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Nope, not too literally (possibly NSFW)

Here is a complete capture of his wall, including full comment threads.
brandon j raub.png

A few highlights:

"I am starting a revolution. The government has gone too far."
"Our leaders are traitors."
"Fuck the New World Order. I'm bringing it down. ... Soon."
"I feel like I am standing at a great crossroads. As if a storm of destiny is about to pick me up and take me to fight a great battle. A battle I could have never imagined existed. ... What I need is for someone to come pick me up so we can get the revolution started."
"If you are my friend, you deserve to know the truth. This world is secretly run by a shadow organization of people who among other things enjoy raping children. Some of leaders were involved with the bombing of the twin towers. It was a sacrifice and a complete inside job. Also the Bush's are very sick twisted problems. I believe they have a secret Castle in Colorado where they have been raping and sacrificing children for many years. Think I'm crazy? Think again. ... Also there's about to be a revolution. Which is why I'm here. ... It's in Sedalia. Take a strap."
"We MUST rise up and take our country back"
"The day of reckoning is almost at hand"
"This is the part where I tell the Federal Government to go fuck itself. This is the part where I tell Generals, training our young men to fight Americans, I am coming for you. The Veterans will be with me."
"The Revolution is Upon Us."
"I'm starting the Revolution. I'm done waiting."
"Your government is evil. It is as simple as that. And the calvary is coming."
"Do you know why the American people will win the civil war that is coming? Because we are Americans."
"Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
"The Revolution will come for me. Men will be at my door soon to pick me up to lead it. ;)"

Considering the constant talk about starting a revolution and civil war, combined with openly encouraging people to take up weapons against their leaders ("Take a strap"), it's not terribly surprising that they came and picked him up. His words go beyond free speech. Calling for rebellion or war against the U.S. Government is sedition, and sedition is illegal. Furthermore, since he is a Marine (not an ex-Marine: once a Marine, always a Marine), he is subject to the US Code, which also makes sedition a crime - if his words incite anyone to violence or revolt against the government, he could face the death penalty:

10 USC Sec. 894 - Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

All I want to know is, if (when?) he eventually goes postal and kills someone, can the judge who forced his release be held liable for releasing a dangerous lunatic?

Technically Yahoo supports IMAP on mobile devices BUT not on desktop clients! Even if you are a paying customer.

Lo, what is this? I'm using Tbird to connect to Y! mail via IMAP!

http://ompldr.org/vZXFsYg/Screenshot.png

Obviously, you've been doing something wrong.

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>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?

Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.

Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.

All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now

I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.

And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png

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BMO - chartin' the charts.

>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?

Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.

Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.

All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now

I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.

And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png

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BMO - chartin' the charts.

>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?

Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.

Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.

All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now

I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.

And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png

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BMO - chartin' the charts.

>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?

Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.

Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.

All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now

I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.

And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png

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BMO - chartin' the charts.

>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?

Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.

Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.

All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now

I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.

http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.

And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png

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BMO - chartin' the charts.

What's the future for Nokia?

Look at both of these URLs and you tell me.

http://ompldr.org/vZWQzcw/charting.the.charts.png

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-15/moodys-downgrades-nokia-to-junk-status

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BMO

So Elop is taking a former powerhouse of a company and turning it into a patent troll. I'm so fucking impressed. It's as if Elop is *deliberately* trying to sink the company by making stupid decisions and avoiding core competencies.

This is the most rapid "controlled flight into terrain" that I've seen a large company do.

The "Burning Platform" memo went out in February of 2011. Look at the chart before - Nokia was slowly digging itself out of the hole. Look at the chart after. Just look at it.

http://ompldr.org/vZWQzcw/charting.the.charts.png

Source: Yahoo Finance NOK chart. Linear scale. 2 year.

That's right, Elop, there's your fuckin' record.

Good job destroying a company.

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BMO

If it helps, I'm sitting here looking at one right now. It's a bit mangled now, but three sides were sealed at the edges and the fourth side is a fold. The top is punched and not sealed.

How exactly would you put this on a ring?

