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Living Room / Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:08 PM »
Key point in the movie -- spoiler
Quote from main character:

It used to be that brands were formed from people's desires.

Now it's the people that are being formed according to the desires of the brands.

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Living Room / Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 12:44 PM »
Very cool! I've suspected those QR codes for years... :tellme:

Better be careful next time I get prescription sunglasses though. One mistake by an optician and my life could change forever...

If anyone understands the flick, you will. I'm certain you'll love the movie! :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 12:38 PM »
^^ I won't disagree in principle...

However... I don't think a DB should be designed in 3NF. Starting in 5NF is the best approach. After that, you can denormalize down to 3NF, and 2NF if absolutely necessary. But the 5NF principle is the best starting point. From there, you clearly understand everything, and the 3NF is just a subclass of 5NF, and easier to deal with. But not understanding the 5NF for a DB is just, well, I don't like it. :P
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Living Room / The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 12:33 PM »
I just saw the next "They Live" movie. "Branded". It really is the next version of "They Live". (If you understand "They Live", you'll get it. If not, well...)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368440/

If you haven't seen it, watch it.

If you understand "They Live", you'll get "Branded".

If you don't understand "They Live", well... I feel for you. Watch it again.

Wicked cool movie that really has some nasty points to make.

These are the modern (recent that is) versions of 1984. Brilliant stuff.

If you didn't like "Idiocracy", well, again... I feel sorry for you. This is another in the series of films exposing reality.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 12:15 PM »
^^ I think 40hz was trying to force this into the basement, where we could beat the shit out of each other over 5th/3rd normal form. :P
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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing Under Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 12:14 PM »
Well, it didn't take long for the people with political agendas to get in on this topic. This from the Huffington Post. In it Josh Horowitz (Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence), adds this piquant mix of flag waving, hysteria, half-truth and posturing to the discussion...

I hate his nonsense. Badly. With only a few moments of time to peruse his drivel... I loathe his crap...

He is an evil person, and the world would be a better place without him.

I really mean that.

I despise his sickness.

He is a statist ****.

I have nothing non-profane/obscene to say about his drivel.
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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing Under Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:59 AM »
Oooo baby! You just gotta love Google sometimes! Here it is.

Yeah... Ya just gotta love the fine art of sanity~! :D

It is the determination of FTB that if these inserts are installed in a flare launcher or are possessed with a flare launcher they would be classified as an “Any Other Weapon,” which is a firearm subject to the provisions of the National Firearms Act (NFA).

26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) states that it is unlawful to receive or possess an NFA firearm which is not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Violation of the cited section by an individual is a felony subject to a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and/or a fine of $250,000. In the case of a violation by an organization, the maximum penalty is a $500,000 fine.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:41 AM »
A^B
C^D

Now... (A^B)^(C^D)

( ^ used as the union operator, usually an upside down U)

It's that simple... No more than that.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:39 AM »
So mashups themselves are patented too? 99% of web 2.0 is a defendant I guess

Yep.

The really f'd-up thing is that EVERYONE in the world who studied algebra or non-linear mathematics for the past, oh, few hundred years or so?, already knows all this stuff.

It might a bit newer than "rounded corners", but it is still in the same general ball park.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:31 AM »
Good grief generating a report from data pulled out of two different sources is a big creative whoopee why exactly?? I did that for the office back when I started there (like 10 years ago), just because I (was too lazy) didn't think the 8 hour manual excel data massaging method they were using was a good use of my time.

...Can I sue both of them?

I wish someone would... This is just completely idiotic. Not as stupid as the round corners suit with Apple & Samsung, but damn near that stupid as to make no significant difference.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 10:30 AM »
I'm a data purist.

I think in terms of the 6th normal form, and calm myself down to the 5th normal form, then work in the 4th normal form as I try to tame myself down to work in the real world for the 3rd normal form, and if absolutely needed, as shown by empirical evidence in speed tests, etc., denormalize to the 2nd normal form if ABSOLUTELY necessary.

I'm not capable of talking on this topic without flying off into a profanity and obscenity laced rant.

It's just so completely... well... I think my position is clear enough by now.
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Developer's Corner / Hot Tech on Tech Pron
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 09:59 AM »
You guys are going to love this...

