 AM »

It seems some have learned lessons from history that would have been better left alone.

-Renegade (January 30, 2012, 06:51 AM)

I've often felt that way. While it's been said that those that don't study history are doomed to repeat it (by popular pontiffs). It seems more the case that half fixate on the wrong parts with "righteous" indignation ... And the other half look at the ruthless dictators in history thinking Okay, good plan...but here's what they did wrong.

The mistakes just keep get improved on...not learned from.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZOOM setting reminder ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 28, 2012, 10:23 AM »

By the way, I omitted to mention in my post that, in Firefox, pressing Ctrl+Shift+"+"keys together zooms the text only, whereas Ctrl+"+" keys zoom text and images.

-IainB (January 28, 2012, 06:20 AM)

That could be quite handy for sites with many/large pictures for reading small fonted comments.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZOOM setting reminder ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 28, 2012, 10:17 AM »

Hi, Stoic Joker, I have IE9 but I can't seem to locate your suggested setting.      Is it in Internet Options/Advanced?   

Sometimes... Windows and I don't see eye-to-eye about how to word stuff... so I may be staring right at it. Is it listed as 'Enable view statusbar?

-crabby3 (January 28, 2012, 05:58 AM)

Yes, kinda

In the IE9 menu it is: View->Toolbars->Statusbar

Note: I only brought up the older versions of IE earlier because IainB seemed to be pondering (aloud) how long the hotkeyed zoom feature had been available.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZOOM setting reminder ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 28, 2012, 12:11 AM »

I am not all that familiar with Internet Explorer, but I just now verified that this works in my verison of Internet Explorer (IE9). At a guess, it would probably be a standard for most browsers/versions.

-IainB (January 27, 2012, 07:09 PM)

Yes, I've been using many of these since IE7. I actually like the Ctrl + Mouse wheel to zoom quickly, and then Ctrl + 0 (not the Num Pad one - It don't work) to get back to "normal".

They also mentioned wanting a "Zoom Indicator". Enable view statusbar and it will be in the bottom right-hand corner.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for password "scheme" suggestions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 27, 2012, 09:21 PM »

You're all a bit paranoid. I just use the word "password" for all my passwords. It's never failed me yet...

-kyrathaba (January 27, 2012, 09:16 PM)

What? I thought Open Sesame was the universal password... 

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Living Room / Re: SOPA: Alt view - You need to be Shakespeare or Picasso to Avoid Content Scraping

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 27, 2012, 03:59 PM »

Sorry man. Can't help it. I'm a BOFH.

-40hz (January 27, 2012, 03:15 PM)

Me to (e.g. I can't get yelled at about bw usage), hence the initial response.

P.S. - where's the "fun" in lower profile? Cows may come, and cows may go - but when the cobras begin to strike you want to firing magnum double-loads. Remember: you can only be punished if there are survivors left to do the punishing.

-40hz (January 27, 2012, 03:15 PM)

First it's "Not worth it"/risky...Then LP is no "fun"/to weak...  Okay, now your just screwing with me. 

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Living Room / Re: SOPA: Alt view - You need to be Shakespeare or Picasso to Avoid Content Scraping

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 27, 2012, 03:01 PM »

Oh don't be so practical, I'm trying to have fun (there's always lower profile alternatives).

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Living Room / Re: Looking for password "scheme" suggestions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 27, 2012, 02:31 PM »

I was Just at a new client this morning that was using password as the password for the administrator account. They thought it was just fine because they'd renamed the Administrator account to something "clever"... *Sigh* ...Apparently they've also never heard of (the built-in account) GUIDs.

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Living Room / Re: SOPA: Alt view - You need to be Shakespeare or Picasso to Avoid Content Scraping

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 27, 2012, 11:45 AM »

Search the server logs to find out what IP the scraper is coming from. Then setup a redirector that will send that IP/them something they will never forget (like 90GB of garbage files) the next time they come by for a scraping.

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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 26, 2012, 06:54 PM »

FWIW

Does anyone understand the differences in the Western Digital drives? mention WDTLER.exe and WDIDLE.exe if you can find them.

-4wd (January 26, 2012, 05:38 PM)

Yeah, I know ...(thought about it several times)... But I couldn't find the damn thread. 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for password "scheme" suggestions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 26, 2012, 06:49 PM »

Passphrase: Does cam low profile alter valve train component acceleration?

-4wd (January 26, 2012, 06:20 PM)

(Sorry about the side track, but...(this is gonna bug me)) I'd have to go with yes. Acceleration of the reciprocal mass is controlled by the ramp contour of the lobe. So a low profile cam would have a smoother transition and therefore open the valves more slowly. IIRC (It's been a while). Maybe best to PM me so we don't side track the thread.