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Living Room / Re: Hangover Pill
« Last post by Renegade on February 19, 2013, 02:39 PM »
^^ I knew someone that was on Antabuse and that had either used the wrong toothpaste or some cologne or something (I forget exactly). She said she about wanted to die it was so bad.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera to move to webkit/chromium rendering engines
« Last post by Renegade on February 19, 2013, 06:40 AM »
What exactly would you need now that most modern browsers cannot provide that only Opera does?
-Josh (February 14, 2013, 04:47 PM)

Ah! I know of 1 thing that only Opera does... Copying a web page only copies text in Opera, and not rich text. It is useful sometimes. e.g. The following shows text from the DC site copied into MS Word:

Screenshot - 2_19_2013 , 11_37_37 PM.png

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Renegade on February 19, 2013, 05:19 AM »
cows and horses jobs.jpg

Redneck cows... :P
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Living Room / Re: Feb 10-16 - Review in Pictures
« Last post by Renegade on February 19, 2013, 04:43 AM »
On a more serious note, I do feel bad for those folks in N. Korea.  I'm not sure why China won't let us liberate them.....
-Rover (February 18, 2013, 10:08 PM)

Because the Chinese would rather see the North Koreans starve to death rather than be bombed to death? ;D

I've stopped reading as much news lately, and instead play a couple simple, quick strategy games on my tablet. The news is always the same... one tortured story about human misery after another.
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Living Room / Re: Hangover Pill
« Last post by Renegade on February 18, 2013, 10:42 PM »
The other pill, discovered in the 1920's, is sold as Antabuse. It pretty much guarantees that you will not get drunk. :P
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Living Room / Re: 3000 Days Online: 30th May 2013
« Last post by Renegade on February 18, 2013, 07:11 AM »


Shall we take cues from Pinky & The Brain? World Domination sound good to anyone? ;D
-Renegade (February 17, 2013, 01:16 PM)


I'd like the sound of Intergalactic Conquest better! (Why think small?) ;D
 (see attachment in previous post)
-40hz (February 18, 2013, 07:09 AM)

 :Thmbsup:

You eat an elephant one bite at a time. ;)
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Living Room / Inspiring Story of Rual Community Laying Down Broadband Infrastructure
« Last post by Renegade on February 18, 2013, 07:10 AM »
I just saw a really inspiring story of a small community that laid their own fiber optic network infrastructure:

http://www.activistp...n-when-govt-and.html



 :Thmbsup: Props to them for just getting it done! :D
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Living Room / Re: 3000 Days Online: 30th May 2013
« Last post by Renegade on February 17, 2013, 01:16 PM »
*(See here for example)*
-Stephen66515 (February 17, 2013, 01:07 PM)

Holy yowsers... An animated GIF in a screenshot... Only 2 options there - snag the simple rendered page with the GIF at wherever it is, or make the entire screenshot animated - fugly at best. But I was suprised to hear that Snagit monkeyed it up.

So, who has some ideas?!
-Stephen66515 (February 17, 2013, 01:07 PM)

Shall we take cues from Pinky & The Brain? World Domination sound good to anyone? ;D
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Renegade on February 17, 2013, 12:34 PM »
Oh. I didn't find it funny. Some jokes just bomb on some crowds.
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Living Room / Re: Ancient Seagate 2.5 GB USB 1.1 drive still functioning perfectly...
« Last post by Renegade on February 17, 2013, 11:47 AM »
I've had good luck with Seagate. They at least do business more honestly than other manufacturers I've dealt with.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: super word counter
« Last post by Renegade on February 17, 2013, 11:00 AM »
You *could* look at some CAT tools to see if they work. There are some free ones out there, though I forget the names. All of the people I work with use Trados.

But, translation memory could help out there. They have tools for dealing with batch jobs, etc.

