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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 09:59 PM »
That's just insane.  And that image... @MollyWood's tweet?  Yeah... I agree 100%

If you think the people behind the Patriot Act, DHS, and Gitmo will let this stand? You're insane.
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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 09:29 PM »
http://rt.com/usa/ne...ion-authorities-231/

American authorities helped issue arrests on Thursday for four people in New Zealand that they say are responsible for the website.

Ahem... Since when do "American authorities" have jurisdiction in New Zealand?


Does anyone get where this is going? Global police? Police state? Police planet?


That was where I was going next.  All of these arrests were not made in America.  Which makes the timing doubly suspicious as that type of thing takes coordination.  What makes it worse is actually this line...

The agency said it executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries...

That kind of thing takes massive coordination.
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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 04:11 PM »
Yesterday, it was black picket signs that blocked visitors from accessing the content.

And the Feds have spoken their word...

At least *I* don't think it was coincidence.
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 04:10 PM »
And the Feds have spoken their word...

At least *I* don't think it was coincidence.
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Living Room / As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 04:07 PM »
For people who thought that SOPA/PIPA were the only (or even the most important) battleground....

http://www.wired.com...-indicted-shuttered/

Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives

Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”

Seven individuals connected to the Hong Kong-based site were indicted on a variety of charges, including criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Four of the members of what the authorities called a “racketeering conspiracy” were arrested Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand, the authorities said.

One of those arrested was Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom, Megaupload’s founder. His attorney, Ira Rothken of California, said neither he nor his 37-year-old client, who resides in Hong Kong and New Zealand, was given the opportunity to surrender. Schmitz was arrested without notice, he said.

“We’re looking into what’s going on,” Rothken said in a telephone interview.

Visitors to the Megaupload site, which gets about 50 million hits daily, were greeted with a message from the Justice Department. ”This domain name associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court.”

The government said the site facilitated copyright infringement of movies “often before their theatrical release, music, television programs, electronic books, and business and entertainment software on a massive scale.” The government said Megaupload’s “estimated harm” to copyright holders was “well in excess of $500 million.”

(continued in the link above)

So, anyone think this is a coincidence?
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 12:18 PM »
For the most part, the "little people" really don't have time (because they're not supposed to...) to babysit these evil pricks.

It's not about having the time to babysit them.  It's having balls to fire them if they don't do their job correctly.  I'm sorry, but with everything that has gone on in the past 50 or so years, how are there still career politicians?  And how is being the incumbent such an advantage?  Every politician in office has screwed up on some vote(s) that were important to the country. (and more plural than singular).  How many times do you get to screw up before you're fired?

But the sheeple for the most part vote along party lines as they are told, instead of voting for the best person for the office.
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 11:07 AM »
^ It's not necessarily the elite that cause that spiral.  In many cases, it's the little people that are co-enablers of the elite's ability to cause such damage, i.e. the US Political System.
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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2012, 10:27 AM »
They'll sneak it into an appropriation bill while nobody's looking during recess, because there's too much lobbyist money at stake for them not to.

This is all too likely to happen.  And it won't be called SOPA, nor PIPA.  It will be called something benign and created not to call attention to what it really is.

...I hate the way the US Govt works sometimes...
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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop
« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2012, 04:11 PM »
This thread didn't seem to take off like I thought it might.  But I took a screen shot of my desktop while I was messing around with some new programs, and forgot to post it.

2011_12_09_My_Desktop.png

My changes since last time:
1. Still using Nexus, though I dumped the rest of the WinStep suite since I'm actually on Windows 7 now.
2. I'm now using Rainmeter for the widgets on the desktop; just a kitbash of things I found here and there.
3. The wallpaper now cycles through images that would look like I'm flying through space.
4. I'm using Stardock Tiles on the left.  I liked it so much, I bought the non-freeware version.  I recommend checking it out- hard to explain, but the site has a video that does marginally better than I at doing so.

Anyone else?
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2012, 07:01 PM »
No, the fido.net was not a mistuk.
It exists and, if you read the background and related material, you will probably see why it's called that. It doesn't appear to be a scam riding illegitimately on Fidonet's coattails, or anything similar.

I did read it- I didn't see anything that would lend it to being called that, other than the fact that its been in business for a while and the owner's former links to fidonet...  not under about, testimonials, why choose, or any of the other links.  I guess I missed it.
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2012, 09:34 AM »
http://www.fido.net

Is it my imagination, or is this company using the name fido.net to sell services that have nothing to do with fidonet?
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2012, 09:29 AM »
That guy there -- he's a hero.

Agreed +1.  If you go to the youtube page, then from there to the article, people dissect the bylaws to show that the moderator abused his powers in removing Father Monk.
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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2012, 12:52 AM »
As if the USA were some world police. Bah.

...then they came for me.w
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2012, 11:49 PM »
A bit of anti-aliasing will clear that right up...  ;D
Since we appear to be on a pirate ship — and I have the peg leg, the eye-patch, but no parrot — I must ask, where's my polygon?
-cranioscopical (January 13, 2012, 10:23 PM)

It's in your tilt. ;)
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2012, 04:46 PM »
what can I say, it's friday night ;)

A bit of anti-aliasing will clear that right up...  ;D
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Living Room / Re: For the Facebook Haters ;)
« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2012, 02:03 PM »
And to force using it, e.g. Spotify.

