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

« Last post by IainB on February 02, 2013, 06:25 PM »

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

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 03:12 PM »

Some old some new.
1.  Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
2.  One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
3.  Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
4.  If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
5.  The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
6.  I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
7.  What if there were no hypothetical questions?
8.  If a deaf boy swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
9.  If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him ...  is he still wrong?
10.  If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
11.  Is there another word for synonym?
12.  Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
13.  Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
14.  What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
15.  If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
16.  Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
17.  Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?  Are they afraid someone will clean them?
18.  If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
19.  Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
20.  Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
21.  If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
22.  Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?
23.  How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
24.  Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
25.  What was the best thing before sliced bread?
26.  One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
27.  Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?
28.  Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
29.  How is it possible to have a civil war?
31.  If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown, too?
32.  If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
33.  If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
34.  Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have a "S" in it?
35.  Why are haemorrhoids called "haemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"?
36.  Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
37.  Why is the alphabet in that order?  Is it because of that song?
38.  If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole damn airplane made out of that stuff?
39.  Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
40.  If you spin an oriental man in a circle three times, does he become disoriented?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 02:17 PM »

I've tried earbuds (painful!) on-ear headphones (painful!) and even the ones that hang on top of the ear and are on-ear (painful in multiple places!) I've found that circumaural headphones (like what wraith was talking about) are the most comfortable to me. They are large enough that my ears go inside, and padded enough that the part that rests against my head/face isn't irritated.

-Deozaan (January 31, 2013, 12:36 PM)

Yes, same here. I found these one of the the most comfortable circumaural headphones I had ever tried: Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 - Mini-Review

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Living Room / Offer expires end of 2013-01-31: WinXP/Win7 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro $US$39.99

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 02:12 PM »

Not sure if this has already been posted at DCF. Today is the last day for this special offer.
Offer expires end of 2013-01-31: WinXP/Win7 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro $US$39.99

http://windows.micro...om/en-US/windows/buy

Upgrade your PC running a previous version of Windows to Windows 8 Pro by Jan 31, 2013 for a special price. *
Download Pro for $39.99 ERP

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Living Room / Now it's CETA - "...threatens Internet, health and democracy".

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 05:19 AM »

The draft trade agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA) threatens the Internet, health and democracy. The agreement contains an investor-state arbitration clause, which gives multinational companies the right to directly sue states in international tribunals. CETA places these arbitration tribunals above the high courts of Europe and Canada.
Refer: CETA threatens Internet, health and democracy

Covers these points:

• Bypass democracy.
• Conflicts of Interest.
• Block Reforms.
• Agenda for EU trade commissioner.

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

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 04:26 AM »

Spoiler

Oh f#ck.

Perhaps one of the most versatile, interesting and colourful words in the English language today is the word "f#ck".  The "F" word.  It is the one magical word which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love, and hate.  Grammatically, "f#ck" falls into many grammatical categories.  It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John f#cked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was f#cked by John).  It can be an action verb (John really gives a f#ck), a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a f#ck), an adverb (Mary is f#cking interested in John), or as a noun (Mary is a terrific f#ck).  It can also be used as an adjective (Mary is f#cking beautiful) or an interjection (F#ck!  I'm late for my date with Mary), and in the interrogative (What the f#ck is Mary doing?).  It can even be used as a conjunction (Mary is easy, f#ck, she's also stupid).  As you can see, there are very few words with the overall versatility of the word "f#ck".

Aside from its s#xu#l connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many emotions and situations, for example:

Aggression: "F#ck YOU!"
Apathy: "Who really gives a f#ck, anyhow?"
Confusion: "What the f#ck?"
Denial: "I didn't f#cking do it."
Derision: "He f#cks up everything."
Despair: "F#cked again!"
Difficulty: "I don't understand this f#cking business!"
Directions: "F#ck off."
Disbelief: "UNF#CKINGBELIEVABLE!", or "How the f#ck did you do that?"
Disgust: "F#ck me."
Displeasure: "What the f#ck is going on here?"
Fraud: "I got f#cked by the car dealer."
Greetings: "How the f#ck are ya?"
Lost: "Where the f#ck are we."
Panic: "Let's get the f#ck out of here."
Perplexity: "I know f#ck all about it."
Pleasure: "I f#cking couldn't be happier."
Resignation: "Oh, f#ck it!"
Retaliation: "Up your f#cking #ss!"
Suspicion: "Who the f#ck are you?"
Trouble: "Oh-oh! I guess I'm f#cked now."

