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> the very people who condemn EA for lying to them will still buy the next shiny AAA game from them anyway.
Sadly, The "Call of Duty" boycott proves that you are right.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h299/rangerxml/boycotting.jpg
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/11/6e49368e85bd37eee55b92c4a1e63640.jpg

> The last game that I bought was released at 2006, been what.. 7 years?
Tossing the baby out with the bath water is not a very pragmatic philosophy.

There have been many great indie titles recently released:
Limbo, Trine, World of Goo, Faster Then Light.

At least Team Fortress 2 is free if you need your multiplayer / co-op fix.

Don't go there.

It's the price of your top tiers that customers don't have an interest in. 40$ is lowest tier for me. That is your rock bottom option, lol. I would love to get faster access but it just isn't worth paying for. A year ago i plotted a graph to show the sketchy ping time that their techs say is acceptable: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/tibman/cruft/ping_times.png

"Make no mistake,

Translation

The Pedobear plushie toys I saw on sale in Akiba last year? The turd plushy http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee12/nojay_photo/Odds%20and%20Sods/poo.jpg advertising constipation medicine in a drugstore window in Onomichi?

Aye, if it is not from before the turn of the century (still feels weird being able to say that and remember what things were like before the turn of the century), then it is not old.

Now as for this lovely little relic on display here in my living room... Now that can be considered old.

Are you saying the Powerpuff Girls grew up and became hookers? I knew the economy was bad but that is just depressing...

I don't know about depressing... I always had a thing for Blossom; so now if she'll just take a bit of cash, my childhood fantasy can come true!

Are you serious? How the hell do you make it to Slashdot and not know about Rule 34?!

From the Rules of the Internet:
Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it, no exceptions.
Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.

Just add "rule 34" to any search term for the porn version. (search results w/ safe=off, links may be NSFW). Since this is your first time here's some complimentary Star Wars Rule 34., or if you're more the mile-high club type: Why not declare Rule 34 on Jets? (both SFW, non nudes)

If you need to invoke rule 35, just proclaim rule 34 has been violated to the right folks, then wait.

Welcome to the Internet.

because it IS a presentation mockup like any of these:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg [imageshack.us]
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg [tinypic.com] (the one in front)

Building smaller RC models and mockups is not rare.

The head of the design team himself said they have only performed test flight with two smaller models (one with a propeller, the other with a micro jet). These are from the slides he presented.

Propeller-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/250662_10151268717323603_1355114109_n.png

Jet-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542333_10151268717468603_1294585182_n.png

The one in photos was a mock up. Like any of these:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg (the one in front)

Hey, APK

hehe well there were some funny emoticons actually. i had one, shortcut 1313 and it was a face with eyebrows going up and down
1414 was a more dirty look
1515 was a dirty wink and a kiss. those were hilarious. and kids actually used those numbers in real life. like saying "whoaaaa thirteen thirteen!!!"

http://s600.beta.photobucket.com/user/moon20_album/media/emoticons/1313.gif.html (weirdly accelerated, it should be slower)

"123:" was a funny "hmmm..." look. people still type 123: and 1313 in facebook chat.

and of course bullets are made of lead

There are such things as all-copper bullets, actually. In fact, a great many "high-efficiency" expanding bullets of late are all-copper. It's more expensive to manufacture, and ballistics is trickier since the material is lighter (so for the same bullet weight, you have to make the bullet longer, meaning that it's more likely to tumble) - but copper is much harder than lead, and so it's more amenable to making bullets that can e.g. penetrate glass well and still expand reliably when they hit the flesh. Which is something that law enforcement agencies have been asking for a long time.

Caution: Do not view or download these images onto your computer:

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/tratong/tratong1202/tratong120200024/12605645-momma-pig-feeding-baby-pigs.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k582/oneh2obabe1/Pigs%20n%20Pups/baby_pigs_1.jpg
http://cdn5.teen.com/wp-content/gallery/piglets/painted-piglets.jpg

It's a real shame too: the product is beautiful to gaze at. A real work of art. Here is a -slightly- lower resolution image of the product with no watermark.

If NNI went to war, this would be their weapon of choice

I stopped reading after your first paragraph.

Too bad, as your points were effectively answered there.

The foundation of modern science have absolutely nothing to do with judeo-christians other than the fact that it was developed during the renaissance by (mainly, but not only) Christian scientists

If you had read a bit further you would have read WHY that view is held by many historians of science, as I provided several quotes.

