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"The Art of War" is considered such a classic because the lessons it attempts to impart, while intended for warfare, are applicable in many other areas of life. At any point you are in contention with another individual many of the tactics can be used. Just knowing of the tactics also makes you much more able to identify when they are being used against you.

*edit - the downvote comment no longer applies

the TLDR: Dude got fiber installed at his house in an affluent but isolated seaside surf community, and resells it over long range wifi. What he's doing is really terrain dependent, and it looks like his town/community is nestled against the side of a pretty good sized hill, giving a lot of good LOS coverage.

I have Prime and like it.

However, at the risk of downvotes, there actually are (at least) 2 outstanding lawsuits claiming that, inter alia, Amazon encourages its vendors to hide shipping costs within inflated item prices and charges Prime members higher prices than non-Prime users.

While this may surprise no one, and doesn't address whether Prime is worthwhile for the other services it offers, the lawsuits certainly raise the question of whether Prime's shipping actually is "free".

That was made by Mark Russinovich a long time ago before he came to Microsoft when he was working at his company Sysinternals. After Microsoft bought sysinternals all the software they made got transferred over to Microsoft. Apparently they let that gem stay there. The blue screen screen saver will actually get flagged on some Anti Virus products to prevent the gag. That being said I've pulled this on some my IT brethren. I went to Mark's last seminar for Windows Internals and I thought my head was going to fall out from taking too much information in. He also stated that Microsoft people would use this to prank eachother too. Good times.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

Technical tools worth their weight in gold if you haven't used them.

This reminds me of the joke about the intern at Microsoft who came up with the gigabyte-saving idea of changing the company name to "Moft".

Seriously though, if this became a thing and people began using narrower typefaces to save a percentage of ink, you can bet your newly-saved bottom dollar that the ink manufacturers increase the price to "recoup lost revenue".

I think this is the Beast Kingdom Marvel: Iron Man Mark 3 Egg Attack EA-037 Floating Figure.

Here's the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077RZH4L9/ref=cm_sw_r_fm_apa_i_xkV-AbXEPB0B4

(sorry i'm on mobile, formatting sucks) Edit: format

Deluge. Feature-rich, incredibly light & small (unlike Vuze). Open-source, cross-platform. The only "hard" part of switching was that the "add" button (after you download a torrent) is on the opposite side of the dialogue window than uTorrent's, so I had to break the habit of where I click.

Mashable made a list of heartbleed status from some of the major sites:

http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/

Bonus tool to check for heartbleed vulnerability: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/

via their Media Community Policy,

>That said, the community policy of Gawker Media is forgiving. If your criticism is articulate, it will likely get through. We dole it out; we can take it.

guess not.

Wizmouse is an awesome, small program that lets you scroll in windows that are not in focus. It's super helpful for dual monitors. Especially when programming and such.

You'd think so... but then you have this: https://searchcode.com/?q=indexOf%28%22windows+9%22%29

Or worse, this: https://searchcode.com/?q=osName.indexOf%28%229%22%29

Once I saw the code search results, I believed the joke.

For more on this, check out Predictably Irrational.

Dan Ariely's TED talk is pretty good too.

To all the 'moving to AMD' people: you're retarded. This won't affect anything you do now, in any way. There will be new sites that stream 1080p movies that you won't be able to watch without this chip. If you want to watch them, you need this chip. If you don't want to watch them, then it doesn't matter which chip you use.

The only reason to move to AMD would be if you don't want to directly or indirectly support this type of DRM, but, guess what? AMD has been just as willing to do this exact same type of shit, too. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-amd-hopes-to-turn-things-around-by-adding-drm-directly-to-the-cpu/355

The answer to life, the universe, and everything

What is the Matrix?

Uh, it IS compatible, you just have to disable the version-check when you install addons on betas and nightlies.

