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Meh, not interested then. :(
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Is it a license or a subscription?
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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 06:56 AM »
The guy is a blast! (Reuses old material a fair bit it seems.)



A few laughs: Nazis, secondary smoke, the World Bank, gays (same material as above).
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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 06:46 AM »
This is just hilarious:
;D ;D

hadnt heard him before, he's great

here's another from him including the topics:
heavy metal and comedy; the British riots; the "war on terror"; global warming; the Xfactor on the news, and music

http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related

That was brilliant~! =D

"Good, peace, freedom loving terror. Like Diet Terror. Terror Lite."

;D
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Living Room / ATTN All Gamers - YOU Are Terrorists~! =P
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 06:17 AM »
Well, not all gamers... Just those of you sick & twisted evil terrorists that use console gaming systems...

You think I'm making this up? Bwahahahahaah~! I'm not really all that imaginative~! :P ;D (Well, yes I am, but I'm just not a liar.)

https://www.fbo.gov/...ab=core&_cview=0

From downloadable document:

Contract to Obscure Technologies to fund the development and delivery of computer forensic tools for analyzing network traffic and stored data created during the use of video game systems. The total amount available is $177,237.50 RDT & E underlying funds;

Translation - Tools to sniff what you're doing, and hack onto your console to read data. Yes. The US Department of the Navy wants to spy on gamers...

Seriously. No joke!

3.  Description of Supplies/Services.

This project proposes to create the following deliverables for use by Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T):

4.1   Hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting data from video game systems.

4.2   A collection of data (disk images; flash memory dumps; configuration settings) extracted from new video game systems and used game systems purchased on the secondary market.

4.3   A final report between 10 and 20 pages to include the following information:

-   Detailed account of issues involved in extracting forensic data from a series of game consoles
-   Technical information regarding how information can be extracted from video game systems
-   Any engineering decisions that were made and why
-   What work remains to be done
-   Any failings of the approaches followed


Sources:
http://www.corbettre...week-20120412-video/
http://www.allgov.co...aming_Systems_120411
http://www.foreignpo...2/spy_games?page=0,0
http://www.wired.com...4/game-console-hack/

You dirty gamer scumballs~! We'll get you~! You'll pay for killing all those digital babies~! :P ;D

Jeez... I just about wet myself laughing~!
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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 05:05 AM »
"While he said he didn’t want to get into copyright math,..."

Haha! So the minute a properly calculated hard number appears, it might reverse his "noted that" talking points!

And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)

+1

Hollywood Accounting is every bit as real as the A-Team~! :P
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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 04:08 AM »
Looks like an RIAA/MPAA propaganda/indoctrination mission didn't work out too well for Paramount at Brooklyn Law School:
Paramount's Post-SOPA 'Outreach' To Law Students About 'Content Theft' Still Shows An Out Of Touch Operation

Worth a read.

From the prof's notes:

Perry finally discussed SOPA and PROTECT IP. From Paramount’s perspective, these were proportionate measures targeting foreign sites and providing for a measure of due process

Proportionate? Well, I don't think I need to point out how utter ridiculous that is...

"A measure of due process"? WTF? Is he on crack? Due process is kind of like being pregnant or dead. You either are or aren't. You either get due process, or you don't.

These people are completely out of touch with any semblance of reality.
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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]
« Last post by Renegade on April 13, 2012, 12:20 AM »
This is just hilarious:



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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 08:26 PM »
Wow! so he's a true historian? Yes, the US government has dragged the American people into war, but... 9/11 was a hoax perpetrated by the US government? And the US government blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building? And Angelina Jolie is a war criminal? Oh boy! Tri-Lateral Commission stuff all over again? US will be a lot of FEMA-run concentration camps?  And all this crap belongs in our history books? Really?

