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Living Room / Re: Google Stabs You in the Back...

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 21, 2012, 09:55 AM »

Side stepping for a moment, what's the strategy behind a "company based in Nambia with a server in the US"? In the context of the US's content rules, vs the tax law ones, is some $4 of ad revenue a nice living in Nambia!?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: home-buying decision tool

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 21, 2012, 09:45 AM »

1. Will your job be there next year?
1a: If not, don't buy your home in that city.

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Living Room / Re: Wikileaks - Julian Assange Granted Asylum by Ecuador

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 19, 2012, 09:33 AM »

Otherwise they'd have long since made the schools much more efficient at educating the next generation- because that knowledge bleeds through to their parents as well. Somewhere along the line the powers that be have realized that an uneducated mass is easier to control than an educated one, and have been quietly allowing education to fall into decline.

Of course this shows clearly on the internet, where as much as the intellectuals try to explain the situation there are just plain too many under-educated people out there for those of us that know to possibly make a difference in a reasonable timeframe.

-SeraphimLabs (August 19, 2012, 09:21 AM)

"can u say that again without all the big words?     "  (/satire)

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Living Room / Re: Go dark for IE - October 26, 2012

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 19, 2012, 08:55 AM »

I'll add a wrinkle from another direction: At the very bottom of the page is:

"Go Dark For IE © 2012"

So despite claiming to be "inspired by go dark to stop SOPA", they *copyrighted* their page! Not even Creative Commons!

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Living Room / Re: Go dark for IE - October 26, 2012

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 18, 2012, 08:50 PM »

Wow App! That will get a discussion rolling!

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Living Room / Re: Is having everything available in "real time" where we really want to go?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 18, 2012, 03:21 AM »

In a way I'd say that realtime is indeed a double edged choice. I am starting to wind down my heavy internet usage because I mostly got what I came for. (User-Generated eduction in many topics). By now I have a decent understanding of many important issues, both computer and constitutional, and roughly with some 5,000 posts to my "web brand" I have just about reached a plateau.

That's when it's about time to switch to the summaries or skimming, watching for what's really a surprise, vs what's "just more data".

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 18, 2012, 03:15 AM »

Tangentially related to the topic meme: If you're not working, nothing is NSFW!

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Living Room / Re: CodyOS

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 18, 2012, 03:13 AM »

It makes a killer desktop background! I use black anyway, so now I have a Cody-Clone for a week!

Pity that you don't plan on much, I can see this all the way as a mascot for Stop SOPA-ACTA-PIPA-..... bills, all the way up to an alternate universe where some combination of you/Mouser/A/B/C write code that you then cut a deal with a Chinese businessman, who then pummels the Linux market, and all the news outlet go:

"In latest news, CodyOS outsells iPad, Android, Windows 8 UI, on the tablet and phone market, ...wait, what? Who the hell is Cody and why did he beat the top 3 entrants on the market????"

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Living Room / Re: Is having everything available in "real time" where we really want to go?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 17, 2012, 08:43 AM »

Iain - it went to DC of course! 

However, compared to the stark nothing before, having to manage "too much poor quality communication" is such a relatively small downside which is why I hoped to convey that the pendulum only needs to swing 50 percent back for my idea of a happy medium.

I certainly don't have all the answers, but I think user side browser plugins might help. For example your user filter has "favorite operands" that you pick and choose for each site you visit.

For example on Slashdot "auto hide First Post and the next consecutive Anonymous Coward posts". However, no other site really has the First Post meme.

On YouTube it would be "Autohide all comments that are not spelled correctly"
.  Hehe for Nigerian emails it would be "Auto Spambox" all emails that mention more than $1,000! 

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Living Room / Re: Is having everything available in "real time" where we really want to go?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 17, 2012, 03:45 AM »

I think it is not so easy as that.  I believe this mood is more of a counterweight dialectic entry.

After all, for centuries many things were not available in any kind of expedient fashion except through the reporting news services. And except for a token letters to the editor section, readers couldn't hear each other in response to that news.

I have spent a chunk of years where "real life" meant "closed on Oct 1. Will open again in March. Bye!"  Wait for it... "Real Life" (TM) was Always Off. 

Where does one go for five months? The Always On Internet . 

So I suggest it's just the pendulum and all it has to do is swing a little back to the other side.

(Sent from a motel two hours away from my home computer at 4:45 AM from my phone. )

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 16, 2012, 12:14 AM »

Presidential Leadership:

http://farm9.staticf...080_bacbdb6874_o.jpg

Begs for Captions!

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Living Room / Re: Why Linux sucks (and how to fix it) VS. Linux doesn't suck (and I can prove it)

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 15, 2012, 09:36 AM »

Hmm, I'm in the group of once-excited by Linux, and now while I respect it, I'm just worn out and will stay with Windows. Speaking of Ubuntu, *they* were responsible for some of my worst "burned four times" experiences! (Details some other time).

For me it was about the reasons *why* to consider moving to Linux. Blue Screens really don't happen much anymore, some companies are using more and more complicated proprietary software that only exists on Windows, and updates just seem to be really hard and that bothers me. Having to write over with the new version of the OS just feels wrong to me. And in Ubuntu's case they come really really fast!

