My list as close to the order they are installed. I would indeed suffer without them
Power Pro - tell me you know what that is and you'll be the first, I've used it since Win95
HOSTS file I drag around is set in place, not a program but a requirement of mine
COMODO firewall version 5.3.1767, as the newer versions almost require you to call for support.
Opera 12. - Browser - for as long as I can
UltraEdit - text editor
ACDSee - Graphic viewer
Agent version 1.93 Emailer/Usenet
Stunnel to allow an older Agent 1.93 to connect to a secure SSL connection
WhereIsIt - CD/DVD/BlueRay Data base creator and file finder
TreeSize Pro - better than a guess how large a directory or disk is
Agent Ransack - search program.
Bulk Rename Utility - an amazingly full featured program to rename files, Located in the directory below. My Cameras have stopped storing the date on the picture itself, this program adds the date taken to the file name for me.
I have one directory D:\MISGPRGS that I store stand alone's, programs that don't need to be installed or once installed fine on their own, that are too many to mention I don't require a lot of them or have even forgotten some that still there (210 directories now) but it's available to drag shortcuts to the desktop of my newest OS, As well as a few directories within, that are added to my path, Irfanview is there, Process Explorer, as is my Debugger (windbg.exe) and it's requirements.
BTW PowerPro is a jack of all trades type program. A bar of 8 boxes (at the moment), that takes care of the repetitive actions of using Windows. The same as AutoHotKey, and AutoIt. I believe all share the same history in the beginning, one splitting from the other. PowerPro started as Stiletto; a three button mouse program.
As a side note: I sent $25 to the author of PowerPro just before he released it as freeware, that was the third and finial time; for me to send money for software, they quit (no Zmodem), or go freeware.
I'm all setup to lose a system and be up in a few hours, until Win7 always had 3 or more OS's to fall back on. But still good to be up and running in a short time. Linux Mint is installed now for a dual system but (ducks) not a requirement for me.
Do notice no malware prevention other than the HOSTS file, and firewall, no AVG, NOD32 - Just a bit of common sense has kept me as in control as is possible any more.
One thing I miss very much is a very small program who's name I've forgotten (XP broke it) but it grabbed the strings from any program - I know Linux has this. but Windows is lacking in this department, I use Ultra Edit but it's not as easy nor as informative - no String command comes close.
The Xbox is just the forerunner, next; the HDTV's
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And that's just too bad as I'd love to bash MS and their Xbox. -PS4 future owner.
I just purchased a SAMSUNG UN32F6300AFXZA is it 120Hz or not being a running question? I use it as a 32" monitor, and it has one hell of a display http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
This HDTV is decked out, WiFi and hardwired, lots of things to keep one occupied, even has it's own web browser, Voice commands, Turn on , Turn off (I guess), and, "Gestures" it reads your body language or maybe just your hand, and face recognition. What you might not see, is my reluctance to set it up to just a SamSung account.
As usual I read the ToS's and the privacy policy of the system when I set it up;( It's required reading or else you just click on ok and continue) It mentions the privacy policy in passing (a link) in the ToS's, When you enter the "Smart Hub" area your shown another privacy policy (previous link) that shows this HDTV is one hell of a data miner, what's collected is placed in a data base, kept and based as per South Korea laws (jurisdiction).
Why would it do this? It's for the "S Recommendation", "Find something good to watch. Simply click the recommend button on the remote to get instant recommended shows that are on now". (from link above)
Cause it should know who you are and what you like; if you've had this HDTV 6 months or more it should know you and your sister apart, or a request to "show me something dirty" could go horribly wrong.
A person with this set up in their place would most likely have it linked to the Lan, A Web cam setup to read gestures and face recognition, a microphone turned on for the voice commands. All the requirements of an Xbox plus more (the constant Internet connection) while not required to be connected all the time, most likely once it's set-up it will stay in that configuration.