Just change the numbers - it's a simple linear transformation, and the lines should intersect at 0 (or close to it).

Here, here's one reduced by a factor of 5.
http://ompldr.org/vZTBwaQ/resolution_chart.png

And here's another reduced by a factor of 10.
http://ompldr.org/vZTBwNw/resolution_chart.png

From that, it's pretty obvious that at viewing distances closer than 2' you're going to get the full benefit of 1080p for anything larger than 15". From a viewing distance of 1 1/2' you'll get the full benefit of 1440p for anything over 16".

Just change the numbers - it's a simple linear transformation, and the lines should intersect at 0 (or close to it).

Here, here's one reduced by a factor of 5.
http://ompldr.org/vZTBwaQ/resolution_chart.png

And here's another reduced by a factor of 10.
http://ompldr.org/vZTBwNw/resolution_chart.png

From that, it's pretty obvious that at viewing distances closer than 2' you're going to get the full benefit of 1080p for anything larger than 15". From a viewing distance of 1 1/2' you'll get the full benefit of 1440p for anything over 16".

My main complaint with OSM is the aesthetics and the complexity. In particular the default settings utterly suck and I don't feel like playing with them long enough to find something that works well.

It puts all these lines on the map, implying they're significant, and then neglects to label anything. Look, here: side by side. I have no clue what all of those green, pink, and blue lines are. Valley Falls, KS is labeled (0.7 square miles, population 1,192? WTF? Are you kidding me?), but I can't tell what highway that is that cuts south of Topeka to the south, which Google labels I-35 / State Hwy 50. And zooming in doesn't help - go to the map and try it. Try to find any of the labels that Google helpfully placed on that highway even on a fairly zoomed out view of it. It is all manner of fucked up.

At the very least, the default settings should assume that you want something like a road atlas. Roads should be labeled. Don't make me poke around to try to find the setting that does this.

If the axis contains 0, it can't be logarithmic. The logarithmic graph's origin is at 1; zero is infinitely far left of the origin.

But anyway - if you want to see if it's a logarithmic axis, ask them to plot 500 million (half a billion).

In fact, you do that right now. Get the back of an envelope, draw a logarithmic number line, and mark and label these points, in the order they're given:

ten (10)
a billion (1,000,000,000)
a million (1,000,000)
half a billion (500,000,000)

You remembered to label the beginning of the line 1, right? Not 0? Good.

Now, if your line doesn't look more or less like this, you did it wrong:
(you probably put 500,000,000 much too close to 1,000,000)
http://ompldr.org/vZGl5dw/numberline.png

On a logarithmic axis, half a billion is practically right next to a billion. If they plot it midway between 1 million and 1 billion, they don't understand number lines or logarithmic axes.

Read it more carefully.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Tape_lengths

He was buying 11:20 PAL tapes which recorded 12h in a NTSC VCR.
i.e. => http://ompldr.org/vZGV1aA/untitled.png

>old software and old OSes.

This is why you run a virtual machine and load up whatever software and OS you want from the old days.

It can be tricky, though. Because some of the really old stuff doesn't even expect a hard disk. I unpacked a .zip install of PFS Pro Write on to the "c:" drive in a DOS VM and it /demanded/ that I install to a drive location other than the install drive. Because the developers assumed the destination was a floppy, even with a c: drive letter.

Old software, all the games you missed playing over the years, etc. Load up a VM in a current computer. Install the legacy OS, boot it when you get all nostalgic or need to read really old files, and put it away when you're done. No need for separate hardware. DOS, Windows of all flavors, Linux, BSD, Solaris, OSX if you have an Intel processor, etc., can all be loaded in virtual machines. No need for a separate computer.

And when you're done, just close the VM and go on with your other business.

My favorite Windows for virtual machines is Windows FLP. It's like a pre-stripped XP. I tried 2k, but I wound up ripping DLLs from XP to put into 2k anyway. The same with NT4, which I needed to get DLLs from 2k and XP to just install Opera.

