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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on December 02, 2013, 03:42 PM »^ Becomes even funnier when explained 
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Computer users are being warned about "scam" apps which stealthily use their PC's resources to "mine" Bitcoins - by getting permission in a lengthy user agreement.
The security company Malwarebytes says that it has come across a program which silently used more than half of a user's computer power to perform the complex calculations required to generate the virtual currency, whose value has skyrocketed this year to around $1,000.
Adam Kujawa at Malwarebytes says that the move is one step on from the typical "Potentially Unwanted Programs" which offer browser toolbars and search agents that capture user data and pass it back to the companies, which then use that to serve adverts.
@wraith - ah Lindsey! Always fun to watch.-40hz (November 26, 2013, 06:42 PM)
Speaking of my own proofreading efforts, I've made $546 in ten weeks proofreading others' works. It's so easy to spot their errors. If only my own would leap out at me-kyrathaba (November 25, 2013, 07:21 PM)
Actually what clued me in that the spoof phishing Paypal attack was bogus, is that nobody gets my actual email address.
I have a paid subscription to www.Sneakemail.com which allows me to create a unique email address for each new contact.
They only see that, not my real email address.-bit (November 24, 2013, 05:28 PM)
)First let me say I think this is great that you are doing this.
Please take my comments as constructive criticism -- these are just my 2 cents:
The idea of making an always-running background service would turn me off from ever using this kind of thing. Perhaps if it was something I used constantly I might go to the trouble of installing it, etc. But I am stingy with things i leave running in the background. And the added complexity, while impressive from a programming standpoint, seems troublesome to me..
I still think the best way to do this is a standalone exe that can just be called with the image file from any tool, to do its thing, without any need for a background resident process and inter-process communication.
If the desire is to not have to restart the program on each call, that would seem to me to be best handled as I said, with a 2nd instance simply passing off control to the first instance if the first instance is already running..
Just my 2 cents! I think it's great either way.-mouser (November 20, 2013, 11:11 PM)
That's nice!
Works fine here on W7-64 SP 1.
Re opacity, it would be handy if there could be a toggle (double-click?) between transparent and opaque.-cranioscopical (November 20, 2013, 11:02 PM)
| Application Name | ImgFloat |
| Short Description | Overlay the Desktop with a recently taken screenshot |
| Supported OSes | Windows XP/7 (Should work in Vista/8 also, but untested) |
| Web Page | http://thinkshui.net/software/imgfloat/ |
| Setup File | Portable Version |
| Description | I’ve used Screenshot Captor on Windows to great effect for years, and it contains a ton of features. But one feature that I didn’t even realize that it was mssing until recently was the ability to float the screenshot after it was taken. Lately, I’ve been using my MacBook more, and came across an application ScreenFloat. It’s not a full featured as Screenshot Captor, but the ability to float the section that you’ve just taken a screenshot of in a transparent window has a multitude of uses. So, for NANY 2014, I’ve decided to create a tool that can be called by Screenshot Captor to float the just taken image in a transparent window. I’ve done much of the research into what I’m doing with the recently announced Reference Overlay Tool, so the two should be very similar. |
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| Screenshots | Doesn't adequately explain, looking back at it. But I'll leave it. |
| Screencast | |
| Documentation | http://www.thinkshui.net/docs/imgfloat/ |
| Installation |
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| Uninstalling | Delete application install location and remove command from screenshot captor preferences dialog. |
| Notes | Requires .NET 4.0. |
But how effective will this be in actual practice? Doesn't this only apply to such litigation brought to NZ courts and within its bounds?Yes. It's a start at least, with NZ getting it's own house into more sensible order.-wraith808 (November 18, 2013, 12:10 PM)-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:27 PM)
Sure, this in itself is also rather funny, like the joke, but could be somewhat tedious unless deliberately done for the amusement/entertainment of others.
There would seem to be a possibility that the amusing joke could either be true or false, so couldn't we just leave it at that? There is such a thing as "killing" someone else's joke, after all.-IainB (November 18, 2013, 01:28 AM)