I've looked and can't find a ToS or Privacy policy easily. I just know what I read and have sansung.com blocked at the router level for two reasons. I use it as a monitor and don't need it as an 240Hz LCD HDTV, my Panasonic 600Hz Plasma HDTV takes care of that feature poking fun at refresh rates and the big lie) - The second reason is Samsung tries to access and work with your FaceBook account and if you don't have one, highly suggest you get one. Facebook being a third party would have access to all of SamSung's data on you (no basis for that, would seem a given so to me).
I really would like to read the ToS again I positive it's against Samsung's ToS to watch pornography on this HDTV.:}
To opt out: opt-out-shine-the-light-law@sisa.samsung.com (Samsung may need to ask you to provide follow-up information in the order to duly process an E-mail request).
Because nobody can see you in traffic and you will be killed. The same reason people do not ride recumbent bikes on city streets.
That's just standard with a motorcycle, people just don't see you. A flashing light is almost a requirement. A home security system comes with such a light (12 volts DC), that I almost hooked up to mine.
I had a lady that had stopped and could tell she was confused, she turned in front of my motorcycle then pulled to the side of the road - thinking she had just noticed me and pulled to the side to let me pass; I gave it gas to pass her, when she flipped a U'ie on me - I hit her in the car door.
I opened her door and was really going to wail on her (she had just tried to kill me), but pulled back at the last second and the helmet just touched her. bit of trouble out of it, but I got a new bike out of the deal.
Her kid was standing up in the middle of the front seat, we both looked at each other while I was flying into the window. She said the kid was wearing a seat belt and I let it go; one of the most clueless people I had come across in sometime, I actually felt sorry for her (ignorance.)
I'm always weary of intersections or cars in general, but she baited me into a situation.
Bike are different they make no noise and seldom have lights. There's a short hill and a stop sign at a blind corner at the bottom. I had a biker all deck out saying I'm a pro - came flying around that corner and almost hit my car, passed right in front, so close I was hoping they were wearing a diaper as well.
Is it something like that WhatsUpDoc app that Google bought that nobody uses (except maybe outside the US)?
I thought that died when MySpace bought them out...
Starts out as a way for college students to keep in touch with each other, "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Mark Zuckerberg http://gawker.com/5636765/face... so opens up to other colleges, then to the outside (non-colleges) ticking everybody off. Something you want no part of.
women more aged than taught youngins also make bad babies. downs syndrome, etc. i recommend pumping out babies at 25 or 30. your life might not be on track yet but if you're planning on babies, sacrifice one of the parents career for a few years.
You got knocked down to zero yet you have a very valid point.
An older woman has a huge chance of giving birth to a baby with downs syndrome; I found out in an adult manner. Dated an older woman who became pregnant and from then on that was the concern. Amniotic fluid was drawn and tested every month, her being a pro lifer I still wonder if one of the test registered positive.
I was also in my 40's and of course didn't know of this "Older dads' mutant sperm".
I was also working in a field where I was receiving my maximum radiation dose each week when she conceived.
Use protection solves a lot of problems.
I should mention my son was very healthy when he as born and to this day, but the odds were against it; radiation did take it's toll, he was born with no hair or teeth.
Well, here's proof that a new generation of coders has arrived. It's +5, meaning at least 3 representative members found it worthy of mod points.
Monday morning, the boss will hear a recommendation to not hire anyone under 30 for safety reasons.
While I'll always speak fondly of the Amiga it stopped my programing cold, the basic was so dangerous to use, I had to quit; or toss the Amiga out a window.
Prior to the Amiga was the TRS-III (hint much...much older than 30) that I self taught myself Basic and assembly language, I can write great scripts, and crack some programs, but not so much on the coding (gasp).
A 5 does surprise me as well, I thought I was treading on thin ice:} but as informative to others as myself.
Panasonic with Viera, Samsung with Anynet+ (monitor) -HDTV's, Denon Home Theater, and a PS3 that I watch NetFlix on. Four controllers I use all the time, and none of them talk to each other; the monitor mentions it's going to power down if there's no controller activity in 15 seconds; I have find that one fast.
Colored duct tape is how I find them fast, well after I manage to get them all together and that can be a chore.