DRDOS 7.03 is out there for free download too. Unfortunately Windows 3.11 says that FreeDOS is "incompatible" and will refuse to run (wrong version). Hrmph. It also helps to have a serial mouse and serial port available for things like DesqView/X which demands an actual serial mouse.

My virtual machine software of choice is VirtualBox. There are others out there, like Xen, KVM, VMWare, Parallels (macintosh). Try them.

As for Win98, giving it any more RAM will be futile anyway. It maxes out at 512MB of addressable RAM. Windows 95 maxes out at 64.

A snapshot I took once to demonstrate the power of virtual machines: http://ompldr.org/vYXgzcA

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BMO

If there was no wound on the back of his head, I'd like to know what you think the cop was looking at in this still photo.

It is a corner reflector. There is almost no wrong way to deploy it. If any part of the incoming beam strikes the inside of the reflector at all, it will be reflected to the other side of the corner and again in a parallel line to its original line coming in.

Here is a diagram showing how a ray will be reflected inside the corner reflector:
http://ompldr.org/vZDEyOA/Untitled.png

If that doesn't explain it to you, I don't think anything can, short of lining up 2 flat mirrors at right angles and having you play with a flashlight until you're satisfied that it actually works.

This is my dad, 14 years after coil embolization to repair a brain aneurysm, a stroke resulting from a clot breaking free after the surgery and further complicated by hydrocephalus and an infection in his brain stem when he was 41 years old. As you can see, a substantial portion of his brain is dead. He has left side hemiparesis and initially had massive problems with short term memory loss, swallowing, cognitive function, lack of inhibition, etc during the first year. Today, he's almost normal, though he sometimes gets a little forgetful and he needs help walking (he never regained much of his left hand). Most of the damage was done because it took 2.5 months to get him stabilized enough to go to rehab. After the surgery for the infection in his brain stem, he was in a coma and on a ventilator. I was told that he had 3 days to come out of it or he probably wasn't going to... and, respecting his wish to never be left to live on machines, I had made the decision of when I was going to pull the plug (I was going to wait a week so he didn't accidentally hang on and die on my sister's birthday).

The younger the brain, the more plasticity it has and the more capable of recovering from severe brain damage it is. You might not be the exact same as you are now, but my dad certainly has a decent quality of life today. "He" is definitely still very much there, though sometimes he gets frustrated because he can't do everything he used to do, particularly in way he used to do it. He hates that he's dependent on others... but he finds plenty of enjoyment in life, looks forward to the time he gets to spend with his grandkids, etc. After years of resistance and despite being a grade school dropout, he's finally decided he wants to start learning about computers and stuff.

Massive brain damage isn't the end of the world, though it can certainly be difficult. I understand that it's quite scary to think about and a lot of people would rather be dead than face those challenges. That said, the younger you are, depending on just how severe the brain damage is, you can still have a positive life afterward and you still can even be you. Not every case is an absolute case of permanent vegetative state or "losing the soul."

>Which version did YOU beta? and on what platform?

I downloaded and installed both the developer and consumer previews and ran them. I still have the consumer preview loaded.

It is a nightmare of stupid UI decisions. Switching between both metro and the "traditional" desktop is a whole level of stupidity not seen in UI failure since Microsoft Bob. The total lack of consistency is jarring.

But hey, obviously i don't know what I'm talking about because I've never used it and this is not a screenshot.

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZQ/stupid.png

And it's not like I try other operating systems out of curiosity and have nothing to compare to, like this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZg/naggers1.png

Or this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3praA/haiku.png

No, I don't ever try anything. I just talk shit because I've learned memes from other people.

Fuck you.

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BMO

>Which version did YOU beta? and on what platform?

I downloaded and installed both the developer and consumer previews and ran them. I still have the consumer preview loaded.

It is a nightmare of stupid UI decisions. Switching between both metro and the "traditional" desktop is a whole level of stupidity not seen in UI failure since Microsoft Bob. The total lack of consistency is jarring.

But hey, obviously i don't know what I'm talking about because I've never used it and this is not a screenshot.