1. Open the configuration by typing about:config in the address bar
2. Change the value of extensions.checkCompatibility to 'false'
3. Restart browser
4. Install Greasemonkey

Edit: Or you could just install this addon that does it automatically.

His description on "The Wealth of Nations" makes him sound like an angsty teenager.

I found the crux of Smith's book was explaining the "Invisible Hand" of capitalism and how it comes to be in the first place.

Basically it reads more like a boring dissertation - not some evil tome on how to be greedy that Tyson has concocted.

Yes... but the person I replied to was asking for a simplified explanation overall. I was watering it down into simple terms that anyone could understand.

Also, Netlfix does pay Verizon: http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/verizon-peering-netflix-comcast/

P.S. Netflix also studied where the bottle necks are and found it to be on Verizons side.

Linus Torvalds is a fan, and the display is supposed to be better than any Apple retina.

It sort of makes sense if you do all of your work on Google Apps.

But it's not really designed for widespread adoption. It's to prevent hardware designers from thinking that Chrome OS is only for very low end netbooks.

A cursory read through this finds serious projects like jEdit, qt-creator, etc etc etc. And this is only open source code, which is very much the minority in the Windows world. God knows what sort of old crap is running on your shiny new laptop right now.

If you search for British English you see that this is still the regular spelling.

For the good of humanity I must inform you in case you were unaware that Gillian Jacobs, the actress who plays Britta in community, has been very topless in a movie.
That movies is called choke.
Here is a link to that video - NSFW

It is not real time and it does not include any other Community actors and she is not fully naked, but it will do.
It will do.

Haynes? As in the company I used to purchase DIY auto repair manuals from?

I didn't know they did anything else. Let alone still in business in this age of the internet with color pictures and video.

Edit: Oh neat. Apparently this thing gives you a different component to add to a breadboard to make different games every day. They did something similar before with a radio you build one piece at a time. Seems to follow their breakdown and rebuild pattern they used for the car manuals.

Also, Sublime Text 2 > than any other text editor -- It's light-weight, is written in python, configured with json files and has a ton of available plugins.

I love that I can ftp my changes to my server on save or sync up my server with my local machine.

Even though it doesn't have the built-in support of FlashDevelop or FlexBuilder, I can compile actionscript projects, view ADB logs, goto php documentation, and much, much more

http://www.sublimetext.com/ (I paid the $60 or so (to help out the dev), but it's free, so long as you don't mind a pop-up every few saves :-D)

Bambi -> Bambi II

23,189 days 63 years, 5 months, 25 days excluding the end date

Thank you timeanddate.com

Kickstarter keeps track of the most funded here if you are curious: Most funded Kickstarters

That's super cool though and I was pretty disappoint when I realize it was all sold out except for T-Shirts. :/

I have a Brother laser printer so with a service installed on my phone I can just print to it directly over wifi. That's close enough to a word processor for me.

Though I also have a full desktop so I'd be using that first if I had to actually type a document instead of just printing.

no.

When you access facebook through your smartphone, the facebook app ~~takes~~ steals your contacts list and uploads them.

Why I stopped reading Gizmodo. Unfortunate that I have to link to Gizmodo to make my point, but that article is worth a read as a cautionary tale of how to completely alienate people in an industry where part of your job is to make them trust and respect you.

Also good - 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, - the servers for OpenDNS. I often find they are faster than Google's.

Steve Gibson has a tool - https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm - that will let you benchmark DNS response from your location to pick the best, fastest servers.

The submission doesn't really go into any detail. It just has the video and that's it.

February 16, 2011 will mark the 10 year anniversary of the original video appearing on Newgrounds. This I imagine is when it really hit the Internet as a meme. But the gag started exactly two months earlier on December 16, 2000 with Bad_CRC's original thread on the Tribal forums (credit: Jasper9080)

Somehow, I doubt it. It has to be approved by an ethics board, but I'm not sure the subjects always need to know (which is one reason we have ethics boards...).

