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- Edward Webber
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What would cause my 2.4Ghz wireless mouse to become erratic when my dog's head is nearby?
I have a black lab who, as long as I can recall, has a head which interrupts 2.4Ghz signals, most notably my wireless mouse. He doesn't need to be between the receiver and transmitter to cause interference. He simply needs to be _near_ either of the two, which rules out line of sight interference.
I thought I was crazy when the thought occurred to me, but i have ruled out every other cause, going so far as to changing rooms and even houses for testing, with the same results every time. If he is within 2-3 feet of either the receiver or the transmitter, inference abound.
It should also be noted, I have a collie mix who does not affect it at all, no matter the distance, only the lab. Unfortunately I don't have another labrador to test for comparison.
How does my lab do it?
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Jul 6 2012: Perhaps your dogs head resonates at a frequency that "traps" or interferes with the signal. I know that every persons head is tuned to a certain frequency regarding sound (you can find this out by humming different notes you'll feel it when you find it, mines F#). Maybe this can happen with other kind of frequency as well?
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Tone FJul 3 2012: Perhaps it could be your dog's collar belt? Or maybe your dog has had a dental implant? Alien abduction? Have you noticed any differences in your dog lately? Your dog may have been swapped for a robotic replica. If so, it may be possible to switch the bands, though it would require some disassembly,.
Failing that, are you a 100 percent certain that your mouse isn't real?
And have you ever considered taking a Voight-Kampff yourself, Mr. Webber?
Jul 3 2012: I once had him checked for a chip (adopted him), but they could not find one. Of course, that doesn't mean he doesn't have one. I think this may be the most likely reason, as I recall they place them near the head (usually in the ear).
I'll take him to a local shelter to have him checked again for a chip. As an aside, I'd hate for him to get lost and be returned to whoever a chip originally belonged to.
Thanks for the insight.
Tone F
Jul 3 2012: I don't think they make anything but a 2.4Ghz mouse, and this mouse doesn't vary within the 2.4Ghz channels.
In my reading brainwaves operate in the low Hz range, so the likelihood of his brain being the interference is pretty slim (impossible?). It is still a wonder, though. On a practical note, it is quite annoying having my mouse stop working every time my dog wants attention, hah.


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Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.
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Carve out your little corner of the world. Fill it with peace and quiet. Cover the walls with things and places and times that bring a smile to your heart but leave room for happier memories to be made. Invite the most precious and trusted people to share it with you. Do spend time remembering the past of other people in other times and the price they paid to give you what you have now, but do not despair over it. Do not lend too much attention to the sadness in the world but instead pray fervently for it. But most of all remember…
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Debashish Bhattacharya (Bengali: ভট্টাচার্য, Hindi: देबाशीष भट्टाचार्य, Devāśiṣ Bhaṭṭācārya, born 12 January 1963) is an Indian classical musician who plays the lap slide guitar.
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One method being considered is a series of case studies comparing the performance of such projects against conventional development. EPA has previously sponsored comparisons of hypothetical or proposed projects, with findings that indicate potentially significant environmental benefits from compact, infill neighborhood designs. The current NRDC effort is intended to take the next step by examining actual completed projects, possibly in a series of case studies in several communities. Criterion was retained by NRDC to assist in the planning and execution of an exploratory case study that would:
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KH2 :: Passion / Sanctuary
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This took me quite a while as theres a lot of modulation and a lot of instruments/tracks used, I just hope that I did it justice since its really hard to imitate vocals, yet alone Utada Hikaru!
This really relies on the stereo field to separate the vocal parts.
I'm tempted to put a version up without the vocals, as then you can really hear all of the work done in the background. But I don't think I'll bother, as without the vocal imitation, its rather long winded at over 4 mins of background...
This version is the full version of Utada Hikaru's song - Passion, not the one in Kingdom Hearts 2. At least, not the English release of Kingdom Hearts 2.
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated!
Enjoy :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars March 3, 2013
I am a huge fan of the kingdom hearts series, and I gotta say.... really good job on this man. You don't need vocals to make something amazing.
Cheers dude, I appreciate your time, and I'm pleased that you enjoyed it.
Rated 5 / 5 stars July 30, 2012
10 out of 10! Love the drum beats and without voice I adore kingdom hearts man! :D
Cheers dude, I personally think they could be improved, but its great to hear people like it!
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 18, 2012
god that so awesome ToT !
its better than original without voice :)
Nice to hear that it doesn't suffer from the lack of vocals, but I sure as hell can't sing xD
Cheers for the review!
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 5, 2012
Amazing! this song has always been my favorite videogame music/song and this was a great cover.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm pleased to hear that you enjoyed it!
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 1, 2011
is this a piano/syntasaiser remix? i hear a piano.
but still, very great song!
There's quite a few things in there. There is indeed a piano in the background but its very quiet compared to the rest. There's a heavy amount of synth in the backing, with the woodwind and drums on top. This was made in a much older program, the guitar and drums don't sound nearly as good as I can get them now (plus this was one of the 1st things I've done!) but I've never got around to remaking this. Regardless, thanks for the review, glad you enjoyed it :)


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If you've ever doubted yourself, walk deep into any forest. Notice how the trees still stand even though they are given no recognition. Walk along any stream. The water still flows, though no one stops to praise it. Watch the stars late at night; they shine without acknowledgment. Humans are just the same. We are made out of the same elements as these beautiful wonders. Always remember your beauty and self worth.
in like 5th grade my whole family was driving home from some trip and i was listening to "kids with guns" by the gorillaz on my ipod and it made me feel really rebellious because i was a kid and according to that song kids have guns so when we drove into the garage my dad was like "ok we're home" and i said "shut up dad" and he just looked at me for a long time and didn't say anything and i started crying
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The gun that takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' has been defeated.