Ask yourself this: If you did not believe that nature was orderly and mathematically precise, you wouldn't even START trying to develop modern science, you couldn't, because you had no way to know that your results today wouldn't be different tomorrow. Imagine yourself as someone from 3,000 years ago. On what basis would you hold the belief that the universe was orderly? On the contrary, you would believe that the universe was chaotic and any apparent patters were simply contingent.

(many of them very much not in the spirit of their religion, look up Galileo Galilei)

I would invite you to do the same. Galileo did NOT get in trouble for his scientific theories. He got in trouble primarily for his theological errors and by demanding that scripture be reinterpreted to be in line with heliocentric theory.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd11/GilRuiz1/galileo_02.jpg

The biggest scientific problem for Galileo was that he had no evidence for heliocentric theory being true and could not answer the quite serious scientific objections raised by other scientists, one of which was the lack of observed stellar parallax. (The stellar parallax is there, but was not observable using instruments of the day.) At that time, claiming heliocentric theory as true would be like a professor going around today claiming that string theory is true. They would get an intellectual beat down of epic proportions by their fellow scientists because the evidence is not yet there to support such a statement. Teaching string theory as a theory today is OK. Teaching it as a fact is not.

Galileo was free to teach heliocentrism as a theory, nobody ever got into trouble for that. What got him into trouble was claiming heliocentrisim was true, without being able to prove it, everyone who disagreed, regardless of the valid scientific objections, was an idiot, and he, a layman in the area of philosophy and scripture, was going to reinterpret scripture for the church. Remember this is less than 100 years after the Protestant reformation.

His best "evidence", since he couldn't answer the stellar parallax objection, was to suggest that the tides was evidence of heliocentrism because with the earth rotating on its axis as well as moving around the sun meant that all the water was sloshing around the oceans. Yes, Galileo thought the Earth was a giant snow-globe. Try and put forth that theory in science class tomorrow and see where that gets you.

The Church was the leading sponsor of the new science and Galileo himself was funded by the church. The leading astronomers of the time were Jesuit priests. They were open to Galileo's theory but told him the evidence for it was inconclusive. (It was.) This was the view of the greatest astronomer of the age, Tyco Brahe.

The Church's view of heliocentrism was hardly a dogmatic one. When Cardinal Bellarmine met with Galileo he said,

"While experience tells us plainly that the earth is standing still, if there were a real proof that the sun is in the center of the universe...and that the sun goes not go round the earth but the earth round the sun, then we should have to proceed with great circumspection in explaining passages of scripture which appear to teach the contrary, and rather admit that we did not understand them than declare an opinion to be false which is proved to be true. But this is not a thing to be done in

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/traveler_01/PDVD_011.jpg

Amiga monitors had both RGB and standard analog video inputs, including the split s-video variant that the c64 outputs.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/elboaconstricto/1084s-p.jpg

I suspect it was in a plane that got a little further than this WWII bomber...

This BFG edition is a JOKE compared to the mods (100% made by volunteer work) I've been playing lately. I've seen volunteer effort replace almost ALL the textures with HD textures (very nicely done, looks like professional quality), add in bloom/HDR, add in parallax occlusion mapping (high-end computers only!), add in new monsters, and probably more I'm forgetting. Just get a $10 or $5 copy of the Doom 3 from 2004 and get some of these FREE mods, and the game will look so good you'll think it was made in 2010 or 2011 and it's TOTALLY worth playing it again with them installed. And if you're a pussyshit who plays with the room lights turned on and you don't understand the word "atmosphere", then YES, you can get a mod to tape a flashlight to your gun. A short list of the best mods (Note: these mods can be a son of a bitch to install, especially if you want more than one. I'd advise you just get the mod from the bottom-most URL if you want a painless experience):

Perfected Doom 3 (adds HDR bloom and other effects)

Wulfen (High-Def) Texture Pack (lots of HD textures and parallax maps for them)

HD Mod (e-z to install compilation of many other high-def mods)

Very early Microsoft mouse, with solid steel textured ball and steel bearings instead of Teflon slider pads.

So maybe I can claim some space myself with these photos? I should probably de-BPA that housing (with the Oxiclean trick) and then enshrine it in a plexi case with a vacuum, huh?

