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General Software Discussion / Re: fast map

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 04:58 PM »

This would be easy to do using an autohotkey script to copy the area under the cursor to clipboard and then open a web page related to it.

I wrote a little AHK script a while ago called SelectoSurf which I use for similar purposes, you'd just have to modify it to open a web page that does a map search instead of a web search.

Or you could use Find and Run Robot to do the same thing -- trigger on a hotkey, copy highlighted text under cursor to clipboard, and then open a web page searching for that text.

The first step however is to find yourself a mapping website where you can search for locations on a uk map, and which returns the results you want.  Then post on this thread that url with the search part.

For example. you might say that the web page you want opened is:

[Select]

http://maps.google.co.uk/m?gbv=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=nojs&q=LOCATIONHERE

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 08:32 AM »

Thanks for sharing that article wraith, that's a great find.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.3 - April 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2013, 05:41 PM »

I'm afraid the DirectX capture addon for SC is on hold while i try to work with original code author to improve it.

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General Software Discussion / This week's episode of the suicide of Microsoft: Helping gov't exploit your pc

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2013, 01:41 PM »

From an article today:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (MSFT) and other software or Internet security companies have been aware that this type of early alert allowed the U.S. to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments, according to two U.S. officials.

http://www.bloomberg...usands-of-firms.html

Maybe start with this summary on TechDirt: http://www.techdirt....t-patches-them.shtml

from TechDirt

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Living Room / Re: 16K word sample of my sci-fi ebook, due on Amazon and B&N in October

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2013, 06:18 AM »

It's depressing to think that that far into the future some of humanity has doggedly held on to imperial measurements

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

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Living Room / Re: 16K word sample of my sci-fi ebook, due on Amazon and B&N in October

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 05:19 PM »

Where do we purchase!

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 09:42 AM »

Beautiful.  I love seeing new posts on this thread. 

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 08:46 AM »

This would be a good time to recommend a great movie about life in a surveillance state:

"The Lives of Others"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 08:43 AM »

Even in my own peer groups I've noticed a much greater reluctance to engage in certain wordplay and widespread self-censoring of certain words or phrases precisely because there's concern about something said being taken out of context.

I may be contradicting my earlier post but i think you have a great point here, and it's really worse than you describe.

I have reasonable confidence that someone overhearing my conversations/emails/irc chats would ultimately conclude, after careful analysis, that i was not involved in anything nefarious.

Nevertheless, I have found myself often over the last decade, keenly aware that online conversations i participate in and people i talk to (especially if they are outside the US), are very likely being scanned for keywords or geographic patterns, and that an AUTOMATED system that found too many "flags" could very easily trigger and push me onto some list that would make life more *inconvenient* for me (additional airport screening, etc.) -- and that could easily lead to self censoring.

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 07:21 AM »

Should anyone come forward in support of PRISM

Well this may surprise many of you but i'm not terribly troubled by the abstract *concept* of government scanning phone call "metadata" or website traffic patterns, etc.  Just as i don't get too concerned about the increased use of security cameras.

It's something i've (along with many people) long assumed they do (along with logging every actual piece of content that they can do without court approval, like irc conversations, forum posts, etc.), so there's nothing here being exposed that i didn't already assume they do and much worse.

I do agree that this kind of thing can have a stifling effect, I just put it low on my list of concerns about the world -- at least in the ABSTRACT.

However, I do have some outrage about this stuff -- but it's not about the abstract idea of doing this kind of thing -- it's about the culture of over-classifying all of this kind of stuff as top secret and then outright lying to the populace and hiding behind the secrecy to avoid proper oversight, supervision, and budget cost issues, when there are no operational reasons for this stuff not to be acknowledged.

If our government wants to record every phone call ever made, they need to make that case to the population, tell us how much it costs so we can assess the cost/benefits, have some very substantial oversight, and convince us that it's doing more good than harm and not being abused.

But it's just too tempting for them to classify something as top secret and then be able to hide the details, the cost, the oversight, the criticisms.  And that's what I find most troubling.

I also think that it increasing leads to a kind of schizophrenic existence, where the difference between what we say we do, and what we really do, grows further and further apart -- and that can't be good.

Just my 2 cents.

ps.
For those who *are* outraged about the abstract concept of spying/tracking of citizen data -- i will say in your defense that there is a long and not-so-distant history of such surveillance systems being abused by those in power, so it's understandable if you are concerned that these abilities would be abused.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SecuSend - Software for secure file sharing.