Remember the famous experiment at the Cornell campus in the 90's where someone would stop another person and ask for directions? While asking for directions, two guys holding a big mirror come passing through. The questioner and the pedestrian make way for the people with the mirror (one on each side). When the mirror is passing by, the questioner quickly walks away behind the mirror and is as quickly replaced by another person. Once the mirror is gone, the new person resumes the conversation with the pedestrian about directions. The issue was whether the pedestrian would notice the switch.

Wouldn't work if you had to inform them.

Heck, I just thought of lots of other examples. Look up Dan Ariely. In his book (Predictably Irrational - a fantastic book), he describes a number of experiments he or others in his field have done. Quite a few wouldn't have worked if the subjects had known they were part of an experiment.

Edit: Just for completeness, the person who conducted the experiment is Daniel Simons. He also won an Ig Nobel prize for an interesting experiment which was featured on Reddit once or twice.

I made an Android screensaver based on this idea a while ago so if you have a tablet lying around then you can have it on your coffee table :)

This CNET article appears to be about the same news for anyone not wanting to deal with the WSJ paywall

Google confirms wireless efforts, plans bigger reveal 'in coming months'

You can blame Sun Microsystems and Oracle for that.

What's interesting about Java is that only the JRE (needed to run Java) installer comes bundled with crapware. The JDK (needed to develop Java) includes the JRE, but has none of the crapware. I think Sun was specifically targeting non-developer (i.e. non-computer-savvy) users, and thus cheapening their product by tying it to garbage.

More information here.

After Oracle acquired Java, they continued bundling the Ask toolbar. They're both at fault, and it really is a disgusting practice.

Office: Libreoffice (forked from OpenOffice quite a while ago)
Corel Draw: Inkscape, perhaps? (I've never used Corel Draw, but it seems to be vector drawing.)

Even Cheaper on Amazon or Canadian Amazon.

Whoa, Wolfram|Alpha speaks TeX! Not just the super-light version, either! Example (another one)

What would be wrong with linking to the actual TechCrunch article, exactly?

You could have added the picture link as well if you were worried it would go away.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/the-google-glass-wink-feature-is-real/

Copy into notepad, do save as, change file type to any, then name it script.vbs

To launch it I normally make it someone's Active Directory login script, but you could execute it over the network using psexec from PSTools

psexec \\pcname(or IPAddress) -c cscript script.vbs

Is this a fake official action figure?

..and another

This was originally posted on Instructables and reposted by Lifehacker two days ago. Instead of linking to either article, Makanguru uploaded the picture to Imgur without giving any credit to the original source. Fuck you M.A. Kangaroo.

http://www.instructables.com/id/RJ-45-key-chain-and-rack/

http://lifehacker.com/5833426/plug-your-keys-into-the-wall-with-a-homemade-rj+45-keychain-and-wall-dock

It's a theme for cool-retro-term, which does have an OS X branch. I've asked if he'll share the theme.

I bought a similar product on meh.com a couple of months ago. 10 of these for $30. They can stack to charge, have the lightning charger cord built right in, and are about the size of a credit card and just a little thicker. Each one is 1700 mAh, I think - so just about enough to give my iPhone 6 one good charge from low battery to 100%. I can throw one or two in my pocket before a long day away from any real chargers and not have to worry about my battery at all. Then when I come home, I just throw them back onto the stack to charge and they're ready to go when I need them.

Original post: http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/2308z8/dot_matrix_billboard/

Hey Guys, Thanks for the help in getting the resources to make the sign actually run. I can load whatever I want on to it now with the original software designed for it.

However there is still lots of work to figure out how to make it update faster as the software is clunky and meant for occasional updates when mounted outside a business.

My purpose is for a community sporting event to make the sign display who just completed their run, their score, and what the standings are. That is difficult since everything has to be typed in, scheduled, and then download and each step is a separate program.