Very early Microsoft mouse, with solid steel textured ball and steel bearings instead of Teflon slider pads.

So maybe I can claim some space myself with these photos? I should probably de-BPA that housing (with the Oxiclean trick) and then enshrine it in a plexi case with a vacuum, huh?

Very early Microsoft mouse, with solid steel textured ball and steel bearings instead of Teflon slider pads.

So maybe I can claim some space myself with these photos? I should probably de-BPA that housing (with the Oxiclean trick) and then enshrine it in a plexi case with a vacuum, huh?

Charles Darwin would probably have something to say about people who pull out in front of a semi. It has often been noted that as tools, equipment, and vehicles grow more idiot-proof, the world just produces better idiots.

Personally, I ride a little 1/4 ton vehicle, that gets about 53 mpg, as opposed to some two-ton hulk that gets maybe 20 mpg.

This one is almost exactly like mine: http://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx50/StrayyDog/fontannacemetarypost.jpg

Or, you can browse what members are riding, to find one more to your taste:
http://cx500forum.com/index.php?/topic/96-members-bikes/

Motorcycles have a way of thinning the herd some. Fools don't last very long on two wheels. Pulling out in front of tractor trailers is one sure way of becoming a statistic, on a bike, in a car, or even in another tractor trailer.

Do what I do for my textures, and embed a "watermark" of your signature or something similar deep into the final image where it can't / won't be seen by anybody who doesn't know where or what to look for, in multiple places where the pixels are conducive to such masquerading. It's almost a form of steganography, where the message to be sent is a verification of the authors' identity and claims of original work.

I do mine in such a way that even if I leave one such image that can be readily seen, there are at least a half dozen more than cannot be found without a side-by-side comparison of source and production images with and without the "watermarks" (impossible without someone getting hold of my .PSD's). Keep the true "source" .psd for yourself, create another for disbursing to students that contains several "watermarks" with an extreme level of transparency well-blended into many or all of the layers so they'll have an example .psd to "reverse engineer", and then separately give them the actual un-watermarked original source images, which they should then be expected to chuse to assemble the final image themselves. You might even put an entirely separate watermark into the source images, so you can check to see which watermarks the submitted image has, as opposed to checking only for the source mark.

If they put in enough time and effort to actually successfully circumvent this technique by finding and either eliminating or duplicating all the various marks, then they've probably got the requisite skills to pass the original challenge... at least if you do it the way I do.

My "signature" is in at least 3 places in this image, buried deep in different layers with heavy transparency masks, and it would have to be altered drastically to be guaranteed to remove all traces of it.

"So you just got the Kinect/Xbox360 gaming system and you're having fun, hanging out in your underwear, plopped down in your favorite lounge chair, and playing games with your buddies. Yeah, it's great to have a microphone and camera in your game system so you can "Kinect" to your pals while you play, but did you read that Terms of Service Agreement that came with your Kinect thingy? No? Here, let me point out an important part of that service agreement.

If you accept the agreement, you "expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft, our partners, or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the Service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

Did you catch that? Here, let me print the important part in really big letters.

"If you accept the agreement, you expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications⦠on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

OK, is that clear enough for ya? When you use the Kinect system, you agree to allow Microsoft (and any branch of law enforcement or government they care to share information with) to use your Kinect system to spy on you. Maybe run that facial recognition software to check you out, listen to your conversations, and keep track of who you are communicating with.

I know this is probably old news to some, but I thought I would mention it because it pertains to almost all of these home game systems that are interactive. You have to remember, the camera and microphone contained in your game system have the ability to be hacked by anyone the game company gives that ability to, and that includes government snoops and law enforcement agents.

Hey, it's MICROSOFT. What did you expect?

And the same concerns apply to all interactive game systems. Just something to think about if you're having a "Naked Wii party" or doing something illegal while you're gaming with your buddies. Or maybe you say something suspicious and it triggers the DHS software to start tracking your every word. Hey, this is not paranoia. It's spelled out for you, right there in that Service Agreement. Read it! Here's one more part of the agreement you should be aware of.

"You should not expect any level of privacy concerning your use of the live communication features (for example, voice chat, video and communications in live-hosted gameplay sessions) offered through the Service."

Did you catch it that time? YOU SHOULD NOT EXPECT ANY LEVEL OF PRIVACY concerning your voice chat and video features on your Kinect box."