It can be used in an anatomical description - "He's a f#cking #ssh#le."
It can be used to tell time - "It's five f#cking thirty."
It can be used in business - "How did I wind up with this f#cking job?"
It can be maternal - "Motherf#cker."
It can be political - "F#ck Dan Quayle!"

Once it was slang, but now the use of the F word by many notable people at key points in history has vindicated the everyday us of this word.
For example:

"What the f#ck was that?"
   - Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945.

"Look at all those f#cking Indians!"
   - General Custer, 1877.

"Where the f#ck is all this water coming from?"
   - Captain of the Titanic.

"That's not a real f#cking gun."
   - John Lennon.

"Who's gonna f#cking find out?"
   - Richard Nixon.

"Aw c'mon. Who the f#ck is going to find out?"
 - Bill Clinton, 1999.

"Heads are going to f#cking roll."
   - Anne Boleyn.

"Let the f#cking woman drive."
   - Commander of Space Shuttle Challenger.

"What f#cking map?"
   - Mark Thatcher.

"Any f#cking idiot could understand that."
   - Albert Einstein, 1938.

"It does so f#cking look like her!"
   - Picasso, 1926.

"How the f#ck did you work that out?"
   - Pythagoras, 126 BC.

"You want what on the f#cking ceiling?"
   - Michaelangelo, 1566.

"F#ck a d#ck."
   - Walt Disney.

"Why?- Because its f#cking there!"
   - Edmund Hilary.

"I don't suppose its gonna f#cking rain?"
   - Joan of Arc.

"Scattered f#cking showers my arse."
   - Noah, 4314BC.

"I need this parade like I need a f#cking hole in the head."
   - John F. Kennedy, 1963.

"Where the f#ck are we now?"
   - Columbus.

"Where the f#ck are we?"
   - Amelia Earhart, 1937.

"Geez, I didn't think they'd get this f#cking mad!"
 - Sadaam Hussein, 2003.
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Living Room / Re: I did not realize how bad Google has become

« Last post by IainB on January 31, 2013, 12:31 AM »

Re Google's reported "Do no evil" slogan.
I happened to be watching some old episodes of The Outer Limits. There is one episode - The Inheritors (Parts I and II) - where some alien-genetically modified humans with super-power brains have built themselves a spaceship to return to "their" planet, along with a selection of rejected, unwanted, unloved and disabled human children who face prospects of a short/unhappy life on earth. These "human-aliens" have good intentions and repeatedly you hear the phrase "We must do no harm", and indeed they haven't done any harm, nor committed any crime.

I wonder whether the Google Executive really consider themselves so bound, or indeed whether they consider themselves to be - or actually are - similarly motivated "human-aliens".     

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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on

« Last post by IainB on January 29, 2013, 03:57 AM »

Thanks to @4wd's suggestions/tips, my Collusion diagram now looks all black...like this:


I also spotted this tip today on http://fixtracking.com/ - might be useful (I have Malwarebytes Anti-Malware with real-time checking ON, so I do not need the Firefox defaults ticked ON as well):

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2013, 07:46 PM »

Have you had a look at this?: Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 - Mini-Review
Not sure what the local price might be currently - wherever you live.

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

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2013, 10:14 AM »

Possible new human species:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Calibre - e-Book (Personal Library/Document) Management - Mini-Review

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2013, 09:21 AM »

I have switched to the 64-bit version of Calibre, which was introduced at version 0.9.9.

calibre now has a 64 bit version for windows, available at: http://calibre-ebook...m/download_windows64 The 64bit build is not limited to using only 3GB of RAM when converting large/complex documents. It may also be slightly faster for some tasks. You can have both the 32 bit and the 64 bit build installed at the same time, they will use the same libraries, plugins and settings.

There have been several updates since, with bug fixes, and new features added.
Here are the details of the new features from the most recent updates (latest first):

calibre 0.9.16 - New Features (2013-01-25)

• News download: Add support for logging in to sites that require javascript for their logins.
• News download: Do not convert all downloaded images to JPG format. This fixes the problem of PNG images with transparent backgrounds being rendered with black backgrounds
• CHM Input: Support hierarchical table of contents. Do not generate an inline table of contents when a metadata table of contents is present. Also correctly decode the text in the table of contents
• Get Books: Add the beam-ebooks.de store
• Make custom yes/no columns using icons put text values under the icons.
• Driver for LG E400 and SayCoolA710
• Speed up device connection when there are lots of books on the device by not generating cover thumbnails unless they are actually needed.
• Have the metadata download dialog remember its last used size.

calibre 0.9.15 - New Features (2013-01-18)

