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this is front page for any paper or any TV (except Foxnews I guess)

I was curious, so I popped over to FoxNews.com and guess what was the largest story on the front page? Japan Nuclear Crisis. I really love when people are so politically biased that they can help but inject politics into everything, regardless of it's truth or merit.

Hi, welcome to my research facility.

You are seriously out of your league.

Just give up now, it's much better for you, son.

Don’t get me wrong. My arguments do not contain attacks of any person or group. I also don’t care at all about how I or others feel about things. I’m simply looking at the things I observed and the logical conclusions I have to make from that.
I may be missing information. I may have made an error in my logic. And I’m grateful for any corrections. But until I get them, this is what I conclude:

• They say "no original research". So correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that that means you can not use logical reasoning to come up with new knowledge. Instead it has to come from somewhere else. Logically:
• They also say "citation needed". Otherwise there would be no source of knowledge left. Again, correct me if I’m wrong, but from my experience, this seems to mean, that you are forced to do a appeal to authority. Meaning survival of content is required to rely on a fallacy of defective induction. Making it inherently unacceptable for scientists relying on the scientific principle.
• And finally, the last word on what is defined as a trustworthy authority, is controlled by the people who control the server. And since those people have their own views (as we all do), and some of those people and views will oppose what we deem as neutral and correct, based on our observations and logic, we will have situations of disagreement. Which will be "resolved" by the ones who have the last word.

Ouch.

Now I don't feel so bad about my ISP. I've been running it for a while now too. http://tinypic.com/r/2j5z120/7

Old news, and it was even posted on Slashdot when the program started last summer. I've been running an FCC White Box for several months now and love it. The router is a high quality Netgear with QoS filtering and all the bells and whistles you expect out of a $100+ router. It beats the ever living crap out of my old Belkin Wireless N. The tracking software doesn't monitor actual sites or any actual private information. Just packet loss, ping times, download and upload speeds, streaming stability, voip stability, etc. The graphs and charts it spits out are extremely useful and I've been using them for the past 2 months when complaining to Mediacom about my slow speeds, packet loss, and horrible ping times. It keeps 2 weeks of hourly data, and after that just tracks it as an average/min/max for the day. http://i53.tinypic.com/35bt5ro.jpg

"there are many mailing lists like mine that mail out new proxy sites every week"

Websense Category is Filtered

http://tinypic.com/r/2r5gleg/7 - does that look like marijuana to you?

LED wins hands down. The tech has matured enough. Watt for watt LED destroys all HID.

It's true! Wedding photo attached. :-)

http://tinypic.com/r/2r5gleg/7

Welcome to my research facility.

What were you saying?

BTW They changed taxonomical classification AGAIN - have you paid attention to the scientific world or do you continue to rely upon Wikipedia for your outdated and sorely incorrect information?

We just added 'Tribe' to the scientific taxonomical classification. That change once again drops the Fox firmly into the mix with other canines until we re-sort the rest of the more specific rungs below 'Tribe.'

So sad you don't bother to actually read up on this.

Maybe I should roll back to /furi/ to mock all you ignorant fools again, like I trolled Billy Rex with such an easy /g/tard argument (SOI vs stressed silicon) in the tinychat that night before I flew out to the UK.

My comment is mostly in pictorial format: http://i51.tinypic.com/qyesld.png

Free Speech Flag-style

4chan already has an official keyboard

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Bad HTML design, K-Meleon and older Opera render the site completely unreadable (total mess) can't even line buttons well or see the text... have to launch Safari to reveal the page.

What the hell is K-Meleon!

Actually, I googled it. And installed it. And it failed the Acid2 test miserably, which even IE has been able to pass since version 8. 8! And what is "older Opera?" They're on, like, version 11 now!

Come on, man, you can't expect them to support every legacy browser. If everyone did that we'd still be stuck using tables for layout. They have to draw the line somewhere.

This is how the new Slashdot looks in my browser. Bye bye.

