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Living Room / Re: UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER
« Last post by Renegade on January 06, 2012, 05:23 PM »
The "non-lethal" weapons aren't really all that safe.
Well, tazers, like guns, may kill you, but they wouldn't do that if there wasn't someone holding the thing and triggering it in the first place.
It's they who aren't "all that safe" - or legal.
And they know it.
And they don't want their actions to be scrutinized.
Here you go: Seattle Sues Attorney For Requesting Police Dash-Cam Footage

I find that to be quite amazing - kinda scary too. The Renton police cartoons fiasco were bad enough, but at least that fiasco is kinda funny, not scary.


Over the past few months I've been working EXTREMELY hard at changing myself and I've made an incredible amount of progress.

Now, that isn't to say that some of the more violent thoughts still don't come to mind, but at least I'm not screaming on the outside anymore (yes -- sometimes I would literally start screaming at some things like this), and even better, I can simply let the initial shock wash over me without screaming on the inside, or at least not for long, or at least infrequently, though I still have that gut reaction...

The link you have there is definitely one of those that would have sent me into a screaming fury before.

Sue for asking for information? Ahem... This is what we call pure, unmitigated evil. It's like walking into a room, shooting someone, then shooting the first person to scream, then asking if anyone else wants to express outrage/shock/whatever.

It's really over the top.

The video there was quite good as well. Some good info and references too.





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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome feature: How to Pronounce English Words
« Last post by Renegade on January 06, 2012, 04:57 PM »
Interesting. It pronounced "Floccinaucinihilipilification" pretty well. I'd keep the "nihili" with short i's where it had long i's, but hey, it works! :)

For "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" it was bang on!

It butchered "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", but it was recognizable. The stresses there were pretty bizarre.

It got "jujube" right. (The final "e" isn't pronounced, which is a mistake that many English speakers make. i.e. jew-jew-bee is wrong.)

No results at all for "frack", however it got "fracking" right.

It had long o's for the first o's in "otorhinolaryngologist" where I'd use short o's. (I think that's a Canadian vs. British pronunciation issue.)

It could use an autofocus on it though as it's a pain to click in the box. Still, it's very well done.



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Shades of Miranda!

(In Serenity, the government put a pacifying agent in the water of a colony to calm them.  It was an unmitigated failure- it either pacified them to death, or turned them into a raving monster)

That was such a cool show! Damn shame it got canned. :(

The shameful thing here is that this sort of insanity is great and fantastic and fun and interesting and entertaining WHEN it is part of a fictional story. When it's reality, it's a much different case...

"Brave New World" should never have been a manual. It should have remained a story... :(



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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"
« Last post by Renegade on January 06, 2012, 03:03 PM »
... a small and very un-American cabal of religious, political, and business interests to subvert almost everything this nation stands for ...

+1

That's a key point.

While I'm not American -- I'm Canadian --- the same thing goes on in Canada in many ways.

NSFW analogy
If Ottawa can't taste Washington D.C.'s cock, it's because it's in Ottawa's ever-so-willing ass.


It's embarrassing to see how Ottawa parrots the same rhetoric you get out of Washington D.C. With much of the same style of legislation. This is nothing new. It's been that way for decades.

We recently saw the same kind of totalitarian attitude by various cities with police attacking Occupy protesters in Canada as we saw in the US. WTF? Canadian police? Attacking protesters? Huh? The same people that apologize to you when YOU bump into THEM on the street?

This disease in the US is infectious... The US is just patient zero.



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Anyway, trolling aside, it seems a bit weird to put fluoride in the water supply - wouldn't it be more appropriate to put it in toothpaste?

That assumes people will actually use it. Water is a bit more of a necessity (can't go more than 3 days without it they say). Hell they'll probably start putting Chantix in the water next to eliminate smokers.


You joke about that now... (I'm not kidding... see below...)


Anyway, trolling aside, it seems a bit weird to put fluoride in the water supply - wouldn't it be more appropriate to put it in toothpaste?

