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Lagrange points http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lag range.html
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First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out--because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out--because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out--because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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1. Killing Spree - 5
2. Rampage - 10
3. Dominating - 15
4. Unstoppable - 20
5. Godlike - 25
6. Wicked Sick - 30
7. Motherfucker - 35?

1. Double - 2
2. Multi - 3
3. Mega - 4
4. Ultra - 5
5. Monster - 6
6. Ludicrous - 7
7. Holy Shit - 8

Resident Evil: How to beat a dead horse

Resident Evil: Hot having to stand while you shoot action

Resident Evil: I get it they are fucking zombies

Geist - 8/15/2005

Running in with guns blazing like the movies doesn't work. If you have played Call of Duty or Counterstrike this should be second nature to you.

RIIIIDE INTOOOO THE DAAAAANGER ZOOOOONE!!!!
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I use ESDF. It's much better than WASD in my opinon, because you have quicker access to more buttons, and keeps your fingers on the home keys. It was also the default config for Tribes 2, which was the first FPS I played for any length of time.

My usual setup:
ESDF for movement
G for grenade or throw gun (whichever applicable)
B for mines
H for beacons
A for zoom
T for zoom level or spray (w/a)
V for voice menu
Q for healthkit or use (w/a)
W for switch weapon
R for reload or pack (w/a)
X and C for anything
U for global chat and Y for team which is nice, because once you press it your right hand is on the home keys.

Depending on what the stances are (sprint, crouch, prone, etc) I'll use Z, Ctrl, Shift, and Alt. I also use shift and control as modifiers if the game supports it (shift-g for max grenade throw, ctrl-g for drop grenade ammo, etc)
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You'll get new operating systems when the underlying hardware changes OR when the "old" hardware becomes powerful enough to emulate "something else"

The automobile metaphore was insightful. The basic auto design has not changed since the 40's (back any further and you throw out your electric starter). What came next? The airplane.

The computer's basic purpose is to keep track of "stuff", a checkbook, a payroll, TCP/IP protocal session. The next "os" will not be recognizable as an "os" at all. It will feel more like the Arabian Nights Djinn (or Genie with the Light Brown Hair, if you will) than Windows XP, OSX, or GNOME/KDE.

It's not "where do you want to go today". It's "What is thy bidding, my Master?" Strap yourselves in, it's gonna be a bumpy flight.

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My mom's over 40, drives a minivan, works as a teacher's aide for the school district, and listens to punk rock and metal. The other day I tried to turn down the radio in the van, and she said "No, I like this song". (Slipknot - Duality)
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I hate it when things like this get modded "Insightful" (I was trying to be funny) and things like this get modded "Troll", when it should have at least been "Informative".
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By the way, I'm stealing your sig.
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See? It's all in how you look at it.

People who don't understand this security flaw need to SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Greasemonkey 'adds' stuff to Javascript. Any page on the internet can use these additions.

If you have Greasemonkey installed, and Javascript enabled (Greasemonkey is rather pointless without Javascript anyway.), you are at risk.

You can't 'be safe' by only doing certain things, because the flaw is that any page on the internet can call Greasemonkey functions.

no one uses Greasemonkey on 'trusted' sites, we use(d) it to hack up stupid-ass pages that had eight square inch of content per page with the rest ads and fancy graphics.

It has nothing to do with you.

They assumed you would know to use super soaker outside, and they were just pointing out that with indoor lazer tag, you can pretty much just shoot into a doorway and hit everyone in the room.
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Computers connected to the internet are "protected computers" under the statute. Crippling the software under the guise of an "update" is illegal.

Guess it can't access "all" the files on my system then, can it?

And then they'll get hold of the contents of your home directory!
blah markov_chain other users spiff
And then your directory!
.bash_login .bash_logout .gaim .gnucash .kde .kde2 .mozilla bin doc
What next? Your buddy list from Gaim? Your bank account from GnuCash? Your address book from Thunderbird? What other security holes you have in Firefox, from extensions? Something you wanted to keep secret in your documents?

Linux is not always safe.
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The point of my instructions were so that right after you allow that site (I assumed you did it by clicking the button on the little bar that pops up) you could go and disable it.