No, with gmail, you get no spam at all. The inbox is clean save for an unnoticeable tiny bar, and messages use unobtrusive right-aligned ads that I can't even notice on my widescreen monitor (obviously not the one in the screenshot, although these are not really bothersome either).

And if, for some weird reason, you still care about those hard to notice ads, you can get adblock and completely remove them.

But anyway, the important part is that you get nothing bad in your inbox, and you don't have to manage *anything*.

No, with gmail, you get no spam at all. The inbox is clean save for an unnoticeable tiny bar, and messages use unobtrusive right-aligned ads that I can't even notice on my widescreen monitor (obviously not the one in the screenshot, although these are not really bothersome either).

And if, for some weird reason, you still care about those hard to notice ads, you can get adblock and completely remove them.

But anyway, the important part is that you get nothing bad in your inbox, and you don't have to manage *anything*.

Are we really so weak that we absolutely cannot do without a smart phone until manufacturers actually start giving us what we want? I mean, we're the goddamn customers. Vote with your feet.

Already done.

My phones:
* Ericsson GH688, 500-800 sek used, back when Ericsson was king.
* Ericsson T28s, 1 sek + 24 month @ 149 sek subscription. Most beautiful phone I've ever had. Quality was shitty though.
* Siemens C55, bought with one year subscription. Don't know if the phone was for free, probably was. Can't say it was much better. Had JAVA but I didn't used it. Much longer battery life, killed by water from food in a plastic container.
* Sony-Ericsson z300i, 250 sek used. Best phone I have. Reliable and would probably take a three story fall right into stone and survive with no issues whatsoever. Replaceable shell which would take the impact. (The T28s is aluminum frame/backplate so pretty solid to .. GH688 got metal frame as well.) I've thrown it with full force over three rooms into my bed back plate, made a dent in the wood but nothing happened with the phone.
* Motorola w220, 350 sek with pre-paid card. Don't ask me why. Because I could get a phone for cheap? Similar battery life to the z300i but it's hard to say it's better. Worse battery life, probably worse sound quality, shitty tones. Got FM-radio but requires hands-free.

So there you go =P

After the T28s with two years subscription I was waiting for something cool to come up, nothing did. Or well, there was the Ericsson T66i which was amazing but I didn't got it back then. Small buttons and not much of an improvement over my T28s. Better than the three phones following it though ;D

Was waiting for an Android phone which was actually open and with all future upgrades because I don't see the need to replace the hardware all the freaking time. But Google didn't sold the Nexus one here so. The Nexus S would solve that but whatever. Would get an HTC phone for Android I guess because their track record is the best.

Currently own Nokia stock though for some stupid reason so ATM I would obviously want to help them out ;D. The N900 is a little too old even though the screen and such still make it top among the crop. It can also run the early versions of MeeGo (plus someone ported Android to it, don't know if everything work?) The N8 obviously comes with Symbian^3, I would had preferred if they had given an offer to upgrade it to MeeGo once released. Worse resolution than the N900 and cost more but it got HDMI output, supports UMS for harddrives, USB memory sticks and what not, can play HD video for 6 hours and got "Big screen" software where you use the phone as a remote for the video/music content on screen. It also supports USB OGT so you can hook up an USB HUB with USB keyboard and mouse and then the HDMI to a screen and you get your own very portable desktop computer. Probably quite cool and convenient for say GPG keys with e-mail, Irssi if someone ported it and what not =P

But use QT.

Preferably I would get something like "N9" with N900 resolution or better, E7 keyboard and which ran MeeGo with complete openness and user replaceable firmware.

Pretty please? =P

N900 - http://smartmobile.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nokia-n900.jpg
N8 - http://blog.phoneslimited.co.uk/files/2010/05/n8-colours-pl1.jpg
E7 -

Some astrologers are wont to divide the astrological ages into equal 2150-year portions, despite the fact that some constellations are bigger and some are smaller. Pisces is a big one, so some astrologers have the Age of Aquarius actually coming before the sun is actually in the constellation Aquarius. Astrologers will come up with various theories for when it should start, and a bunch of them said the 20th century.