The special Sony controller is suppose to control the PS3, Home Theater, HDTV, but alas it's a Sony Home Theater you find out in the manual - it will control the Panasonic but only the channels and volume not enough to be that useful.
After installing a new OS, I'll pull a short-cut to the desktop. It's rather old I think it was XP that broke it (they claim Win7) - It used to call a site then automatically log-in, but I never used it when it worked, so no big deal.
That Pitbull Wallet looks nice but I don't use passwords over my cell phone or tablet, just my PC; exceptions being gmail (not my main account) and Netflix. I don't because I don't have to.
For anyone else that's curious; at first I thought it was double speak, so not to sound as bad.
Stack overflow refers specifically to the case when the execution stack grows beyond the memory that is reserved for it. For example, if you call a function which recursively calls itself without termination, you will cause a stack overflow as each function call creates a new stack frame and the stack will eventually consume more memory than is reserved for it.
Buffer overflow refers to any case in which a program writes beyond the end of the memory allocated for any buffer (including on the heap, not just on the stack). For example, if you write past the end of an array allocated from the heap, you've caused a buffer overflow.
That makes me wonder why I would ever want to visit the USA. I'm sure there are lots of beautiful places to go to and enjoy,
It's a nice place to visit or even live, an area of diverse peoples (the melting pot), and some very unique sites to gander at.
The sad fact is if your not European, you have to run the gauntlet making it here.
At the same time if Canada wasn't so cold I'd have a dual residence, spending most of my time in Canada. I live just a few hundred miles south of Canada as it is.
Haven't lost but were hurt, just didn't wish to acknowledge it
After the trade towers, you heard "it's not going to change us one bit", yet at the same time people started flying flags from their houses. Well it changed their routine.
Then there were the Freedom Fries, cause the French saw through the BS Bush was pushing. The U.S. people condemned them for knowing the truth.
Please no political response; what I posted is the truth, you can't ignore that.
If I may play Devil's advocate.. isn't aluminum foil one of two ingredients in a simple, household-items explosive? I'm not sure why you would need to carry it on a plane with you, either.
Flour is an explosive ingredient, (create a fine mist of flour then ignite it) while it's not going to take out the side of your ride, it would cause a very decent devision. It was a science project of mine in Junior High school, as I'm sure many have seen.
I could mention a very easy to transport, freely available and a very destructive combo as I'm sure many here can do the same, and you know were not the only ones who know.
Something else nobody hasn't brought up (all have been explosive potentials) are the toxic gases, that are so much easier to do.
One reason I like reading/. is when something questionable is posted everybody downloads it (call it safety in numbers) long ago there was a post to a file that's worth a read "Massive Chemistry and explosives book collection" https://www.google.com/#q=%22M... I can't find the org link on/. but I'm searching by the file name. I mention it as it's been out for many years (2008 at least), I can't imagine it being on a watch list.
I don't expect that $16.5B worth of facebook stock will be worth much in another couple years.
Quick glance I thing 3 Billion in stock, and if the merger fails 1 Billion in Facebook Class A common stock http://www.forbes.com/sites/br...
I hope Facebook fails as well, I don't wish to be forced into a facebook account to to complete another company's (Samsung) setup. SamSung says it's much easier to use a HDTV if you have a Facebook account - this is a HDTV that monitors your every move (channel wise), it also has the ability for a web cam for gestures, Their ToS and PrivacyPolicy reads like a Mark Zuckerberg wet dream. http://www.samsung.com/us/comm...
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia drove a few blocks from WhatsApp’s discreet headquarters in Mountain View to a disused white building across the railroad tracks, the former North County Social Services office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps.
but this guy can tell which scratch tickets will pay off by by reading their serial numbers, winning wasn't as improbable as one is led to believe
CSB:
Well, the winning and losing lots had been prepared separately and, not thinking about it and lacking the direct comparison, the teachers in charge of the two groups had been unaware that their staplers were loaded with silver- and copper-colored staples respectively.
So by looking at the color of the staples, you were able to pick only winners out of the open bowls.