Check here for some:

http://en.wikipedia....me_notable_CAT_tools
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Renegade on February 17, 2013, 03:45 AM »
Dr Assad's special eye test:
 (see attachment in previous post)
-IainB (February 17, 2013, 03:02 AM)

So how does this work? Are you handed a gun and have to shoot in the direction the one on the chart points?
-app103 (February 17, 2013, 03:35 AM)

I don't get it either. Must have missed a news story somewhere.
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by Renegade on February 16, 2013, 11:53 PM »
^^ That's got quite the nice range of tips there!  :up:
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Living Room / Re: Iron Pants
« Last post by Renegade on February 16, 2013, 10:27 PM »
What if you connect a 9v battery to it can call it a toy? :P
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Living Room / Re: CyberGhost VPN Special Deal (worth a look)
« Last post by Renegade on February 16, 2013, 10:40 AM »
OPSEC for hackers :)
-f0dder (February 16, 2013, 06:40 AM)

Ah! We have a real pro in the crowd~! :D
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Living Room / Re: CyberGhost VPN Special Deal (worth a look)
« Last post by Renegade on February 16, 2013, 06:09 AM »
I wonder what people use these VPN services for? About the only useful thing I can think of is subverting sites that try to geo-restrict you based on IP.
-f0dder (February 15, 2013, 09:23 AM)

That's one of the reasons I use a VPN. SecurityKISS lets you choose the country. There was a thread on it somewhere here at DC.

The other thing I use VPNs for is when I'm plotting "freedom fighter" events, "medical research" for "biological solutions", the downfall of humankind, and other such fun things that would seem nefarious to anyone not from the planet Xurolifpst. :P


For anybody thinking they get any kind of "security" from it...  ::)
-f0dder (February 15, 2013, 09:23 AM)

There is at least one that lets you use BitCoin:

https://www.privatei...s.com/pages/buy-vpn/

That's one additional layer of insulation.

But I think that you really need to do your research on them and use more than 1 with virtual machines before you can realistically consider them feasible. Well, if you're doing anything that you really need to be anonymous for that is, in which case free Wi-Fi connections out on the town, or better yet another town, are a better layer - but still, adding in a VPN there is still a good idea. TOR also helps. But a VM is a must.
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Living Room / Re: Scientists Claim They’ve Built a Computer That Never Crashes
« Last post by Renegade on February 15, 2013, 09:22 PM »
Give it to my mum, for 2 hours...it will crash...I guarantee it.
-Stephen66515 (February 15, 2013, 09:05 PM)

Crash how? My guess is that she'd just get really frustrated with the thing, and living on the 18th floor of the apartment building, the fall would produce a spectacular crash~! ;D :P

How close am I on a scale of ground floor to penthouse? :D
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by Renegade on February 15, 2013, 09:16 PM »
Well, I think you can buy these gadgets, or just reuse them...

Foaming soap dispensers - super economical, highly functional, and reusable.  :Thmbsup:

From left to right...

The first bottle is Thieves soap. It's a powerful, natural soap and disinfectant, etc. etc. But, the bottle is a foaming one.

The second bottle is an old Thieves soap bottle that I fill about 1/8th or so with regular dish soap (further right) and then fill with water. It makes washing dishes much nicer and I use a LOT less dish soap this way. Just a squirt or two whenever needed. And it seems to last really darn long...

Super-Simple-cropped-DSC_0119-910x591.jpg

The dish soap foam comes out like this:

Super-Simple-cropped-DSC_0120-910x692.jpg

The third bottle is the same foaming soap bottle with the label stripped, but this one is filled with some liquid hand soap and water.

On the far right are those horrible liquid soap bottles that spit out a tonne of soap that always seems to slip out of your fingers and down the drain before you can rub it into a lather. Again, the foaming bottles make it much more economical on the soap, not to mention easier.

I think you can buy empty foaming bottles, but it's just as easy to find them full and get the soap to go along with the bottle, then reuse the bottle. Why recycle perfectly good bottles when they're just as easy to refill?
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Living Room / Re: Scientists Claim They’ve Built a Computer That Never Crashes
« Last post by Renegade on February 15, 2013, 06:37 PM »
My initial thought was, oh! They've re-discovered the abacus~! :D

It would be nice though... Still, I'm sure that NVIDIA and ATI could manage to crash it. They have years of experience! :P
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Living Room / Re: Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
« Last post by Renegade on February 15, 2013, 05:59 PM »
Bill should have referenced the longer one as the author explains a lot more in there.
-Renegade (February 15, 2013, 06:11 AM)
Now you've got me curious, do you have that link lying around? (because I'm lazy :-[)
-jgpaiva (February 15, 2013, 09:30 AM)

