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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 07:12 PM »
They are nice devices and I'm sure your son will like it. And they do have a good amount of polish on them. And Apple just makes a wonderful target~! :P
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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 11:42 AM »
The problem with the US in particular is that these actions create anger directed at 'big government' instead of at those who are governing. The latter is a bigger problem in my opinion but it is also fixable by people voting differently, way differently...
-rgdot (November 27, 2010, 11:36 AM)

Good point.

A friend told me that the former director of Homeland Security is now heading up the company that sells the backsplater x-ray porno machines at airports. Or something like that. Sigh... (I've not verified that, but I have no reason to disbelieve him.)
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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 11:23 AM »
Top iOS 4.2 Features Are Bug Fixes

Sigh...

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 10:25 AM »
Ok, maybe a slight over-reaction with the mosquitoes, but at a minimum it's the equivalent of sending in the army over a bar fight.
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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 10:17 AM »
Out of hand is an understatement.

What happens when you let your own government terrorize you with threats thousands of kilometers away across the planet that in real terms have little or no effect on the average person? You get a scared mob screaming to be protected. What's the cure? Hand over all your remaining freedoms. What's the upshot? Terrorists are downloading movies and music and software and are a grave threat to national security. Oh, they're eating babies too while they watch their pirated movies, listen to their pirated music, and use their pirated software. Oh, and they're going to eat your older children too. Then they'll eat you!

Security? Huh?

Hey, I hear that there are some places with mosquito problems. Perhaps they should nuke them... Then drop a few megatons of nerve gas to kill off anything left alive... That'll teach them mosquitoes!

The real terrorists are in Washington D.C.

I like Benjamin Franklin:

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

This is what they're putting up:

IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg

51607.com has that. 2009jersey.com was up when I checked. amoyhy.com was also down.

This is the amoyhy.com page:

Code: HTML [Select]
  3. <title>This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations</title>
  4. </head>
  5.  
  6. <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  7. <div align="center"><img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg" width="1024" height="768" border="0"></div>
  8. <!-- Piwik -->
  9. <script type="text/javascript">
  10. var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://74.81.170.107/piwik/" : "http://74.81.170.107/piwik/");
  11. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
  12. </script><script type="text/javascript">
  13. try {
  14. var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", 1);
  15. piwikTracker.trackPageView();
  16. piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
  17. } catch( err ) {}
  18. </script><noscript><p><img src="http://74.81.170.107/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1" style="border:0" alt="" /></p></noscript>
  19. <!-- End Piwik Tag -->
  20. <script type="text/javascript">
  21.  
  22.   var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  23.   _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19806388-1']);
  24.   _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);
  25.   _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', false]);
  26.   _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
  27.  
  28.   (function() {
  29.     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
  30.     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
  31.     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  32.   })();
  33.  
  35. </body>
  36.  
  37. </html>

And yep, the title:

This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations

This is WWWWAAAAAYYYYYY too Orwellian.

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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2010, 09:40 AM »
It's good to know you guys liked the first one, I was a bit worried.
-Stoic Joker (November 26, 2010, 01:28 PM)

Liked it? I was roaring hysterically~! It was awesome~! :D
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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 26, 2010, 09:47 AM »
I'm itching to rant about this:

http://content.techr...1124&tag=nl.e099

iPad's big upgrade: The top iOS 4.2 features

Notable features like, "Folders for organizing your apps" are just screaming for a rant. "You mean that things that have been around for, oh, a few decades are 'new features'?" :P That article is SCREAMING for it. :D
9083
Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread
« Last post by Renegade on November 26, 2010, 09:44 AM »
Calvin & Hobbes was my favorite. Too bad the author stopped. It really was the best comic I've ever read.
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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 26, 2010, 04:03 AM »
I was in Changi airport when I read your rant yesterday. I couldn't stop laughing! It was hysterical~! Loved it~! :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to replace a driver in a .img file?
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 02:48 PM »
Read the docs. They have bootloaders there. There are also some you can download.

But yes -- you cannot replace a file in an ISO or image. They are read only. You must extract then recreate them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to replace a driver in a .img file?
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 12:56 PM »
I was going to recommend MagicISO.

I need to download ISOs from MSDN, and MagicISO seems to be the only program that can handle them. They have a free version that lets you extract, but not burn. Have a look. Not sure if it will help or not.

http://www.magiciso....gicdisc-overview.htm
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Living Room / KewlAid.net - Posted
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 12:37 PM »
Keep in mind... NSFW. ;)

http://kewlaid.net/2...c-and-no-time-count/

Burning CDs... Grrr...

Formatting is hosed, but I have to run.
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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 10:41 AM »
Eóin said he'd reserve judgment until he saw a more scientific source. I then brought up the topic of sponsored research and my skepticism of it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Email Server Frustration -- Looking for Advice
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 09:58 AM »
I actually don't recall why I went the ISAPI route originally

I do. Because the CGI extension just didn't work reliably! :D

Seems ok now though. Microsoft is recommending FastCGI and the php-cgi.exe binary. They've got a whole truckload of open source stuff available at the MS site. Have for a while now actually.
9090
Living Room / Re: Desktop vs. Web Debate
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 03:35 AM »
+1 for barney

Security. Reliability. Availability. Well put.