Here's a link to the software for anyone who'd like to take a look

The VisionSuite software currently works in at least 3 programs. Vision-Quicktext for making the actual sign displays, then you save and go to Vision-Schedule and save to export to Vision-Setup to send it to the sign. The process takes almost a minute to update not counting changes made.

Does anyone know about .vmg files? or another way to edit?

Possibly feed data from an excel sheet or access database to the sign program?

Right now I'm experimenting with Autoit, but it leaves a lot to be desired. So Reddit, I will appreciate any input at all!

Thanks again.

It's based off the Overwatch hero Doomfist. Like you said they are probably some sort of stabilizing flaps. In the game they engage when he does his Rocket Punch.

Edit: Rocket punch is the 5th Icon in the link thank you /u/Orval

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?

No. When a Credit Card expires the user gets an identical card number, but a new expiry date (Required for authorization) and a new CVV/CVC (Also required for authorization), when this occurs, any services that use said card are invalidated. Most other information on the card (Start date, Name) isn't required for authorization and can be altered to your choice per site (Which I personally do, I rarely provide my real name).

Anyway, the whole credit card system is broken as fuck, there's no way (currently in the UK, I know some banks in America to provide this functionality) to create monetary limits per service or to have a unique CC per site. I hate the fact that the same number I trust to Amazon is also used to pay "lolrandomsite.biz", and it's also the same number that Amazon requires to recover my forgotten password.

And what really gets on my nerves is fucking sites like Stripe. Fuck Stripe. They think it's okay to let the site submit the CC details to them? So that it goes from you, to the site, to stripe? Fuck no. Why should I trust the site? I trust you, the payment processor, not "lolrandomsite.biz". Stripe needs to disable their on-site applet (Which can be manipulated via javascript on the host site) and their site payment API (Where the site provides the CC information) and force the fact that users must be redirected to https://stripe.com for the payment, then redirected back afterwards, either do that, or at-least make it a requirement for sites using Stripe, so that a user can chose to either give Stripe the information or Stripe&The site.

> imagine is this guy was your father?

He has said: "The thing is I'm kinda not really the type of dad you imagine that I am. I don't do tons of cool projects with my kids. I should do more. I feel like an asshole, but I've only done like 4 or 5 craft days with them, like , ever."

I've used this program for years without any spyware problems, you probably got infected from something else. I just upgraded to version 2.5.6.0 which was released early last month. during the install it will ask you to install the ASK.COM tool bar (and to change your homepage and your main search engine) just say no to all that crap and you should be good to go. =) Download

Interestingly, cancelling vs. canceling is an even starker trend towards the single l, yet there is no doubt that cancellation is correct.

just in case anyone is super lazy, here is the paypal donation link however, i highly recommend going through some other means listed on his site as i just generally hate paypal.

Conversely, you can pay $5 a month for a DigitalOcean box and setup your own OpenVPN server on it and share it with friends and relatives.

From CNet

Sparrow is an attempt to get away from supercomplex, feature-packed e-mail clients in favor of a simpler e-mail experience. The interface is elegant while remaining very straightforward: the left side of the interface shows where e-mails are from, and the right side displays the message and any photos or other media commonly sent through e-mail. Setup only requires that you add accounts; then you can get started right away.

Though the interface is sparse compared with many big-name e-mail clients, you still get plenty of the common actions and options you'd expect from a basic e-mail app in Sparrow. You can save your draft e-mails; "Star" (or mark as favorite) specific conversations; add color-coded labels (which you can later sort by); and quickly open and collapse individual e-mails from a thread. You can also import Facebook pictures for your contacts, get Menubar notifications when you receive a message, and send quick replies. Sparrow offers support for all IMAP accounts, including Gmail, MobileMe, Yahoo, and custom IMAP accounts, and you can set up multiple accounts and view your messages in a unified inbox.

Overall, if you're looking for a desktop e-mail client that's not overloaded with features but keeps some of the most important ones you already use, Sparrow might be perfect for the job.