I'm not sure of the exact link, but he has a bunch more videos here:

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/

There are several that he does on the birth rate topic, including one on religion that he delivered in Qatar! :)
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Living Room / Re: Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
« Last post by Renegade on February 15, 2013, 06:11 AM »
I'm a bit more skeptical there.
-Renegade (February 08, 2013, 10:15 PM)

I read that as "better life conditions usually mean lower birth rates".
-Lashiec (February 14, 2013, 08:07 PM)
I think you're right on the money there. On Bill Gates' AMA at reddit he mentions this, and references this video: http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=lYpX4l2UeZg
-jgpaiva (February 15, 2013, 05:40 AM)

I hate to burst your bubble there... but...

I've seen his full presentation on the topic - it's very good. However, "better life conditions usually mean lower birth rates" doesn't fit with that presentation.

The presentation attempts to show that lower birth rates are associated with lower infant mortality. Nothing more. Ethiopia and the Sudan are still extremely poverty stricken with no real hope on the horizon. They don't have a better quality of life, unless the quality of dirt somehow increases over time or somehow starving today is better than starving yesterday.

Bill should have referenced the longer one as the author explains a lot more in there.

However, birth rate being linked to infant mortality is not the same as quality of life linked to birth rate. That's simply jumping to a conclusion with no evidence.

If that relation (birth rate :: quality of life) were true, China would have the highest quality of life on the planet. Only 1 child after all... Actually, that's not true. There are other countries with lower birth rates that still suck. Badly.

But the point here is that correlation and causation are NOT the same thing. Trying to pretend they are is dishonest.

Shall we now correlate the number of pirates in the Caribbean with the rise in computing power over time?

Critical thinking is almost completely dead. Makes a great buzz word though.

EDIT: This is the chart I was thinking of before:

http://en.wikipedia....iratesVsTemp(en).svg

Absolutely awesome~! Hilarious! :D
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Renegade on February 14, 2013, 10:48 PM »
(see attachment in previous post)
-app103 (February 14, 2013, 09:02 PM)

Some people might say that's in ba-a-a-a-a-a-ad taste. ;D Not me mind you! :P
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Living Room / Re: Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
« Last post by Renegade on February 14, 2013, 08:50 PM »
When you have an economy that forces the majority of households to have 2 incomes instead of 1, could that just possibly maybe perhaps be a mitigating factor in the birth rate?
-Renegade (February 14, 2013, 08:36 PM)

As opposed to an economy that requires more than 2 incomes per household, and therefore requires having multiple children, so you can send them to work in the sweatshops?
-app103 (February 14, 2013, 08:49 PM)

1950. ;)
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Living Room / Re: Hi-Tech laptop cooling modification for laptops.
« Last post by Renegade on February 14, 2013, 08:49 PM »
Have your laugh. But I have worked in more non-conditioned places than I have the opposite in my lifetime. Put in many years in hot humid commercial kitchens and warehouses during my school years - and for a while afterwards while interviewing for my first "real" job. Did a lot of outside work in all seasons too.
-40hz (February 14, 2013, 08:23 PM)

Oh, I know. It's just that the way you'd phrased that was just painting a target for a good ol 'el cheapo~! :D

Off topic comment on grammar
"have <past participle>" indicates a more distant past than the simple past. It also creates ambiguity in many cases. Interestingly enough, this grammatical structure is favoured in British English (Australian as well, etc.) where the simple past is favoured in American English. The simple past is a more direct statement.

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Living Room / Re: Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
« Last post by Renegade on February 14, 2013, 08:36 PM »
I read that as "better life conditions usually mean lower birth rates".
-Lashiec (February 14, 2013, 08:07 PM)

I've also read that. But I'm not sure that I buy it. There are a lot of other factors in play that are completely ignored and no control groups to account for any of those other factors. e.g. When you have an economy that forces the majority of households to have 2 incomes instead of 1, could that just possibly maybe perhaps be a mitigating factor in the birth rate?

I'm still very skeptical.
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