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Continued..

"Listen up, you ignorant sheep. Your government is spending more money than ever to spy on its own citizens. That's YOU, my friend. And if you're one of these people who say, "Well I ain't ever done nothing wrong so why should I worry about it?' - you are dead wrong. Our civil liberties are being taken away faster than you can spit. The NSA is working away on its new "First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center' to keep track of every last one of us. This thing will be the size of 17 football stadiums. One million square feet, all to be filled with more technology and data storage than you could imagine. And 30,000 spy drones are set to be launched over America which can each

"So you just got the Kinect/Xbox360 gaming system and you're having fun, hanging out in your underwear, plopped down in your favorite lounge chair, and playing games with your buddies. Yeah, it's great to have a microphone and camera in your game system so you can "Kinect" to your pals while you play, but did you read that Terms of Service Agreement that came with your Kinect thingy? No? Here, let me point out an important part of that service agreement.

If you accept the agreement, you "expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft, our partners, or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the Service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

Did you catch that? Here, let me print the important part in really big letters.

"If you accept the agreement, you expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications⦠on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

OK, is that clear enough for ya? When you use the Kinect system, you agree to allow Microsoft (and any branch of law enforcement or government they care to share information with) to use your Kinect system to spy on you. Maybe run that facial recognition software to check you out, listen to your conversations, and keep track of who you are communicating with.

I know this is probably old news to some, but I thought I would mention it because it pertains to almost all of these home game systems that are interactive. You have to remember, the camera and microphone contained in your game system have the ability to be hacked by anyone the game company gives that ability to, and that includes government snoops and law enforcement agents.

Hey, it's MICROSOFT. What did you expect?

And the same concerns apply to all interactive game systems. Just something to think about if you're having a "Naked Wii party" or doing something illegal while you're gaming with your buddies. Or maybe you say something suspicious and it triggers the DHS software to start tracking your every word. Hey, this is not paranoia. It's spelled out for you, right there in that Service Agreement. Read it! Here's one more part of the agreement you should be aware of.

"You should not expect any level of privacy concerning your use of the live communication features (for example, voice chat, video and communications in live-hosted gameplay sessions) offered through the Service."

Did you catch it that time? YOU SHOULD NOT EXPECT ANY LEVEL OF PRIVACY concerning your voice chat and video features on your Kinect box."

# http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z20/TyrantAsh03/tf_spy_fyi_i_am_a_spy.png

Continued..

"Listen up, you ignorant sheep. Your government is spending more money than ever to spy on its own citizens. That's YOU, my friend. And if you're one of these people who say, "Well I ain't ever done nothing wrong so why should I worry about it?' - you are dead wrong. Our civil liberties are being taken away faster than you can spit. The NSA is working away on its new "First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center' to keep track of every last one of us. This thing will be the size of 17 football stadiums. One million square feet, all to be filled with more technology and data storage than you could imagine. And 30,000 spy drones are set to be launched over America which can each

Microsoft Kinect Spy System - Revisited (2)

"So you just got the Kinect/Xbox360 gaming system and you're having fun, hanging out in your underwear, plopped down in your favorite lounge chair, and playing games with your buddies. Yeah, it's great to have a microphone and camera in your game system so you can "Kinect" to your pals while you play, but did you read that Terms of Service Agreement that came with your Kinect thingy? No? Here, let me point out an important part of that service agreement.

If you accept the agreement, you "expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft, our partners, or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the Service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

Did you catch that? Here, let me print the important part in really big letters.

"If you accept the agreement, you expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications⦠on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

OK, is that clear enough for ya? When you use the Kinect system, you agree to allow Microsoft (and any branch of law enforcement or government they care to share information with) to use your Kinect system to spy on you. Maybe run that facial recognition software to check you out, listen to your conversations, and keep track of who you are communicating with.

I know this is probably old news to some, but I thought I would mention it because it pertains to almost all of these home game systems that are interactive. You have to remember, the camera and microphone contained in your game system have the ability to be hacked by anyone the game company gives that ability to, and that includes government snoops and law enforcement agents.

Hey, it's MICROSOFT. What did you expect?