That required one to look at the paper squares, I can go one better.
A new computer store had a drawing for an Osborn, I put in a slip in hopes of a win (duh).
I had high hopes so showed up for the drawing. A family was there just looking; they asked the teen daughter if she would pick out a slip. Surprised and fairly embarrassed she reached in and pulled out a wad of paper and the winner.
Since that day I've crumple up any drawing entry to make it larger and more accessible.
At a elementary school event they had a drawing for something, I filled out and crumpled a slip for my youngest son. He won a fairly expensive lego jet you constructed (Model), the top prize.
I told my other son this story long ago, a few years ago he won a new Dell laptop from a crumpled entry he filled out killing time in a line.
The link is old so I imagine the serial number gig has been fixed (yet I have no clue one way or the other), but supports the improbability disclaimer.
While this may be interesting to some, it has very little to do with TFA.
TFA is arguing that random events are often more probable than we might think, because we often fail to take the context of an event into account.
Most of the scenarios in TFA are variations on the "birthday paradox," which basically amounts to people looking at an event X with a very tiny probability P in a specific case, and assuming that P is the probability it would happen. But we often forget that there are Q number of combinations or situations that would all result in X being true... so P is a gross underesimate of the probability of X.
Your link deals with a poorly designed computer algorithm that actually isn't random which is spitting out lottery tickets. The scratch-ticket system has to make money, so the numbers can't be entirely random -- they must only payout so many tickets within a given batch. The guys who designed the computer system that chooses the numbers didn't take into account that there were statistical clues that could allow someone to "crack the code" to the fake randomness.
There are two completely different phenomena. Finding a flaw in pseudo-randomness is completely different from miscalculating odds of genuinely random events.
Growing up the computer chips were as well, We used to be told what they could do for us, Now they are a reality and it's what it can do against us that's become the concern.
You know the deal in Russia and other parts of the world one has to have papers to travel and show papers to cross boarders, living in America we're smug in the fact were free to travel where ever we want, whenever we want. Which many do in fact still believe . Any time, any where in the US anybody can be pulled over and required to produce their papers (being at the least a license or it's alternative. If your found without one can be jailed or less that X amount of monies (differs in each area) you can be jailed for vagrancy.
You don't even need to of done anything wrong, Any time, any where in the US anybody can be pulled over for a safety check.
I've heard of Avian bird flu, the Swine Pig Flu, the Hantavirus Mouse flu and now finally the Equus Bronco Bronchial Tube Flu.
While I see this study with some reservations FTA: According to Worobey, the newly generated evolutionary trees show a global replacement of the genes in the avian flu virus coinciding closely with the horse flu outbreak, which the analyses also reveal to be the closest relative to the avian virus.
So your call, is the relative a parent or child. The evolutionary trees mentioned show nothing that can be called useful.
Very interesting article on it http://www.lotterypost.com/new... been a long time since I've read it (bookmark), but this guy can tell which scratch tickets will pay off by by reading their serial numbers, winning wasn't as improbable as one is led to believe - and yes, of course he's a statistician.
I don't play the lottery, maybe a ticket twice a year, but my son likes the scratch tickets, I told him that they were predictable, he refused to listen; he wouldn't even pick up the link I printed out. He refused to imagine that it wasn't anything but random. It was just an odd reaction, I can't begin to explain the reasoning behind it.
The link is old so I imagine the serial number gig has been fixed (yet I have no clue one way or the other), but supports the improbability disclaimer.
I've never ever encountered a REAL knowledgeable hacker in the police force, not even in their cybercrime division. This is due to the fact that most of them, are schoolboys who have a degree in computer science & programming...unfortunately - the most difficult stuff, can't be taught in classes, this comes from YEARS of actual real-life practice and experience.
And there it is, and why the civilian force will always be ahead of the curve.
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My list as close to the order they are installed. I would indeed suffer without them
Power Pro - tell me you know what that is and you'll be the first, I've used it since Win95
HOSTS file I drag around is set in place, not a program but a requirement of mine
COMODO firewall version 5.3.1767, as the newer versions almost require you to call for support.