That assumes people will actually use it. Water is a bit more of a necessity (can't go more than 3 days without it they say). Hell they'll probably start putting Chantix in the water next to eliminate smokers.
Well, I guess the reason for putting it in the water supply is THEY need it in your bloodstream to boost the effectiveness of the psychotropic drugs they add to your cereals - confining it to toothpaste would only help against cavities :-)


(I'm getting a hint of sarcasm, flavoured with moderate overtones of cynicism... ;) )

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I suppose WE should take off our tinfoil hats for a moment... Well...

http://www.thedaily....11-news-lithium-1-5/

(Graphic there - can't quote here.)

http://www.dailymail...r-suicide-rates.html


Should we drug the drinking water? Adding lithium to the taps 'could lower suicide rates'

Lithium has been heralded by some experts as the next potential flouride, after scientists found suicide rates were lower in areas where the drinking water had higher concentrations of the element.

Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna compared the suicide rates in different regions of Austria with the natural lithium concentrations in the drinking water.


Laugh it up. That's just the start.

http://www.guardian....put-lithium-in-water

Should we put lithium in the water?

A psychiatrist in Ireland has suggested that putting psychiatric medicine in drinking water could cut the suicide rate

It sounds like science fiction: a consultant psychiatrist in Ireland proposed last week that mass medication could be used to make us all happier. Aldous Huxley had his soma; Dr Moosajee Bhamjee, former Labour party politician (he accidentally won a seat while campaigning for "the protest vote" in Clare in 1992), says his government should add lithium to the water supply.


http://ag.arizona.ed.../july00/feature1.htm

Developed to promote human health and well being, certain pharmaceuticals are now attracting attention as a potentially new class of water pollutants. Such drugs as antibiotics, anti-depressants, birth control pills, seizure medication, cancer treatments, pain killers, tranquilizers and cholesterol-lowering compounds have been detected in varied water sources.


http://www.msnbc.msn...g-us-drinking-water/

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.


Ah, yeah... Constant, continual exposure to small amounts of dangerous drugs is safe...

There is a very good reason why some of these drugs have extreme warnings. They are DANGEROUS!


There are other calls in the medical community to start putting other psychotropics in the water supply. (I forget the reference at the moment -- it was out of a university in the UK.)

You can't make this stuff up.

It's all there in plain sight. No "conspiracy theory" needed. If anything, this is "conspiracy history/fact".


What some people won't want to hear

If you want, go out and verify this stuff for yourself...

Sodium fluoride was used by the Nazis in death camps because they found that it helped make the prisoner population much more docile and easier to manage/murder.

Now, go check to see if there was any water fluoridation prior to WWII... There was research, but there was no water fluoridation...

;)




Putting lithium in the water supply is forced medication. It's utterly insane for many reasons. And yet, there are a half-dozen or do references right out of the mainstream media right above.

You don't need a tinfoil hat to read what's right in front of you.


And THIS is what modern medicine is? Forced medication? Putting psychotropic drugs in the water supply? For real?


--- Just to put a tiny bit of this in perspective -- the above stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on at length about other things, however, some would probably be too inflammatory for some people. It's probably inflammatory enough to point out that there is serious consideration being given to the thought that "putting lithium in the water is a good thing", even when it's got numerous mainstream sources to back it up.


Back to the original post --- I firmly believe that software in medicine like that should be open source, GPL'd software.





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Living Room / Re: Found on the Web: Short Rant Against Users of Free Web Apps
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 10:48 PM »
The other issue is the prices.  Most shareware is going to be minimum $20.  That's not much, but most people would consider it too expensive unless they were really serious about it.  The app prices ($2-5) are much more acceptable psychologically to users.  They'll buy it just to see.  That's where you want to be, even more so with Windows.

I was under the impression that 99 cent apps sold a lot better than the $2-5 range. As I understand it the $2-5 range is still a really tough one even on mobile devices. I wouldn't be surprised if more expensive apps ($5-10 or even $20) actually sold better. It would jive with PC-side pricing realities where very often pricing your app at $20 actually results in a lower perception of value and thus lower sales than pricing at say $40 ($39.99). There was a lot of discussion on this in the Sagelight thread a while back.