And the same concerns apply to all interactive game systems. Just something to think about if you're having a "Naked Wii party" or doing something illegal while you're gaming with your buddies. Or maybe you say something suspicious and it triggers the DHS software to start tracking your every word. Hey, this is not paranoia. It's spelled out for you, right there in that Service Agreement. Read it! Here's one more part of the agreement you should be aware of.

"You should not expect any level of privacy concerning your use of the live communication features (for example, voice chat, video and communications in live-hosted gameplay sessions) offered through the Service."

Did you catch it that time? YOU SHOULD NOT EXPECT ANY LEVEL OF PRIVACY concerning your voice chat and video features on your Kinect box."

# http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z20/TyrantAsh03/tf_spy_fyi_i_am_a_spy.png

Continued..

"Listen up, you ignorant sheep. Your government is spending more money than ever to spy on its own citizens. That's YOU, my friend. And if you're one of these people who say, "Well I ain't ever done nothing wrong so why should I worry about it?' - you are dead wrong. Our civil liberties are being taken away faster than you can spit. The NSA is working away on its new "First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center' to keep track of every last one of us. This thing will be the size of 17 football stadiums. One million square feet, all to be filled with more technology and data storage than you could imagine. And 30,000 spy drones a

Yes sir. Here it is bent in 2 with the screen and buttons still working (I did that many times):
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag67/tempforsd/WP_000647.jpg

I'm not saying all brands are that good, but that one is.

I found a picture from his younger days. Definitely visited a comic book once or twice from the looks of him.

Cheap indeed but for speed of installation and recently bought a couple of packs of these Cablox which were a breeze to use.

To clear my desk I put the monitor on a wall with a cantilever bracket and colour-coded the Cat 6 cables ensuring they were all the correct length (most were too long previously).

Using hardware that you can fix to the wall helps particularly when using switches with more then 4 ports as the bend radius of data cables plus the power connector on the opposite side increase the diameter of the router to 15 inches or more. Get that stuff on the wall just below desk level to avoid visual clutter and to keep the cables off the floor.

"You aren't going to get one through hydroponic farming. Hydroponic tomatoes look beautiful and big but they are dense and flavorless."

That would be the cultivar chosen for mechanical picking and shipment, plus a combination of poor nutrient choice. Get an heirloom cultivar and you will notice a world of difference in taste, using the same nutrients. Using more diverse stuff like SEA-90 (supplementing for the nitrogen and potassium [I think, don't have that chart handy right this second]) will show even better results.

Here's a soil mother (two months old) tomato and basil versus a hydroponics tomato and basil clone (three weeks old.) Look at the difference.

The basil alone was DRIPPING with pungent oils, and much larger leaves. I had pesto that had my local Italian neighbors raving for WEEKS.

worse for your electronics than owning a longhaired cat

My cat was acquitted on all charges in the case of bad drive vs Orangie Orangejuice

Your post show how misinformed you are:

This vehicle combines the worst parts of bicycle experience with the worst parts of car experience. It only can be used to deliver your body from point A to point B - even though many, if not most, trips require carrying cargo (even as little as a laptop bag; but often groceries are also required.)

See this video.

This works only on absolutely flat land, and in good weather.

See this video.

In case of an accident your body will be neatly squashed by wheels of larger vehicles, making it a death trap.

See this video and this video.

See this video and this video

Only well trained young men can ride the thing

See this video

As for the rest of your comments, you'll find plenty of videos and sites to prove you wrong. I can't be bothered to find them for you just right now.

4chan. I have been there. Now I am stronger.

It's been up for a while.

Microsoft Kinect Spy System - Revisited

"So you just got the Kinect/Xbox360 gaming system and you're having fun, hanging out in your underwear, plopped down in your favorite lounge chair, and playing games with your buddies. Yeah, it's great to have a microphone and camera in your game system so you can "Kinect" to your pals while you play, but did you read that Terms of Service Agreement that came with your Kinect thingy? No? Here, let me point out an important part of that service agreement.

If you accept the agreement, you "expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft, our partners, or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the Service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

Did you catch that? Here, let me print the important part in really big letters.

"If you accept the agreement, you expressly authorize and consent to us accessing or disclosing information about you, including the content of your communications⦠on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public."

OK, is that clear enough for ya? When you use the Kinect system, you agree to allow Microsoft (and any branch of law enforcement or government they care to share information with) to use your Kinect system to spy on you. Maybe run that facial recognition software to check you out, listen to your conversations, and keep track of who you are communicating with.