MS is... well... I don't want to be totally rude here, so have a read at my blog -- expect rudeness. ;)

IP Porn – Hot Tech-On-Tech Action!

It's just obscene!

MS on Google action. Totally NSFW~! :P

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 08:45 AM »
Just did another of our typical dinners - Kangaroo chili. Lots of veggies and beans, and 1 kg (usually 1/2 kg) of kangaroo meat.

Success! Tastes great!

Used cumin powder this time -- worked great! :)
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Living Room / Re: How Many Planets Are There?
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 07:19 AM »
But that doesn't change the fact there's 9. :P ;)

Hmmm... Did a 6 turn out to be 9 there? :P

If 6 was 9



Well, I don't care~! :D
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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing Under Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 07:13 AM »
^^ I don't think it really is that much of a problem for kids.

It's pretty much trivial to alter the plans to make the gun unusable, which makes it safe for kids. Heck, you could (with some skill) make the gun unusable without a quick alteration, kind of like a safety switch.

And "cool" doesn't even begin to describe 3D printing~! :D

I'm soooo looking forward to indulging my tech-lust... Just need a bit over a year... and counting the days (metaphorically).
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Living Room / Re: How Many Planets Are There?
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 07:02 AM »
There are still 9.  :P ;D

YOU are an evil plonet and plinet bigot~! :P Shame, shame~! ;D
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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing Under Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 06:17 AM »
3D printed guns right now aren't comparable to hundreds of years of gunsmith engineering. So 3D gun plans & printing really have no significant effect on anything.

Really? A cheap untraceable gun suitable for use at close range doesn't inspire all sorts of creative thinking?

It doesn't even need to be durable. All it needs to do is be able to fire a single shot (or six) with a fair degree of reliability and voila - Disposable guns! One step better than the so-called 'Saturday Night Special.' Doesn't even need to be that accurate as long as it keeps fairly close to the direction it's pointed in. Look at the flare guns found on boats. Most are now made of plastic. And they perform for their intended use as well as the old-fashioned durable variety.

So much for even having (highly flawed) ballistic or manufacturer's data to fall back on for traceability when a weapon has no pedigree whatsoever. Especially if it's ground up and recycled (or even melted a bit and tossed) shortly after it's been used. It's almost like saying: "Imagine a gun."

 8)


There is a certain appeal to a single shot firearm, but really... few people have the skills to use a weapon like that effectively.

I'm very capable with firearms -- but I wouldn't want to RELY on a single shot gun.

As for cost, I'm not really sure. I don't know the cost of a gun on the black market, so can't comment there.

But I am very curious. I thought that materials were around $5 per cubic inch, but... dunno.

Is the cost of printing a gun lower than the cost of buying one?


As for creative uses... well, yeah... I can think of a few. They all involve close range though. :P


The average person never has any need to use one, so I don't think it's really much of a worry. Professional assassins will already know enough to get around evidence problems, so they're not a real concern as far as I can see.

But the *cool* factor is definitely there~! :D

Like, who wouldn't want a 3D printed gun as an ornament? Well, some people sure, but it's still a cool conversation piece! :D
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Living Room / Re: How Many Planets Are There?
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 05:24 AM »
If dwarf planets have "planet" in the name, aren't they still a kind of planet, and so we have 13 planets? Or with Nibiru, 14?

What about satellites that are larger than some of the 'planets'?

Well, Earth is clearly a planet, but I think Jupiter is just too big to be a planet. Let's nix Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus (so tempting to spell that as Youranus) as planets and call them something like plonets. With a nice "aw" sound for the "o" there, just to signify the "awe" that they inspire for being bigger than regular old planets. Or maybe Jolly <Colour> Planets in remembrance of the Jolly Green Giant. But then he always said, "ho ho ho", so maybe Jolly <Colour> Plonet would be the most awesome naming convention.

If we have planets and plonets, then we'd avoid a lot of confusion. And if we could rename dwarf planets to maybe plinets (because i is smaller than a or o), then we'd avoid more confusion.

Dunno...

4 planets
4 plonets
5 plinets
1 pl(a|o|i)net (Nibiru) ?  :huh:
x satellites...

