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I see I actually do provide a list of fields in the Advanced Features->Virtual Folders page of help, which in online here:Oh. I already had those 22...
https://www.donation.../virtual_folders.htm
...-mouser (August 03, 2012, 04:35 AM)
Simply the removal of public financed services.I just saw this today (written by a UK MP): Library closures. Is that so bad?-Carol Haynes (February 11, 2012, 10:10 AM)
The Internet wins again!
The advocates for the cyber-security bill failed to get enough support to proceed to a final vote on the legislation.
They won't be reading your email and sharing your personal data -- anytime soon, at least.
Will you thank the senators who stood with us to protect privacy and Internet freedom? We'll need their help again soon
And then please use these links or forward this email (and Success Baby) to make sure your friends know too.
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You guys were amazing throughout this fight: Demand Progress members sent 500,000 emails to the Senate and made thousands of phone calls in opposition to the bill.
Countless other activists took up this fight too -- groups like the ACLU, EFF, Center for Democracy and Technology, Fight for the Future, and Free Press.
Just as important was the coalition of senators working on the inside to stand up for our rights:
There's a newly empowered corps of senators who've made it clear that they'll stand strong when the government threatens our privacy -- people like Ron Wyden (OR), Al Franken (MN), and Bernie Sanders (VT).
Please click here to make sure they know that we're grateful, and that we'll stand with them too -- we'll have to fight this battle again sometime soon.
Great work, everbody!
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And I really need to post a list of field clip variable names you have access to.^ Yes, please!-mouser (August 02, 2012, 08:50 PM)
^So what's your take on the programs output, should he draw three, hold, or fold?Hahaha. Yes, maybe.-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2012, 01:53 PM)
I just don't see why this is a security failure on the part of Dropbox. Sure, they've had their failures, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.^ Yes. Probably not a failure per se by Dropbox.-wraith808 (August 02, 2012, 03:46 PM)
Pepper-Spraying Policeman No Longer Works for UC Davis
August 1, 2012 by Stan Schroeder:
The police officer who doused students with pepper spray during Occupy Wall Street protests at the University of California, Davis, is no longer employed by the University.“Consistent with privacy guidelines established in state law and university policy, I can confirm that John Pike’s employment with the university ended on July 31, 2012,” UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller told the Sacramento Bee.Pike, who was on paid leave since the incident, declined to comment, and Shiller said he cannot disclose the exact reason why Pike was laid off.
Videos of the incident, which appeared on YouTube, sparked calls for Pike’s resignation, as well as a wave of internet memes, joking with Pike’s seemingly casual stance while using pepper spray on protesters.
Has anyone used the Mozilla Archive Format, as discussed in the description of the following FF extension?No I haven't tried it, but I already use ScrapBook :: Add -ons for Firefox - Mozilla, which does the same except not compress. It also does more:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/?src=cb-dl-featured-kyrathaba (August 01, 2012, 07:21 PM)
Great work on the calls and emails yesterday.
Staffers on Capitol Hill tell us there was a big uptick in constituent pressure today.
But they also say we need to push even harder to win the Franken-Paul amendment, and other privacy amendments, when they come up for votes this week.
Pro-privacy changes have been added to the cyber-security bill, but they don't go far enough to protect us from surveillance by the government and corporations.
There are three things that you can do to help us pressure the Senate:
- 1) If you haven't yet, click here to email your senators to ask them to support the Al Franken-Rand Paul amendment. It would make sure companies can't spy on their users' private communications.
- 2) Please call your senators. Click here to get their phone numbers and a call script -- it'll just take a minute or two.