Opera 12. - Browser - for as long as I can
UltraEdit - text editor
ACDSee - Graphic viewer
Agent version 1.93 Emailer/Usenet
Stunnel to allow an older Agent 1.93 to connect to a secure SSL connection
WhereIsIt - CD/DVD/BlueRay Data base creator and file finder
TreeSize Pro - better than a guess how large a directory or disk is
Agent Ransack - search program.
Bulk Rename Utility - an amazingly full featured program to rename files, Located in the directory below. My Cameras have stopped storing the date on the picture itself, this program adds the date taken to the file name for me.
I have one directory D:\MISGPRGS that I store stand alone's, programs that don't need to be installed or once installed fine on their own, that are too many to mention I don't require a lot of them or have even forgotten some that still there (210 directories now) but it's available to drag shortcuts to the desktop of my newest OS, As well as a few directories within, that are added to my path, Irfanview is there, Process Explorer, as is my Debugger (windbg.exe) and it's requirements.
BTW PowerPro is a jack of all trades type program. A bar of 8 boxes (at the moment), that takes care of the repetitive actions of using Windows. The same as AutoHotKey, and AutoIt. I believe all share the same history in the beginning, one splitting from the other. PowerPro started as Stiletto; a three button mouse program.
As a side note: I sent $25 to the author of PowerPro just before he released it as freeware, that was the third and finial time; for me to send money for software, they quit (no Zmodem), or go freeware.
I'm all setup to lose a system and be up in a few hours, until Win7 always had 3 or more OS's to fall back on. But still good to be up and running in a short time. Linux Mint is installed now for a dual system but (ducks) not a requirement for me.
Do notice no malware prevention other than the HOSTS file, and firewall, no AVG, NOD32 - Just a bit of common sense has kept me as in control as is possible any more.
One thing I miss very much is a very small program who's name I've forgotten (XP broke it) but it grabbed the strings from any program - I know Linux has this. but Windows is lacking in this department, I use Ultra Edit but it's not as easy nor as informative - no String command comes close.
And that's just too bad as I'd love to bash MS and their Xbox. -PS4 future owner.
I just purchased a SAMSUNG UN32F6300AFXZA is it 120Hz or not being a running question? I use it as a 32" monitor, and it has one hell of a display http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
This HDTV is decked out, WiFi and hardwired, lots of things to keep one occupied, even has it's own web browser, Voice commands, Turn on , Turn off (I guess), and, "Gestures" it reads your body language or maybe just your hand, and face recognition. What you might not see, is my reluctance to set it up to just a SamSung account.
As usual I read the ToS's and the privacy policy of the system when I set it up;( It's required reading or else you just click on ok and continue) It mentions the privacy policy in passing (a link) in the ToS's, When you enter the "Smart Hub" area your shown another privacy policy (previous link) that shows this HDTV is one hell of a data miner, what's collected is placed in a data base, kept and based as per South Korea laws (jurisdiction).
Why would it do this? It's for the "S Recommendation", "Find something good to watch. Simply click the recommend button on the remote to get instant recommended shows that are on now". (from link above)
Cause it should know who you are and what you like; if you've had this HDTV 6 months or more it should know you and your sister apart, or a request to "show me something dirty" could go horribly wrong.
A person with this set up in their place would most likely have it linked to the Lan, A Web cam setup to read gestures and face recognition, a microphone turned on for the voice commands. All the requirements of an Xbox plus more (the constant Internet connection) while not required to be connected all the time, most likely once it's set-up it will stay in that configuration.
I've looked and can't find a ToS or Privacy policy easily. I just know what I read and have sansung.com blocked at the router level for two reasons. I use it as a monitor and don't need it as an 240Hz LCD HDTV, my Panasonic 600Hz Plasma HDTV takes care of that feature poking fun at refresh rates and the big lie) - The second reason is Samsung tries to access and work with your FaceBook account and if you don't have one, highly suggest you get one. Facebook being a third party would have access to all of SamSung's data on you (no basis for that, would seem a given so to me).
