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On the morphing topic, I just saw this, and thought it was a brilliant piece of work (99% chance Photoshop and 100% chance not algorithmic - or should that be AL GORE ITHMIC~! :P ):

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by Renegade on September 17, 2012, 09:11 AM »
And... This thread has prompted me to tighten up my anti-spam parameters. Hopefully I'll get a lot less now. If not, then tighten again...

Thanks for bringing it to my attention more~! :D  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by Renegade on September 17, 2012, 09:08 AM »
Speaking of spam, I got an interesting subject line:

We are going to file a charge against you. #id2354

Probably enough to get some people to notice. I did. Anyways, here are some of the reasons my server flagged it as spam:

  • X-Spam: YES
  • X-Reason-1: Sender domain does not have any MX records. - (Score: 2)
  • X-Reason-2: The host name specified in HELO does not match IP address. - (Score: 2)
  • X-Reason-3: Rejected by Spamhaus. - (Score: 3)
  • X-Reason-Score: 7

So, no MX record and host not matching IP... The solution above does nothing to fix these kinds of problems.
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Beginner’s Guide to Police Harassment
Vol.46 No.8 | NZPA | Sat September 1st, 2012
...

Hahahahah~! Very cute!

Too bad that I can't go a day without reading about police abuse of power. Heck, an activist from Copblock.org was shot several times by the police the other day.

On the topic of police abuse of power... this is a true story that I got from an ex-police officer who knows the department...

There's a small town somewhere in North America (I'll leave it at that), where when the police have a hard time interrogating someone for a crime, they get a guy to dress up in a big pink bunny costume, go into the interrogation room, beat the shit out of the guy, then leave. The police then go back into the room, usually to a ready confession. After all, who would believe, "The cops left the room, then this big pink bunny came in, beat the shit out of me, and left." ;D



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Living Room / Manchester #1 in UK~! Woohoo~! =D
« Last post by Renegade on September 17, 2012, 04:38 AM »
YAY for Manchester~! They're #1~! They're #1~! They're #1~! (Continue to chant as long as you like.)

http://www.bbc.com/n.../technology-19599526

Manchester has been named the piracy capital of the UK, according to a new study seen exclusively by the BBC.

The research said there were more illegal [sic.] downloads per person in the city than any other in the country, followed by Nottingham and Southampton.

The statistics, from monitoring service Musicmetric, conclude that in the first half of 2012, UK users illegally [sic.] shared over 40 million albums and singles.

GooooOOOOO MANCHESTER~! :P

(Sorry... Just couldn't resist~! ;D )
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I have NO idea what thread to put this in, but it's funny as hell, so... it's going here. :D (Well, I found it funny anyways.)

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by Renegade on September 17, 2012, 01:45 AM »
^^ Maybe a spammer found the site and entered the sites email address... :P
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Living Room / Re: Shit Apple Fanatics Say
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 11:52 PM »
The cost for two of the above Wine II's was comparable to the cost of a single smartphone, and saved us the extra $$$ monthly on data.  Now, it'd be different if I had something with decent screen real-estate (a tablet maybe), but I just can't see shelling out the extra dinero for a data plan for a phone with a screen that makes using that data plan a pain.

I use my phone's data for my tablet when I'm out. But I can't see a dedicated data plan for my tablet... when my phone has it... and this is just the opposite way to do it, but meh, same-same.
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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 11:50 PM »
Isn't this almost totally ineffective with many (if not most) of the "From:" addresses on spam being either spoofed or free throwaway accounts?

Pretty much. I can't see it being remotely effective against any kind of real spam. Not even worth enumerating the ways that spammers get around these kinds of issues.

Then for legitimate emailers that get caught in the crossfire, this is just a DOS attack.
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For the cute factor:

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For the puzzle factor (it's called a "rebus"):

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Developer's Corner / N-ary Cartesian Products (CROSS JOIN)
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 10:54 AM »
I'm working on a project, and needed to do a Cartesian Product (CROSS JOIN), and found this:

http://www.interact-.../28/linq-cartesian-1

It's got an excellent treatment of how to do Cartesian Products in C#.

I opted for one of the object based array solutions as it suits what I need better. But there are more powerful solutions available.

Anyways, if you need a Cartesian Product in C#, it nails it.
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Living Room / Re: NAS Recommendations?
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 10:35 AM »
Just a quick update on FreeNAS on my box... I have not rebooted the machine once since I turned it on. It's bloody brilliant! Just works like a charm. :)

It's like zero maintenance! I do nothing and it does what I want. Very happy with this little box. :D
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Living Room / Re: Rocket Science 101
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 10:02 AM »
Anyone here ever build a bazooka with model rockets and pipes when they were kids? Or am I the only one? :P
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Living Room / Re: More Facebook Privacy Invasions
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 08:30 AM »
@40hz - You got me having a quick search, and I found this:

http://howmanyofme.com

Lets you see how many people in the US have the same name.

For my name, pretty much all results are about a hockey player.
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Living Room / Re: More Facebook Privacy Invasions
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 01:44 AM »
...It's ultimately a losing battle...