You're right, it would be infinitely better if we could do a one-time allow, but that functionality isn't currently there. There might be an extension, though :)
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Running a Greasemonkey script with "@include *" (which, BTW, is the default if no parameter is specified) can expose the contents of every file on your local hard drive to every site you visit.

Open up the options/preferences menu. Windows, I think it's Tools - Options, for Linux, I think it's Edit - Preferences. Click on the "Web Features" icon on the left. There'll be a line that says "Allow sites to install software" or something similar. Click the "Allowed Sites" button on the right to access the whitelist. You can add/remove sites from there.
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It's annoying to have to move both hands to the keys just to fill in a form or something.

Well, they're halfway there.
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you must be new around here

...said the person with the higher UID.

Yes, I know. ;)
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This is definitely a bad idea, for a whole lot of reasons.

Firstly, as other posters have mentioned, this is illegal in most nations. Let's not stoop down to the criminal level.

Secondly, in conjunction with the first point, why should we all collectively bend down to play dirty to beat the spammers? Shouldn't we spend our energy and effort on something less destructive and low-brow? I honestly believe that someone (or someones) will eventually come up with a system to more or less replace the current email standard with equal user-friendliness (at least to the end-user, which ends up being the driving force, but user-friendly at the admin level would be great too) but also with built-in security mechanisms that make spamming unprofitable while keeping regular usage cheap.

Whether this system emerges from the current examples of hash-cash or somewhere else, I would say it is our best chance to stop the problem without stooping to criminality with what is basically a path-work solution.

And yes, I am aware that all systems have vulnerabilities, but to just throw up our hands in despair and say, "But the spammers will get into the new system eventually!" is to give up. We shouldn't just sit idly by and collectively play poor-me; we should be thinking of some new system and how to seamlessly get it into place (yes, Virginia, there'll be a time lag, it took about 25 years for email to become mainstream). Then, whenever the spammers figure out a way in (I'm hoping for never), we'll already have had time to think about, research, and develop a further system.

Let's apply a little brain-power to the problem instead of using what is essentially crude and criminalistic tactics. I, for one, am fully willing to devote my time and knowledge to solving the problem.
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This sounds very very similiar to this. http://www.aeonflux.com/

Charlize Theron is the new Natalie Portman.
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pay a consultant for 3 moneys to improve the UI for their most visited page

If Slackware and Gentoo combined, I wouldn't feel guilty about wanting to move away from Slackware to Gentoo after using Slack since I was about three.
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...then YOUUUU might be a green-neck!
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Apparently, you miss all of the Firefox articles and don't look in the Linux section.
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As my sig (sometimes) says, "It's not illegal if nobody notices."
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how many people run computer kit from 1995 now?

No, man. You totally missed the reference. He was talking (singing?) about The Who, not Twisted Sister.
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The WHO!!! The WHO!!!
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I thought MD5 was irreversible?
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Actually, aalib is pretty good. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/ I remember seeing a demo video from them. And it was an actual video, their renderer displayed it in ASCII art. With sound.
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That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.

Considering that other great jokes that anybody could recognize get modded down, I'm surprised that this is already +5 Funny. Good job, mods!
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Nazis for teh boom.
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True, it sounds like I am saying that. But, what I am really saying is that there are millions of people in the United States that can't even afford the lousy $50 that it will take to purchase an analog-to-digital converter (remember, there are millions of people that can barely afford to make it to the next paycheck). And, there are tens of millions of TVs that will require that converter.

What I am really saying is that government is dictating the change to us. And, to "help out", they are giving additional tax breaks to help pay for the $50 converters. I don't think the taxpayer cost is worth the conversion effort. Maybe if the FCC simply forced Best Buy to stop selling Analog TV's, then, over the course of a decade or so, the switch would occur naturally. If the FCC had forced the Analog TV issue four years ago, then the 2009 conversion would be less costly today.

And what is that justification? To allow the FCC to open up the bidding for the spectrum? If some of that money went to pay for the $50 converter tax break I discussed above, it would make some sense. Otherwise, there is no point that I have heard that makes sense.

