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Winnow wrote:
Zaelath wrote:
Looks like I'm doing an Acronis restore this weekend.
Best software ever!

Sounds like you got lucky, many users flat out blue screened and can't do anything. Read about it this morning, they've known of the issue since June and released anyway.

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Slow, go with minimal stops is probably ideal, need to re-plan your route for maximum efficiency (and nerdiness)

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Supposed to be a great car, especially if you've a mixed city/hwy commute, straight highway it wouldn't seem worth the extra $$ over a non-hybrid? Co-worker who bought the first one got a free battery post warranty in both time & mileage. Smart car is a rolling political statement, can do much b...

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The potential is there, too much money is on the line for the idiots in charge to resist sticking their fingers in it and stirring up yet another shitpie, then wringing their hands when it flops.

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Fair seemed to cover it pretty accurately.

This the same hostage taking BS the RNC has been engaged in since 2008, only got worse in 2010 when the tea baggers showed up.

Boehner won't let anything reasonable make it too the floor for a vote while his moron constituents cheer him on.

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The ACA is just the latest bogeyman the republicans are using to keep the "can't pay attention past a slogan" tea party idiots focused and pissed off. Can't forget DOMA either. Ending net neutrality, bank re-de-regulartion, and idiotic "job creator/trickle down II" based finance ...

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Seems late? They're shooting for a retro audience by this point, the legion of little prats from the Barrens are in their 20s by this point.

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It doesn't have:

a good story, excellent dialog and great pace

The story part is debatable I suppose, it is Star Trek after all.

Star Trek films are hit or miss for me, this one was a big miss.

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Aslanna wrote:Saw it. Didn't really care for it.

Ditto.

Seemed aimed at an attention-deficit crowd.

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I blame television. *Edit - not an entirely facetious response. Prior to TV, the de-community-ization of our society, etc... Winnow just would've been a zealot of some other sort. People need idols even if they aren't willing to call them that. Maybe a fervent supporter of Olaf's' 6 nail horseshoes ...

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Well, it wasn't an epeen question. Just being a jerk :D The wife still gets a week plus active use out of her venerable Moto flip phone. If you use the new features, cool. Though keep in mind no one in the US actually has 4G, including those on LTE. The vendors paid to reduce the 4g spec. Call it 3...

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Yes it is. My iPhone 5 screen looks fantastic and I've heard zero complaints about lack of dpi on the iPhone. Try again! Wasn't trying, I don't even know what the resolution of my phone is. It's just a device I drag out and use for stuff, not an object of veneration. Do you have an Apple shrine in ...

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240p should be good enough for anyone?

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Does anyone still have a 5 yr old cell phone, regardless of the name brand? Two LGs and a Moto, thank you :) That I can swap batteries in without tools or voiding a warranty. It's just a phone, not a lifestyle or prestige statement. My epeen is just fine with an old phone. (though I am using a Nexu...

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And then there's that. The new iPhones aren't even out until tomorrow and 13+% of the iOS user base has updated to iOS 7. Apple completely destroys Android in latest version adoption. Wouldn't touch Android with a ten foot pole if I was an app developer. The 99% piracy rate and fragmented user base...

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Sound of noise is good, absurd comedy.

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Still enjoying this, except for the other players. Was hoping it would get better when the 14 year olds went back to school but no. Biggest disadvantage to FTP games, not sure what it is that brings out the future sociopaths so strongly, it happened in LoTRO too. Though I suppose they were in WoW al...

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I'm not trying to convince you to play or anything. I'm just pointing out that the reason you pointed out doesn't hold any water. But like so many games have done - when you screw the pooch as badly as they did with the PC version it's basically game over except with the fanbois. They aren't gettin...

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You don't think stealing the natural resources from a country, which the United States is not alone in doing, is having a damaging affect on the people of that country? How, then, are the people supposed to create wealth? You need to be more specific - it's corporate interests in the US. To the ben...

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Watched a few episodes of My Name is Earl at a co-workers suggestion. Can't decide if it's funny enough to slog through the slow spots.

Earl reminds me of a handful of people I know who live in Pensacola as that's where their car broke down or where they ran out of money to go any farther.

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Putin will parachute in riding a unicorn, then huff all the sarin, breathing out a minty fresh air freshener.

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Spang wrote:Smoking cigarettes, electronic or otherwise, is about as dumb as eating animals.

Which makes for stinkier farts though?

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"Having to" smoke was the biggest reason I wanted to quit. Addiction sucks. I've always been fit so that part wasn't it so much. I don't think I'd be working in IT if I hadn't spent time outdoors BSing and smoking. Maybe my last 3 jobs for that matter (many years each) :) I'd be someplace ...

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Zaelath wrote:I'll take 2nd-hand smoke over farts, thanks.

The two vapors share a number of components if an anti-smokimg ad I saw is to be believed

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I never made it through the first play-through, seems like you hit a dead end unless you're willing to spend far more time than I was grinding for gear. Or spend real money which I'm not willing to do either.

Seemed designed for profit, not entertainment. They missed the balance.