This is all pretty off-topic, so, spoiler. :)

@J-Mac
Regarding 911 - 2 airplanes take down 3 buildings, which are the ONLY 3 in history to ever collapse due to fires. And they collapse at about free-fall speed... Nope. Nothing suspicious here. These are not the terrorists you're looking for. Move along... ;)



If 911 wasn't an inside job, then it's the exception. Have a search for "us false flag" - history is full of them. The first WTC bombing in 1993 was setup by the FBI. Any surprises there?

Oh, here's something you actually might like:

FBI HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN 17 FALSE FLAG TERROR NON-EVENTS



(BTW - His show got canceled.)

Is it any surprise that Oklahoma was run by the FBI? If it wasn't, then it's an exception.

There's a very clear pattern of false flag behaviour by the US government. If there's some terrorist act, and you don't immediately suspect the US government, well, you're pretty much ignoring all the evidence.

But, it's scary stuff, so I can see why people would want to bury their heads in the sand. Who wants to believe that their government is run by a bunch of murderous thugs? (Nazi Germany. Stalinist Russia. Mao China. Pol Pot Cambodia. Idi Amin Uganda. US in Viet Nam. US in Iraq. US in Afghanistan. etc. etc. etc. Democide in the 20th century killed 262 million people. Check the Wikipedia entry for "Democide".) Well, the first thing EVERYONE says is, "It can't happen here..." Or maybe that's the last thing they say~! :P ;D

Is Alex Jones "out there"? Sure. But then again, so is the truth. ;) (Couldn't resist the X-Files allusion there~! :) )

But seriously - Have a look around and you'll see that he's very, very far from being alone in saying the same things as a lot of other people. Is some stuff a bit wonky, like the Angelina stuff? Sure. But that doesn't lessen anything else.

Typically, most of the articles there are commentary on other articles from the MSM. One recent article went on about how some legislation in California mandated how many living units must be built on an acre of land, and the article pointed out the reasons for that and the implications.

Meh... Whatever.

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Living Room / Re: NAS Recommendations?
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 08:02 PM »
@4wd - Thank you very much!

OMV is looking about what I want there. :)

And that setup guide will be pure gold.

Guess I'm off to get one in the next few days! Thanks again 4wd! :)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 10:12 AM »
Copy & paste into a text editor, then copy and past that into Excel. Done.

Wow it works - awesome. Yeah I've done this in the past too, but forgot!


Oh... I forgot... Different browsers copy data differently, and Opera won't let you snags tables that easily. The others are ok if I remember correctly...
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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 09:19 AM »
"Kill it with violence!"

I just can't stop laughing at the audio  ;D
http://www.liveleak....iew?i=e4a_1334156442

That was creepy... very creepy...
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 09:16 AM »
maybe.
She's referring to PR campaigns by the fossil fuel industry to influence public perception of global warming and related science (she gives a link in the Wired Science link from Iain above - [PDF link: "How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science"]

(Again, I dont subscribe to censorship, but I dont subscribe to Exxon's tactics either - but I think the best "solution" is simply to publicise it.)

I have no love for big energy corps, and can't say much about Exxon tactics, but man... I just can't see this woman as being not dangerous. Whatever she's referring to really isn't relevant for me.

Mind you, I don't believe in censoring anyone - that includes people that I vehemently disagree with as well, e.g. the KKK, Stormfront, etc.
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 08:38 AM »
Oh... @IainB - Thanks for finding that~!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 08:38 AM »
Page 46:

Develop limits on the ability of the fossil fuel industry to influence policy debate.

There's a phrase for that... It's called "silencing the opposition".

The woman is advocating censorship.

From page 43 she goes on about "policy", which is basically a blueprint for a propaganda/psyop campaign.
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 08:17 AM »
Ref. the paper Kari Norgaard wrote: (about 76 pages long, dated 2009)

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4940

 :o

Sponsored by the World Bank? A policy paper? Ahem... I smell an agenda... Things just went from bad to worse.
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Living Room / Re: NAS Recommendations?
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 07:43 AM »
Looks like it (the HP mini-server) comes with Windows on it... Can anyone recommend anything better? What would be a good OS to run if you only want to use the box as NAS?