We're not there yet, and never will be. Well, at some point, but we're nowhere near right now. However, for casual software, I think we're there. For non-casual software...

Starting at the last there - Availability. This will always be a problem in remote areas. Satellite is the leveler here at the moment. Many parts of the world have serious issues here. Even electricity is a problem in many places. Even in some big cities. (My wife told me that they had another power outage in Ho Chi Minh the other day. Very common.) An onsite generator solves this. Again though, you're back out of the cloud.

Reliability. This is actually pretty good, but for many applications this will never be satisfied in the cloud. e.g. Mission critical applications, hospitals, etc. You can't have outages when lives are on the line. C4 systems are at the cutting edge here.

Security. It will never happen. Not because 2048 bits isn't enough, but because governments will not allow it. If they can grab your private parts, what makes anyone think they won't grab your data or spy on you? (And yes. THEY ARE out to get you~! :P )

It really all depends on the application itself. For casual software, I think the web is the way to go. There are no more barriers anymore.

To be blunt, those that don't have it available to them don't matter because they don't have any money, and that's all that people care about (collectively). (If we actually cared (collectively), we wouldn't allow the 16,000 kids that died of diarrhea today to die like that. That they died shows that we really don't care.)

For those that don't have reliable access, again, they just need to deal with it for casual usage.

For security, too many people don't care and are willing to sacrifice here. And for most casual software, security isn't really all that important. Really. Oh, so your game got hacked and you lost your 35th level whatever. Boo hoo. It's not really all that important. Banking on the other hand is totally different.

Blah... I have to go pack! I'm just procrastinating now.


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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!
« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2010, 01:13 AM »
tomos, you got me thinking about it there -- sponsored/non-sponsored/bias/non-bias research...

There's research that I read and believe, and other research that I don't believe.

Without much examination of why, it almost seems arbitrary/irrational. I suppose the primary source of my skepticism is where I see/perceive self-interest or a conflict of interest or something like that.
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 06:57 PM »
Lately, I'm getting sick of just about everything on the web.  :-\

Anybody else starting to feel like that?
-40hz (November 23, 2010, 06:21 PM)

Yep.

I think we spend too much time in front of a screen though, and that probably jades us a bit more than normal people.
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Living Room / Re: Well, this should get interesting... Novell sold for 2.2B; Microsoft benefits
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 06:56 PM »
Microsoft's business strategy of Embrace, Engulf, Extinguish lives on!

The only difference is that it now comes with a $2B price tag attached.
-40hz (November 23, 2010, 06:25 PM)

I hope not... :(

MS needs some better direction. They're relying too much on past achievements. This gives them an opportunity to extend, embrace, and edify instead. I hope they take the opportunity and use it well.
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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 06:19 PM »
I just realized that I'll be off Facebook for a month while I'm in Vietnam... Blocked there. At least they know that they're not really free though. :P
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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 05:35 PM »
I think that the current generation will grow up to rue the day that Facebook and MySpace offered them the blue pill.
-Darwin (November 22, 2010, 09:21 AM)

Great line, Darwin! One of the Facebook VP's was on TV today talking about how, "Don't like getting gate-raped by the TSA? Keep in contact with your family and friends through Facebook this holiday season!"

Still, I might be tempted to go in for a fondling. (Where the hell is Chris Hansen and his cameras?!)  ;D
-zridling (November 23, 2010, 05:31 PM)

Bwahahahahaha~! That's awesome~! I love it!
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Living Room / Re: Well, this should get interesting... Novell sold for 2.2B; Microsoft benefits
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 05:33 PM »
I'm somewhat saddened to see it. But I hope that things work out. It would be nice to see SuSe pushed more and made more popular.

As for MS buying up parts... Not sure what to think at the moment. I hope they do some good with it all.
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Living Room / Re: Desktop Linux: The dream is dead
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 04:50 PM »
Pinguy looks sweet~!

I've come to the conclusion that I really prefer the Linux desktop to anything else. It's simply much nicer than Windows or OS X.
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Living Room / Re: Well, this should get interesting... Novell sold for 2.2B; Microsoft benefits
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 04:44 PM »
Some good news:


http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/6732038669340672

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 03:37 PM »
http://www.apathyske...w-to-crack-captchas/

Sigh... I don't know why we bother...
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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!
« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2010, 03:30 PM »
Kinda worrying, but I'll reserve judgement until I read more details from a scientific source.
-Eóin (November 23, 2010, 03:17 PM)

I know what you mean.

I'm sort of skeptical of a lot of research now. A lot of industries sponsor their own "research" to get the results they want. So, it's kind of tough to really know who's telling the truth.
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