Glocks are known for being resilient after being thrown out of airplanes and buried in the ground for two years, but here's the test that should have been done a long time ago:
This poor guy met his maker when he found himself beneath a riding lawn mower with the blades turning. Quick! Slap that thing back together and let's see if she'll shoot.
It's only a flesh wound!
He's lucky it didn't explode.
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In this article, the author explores several concerns regarding the social context of machine-made (assisted) music. He notes how machines are affecting the substance of music, and that as we allow technology to intervene in the process of music making and communication, we radically alter the social and conceptual basis of this intercourse. He suggests that it is important that composers in this emerging domain explore the ways in which they relate to one another, rather than concentrating solely on the next new technological advance.


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I made the same vote, but because some of those achievements seem odd to even complete, so I'd love some commentary on them. For example, the Lieutenants of Ragnaros that you slay while on the "group" quest in Hyjal: I'm missing one for the achievement, and I have never seen him spawn (Andrazor, for the record). Yes, I have a macro that I spam to find him. Yes, I fly around Sethria's Roost in the sky looking for him. No, I have no idea why I have yet to find him.


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At Nordstrom, when it comes to recycling, several of our most innovative and effective strategies to increase recycling and decrease waste have come from the creativity and initiative of employees throughout our operations.
When you walk through any number of our stores, you'll see some of our people's ideas in action. Big dumpsters were repurposed to handle all of the materials we recycle as opposed to all of the materials we throw away. Much of the non-recyclable tissue from shoeboxes is gone, too—replaced by recyclable packing materials."We went about the challenge in a grassroots way, establishing a team of advocates to determine store-level recycling solutions." - Bill McQueen, Nordstrom Facilities and Energy
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We began our nationwide recycling push as part of our larger social responsibility program, with a goal of having all Nordstrom stores and facilities convert to a comprehensive, storewide recycling program by the end of 2008. Since then, we've diverted 84 percent of the waste stream away from landfills and hope to divert 90 percent for 2011.
We have our people to thank for that progress. When we began, we found that many of our stores were already doing great things on their own, so we decided to take the best of these ideas and share them company-wide to create a program that covers all aspects of recycling.
"We went about the challenge in a grassroots way, establishing a team of advocates to determine recycling solutions on a store level," said Bill McQueen, national director of facilities and energy at Nordstrom. "The response was incredible—we were scrambling to keep up with our people's enthusiasm."
For example, early in this effort, advocates at one of our stores came up with the idea of turning a large trash compactor into a recycling bin. Employees sanitized the compactor and painted it the deep blue associated with recycling. That compactor now serves as the store's recycling center as opposed to its trash bin. Today, our standard practice is to designate all large compactors for recycling and smaller ones for trash.
Another innovation from our employees was to flip the number of garbage cans and recycling containers in our stores and fulfillment centers. Where there used to be several trash cans and one recycling container, we now have one trash can and several recycling containers. This simple switch encourages behavior changes throughout our operations by making recycling the easiest option. These changes have driven significant improvements. In 2010, 98 percent of the waste from our fulfillment and distribution centers was recycled, and our Nordstrom Rack locations recycled 83 percent of waste generated.
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We began monitoring our recycling a few years ago and now have enough data to better understand the progress we've made and where we need to improve. We are pleased with the results we've achieved so far but also recognize there is still plenty of work to do. For example, we are currently working to expand our composting program to further reduce the amount of waste we're generating. Fortunately, we know we can count on the creativity and dedication of our employees to continue to move us forward.
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Momentarily struck dumb by his eye color, she stared back. Why hadn't she noticed until now? Although not as light as hers or her father's, the professor's eyes were a startling green shade.
His hand nudged her arm. "Lacy?"
She jumped. "Oh, yes." She slipped the tissue from the half-carved wolf. Another glance at his eyes and goose bumps riddled her arms.
He lifted the wood close to his face, using both hands as if handling a delicate hummingbird. His thumb traced the neck of the creature to the juncture of where it emerged from the wood. When he brought the piece to his nose, closing his eyes and breathing deeply, Lacy wanted to turn away from the oddly erotic gesture.
He swallowed, opened his eyes and set the wolf back on the tissue. His attention shifted to the photograph of the chest. He touched the photo, a smile on his lips. "Where is the chest?"
The chest. Like he knew it, had seen it before. "I'm having it sent. You've seen it before?"
He didn't move, stared out the window as if deep in thought. "I'd like to show you something, Lacy."
"All right." She waited, watching his profile.
He turned and stared into her face a moment. "You're so very lovely. A creation full of life and passion, surpassing any art form."
His hypnotic voice floated on the classical strains drifting from the living room. She couldn't speak. Didn't know what to say. She'd been lifted upon a pedestal of admiration. With any other man, she might consider his words a means to a sexual end. The professor's intentions, however, were crystal. He admired her like a work of art.
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Another interesting software is V-USB (http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html), which provides an USB stack and also an emulation of the USB physical layer using the old Arduino I/O ports.
Maybe the code can be changed so that instead of using the I/O ports, we configure directly the USB HW interface of Leonardo, in order to let Leonoardo to take care of the physical layer.
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As the government shutdown enters its fifth day, House Republicans and Senate Democrats continue to spar over who's being more unreasonable in this fight.
GOP members now find themselves on the defensive, as they face questions about forgoing pay and forgoing staff during the widespread furloughs.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers were forced to figure out this week just how many paychecks they can afford to skip.
In a show of solidarity, at least 150 lawmakers now say they're going to give up their pay too. The ones who wouldn't, like Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., soon learned that they touched a nerve.
"I need my paycheck," Ellmers told WTVD in Raleigh early this week. "That's the bottom line. And I understand that maybe there are some other members who are deferring their paycheck, and I think that's admirable. I'm not in the position."
