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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 06, 2012, 06:35 AM »

Just another in a long list of things that show that governments do not represent the people - they represent corporations. It's just what corporatists/fascists/socialists do - trample freedom "for the greater good". No big surprises there. Unfortunately.

Well, that is unless you believe that "Corporations are people, my friend."

-Renegade (October 06, 2012, 04:56 AM)

Oh! That explains a lot! "We the People (Corps) of the United States of America..."
Meanwhile the Carbon Units posting comments on this site are Slave Pawns. I don't recall anything in the Constitution protecting the rights of Slave Pawns.

Though the Rule 34 implications of Corporations as People are disturbing. I'll leave that one to my betters. Or 4Chan.

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 06, 2012, 06:31 AM »

Makes it hard to tell the difference between Obomney and Robama.

-Renegade (October 06, 2012, 04:56 AM)

One is an Obamination and the other sounds like something from Japanese Animation?

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Living Room / Re: Yet Another Privacy Violation - This time it's about kids

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 05, 2012, 09:39 PM »

Hmm. Tricky topic here. I remember the whole "photograph day" thing, but back then it just seemed so much simpler. School takes photos, Police gets a copy, and everyone goes home.

The problem now is the rising clash between everyone selling data for fun and profit, and the rise of the "malware mentality" whereupon this company makes a data mistake, and then hackers get a nice juicy datachunk full of children which they sell to nefarious people.  There's also the growing watching of other's choices via historical list accumulation, for the purposes of "Law enforcement" etc.

"Get a complete list of everything your child has eaten, right on the automatic Facebook page created for you." Johnny didn't eat the Broccoli when it was offered? That's a Grounding."

The problem with digital lists is that there is no leeway for pecadilloes to forgive. "Did you eat the Broccoli? No? Were you sick? No? Sentenced to an extra page of math in Mrs. Whipple's room. Case Concluded."

(Think going over 7 miles over the speed limit and license plate recording. Same thing.)

There's a nasty new trend in news reporting. Tech Does Stuff. However now it's our government who already has the nasty side picked out, and they spin it "nice and clean".

For example, I agree bullying was bad news back in the day. I mostly wriggled underneath any real harm. But that was because everyone knew that teachers didn't actually want to ... wait for it ... get involved and protect the children! It was much more fun to enforce detentions. But now a smart geek could do stuff like have a 1-touch surround video feed auto-loaded to the Cloud, capturing the bullying live in realtime.

"Mrs. Whipple, Big Dog Johnny was bullying me."
"Oh, I'm sure you are just mistaken, everyone knows Little Johnny is an angel."
"Which of three angles would you like the live footage in, Mrs. Whipple?"

(Apologies to all Mrs. Whipples worldwide. No intent meant towards resemblance of any Mrs. Whipples currently living.)

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 05, 2012, 04:41 PM »

It's been a while, but I vaguely recall from years ago that Edward Gibbon was willing not to be in the best light, and if I am not yet senile, poked a few jokes at some of the events he was telling.

(Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)

P.S. The Decline and Fall of something is not its best light.

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Living Room / Re: Chrome Subtabs Extension - Does this exist?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 05, 2012, 04:37 PM »

I had been doing some looking for an extension that performs a certain set of functions for organizational purposes within chrome.

If you are like me, you have a bunch of tabs open, even multiple for the same site. What I am looking for is a "subtabs" extension that will take any tab and allow them to be grouped under a single parent tab. Upon navigation to the parent, the children tabs are expanded and placed under the parent, in a second row of tabs.

In a similar fashion, I would like the extension to be able to perform "smart grouping" that automatically puts children tabs under a parent of the same root domain (google.com, microsoft.com, donationcoder.com, etc.).

Does anyone know of such a concoction?

-Josh (October 05, 2012, 01:39 PM)

I like "ripping" off a tab, then it becomes a spawn page, then you make you new tabs under that like normal. It's thematically nice for situations like JobAd JobAd JobAd TvTropes TvTropes TvTropes TvTropes TvTropes

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ASAP Utilities for Excel

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 05, 2012, 05:46 AM »

I tried those out on my last job, but the kinds of things I was doing never really needed most of those utilities. But it's a neat concept.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: MAME

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 05, 2012, 03:55 AM »

The last time I used MAME was before these copyright gorillas really got up to full speed. The only game I really cared about was Ataxx, a little memory from my college days, and that program is so far into grey abandonware it is almost officially public domain.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: Carbon - my new hackable performant (semi) static blogging system.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 04, 2012, 07:41 AM »

Is there a tutorial for not-so-bright humanities-type users?

It would be fun to try out a new blog system, but I'm totally lost. : (

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to prevent browser tab clutter for Firefox and Chrome?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 04, 2012, 07:33 AM »

You guys are incredible. I can't process more than some 30 tabs at a time. So I'd save them in session groups. I couldn't imagine 700 tabs. It just feels "wrong". (yikes).

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to prevent browser tab clutter for Firefox and Chrome?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 04, 2012, 07:28 AM »

Tab groups in firefox - Ctrl+Shift+E.

-f0dder (October 03, 2012, 07:04 AM)

Good tip that I never knew, but it feels a little weird, so I'll one day try it later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ringtones: a history?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 04, 2012, 01:59 AM »

This still skirts the Copyright theme. Because if you want the middle third of some song, you're going to have to get it from somewhere. It's still the ugly side of grey if you download it from iTunes for X cents and then chop it and make your own ringtone, because they are trying as hard as they can not to let you do that kind of thing. So a lot of people were just paying 99 cents for the ringtone and calling it quits.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 04, 2012, 01:54 AM »

How many people have privately screamed about users/clients before?