Another reason is social. I agree with those who think that Vista could have been a great Linux opportunity. Instead it just drifted away somewhere, and Win7 mostly got the job done. I think we even have one more chance with the UI-formerly-known-as-Metro. But I don't see the tidal wave of momentum on the brink of overtaking Windows just yet.

So part of me just wants to use my energy on something else until the "popular opinion" just "Decides" that the time has come for Linux.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Spikes

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 13, 2012, 05:56 PM »

Hmm, the spikes are back so the stuff I did earlier wasn't a real fix.

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Living Room / Re: ToS;DR => Terms of Service; Didn't Read - Very interesting site

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 13, 2012, 04:11 PM »

I find that a lot of TOS have section headers, so a lot of them you can skip over because the title says stuff like "arbitration" or "account security" etc.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: DC Mug/TShirt Designs that would be nice to have an artist for..

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 13, 2012, 04:08 PM »

Random comment, I'm not a Mug guy. But tshirts could be fun.

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 13, 2012, 02:34 PM »

...snipped...
PS: not being on facebook would be being a sociopath, not a psychopath. just sayin...
...snipped...

-iphigenie (August 12, 2012, 09:48 AM)

Officially there is no difference anymore. Both psychopathy and sociopathy have been combined under Anti-Social Personality Disorder (APSD) in the DSM-IV. Many shrinks now consider the terms to be synonymous, though a number of them still separate the two diagnoses.

Jim

-J-Mac (August 13, 2012, 12:56 AM)

DSM 5 is due about 2013 according to Wikipedia. Fun fact from Wiki: "The publication of the DSM, with tightly guarded copyrights, now makes APA over $5 million a year, historically adding up to over $100 million."

https://en.wikipedia...-5:_the_next_version

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 12, 2012, 02:55 PM »

I'm already documented antisocial, though really it has to do with comfort zone- I won't talk unless I am comfortable talking in that environment, so my facebook is purely for keeping tabs on people that I don't like. Somehow, that alone is bad enough to get a shrink to put tags on me and try to sell me pills that are documented to cause the very things they are designed to treat.

Needless to say as soon as I turned 18 and could make my own decisions regarding that kind of thing, ALL of that stopped. I'm better off now than I ever was relying on professional attention, and I'm even riding out the most stressful times I've ever had in my life. Doesn't that kind of thing point finger at the shrinks and say "What exactly was it you were doing for me?" 

-SeraphimLabs (August 12, 2012, 09:56 AM)

I've had a kinda rough year of transition growth, and I would like to point out that "not all docs are created equal". I have a pretty good primary care doc who knows his stuff, and as I am moderately smart I amped up the level of dialogue and so we examined the available medicines by the type of effect on neurotransmitters. So he's willing and able to keep up with an patient "active in the process". 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates has hosed my system... Help!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 11, 2012, 08:13 AM »

Can you get into Safe Mode and maybe try something like System Restore?

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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 11, 2012, 08:08 AM »

Mother Nature is NSFW.



http://www.youtube.c...p;feature=g-logo-xit

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Spikes

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 11, 2012, 12:44 AM »

I tried PaleMoon, X time ago it gave me a problem (either at home or at work, I now no longer recall.)

I ended up on Cometbird.

I WAS on "Hardware Accelertion", I vaguely recall that kind of thing causing fatal crashes at work, but maybe never considered the home angle ... stand by while I reboot Cometbird...

"Hardware Acceleration" is now off, and the smooth scrolling/auto scrolling are also off, I did a full defrag, and rebooted, and things seem to be a fair bit better.

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General Software Discussion / Firefox Spikes

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 10, 2012, 07:55 PM »

For X amount of time now, I've been noticing random stalls on web activities. Lately I started putting Task Manager on, and basically every web action I do spikes the CPU. Just typing in this box does it, but the signature annoying one is scrolling pages. Basically any page I scroll shoots the CPU to some 40-90%.

What is that all about? I do know I have a sub derivative of Firefox, (originally chosen to stop a different delay recovering resources when I closed the browser) but it's like it has gotten worse lately. Anyone know if that is at all familiar to Firefox, or am I back to being the Resident Pest with an somewhat non-standard system that messes up people's diagnostics?

Anyone know of something like a hand-optimized variant of Firefox designed for pure speed?

Edit: It's almost like it's a rendering problem, moving windows around does it too.

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 10, 2012, 04:44 AM »

Good catch. I supposed I am mildly annoyed at myself that I am falling for the clickbait titles lately. This is the third time on a DC news item I've done that.

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 09, 2012, 08:33 PM »

http://www.prisonpla...ns-cycling-race.html

A spectator seeks an exoneration after he claims he was arrested for “not smiling” during the 2012 London Olympic Men’s Cycling Road Race.

-Renegade (August 09, 2012, 11:43 AM)

So which version of Batman's Joker makeup passes muster?

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Living Room / Re: Robert Downey Jr credits BK saving his life...

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 09, 2012, 01:54 PM »

What about if you remove the pacing from a video, you sometimes get music!? Try this:
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 09, 2012, 01:32 PM »

But they're different wrongs. So stop being a murderous terrorist and join Facebook and take your pink pill so you can be a nice docile little narcissistic sheep. That's a good boy now! Yes you are!