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Two 14 years boys "cracked" an ATM machine by reading the online manual. The default password had not been changed allowing them to get in on the first try. http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/06/winnipeg-atm-hacked-by-14-year-olds-using-manual-found-online.html -
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And I didn't post that if you are still having problems, I can post some sample code on how to do this. But I use multiprocessing, not threading. -
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In a recent infomercial type commercial all of the "satisfied users" had faces with way too much plastic surgery (oh no they aren't actors reading from a script). Perhaps the … -
Began Watching Using a Checkbutton to Import Serial Data into Python Tkinter
I am trying to create a GUI using Tkinter, that reads in serial data. I eventually want multiple check buttons (for each possible port), and when the checkbutton is clicked, … -
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And threads may be overkill here. You could call one function periodically (Tkinter's after method) that does or does not read each port depending on the value of a variable(checkbutton_variable.get) … -
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No it's not April 1st. Technicians from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), have demonstrated the feasibility of replacing the substrate … -
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New York, Phoenix, DC, and Utah have eliminated much of their homeless problem by providing them with homes. The retention rate is 84+ percent. New York was spending $40,500 per … -
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The Farmers’ Almanac (not the Old Farmer's Almanac) predicted a new Ice Age to begin in January, 2014. Based on planetary positions, sunspots and lunar cycles, the almanac’s secret formula … -
Began Watching Self-Modding Code DEBUG or Other Remover
In my quest to learn more regarding programming in Python, I "dissect" a lot of other people's code. While doing this, or writing my own code, I end up with … -
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Today's compilers are optimal, meaning comments don't make it into the final code, so you can just comment those lines, i.e. the if statement and everything beneath it. It is … -
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It takes between 2 million and 10 million bee trips to make a pound of honey, depending on who's counting. And about 50,000 miles. -
Began Watching Open frame from button
I have this code which open a frame, count 5 seconds and then open another frame. Here i have some buttons that should open different frames but they all open … -
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I am assuming that your question was already answered here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30137630/open-frame-from-button Statements like this say that you are indeed confused by the inheritance. for F in (PageSTART,PageSELECT,PageZS,PageARH,PageSET,PageHLP): frame = F(container, … -
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Mother's Day was founded for mourning women to remember fallen soldiers and work for peace. About 80% of Mother's Day cards are purchased by women. (Just a little surprising) According … -
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The zippo lighter was named to sound similar to the zipper, which was a hit in 1933 when the first zippo was made. Zippo has trademarked the phrase “It works … -
Began Watching how to unpack the list of elements?
I need some help with my code, I'm stored the list of elements in arrays and when I try to print the list of elements, it would print only one … -
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There is no way to tell which "position_start" to use in the following code, as there are two with the same name in the for() statement. As for the problem, … -
Began Watching Need help in subprocess.Popen
The perl command is perl /opt/translation/moses/scripts/tokenizer/tokenizer.perl -l en < Eng-hin.translation.en > Input/tokenization/Eng-hin.translation.tok.en I want to execute the above perl command in python script ,Here the perl command is executed successfully … -
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First, try it with "shell=True" (see the link below). And post which version of Python and the OS you are using. You can capture the output and write it to … -
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This spring Hyundai will begin leasing a fuel cell version of its Tucson crossover in the U.S. and when it goes on sale, drivers in Southern California will be able … -
Began Watching Words and phrases I wish people would stop using.
There are certain words and phrases that drive me absolutely bat-shit crazy. Some have been around for decades and others are relatively new. "It is what it is". Not the … -
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Already posted this once elsewhere To tell you the truth (how long have you been lying) Anything that requires a "but" i.e. I don't want to interrupt but... -
Began Watching Help with guessing number game
Hi everyone, I am currently making a game in python. The objective of the game is to guess out the number within 6 guesses. I want to make a window … -
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There also has to be a button that is pressed, or some other event trigger, to tell the progam when to get the value from the input GUI. -
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What do 2 porcupines say when kissing? Ouch, ow, ow. -
Began Watching Selectable Label with Tkinter?
I have some Tkinter code with a Label object. The user needs to be able to select text from the Label in order to copy the text (and paste into … -
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Take a look at the following thread in Daniweb https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/452441/tkinter-entry-value-problem There are more examples under the "Python GUI Programming" thread at the top of the python page. -
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A small village in the Indian state of Rajasth plants 111 trees every time a girl is born. The village has planted over 250,000 trees so far. The tradition was … -
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Gerald Ford served as Vice-President and President of the US but was not elected to either office. -
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You're not my type. -
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Eight-year-old Evan reviews toys on his youtube channel, EvanTubeHD, and rakes in an estimated more than $1 million annually. -
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Sping gets shorter every year by about 30 seconds to a minute, due to astronomical quirks, researchers say. Summer gets longer. Similarly winter gets shorter and autumn gets longer. The … -
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On Sunday, March 15, 2015, the first dot.com ever registered will be 30 years old. It is www.symbolics.com and, yes, the domain still works to this day (even though the … -
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Pi is the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 1, and is the first letter of the Greek word perimeter." -
Began Watching Small problem with message encoder.
I have written a simple message encoded that encodes messages into words of 4 characters each. It generates a key that will later be used to decode the message. The … -
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You ignore spaces in the encoded message and insert a space at the appropriate number, ie. is in "key". def decode(message, key): output=[] for ctr, ltr in enumerate(message): if ctr … -
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And obviously those 2 things are related. -
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In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting. -
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Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions. -
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Everyone who "dies" has their eyes open. -
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Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies? What was the greatest thing before sliced bread? Simply Delicious Shower Thoughts with Cookie Monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBNJ0BH3Dgs -
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It something like this happens to you, a credit freeze is better than credit monitoring, at least in the US. This stops any new attempts to access your credit report, … -
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FreedomPop announced unlimited wifi for $5 per month with 25 million hotspots expected http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/freedompop-wifi/ Google is interested in entering the wireless phone and/or internet market http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2475602,00.asp Google provides internet service … -
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Good point. Am assuming from "lastnight" that titles don't contain spaces. And if they do, the concept is still the same. -
Began Watching Breaking down a list in python
Hello! My this time question is about breaking a list. I have a list with the name favorite_movies. Here is 2 functions of all functions from the file: def add(): … -
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You split them and add a newline so they are on new lines. We don't know what type of variable favorite_movies is so there is no way to give an … -
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hey guys i have written progam from sys import argv script, user_name = argv prompt = '> ' print "Hi %s, I'm the %s script." % (user_name, script) print "I'd … -
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Not without knowing what argv contains. Print it and see for yourself. print argv print len(argv) -
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Capt Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty". The closest was "Scotty beam me up" but usually it was "3 to beam up Scotty" unless one of the crew going … -
Began Watching Ceaser cipher
I need help with this program I am doing. I need to be able to select encrypt or decrypt(ive only done encrypt at the momment) and need to be able …
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