I really would like to read the ToS again I positive it's against Samsung's ToS to watch pornography on this HDTV. :}
To opt out:
opt-out-shine-the-light-law@sisa.samsung.com
(Samsung may need to ask you to provide follow-up information in the order to duly process an E-mail request).
Because nobody can see you in traffic and you will be killed. The same reason people do not ride recumbent bikes on city streets.
That's just standard with a motorcycle, people just don't see you. A flashing light is almost a requirement. A home security system comes with such a light (12 volts DC),
that I almost hooked up to mine.
I had a lady that had stopped and could tell she was confused, she turned in front of my motorcycle then pulled to the side of the road - thinking she had just noticed me and pulled to the side to let me pass; I gave it gas to pass her, when she flipped a U'ie on me - I hit her in the car door.
I opened her door and was really going to wail on her (she had just tried to kill me), but pulled back at the last second and the helmet just touched her. bit of trouble out of it, but I got a new bike out of the deal.
Her kid was standing up in the middle of the front seat, we both looked at each other while I was flying into the window. She said the kid was wearing a seat belt and I let it go; one of the most clueless people I had come across in sometime, I actually felt sorry for her (ignorance.)
I'm always weary of intersections or cars in general, but she baited me into a situation.
Bike are different they make no noise and seldom have lights. There's a short hill and a stop sign at a blind corner at the bottom. I had a biker all deck out saying I'm a pro - came flying around that corner and almost hit my car, passed right in front, so close I was hoping they were wearing a diaper as well.
Is it something like that WhatsUpDoc app that Google bought that nobody uses (except maybe outside the US)?
I thought that died when MySpace bought them out ...
Starts out as a way for college students to keep in touch with each other, "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Mark Zuckerberg http://gawker.com/5636765/face... so opens up to other colleges, then to the outside (non-colleges) ticking everybody off. Something you want no part of.
women more aged than taught youngins also make bad babies. downs syndrome, etc. i recommend pumping out babies at 25 or 30. your life might not be on track yet but if you're planning on babies, sacrifice one of the parents career for a few years.
You got knocked down to zero yet you have a very valid point.
An older woman has a huge chance of giving birth to a baby with downs syndrome; I found out in an adult manner. Dated an older woman who became pregnant and from then on that was the concern. Amniotic fluid was drawn and tested every month, her being a pro lifer I still wonder if one of the test registered positive.
I was also in my 40's and of course didn't know of this "Older dads' mutant sperm".
I was also working in a field where I was receiving my maximum radiation dose each week when she conceived.
Use protection solves a lot of problems.
I should mention my son was very healthy when he as born and to this day, but the odds were against it; radiation did take it's toll, he was born with no hair or teeth.
Well, here's proof that a new generation of coders has arrived. It's +5, meaning at least 3 representative members found it worthy of mod points.
Monday morning, the boss will hear a recommendation to not hire anyone under 30 for safety reasons.
While I'll always speak fondly of the Amiga it stopped my programing cold, the basic was so dangerous to use, I had to quit; or toss the Amiga out a window.
Prior to the Amiga was the TRS-III (hint much...much older than 30) that I self taught myself Basic and assembly language, I can write great scripts, and crack some programs, but not so much on the coding (gasp).
A 5 does surprise me as well, I thought I was treading on thin ice :} but as informative to others as myself.
Panasonic with Viera, Samsung with Anynet+ (monitor) -HDTV's, Denon Home Theater, and a PS3 that I watch NetFlix on. Four controllers I use all the time, and none of them talk to each other; the monitor mentions it's going to power down if there's no controller activity in 15 seconds; I have find that one fast.
Colored duct tape is how I find them fast, well after I manage to get them all together and that can be a chore.
The special Sony controller is suppose to control the PS3, Home Theater, HDTV, but alas it's a Sony Home Theater you find out in the manual - it will control the Panasonic but only the channels and volume not enough to be that useful.
I've been using it for a very long time, it's a Windows stand alone program.
http://www.dexadine.com/aceros...