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZQ/stupid.png

And it's not like I try other operating systems out of curiosity and have nothing to compare to, like this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZg/naggers1.png

Or this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3praA/haiku.png

No, I don't ever try anything. I just talk shit because I've learned memes from other people.

Fuck you.

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BMO

>Which version did YOU beta? and on what platform?

I downloaded and installed both the developer and consumer previews and ran them. I still have the consumer preview loaded.

It is a nightmare of stupid UI decisions. Switching between both metro and the "traditional" desktop is a whole level of stupidity not seen in UI failure since Microsoft Bob. The total lack of consistency is jarring.

But hey, obviously i don't know what I'm talking about because I've never used it and this is not a screenshot.

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZQ/stupid.png

And it's not like I try other operating systems out of curiosity and have nothing to compare to, like this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3prZg/naggers1.png

Or this:

http://ompldr.org/vY3praA/haiku.png

No, I don't ever try anything. I just talk shit because I've learned memes from other people.

Fuck you.

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BMO

As a matter of fact, I have a picture of a flattened cat on my Facebook account right now: http://ompldr.org/vY3loYw/.jpg

Then if you double the risk of accidents at 0.05 BAC, and triple it at 0.1 BAC, with 0 BAC as a control ... what more argument do you need to put it the DUI levels where they are now? [src]

I actually bothered to look up that source - and I don't mean the graph on Wikipedia. It looks like this.

Basically (after finding a very slight correlation between drivers who had been drinking and drivers who were speeding - although the correlation was only a few km/h): they tried to take drivers who were both drunk and speeding, and then statistically explain how much of their risk was due to speeding, and how much was due to the alcohol, based on the accident rates of non-intoxicated people who were also speeding.

IMHO it's not a very convincing study. There were too many variables and it's not at all obvious to me that their assumption was valid. The effects of speeding and alcohol together may be cumlatively worse than the combined total of the two.

It depends on where you're located, as shown on this diagram.

An observer at point A sees the side of the moon facing Earth; an observer at point B sees the side of the moon facing away from Earth.

trolllolllollloll.

Wanna see the .40? Okay sure.

Mac

Oh. Well, that's not your browser's fault at all. That's your operating system's fault. Macs "just work" like that. "User-friendly"... that's the word for when they hide options you don't need, right?

Under Windows, file types are simple extensions to the filename, not hidden away in some metadata tag. The Windows OS' file picker dialog looks like this. I'm pretty sure just about anyone could figure out how to look for something other than image files in that file picker. It's the box that says "Files of type", and "Image Files", so pardon my incredulity at anyone's inability to do so.

Perhaps I should apologize. I forgot that there was an operating system that actually won't let you specify or change which type of file you want to browse for in its file picker dialog. Anyway, revisit that page and open the Web Console (should be in the Web Developer menu) and try pasting this into the bar, after the > prompt.

for(var i=document.getElementsByTagName("input"),n=0,t=0;n<i.length;n++)if(i[n].type=="file"){i[n].accept="*";t++;};t;

(Basically: For each <input> tag with type="file", set accept="*" and increment counter t. Return the counter.)

When you hit Return it should appear in the top pane. Beneath it should be the # of file upload elements it found on the page. Then see if the file upload box works properly.

If that works (which it should), then create a bookmark with the following "Location". Clicking the bookmark should fix it on any such page you find in the future:

javascript:for(var i=document.getElementsByTagName("input"),n=0;n<i.length;n++)if(i[n].type=="file")i[n].accept="*";void(0);

Unless you completely delete/purge your hosts file to "test", you aren't really "testing", because there's no easy interface to see what isn't blocked and what is (and which rule blocked it) like there is for ABP. It'd be a huge PITA to try to test anything if you used a hosts file for ad-blocking (or anything, for that matter, other than a browser add-on which can be easily enabled/disabled). ABP takes literally 2 clicks to turn off (Toolbar button, Disable) if you need to test a site with ads enabled. Anything you do with hosts is going to take a lot more work.

style is "beauty in the eye of the beholder"

"Beauty in the eye of the beholder"? More like, "a face only a mother could love".