+1

I don't even try to hide. There's little point.
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Living Room / Re: Rocket Science 101
« Last post by Renegade on September 16, 2012, 12:33 AM »
So I built a few rockets. Now where's my cushy office at NASA as a rocket scientist. :P
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Living Room / Re: More Facebook Privacy Invasions
« Last post by Renegade on September 15, 2012, 01:42 PM »
Not sure what to say. Maybe this is appropriate...

Code: C# [Select]
  1. public Rant Loudly()
  2.         {
  3.             Rant result = new Rant();
  4.             while (faceIsRed)
  5.             {
  6.                 result.Profanity.Add(RandomProfanity);
  7.             }
  8.             return result;
  9.         }

I wonder how much of Apple and Facebook's revenue comes from the NSA...
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I think I would like to continue to pursue this and see if there are enough people who would be willing to fund it on kickstarter.

Have you thought about posting about it in any forums that would be relevant? You might get a decent response. Tricky though... Coming in as a first time poster is like dousing yourself in gasoline then deciding to smoke a joint. For forums where you already have a good presence, things usually go well.
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I think it will be interesting to check back in a while and see how the doc project goes.

Large documentation projects are far from trivial. I've worked on quite a few. (If you develop any software for Samsung devices, chances are a good portion of what you've read has been across my desk - emails and other materials included.)

I do like the idea of a nightly build for docs. I loathe purely online documentation. "No, I do not want to visit your web site for information that should have been included with the product..." The nightly build for docs will be a big plus.
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For those interested, here's a nifty link with some nifty comparisons of some nifty phones:

http://mashable.com/...2/iphone-5-compared/

iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S III vs. Droid RAZR HD vs. Nokia Lumia 920

Screenshot - 2012-09-15 , 10_33_45 PM.png

There's more there -- I just got the few top comparisons.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Renegade on September 14, 2012, 10:44 AM »
Pretty cool song, with sweet video, "My Door Bell":



Dude kind of reminds me of Johnny Depp.

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From the comments above, was it BDJ or the vendor?


You'd still need to hold BDJ somewhat responsible. "Your website = your responsibility." Either BDJ removed the comments - or they allowed them to be removed. And since the end result is the same no matter who is most directly responsible, BDJ can't simply dump it on some 3rd-party and walk away. Especially in the absence of any clearly stated policy about notifying users that the vendor is in control of everything that appears on the page - provided that actually is the case

Unfortunately, such a policy might have a negative effect on the perceived credibility of BDJ in general, so it would be interesting to have BDJ officially state exactly who gets to moderate comments and what the policy and process is for comment moderation. Because right now, only BDJ can clarify what's been going on with the RoboForm offer.

There's also chance this is all one big misunderstanding. But if so, it's BDJ that will have to straighten it out since the rest of us can't do much more than speculate.
 :)

(Note: For the record: I'm a fan of BDJ. I've bought things through them before and I've been quite happy overall with the experience.) :Thmbsup:

I know what you mean there. I've just never looked that far into any of Nico's policies there. I've never had to. I've sold software through BDJ. But I've not had any problems there. So, I have a bit of a different perspective, as I've sold a lot more software than I've bought through BDJ. But I've never had a problem buying software through BDJ either. So, in my own experience, well, it is what it is. I do not want to comment any further as nothing I say can provide anything of value, either for or against anything.
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Living Room / Re: Shit Apple Fanatics Say
« Last post by Renegade on September 14, 2012, 10:18 AM »
What I don't want is to have to think about how to extract information from the device (simple, concise, done) and that is what I get from the Windows Phone.

I've made my recent (philosophical) conversion public elsewhere, but I must give credit where it is due.

Microsoft really has a very good understanding of development and how to make things easier for developers.

And I must confess... I am LAZY as hell when it comes to development. If I can find a cheaper, easier, faster way, I will.

But every time I look into something that isn't Microsoft, I find nightmarish mazes of ways to get simple things done. One need only look at a text input in Windows Forms vs. GTK or whatever.

Microsoft just "gets it right" to make developers productive.

I've shied away from MS mobile platforms for the past few years, but I think I'll take a look again fairly soon.

I already do a lot of work on mobile platforms. Given how easy MS stuff is, it should be dirt easy to get a windows mobile app running. (I'll skip the cursing about other platforms.)

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Anyways, I've mostly kept to the sidelines in this thread as Nico is a friend of mine (he runs BDJ).

But I was chatting with him briefly, and he sent me a link for a laugh for a site that blends pron and discount software (very NSFW):

NSFW - Site that blends discount software and pron


Anyways, it's in German, so our German speaking friends here will probably get more of a laugh than anyone, but worth a peek anyways. :D
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BdJ just removed a whole slew of comments.

From the comments above, was it BDJ or the vendor?

I don't remember what the BDJ admin UI is like from the last time I had anything on BDJ, so I'm pretty much in the dark. I have a severe aversion to any kind of censorship (except self-censorship), and never looked the last time I was responding to comments when I had my software up there on BDJ.

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