• Linux MTP driver: Detect devices that have MTP interfaces even if their USB ids are not known
• Content server: Allow picking a random book by clicking the 'Random book' link on the start page. You can also refresh the random book page to get a new random book
• E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the toolbars in the viewer window (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Show controls in the viewr preferences). You can unhide them by right clicking in the viewer window.
• Kobo driver: Speedup initial connect by avoiding unnecessary update of series metadata in some situations.
• Get Books: Allow the store plugins to be dynamically loaded so that future website changes of a store dont require a calibre update to fix Get Books.
• Wireless driver: Always replace file when resending a previously sent book to the device, even if the title/author have changed.
• Add PocketBook Pro 912 driver.
• When creating/exporting epub and mobi files, add the calibre book identifier as a special field in the book's metadata. This allows third party tools to identify the book record in calibre to which the file belongs.
• Wireless driver: Add support for using the book uuid as the filename
• Remove the experimental tag from the subset fonts feature, since there has been only one reported problem (now fixed) with it in the two months since it was released

calibre 0.9.14 - New Features (2013-01-12)

• When adding multiple books and duplicates are found, allow the user to select which of the duplicate books will be added anyway.
• Device drivers for Kobo Arc on linux, Polaroid Android tablet
• When sorting by series, use the language of the book to decide what leading articles to remove, just as is done for sorting by title

calibre 0.9.13 - New Features (2013-01-04)

• Complete rewrite of the PDF Output engine, to support links and fix various bugs
• Show disabled device plugins in Preferences->Ignored Devices
• Get Books: Fix Smashwords, Google books and B&N stores. Add Nook UK store
• Allow series numbers lower than -100 for custom series columns.
• Add mass storage driver for rockhip based android smart phones
• Add a clear ratings button to the edit metadata dialog

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Living Room / 5 Places To Find Free Educational eBooks

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 06:17 PM »

Books and a decent education are (or would normally be) inseparable. The knowledge contained in books and developed by reading books is free. However, books themselves are not always free, and often there may be some difficulty in finding the lowest cost/free sources for the sorts of books containing knowledge that could assist the reader in gaining a decent liberal education - a reading of the humanities.
There are some very informative pointers in this regard per edudemic.com (Google Reader feed: Edudemic)
5 Places To Find Free Educational eBooks
(Copied in the spoiler below, including embedded hyperlinks.)

Spoiler

5 Places To Find Free Educational eBooks
Added by Katie Lepi on 2013-01-26
Hunting down classic literature and important manuscripts may mean more than a quick Google search for many of us. You may turn to paid sources like Amazon or even (the humanity!) turn to printed books in your library. The horror! We kid. We love the library and feature effective ways to use libraries all the time.

So what happens when Google, Amazon, and your local library come up short in your quest for free educational eBooks? Never fear, there are a few critical resources you should know about. From Harvard to Bartleby to the International Children’s Digital Library … there’s plenty of ways to find a quality epub or downloadable book for your classroom or pleasure reading. Here’s some of our favorites:

The Harvard Classics

• Some of the most important works of literature are a part of the dozens of volumes available in The Harvard Classics. They were curated by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and were published in 1909. They’re available in open format here and here. An interesting note about The Harvard Classics: President Eliot had originally referred to these works as the “3-foot-shelf” and said that one could “obtain the elements of a liberal education” by spending 15 minutes a day reading from the shelf. Let’s see if he’s right!

Project Gutenberg

• Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books (free epub books, free kindle books, read online, or download them). They offer books that have been actually published, and the volunteers at Project Gutenberg have digitized and proofread them. You can read them all for free, but if it is something you use regularly, they do ask that you consider donating a bit to their cause.

Bartleby

• The go-to source for the classics, Bartleby.com features Gray’s Anatomy, the Harvard Classics (see above), the King James Bible, and just about every major publication you could ever require. The best part of the site is the ease with which you can surface relevant content and sort / filter. You get quality search results with easy download links without all the muckity muck (that’s a technical term) of a Google or Amazon search.

OER Commons

• Open Educational Resources (aka OER Commons) boasts more than 40,000, well, resources for teachers. When you first hit the website, you immediately feel like you’re about to do a Google search. But once you get your results, you can see that you can then ‘remix and share’ multiple resources to form some sort of Voltron-eque super-resource. Or, to put it another way, you can create the resource that you want thanks to the benefit of open access to all the resources.

ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library

• Just like a brick-and-mortar library, the ICDL feels just like what you’re accustomed to. It lets you become a member, take out books, and do even more. For example, you can read a book (on any device) and translate most of the text, enlarge the text, and navigate with ease. But remember these are children’s books so when you’re given the ability to enlarge the text … that’s something pretty rare. Definitely worth checking out ICDL if you’re a K-12 educator, student, or parent!