- 3) Then help us enlist others by using these links or forwarding this email to share info about this urgent campaign:
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[...Having said that, I see an unpleasant aspect -- when you hit Ctrl+V it will create a new image file, but the image file will be called "Clipboard Image.bmp" and be in bmp format.Odd. I get nothing pasted in Windows Explorer, but a .png file in xplorer².-mouser (August 01, 2012, 12:09 AM)
Add Argentina To The List Of Countries Looking To Censor The Internet (For The Children, Of Course)
from the growing-list dept
We've noted that both Russia and China recently pushed for even more internet censorship, and both did so while claiming that it was really to "protect the children." Of course, lots of other countries are following suit. For example, Argentina is now considering a bill that appears to created a blacklist of websites that ISPs must block. Once again, this is done "for the children," as the list is supposed to include sites dealing with child porn. The problem, of course, is that such lists rarely seem to stick to just child porn -- and with little oversight, the over-blocking and over-filtering of legitimate content becomes way too easy. In the meantime, we're still at a loss as to how censorship is a better solution than actually going after those responsible if they're posting illegal content.
12. Anonymous Coward, Jul 30th, 2012 @ 11:33pm
none of the countries that are going down this road are doing so for any reasons other than to invade privacy and take away freedoms. they are in the main more like dictatorships than anything but supposed democratic countries like the USA and UK are jumping on the band wagon, whilst condemning those other countries of course. the way things are going, the internet as we know it is going to stop completely, then, as far as ordinary people are concerned, we will only be able to access emails which will be checked first for 'illicit' content and sites that the individual governments allow, the rest of the internet being blocked completely. think back to what started all this censorship and put the blame squarely where it belongs, at the door of the entertainment industries.
Yeah I saw that one too, why can't "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" matter OUTSIDE expensive court rooms? What's the deal with blatant lies carrying the day?Beats me. I don't really understand the nuances between US laws, politics and the apparent tolerance/sanction of what sometimes (to me) looks like unchecked corporate corruption. But then I do not live in the US and am relatively ignorant of the US way of life and its legal system. For example, I still can't understand how the heck the Cyber Security bill can have a gun amendment tucked away inside of it (per the video above). Amazing.-TaoPhoenix (July 31, 2012, 01:04 AM)
Let Your Senator Know Right Now That You Are Watching If They'll Vote To Protect Privacy
from the speak-up dept
On Friday, we mentioned that this week is the week in which the Senate will wrangle over the new Cybersecurity bill. The current bill has some privacy safeguards, but not nearly enough. Senators Al Franken and Rand Paul have put together an amendment to strengthen the privacy safeguards even more -- and over the weekend, Senator Chuck Schumer agreed to co-sponsor the Franken/Paul amendment after talking to various folks in the tech industry and the civil liberties community. That adds more weight to the amendment. Unfortunately, Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Huchison and a few others, who have been carrying water for the NSA throughout this fight, are looking to move the bill very far in the other direction, wiping out tons of privacy protections. It's really shameful.
Either way, this is the week to let your Senator know how you feel about all of this (and if you're a constituent of McCain or Huchison, please ask why they're so against protecting the privacy of the American public). The American Library Association has kindly set up a simple one-click tool to call your Senator and let them know how you feel.
The EFF has a page with some more info as well, noting that it's basically too late to email your Senators, so please call. If you want some more info, check out Fred Wilson's analysis of the situation, which matches almost exactly with mine. We still have not been given a compelling reason why any such legislation is needed. We keep hearing scare stories about mushroom clouds and planes falling from the sky if information can't be shared. But... what no one has done yet is explain which existing regulations block the necessary sharing of information. If they did that, we could look at fixing those laws. Instead, we're just told scare stories and given a massive 211-page bill that wipes out all sorts of previous laws, and adds all sorts of other things to the law. Given the length of the bill, it's quite likely there are some awful "easter eggs" in there that we'll only discover years down the road.
That said, if the bill is going to pass, it would be much better if it had very strong privacy protections in it, and the Franken/Paul amendment go a long way towards putting such protections in. The McCain/Huchison proposal do the opposite, and basically seek to take away privacy protections, while giving the NSA much more ability to access your data. Don't let the Senate trample your privacy rights. Go ahead and use the ALA's tool to contact your Senator today.
Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 30, @12:32PM
from the lost-cause dept.
jfruh writes "One of the arguments against the now-dormant SOPA legislation was that, in addition to eroding Internet freedom, it would also be ineffective in stopping music piracy. Well, according to a leaked report, the RIAA agrees with the latter argument. The proposed laws would 'not likely to have been an effective tool for music,' according to the report. Another interesting revelation is that, despite the buzz and outrage over P2P sharing, most digital music piracy takes place via sneakernet, with music moving among young people on hard drives and ripped CDs."