Ellmers had voted to defund the Affordable Care Act as a precondition for keeping the government running. Her comment drew furious reactions, but on Friday, she reversed course, deciding she'd surrender her pay after all.
As the shutdown persists, so will the question of how much of the burden members of Congress will individually bear. For example, how much of their own staff are they willing to furlough?
Unlike the executive branch, where specific rules designate who is essential and who is not, members of Congress can furlough at their discretion. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., says his office is operating at half-capacity now.
"I told everybody, 'Look, I don't want anybody here to think they're non-essential, but at the same time, we're going to have to share some of the pain,' " Westmoreland says.
To furlough or not to furlough — it's a touchy question on Capitol Hill. Many House members didn't respond to calls or emails asking how many of their staff members were showing up this week. One House member, Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich., simply walked away when he was asked.
Republican Steve King of Iowa is not furloughing a single soul on his staff, and isn't hiding it. King's one of about 30 House Republicans who are determined to use the spending fight as a way to end Obamacare.
"We don't know how this is going to emerge," he says. "We don't know what kinds of demands we're going to have. And so I want to make sure we have people here to answer the phones, to respond to the needs that we have, to deal with any legislation that we might be able to work."
King is not concerned that it looks like he's insulating himself from the effects of the shutdown, to have his full staff around.
"This is a decision made to get this job done," he said. "We're in a battle here. So just imagine, you're in a battle. Would you say, 'I'm going to send you all home on leave?' I mean, I can do that. I could furlough all my employees. I could roll the phones over to recording, and I don't even have to walk into my office. I could just wait for somebody to make a decision, come in here and vote. That's the easy way out."
King says it's a good thing he kept his staff around – they're working harder than ever this week. Though from the looks of it, Congress isn't getting any closer to resolving its spending feud.
The House has spent the last few days passing smaller individual spending bills – to fund specific things like national parks, the NIH, veterans' programs and disaster recovery. But Senate Democrats keep rejecting each and every one of the bills, pointing out the original Senate proposal still awaiting a vote in the House would fund all programs, not just some.
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Why LinkedIn Is Still Safer Than Facebook
Dana is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Of all the companies that have come out of the social networking boom, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) has flown the highest, and for the longest time.
Since coming public in the spring of 2011, the company has basically run at break-even, albeit with steadily rising revenues. For the quarter ending in September it brought in $253 million, nearly twice the $139 million for the same period a year earlier. Its gross profit is huge, but it all goes out the door, with administration and marketing costs growing as fast as revenues, and an average of nearly 30% of revenues going to research efforts.
The result has been steady growth to $13 billion in market cap. From a low of $63/share near the start of last year, it has recently been trading at over $120/share. Many call it overpriced, but it seems to be climbing that wall of worry and continuing to expand internationally.
Facebook Roller Coaster
Then there's Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). It grabs a lot more headlines, and lately it's been on a roll of its own, going from below $20/share to its current price north of $30. The rise is fueled largely by speculation about its success with mobile – it's now the top mobile app in the U.S. and the most widely used.
Thanks to the movie of the book of its founding, Facebook has been a far better story to the street than LinkedIn. Its IPO was the most anticipated non-Apple story of last year, and the disappointment with it was palpable. But anticipation over earnings acceleration from mobile has many investors jumping on the bandwagon, and its market cap, now $68 billion, is more than five times that of LinkedIn.
So which should you be buying?
LinkedIn the Conservative Choice
If I were to buy either of these, and I wouldn't buy either except on dips, I would plunk for LinkedIn.
The reason is risk.
LinkedIn has carefully marketed itself as a service for business professionals. It has also charged for most of its services, creating a sort of moat separate from the Internet hordes.
In contrast, Facebook faces some enormous legal risks.
Exhibit A. The company's recently announced graph search. Tom Scott, a freelance Internet analyst based in England , recently used it to create a Tumblr page called Actual Facebook Graphic Searches, such as Married People Who Like Prostitutes, Employers of People who Like Racism, and Islamic Men Who Like Men and Live in Tehran, Iran.
Projects like this create real legal risks, risks Facebook probably never knew it was walking into when it created the service. But any enhancement to a service connecting people is bound to be risky, because people engage in risky behavior all the time. A recent TechCrunch article, about Scott's Tumblr, describes these risks well.
But this is not the only kind of risk Facebook is courting. The company admits it has no way to keep kids younger than 13 from creating profiles on the site, and it's being used by a growing number of debt collectors to harass people.
Word of Mouse Creates Risk
There isn't just legal risk here, but reputation risk as well. As the perception grows that Facebook is not safe, people pull away from it. When you live by word of mouse, you can die from it just as easily.
By contrast, LinkedIn provides real economic value to its users, and those professionals who abuse it are quickly shunned by others. Reputation risk goes to the user, not the site, at LinkedIn, and this makes it feel less risky.
Over time this matters. Over time, of course, both people and companies mature, and perhaps the errors of millions on Facebook will make us all more forgiving of youth's mistakes. Perhaps.
But do you want to put money on that? When Facebook's risks become more manifest, I expect a sympathetic pullback from the entire social space, including LinkedIn. You want to find an entry point after that, and can probably ride this stock for a good long time afterward.
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Date: Thursday, September 5, 2013–Thursday, December 18, 2014
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Discover how the Walters comes alive at night! Every Thursday from 5-9 p.m., you can wander the galleries, see special exhibitions for FREE, eat in our café and find the perfect gift at the museum store.
Date: Saturday, September 14, 2013–Sunday, April 13, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM–05:00 PM
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Painter Jacob Lawrence is known for using a series format to render in colorful expressive imagery and text the narrative stories of historical African American figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Each of the eight works on view in Jacob Lawrence's Genesis Series (1990) describes a passage from the book of Genesis in the King James version of the Bible.
