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Living Room / Re: Don't be afraid Arthur Dent. Be VERY afraid!
« Last post by superboyac on August 09, 2014, 08:15 PM »Oh baby! That is awesome. Made me reminisce about this guy, I spent 2 years of my life helping out on this:
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Hmmm Super Anti Spyware portable has a new look. It used to find about 50 tracking cookies on every Quick Scan. Now it doesn't find any. I'm wondering if it's because:well that's interesting. If it weren't for cyberfox, i'd say it definitely has to do with the SAS makeover.
a) the new SAS doesn't detect them even though they are there
b) I switched from FF 30 to Cyberfox 31 x64 so there aren't any
c) SAS doesn't look where Cyberfox puts its cookies
Has anyone noticed this SAS change?-MilesAhead (August 07, 2014, 04:30 PM)
Interesting.I don't know if it's true, but it was awesome!! Good one Iain.
Of course, this could presumably all be a deliberately manufactured "fog".
If it is a manufactured fog, then someone is controlling the fog generator.
If Snowden really did leak the stuff he is supposed to have done, we have certainly only been allowed to see certain bits of it, so someone somewhere is censoring things.
If there is a censor, then there is a control over the release/flow of information.
Thus, whereas it may seem that Snowden is in Russia because of a series of accidents or circumstances outside of his control, that could be by calculated design.
If it was by calculated design, then someone was the designer, and someone implemented the design.
Thus Snowden may be in exactly the place he was supposed to have ended up in at the outset.
I wouldn't put anything past the US NSA/SS administration.
My head is hurting. I think I shall go for a cup of tea and a lie-down now...-IainB (August 07, 2014, 11:37 AM)
I think the FF release cycle is just too fast. And it's driving the spin-offs to keep up. Seems like if it's FF or Pale Moon or whatever, it works for a couple of updates, then it's funky for a few.Yeah. They went crazy once they tried to keep up with the chrome version numbers. But, you know, it's one of those business things, and those business guys seem to always be laughing at us technical folk.
A lot of time is wasted trying out supposedly stable versions only to uninstall after a bad patch.-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 09:00 AM)
, all that is left to judge upon is the talent showcased in it's use.I like that.-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 02:37 AM)
Calendarscope sounds like another application with a dozen possible replacements. What is its special ability?True. But Calendarscope is REALLY fast. And the coloring of events is probably the best i've ever seen. Still difficult to justify the price though.-Tuxman (August 03, 2014, 09:02 PM)
pretty much.So I have a Surface pro now.-superboyac (August 03, 2014, 11:02 PM)
You never did need help to decide. You just wanted someone to say it was sensible-Dormouse (August 04, 2014, 03:49 AM)
Interesting system! I never knew about that, will have to test it out.I haven't seen a legitimate spam message in...6 years now. I love it!-Josh (July 29, 2014, 04:48 PM)
no illegitimate spam either?
PS how come?-tomos (July 29, 2014, 05:26 PM)
I use Google Apps and setup "groups", aliases, for various services I use. Each email address is for a specific service (mortgage, bank, specific ordering site, etc.). That way, I know which sites are selling my info if I receive a spam message over it.
That said, since moving to this (and previously fusemail) and the alias system, I have seen NO SPAM since starting itI am quite happy about that. That said, I do have a "catch all" alias that attracts everything else from my domains.
-Josh (July 30, 2014, 04:27 PM)
Fascinating!!
From this article over at Quanta Magazine's website:Hints of Life’s Start Found in a Giant Virus
At more than 1.5 micrometers long, pithovirus is the largest virus ever discovered — larger even than some bacteria. Many of its 500 genes are unrelated to any other genes on this planet.
By: Carrie Arnold
July 10, 2014
Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie were used to finding strange viruses. The married virologists at Aix-Marseille University had made a career of it. But pithovirus, which they discovered in 2013 in a sample of Siberian dirt that had been frozen for more than 30,000 years, was more bizarre than the pair had ever imagined a virus could be.
