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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Provides Funding For Surveillance

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2012, 09:19 PM »

It's such a waste. They've not caught any "terrorists", which is presumably their justification for eviscerating the US Constitution. The only "terrorists" they ever catch are the ones they create. Why would you need surveillance centers everywhere to monitor your own patsy?

Fear is good for business though. 

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Living Room / Kim Dotcom 400 Million Dollar Plan for NZ Free Internet!

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2012, 09:35 AM »

No quotes for this one... It's such a jaw-dropper, that you have to read it yourself.

http://theintelhub.c...-with-free-internet/

Free Internet? Wow. Ambitious!

I really like this guy more and more all the time!

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General Software Discussion / Re: CSS File Content "Vanishes" on Ubuntu Machine

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2012, 09:18 AM »

This may sound silly, but try opening it up in another text editor and saving it. Check the file for "anomalies".

I've seen files where a single character would just wreak total havoc. I forget exactly that the hex for it was, but, it might be worth a try to resave it in another editor.

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Living Room / Re: Campaign Ad Awards

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 09:12 PM »

I watched a few - some were kind of funny.

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Living Room / Re: Files aren’t property, says US government

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 08:44 PM »

POS also stands for Point of Sale ... an apt simile considering some of their later history.

-barney (November 06, 2012, 05:53 PM)

Neither of those 2 are what I first thing of when I see "POS".

A friend of mine has an HP laptop that has been in for repair more than I can count. It's been nicknamed the "HPOS".

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser's Election Predictor - A Memory from 2004

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 10:57 AM »

(Satire) Come on, there are other banks out there, it could be at least between two bank consortiums! Goldman Sachs and Citibank on one side, Bank of America and Chase on the other side! Or we could cast it as RIAA + MPAA on one side and your choice of the other side! (/Satire)

-TaoPhoenix (November 06, 2012, 10:08 AM)

Meh, they're all the same.

Careful Renegade. As much fun as you are, something feels wrong about that site. It tries to paint Obama winning by 98%...
"Based on the LV (Likely Voter) polls, Obama has a 98% probability of winning the Electoral Vote..."

That just feels wrong. That kind of percentage is the Give Up and Go Home level, and that just feels way off. I'm a little out of my depth on spiraling statistics, but that article is too simple to believe completely. "Everyone" agrees there are some 5-7 swing states, so if everything else is a wash, the percentages in those swing states are absolutely not 98% for Obama. So then the rest of that article goes down the tubes.

-TaoPhoenix (November 06, 2012, 10:14 AM)

Not really. It's simply a prediction from polls. The prediction isn't a function of public opinion. It's just a mathematical model.

But really, I just don't care all that much. The Americans are hosed period. If they get Obomney, they're hosed. If they get Robama, they're hosed. I could care less, but not much. What I *do* care about is the poor Americans that will be hosed. I feel sorry for them. But not as sorry as I feel for Canadians that have a... <Renegade is no longer capable of speaking civily>...

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Living Room / Re: Good Luck to Our US Friends!

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 10:49 AM »

--SPOILER --

-tomos (November 06, 2012, 10:10 AM)

No...

Off topic response

That's because mouser has given me shit on more than one occasion for being political.

Now, in my own defense, I do try to mock and make fun of all of the mainstream whores equally...

Thought I did mention some of the mainstream whores by name, which would offend some people that actually believe that it makes a difference about *WHO* gives you HIV.

Sorry - I just can't help it... I'm a complete political jackass junkie~!

As such, I've toned myself down to simply mock the entire system without any prejudice.

Where before I'd shit on them by name, I try only to shit on them all now~! (Yeah... I'm horrible at times. )

DISCLAIMER: I perfectly well understand mouser's position - this is a SOFTWARE forum, and not a political channel. I fully respect that, and try to tone myself down where needed. It is not my intent ever to endorse any mainstream political party. I hate them all. I am simply trying to avoid any kind of partisanship. However, in the words of former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker:

"As long as there is a drop of blood in my body they won't stop me from talking about freedom."

That resonates within me.

My intents here are only to point out those issues in software that affect us all. More often than not, I make no comment and make no posts. It would be burdensome to post reality.

And regardless of any Nigerian politicians, still good luck to the Americans!

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Living Room / Good Luck to Our US Friends!

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 09:34 AM »

I just want to wish all our US friends all the best luck in the next day or so. Big things will happen, and you'll need all the luck you can get~! Sorry... Couldn't help that. But really, good luck! I wish you all the best.

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 07:07 AM »

The MRE thing reminds me of MRUs, but also of a serious problem with how society is currently structured...