I know this is probably old news to some, but I thought I would mention it because it pertains to almost all of these home game systems that are interactive. You have to remember, the camera and microphone contained in your game system have the ability to be hacked by anyone the game company gives that ability to, and that includes government snoops and law enforcement agents.

Hey, it's MICROSOFT. What did you expect?

And the same concerns apply to all interactive game systems. Just something to think about if you're having a "Naked Wii party" or doing something illegal while you're gaming with your buddies. Or maybe you say something suspicious and it triggers the DHS software to start tracking your every word. Hey, this is not paranoia. It's spelled out for you, right there in that Service Agreement. Read it! Here's one more part of the agreement you should be aware of.

"You should not expect any level of privacy concerning your use of the live communication features (for example, voice chat, video and communications in live-hosted gameplay sessions) offered through the Service."

Did you catch it that time? YOU SHOULD NOT EXPECT ANY LEVEL OF PRIVACY concerning your voice chat and video features on your Kinect box."

# http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z20/TyrantAsh03/tf_spy_fyi_i_am_a_spy.png

Continued..

"Listen up, you ignorant sheep. Your government is spending more money than ever to spy on its own citizens. That's YOU, my friend. And if you're one of these people who say, "Well I ain't ever done nothing wrong so why should I worry about it?' - you are dead wrong. Our civil liberties are being taken away faster than you can spit. The NSA is working away on its new "First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center' to keep track of every last one of us. This thing will be the size of 17 football stadiums. One million square feet, all to be filled with more technology and data storage than you could imagine. And 30,000 spy drones are s

The other reply to your question (from guruevi) is correct. There's also the problem of "duty cycle" (there are other terms) which is basically how much noise is in the air on a channel. This is basically how much space is between the noise. When you have a crowded room with everyone trying to get online on a channel, they are all waiting for their turn to talk. The fewer people you have, naturally you have more time between transmissions. The more people you have, the less and less time there is between. It's like the difference between speaking slowly and those auctioneer guys who speed right along and are almost hard to understand because there's no space between their words to process what you're hearing. When you get a spectral analyzer out and look at the duty cycle on a channel in a crowded neighborhood (maybe an apartment complex), you'll see many access points (wireless routers usually) on each channel. If you look at say, channel 1, you have a duty cycle for the access points on that channel, and you have contribution to that from overlapping channels (2 and 3). So if you are using channel 3, you are contributing to the duty cycle (thus degrading performance and throughput) of channels 1 through 6. In return, those channels contribute to your noise as well.

The best practice is to keep the overlapping channels clean so that you don't get interrupted by those adjacent channels. The best possible graph you want to see in an analysis tool like inSSIDer on the 2.4 GHz view is 3 humps, spanning channels "0"-3, 4-9, and 10 to 13. In Europe you can use up to channel 14 as well. You'll get in trouble here in the US though. ;)

I'm not really familiar with posting things in /. elegantly, but here's an image of an ideal 2.4 GHz spectrum scan (you can use Wifi Analyzer on Android, or inSSIDer on Windows, or Wifi Explorer on Mac).
http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/wifi-analyzer-header.png

So here's the trick to using JUST 1,6, and 11. Signal strength. You can share channel 1 with as many neighbors as you want, but in order for it to be effective, you need to have roughly a 20 dBm advantage over the signale from the nearest AP using the same channel, in the area you want to use your AP. If you have that much of a difference in signal strength, it's good enough to have a good experience on wireless.

Here's an example where, if the signal from other APs are weak enough compared to your own, it doesn't matter that they are overlapping your channels because you can trump them with sufficient signal strength to talk from your client device to the AP.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg286/TGrayman/Axis%20Wireless/crowded-Copy.jpg

So, if you have a scenario like that one, be courteous like the the taller ones and use the proper channels. :)

Here is an idea of what proper channel layout should be. If you have the opportunity to help your neighbors tweak their APs, I'd suggest channel planning it for the benefit of everyone. :)
http://www.horus4it.net/en/images/image002.jpg

I hope this helps. There is probably a lot more I could explain on this but I'm currently working a large event in Vegas and we're currently troubleshooting this very problem. Everyone comes in with a personal hotspot and just stomps all over the free wifi we are providing them. I wish there were a good way to educate people. It's just too technical for the lay person though.

http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac299/gingerale420/IMAG0079.jpg

Yeah I guess I'm just crazy and totally imagining this shit. The cop kinda said the same thing, said I was paranoid or some such. I'm like paranoid...really? Who's sitting here in handcuffs?