- Oshyan

If you read through the JoS forums, you'll constantly hear about how raising prices increased the number of sales.

Pricing is a very difficult thing to get right.

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Living Room / Re: Found on the Web: Short Rant Against Users of Free Web Apps
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 08:41 PM »
Stop trying to make the word 'free' mean something it doesn't.

Want people to stop being confused about what 'free' means? That's easy. Just stop trying to confuse them...and maybe ban the word 'free' from your vocabulary as one way of accomplishing that.

Agreed, but it's hard.

Mostly, it's "free" as in "no money", but... with strings attached. I think most people think of "money" first. Most people don't consider surrendering their privacy to be a "cost".

The only really "free" software out there is that which comes for "free" as in "no money" AND has a GPL-type license (or BSD or whatever -- you know what I mean there).



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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 08:31 PM »
Be interesting if this were to actually come to pass...

From the folks at OSNews (link to full article here)

Google, Facebook, Amazon May Go Black in SOPA Protest
posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2012 10:37
 
So, this one slipped by completely undetected late last year (no, I don't grow tired of saying that). CNet reported that Google, Amazon, Facebook, and similarly large, anti-SOPA companies are mulling over the option of taking their websites off the air to replace them with an anti-SOPA message, asking users to contact their elected officials.

The option to let popular websites that oppose SOPA go black as a sort of last ditch effort, a nuclear option if you will, has been bandied about on the web quite often. As it turns out, it's not just some wishful thinking among Redditors and the rest of the web - Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others are actually considering this option.

CNet talked to Markham Erickson, head of the NetCoalition trade association, which consists of, among others, Google, Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo. "There have been some serious discussions about that," he told CNet, "It has never happened before."

I'll believe it when I see it. But wouldn't it be "Something wonderful, Dave." (like HAL said) if they really went ahead and did?
 8)



I think it's a rather exciting prospect that these companies would go that far to protest against what truly is pure evil.

I hope it doesn't come to that, and that SOPA is torpedoed, but... if need be... they'll certainly earn some serious street cred if they go through with it.



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Living Room / Re: Found on the Web: Short Rant Against Users of Free Web Apps
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 08:27 PM »
I have a freemium experiment coming out the moment I can finish some testing.

@Renegade - I have to give you credit. You are one of the few people I know who has worked very hard to come up with a creative business model for your customers and yourself that does right by all parties involved. Even though we've disagreed on various issues and ideas about the business side of software, I still think you deserve some very special credit for your ongoing efforts.

Best of luck finding that sweet spot in 2012.  :Thmbsup:
 (see attachment in previous post)
 8)




Thank you! I really appreciate that! :D

Just a quick peek at one of the things I've got in it...

I've got the pricing model set for micropayments and am using geo-location to determine prices. Yeah... I know... I've complained about this in the past, but hear me out...

I'm not looking to gouge people on prices. Quite the opposite. Instead, I've got things set to reduce prices to absurdly low levels for countries where people otherwise couldn't afford it. e.g. If you are in Malaysia, India, Viet Nam, or Iran (just for example), that's the bottom pricing tier, and the cheapest.

On the other hand, if you're in New Zealand, Kuwait, or Sweden, that's in the top tier, and the most expensive (or rather, a normal price).

The point is to make the premium version affordable for people that otherwise couldn't afford it, or would have to consider more carefully before purchasing. The point isn't to gouge people for cash just with some sort of justification like "whatever the market will bear", which in my opinion is merely a rationalisation for pure greed (for which I have nothing but contempt). My general rule of thumb when I made the list was to put countries in the cheaper pricing tier rather than put it in the higher one.

Anyways, wish me luck. I know that what I'm trying to do with this project is unconventional, and could fail entirely, but we'll see. I am somewhat fearful that my attitude towards delivering value to people and making things affordable rather than grabbing every penny that I can from people may very well turn out to work against me.