You remembered incorrectly. AdBlock Plus rules are not written in Javascript. In fact, you don't have to write them in any code at all... there is a user-friendly interface to help write AdBlock Plus rules, as seen in this .png image.

The help tooltip for "Restrict to domain" even tells how to set up domain restrictions/exclusions:
"Use this option to specify one or more domains separated by a bar line (|). The filter will only be applied on the domain(s) selected. A tilde (~) before a domain name indicates that the filter will not be applied on that domain."

So basically the rules I posted could have been created entirely from that interface.

Note that it's saying that the item I originally clicked to block (cloud_64.png) would not be blocked by the rule. Since it's a third-party rule restricted to ~slashdot.org, it would only be blocked if a website other than slashdot.org or a.fsdn.com tried to embed it.

By the way, that was also one of your "20 points" in your list (the one you challenged me to disprove). You might want to revise it. ABP rules aren't written in Javascript.

Not me. But I did happen to have the portable edition handy, purely for testing purposes such as these, and I haven't updated it in a while.

But here, Opera 11.52 crashing hard under Win 7:
http://ompldr.org/vYmtscQ

>1) The average user is not an expert. He just wants to use the computer to do his job and does not want (or are unable to) memorize every single existent Unix command (and their options) to do so.

Present the average cmd.exe expert with powershell and he or she will be just as lost. Your argument is bogus.

And there isn't even a man command equivalent in powershell.

>GUI in Linux is worse than the GUI in Windows

I'll stack Dolphin up against Explorer any day. Can you drag and drop files over the equivalent of fish:// transparently in Explorer yet? No? Then it sucks. No qualifiers.

http://ompldr.org/vYXg1cA

See the pane on the right? That's my laptop. See the one on the left? That's a machine across town. And the connection is encrypted end-to-end.

Do that with Explorer without a third party tool. You can't.

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BMO

>I suggest you actually make at leat a basic attempt to verify your claims before posting them to Slashdot.

>Implying I'm lying
>Implying I haven't verified anything

Screw you.

http://ompldr.org/vYXgzcA

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BMO

My personal fave is probably this intersection. Note that that curved road, in the direction you're (kinda) facing, has "left turn" and "right turn" lanes. Yes, "right turn", even though no sane driver would think that curve is a "right turn". And on the stoplight (which you can just barely see) is a sign (which you cannot see) that says, and I kid you not: "Right turn on red after stop". Note also, by the lines on the pavement, that traffic coming the opposite direction in the right lane should turn right (solid white line should not be crossed). Note that in the picture you can see a car and truck which have apparently crossed that line. But according to the solid white line, the left lane should also be able to go right. As long as nobody in the right lane decided they want to go straight, that is! Or should I say left.

My second fave is probably this intersection, where you can see a bus approaching the intersection in a "left turn or straight" lane (no right turn permitted). To its left, in order: "left turn only", "oncoming fucking traffic", and 2 lanes of "oncoming traffic coming 'round that curve". I say the middle lane of the 5 is "oncoming fucking traffic" because, sitting in the oncoming traffic, I've at least twice been head-to-head with some clueless moron who thought that just because the median was to their left, that was their lane to be in. No, moron, you're in my lane. Move.

My personal fave is probably this intersection. Note that that curved road, in the direction you're (kinda) facing, has "left turn" and "right turn" lanes. Yes, "right turn", even though no sane driver would think that curve is a "right turn". And on the stoplight (which you can just barely see) is a sign (which you cannot see) that says, and I kid you not: "Right turn on red after stop". Note also, by the lines on the pavement, that traffic coming the opposite direction in the right lane should turn right (solid white line should not be crossed). Note that in the picture you can see a car and truck which have apparently crossed that line. But according to the solid white line, the left lane should also be able to go right. As long as nobody in the right lane decided they want to go straight, that is! Or should I say left.