So I've lived in this town for about two years. I spend every day all day at home studying math, programming, working on my business, keeping to myself, and not bothering anyone. I don't have any enemies here at all, in fact I hardly know anyone in town, and I'm on good terms with everyone I do know. The people I know best are the faces I see at the gas station, grocery store, etc. The Hancock police department did arrest me two years ago after an asshole ex-friend (who helped me move) snitched out my grow, but that's long in the past and neither the department nor anyone in it holds any ill will towards me. I am am Afghan war veteran, a "good ole boy" type, who minds his business and doesn't cause problems. The only enemies I have anywhere are on the Internet...where I spend a lot of time reading news articles, keeping up with what's happening in the world, and yes, sending fiery emails to fucktards who betray our Constitution, and no I don't give a fuck who it is, Joe Blow or the FBI, in fact the higher up it is the more likely I will make my opinion known.

About two months before the warrant above was served, back when Ron Paul was big in the news, (and right about the time that Marine--Brandon Raub?--was forcibly committed for some Facebook post he made about the Illuminati), I got a knock on the door from the FBI. This short fat bitch from an office two hours away came here flashing her badge around claiming that I had sent some threatening email to some asshole GOP bigwig. Bullshit; I've sent lots of emails, angry and hateful ones too, but I am NOT stupid enough to threaten somebody. I politely told the lady I had nothing to say to her and closed the door.

So then about six weeks later I read about that 16 year kid who was visited by the FBI over a Ron Paul video he made. I don't have the link to it but I'm sure you can pull it up on Youtube and it's really benign and not suspicious at all, and just has video clips from various questionable police state actions in the U.S. with background music and pictures of Ron Paul. The fucking FBI visit this kid just like they did me and of course he doesn't know not to let them in, so they ask him all these stupid questions trying to be intimidating and even try to (LOL) pressure him into becoming an "informant" against Anonymous. You know, "infiltrate" the "group" and report back info etc. ... Are you fucking kidding me?

So I shot off the email and told them they are cowards and assholes for picking on the 16 year old kid. I told them they are shitheads who need to be ripped off the public teat and thrown out on their asses to starve in the streets. I said send another group of thugs to harass me....I dare you.

Less than two weeks later...guess what? Out of the blue the cops show up claiming they have a warrant because an iPhone was stolen, and it "pinged back" to my house. WTF??? Impossible.

At first I thought it was the local police fucking with me, not making the connection with the FBI email at first, so I didn't let them in and told them I was calling a lawyer. The next day they came back and caught me outside this time and it turned out they actually did have a warrant, so I let them in to search. Nothing found. iPhone? I don't even own a fucking TV. I sleep on a mattress on the floor. I type on a model M keyboard with a $600 AMD system I installed in a free case I rescued from the dump. I have a whiteboard on the wall where I work on my math equations. I have an electronics workstation with scope, solder/desolder station, I have two pairs of jeans (one with a hole in em), two pairs of shoes, and a bag full of old Air Force uniforms. Yeah I totally fit t

First read it twenty years ago, liked it so much I put it on my car where it remains to this day.

I'll be the first to admit it's not for everyone, much like Pynchon in general I suppose, or even the supposed "best" of his catalog, but it certainly was for the book for me. There is also a sequel of sorts called Inherent Vice, not bad.

Which is how we well get new sushi: http://s417.photobucket.com/albums/pp254/fastdriver2469/?action=view&current=Turd.jpg&newest=1
may be NSFW

After speculating that the person responsible must be a real badass, police have released this composite sketch of what they think the culprit looks like...

A Real Badass

Hey, that's Jay Wilson!!

It was a conspiracy after all...

After speculating that the person responsible must be a real badass, police have released this composite sketch of what they think the culprit looks like...

A Real Badass

You mean this Statue of Limitations?

The algorithm looks for a specific pattern of 5 points. For example, Photoshop catches it; screenshotting a photocopier that doesn't work at the moment is harder to do.

'There's as much porn there as anyone would need, I'd imagine.'

This man needs a bigger imagination!

Agreed. I like Jet-Porn. That's right: Personified Military Aircraft Porn. No .xxx domains have it...