I'm just complete confused at this point... :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: Does the browser Opera suck?
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 04:38 AM »
Does the browser Opera suck?
Yes.

Very enthralling answer. Your deep insight has inspired me. Please, share more?

I would like to interject with an equally exciting answer...

No. ;D
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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing Under Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 03:57 AM »
Getting OT, but still interesting!

^Little other than when the cost to fix something seriously broken outweighs he costs of keeping it from breaking to begin with.

My GF's "new" medical plan, from her employer, has a "wellness" clause. She's now required (among other things) to get an annual physical and see a dentist at least every 6 months for "routine" checkups.

If she doesn't, she faces a significantly higher annual medical deductible fee - plus higher co-payments for most covered medical treatments.

There's also a bunch of rules about completing recommended therapies and taking prescribed medications - or else additional $$$ out of your own pocket.

So maybe the medical profession doesn't have a direct incentive - although I do know many dedicated and caring doctors who act in a responsible fashion towards their patients.

But the insurance companies paying the doctor's fees - and the businesses paying for those insurance plans - are certainly beginning to realize they have one.

All the more reason to continue to shift jobs to the "industrial slave" nations as quickly as possible.



I'm quite certain that individually, there are a lot of medical professionals that are quite sincere about helping people.

I'm not convinced that they are working inside of a system that is compatible with helping people...

e.g. It's illegal to make medical claims about treatments that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years and that have been tested through time and known to work? Illegal to make medical claims about food?

Nah - the system is entirely geared to keep people sick and on drugs. There is zero financial incentive to help keep people healthy.

For the insurance companies, as long as they charge higher premiums and continue to pay out, they have every incentive to keep people sick. After all, you wouldn't want to be sick without insurance, would you?

Perhaps I'm a bit cynical. I just don't see a system that works. When proven therapies are excluded and mocked, there's something very wrong.

And that's before we even get into the billions of dollars in fines that big pharma pays for their criminal behaviour...




Time to start printing handguns.

Oh, wait...


The truth is that it is much cheaper and more effective to just buy a real gun. 3D printed guns right now aren't comparable to hundreds of years of gunsmith engineering. So 3D gun plans & printing really have no significant effect on anything. Except for paranoid governments that don't understand tech. Oh, wait. That's all of them~! :P

But really - I think it's great having that info out there. It gives the govt's 1 more reason to be afraid of the people, which is the way it should be, and not like it is now with people being afraid of their govt's.
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Living Room / Re: Do Not Track
« Last post by Renegade on October 14, 2012, 03:40 AM »
Besides, DoS attacks are illegal. But pushing a ton of bogus tuples into cyberspace is no crime. 8)

Hmmm... I kind of wonder if sending along referrers (in the headers) that go to kiddie porn sites would get the bots to download anything to check on the oddity there, and then if they could be ratted out for having kiddie porn on their servers... If you're going to send bogus data, might as well poison it!
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How does this affect non torrent accesses like the old MegaUpload? Does a streamed copy count as a download?

I saw somewhere something about even having it in RAM would count for some law/regulation/destruction of freedom.

At the end of the day, this all boils down to twisting things for money. The MAFIAA cannot be satisfied. Their greed is infinite. Just look at the numbers they quote. It's insane.
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Living Room / Re: An Odd DoS Attack
« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2012, 10:16 PM »
Which is doubly interesting since the laws governing securities trading have the establishment of a "level playing field" for all investors as their primary goal. (The necessity of requiring a level playing field was one of the first lessons learned following the first US stock market crash.)

I think their idea of "level playing field" is that you hand them your money on level ground, and not, for example, when you're both on different steps in a stairwell. i.e. At least both be standing on the same step.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2012, 10:00 PM »
^^That sounds like a GREAT read!  I'm going to get it.

There are some tables that I get to and just have no clue about how to read them. But hey, it at least teaches me about just how ignorant I am, so that I know what I'm ignorant of, which gives me the chance to actually learn more about it.
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Living Room / Re: Time Lapse Photography of Penang
« Last post by Renegade on October 13, 2012, 09:56 PM »
My guess is that some are altered for effect. Some aren't. It seems like some of the night scenes are tweaked.

I found it through a friend who is a friend of the photographer.
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