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Explore Egyptian art! Who Built the Pyramid by Meredith Hooper. You and your child will use all your senses during this 90-minute, hands-on experience that combines a story chosen for its theme, a short tour, and an art activity.
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Members have the opportunity to join a Walters' expert for an intimate tour. This month's tour will be led by Jo Briggs, Assistant Curator of 18th- and 19th- Century Art, and Meg Craft, Head of Object Conservation. Join them to explore the Walters' portrait miniature collection, and learn about the subjects of these works.
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I am using the Fill Hatch command to fill a circle and changing that into a solid fill using entities. My problem is that the solid fill is overlapping the line I used to draw the object. Is there a way to fill the object and have the line on the edge show? Thanks in advance for any advice.
I linked the picture, and it doesn't have a clear line. If I intensify the line around the fill, you can see the results on the right. I just want to see a clear border on the object.
There's a toolbar called "arrange", which has a button for "move to front" and "move to back".
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8. Snappy Answers To Stupid (Dating) Questions
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- Jeremy said...
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- September 25, 2008 at 9:28 PM
q) Have you ever had a serious relationship ?
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a2) You know how it is. One person's "serious relationship" is another person's "psychotic obsession".
a3) My stock-broker and I are very close.
a4) I had a serious relationship with a guy until he found out about it.
- October 6, 2008 at 12:17 AM
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Those were made up stats, but have happened to someone. My favorite is answering an ad on CL and you send 1 photo, after you agree to exchange pics and the moron never sends a pic, but compliments you and wants another. Weirdo!
I'll stick to traditional ways of meeting men, in the gym, grocery store, in a park, at the bank, out in public over creeping internet dating. No thanks, too many weirdos and losers.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- Already facing a ballooning budget deficit, it appears state government is now having monthly cash-flow problems.
In addition to all his other budget woes the Governor has had to authorize the State Treasurer to seek a half billion dollar line of credit in case the state doesn't have enough money to pay its bills in any given month.
"Money comes into state government in all twelve months but it comes in more rapidly in some months than others. We want to maintain a balance to face any eventuality," Gov. Malloy said.
Malloy says if Congress and the President don't come to an agreement and the country falls off the 'fiscal cliff' there could be a cash flow problem.
But the Republican leaders in the General Assembly note that the Treasurer has had to swap state fund accounts around several times in the past year just to meet monthly bills and say the problem is bigger than Malloy is admitting.
"We are in a dire financial straights, the Governor needs to admit that. Stop covering it up so we can get together and work on a solution," Republican Minority Leader Rep. Larry Cafero said.
"We don't have any money to pay our bills so what Governor Malloy is doing is going out and asking to borrow 550 million dollars so we can pay to keep the lights on," Republican Minority Leader Rep. John McKinney said.
Malloy notes that state government doesn't have any reserves anymore because the entire so-called 'Rainy Day' fund was spent by his predecessor so he has no choice but to do this when the state's cash flow gets low.
"This is short-term borrowing just to make sure that we have sufficient amounts of money in the bank at any given time to meet demand," Malloy said.
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I've stayed in my marriage for the last 14 years for my son's sake. We've have not had sex since 1995, we can afford a better standard of living if we stay together. I am out of the country most weeks with work so I'm only really 'home' at weekends. It's a lousy life but better than the alternative.
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When my ex-husband and I decided we would divorce the decision was made nearly two months before we separated households due to the holidays. It was horrible. I was completely apathetic towards him or his emotions as I had been beaten down for two years and just done. Those two months were hell. I just can't imagine doing this. I also imagine this would be harder on the kids :-(
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It all depends on the situation. If it was a mutual decision, I think it would be easier emotionally, but when there are kids involved, I just feel as though they need something cut and dry, a situation that won't give them hope of their parents getting back together. There are other options, such as renting, and discussing with the right people what you are going to do about your house. I know one couple who is doing this now. They have grown kids, got their own apartments in different cities, and still own a house which they just cannot get rid of -- but it's being taken care of as of now. If you can deal, if you can be mature, then I guess you do what you have to do. But for me, I just would rather not have to deal with it or put my kids through that.
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A man is arrested at Occupy Toronto after allegedly smelling a woman's feet and trying to get other protesters to drink urine.
The Protester who uploaded this video also left this comment on it claiming his girlfriend was groped by this man as well:
"He was also groping her but I failed to mention due to being a bit emotionally tied up. Evidently the cop and I cleared it up wish I could have reacted perfectly. If I didn`t get this evidence I feel those who were still in the tent would have discovered it."
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CEDAR FALLS (KWWL) -- The University of Northern Iowa will host its most prominent guest in its 130 year history next week. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will take part in a panel discussion as well as hold a keynote address, speaking to more than 5,000 people.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader to many Tibetan Buddhists. He is also known for being the head of the government in exile based in India. His Holiness and 80,000 others were forced to flee Tibet after an uprising in their homeland in 1959
China claims the territory is theirs, but His Holiness hopes to one day return home.
"So far dialogue failed, but that does not mean in future no possibility, I don't think. We wait now 51 years. Now another 10, 20 years we can wait," said the 14th Dalai Lama.
UNI Spokesperson Jim O'Conner says the appearance was made possible by an ongoing program at the university.
"Several years ago we started a plan in progress to invite leaders from the nation and the world here to UNI to bring those perspectives. For instance we have former secretary of state, we've had current secretary of education, We've had the ambassador to the US from Saudi Arabia and now His Holiness the Dalai Lama," said O'Conner.
Two Tibetan monks are constructing a sand mandala inside the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center to welcome his holiness. It's a unique spiritual work or art built one grain of sand at a time.