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Living Room / Re: Man rows across Atlantic... inspiring
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 06:45 AM »
Wow... Dude should be a porn star, cause he's got to have the biggest balls in the world~! :P

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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 06:42 AM »
I'm not for or against anyone here and I'm certainly not supporting her paper.
I [just] think the response was unhelpful, inappropriate, exaggerated, stupid, etc etc.

Pretty much. I think a lot of people focused on "treat" and went to town on it. But, whatever.

I didn't really mean to point out her out so much as censorship - which has been reversed, so that's a good thing.

And no matter how nutty anything she has to say is or isn't, I'm certainly glad that she CAN say it. :)
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 06:23 AM »
I just checked, and it looks like Google has reversed the censorship now. Check the original video -- it now plays.

As for her paper, does anyone have a link? I wasn't able to find it anywhere.

But read or not - she still claims that climate change is akin to racism/slavery, i.e. she's saying that it's a MORAL issue, and not a scientific issue. That is just wonky.
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 05:07 AM »
OK, kidding aside, I couldn't find much about what the professor wrote in her paper but if anyone is paraphrasing her accurately then I agree that she seems a bit wacky. At the same time, that whole web site featuring Alex Jones appears to be more wacky yet. Look up "wild-eyed conspiracy theorist wacko" and I bet it links directly to that web site!!

Talk about a pot and kettle! Whew!

Jim


http://www.theregist...m_slavery_treatment/

The discussion, she said, is comparable to what happened with challenges to racism or slavery in the U.S. South.


http://www.examiner....epticism-with-racism

Climate change activist Kari Norgaard equates skepticism with racism

Global warming alarmist, Kari Norgaard, equates skepticism about climate change to racism.  They have been labeled with many names, but skeptics now endure the most egregious, insulting, name-calling of all.

So, who is Kari Norgaard that we should worry about whom she calls racists?  Miss Norgaard is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Oregon and current caller of climate catastrophe in ‘Planet Under Pressure,’ a climate conference in London.  She presented a paper calling for climate change skepticism to be treated as a 'sickness' or mental illness.

...

So, yeah, I am alarmed by Miss Norgaard and the way-off-scale sociological socialists in her academic neighborhoods. They have ignored the hard science of climate change, have not noticed that the debate goes on, and are using the perpetuated lies to gain power over people.  Their arguments appear logical at first blush until the ‘sickness’ they see in others manifests from within themselves. An alarming cancer is growing within the global warming alarmist group.   

This reminds me of the scarey stuff we read about in George Orwell’s book, 1984.  Is Big Brother watching us?  No, Kari Norgaard is.   



http://www.dailymail...epticism-racism.html

The scientists behind the event recently put out a statement calling for humans to be packed into denser cities so that the rest of the planet can be surrendered to mother nature.

And fellow attendee Yale University professor Karen Seto told MSNBC: ‘We certainly don’t want them (humans) strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely [together].’


The difference between Alex Jones and pretty much any other site that reports on the same material, is that he'll say what he thinks or give some analysis, or simply call something for what it is, or point out the obvious implications that people don't want to hear.

The entire "conspiracy theory" stuff is just a tool to shut down debate on a topic. More often than not what people call "conspiracy theories" are really just plain old pieces of history that makes people uncomfortable. e.g. The US regularly uses false flag attacks, just like it did with the Gulf of Tonkin incident that it used to drag the American people into war in Viet Nam. Sure - lots of people will call it a "conspiracy theory". It's just history. There's nothing controversial in saying that the US government lies to its people on a regular basis in order to drag the country into wars. History proves it.

So, yeah... If knowing a bit of history makes someone a "conspiracy theorist", I guess Alex Jones is. I guess I am as well.

But isn't it strange that a lot of these inconvenient facts never seem to make it into most history books... Hmmm... ;)

Censoring history? :P Yeah, I'm not a fan of that either. ;)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 04:57 AM »
You have about 150 colours there, but Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia..../wiki/List_of_colors">lists about 900</a> (not sure if there's a better source). Now if I can find a HTML table to CSV converter...