The hatred started long before they started firing people. Just google "fuck zynga" and you'll get plenty of results. Here's a place to get started: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/

Edit: Or this one

Confirmed in Chrome 34.0.1847.114 (not beta version) you can use chrome://flags/#enable-cast to enable Chrome cast and after force closing you have a cast button at the top left of HTML5 videos.

Details at cnet.com

Alexa measures Traffic only from Visitors who have an Alexa tool installed on their browser. That's the most useless Traffic estimator out there. (First sentence in the last paragraph "Disclaimer")

I got it a bit cheaper here: http://www.dx.com/p/neje-diy-low-temperature-stirling-engine-antique-brass-black-365003

(The "DIY" is very minor, you just have to pop the wheel in)

I can really recommend it, it's great fun to watch!

Traveled vs Travelled is also interesting and quite stark.

As /u/kama_river suggests elsewhere in this thread, in British/Commonwealth English still insists on the double letter before the -ed past participle suffix.

Nope,

> curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP...

http://curl.haxx.se/

One cubic millimetre of plain skim milk yogurt.

When the author mentioned that we don't have a true random number generator, I thought of www.random.org which uses atmospheric noise to get a random number. I carry around a 12 sided die for my random numbers I need.

His xkcd reference was entertaining...I'm ashamed to say I had not seen that before.

Buckyballs' owner is definitely a bit of a douche, and their little stunt of cancelling international orders is definitely some bullshit. But to say that Zen Magnets are "better" is a joke. That video could even be passed off as satire.

The data for buckyballs showed nothing over 5.04mm or less than 4.93mm if I watched carefully enough, and it was only a few that were in that extreme. I wish he had released the data collected so I could take a better look at it. For a set of toy magnetic balls, who the fuck cares if they are even .05mm within 5mm?!

Admittedly, I've never had my hands on a set of Zen Magnets. I can confirm that the coating on buckyballs does flake off after a while.

In the end, they're both magnetic balls produced in China. Want to start your own magnetic ball company? Here you go. Order them in bulk out of China and develop your own packaging. Neither company invented this idea, they've been around forever. I wouldn't pay full price for either product, but when buckyballs went on sale for $5 you bet I jumped on the opportunity.

Process Explorer is one of the best tools that Microsoft has ever acquired (Winternals Software LP). It is useful for debugging software files and directories. But don't limit yourself just to Process Explorer. Download the whole Suite of tools at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062 - TCPView is my favorite tool in the suite.

The easiest and most widespread recycling solution is likely Best Buy's. Which is free.

Interesting, but you could have also done it like this.

Most "native" Windows programs used the API properly, but a commonly repeated snippet of Java code that are written in Java, there wasn't really any other way to solve the problem.

Do you mean this one? Becuase that actually ISN'T the Pepper's Ghost trick. It's an LCD screen without a backlight.

LCD screens are usually made with a flat white light sandwiched up against a grid of chemical "shutters". These shutters (when hit with a signal) can block the light, and by blocking the right bits you make a picture. But you don't have to have a backlight, in this case the LCD itself is just hanging out mid-case and relying on the fact that her background is white & bright to pull it off. Notice how when she steps off the edge a bit she's suddenly really hard to see.

this arcade game does the same thing. It's an LCD with stuff behind it.

Chrome is definitely a bigger memory hog than Firefox if you're a user of lots of tabs (like most reddit users seem to be). This is a natural side effect of the multi-process model, though there might be other reasons as well (e.g. optimizing for speed over memory efficiency). Citations: (1) (2) I like Chrome but I have to limit myself to 7 tabs or so even on a machine with several gigs of memory or it starts to compete with other big memory users on my machine, while 20+ isn't unusual for me in Firefox (with TreeStyleTabs).

Twitter is already fighting. They took steps to have the order unsealed so they could alert their users to the court order.

The frog prince one seems to be (partially) incorrect, see here:

>And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.

