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Some of the "causes" aren't what they appear to be on the surface. For some, it would be better if all the money were simply pocketed.-Renegade (January 28, 2013, 10:00 PM)
They are making a move-
http://phys.org/news...s-online-piracy.html-cmpm (January 28, 2013, 01:59 PM)
There is no guarantee that anyone will receive any money. If too many people submit a claim to get paid, the money will all go to non-profits like the EFF. They are one of the ones on the list of who will get a chunk of it if it doesn't go to the victims that put in a claim. I don't have a problem with the EFF getting part of the money, and I am not sure why anybody else would be. Do you know something about the EFF or any of these other organizations that I don't?-app103 (January 28, 2013, 05:46 AM)
Or just hand the money over to a bunch of buddies... Just a bit skeptical about "non-profits" and "NGOs"... I've lost all faith in them after learning about what some of them really do. Enough to make you vomit through your eye-sockets.That's why I always check http://www.bbb.org/us/charity/ first, just to see how much of the donation goes to the cause and what goes into the pockets of the "staff".-Renegade (January 28, 2013, 12:44 AM)
Also that's odd. Because the tiles on the bottom of the shuttle are clearly black in color in photographs, although that may just be their surface color and the ceramic they are made from is white inside.You are quite correct, the space shuttle is painted black on the bottom, though I don't know the reason for this other than aesthetics, cuz when it hits the atmosphere the paint burns off. The bricks are very close tolerance, and what little space that's between them is puttied in with a heat-resistant putty that's dark gray to black and gives the bottom of the shuttle a checkered appearence. I used to have a picture of the bottom before it was painted and it did look rather ragged. I'll see if I still have it....-SeraphimLabs (January 27, 2013, 10:53 PM)
Once I get Wine installed...-Tinman57 (January 26, 2013, 08:17 PM)
Wine works surprisingly well. But it's not a panacea. Don't expect everything to run under it. Or be stable if it does run. Because there's many times a winapp simply won't work with Wine no matter how much fiddling you do.
Fortunately, with the advent of inexpensive and very large hard drives, it's quite practical to allocate some space for XP and setup a dual boot system. Especially since most flavors of Linux are Windows 'aware' and can install themselves alongside it with no fuss or headaches.
-40hz (January 27, 2013, 12:33 AM)
There was no "yet" in that application... that's what makes me wonder. It never got a real function there.Even after two updates, the button still didn't do anything, so that kind of makes me wonder.. Hmmmm....-Tuxman (January 27, 2013, 06:42 PM)
You care to share where this pic came from Tinman57? Looks like a piece of Styrofoam to me.And what's that white shaft to the right of it?
-crabby3 (January 27, 2013, 11:10 AM)
The image was obviously Photoshopped, but not to add that single object, but remove all the others.
It would have looked a lot more like this, if they had not cleaned it up:-app103 (January 27, 2013, 08:38 AM)
But here on DC, when you use the youtube bbcode tag, it embeds the video, which is flash, and not an image. His complaint was about missing images here on DC, which turned out to be missing youtube videos.-app103 (January 27, 2013, 09:06 AM)
I thought he was actually talking about going to the Youtube site. 
It had one weird toolbar button.
When you pressed it, a message window popped up: "This is a Not-Function". (In German, though: "Dies ist eine Nichtfunktion".)
-Tuxman (January 27, 2013, 08:37 AM)
A lot of countries extend theirA lot of countries extend their reach beyond their jurisdiction and completely ignore sovereign borders.jurisdictionbeyond their jurisdiction and completely ignore sovereign borders. This isn't unusual.
It's even more disturbing when they treat their citizenry like property.-Renegade (January 26, 2013, 11:10 PM)
Ummm... Speechless.He's not just an idiot, he's an 83 year old idiot. The guy is so old he farts dust, and yet they leave a major decision that he isn't even qualified up to him!!! Only in America......
Nah! Just kidding! I've always got a smart-alec answer for everything~!
He's an idiot and doesn't understand the first thing about technology. He would do well to learn a bit from some engineers, developers, and perhaps Richard Stallman.-Renegade (January 26, 2013, 10:21 PM)
Even Win 7 will be TWO OS's OLD if they live up to their promise to slam out another new one. Yes it's 8 years later and "competent", but why still go with a 2 year old OS? If I'm gonna upgrade I like to "bite the bullet, pick well, get stuff that lasts, then ride out the ripples of marketing".-TaoPhoenix (January 25, 2013, 09:48 PM)
I could see it being that.
Thermal tiles are black in color, and one that cracked could produce a triangular piece that in zero-G would simply float away slowly enough to be photographed.
Some theories advanced earlier by a community of spacefans is that it was part of the Hubble telescope that had been discarded, but although there was a STS-61 mission with that task it was not marked as STS-61C.-SeraphimLabs (January 26, 2013, 03:30 PM)
On the right side of the YouTube pages, all of the selections for the videos are .jpg images. You click on them and it takes you to the actual .flv video.Today it seems maybe it was my browser? I went to include this DC link - Reply #91 and it's there... a YouTube video.Youtube videos are flash, not images. Maybe you are having some sort of issue with your flash plugin?-crabby3 (January 25, 2013, 03:14 PM)-app103 (January 26, 2013, 03:02 PM)
So if I use Skype in the UK to communicate with someone in the UK it is subject to the US Patriot Act?Only if the Skype is routed through the U.S., which probably all calls are, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find they were doing it internationally.-Carol Haynes (January 25, 2013, 07:00 PM)
Phones bought after January 25 can no longer lawfully be decoupled from a carrier by the owner of the device. How did this decision come to rest with a single non-elected, non-technical, elderly librarian in Washington?
There was just a blank white box with a slashed-O in the upper left-hand corner.That's just the "Template" to show that the image couldn't be displayed at the time.-crabby3 (January 25, 2013, 03:14 PM)