There's also the question of where to draw the boundary lines between constellations. I don't know where the gods draw them, but astronomers draw them based on a 1930 international agreement. But based on where astronomers draw them, the equinox sun won't be crossing the boundary for another 500+ years. But don't take my word for it. Here's a picture of where the sun will be for the 2011 spring equinox. Decide for yourself whether it's in Aquarius yet. The pic doesn't show the official boundaries, just the constellations themselves. http://i54.tinypic.com/zwhec.jpg

Politics will not change the outcome. The idea that the housing market collapse, or bank collapse, or a freakin tunsian protest, is going to change the climate is absurd. Here's the last 50 years of CO2 levels. http://i37.tinypic.com/al6ips.jpg It's practically linear. The average CO2 concentration change is far more significant to any variation that would come from economic disturbances or any laws taxing CO2. So enough with the hedging. Place your bets.

The actual climate can be erratic, but the CO2 concentrations are as regular as clockwork and will continue to be.

ASCII version.

You haven't been following this thread at all, have you?

As I stated, she was in labour for 15 hours. Furthermore, she only went into labour at 1am. You realise that any "normal" person would be quite tired by 1am as it is, right? Let alone someone that's giving birth. By about 4am, she was completely exhausted and the pain was too much, so they started giving her drugs. Gas and Air (50/50 Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen mix) came first and was quickly followed by diamorphine, which make you drowsy to say the least. I was there the whole time she would scream in agony, then almost immediately fall asleep before her head hit the pillow.

Not to mention that at any point, nobody has asked how my wife actually felt about this. Here, this is one of the first things that was tweeted:

http://i55.tinypic.com/sqjwwi.jpg

As you can see, she quite liked the idea.

gamma natssi

(Artistic Rendition)

There's more to a browser than rendering and Javascript performance. Firefox has become a hard disk hog. It almost continually writes to disk, which can be very slow, for example on netbooks with first generation SSDs or when you keep your profile on a USB stick (portable Firefox). Worst of all, when it does write to disk, the whole browser locks up. It's barely usable on netbooks for that single reason. You'd think that nothing a browser does could justify writing or reading megabytes of data almost every minute. That's still what happens. (No, extensions or plugins are not involved.)

I'm running the latest update from the firefox 4 daily build ppa on my netbook and it runs nicely. Here is a screenshot of my current workspace: http://i55.tinypic.com/2qa5tn6.png. The only lag that I suffer is when a slashdot page initially loads. Scrolling becomes impossible during that time but once the page is loaded there are no more problems.

I will note that Firefox 4 still uses a lot of memory at times. Right now, I have 13 tabs open, firefox has been running for 44:58 and is using up 16% of my 2 GB of memory.

Also, my netbook does not have a ssd but a slow hard drive.

http://i51.tinypic.com/jkhkl0.png

A complete installation of Office 97 (yes, I just dusted off my copy of Office 97 Professional and took that screengrab) is a shade over 193MBytes, the Clipart collections appear to take up around 4MBytes, and this flavor doesn't include Frontpage. Office 2010 installs a trivial amount of Clipart itself; while Office '97 included the vector art packages on the disc, Office 2010 does it online - neither of which make a pit stop at the hard disk.

Honestly, with the exception of Outlook, I could probably do my day to day activities with the '97 versions of the rest of Office. Like you said yourself, OpenOffice is larger than Office 97 (and takes up plenty more RAM). People who have Office 97 still in use are probably in circumstances where they have either paid for (or not paid for) that version of Office, and on top of it, likely have hardware of a vintage that can't handle more recent office suites as gracefully.