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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 07:46 PM »
Whatever the outcome, I still get the distinct impression that the SOPA proposals are at least further tangible evidence - if any further were needed - that  American democracy, freedoms and liberties have been and are being gnawed away at an alarming rate by various agencies, including powerful corporate, capitalist, communist, Fascist, statist and religio-political ideological lobbies. The freedom of the individual would be largely irrelevant in this greater context.

I'm very apprehensive that my children will live in a society where individual freedom as we used to know it is only a memory. The "rights" of individuals has been superceded by corporate greed and the politicians the corporations have bought.

Very sad indeed.

+1

I would post some links, however, they're highly political and controversial, so not really the right place here (they would be inflammatory for some people). If you like, PM me and I'll send you some links and some quick information.

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading RAM amount; please help me choose.
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 07:07 PM »
On the (albeit unlikely) odd chance that the new duly appointed step one fails...
The .NET Removal Tool has served me well in the past. I usually strip everything with it then and start over (it hasn't failed me yet).
have you ever used it with Windows 7?  I've used it successfully with XP, but not vista or 7.

Yes.

Ditto. :Thmbsup:


I have never had to use it, but I have had customers use it to fix a .NET problem, and have never had any issues there. In every case it has solved the problem. That includes Windows 7.

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Getting rather off-topic now I guess, but in regards to fluoride in the water, let's consider not what harm it may be causing (which is debated but documented), rather what *good* is it doing, if any. The evidence for any positive benefit from fluoride at concentrations as low as in our water supply is... scant. In other words we're ingesting fluoride for no good reason. There are a variety of theories, ranging on the "conspiracy spectrum" from "We had good reason to believe it was beneficial when the policy was implemented" to "We needed a good way to get rid of excess fluoride from other manufacturing processes" (the latter of which seems rather far-fetched but quite scary if even remotely true).

Regardless of the reason it's there, the only useful question in my view is whether it actually does any *good*. Continuing something simply because it does not/may not do any harm is not reason enough to continue.

- Oshyan

+1

As far as I can discover, there is zero benefit to it. The *only* evidence where it is less toxic is in topical application, and even then, there's no evidence that it is beneficial.

If this is the kind of science that modern medicine is offering, then back to the original topic, I see significant reason for serious concern and think that GPL'd software is the only truly sane solution to the problem.

Did anyone watch "The Third Letter" that I posted above? It is EXACTLY bang on this topic.


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Living Room / Re: Found on the Web: Short Rant Against Users of Free Web Apps
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 06:58 PM »
What was that saying, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product"? :P

Well, that's what many small developers can't manage to do. They put out free/freemium software but don't have a model to turn people into products like Facebook or Google do.

Then again, turning people into products is incredibly difficult. Difficult as in writing the product again 5x or more. On a good day. With your guardian angel close by.


I remember Ndoc. It was fantastic. Then...

http://web.archive.o...ndoc-20-is-dead.html

I have decided to discontinue work on NDoc 2.0 and no longer participate in any open-source development work.

The development and release of NDoc 1.3 was a huge amount of work, and by all accounts widely appreciated. Unfortunately, despite the almost ubiquitous use of NDoc, there has been no support for the project from the .Net developer community either financially or by development contributions. Since 1.3 was released, there have been the grand total of eleven donations to the project. In fact, were it not for Oleg Tkachenko’s kind donation of a MS MVP MSDN subscription, I would not even have a copy of VS2005 to work with!

To put this into perspective, if only roughly 1-in-10 of the those who downloaded NDoc had donated the minimum allowable amount of $5 then I could have worked on NDoc 2.0 full-time and it could have been released months ago! Now, I am not suggesting that this should have occurred, or that anyone owes me anything for the work I have done, rather I am trying to demonstrate that if the community values open-source projects then it should do *something* to support them. MS has for years acknowledged community contributions via the MVP program but there is absolutely no support for community projects.