Some time ago I blogged about finding duplicate MP3 files in a simple situation, where all files where known to reside under a single parent folder. There all we had to do was browse the parent folder and use Tools > Check duplicates menu command. But life isn't always that easy. You may have placed duplicate pictures, videos or whatever on both an old external and your new hard disk. How can you discover such duplicates lying far away in the filesystem?
xplorer² duplicate checking engine doesn't care about locations. All it needs is a scrap window with a collection of files, then it checks the files present for duplicates. The simple Check duplicates menu first flattens the local folder hierarchy, extracting all files in all subfolders, then uses the command parameters to discover duplicate files. A naive approach would be to flatten all the files and folders in your system starting from My Computer folder, and check for duplicates among all your files — but that would take ages. If you know where the files reside (approximately), it will be much better to extract only the folders involved, narrowing the number of files checked.
Let's say you have music files under C:\MUSIC and D:\TEMP\AUDIO. To check duplicates in these 2 folders, browse flat the first one (use the command in File menu), extracting all its contents in a scrap container window. Then select the second folder, drag it with the right mouse button and drop it in the same scrap container, and pick Browse flat command from the context menu. Now you have all the files to be checked, from both C: and D: locations, in a single collection; all that's left is to click on the Duplicates toolbar button in the scrap window to start the checking. If you have more folders to check just add them flat to the collection with right-dragging.
TIP: If you have many folders to flatten it may be easier to do it in two steps: first put all the folders (normal, not flat) in a scrap container, then use View > Dual pane menu to turn on the second pane in the scrap. Select all the folders in the left pane and press <Alt+Return> key combination. Presto, all the folders will be flattened in the right hand side pane!
Delete the duplicates
Once you discover the duplicate files most likely you'd want to remove them freeing up hard disk space. Manual selection of duplicates will be tedious, but xplorer² can help you:
- You can ask the checker to select the duplicates before you start the examination (however this may be a bit ad-hoc as the current sort order will define which is the duplicate to leave intact)
- Use the folder name (path column) as a criterion to select after the check is complete. For example quickly select all items with D:\ in their path.
Remember working in a scrap container, pressing <DEL> key doesn't delete files, only removes them from view. To remove the duplicates from disk use File > Delete menu command.
Here is a demo video explaining the techniques in this blog. play
...Your jokes are better than the ones I've seen online on the subject, though. I'll keep them.Glad you like them. They are not really "my jokes", I just collect jokes that I hear, read about, or that people send me. I am an information packrat. I have several thousand jokes in the database. I can sort/filter them by various keywords or subjects - e.g., puns, weddings, Jewish jokes.-Arizona Hot (July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM)
...Here's a person who can't deny that something he doesn't believe in has happened. He's been bitten by God, so to speak.Yes, it's quite funny, but it has been sorta true in at least one case I know of - C.S.Lewis - except that he wasn't a dyslexic insomniac as far as I know.-Arizona Hot (July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM)
"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
I want to respond to this Iain, but I'm not quite sure how to...
It's political. It's inappropriate. It's offensive imo - and no, I'm not a denier of anything. I'd be happy to fill you in on my views and/or debate with you - but it would be very off-topic for this thread.
(I dont know if dc would be the place for it at all - probably not even in the soapbox, in the light of it being "downgraded" to the basement - but if you want to start a thread there I will respond, or PM me).
PS this has nothing to do with whether it's funny or not ;-)-tomos (July 28, 2012, 01:47 PM)
...the British win is not all that spectacular.The win is in fact a phenomenal achievement for Britain, which has formerly had a relatively poor record in international cycling events - though many of the people have always had a keen interest in cycling per se. I can personally vouch for that latter point - I built my first drop-handlebar road-racing bicycle at the age of 11, using secondhand parts from small-sized frames with 26" wheels. I stripped and cleaned the rusty frame (Raleigh), and then painted it with spray-paint. I knew and loved every component of that bike, down to the last ball-bearing.