My second fave is probably this intersection, where you can see a bus approaching the intersection in a "left turn or straight" lane (no right turn permitted). To its left, in order: "left turn only", "oncoming fucking traffic", and 2 lanes of "oncoming traffic coming 'round that curve". I say the middle lane of the 5 is "oncoming fucking traffic" because, sitting in the oncoming traffic, I've at least twice been head-to-head with some clueless moron who thought that just because the median was to their left, that was their lane to be in. No, moron, you're in my lane. Move.

ur a faggot go suck a dick

http://ompldr.org/vYXRjMg

ur mum's face is a goat back fucker.

speak for yourself, shithead.

http://ompldr.org/vNHJ1aw

Well... not quite.

http://ompldr.org/vYTRpZw/win31.png

http://ompldr.org/vOWw4eg/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro.6554331.TPB.torrent

How on earth can you decide that "LUEKE" is larger then "HAMAD", just judging from google maps the characters seem to be almost exactly the same size

You're comparing them at different zoom levels, dimwit.

Side-by-side, rotated 180 degrees (South is up), at the same zoom level this time:
http://ompldr.org/vOWtpMw/Untitled.png

(Note that since LUEKE is ~6 degrees farther north of the equator than HAMAD, even at the same zoom level the scale is slightly different due to the warping produced by representing a sphere on a flat map. But not by enough to matter very much, and Google's scale meter at the bottom adjusts to reflect it.)

is this

First of all, it's not a window manager, it's a desktop environment.

Secondly, it's so you can do this and walk away instead of sitting around while your computer thinks about how to be alive.

>Besides, M$ has been losing their evil edge. Ballmer hasn't thrown a chair in a while

You haven't looked at the Microsoft vs Barnes&Noble lawsuit.

Basically they're saying all of Linux infringes. The B&N response is available on PACER - filed yesterday. But since someone was generous, here it is on ompldr.

http://ompldr.org/vOGZ1dA/bnmsft.pdf

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BMO

I see Magic Eyes backwards - the image sinks in instead of popping out. So disappointing.

That's because you're crossing your eyes instead of diverging them. It takes a while to master either technique. Cross-eyed viewing is harder to master for most people, especially with Magic Eye style images with repetitive patterns, so they're designed for the divergent-eyed viewing technique. Most people find the divergent-eyed viewing technique slightly easier. However, the cross-eyed viewing technique allows viewing much larger stereoscopic images, since you can only diverge your eyes so far.

I can only diverge my eyes enough to achieve an inch or two of overlap on my computer screen, but cross-eyed I can overlap two side-by-side images each of which are half the width of the screen (e.g. use the cross-eyed method to view this stereoscopic image displayed full-screen).

Like this?

Menu is TinyMenu, Back/Forward appear and disappear depending on where in the tab's history you are, the "B" is bookmarks. User agent, ABP and a few other useful plugins make FF 3.6 a firm favourite of mine for the foreseeable future.

Usually they are indistinguishable by sight (you don't know which one is the control word), but I've seen reCaptcha instances where one word is clear and the other one is unreadable.

Not even close. I'd say at least 95% of the time they are easily identifiable by sight if you've done it a few times, and if they aren't you can always click the button to get a different one.

Here's a few to get you started: 20 random reCAPTCHA challenges with the control word identified by red outline. In place of the scanned word I entered "indigo" each time. I solved all 20 "correctly". Only 2 of the challenges were even difficult to determine which was the control word, based on appearance alone: "lustrum thralls" and "magenta contrul". In the first one, however, there was just enough difference between the type-faces, and in the other one "magenta" looked slightly less distorted; additionally, more often than not the challenge word tends to be something you don't find in the dictionary.

Original pic
http://ompldr.org/vNHJ1aw

Posted by anon some time later
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Original pic
http://ompldr.org/vNHJ1aw

Posted by anon some time later
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjbQ
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjag
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjbg

Original pic
http://ompldr.org/vNHJ1aw

Posted by anon some time later
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjbQ
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjag
http://ompldr.org/vNmRjbg