"We feel it's vital to stress education so when His Holiness the Dalai Lama is here he will be talking about the importance of education and its role in helping people make the world a better place to live in," said O'Conner.
Security for the Dalai Lama's trip will be tight. UNI Police are working with the State Department and their security. It will be very similar to a presidential visit.
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MMA Uncensored Live Video From 09-27-2012 – Kurt Angle.
Curt Angle might have had potential given coaching and training but at 43, forget it. Unless, however…..Dave Bautista is looking for an opponent…..Hmmmmmm…….???
I am getting kinda tired of like every other pro wrassler saying they would have done mma instead of wrasslin if mma was big back then. Kurt might have been able to do good if he was alot younger, but it was crazy back when chuck was the champ he always said if he trained for 6 months in mma he could beat any 205er but he never did.
omg batista is a roid freak !!
Dude said Chavo Guerrero!?!?!? Ahahahahahahaha! Haven't heard that name since maybe '97, WCW Monday Nitro.
Again the question comes up: Can Kurt take a punch? His descent from face to heel in the WWF, was his best performance. Well, behind the gold medal he took from Atlanta♠


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Authorities Suspect Mountain Lion Attacked Homeless Man In Riverside County
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Small Wildfires, Fears Of Worse Sweep California
Hot, dry winds are hindering firefighting efforts.
Man Dies After Collapse In Riverside County Jail
Authorities say an inmate was declared dead after being found with a serious cut Christmas morning in his cell at a Riverside County jail, but it was later found he had suffered a medical problem and cut himself as he collapsed.
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A California judge has ruled that a 13-year-old boy who was 10 when he killed his neo-Nazi father will spend at least the next seven years in a state juvenile facility.
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The boy was 10 when he put a gun to the head of his sleeping neo-Nazi father and pulled the trigger.
Riverside County Pass Pit Bull Sterilization Law
Riverside County supervisors have approved an ordinance that calls for pit bulls and their mixes to be spayed or neutered after a series of attacks that included the fatal mauling of a 91-year-old woman.
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A new fire in Riverside County is now burning wilderness south of Banning, a city that has been flanked by a fire to the north since Wednesday.
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Firefighters were able to beat back a powerful wildfire that bore down on a dry Southern California city, limiting the damages to a single house and curbing the threat to hundreds more.
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The 10-year-old son of a neo-Nazi leader told his younger sister that he planned to shoot their father, then a day later took a gun from his parents' bedroom and fired one bullet into his father's head as the man slept on a couch, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday.
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Riverside County authorities say a man angry about a referee's call at a youth soccer game ran on to the field, shoved a 9-year-old player to the ground and kicked the referee.
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One year (I won't reveal which one) my sister asked me to make chocolate covered coconut macaroons for her 30th birthday. I took to the kitchen and tested a variety of recipes, and as one might assume, made several friends in the process. Ina Garten was the clear winner. Her macaroons were moist, chewy, sweet and simple with a dashing hint of vanilla (as opposed to almond which is called for in some recipes) lying still behind the cloud of coconut. A heavy drizzle of chocolate adds a wintry elegance (along with a few calories).
Since Amber's 30th birthday, I've received numerous requests for the recipe and even more requests for personalized batches of these choice cookies. The latest request? Grandpa Eddie. And who can say no to Grandpa? These cookies took me 1.5 hours to make, and then I was off to my grandfolks' house with a batch of macaroons still wet with chocolate. Just FYI, the chocolate dries after about an hour.
Check out Ina's recipe here. I like to keep mine in the oven for a few minutes longer than recommended because they develop a deeper brown. Once done baking, be sure to get some melting chocolate, and melt it in either in the microwave (I don't have one of those) or on the stovetop in a water bath (don't let the bowl with the chocolate touch the heat directly). Let me know if you have any questions. If you happen to make these sweet treats for the holidays, please share with me…mostly because I would like to eat one ;)


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Really great: A step-by-step walkthrough of "transforming a slew of data into a stunning chart."
(via lifeandcode)
I would be remiss if I did not link to Nathan's wonderful blog, which "explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better — mainly through data visualization."
At Forbes.com, Naomi Robbins has a blog called "Effective Graphs." How cool is that?
Robbins is "a consultant and seminar leader who specializes in the graphical display of data. [She trains] employees of corporations and organizations on effective data visualization."
I learned a lot from her post about misleading pie charts.
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SAMHSA and all government should understand that forced drugging and forced electroshock are the **** of the brain and traumatizing for life
Any government website talking about trauma should not hide from the elephant in the room, VIOLENT atrocities in the form of forced psychiatry laws allow countless to be traumatized by government "mental health services".
How can a government that is guilty of traumatizing innocent people and torturing them really claim to be having a serious conversion about trauma?
More government lies, more government workers with their head in the sand.If SAMHSA cared about people who have had traumatic lives it would move to outlaw all forced psychiatry so as to ensure people no longer had to live in fear of having their brain raped by the state.
Psychiatry is a fraud and "behavioral health" is a pathetic weasel phrase covering up the quack notion that human life is a "health problem". Quack bureaucrats with DSM labels and drugs, wouldn't know the first thing about healing trauma.
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For me, raids are unattainable because we just don't have enough people. I just wish more instance content or something was available to those who don't have 25 people available all the time. I'm liking the new 10/25 man approach, but even 10 can be hard to get. My group of friends right now is hovering around 12-13... while "technically" enough, it's pretty rare everyone is available at the right times.
I loved my levelling experience from 0-60... 60-70 wasn't too bad in BC... and 70-80 was a real blast. But after I'm done levelling, it feels like it just stops... there's running an insane number of heroics (which, I don't find fun.. I like to run it once or twice, but I hate "farming") but not much else.
