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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 07:58 PM »
Looks like you opened up a high-tech restaurant kitchen in your house!
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 06:01 PM »
I predict lots of feature requests..
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 06:00 PM »
Baby meerkat that was shunned at birth and expected to die is saved… by a PET DOG..
After nearly two months together, the pair have forged an inseparable bond.

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http://swns.com/news...saved-pet-dog-34076/

From http://www.neatorama.com/
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 04:56 PM »
I have no money to invest in the stock market but I think this looks beautiful and elegant and i'm sure it will hit just the spot for some  :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Deleting Files Permanently From Thumbnail Panel
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 09:47 AM »
Try the new beta -- the warning dialog should be clearer now.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Deleting Files Permanently From Thumbnail Panel
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 09:36 AM »
Ah i see now that the dialog explicitly says they are going into the recycle bin even when they are not -- i will fix that now.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Deleting Files Permanently From Thumbnail Panel
« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 06:25 AM »
same dialog yes but does shift work?
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Living Room / Re: Newly coined term, "internet fury"? A sad article...
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 10:31 PM »
I should say that I appreciate Stephen's approach to life and the the stephen fry video -- personally i'm a big fan of cursing. and the video is arguably related to the topic of this thread..  still, i think when someone is offended i think the default reaction should be one of respect for their feelings.
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Living Room / MOVED: Boy's note on giving up rights to be safe
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 07:59 PM »
This topic has been moved to The Basement.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=34632.0
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Living Room / Re: Why are there no sites to shame and punish companies that spammers promote?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 07:47 PM »
I think your item #1 is almost certainly correct.

Your item #2 is not though. Of course they wont care if they "get on a wall" -- but if that wall was used by google to remove them (or even just decrease in web search), or have their emails marked as spam, it would devestate their business overnight.  that's my whole point -- this entire industry of behavior could be eliminated in short order if the folks who are ALREADY defacto choosing winners and losers and badguys and goodguys decided to take some action against these spammers.

The email blacklisting services are absolutely deadly and cavalier much of the time -- marking innocent people as spammers based on some very shoddy criteria.. all they have to do is coordinate with the people who track forum spammers and they could actually do some good in this world.

Point 3 im not really following -- i think your saying that listing them on some public wall of shame might get them desired attention.  I think that could be solved in a variety of ways -- but the key thing to understand is that the PUBLIC shaming wall is not the important feature of this idea.  The important feature is to have a kind of central clearing house for trusted information about companies who are directly or indirectly paying for spammers to pollute forums and blogs in order to advertise their products, and have the self-appointed traffic cops on the internet simply adjust their (already set up and daily used) lists to penalize them.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Delphi FARR Plugin SDK updates? or working example?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 07:28 PM »
Got it, and i'll have a look.

Since I haven't said it yet let me say it now: Thank you so much for your patience and cheerful spirit about this -- i don't think i would be so understanding if i was in your shoes -- if you don't give up I promise I will make sure you have a working delphi plugin framework for farr.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: I can't use the program - Hebrew Support
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 06:04 PM »
Hi Stam -- this is a limitation of screenshot captor..
There is a workaround, which is to use my Unicode Image Maker tool in conjunction with Screenshot Captor, but it's definitely not as convenient or flexible as being able to edit text boxes in the program itself.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Deleting Files Permanently From Thumbnail Panel
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 06:03 PM »
I think i have fixed this program in latest beta (v4.2):

Can you let me know if it's fixed in that version?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor.ini.new in Recycle Bin
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 06:03 PM »
I think i have fixed this program in latest beta (v4.2):

Can you let me know if it's fixed in that version?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug in v4.00: strange black line at bottom of images
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 06:03 PM »
I think i have fixed this program in latest beta (v4.2):

Can you let me know if it's fixed in that version?
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Living Room / Re: Newly coined term, "internet fury"? A sad article...
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 03:16 PM »
Yeah, that works fine.
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Living Room / Re: Newly coined term, "internet fury"? A sad article...
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 02:24 PM »
Stephen - I think there's an issue of simple respect for your fellow forum members and human beings.  You don't have to agree or necessarily change  your behavior if someone says that something you did offended them -- but you also don't spit in their face and tell them their opinion doesn't matter.

I like what 40hz said:
Try not to offend. Try not to be so easily offended.