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 05:55 AM »

Welcome to the site SSE,
I'd be interested in hearing more about the process of encrypting a file to a user.  It seems like you must be doing some kind of public key encryption thing, but i don't see where you are exchanging keys between users.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug: background color while using appcapappendmemo

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2013, 03:59 AM »

Thanks for the report rkiggen, seems i simply need to add an additional option to set the color in "memo" mode, which is the mode that you are looking at there.  I hope to have an update this week.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2013, 06:17 PM »

Minor update:
v2.19.01 - June 12, 2013

• [BugFix] The "Print Last Clip" menu item was sometimes printing an incorrect clip instead of the last one captured.
• [BugFix] The Modify Format dialog sometimes appeared behind main window and was hidden by it.
• [MinorFeature] The Modify Format dialog now can add a sequence of letters (A,B,C) as well as numbers, to lists.

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Living Room / Re: Messed Up in Miami

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2013, 03:40 PM »

It's nice to see there are some really nice people around.

The other lesson of course, for all of us, is to BE that nice person.  Sometimes the smallest gesture to help a stranger can be very meaningful to them.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: any drag&drop users?

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2013, 12:57 PM »

Glad to hear it was useful!

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2013, 12:56 PM »

The thread is getting to the point where a move to the basement makes sense..  It does touch on issues of electronic privacy which is fair game for the Living Room, but as it comes to focus more on politics it belongs more and more to a basement thread.

As wraith says, that's not a punishment it's just a recognition that it's better categorized as a political-discussion thread than a technological thread.

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Living Room / Re: Messed Up in Miami

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2013, 04:13 PM »

It's really nice to hear from you Miles.. And I'm really sorry about your situation.. I've send a small donation your way -- I hope others will as well.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Question about Save As

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2013, 02:08 PM »

I have my own system for adding a suffix to the name of the file, to reflect how it has been modified from the original, so I don't need SSC to do that for me.

That makes sense, and i can see others being in same situation.  I will add an option to disable this feature.

Anyway, thanks for making this excellent program available. I'll be sending a donation your way.

Always appreciated!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2013, 02:07 PM »

does it feel more like plastic or glass?

that was a real concern of mine prior to switching -- for a day i noticed the difference, then i forgot all about it and am glad i switched.  of course your mileage may vary if you are more sensitive to such things.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Question about Save As

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2013, 01:55 PM »

Hi Shaketown,

It's only adding the 002 because there is another file with the same name already in that directory.  If you change the SaveAs directory to a different one, in the future i think it won't do that.

Does that solve your problem or are you really needing it to not add the 002 even if the file already exists.  I could add an option for that if it's something people want (for example if they frequently overwrite the SaveAs files).

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on June 07, 2013, 05:30 PM »

My gadget recommendation for this week is Double-wall drinking glasses, which prevent condensation and help liquids keep their temperature.


The most elegant are these roundish glass Bodum ones:

http://www.amazon.co...lasses/dp/B00076ZD22
The main drawback is that they are like $14 each and they are so fragile that they break if you drop an ice cube into them the wrong way.


After a couple of sets I've given up on them and switched over to these unbreakable polycarbonate kind:

http://www.amazon.co...ulated/dp/B003AZZR6E
They are a little cheaper at $9 each and aren't nearly as elegant, but they are functionally the same or better. They are available with different decorations which is nice for guests.


All of these come in multiple sizes and styles.  Highly recommended.

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Living Room / Re: Very thin hard disks

« Last post by mouser on June 07, 2013, 07:13 AM »

I don't think he's talking about 2.5s -- i certainly wasn't.  I think we're talking about these 3.5" sata drives that are just half thickness.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a launcher

« Last post by mouser on June 07, 2013, 04:44 AM »

I was just kidding! 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a launcher

« Last post by mouser on June 07, 2013, 03:41 AM »

Any ideas on a timeline

I would have thought that would be obvious. As soon as you switch away from FARR to another tool.

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« Last post by mouser on June 07, 2013, 03:03 AM »

I'm doing great so far -- two weeks of not eating any candy, eating good quantities of healthy food, and exercising on the treadmill for 30 minutes a day.  Lost 4 or 5 pounds.

However.. Every day i have to fight off the urge for candy!