Anyway, no disrespect to raiders or anything, I know you guys love what you do and love the extra content. Us "solo-ish" players just wish there was a bit more thrown our way. (Not to say we aren't getting any... Ice Crown with its three 5-man dungeons sounds awesome!)
Here's to hoping for some more Ravenholdt Quests someday!!


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Editor's Note: Comments from Geoffrey Jones, co-owner of the building that houses Universal Food Store, were added at 3:45 p.m. Thursday.
The day before Tropical Storm Irene hit, cook and manager Lou Conto and owner had a plan.
They emptied the deli cases and carried the meats to a large walk-in refrigerator. The store doesn't have a generator, but they decided they'd assess what happened next. They made meals for the Noank Fire Department, so they'd have extra food for the extra work they'd get from the storm.
Power went out. Conto said they went back and assessed the damage. The store had just received deliveries for the Labor Day weekend, and was packed with food.
In a day, they lost thousands of dollars worth of produce. The chicken all went. The meat was still cold, and the two drove it to another store in Groton to hold in their refrigerator.
"As it was, I was just sick having to throw away all the stuff we had to throw away," Conto said.
Then they went back and cleaned. They had every intention, Conto said, of reopening. And on Friday, six days later, the lights came on.
Then Conto said landlord Geoffrey Jones told them the store was closing.
"It was just a real, raw thing, the shock and devastation," Conto said.
Jones said Thursday he did not shut down the store. He said the store was 60 months behind on the rent - five years - but he let it stay open. Jones said the store closed because it could no longer pay its staff.
"We did everything in our power to try to keep that store going," he said. He said he knew the store could not pay its bills because, in exchange for allowing it to stay open while behind on rent, he had access to the store's bookkeeper.
On the Friday after the storm, he said he walked in with the bookkeeper and found employees ordering replacement food for the dairy. He said he doesn't remember exactly what he said, but something like, it couldn't continue.
Then he let his bookkeeper do the talking.
Food was marked down to half price over the weekend and sold. Universal closed for good on Labor Day evening.
Debbie Holmes, a cashier at the store since 1994, said employees were in tears over the closure. She said the store was a place locals depended on, where you could buy a quarter pound of meat for dinner, or just stop in and see your neighbors. It had a few tables to sit at and often served contractors who stopped in for grinders, she said.
"It was his father's store before it was his," Holmes said of Quaratella. "It was Frank's entire life."
An attempt to reach Quaratella for an interview Wednesday through Holmes was unsuccessful.
Quaratella's family stepped into Universal Food Store in 1947. It was purchased by Frank's uncles Pasquale and Tebenesco and his father, Salvatore.
Quaratella had a degree in business and taught at Fitch High School for ten years, but stopped teaching to take over the store after his father became ill. In an interview with Patch in April, he said he loved teaching. He took over the store in 1982.
". . . I had a decision to make and I made it for the family," he said.
Conto said he'd like to thank the employees who worked hard for the store and the customers who offered to help. He has known Quaratella for 30 years and together they were further developing Universal's prepared foods.
People have asked what they can do, but Conto said Wednesday it's beyond that. He added that the loss of income from a week plus a big weekend like Labor Day is devastating.
"In the meantime, that big wheel is still turning. You're still paying all your bills, but there's nowhere to grab from," he said.
The closure may affect other businesses.
Mary and Mike Edgerton bought the next to Universal Food. They couple moved back to Noank in April and opened the business as the new owners on Tuesday, one day after the food store closed.
They said they bought the package store because they love the community. But they said they envisioned the grocery there also; customers would stop at the food store, then walk next door.
"We fear that it will (hurt)," Mary Edgerton said of the closure. "We hope it won't. People have come in and said, 'we'll still come here.'"
In April, Quaratella was asked about his plans for Universal's future. Conto said the answer still holds true.
Quaratella said: "There's only one guy that depicts the future and he's upstairs; Whatever that brings, I'll just have to accept."
Jones, who with his father and another investor own the building that houses Universal, said people think that if they buy three grinders a year that they're supporting a store, but it's not enough. He said the store was losing $20,000 a winter.
"We tried to help him as much as we could in everything from money to advice to fixing up the building . . ." he said. "All those same people that are complaining now, they've been shopping at the Big Y."
He declined to discuss any plans for the buildings' future.
"What I'd like to see is anther grocery store," Jones said. "It could (survive) if the community supports it, which they haven't been doing."


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December 21st is the darkest time of year, the winter solstice, and this year it was also one of the wettest. Following on from Radio 4's very successful One Day in Summer, six producers set out from Bristol to follow another set of characters - travellers, farmers, druids. All are travelling, setting out in the dark, but their various destinations may not be immediately clear. The run up to Christmas is a time of preparation and stress, but we expect some our travellers to have other festivities in mind. With contributions from the police, English Heritage, farmers David Johnson and Hugh Morrison, Lou Purplefairy, Arthur Pendragon, plus Lister and his friends from Leeds.
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Sysadmin Magazine (72 comments)
I really miss it as one of the best general *NIX mags out there for a sysadmin.
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I really miss it as one of the best general *NIX mags out there for a sysadmin.
Re:Danger Danger Danger (452 comments)
You are getting yourself in a world of pain!
XP users will bitch and moan enough already if they have to use Windows 7 or 8. Giving them Linux would be much worse.
Here are some common misconceptions about end users: 1. They are stupid and only do stupid thing with there PC: Firefox and libreOffice is not the limit to a persons PC usage. They are going to do more complex things even if they don't realize it. They will want to share files over the network, they may want to attach their Camera to their PC, Video Conference, Do some graphics manipulations, even sometimes do basic system admin on their PC, such as updates or putting in a driver. You need to give them more credit then most people do. Linux for the desktop tends to have a doughnut hole in usability. You get Granny Open your program and browse the web. You got advanced user where you can script and program all you want... The hole is in the Moderate user category.