In the 1980's, we had all kinds of bothersome business intellectuals blathering on about "just in time" manufacturing and warehousing and all kinds of stuff. Great. Now we have a situation where if there is any kind of a hiccup in the system, everything shuts down. No reserves. No stockpiles. Not enough to last more than a few hours/days. Brilliant. Well done. We've thrown out the idea that the little squirrel was probably pretty smart when he stockpiled food for the winter, and decided that the squirrel is wasting valuable storage space that could be rented out for paper money that's worth less than what it is printed on. It's a systemic problem. My description there is of a symptom of the problem - it is not the problem itself - so I'm not interested in debating warehousing and logistics strategies - just a quick note there so that the problem doesn't get derailed because of the symptom. (I've not outlined the problem yet - and won't -- it's too time consuming at the moment.)

Then, we have people crammed into tiny subsections of tall boxes. There's zero chance of any of these people being able to feed themselves - they are reliant on a system that continues to show its cracks - they are reliant on that cracked system to feed and clothe them. Even if they are capable otherwise, they don't have access to the resources to do so, i.e. land/space/water/etc. (I just know someone is going to freak out about this... BTW - that was a fallacy > +1 point if you can identify and name it.)

Then, we have government telling us that if you have enough food in your house to last more than 1 week, you're a terrorist.

http://feralgenius.b...even-days-worth.html

Lots more references out there for that. I picked 2 at random.

Everything is stacked against people.

That is, unless you want to look into "prepping" or "preppers".


So, we have a society that is geared towards ensuring that people cannot be prepared for a natural disaster, and we have the economy geared towards ensuring that business cannot be prepared for a natural disaster...

And now we're left to rely on the "state"?

Am I alone in seeing this as completely insane?

Or have I not been detailed enough? (I'm being pretty lazy there - hoping people can fill in the blanks intelligently (another fallacy there > +1 more if you can identify and name it) on their own.)

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Living Room / Re: Only 16GB Free on 32GB Surface

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 06:45 AM »

LOL - I bought just before the Tab Note and felt the same ... 

-Carol Haynes (November 06, 2012, 06:38 AM)

I had a quick chat with a girl early this year in Seoul about the Galaxy Note. I saw her with it, and had to ask a bit. She loved it.

I've done a lot of work on some of the "guts" of the Note, and man... it's some pretty cool stuff. The new things coming out soon are even cooler.

Basically, the Note is going to take over. The hardware/software integration in it is far beyond anything else on the market. Samsung is going to EAT the competition.

No. You won't be able to do anything like it on your iPad.

No. You won't be able to do anything like it on your ACME Android.

Samsung controls so much of the hardware manufacturing that others simply won't be able to keep up.

I can't say too much specifically as I'd have to go and check to see if it is publicly available information first, and just not that inclined to do so. But do keep your eyes open -- more is coming.

(That being said, we have another 800 lb gorilla to deal with -- I'm not blind.)

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Living Room / Re: Now this is a Windows 8 review I heartily applaud

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 06:39 AM »

Got to say that in these days of 8 and 16 GB of RAM, 90% of what I would need is open and stays open, much less need for shortcuts of any kind - bars, launchers, start menu, etc. My main PC is still an old XP but I am making a kind of generalization.

-rgdot (November 04, 2012, 08:12 PM)

+1

You are not alone there.

I have quite a few applications (not "apps" - they are "application software") pinned in Windows 7. Now, I do have many others open, but they are usually in my Start menu applications (the frequently used ones when you first click Start). So, between those two places, 90% of everything I need is within 1 or 2 clicks. And I rarely even need to use them because they're always open.

Would I want everything tiled? I doubt it. I certainly like the taskbar as it lets me switch between applications very easily.

At the moment, I have 23 different applications running and visible in the taskbar. It's just really easy to use.

I've not tried Windows 8 yet, so I'm not qualified to comment on it. But I'm a bit skeptical that it will actually make my life easier.

The article above though was quite fun! I did enjoy that.

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Living Room / Re: Only 16GB Free on 32GB Surface

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 06:21 AM »

Sorry - I have a Tab 2

-Carol Haynes (November 06, 2012, 05:00 AM)

Drooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllll...

I saw a Tab 2 in a store, and just about wet my pants... It was sexy sexy sexy. I really wanted to buy one, but... I don't really *need* it. So...

I should just try and leverage some contacts, and see if I can get Samsung to send me some goodies~! After all, pretty much anyone that develops for any Samsung device has read materials that came across my desk!

But man... That is a sweet little tab... I had to put it down quickly as I didn't want to get too badly infected with gear-lust.

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Living Room / Re: SkyDrive: Apple iCloud : Google Drive: Dropbox - comparison (FREE versions)

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 05:48 AM »

I think Box.net is giving out 50 GB for free. Might want to check that.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find FOLDER (not files) with Duplicate Content

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 05:44 AM »

I am also facing the same issue of duplicate files. i got the solution when i used a utility Duplicate Files Deleter - tool for finding and deleting duplicate files, delete duplicate files  and it worked for me.

-Samilabing (November 06, 2012, 04:52 AM)

If you are associated with that, you should say so - otherwise, you look like a spammer. You've posted about it in a large number of threads. This thread is about folders - not files. So you're off topic. If I were moderating, I'd likely delete them all as spam.