-Renegade (October 04, 2012, 01:45 AM)

Tron, both movies?

 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 10:03 PM »

Am I the only one here who believes in the cleansing goodness of a good curse filled rage-based primal scream?

-mouser (October 03, 2012, 09:41 PM)

Yes. Because exactly one is cleansing. Because you built a community where that's a freak of nature.

You do not want to see what a forum full of vitriol requiring admin action looks like.
Be Careful What You Wish For - You Just Might Get It. " - Supposedly Chinese Proverb

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 08:10 PM »

It is kinda relevant, because despite Mouser's good charm, that kind of user attitude just leads to trouble. A user will bitch like that whether it's paid or free, and when it's paid it becomes "I paid good money for this ....".

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 06:19 PM »

More confusing stuff:

MPAA chief admits: SOPA and PIPA "are dead, they're not coming back."
http://arstechnica.c...yre-not-coming-back/

So is this classic Boiling Frog stuff where it looks like we won a tactical skirmish and then they sneak it in later?

Edit: First run of the net seems to be strong suspicion, with zero belief in the text of the announcement.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 06:14 PM »

I have tried many programs in my time, but this was the most egregious and infuriating behavior I've encountered yet.
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this piece of shit
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I think it is some of the most arrogant and inconsiderate programming I have ever seen.

-meamjw (October 03, 2012, 05:06 PM)

It's understandable that someone would be annoyed about what happened. But I think the way that annoyance is being expressed isn't exactly what most people would see as being very considerate either.

There's ways to complain. Calling a sophisticated piece of popular software that has received glowing reviews and is offered both freely and 'as is' as "a piece of shit" - and calling the developer "arrogant" and "inconsiderate" purely over a design decision - is more than a bit over the top IMO.

But that's the way it goes I guess.

-40hz (October 03, 2012, 06:05 PM)

Greater Internet SMBC theory at work?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 06:14 PM »

It has been suggested that I disable this feature by default.. I guess maybe this post is the sign that I should.

-mouser (October 03, 2012, 05:13 PM)

Probably a good idea - I got confused the first time my screenshots "disappeared". OTOH, I probably wouldn't have found the feature if it had been disabled by default, and I do think it's a nice feature - although it would probably be better if the default grouping was per month or week rather than per day? (that's probably where the OP's frustration is from: having a few files in each of a zillion subfolders... that's a pain to move back if your file manager is cruddy old Explorer).

-f0dder (October 03, 2012, 05:53 PM)

Can you do a Search feature with subfolders for "all pictures" and then mass drag-drop them back to where they belong?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to prevent browser tab clutter for Firefox and Chrome?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 03, 2012, 01:59 AM »

Maybe the Session Manager plugin could help - someone tipped me off to it a while back for the same reasons. You can create sessions of any or all of the browser windows.

MilesAhead and I were also working on a SaveSession feature in his Browser Bunch, where it exports the bunch of tab urls and titles into lists, so then you can save those in your notes, so you can pick the 5 pages out of the 100 you want to look at, and just load them copy and paste.

Of course you can mash up both parts. I discovered that you can then take Miles' lists, smash them into a spreadsheet auto-link-maker, triple-export it and maybe upload it to your favorite free web host and then you have a permanent "cloud list" of the links, at which point you just click-newtab them back as you like.

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on October 01, 2012, 03:07 AM »

That's just traumatizing Renegade! 

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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 30, 2012, 02:39 PM »

^I think part of that is because, in the US, having a business failure with your name on it isn't the automatic end of your career like it often is in many other places. People expect (or at least accept) business failures over here.

Bad as that can be at times, it still makes businesses and investors less afraid to take chances.

-40hz (September 30, 2012, 01:16 PM)

I've seen this a bunch of times in business theory, and I think as much as we have other problems in the US, "business failure" isn't really one of them, not quite. Many/most entrepreneurs aren't blackballed for *life* based on one bad biz that didn't work out. Yeah, the tabloids might be mean for a year, fine. But then the guy just takes a sabbatical for a year to wait for the media to get bored, then the next one out could be the grand slam.

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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 30, 2012, 02:37 PM »

It's not an issue of bad marketing or being ahead of its time. Go dig out the full story of what went down with that. You will be disgusted by the time you're finished.

-40hz (September 30, 2012, 01:03 PM)

It might in fact be the very definition of Bad Marketing. After all, no one said Marketing had more than a passing kiss with the Truth. So if one company is legit first, and the next company slams $100 million and pulverizes you, that's ... Marketing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 30, 2012, 01:02 PM »

Hmm, the little flash-cpu-spikes are back.

So whatever gains I thought I had from the new version are gone again. This kind of thing is so hard to pin down. : (

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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 30, 2012, 12:45 PM »

Thanks for posting that -- I happen to love these kinds of side-by-side comparison articles of new stuff vs the old stuff they ripped off or copied (whether the ripoff is real or imagined or coincidental).

-mouser (September 30, 2012, 11:42 AM)

(Satire)
No. Those were absolutely not "ripoffs". Those famous American products were clearly innovative. And Apple's lawyer has a letter for you if you disagree about Black Cookies with Round Edges. Now go back to your crushed American Dream and like it!
(/satire)

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 29, 2012, 09:19 PM »

Try this new wrinkle!
Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise

http://www.techdirt....says-otherwise.shtml

"Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability. That is what Congress intended."

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 29, 2012, 12:47 PM »

However, the average human does NOT poop two pounds a day!