I have a freemium experiment coming out the moment I can finish some testing. I've just been busy, so it's been sitting on the shelf for several months now (a ton of work for Samsung Semiconductor chewed up most of my time). I wanted to try to get it submitted as a NANY app, but couldn't manage to get the time for final testing. The freemium model complicates things somewhat, and the 2 people that were going to help with testing never got back to me. :(

I'm not sure what to expect from the project. I've been using it a lot myself for personal use because it's simply all that much better than the alternatives. So, I've got that testing done now (over the last few months). Just a couple things to double check on and it will be finally DONE and RELEASED! That will be a relief and a half or two.

Once I get the product released, I've got a few blog posts planned for some of the internals, the freemium model, and stuff like that.

Speaking of... time to go do some update testing...




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I have found unicode universally painful as hell to deal with -- even when working with languages that have good support for it (Python). 

My personal unicode hell began a very long time ago, and I quickly tried to rectify things. I suppose that since then, I've simply tried to stick to things that pre-empt the problems I've faced in the past, so I really don't have any issues with it now.



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Some languages do not include robust unicode support innately. Some require hacks or libraries or mind-numbingly stupid amounts of work to get unicode to work.

The newer, more modern languages all have unicode support innately, or have easily integrated unicode support.

So, for example, if you use an older version of Delphi, you're hosed. Update and you may need to rewrite things -- but ask a Delphi whiz about that for details.

To be honest, it's really a complete disaster. The root cause is that computing resources were very limited and expensive a long time ago, and we're still paying for that now.

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Fluorine is an important component of sarin nerve gas, but we put it in our water/toothpaste/etc.
Hydrogen is an important component of Hydrogen bombs, but we put it is in our water.


Check up on sodium fluoride and hydrogen fluoride. There are tons of articles, documents, documentaries on the topic. They are pure toxins. Anyone that doesn't believe it is more than welcome to chomp on a teaspoon of it. Just make certain to write your last will and testament first.

The hydrogen in hydrogen bombs is tritium/deuterium, which are only found in extremely small trace amounts in normal water. If you have a glass of tritium or deuterium, sell it. It's worth quite a bit. ;) (If you have lots, sell it to Iran as they won't be able to buy much of anything in the near future.)

It's funny that you bring this up. I just finished a blog post...

http://cynic.me/2012...-them-what-they-are/

If I were to add to my comment in that previous post, I'd add in that GMOs are biological weapons - bio-warfare.

You can check up on them and find out just how toxic they are. There is a lot of information available on the topic.

I just can't get on the band wagon. When all the evidence shows that corporate interests come first before health, and that health concerns are largely ignored... Nah... Trust levels are below zero.




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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn to program with Code Year
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2012, 06:30 AM »
I like the idea! :)

(I'd like to see programming taught starting around grade 4 or so though. It builds logic skills.)

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I found this very cute:

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/BK/

BK.jpg

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More funny stories:

http://www.inquisitr...hel-pimpin-for-paul/

r-MOONLITE-BUNNY-RANCH-600x275.jpg

Ron Paul, known for his Libertarian views, has picked up a new endorsement. The Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a Nevada brothel has begun a campaign they are calling “Pimpin for Paul”

The owner of the Brothel, Dennis Hof said in a statement

“We decided to go with the guy that’s more about state’s rights — and that’s Ron Paul,”

Hof did a survey of 500 prostitutes to see which candidate they wanted to support, and the results were close between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.

:P
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Living Room / Google Breaking its Rules?
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2012, 11:18 AM »
Well, it appears there's a bit of controversy here:

http://rt.com/usa/ne...-own-search-web-175/

Google is getting into some hot water after some stealthy bloggers caught the search engine giants breaking their own rules.

An online ad campaigned launched by Google to promote its own products, specifically the Chrome web browser, has been revealed to using shortcuts to skip rules that the company itself put in place in order to keep search engines fair in returning their results.

According to Google’s own rules on paid links, “Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the Web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results.” In order to keep the Web operating justly then, Google proposes coding to be added to websites that keep paid links from landing within the regulations set forth in their guidelines. Google, however, is dismissing those guidelines themselves.