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Living Room / Re: Only 16GB Free on 32GB Surface

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 04:45 AM »

You can with Samsung Tab Android devices - OK you can't use it like normal memory but at least you can add up to 32Gb minSDHC card and use it for storage (not apps etc.).

-Carol Haynes (November 06, 2012, 03:25 AM)

Sigh... Not on mine... (I've got the original Korean Galaxy Tab 10.1.)

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

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 04:40 AM »

I enjoyed the top comment on this one:
 (see attachment in previous post)
the comment has either been removed since, or ewetube are filtering out 'older' comments.

-tomos (November 06, 2012, 04:37 AM)

Hahahah~!


I tripped across a parody commercial that I thought was funny:

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser's Election Predictor - A Memory from 2004

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 03:09 AM »

Nate Silver is almost as smart as you. (/Brownnose) 

-TaoPhoenix (November 05, 2012, 11:48 PM)

Found it! I saw an article that went on a bit about Nate Silver's methodology and another methodology:

http://www.globalres...recast-model/5310583

Based on the LV polls, Obama has a 98% probability of winning the Electoral Vote , not 80% as Nate Silver would have you believe. His model is obviously contaminated by extraneous variables. Nate tries to impress with 100,000 simulations. In reality only 500 are necessary to determine the EV win probability.

It goes on a bit about methodology and stuff.

What would be interesting is to see models that account for voting fraud based on historical tendencies. My guess is that it would simply be impossible though, with it basically being stochastic, etc. etc.

@mouser - Did your software predict the right outcome? (Accounting for fraud or for the popular vote?)

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Keyboard navigation keys to mimic the action of drag or swipe

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 01:30 AM »

I don't think that is possible. It sounds like you're mixing mobile and desktop platforms, then mixing input sources. The first problem is that you can't run mobile apps on the desktop. Well, without an emulator, and then you have to deal with the emulator, which would already have input rules. Maybe I'm not understanding something though...

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser's Election Predictor - A Memory from 2004

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 01:14 AM »

Heh Mouser you don't want to release an Obama Romney version just for the giggles?

-TaoPhoenix (November 05, 2012, 11:48 PM)

I was going to ask the same question, but I thought the race was between Goldman Sachs Red Team and Goldman Sachs Blue Team. hehehehe 

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Living Room / Re: Files aren’t property, says US government

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 01:12 AM »

that seems to support depopulation

-Renegade (November 05, 2012, 07:13 PM)

Oh? That'd be one of his redeeming character traits.

-f0dder (November 05, 2012, 11:35 PM)

Hahahaah~!

I take it that you really don't like Stallman very much! 

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

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2012, 01:10 AM »

While it's actually quite serious, the following has got to be one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen on the Internet:

Bad Cop, No Donut

It's non-stop insanity about bad cops. The situations are so wildly outlandish, that to describe them as "keystone" would be to overestimate the competence or intelligence exhibited.

Anyways, submitted for your (disturbed) laughter.

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Living Room / Re: Only 16GB Free on 32GB Surface

« Last post by Renegade on November 05, 2012, 10:49 PM »

If you're mangling any metaphors, maybe switch "foot" to "face".

On the plus side though, you can actually add storage space to it, which you can't with other devices. So, all things considered, you're still pretty much ahead, especially given how cheap storage is. Well, that is unless you buy it from Apple, in which case 16 GB is worth $100.

I'd much rather just spend $15 on more memory myself than spend $100 or $200 more for the device. Besides, having interchangeable memory is even better than having fixed memory.

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Living Room / Re: Files aren’t property, says US government

« Last post by Renegade on November 05, 2012, 08:28 PM »

he's a radical socialist human-hater that seems to support depopulation

-Renegade (November 05, 2012, 07:13 PM)

No he's not. He's just an ubergeek. Very smart - but poorly socialized.

And like most geeks he sees all problems as nothing more than technical problems. Problems which are amenable to simple linear technical fixes.

He doesn't hate people. He just sees them as yet another technical problem.

 

-40hz (November 05, 2012, 08:20 PM)

I find some things he says rather puzzling.

On one hand, he'll talk about morality and ethics and blah blah blah.

Then, in a second breath, he'll talk about depopulation. 

I don't know how he reconciles "morality" with "depopulation". The "final solution" was a "technical answer" to a "technical problem"?

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on November 05, 2012, 07:24 PM »

Also interesting, an article on a hitpiece on Bitcoin:

http://www.libertari...ool-ranking-website/

The video is just silly. Everything it describes can be said about paper money as well. Just a bunch of idiots.

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Living Room / Re: Early Politicians

« Last post by Renegade on November 05, 2012, 07:15 PM »

I believe this has been posted here before, but I also believe it is apropos to the subject:

-Edvard (November 05, 2012, 07:11 PM)

+1