After installing a new OS, I'll pull a short-cut to the desktop. It's rather old I think it was XP that broke it (they claim Win7) - It used to call a site then automatically log-in, but I never used it when it worked, so no big deal.
That Pitbull Wallet looks nice but I don't use passwords over my cell phone or tablet, just my PC; exceptions being gmail (not my main account) and Netflix. I don't because I don't have to.
For anyone else that's curious; at first I thought it was double speak, so not to sound as bad.
Stack overflow refers specifically to the case when the execution stack grows beyond the memory that is reserved for it. For example, if you call a function which recursively calls itself without termination, you will cause a stack overflow as each function call creates a new stack frame and the stack will eventually consume more memory than is reserved for it.
Buffer overflow refers to any case in which a program writes beyond the end of the memory allocated for any buffer (including on the heap, not just on the stack). For example, if you write past the end of an array allocated from the heap, you've caused a buffer overflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
That makes me wonder why I would ever want to visit the USA. I'm sure there are lots of beautiful places to go to and enjoy,
It's a nice place to visit or even live, an area of diverse peoples (the melting pot), and some very unique sites to gander at.
The sad fact is if your not European, you have to run the gauntlet making it here.
At the same time if Canada wasn't so cold I'd have a dual residence, spending most of my time in Canada. I live just a few hundred miles south of Canada as it is.
ie: America should just admit it lost.
Haven't lost but were hurt, just didn't wish to acknowledge it
After the trade towers, you heard "it's not going to change us one bit", yet at the same time people started flying flags from their houses.
Well it changed their routine.
Then there were the Freedom Fries, cause the French saw through the BS Bush was pushing. The U.S. people condemned them for knowing the truth.
Please no political response; what I posted is the truth, you can't ignore that.
If I may play Devil's advocate.. isn't aluminum foil one of two ingredients in a simple, household-items explosive? I'm not sure why you would need to carry it on a plane with you, either.
Flour is an explosive ingredient, (create a fine mist of flour then ignite it) while it's not going to take out the side of your ride, it would cause a very decent devision. It was a science project of mine in Junior High school, as I'm sure many have seen.
I could mention a very easy to transport, freely available and a very destructive combo as I'm sure many here can do the same, and you know were not the only ones who know.
Something else nobody hasn't brought up (all have been explosive potentials) are the toxic gases, that are so much easier to do.
One reason I like reading /. is when something questionable is posted everybody downloads it (call it safety in numbers) long ago there was a post to a file that's worth a read "Massive Chemistry and explosives book collection" https://www.google.com/#q=%22M... /. but I'm searching by the file name. I mention it as it's been out for many years (2008 at least), I can't imagine it being on a watch list.
I can't find the org link on
I don't expect that $16.5B worth of facebook stock will be worth much in another couple years.
Quick glance I thing 3 Billion in stock, and if the merger fails 1 Billion in Facebook Class A common stock
http://www.forbes.com/sites/br...
I hope Facebook fails as well, I don't wish to be forced into a facebook account to to complete another company's (Samsung) setup.
SamSung says it's much easier to use a HDTV if you have a Facebook account - this is a HDTV that monitors your every move (channel wise),
it also has the ability for a web cam for gestures, Their ToS and PrivacyPolicy reads like a Mark Zuckerberg wet dream.
http://www.samsung.com/us/comm...
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia drove a few blocks from WhatsApp’s discreet headquarters in Mountain View to a disused white building across the railroad tracks, the former North County Social Services office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pa...
but this guy can tell which scratch tickets will pay off by by reading their serial numbers, winning wasn't as improbable as one is led to believe
CSB:
Well, the winning and losing lots had been prepared separately and, not thinking about it and lacking the direct comparison, the teachers in charge of the two groups had been unaware that their staplers were loaded with silver- and copper-colored staples respectively.
So by looking at the color of the staples, you were able to pick only winners out of the open bowls.
That required one to look at the paper squares, I can go one better.
A new computer store had a drawing for an Osborn, I put in a slip in hopes of a win (duh).