That link has all the fairy tales, some are pretty interesting whether you like Disney or not.

:/

skaverat:~/ $ nmap -p22 --open -sV 197.213.63.32/29

Starting Nmap 6.25 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-12-20 15:47 CET Nmap done: 8 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 5.10 seconds

Actually, Windows Vista+ can - use the mklink or junction tool to create a junction for the folder.

Here's the new North Pole.

Here's the new South Pole.

He didn't forget to rotate it. The new south pole is directly south of North America.

If you travelled one smoot every time you watched Star Wars, if you'd watched star wars on loop since it's release, you'd have travelled 236.1km

If you are using anything other than the main Firefox, do yourself a favor and install Nightly Tester Tools, from whence you can then disable compatibility check via the tools menu (so you don't have to mess with the about:config page, which never seems to work 100%. For me at least).

I'm guessing you're not big into piracy? The answer is torrents. You'll need to install a torrent client, then find a torrent file for the "Despecialized Editions". The best-known site for torrents is in the news frequently and has a Swedish political party named after it.

(Not sure of this sub's stance on piracy, so no links or site names.)

DigitalOcean have a nice library of tutorials (obviously they'll work with any host, but do check TOS as some providers disallow their services for VPN/proxy/tunneling).

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-centos-6 and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-your-own-vpn-with-pptp show up in a quick search.

> Well, he didn't consider alternatives, nor the cost.

People keep bringing that up but I don't see anyone actually offering alternatives with the same specs for much cheaper.

Even if you could find similar hardware you'd still be assuming that OS X, which comes with a lot more usability out of the box than Windows and is forever free to upgrade, carries no value.

Check it out.

It's been in development for a while and has only recently been released as a product to the public. Its production goal has always been targeted as a $25 computer that you can fit in your pocket. It can even play Quake.

Opera's thing is functionally the same as a browser VPN for your average end user, most people aren't going to know or care about exactly what network protocol they're using.

CyberGhost is also absolute garbage last time I had paid premium access to it, it was absolutely cripplingly slow and limited my connection to around 10Mbit down from my usual 200Mbit even on supposedly uncongested servers.

A whopping 95% performance hit, even with paid premium access.

No, it doesn't warn about Hola specifically. It's a standard warning for all extensions that control proxy information in your browser. Same happens with e.g. FoxyProxy, where you have to configure proxy settings yourself.

This exact action figure is a P-Bandai (Japanese Vendor) exclusive and gonna be very expensive to get in the states.

There's a lot of other figures in this style that are much cheaper though. The figure line is called Movie Realization. The newest Vader and regular Stormtrooper figures are pretty cheap on Amazon.

Also Barnes and Noble has most of them for sale including Boba Fett and Royal Guard, and have a 40% off one item coupon this weekend (ends on the 5th) Code: LMQCJGX26KQFK That will drop them down to $50-$60 with free shipping.

You can do as knudow says, or you can use their extension for google chrome to have "block [domain]" under each search result without having to visit the site first.

Troll trolls Troll trolls troll troll Troll trolls.

ref.

You should probably do a bit of disassembly to see if anything internal got displaced. At the very least, it looks like the tab that the side screws set in got broken from the top plate. This is what holds the keyboard to the bottom of the case. If its only one broken tab, i wouldn't worry about it from a safety standpoint. Internal parts getting shuffled around would be my larger concern.

Of course, only try disassembling if you're comfortable voiding whatever warranty might be left on it. If that's the case, iFixit has a pretty detailed guide on how to disassemble it.

Here's one that's free:

http://www.ekahau.com/wifidesign/ekahau-heatmapper

You bring in a floor plan, and walk around and click on the plan where you are. It reads the Wifi signal and fills in a heatmap.

> Having flow control in the middle of your loop is only best practice in languages like java

Good thing this is written in java.