(una****) just to confirm: spamhaus wasn't anonops?
(ano****) no
(sti****) nope
(Sky****) no
(una****) okay thanks

Names partially withheld to protect the innocent

reversed words demo:
http://tinypic.com/r/1z1fuwo/7

NT supports that and more. It's just that when you stray from the realm of filesystem and registry object ACLs, it becomes horribly nonintuitive, and things like process-based IPC security are up to the application to enforce (which, except for the 0.01% of programs such as Chrome, they never do enforce).

Though I vastly prefer the SELinux/AppArmor approach of using agglomerate text files for defining rules... but that might be because I'm a part-time programmer.

On a related note it seems the creators of the God Of War franchise are infringing on Omega's copyright.

On a related note it seems the creators of the God Of War franchise are infringing on Omega's copyright.

Not so anonymous, though: http://i53.tinypic.com/faa61k.png

Yeah right, funny how you don't even mention where it's from... Just for you

"Wait a sec.....wrong administration......."

I'll just leave this here:

http://i40.tinypic.com/11tqy52.jpg

You're confusing external plugin DLLs (Flash, ...) with internal DLLs (FFmpeg, ...).

Chrome copied IE8's "protected mode" feature something like a full year ago, as well as its tab-per-process model. See the Sandbox FAQ.

Process Explorer showing ASLR enabled on Chrome's loaded DLLs:
http://i51.tinypic.com/20qgbr9.png.

Process Explorer showing IPC in Chrome (named pipe for low->medium IL communication):
http://i56.tinypic.com/mwfgck.png

You're confusing external plugin DLLs (Flash, ...) with internal DLLs (FFmpeg, ...).

Chrome copied IE8's "protected mode" feature something like a full year ago, as well as its tab-per-process model. See the Sandbox FAQ.

Process Explorer showing ASLR enabled on Chrome's loaded DLLs:
http://i51.tinypic.com/20qgbr9.png.

Process Explorer showing IPC in Chrome (named pipe for low->medium IL communication):
http://i56.tinypic.com/mwfgck.png

Another sign of how times change eh?

Fans like this were in common use in the earlier part of the past century... I think they called them finger choppers for a reason!

Somehow I have the sneaking suspicion they wouldn't make it past safety regulations today...

Oops...

I accidentally your post: http://i56.tinypic.com/68zwn9.png

Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Takes God to the U.S. Supreme Court Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to sue God for His utter negligence on earthly affairs. How can I file a lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court, the European Court of Justice, and the International Court of Justice? Like Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers, I want to seek a permanent injunction against God. Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Singapore Identity Card Number: S78*6*2*H Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore 470103 Mobile Phone Number (Starhub Pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Photo of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) #1: http://i53.tinypic.com/207tamp.jpg Photo of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) #2: http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg

apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

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apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

#31581460 #31582722 #31582896 #31583030 #31583334 #31584042 #31584232 #31584570 #31585028 #31585182 #31599452 #31602524 #31603116 #31603522 #31609050 #31612540 #31612814 #31613160 #31618278 #31627354 #31703250 #31740066 #31740432 #31740880 #31743526 #31766346 #31766428 #31766442 #31766482 #31766528 #31766550 #31766590 #31766616 #31766658 #31766714 #31880668 #31880840 #31880878 #31880900 #31880932 #31880952 #31880980 #31880992 #31881052 #31881072 #31881086

apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

#31581460 #31582722 #31582896 #31583030 #31583334 #31584042 #31584232 #31584570 #31585028 #31585182 #31599452 #31602524 #31603116 #31603522 #31609050 #31612540 #31612814 #31613160 #31618278 #31627354 #31703250 #31740066 #31740432 #31740880 #31743526 #31766346 #31766428 #31766442 #31766482 #31766528 #31766550 #31766590 #31766616 #31766658 #31766714 #31880668 #31880840 #31880878 #31880900 #31880932 #31880952 #31880980 #31880992 #31881052 #31881072 #31881086

apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

#31581460 #31582722 #31582896 #31583030 #31583334 #31584042 #31584232 #31584570 #31585028 #31585182 #31599452 #31602524 #31603116 #31603522 #31609050 #31612540 #31612814 #31613160 #31618278 #31627354 #31703250 #31740066 #31740432 #31740880 #31743526 #31766346 #31766428 #31766442 #31766482 #31766528 #31766550 #31766590 #31766616 #31766658 #31766714 #31880668 #31880840 #31880878 #31880900 #31880932 #31880952 #31880980 #31880992 #31881052 #31881072 #31881086

apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

#31581460 #31582722 #31582896 #31583030 #31583334 #31584042 #31584232 #31584570 #31585028 #31585182 #31599452 #31602524 #31603116 #31603522 #31609050 #31612540 #31612814 #31613160 #31618278 #31627354 #31703250 #31740066 #31740432 #31740880 #31743526 #31766346 #31766428 #31766442 #31766482 #31766528 #31766550 #31766590 #31766616 #31766658 #31766714 #31880668 #31880840 #31880878 #31880900 #31880932 #31880952 #31880980 #31880992 #31881052 #31881072 #31881086

apk says here he’s ‘BUSY AS HELL’:

FIRST: What gives you the idea I was stalking you? Buddy - I work, and am finishing off another degree: My days? Are actually BUSY AS HELL - I have things to do (make ca$h, AND, getting another bachelor's degree in CSC (A.A.S. part's done, 92 credits into the 120 towards the bachelors after this semester's done in fact, in CSC to go along with my MIS/B.S. Business too, both related & perfectly along what I do for a living for 16++ yrs. now professionally - Information Systems work (Databasing really)).

boy is that ever an understatement...

yes, apk is definitely BUSY AS HELL~:

#31581460 #31582722 #31582896 #31583030 #31583334 #31584042 #31584232 #31584570 #31585028 #31585182 #31599452 #31602524 #31603116 #31603522 #31609050 #31612540 #31612814 #31613160 #31618278 #31627354 #31703250 #31740066 #31740432 #31740880 #31743526 #31766346 #31766428 #31766442 #31766482 #31766528 #31766550 #31766590 #31766616 #31766658 #31766714 #31880668 #31880840 #31880878 #31880900 #31880932 #31880952 #31880980 #31880992 #31881052 #31881072 #31881086

Are you joking? Just look at this abomination, IE8: http://i55.tinypic.com/313lhms.png.

That doesn't even show the horror of its three command-bar menus, or right-click menu.

I visibly cringe every time I have to open IE8/below.

Windows does do this. An executable (.exe or .scr) that was downloaded using a supported browser (IE, Firefox?, Chrome) or an e-mail client (Outlook) must be permitted by the user to run. It gets permanently flagged as unsafe. To de-flag the file, you have to edit its properties or check an extra tickbox in the warning dialog. Here is what it looks like.

It gets even more special. Look here

All part of teh lulz. INTERNET LOVE MACHINE is just another meme, messing with people by subverting their expectations of your behavior.

100% agreed.

Sidebars are especially more useful for those who work with a lot of webpages at once.

Better yet is if you could get rid of the top toolbar entirely and just have everything on the sidebar.
Location buttons and extension buttons go at the top of the sidebar. Omni-bar and bookmarks bar (and only that) get popped out by a button next to [+new tab] button.
Made a quick and rough sketch in Paint there for those with lax imagination.
Chrome mockup (realized i forgot the toolbar button. woops)
If i could do this at some point in Chrome, i'd be so happy. (and quite a few others as well probably)

He's referring to low integrity processes. It's only really exposed in the Windows API. But you can start a low-integrity process two ways AFAIK:

1. Modify the image header. icacls notepad.exe /setintegritylevel low It will always start with the new privileges set from now on.

2. Do runas /trustlevel:0x10000 notepad.exe to start it at whim with low privileges.

Here's a screen capture of what happens to the latter when you try to access the user's desktop: http://i38.tinypic.com/wbs1vo.png.

Opera is cluttered? Any extra features you don't use are disabled (ie, if you don't use the built-in mail client, it's not running).