I suppose we'll find out more shortly...


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Living Room / Re: Upgrading RAM amount; please help me choose.
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2012, 12:46 AM »
Ugh.  I always do this...I always play a little too much with things.  My curiosity is going to be the death of me, I'm sure of it.

I've learned to do this:

  • Figure out how many minutes the job will take.
  • Budget that many hours.

Seems to work pretty well. :D

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading RAM amount; please help me choose.
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2012, 11:57 AM »
I can't think of anything anybody* would want to do on a PC that could justify more than 8Gb of RAM with today's current or projected technologies.

I've said something like this before, but this sounds so much like the old quote about 640K, I think I'll make myself a reminder to reopen this thread in 5 years.

I generally forget stuff, so let me post ahead of time:


WHAT!?!?! You ONLY have 128 GB of RAM? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!


;D


-Renegade
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Living Room / Re: Upgrading RAM amount; please help me choose.
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2012, 11:16 AM »
I can't think of anything anybody* would want to do on a PC that could justify more than 8Gb of RAM with today's current or projected technologies. And that includes running a few virtual machines simultaneously while also working with Photoshop and browsing the web. (You little multi-tasker, you! ;D)

About the only real (normal person) 'workstation' intensive process I can think of is CGI rendering. And if you're doing a lot of that, having more CPUs (as in a small cheap render farm) is far more efficient than having a single beefed-up workstation. And that includes those that support dual chips.

Suggestion: whenever I'm in doubt or looking for solid advice on RAM, I'll web over to Crucial Memory Products and use their Memory Advisor Tool found on the homepage. I have never been steered wrong with this tool. Also check out their forums. Some good discussions about RAM can be found there. (Note: usual caveats regarding forum recommendations apply.)

If you want to shop price before you buy, you can always take the specs from what Crucial recommends and look at comparable products from quality RAM providers like Kensington et al.

Luck! :Thmbsup:


* Note: I seem to recall a few DCers (Carol or f0dder maybe?) were running with 16Gb. Maybe they and some of 'those that have' could weigh-in on this? I'm curious too since I'll need to seriously start thinking about a new build sometime this year.

I upgraded this box with 8 GB of memory to 16 GB total, and am MUCH happier.

Justifiable? Hell yeah~!

Web browsers are absolute computing vampires. The are the most evil, blood sucking fiends in the computing world when it comes to memory. Like just how does a browser manage to suck up a gig for a page? Beats me, but that's not important. That it actually does suck up that much is the point.

My only capacity issue now is storage. I really wish that SSDs were cheaper. I need to manage my storage very carefully.

But for memory, I'm much better off with 16 GB now.

I was having bad problems with 8 GB, and especially with Photoshop as it would puke out RAM memory error messages all the time. Now it only pukes out storage error messages from time to time. :)


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Living Room / Re: UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER
« Last post by Renegade on January 02, 2012, 11:18 PM »
Now, one of the key difficulties that held back the deployment of tazers amongst police forces has been that the officers had to be subjected to a tazer in order for them to be fully appreciative of what the thing did to the victim. Understandably, not all policemen would necessarily feel desirous of such an experience.

Apparently a few police officers have died doing that. I read about another recently, though I forget where. When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that the 72 year old lady that got tazed survived.

The "non-lethal" weapons aren't really all that safe.


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Living Room / How to obtain nearly complete anonymity while online
« Last post by Renegade on January 02, 2012, 11:20 AM »
A friend posted this link on Facebook, and I thought some people might like it:

http://txtbbs.vacau....nymity-while-online/

We are at a cross roads right now in internet freedom where the US is at risk of having its internet heavily monitored and blocked at times. I’m writing this article with hopes that it will help some people be free online.

We are going to be looking at several methods of getting off the grid so to speak online.

  • Tor, i2p, and Freenet – Alternatives to the internet.
  • Using alternate DNS servers to circumvent DNS logging.
  • Using PeerBlock to block anti P2P and anti-internet freedom organisations.

Some good info in there.



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