That's what we expect of people here.  And we try to use that as our guide rather than have a strict rules with people playing games to try to see how close they can get to breaking them.

And let me also point out that when there is an interesting thread with an interesting issue to discuss, it's a real shame when it gets derailed into a discussion of off-topic stuff.  It's fun sometimes but not every post has to be an excuse to post some random video or anecdote that takes us spiraling off topic.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 09:50 AM »
Ian I can't read your mind and this probably isn't what you intended, but to me your post came off like "hey i want to make a political statement so i'll find something that i can claim is humorous and stick it in this thread."  The whole point that the photo and caption and of the article that you are citing was a political point about how the media is biased against one side of this highly controversial issue of abortion.

I *really* don't want this forum to be a stomping ground for people's political views -- especially this thread.  If you have something genuinely hillarious that has a political edge, that's one thing -- but boy is this a stretch.  :down:

[I've said it before but it bears repeating -- having vigorous and forceful debates about religion and politics is an important part of life -- but we don't need to involve every website in such debates; we have collectively decided that this website is going to be a place where we want to be able to escape from those issues and try to focus on being supportive of each other and our shared common interests.]
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Deleting Files Permanently From Thumbnail Panel
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 09:22 AM »
I've added support for using shift key to bypass recycle bin in ALL deletion operations (via delete key or through menus) -- it will be in next release.
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Living Room / Re: Why are there no sites to shame and punish companies that spammers promote?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 08:10 AM »
While that's a theoretically concern, i don't it's likely to be a real issue in practice.

Writing a negative review about a competitor must be extremely tempting, with a high rate of return, no downsides other than getting caught, easy deniability, and very difficult to catch for a variety of reasons.  But paying for huge volumes of fake spam from a company has none of those upsides and a huge downside that i think would make it very unlikely.

For one, the volume of spamming you'd have to fake to show up on a list like this would be extremely risky for a competitor to engage in.  Because of that and because a company would have to be paying someone to create all this fake spam, the risk and potential of getting caught is high.

Writing a couple of fake negative reviews slagging off a competitor requires only a family member with an amazon.com account and a willingness to pretend to hate a product.  Sending off a few thousand spam advertisements for a competitor every month requires money and leaves a trail that would be hard to erase.

And unlike writing a fake negative review -- this is a case where you would actually be PROMOTING your competitor with tons of paid spam advertising, and HOPING they get penalized for it.

I just don't see it happening.
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Living Room / Re: Why are there no sites to shame and punish companies that spammers promote?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 07:33 AM »
A public wall of shame yes, created from submissions by trusted forums+blogs, of companies who are being actively promoted by spammers.  With the understanding that these companies that are being promoted will be severely penalized by a wide variety of entities (search engine placement, amazon marketplace support, end-user boycotting).
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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 06:34 AM »
Reminds me of this unusual song: http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=zxv7MiZ4cwA
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Living Room / Why are there no sites to shame and punish companies that spammers promote?
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 05:33 AM »
I understand how terribly hard it is to track down and deter/punish the individuals that post spam comments to forums and send spam emails.

That seems like an impossible task.

But what continues to bewilder me is why there don't seem to be any mechanisms for shaming/punishing/reporting/deterring the COMPANIES that spammers promote?

We get dozens of spam posts and profiles changes every day that are deleted from the DonationCoder.com forum before anyone seems them.  All of these spam posts are promoting a given store or product.. Why on earth is there not someplace for forum/blog admins to report these companies that could impose some penalty that would stop them from hiring or incentivizing these spammers.

The commercial spam ecosystem is very clear -- the companies are paying the spammers to do this stuff -- or paying middle men that they know hire spammers.  We can't stop the individual spammers but de-incentivizing the companies seems trivial -- google could put them out of business in 10 seconds if they wanted to..

Every time i see some story about some stupid new google pr stunt i wonder.. hey wouldn't it be cool if every once in a while they devoted some energy to shoveling off a layer or two of the advertising spam that the internet is drowning in?
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Musicope.com: online open-source piano game
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 05:05 AM »
ps. the musicope website looks awesome too.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Release: Image Grid
« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2013, 04:54 AM »
ImageGrid got a nice writeup today from ILoveFreeSoftware (good blog):
http://www.ilovefree...sing-image-grid.html

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