Copy & paste into a text editor, then copy and past that into Excel. Done. :) (I do it all the time - pasting into a text editor converts cells to tabs, which is great for Excel.)

I did that so long ago that I forget now, but I think those were all the colours for HTML 4 at the time. Or they were the only accepted ones in .NET... Something like that.
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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship
« Last post by Renegade on April 12, 2012, 03:41 AM »
Google can NOT engage in censorship. They're a private entity choosing how they want to use their resources.


It's still censorship no matter whether they're public or private. Censorship is censorship.

However, it is certainly within YouTube's purvey to censor. Sure. No problem there.

But, it would be the exact same case for a restaurant throwing someone out and telling them that black people are welcome there. There is no significant difference. A privately owned restaurant is under no obligation to serve anyone that they don't want to.

a bit long
The same would go for a privately owned bus company refusing to allow children on the bus. Hey, it's their bus.

YouTube is a privately held company owned by Google. It is a UCC or social media site that specializes in video. The key there is "social media". But it has no "theme".

For example, if I were to post a video of cute puppies and kittens at YouPorn.com, I would fully expect it to be taken down, because YouPorn is for porn, and not cute animals. Conversely, most other sites, like Vimeo, have terms of service that prohibit porn.

It is the "terms of service" that laregly defines what is and is not acceptable at a site. The video that was pulled by YouTube did not violate the terms of service. That is censorship.

So the question is, do we treat large media or social media sites as media and demand a certain level of integrity, honesty, and tolerance?



Again, it is certainly within YouTube's purvey to censor.

But that still makes them censors in the same way that kicking a black kid out of your restaurant makes you a racist, or blocking 2 men (or 2 women) from getting married makes you a homophobe.

Now, it's not my place to say whether you or anyone else can or cannot be a racist or homophobe or censor. I just think that they're all douchey.



I'm willing to be that each of you would willingly engage in this same kind of "censorship". If someone came into your home -- even with an invitation -- and started saying insulting things to your family, wouldn't you ask them to leave? It's your home, and you're well within your rights to control the kinds of things that others do there.


I don't really think that's a valid comparison. A private home is not comparable to a private business. We have very different standards for them.

My restaurant example above is closer.


Indeed, our system needs to work this way. We recognize that the government must not interfere with people's ability to speak, but that doesn't mean that we want to have profanity and porn displayed on every street corner. Instead, we rely on the values of the people to exert social pressures on each other, so that the overall cultural values are preserved.

The censorship in this case was simply someone disagreeing with a position and making a joke that didn't include any profanity or obscenity.

We have the right to hate people of different races, or whatever - but that doesn't mean we should. Same for censorship. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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Living Room / Re: Apple & book publishers may be sued for price fixing
« Last post by Renegade on April 11, 2012, 07:48 PM »
The thing about this kind of government intervention is that it only addresses the symptom - monopolistic practices. So, whilst we can all probably feel cheered by this particular result, the causal problem remains - i.e., the legal status of the corporate (psychopathic) person. So this type of ripoff will be able to recur ad infinitum, under different guises, and each time it recurs the consumers who have been ripped off (victimised) will probably never be given their money back. Suckers.
Now that's a failure of government.

+1

Sadly, but yes... +1 :(

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newbie Needs Advice For Packaging Audio
« Last post by Renegade on April 11, 2012, 07:46 PM »
Ah, right... Laptop... Go for an external sound card then. M-Audio has some excellent devices specifically for laptops.

A sound card is the interface for the speakers/mic/etc. for your computer.

You'll plug the sound card into your laptop, then plug the mic into your sound card, then record (you don't need a garbage can -- your bathroom should be fine), then edit in Audacity or the software that comes with your sound card.

If you want to pay me back, download my software (GDT), have a look at it, then recommend it to any musician friends that you have. :)
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