I mean, the idea that a language would not include continue because it's a pain to implement is not really a strong argument against it being, in general, a best practice. And I'd wager that in Scala, you'd still prefer this

def doSomething( a:Int ) = { if a < 0 { return }

... }

over this

def doSomething( a:Int ) = { if a >= 0 { ... } }

On a semi-related note, I never thought back when it was all we had that I'd be nostalgic modem tones and the like.

In a way, it's kind of sad that society these days consider the pinnacle of hacking to be "LOL MY BOYFRIEND LEFT HIS FACEBOOK LOGGED IN!" instead of something that actually took research, work and intelligence. Ah well. I suppose at the least that so long as people keep the old ways of toying, researching, building, exploiting and pushing forward alive, we have nothing to really fear.

That may just sound like I'm some elitist prick, but I still believe it.

Hackaday is still always good for the hardware side of things.

Android app store link for those of us with Android phones

And an app store link for the Apple crowd

Yup! Motorola Defy-Weak on specs though and Samsung Rugby Smart They are equivalent in toughness. For battery, I'd say Razr Maxx

Thanks for the link to this really useful site! However, let's not be too quick to jump to pitchforks. A lot of these are here because they're already linked multiple times. For example, the 2nd link on there right now, linking to this news article, has likely been deleted because there's already a copy of it with 3000 upvotes. If you find something in there that's censorship, please let us know, but a lot of those NSA-related ones are in there merely because they're duplicates.

This is really cool don't get me wrong but you should tell your roommate that goldfish and tropicals shouldn't be kept in the same tank.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_goldfish_and_tropical_fish_live_together

> No way in hell on the cat/bat thing. Black cats are as halloween as it gets

Here's an image search for &quot;Halloween&quot; -- in the front page results, I see nine images that include bats, zero cats. Not authoritative, of course, but at least an indicator.

> ERA/NRA - the ERA was heavily debated in the 70's. This crossword puzzle was not produced in the 70's.

The puzzle's from the '90s, but I don't think they started putting the amnesia serum into the water supply until later.

Nice! Have you seen the computer magazine collection at the Internet Archive? Here's a browsable copy of Compute! Magazine from 1982.

Dot matrix print heads vary in resolution (pins) from like 8-24. each pin is independently controlled. I'm no expert on the subject but this seems to be how he is getting the polyphony.

And then I found the hackaday article where this was done: http://hackaday.com/2014/02/20/eye-of-the-tiger-as-played-by-a-dot-matrix-printer/

Seems its capable of 21 note polyphony across its 24 pins.

They dont even need a secret search warrant when they tap the private interconnects and collect user data on their own

I remember having a pair of Canopus Pure3D cards running in my computer back when glQuake came out...

Pentium 100Mhz with 32 MB of RAM. Fucking smoking gaming rig.

Here's Tom's Hardware Guide's review: Canopus Pure3D

For those who didn't immediately run to google to look up more info -

"Actually the boiling removes the dissolved oxygen in the water which comes out of solution as the water freezes forming micro-bubbles and making the ice look "cloudy". "

bonus : "Boiling also tends to precipitate some minerals onto the pan surfaces if their concentration reaches saturation. This is especially noticeable if you are boiling hard water, which contains higher concentrations of calcium and magnesium ions than soft water.

The most nearly mineral-free water would result from trapping and re-condensing the steam from the boiled water."

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Make-Clear-Ice-Cubes

Did you at least attempt to recover any of your data?

TestDisk is free software that supports many different Operating Systems and a package is available for almost any Linux distribution.

Try downloading and then burning a Knoppix CD or DVD and running TestDisk on the affected drive with that, it's well documented and a step-by-step guide is available on the web site, if you need any help beyond the scope of that guide then please feel free to reply here or PM me.

The source code for Milkdrop was released back in 2005, so it should be possible to port it across to a modern media player. Also, http://projectm.sourceforge.net is an open source reimplementation that supports a bunch of media players.