We prefer you direct your noise hole elsewhere.

Oh dear. Just relax and let the butthurt flow through you.

Thanks for a better response, though I don't agree completely with you. Apple painted itself into the DTP corner neither by design and nor by choice. They just couldn't deal with the tsunami of IBM-PC clones from Compaq, Dell, HP etc. that MS very cunningly licensed DOS/Windows to. Apple's computers were general purpose computers able to run any applications, but they failed to attract developers like MS was able to and the prices kept it within the reach of only graphic designers and not the general public. In that sense, they were and are competing with Microsoft. A college kid goes to Best Buy and looks around for a laptop, and might just pick the Macbook Air instead of an Asus Ultrabook. Not only DTP users use Macs, and that's especially true nowadays.

How many of these kids are DTP users? http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/Voodoogoon/big-mac-class.jpg

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/70-of-college-freshman-use-macs/

They also make an OS which is a miserable failure. The only reason Microsoft is still in existence is due to anti-competitive behavior and vendor lock-in.
Microsoft is currently trying to recast itself as a company capable of being in competition with Apple once again. They have failed miserably for the simple reason that they cannot possibly do it. They are incompetent morons

While MS did have luck like IBM picking DOS for the OS, they did make software in those times which was simply better than the competition. Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. lagged behind their competitors like WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, etc. but by the typical 4th version or so, they were just better in objective ways and thus won the market. Did you ever try using Lotus Notes? Try it, you'd pay a million to run screaming to Outlook or Pine within a day. IE 4 and 5 were similarly better than Netscape 4 while Netscape didn't have a major version for 3 years smack in the middle of the dot com boom while implementing a new version.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Windows 95 was similarly better than any competition out there, and still OpenOffice or whatever Exchange/AD clone don't have the features and polish of MS Office/Exchange/AD.

The LAMP stack had success on the server side, but OpenOffice, Zimbra, OpenLDAP etc. have nothing on the competition. While I do agree that lock-in etc. played a role, you're underestimating the mis-steps made by competitors and that MS' software was actually better at the time it beat the rivals.

Before I can answer I have to ask what you're trying to do. Are we running the whole gnome-session (or KDE or w/e), or just individual apps? And do we want it in a Window,.full screen, or managed by Windows? Because all are possible with X11 (either XDMCP or X over SSH) and some with NX (which runs much nicer then VNC or X over network). (See this pic for an individual app having been called over SSH to run on Win32 X).

First it was Afghanistan. You thought that everyone fighting against authoritarian Soviets was automatically pro-democracy and pro-human rights; and what's wrong if they speak of Islam and jihad occasionally? Clearly it's only against the bad guys. And so you gave them money and guns and trained them, and the end result was a country where most schools (build by those very Soviets) were demolished and replaced by madrassas, and secular if authoritarian government replaced by fanatics who were stoning women on football stadiums for adultery after they were raped.

(Oh, and don't say that you didn't support Taliban. This guy was no better, and most of his troops ended up in Taliban anyway.)

And what do you get for it in the end? A whole country turned into a giant terrorist training camp that's now working against you, and using those very weapons that you've supplied them to kill your soldiers, and workers that you send to try to rebuild the country. The training camp that produced those people who committed the biggest terrorist act ever in the history of this planet, against the USA.

Then there was Kosovo. Again, "freedom fighters" against a totalitarian regime and all that. Again, a decade afterwards it's slowly growing to be another place where Wahhabism spreads, only this time in the middle of Europe (and also a major drug transit center to boot, to finance the operation). And, again, the chickens are coming home to roost.

Now there's Libya. It's only been a year since the downfall of the regime - thanks largely to heavy NATO military backing of the rebel "freedom fighters" - and we've already seen genocide of the black population, widespread persecuting of Christians, and now this act of outright hostility towards USA and the murder of its citizens and representatives. You can go on at length about how the real, democratically elected government of Libya is liberal and all about human rights and such, but what this incident clearly shows is that they're not a government. They're simply not in control of the country. And people that are in control, because they have guns (that you gave them) and troops and determination - people like this - hate democracy and human rights with a passion, and hate you because you are representative of that. And you can't even say that they haven't warned you if you were only willing to see and listen...

But, hey, that's still not quite enough jihadis, right? Let's create another breeding ground for them in Syria as well?