2. Their PC's will work great with Linux: Who really fully checks the Linux compatibility list when getting a PC. Especially if you initially get a windows PC. Even old PC's you may find that a network controller isn't supported, or a video driver never really worked right with that screen. Hardware makers usually make sure their stuff works on windows first then perhaps in Linux if they feel like there is a market for it.
3. Vendors/Customers/Partners will bend backwards to help you keep supported. I am sending you a DOCX with a Macro in it for you to view. Are you really going to have them redo their work so you can view that document. A vendor may give you a crappy convert. The customer will defiantly give you lip. A partner may question you.
4. We don't use Legacy Software: There is always that piece of legacy software that you have that makes porting expensive.
Sorry, NIC's are a bad example since just about every enterprise datacenter uses Linux as servers. Every one of 'em have a NIC in them and Linux had some of the first support foro 10G ethernet NICs. Any server HW vendor NOT supporting Linux would quickly go out of business.
Even alot of consumer HW now has Linux support, check any printer vendor, it's hard to find one that doesn't either have a downloadable driver or one that Linux automagically recognizes.
I have a friend who is severely computer illiterate to the point he hates using any computer. Since his last windows system died, I gave him one of my retired Dell 4600's with Ubuntu. He called me a couple of times to ask a question how to do something but for over two years now I have not received one call for support.
Re:Overclockers have been doing it for ages (102 comments)
Sure, mineral oil, cooking oil, fluorinert distilled water, bunch of other esoteric fluids. The real thing that it comes down to the heat transfer between the component and the fluid itself. And this newer stuff is apparently leaps above flurorinert, especially besides that it won't kill you quite so quickly and won't destroy the ozone layer quite so badly. You thought that freon was bad? Fluorinert makes freon look like a glass of water in terms of reactivity.
HUH? Kill you? Flourinert is just what it means, it's inert! It's what the medical community was been playing with years ago in an attempt to treat lung infections, you can breath it, like in the move "The Abyss" where they dunk his rat in the tank (they actually did that). It IS slightly toxic and is probably one of the reasons it never made into actual medical use.
Toxicity Profile Fluorinert liquid FC-70 is non-irritating to the eyes and skin, and is practically non- toxic orally. The product also demonstrates very low acute and sub-chronic inhalation toxicity. A Material Safety Data Sheet is available upon request.
Although you are correct about it's greenhouse potential, it's vapors are extremely dense and thus relatively easy to contain.
I used to work with the stuff doing vapor phase soldering on specialized components.
Re:It's a start (294 comments)
Live tiles? Really? WTF good are they? I have yet to find anything useful for them. I thought this concept was dead after the failure called active desktop because of all the security problems (not to mention all the cpu cycles it wastes even when your not watching).
On a phone's home screen I could see a use but not on a desktop where I keep my dozens of Firefox tabs open and all I gotta do is switch to it.
How do you see a live tile when the desktop is full of windows/apps anyhow? You still must minimize every app to see the desktop, it easier to just click the FF tab it's on.
!Windows 8 (564 comments)
I need a new PC now as my current one is 8-9 years old p4 3.2Ghz.
If I could find something decent without W8 on it I'd get one. But as it is, I refuse to buy a W8 machine and be forced to buy W7 pro full price to replace it. Every store around here only has W8 systems on the floor.
Re:An important distinction (947 comments)
Well, around here (Indy) it's dangerous because the bikes will ride in the traffic lanes whenever they want, ignore stop/yield signs (and sometimes lights) at will, and think they own the road by (seemingly deliberately) riding in and out of traffic. And I have seen my share of drunks riding bikes, cyclers riding no-handed while texting and using cellphones as they drift into car lanes oblivious to drivers.
Even on our dedicated trail (the Monon Trail) riders, runners, roller bladers they never yield to traffic where the trail crosses busy streets and there are BIG, clear stop signs for the trail users. It's just too much trouble for them to stop and jog in place, hop down from that bike or hit the roller brakes before crossing.
In the last 8 months the trail/road crossing near me I have already seen 3 trail users hit and one died because they did not even try to stop. I don't feel sorry for any of them due to their arrogance.
Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver (662 comments)
I'm probably in the minority, but I don't always drive to go somewhere, I go somewhere to drive. Rowing through my 6-speed manual is a heck of alot of fun.
I'm in.
I would pay a lot of money to be able to drive distracted, asleep, or inebriated legally. Right now none of those are legal and one isn't even possible.
Then just use a taxi or the bus, their cheaper. If you are traveling far enough to have time to get sleep/inebriated then a plane, train or bus will do the same thing.
Re:But why? (445 comments)
What do you need a floodlight for?
IMHO there is way too much lighting - residential areas just plain don't need outdoor lighting at all; what's wrong with just carrying a torch?
Really? So I don't need to light up the places where criminals may hide where no-one will see them? There are no street lights at all in our neighborhood making it extremely dark on our street. There have already been several burglaries around here, it's so dark nobody saw anything.
Properly aimed and adjusted light/motion sensors won't be triggered by every little thing.
Re:Summary in English (191 comments)
"When you enter your POP / IMAP e-mail credentials into a Blackberry 10 phone they will be sent to Blackberry without your consent or knowledge. A server with the IP 184.108.40.206 which is in the Research In Motion (RIM) netblock in Canada will instantly connect to your mailserver and log in with your credentials. If you do not have forced SSL/TLS configured on your mail server, your credentials will be sent in the clear by Blackberrys server for the connection. Blackberry thus has not only your e-mail credentials stored in its database, it makes them available to anyone sniffing inbetween – namely the NSA and GCHQ as documented by the recent Edward Snowden leaks. Canada is a member of the "Five Eyes", the tigh-knitted cooperation between the interception agencies of USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so you need to assume that they have access to RIMs databases. You should delete your e-mail accounts from any Blackberry 10 device immediately, change the e-mail password and resort to use an alternative mail program like K9Mail.