I had high hopes so showed up for the drawing. A family was there just looking; they asked the teen daughter if she would pick out a slip. Surprised and fairly embarrassed she reached in and pulled out a wad of paper and the winner.
Since that day I've crumple up any drawing entry to make it larger and more accessible.
At a elementary school event they had a drawing for something, I filled out and crumpled a slip for my youngest son. He won a fairly expensive lego jet you constructed (Model), the top prize.
I told my other son this story long ago, a few years ago he won a new Dell laptop from a crumpled entry he filled out killing time in a line.
(Grin)
The link is old so I imagine the serial number gig has been fixed (yet I have no clue one way or the other), but supports the improbability disclaimer.
While this may be interesting to some, it has very little to do with TFA.
TFA is arguing that random events are often more probable than we might think, because we often fail to take the context of an event into account.
Most of the scenarios in TFA are variations on the "birthday paradox," which basically amounts to people looking at an event X with a very tiny probability P in a specific case, and assuming that P is the probability it would happen. But we often forget that there are Q number of combinations or situations that would all result in X being true... so P is a gross underesimate of the probability of X.
Your link deals with a poorly designed computer algorithm that actually isn't random which is spitting out lottery tickets. The scratch-ticket system has to make money, so the numbers can't be entirely random -- they must only payout so many tickets within a given batch. The guys who designed the computer system that chooses the numbers didn't take into account that there were statistical clues that could allow someone to "crack the code" to the fake randomness.
There are two completely different phenomena. Finding a flaw in pseudo-randomness is completely different from miscalculating odds of genuinely random events.
Accepted.
Damn and all this time I've been using Winkey+M.
In the results there is the following statement.
"As any idiot can plainly see"
LOL!
no, I didn't rta.
Just saying.
Growing up the computer chips were as well, We used to be told what they could do for us, Now they are a reality and it's what it can do against us that's become the concern.
You know the deal in Russia and other parts of the world one has to have papers to travel and show papers to cross boarders, living in America we're smug in the fact were free to travel where ever we want, whenever we want. Which many do in fact still believe . Any time, any where in the US anybody can be pulled over and required to produce their papers (being at the least a license or it's alternative. If your found without one can be jailed or less that X amount of monies (differs in each area) you can be jailed for vagrancy.
You don't even need to of done anything wrong, Any time, any where in the US anybody can be pulled over for a safety check.
I've heard of Avian bird flu, the Swine Pig Flu, the Hantavirus Mouse flu and now finally the Equus Bronco Bronchial Tube Flu.
While I see this study with some reservations FTA:
According to Worobey, the newly generated evolutionary trees show a global replacement of the genes in the avian flu virus coinciding closely with the horse flu outbreak, which the analyses also reveal to be the closest relative to the avian virus.
So your call, is the relative a parent or child. The evolutionary trees mentioned show nothing that can be called useful.
Very interesting article on it http://www.lotterypost.com/new... been a long time since I've read it (bookmark), but this guy can tell which scratch tickets will pay off by by reading their serial numbers, winning wasn't as improbable as one is led to believe - and yes, of course he's a statistician.
I don't play the lottery, maybe a ticket twice a year, but my son likes the scratch tickets, I told him that they were predictable, he refused to listen; he wouldn't even pick up the link I printed out. He refused to imagine that it wasn't anything but random. It was just an odd reaction, I can't begin to explain the reasoning behind it.
The link is old so I imagine the serial number gig has been fixed (yet I have no clue one way or the other), but supports the improbability disclaimer.
I've never ever encountered a REAL knowledgeable hacker in the police force, not even in their cybercrime division. This is due to the fact that most of them, are schoolboys who have a degree in computer science & programming...unfortunately - the most difficult stuff, can't be taught in classes, this comes from YEARS of actual real-life practice and experience.
And there it is, and why the civilian force will always be ahead of the curve.
Re:"Let he who is without blame cast the first stone"
From out of the crowd a rock was thrown and hit him upside the face.
Mom! I told you to stay home.
ah, couldn't help it...