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Living Room / Re: NASA OOPS!

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 06:33 AM »

Well the See all metadata, images and captions. indicates that it is one of many pieces of space debris that they know of. See also link SPACE DEBRIS.

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Living Room / Re: Great Messages in Software

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 06:06 AM »

True-life story from the days of computer teletype consoles:
A client was being shown around the computer-room (DEC PDP 15/30 mini) of a computer bureau one nightshift, when his job was being loaded into the computer.
The computer operator was a bit tired when he typed in the "Run" command for the job, as the client looked over his shoulder.
Teletype console: "Job too large to fit in memory."

The computer operator typed in the "Run" command for the job again.
Teletype console: "Job still too large to fit in memory."

The computer operator typed in the "Run" command for the job again.
Teletype console: "This job is just too big to fit in memory."

The computer operator typed in the "Run" command for the job again.
Teletype console: "It's too F***ing big! - as the actress said to the bishop."

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 05:29 AM »

...I hate glaringly white screens...

-4wd (January 27, 2013, 03:21 AM)

Me too. I found NoSquint worked better for me than Winkie.
I also added flux, which seems to help.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 05:06 AM »

@4wd: Ah, that's brilliant. Thanks again. Didn't know about Proxy Tool. Those certainly seem to be nifty tools. I'm just getting the hang of them.
That referrer faking is redolent of how I used to use JunkBuster. I didn't know there were tools to duplicate that kind of functionality.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2013, 12:59 AM »

Well, after three weeks of running Change Referer Button and RefControl my Collusion graph looks like this:
...

-4wd (January 26, 2013, 08:24 PM)

Now that's impressive. Thanks. Installing them now...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on January 26, 2013, 11:34 AM »

My current extensions - Firefox on Windows 7:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by IainB on January 26, 2013, 11:33 AM »

Moved from Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful, where I had put it by mistuk:

I have just come across: GoogleMonkeyR
Looks very useful and I am trialling it now.
Found a link to it at CNet, here: A six-pack of useful Greasemonkey scripts

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2013, 11:30 PM »

Moved to Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use.
(Thanks to @Tuxman for pointing out my mistuk in his comment below.)

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Living Room / Re: Download All 270 JS Bach Organ Works For Free

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2013, 12:02 AM »

+1 for wot @Renegade said. I find most organ music to be beautiful anyway.

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Living Room / Download All 270 JS Bach Organ Works For Free

« Last post by IainB on January 24, 2013, 10:20 PM »

Download All 270 JS Bach Organ Works For Free
Gotta be worth it at this price - a real treat if you happen to like listening to Bach's organ music.

Download link is here.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by IainB on January 24, 2013, 05:24 AM »

Some pointed comment at Slashdot:

CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era"
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 23, @07:37PM
from the getting-up-to-speed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Security Ledger writes that the expulsion of Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20 year-old computer sciences major at Dawson College in Montreal, has exposed a yawning culture gap between academic computer science programs and the contemporary marketplace for software engineering talent. In an opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette on Tuesday, Dawson computer science professor Alex Simonelis said his department forbids hacking as an 'extreme example' of 'behavior that is unacceptable in a computing professional.' And, in a news conference on Tuesday, Dawson's administration stuck to that line, saying that Al-Khabaz's actions show he is 'no longer suited for the profession.' In the meantime, Al-Khabaz has received more than one job offer from technology firms, including Skytech, the company that makes Omnivox. Chris Wysopal, the CTO of Veracode, said that the incident shows that 'most computer science departments are still living in the pre-Internet era when it comes to computer security.' 'Computer Science is taught in this idealized world separate from reality. They're not dealing with the reality that software has to run in a hostile environment,' he said. 'Teaching students how to write applications without taking into account the hostile environment of the Internet is like teaching architects how to make buildings without taking into account environmental conditions like earthquakes, wind and rain,' Wysopal said."

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Note field display disappears [Bug?]

« Last post by IainB on January 24, 2013, 05:14 AM »

OK, it has installed as v2.17.01 (previous version was v2.16.2.0).
Will let you know if/when the problem recurs. Otherwise probably safe to assume that no news is good news.
Many thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: switch black and white in tiff files

« Last post by IainB on January 24, 2013, 03:39 AM »

Court business. The documents must be printed and placed in dockets. And I will not attempt to reform Turkish civil procedure code at this time. Maybe later.

-eleman (January 24, 2013, 02:47 AM)

I should have known.   
No matter, I suggested some potentially useful options for getting what you need, with no extra cost or coding required, so you can probably get your B-on-W hardcopy no problem.