In the world of microbes, viruses are small — notoriously small. Pithovirus is not. The largest virus ever discovered, pithovirus is more massive than even some bacteria. Most viruses copy themselves by hijacking their host’s molecular machinery. But pithovirus is much more independent, possessing some replication machinery of its own. Pithovirus’s relatively large number of genes also differentiated it from other viruses, which are often genetically simple — the smallest have a mere four genes. Pithovirus has around 500 genes, and some are used for complex tasks such as making proteins and repairing and replicating DNA. “It was so different from what we were taught about viruses,” Abergel said.
The stunning find, first revealed in March, isn’t just expanding scientists’ notions of what a virus can be. It is reframing the debate over the origins of life...
What I found particularly fascinating was this paragraph:...Abergel and Claverie, however, believe that viruses emerged from cells. While Forterre and collaborators contend that the unique genes found in giant viruses are a sign that they evolved before modern cells, Abergel and Claverie have a different explanation: Giant viruses may have evolved from a line of cells that is now extinct. According to this theory, the ancestor of giant viruses lost its ability to replicate as an independent life form and was forced to rely on other cells to copy its DNA. Pieces of these ancient cells’ genes survive in modern mimivirus, pandoravirus, and pithovirus, which would explain the unique genes found in this group. “Life didn’t have one single ancestor,” Claverie said. “There were a lot of cell-like organisms that were all competing, and there was one winner, which formed the basis for life as we know it today.”
Read the full article (and see the photos) here.
-40hz (July 31, 2014, 04:06 PM)
There's a tongue-in-cheek heavy metal rant that hits on much of the problem with digital - it's too tempting to abandon discipline and education and just let the technology drive the art form. With the result that a lot of "projects" make it to the screen which have technically advanced production values - but are very poor movies nonetheless.That was excellent!!
Here's the rant I mentioned previously. It's about music, and metal, and it's over the top both in both the pronouncements made - and the language used to make them. (NSFW! You have been warned.) But it's spot on once you see the joke and read between the lines to get to what's really being said. I think it applies equally to movie making...or most other art forms.
Check it out:-40hz (July 31, 2014, 12:37 PM)
no not just you.I had the feeling that this would be the end of this story. And another blow is dealt to the idea of crowdfunding in the minds of the masses.-wraith808 (July 29, 2014, 03:39 PM)
Yup.
BTW...is it just me...or do about half the comments posted on the campaign site read like astroturf?-40hz (July 29, 2014, 04:06 PM)
Yea, I think you're right. I've heard about a NExus 6 and 8 coming out, with sizes that reflect the number. The Nexus 7 has been a huge hit, it is very nice. I'm guessing the 8 will be pretty nice also, especially if it's built by HTC.There's a 10.1 nexus out now, but it's considered "old" and again, a new one is right around the corner.-superboyac (July 28, 2014, 05:49 PM)
The Nexus 10 came out in 2012 and never got a hardware update in 2013 like the Nexus 7 did. I've been itching to buy one for about a year, but thought surely there was a new one "right around the corner" since the Nexus 7 was updated last year. AFAIK, any news of a Nexus 10 hardware update has proven to be just a rumor.-Deozaan (July 28, 2014, 11:50 PM)
, then we should be fine using a 14" tablet.Don’t let Superboy find out about this. He'll be among the first to get one. And knowing him, he'll probably order a dozen to start. Just because.
-40hz (July 28, 2014, 05:27 PM)
The DukePad is not a product, it is an open source, freely available set of plans and software for assembling your own tablet using off the shelf components. As such, the quality of the DukePad software environment is demo-quality (although we did strive to write as much real functionality as we could, the realities of demo presentations requires sacrificing time on parts of the applications that are not going to be shown, in favor of smoothing out those parts that will be shown). The code is hosted in the OpenJFX repositories under apps/experiments/DukePad. We hope to see forks of this code (GitHub, BitBucket, whatever you like best) and lots of experimentation and improvement that can be shared.