Clarification: this issue is not about PIN-messaging, BBM, push-messaging or any other Blackberry service where you expect that your credentials are sent to RIM. This happens if you only enter your own private IMAP / POP credentials into the standard Blackberry 10 email client without having any kind BER, special configuration or any explicit service relationship or contract with Blackberry. The client should only connect directly to your mail server and nowhere else. A phone hardware vendor has no right to for whatever reason harvest account credentials back to his server without explicit user consent and then on top of that connect back to the mail server with them."
Isn't having RIM's system login to your account a TOS violation by RIM or the same as hacking an email account? RIM should be sued for illegally accessing computer data without consent.
Re: Different versions of Windows (180 comments)
That may have been true years ago, but not now.
Most new HW is supported in Linux now, it's harder to find anything NOT supporting Linux these days.
While it may be true that many applications are not ported to Linux, what "cutting edge" HW are you referring to? Nearly every printer mfgr. supplies linux drivers, digitizers; yes, cameras; yes, data acquisition; yes, cpu/motherboard; yes, wireless chips; yes, soundcards; yes, video cards; yes, etc. etc. And these are in ADDITION to all old HW some of which windows support has long been gone,
See: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2012/05/linux-hardware-support-myths-a.html
Re:Big difference (608 comments)
It's no more abusive than cable/satellite TV is now and plenty of people think that's just fine (they pay their TV bill every month to watch ads).
What would lead MS to believe users won't gladly accept ads on their computers as well?
Re:In Windows 8 64 Bit As Defined by Tom's Hardwar (326 comments)
Wow, talk about an instant gratification society. You can't wait a WHOLE 3 SECONDS for a program to start?
Maybe you need to get off Windows. I run FF on my Linux system where I usually keep it running for weeks/months at a time. It takes maybe 3 seconds to get running and no OOM and no crashes (the rare crash is usually due to a plugin, and performance issues are almost always due to Flash/Java sites). My current desktop has had FF open for 9 weeks now and is using ~250M in RAM.
The rendering speed has been more than adequate for me, most of the wait time is due to network latency or graphics intensive pages that take time to display on my system (no hardware GPU) regardless of the app displaying them.
Plus I trust the Mozilla foundation waaaaayyyy more than I would ever trust Google.
As always, YMMV
Re:hum (147 comments)
Would having an full-feature open source driver actually hurt or improve business?
In the high-end consumer market who cares about the open source driver other than the open source purist?
Hmm, "who cares about the high end consumer market"? What about the high end professional market? I have worked in several engineering departments where ALL development is done on Linux/Unix boxes and high end graphics are a must (EDA IC design tools for instance). I'm sure there are many more (closed source) applications that run on open source systems that need high end graphics performance and the engineers demanded the performance/features needed.
Every time I have tried to use the Nouveau drivers, it breaks my windowing system in some way I must tweak just to get working again (Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS, and a few others that I run).
I must be one of the rare instances where AMD drivers/cards just worked well for me.
Re:What about job seekers? (374 comments)
I created my resume in OpenOffice and just export it to pdf. When HR/recruiter requests a word format, I tell them I have no Microsoft systems at home (been 100% linux for >10 years as well) and to just copy from the pdf and paste into there word app. They kinda go DUH! and thank me for the suggestion.
I've managed to get jobs without problem for the past 10 years this way (I have had only 4 jobs in the past 20 years).
My credit union ahs had this for several years (69 comments)
I went through this at Forum credit union when I signed up for and activated my online account there. I had to go through a "training" exercise by entering my password 5 times until the system was satisfied it found my "pattern" of cadence & rhythm of typing.
It has only failed to log me in a couple times over the years and all it does is make you answer your security q's when it fails.
Ubuntu Server affected? (279 comments)
I wonder if our servers will do the same thing since we run ~30 Ubuntu servers. Will I have to stop updating/upgrading my servers at the next version?
Hopefully this is limited to systems with GUI's installed and not headless servers.
No f'n way (241 comments)
No way you'd get me to use this service. At my last job, the company used Office 365 Live. It completely sucked. It is slow, especially if there is any latency or ISP trouble. Second, when they setup my Outlook account, it took 6 weeks for MS to get it to work right (something about how the account was created in the wrong context or something)
VNC (303 comments)
X11vnc on the server and vncviewer on the client. There, your headless server can now run a GUI desktop for you.
Example: HP printer driver software installer (338 comments)
Why does an HP printer driver software need an installer that runs for over 45 minutes on a fast (3+GHz) multi-core system? Almost as bad just to UNINSTALL it.
I can't imagine anything so complicated for a printer driver to take that long to install (heck I can copy an entire CDROM to disk in just a few seconds).
What the heck are installers doing while you watch the progress dialog box for 2 minutes that says "Determining Disk Space", when you can get the disk freespace from the dir command in
What's wrong with the standard sobriety test? (608 comments)
What "threshold"? If pot really has such an impairment effect, then why not just use the standard sobriety test. Who cares about blood levels, etc. until it is determined that a driver is impaired in a real-world test. If they fail the test or caused an accident, then go on to determine the THC levels for evidence to back up the sobriety test.
I have met some very stoned people that you would be hard-pressed to figure out they were even high, much less so stoned that their dexterity/reflexes obviously suffered. It doesn't even seem to make much difference whether they smoked one joint or 5, being stoned is so much different than being drunk that you can't even compare the two states.