While spotify does have FB integration, they don't force you to use it.  I use it all the time, and I don't have it linked to FB.
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Living Room / Re: Planning a major programming project - tips requested
« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2012, 01:51 PM »
Since most of my applications do have a GUI, I begin there, designing it in my head, imagining myself as the user and using the application mentally. When I feel comfortable with the mental image, I begin drawing it on paper, with notes as to what each control will do when activated and other text based notes about its unseen inner workings.

From a different perspective, I design my UI last, and my data first.  Sometimes I find that GUI implementations can limit your functionality and data model by the fact that they are already constrained by preconceptions put in place by the UI.  Then once I have my data modeled, I base my UI design around the primary entrance point into the data, i.e. if it is something contact based, the primary entry point might be a person's basic data.

Taking that contact paradigm a little further to illustrate what I mean, I might design the contact form to have the address information built in if I start UI first.  If I start data first, then I might see that I have a need to have many addresses per user, so my UI design might then follow with the address information on some sort of container that can be changed out depending on which address is being utilized.

Just my .02.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...
« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2012, 08:01 AM »
Spoiler
Following the trail of references from the article above, I found the following- first it goes to the voice of russia as the final reference, and every other reference to the agencies that were mentioned in that article as having done the experiments links to that same page.  I can't even find reference other than linking to that article, of the agency mentioned.  The second point I would say even in the results of the experiment is that they had four control groups, and 3 results.  The third point I would make is this quote from one of the doctors involved in the research quoted on http://www.responsib...chnology.org/blog/18

Surov warns against jumping to early conclusions. He said, “It is quite possible that the GMO does not cause these effects by itself.” Surov wants to make the analysis of the feed components a priority, to discover just what is causing the effect and how.

Now, none of this is me saying that the results are wrong, or that they are trying to be misleading or jumping to conclusions.  It's just quite interesting.  Especially not seeing the results of the study on any medical/academic website, when such papers are usually released to them- only on anti-GMO websites.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...
« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2012, 10:43 AM »
I'm at Softlayer. They do dedicated servers, so... Not sure... I have to move to get a VPS.

At the moment, I'm working on moving everything on one server to another just to consolidate them. That way I can drop the old server, and save on those costs. Then get a VPS (or another server) and move everything from the other server there.

At liquidweb, they have both.  And they have what's called smartservers, which is what I'm using for one right now (some places have the same thing under a different name).  But what it does is let you apportion servers whenever you want, and they charge you a rate per day- it comes out to the same thing that I had for a month in the end, so they're just pro-rating the amount.  The advantage from what I was told was that unlike the regular VPS they used to use, this guarantees the processor time and RAM.  I'm really happy with them.

http://www.liquidweb...rtServers/index.html

As for the other, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.  The purchases weren't hidden, which I'm sure if it were as diabolical as some think, it would have been (and could have easily been).

I did have to add one question...

Spoiler
These things are specifically and intentionally designed to produce toxins/poisons.

Source?  I didn't see that in any of the (admittedly shallow) research I did into it after this thread.  I saw that the main opposition amongst the non-gaia types is the lack of testing by outside parties, but nothing that said that they were to produce toxins/poisons, but rather to introduce characteristics that were not a part of the organism by the modification, so I'm curious.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...
« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2012, 07:53 PM »
  • New host

Where are you hosting now?  Are they a windows only shop?  And how fast are you looking at moving?

I ask because I host a windows and a centos server on liquidweb.com.  They're good, very helpful, and the cool thing about it is that I'm not locked into either/or.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2012, 10:27 PM »
I was responding to the original premise of the thread - which was a remote connection over the internet.

+1
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They haven't been supported for over a year. Basically, open one tab, and login on your @gmail.com account. Next, go to mail.example.com and login there. Nowadays, they log you out on the other one: only a single mailbox active seems supported nowadays. In days gone by, I could have three of the buggers open for days, and that was convenient, especially on the email-checking area. Logging in every time I need to use another account however is a big big bummer.

As I said, I do this every day.  My employer has one domain, I use vanilla gmail.  I also have one account on my domain for the family, and an account on my own dev domain.  I can be logged into all of them at the same time.  The only thing that takes some getting used to is that the first domain is your primary domain for other services, but gmail can be switched back and forth between at will.

I can say that I don't go to mail.example.com to login, however.  When I want to log into the other account, I click the name/icon at the top, and click switch account.  But it works.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2012, 11:25 AM »
Not quite sure what you mean by intrusive, anything that's not RDP, (for Windows anyway), is intrusive installation-wise, the same can be said for VNC.

Join.me (and I think TeamViewer from what's been said) don't require installation.  They go to a site, and click share.  I've talked people who don't know how to install software through this over the phone.  I've installed Splashtop Remote Desktop, and it takes a bit of setup from what I've experienced with it (gmail password to find it over the internet, has a desktop notification area component, has a full installer, etc).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2012, 01:07 PM »
^ I use that also, and it's great for getting to my machine, especially from my iPad (which I do a lot in meetings- they don't seem to get as ticked when I code on the iPad during boring meetings as they do when I bring my laptop).  But it's pretty intrusive, so I don't see setting that up for a remote connection that isn't your own.

Recently tried join.me for the first time. Extremely slow.

Hmmm.. I've never had that problem, even though several of my co-workers are in India and Pakistan, which would seem to lend itself to lag.  Just my experience.
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It really is inspiring. I can't imagine what it would be like.

Why Renegade!  I never knew you had such a talent for understatement!  ;D

Perry, that was amazing!  That's for putting that together and sharing!
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