Yeah, that was a bit obtuse. I was wasting work time with my postings yesterday, and I was in a bit of a hurry. I should have waited until last night. The point of the Windows Analogy is that Microsoft is a private company. They own their software. They can force users to upgrade whenever they feel the need to increase profits. The FCC is NOT a private company. You and I "Own" the radio spectrum. But, in this case, the FCC is acting like a private company and forcing us to make a change.
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True, it sounds like I am saying that. But, what I am really saying is that there are millions of people in the United States that can't even afford the lousy $50 that it will take to purchase an analog-to-digital converter (remember, there are millions of people that can barely afford to make it to the next paycheck). And, there are tens of millions of TVs that will require that converter.

What I am really saying is that government is dictating the change to us. And, to "help out", they are giving additional tax breaks to help pay for the $50 converters. I don't think the taxpayer cost is worth the conversion effort. Maybe if the FCC simply forced Best Buy to stop selling Analog TV's, then, over the course of a decade or so, the switch would occur naturally. If the FCC had forced the Analog TV issue four years ago, then the 2009 conversion would be less costly today.

And what is that justification? To allow the FCC to open up the bidding for the spectrum? If some of that money went to pay for the $50 converter tax break I discussed above, it would make some sense. Otherwise, there is no point that I have heard that makes sense.

Yeah, that was a bit obtuse. I was wasting work time with my postings yesterday, and I was in a bit of a hurry. I should have waited until last night. The point of the Windows Analogy is that Microsoft is a private company. They own their software. They can force users to upgrade whenever they feel the need to increase profits. The FCC is NOT a private company. You and I "Own" the radio spectrum. But, in this case, the FCC is acting like a private company and forcing us to make a change.
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A bit of light comedy hurts the government how? Look at the dearth of critical news / documentaries. Hutton had the bonus of the public seeing "evidence" published online, as such we could see that the judgement made was dubious, given that although there might have been a few errors, general thrust of Gilligans accusation was correct. Total capitulation of BBC news afterwards, and subsequent steering away from contentious issues is striking. For recent evidence, compare minimal and biased G8 protest coverage with what actually happened (speak to someone who was there, or look at the likes of indymedia for reports from observers).
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Not all computers can to boot off CD, some only boot off the floppy. Like ones at my school.
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I've got an old laptop that doesn't have a USB port, and a few of my other computers don't have them either, some of the computers at my school either don't have ports or (for the newer ones) can't recognize USB drives correctly without a few reboots, and if there's no convenient USB port on the front you have to turn it around and look at the ports on the back to find it. Anyways, floppys are great for "rescue" disks if you can't get into the BIOS (passworded, can't flash it, whatever). I don't think you can boot off USB. There are so many things you can't do with USB, especially if you work with older computers or organizations that refuse to upgrade (It was good in 1995, it's good now!)
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You over rate the public... as long as theres a strong diet of soaps and similar dross lots of people are happy. Millions on the streets on stop the war protests a couple of years ago had zero effect on the govt stance on Iraq. As a UK citizen I can say that, in recent years, the influence of govt on the BBC appears to have increased. Effect does not have to be direct, quite easy to envisage a line of least resistance culture developing in the BBC where its easiest not to strongly push stuff that may get a frosty response from govt and effect future funding.
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Oooops?
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Wow. The only things not linked in that post are the hyphen and the period.
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How much does a good healthy meal with vegetables cost vs. McDonald's. You do the math.

It'd be like trying to sell a tamagotchi or some pogs.

Those were so fun. I wish I hadn't given mine away.
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I went to Philmont (a scout camp) a few years ago. By the way, it isn't one of those sissy scout camps, this is real hike-60-miles-with-nothing-but-what's-in-your-back pack camping. Anyways, at the top of this mountain (The bald one in the middle. At least I think it was that one.) you got awesome cellphone reception. If you scroll to the left you can kinda see the trails I walked through and the camp. (The trail down that other mountain was a bitch) and we could see Eagle Nest Lake to the south. I don't know what that town is.
Despite the reception, I would not have wanted to lug a portable hotspot and laptop all the way up that mountain, much less to the mountain. 60 miles is a long way.
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