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Him and Palin going in as Rambo and Rambette? saw a jpg of that in 2008

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Got promoted last month (yay me). So it figures that today an old co-worker from my security consulting days would offer me a job I'd really like within the company. Taking it would make me look or at least feel a bit douchey given how hard it is to promote anyone. Plus would mean leaving a boring b...

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He did an in and out in Libya and got away with it, making other nations responsible for the long slog. Saved a bunch of lives, etc... All around good deal.

Something similar might work; as then, we can't do another theater at the moment.

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Cigarettes are treated with propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, vegetable glycerin and all kinds of other stuff to knock down the harshness of the other non-tobacco fillers, enhance nicotine output of the tobacco that's there, etc...

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From "good" cigars and cigarettes, the small minority which are (mostly) made of tobacco, second hand smoke doesn't bother me that much. Some douche at the zoo smoking a nasty-ass I don't care if it's expensive cigar? Take that shit elsewhere. They had to implement little smoking zones wel...

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I still want my 12 month chip for Christmas though. Drug addicts are lucky, they get achievements. Kind of like a reward for not smacking your hand with a hammer? That was how someone from AA described it. Ex-addicts of sorts need to make a conscious effort to not be douchey about it. Smokers seem ...

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Winnow wrote:VPN is still useful for many reasons.

I agree, in my limited use popping in a linux/tor configured read-only bootable SD is good enough.

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...I stream the NFL network/Games using an IP in the Netherlands with 4 games streaming at the same time and it performs well. That's with Astrill, I'm sure it varies depending on VPN services. While it can work, in this context using a VPN provider doesn't buy you much, and could make it appear wo...

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I checked out TOR. It's slow as shit. If it ever becomes viable with semi decent speed, I'd do everything through there, even general surfing of the net. Tor varies widely, totally dependent on the exit node and your path across the tor network to it. Load\unload vidalia and everything changes ever...

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Using a dead-man type function to destroy the keying material and being able to demonstrate that might help, though they could always contend you have another copy of the keys. There's a lot more to it but The Guardian spoke of doing everything within secure Linux VM, stored in an encrypted volume w...

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Dredge up this thread rather than create another. I don't have a link handy, was on slashdot earlier this week. Federal courts decided defendants can be compelled to give up encryption keying material where he was shown to have encrypted other incriminating evidence on the same system (in this insta...

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But that doesn't sound nearly as entertaining

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German Government Warns Windows 8 Is an Unacceptable Security Risk

http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... dows-8-nsa

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Appears to be not as bad as advertised - just from this particular angle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/20 ... .html?_r=0
More transparency would have caused less damage to the US - they had to know they'd get caught with their pants down eventually.

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Make turning off/obscuring the camera a job threatening offense? Locally they can turn off the sound but not the camera itself in the patrol car. As seen when a drunk city manager was found asleep at an intersection recently. NYC police unions are already protesting the idea. Police another areas ha...

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FBI can remotely activate Android and laptop microphones On Android while they can likely can (sort of), it's not something they're going to do on a widespread/non-targeted basis. Most people are very boring and their chances of getting caught doing it are pretty high. You're getting into the "...

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Closely related: Post-Adolescent Idealistic Phase
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=3299491

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Astounded that stop and frisk has lasted this long. Beyond the fairness (probably) imposed by the chest mounted cameras noted below, I'm not sure how you could possibly perform searches w/o evidence or suspicion of a crime without profiling of some sort. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/justice/new-yor...

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...the Earth gets most of it's oxygen from the collected rainforests of the world Many think so but not true, the vast majority of CO2 > O2 conversion (via greenery) happens in oceanic and other aquatic vegetation. Trees & such are a minor but still significant piece of that puzzle. More import...

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Monty Python - How To Do It

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There's very very few "apps I want", and those all work just fine. I have weather, calander, email, some games, and a web browser. Job done. Exactly. If you're already deep in the iUniverse, it's stupid to switch away from the vertically integrated suite of products Apple has put together...

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More iSpin. Fragmentation is a kind-of, sort-of issue if you're buying old, badly done stuff and cheap ass chinese knock-offs. I"m not sure why you'd bother with that one when the device in question has Google's name on it? I've seen no problems ever with HW from 3 mainstream vendors and anothe...

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My take would be if you're already vested in iDevices lean towards the mini, otherwise I'd look seriously at the Nexus7, the wife loves hers. Very nice device and all around cheaper. Winnow is just being a spastic iFan. If you're being stupid and going out of your way to do so, you're going to get e...

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My take would be if you're already vested in iDevices lean towards the mini, otherwise I'd look seriously at the Nexus7, the wife loves hers.

Winnow is just being a spastic iFan. If you're being stupid and going out of your way to do so, you're going to get either make of device compromised.

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You don't need to be full of 'white guilt' to understand there are systemic problems in this country revolving around race or ethnicity. You're correct, the numbers Kyou posted are symptoms of the problems in the legal system and it goes far past that. Aside from complaining though, I don't see any...

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