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Kind of glad I have no idea what was going through his head! But it is almost creepy.

Well the first one that came to mind is: "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" But then Groucho came to my rescue: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend -- inside of a dog, it is too dark to read"

I am playing a PBeM game called Olympia-game 3, it seems many of the players use Perl scripts to automate some tasks. They happily share the code but I am hesitant to press for programming help in the gaming forum so I come here. I downloaded Strawberry Perl and am …

I am actually going back and playing Far Cry (the original on my pc) again. The graphics suck but the gameplay is fantastic. All the levels have multiple ways to solve and I get to use grenade launchers, sniper rifles, and bazookas.

Here is what disturbs me about MSIE vs FF: MS is a for-profit business and sells ad space - how good is their ad blocker going to be? The last couple of evil exploits have been using click-through ads. I use FF at home and I have no ads (sorry …

I run malariacontrol.net on boinc as one of my projects The research into the malaria parasite is multi-pronged: the mosquito vector is one; Johns Hopkins is working on a vaccine for the people; there is netting that prevents contact and has a pesticide - I think the work is to …

I just heard a theory that in about 500,000 years that so much Carbon Dioxide is being sequestered via bones on continents (bones like coral) that there will be none left in the atmosphere and the earth will just be a hot, life-less desert. [U]The Medea Hypothesis[/U] by Dr. Peter …

I just bought a new netgear wndr3700 router and am trying to get my g.f's laptop up on it. I can set the wireless pc card to full wpa2 protection but it can't seem to connect. It sees the router but the connection fails. I tried setting it up with …

There is a new video editing system that allows you to remove stuff from the 'live' feed. Looks pretty freaky - like how the TeaBaggers view the world - [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgTq-AgYlTE"]take a look[/URL]

throwing knives and darts - not that wimpy, pub-crawl stuff - hunting darts, thrown hard and accurate enough to stop small game.

First you have to define what you consider a computer - almost any home or office device that you purchase today contains more computing power than what was generally for sale as a computer just 10 years ago. Unless you narrow your question a lot, there is no real answer …

go to your local computer recycling center and beg there.

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The marshmallow test was the brain child (heh,heh double pun intended) of the father of 4 young girls around the age of 4 years old. He realized that his 4 y.o. could be convinced to put gratification now for something later. He developed a test where young children were told …

Logic is the study of arguments; some arguments are valid and many are fallacies. Disobedience is the failure to obey. The difference between them is a gulf you appear unable to cross.

I saw the news about the navy testing a rail gun that can hit targets 100 miles away (w/o all that big gun recoil) and was pretty impressed. Then I found [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5357776/diy-rail-gun-is-terrifying-comes-with-building-instructions"]this[/URL]. Unfortunately, it seems that the actual instructions are have been deleted by the 'authors'. If you go down …

I asked my partner to marry me traveling 80 mph on I5 at 3:00am - she accepted, that was 1991. We actually got our signatures on a marriage application in 2006 just before we flew to Paris. Hey, we will get around to it pretty soon now.

For those of you who live '20 minutes in the future', it might be encouraging to know that the complete [B][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFFMRXGjfNI"]MAX[/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkB_x1-rXSE"]HEADROOM[/URL][/B] dvd set is out for xmas. It holds up pretty well and gets a lot of stuff right - and is over 20 years old (and has a …

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[quote=Ravenous Wolf;429891]i would say that dictatorship is the most efficient but i would not opt for it. it puts too much power in the hands of just one man and that one man can be corrupted easily. sturm said that only the weak can be corrupted. that is debatable. i …

Those dudes over at TSA have put together a calendar - as they say in the old cartoons: Hubba hubba!

google the brand and look for how to lift the keyboard and clean it from there

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I suggest you contact the owner of the copyright of the tutorial. If you are going to base your work on someone else's work, you must at least acknowledge their contribution.

As soon as your shingles clear up - get the vaccine! My mom is suffering through a bout of shingles and was told that the vaccine only works after you clear up. Pain management is a biatch!!

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My score was: [QUOTE]Your score is 0. You are not a conspiracy theorist. Most likely your watch Fox News or CNN, and feel you are an informed citizen. You did not even answer all the questions, showing you have little time for conspiracy theories.[/QUOTE]I do not watch cable news.

[QUOTE=Narue;887384][B]>i,ROBOT >Will Smith fights a robot conspiracy to break the >"a robot can't harm a human" union rules.[/B] Read Asimov's short stories under the same name. You'll be even more impressed than some cheesy action knockoff could offer. I, Robot and I am Legend are two good examples of the …

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Plato was the first known writer about the Atlantis; he wrote about 300 BCE but he was quoting the Athenian lawgiver Solon (about 700BCE) about a story heard when he was in Egypt. This is not real good sourcing but it was supposed to be bigger than North Africa and …

Despite the current spate of bad news - older Toyota Corollas are pretty good deal. I bought a Corolla Al-trac brand new in 1988 and drove it until 2006 when it got totaled. I'd say a Toyota or a Honda in your price range would be from the '90s; they …

No, you can't. There is no way that you can get a loan under the described conditions. Do not hesitate to ask for a short term loan - the laughter will possibly help you understand that you are in trouble and need help. Cut up all your credit cards; every …

We stocked up on pasta when it was less costly (there was this thing about corn a couple years ago - the price was so high that the hard, winter wheat could not compete and a lot of acreage was shifted from semolina) so we have radiatore, linguini, spaghetti, elbow, …

My recurring dream is that I am so tired that I can't keep my eyes open; sometimes it is so bright that I can't keep my eyes open. Once I dreamt that I was standing on a cliff ledge that was so narrow that I could only keep my heels …

When I am at work - usually 8 hours per day, when I am at home about all the time I am not sleeping.

There is nothing in that demo that is remarkable. He could be using the 60cycle (50 outside of the US) hum from household wiring; he could be taking from a local fm antena. w/o isolation there is no way to tell which part of the e/m spectrum he is taking …

[QUOTE=Ancient Dragon;839243]>>ask this question from yourself. I will going to save them in the form of money and see the max what I can do ... I saw those pictures 40+ years ago. There is really not a thing we can do to help them because the dictators in Africa …

Heselden died testing his improved Segway; he was developing a [URL="http://www.chipchick.com/2010/09/segway-owner-dies.html"]cross country version[/URL]. Among his inventions are a text reader, a 'stair-climbing' wheelchair, and of course, Ginger later called Segway. When I last left Paris, there were Segway tours starting up (not something I was particularly fond of).

I do not know the details but it seems that many of the newer electrics are using capacitors in place of batteries: 1) batteries are to heavy and using chemical reactions to store energy has too many losses 2) the new ceramics/insulators/superconductors make capacitors way more effective. Take a look …

Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let …

Hey, while you are working on that - can you fix the cup holder that came with my new computer? I put my large mug on it and it broke and spilled coffee everywhere.

I was on another site talking about when I used to work with explosives on a seismograph crew and stole just a little of the 'goop' (I wanna say blasting powder but it was more like clay with seeds in it) from each of the 5 lb logs while I …

I can now watch the Daily Show straight through w/o all those damnable glitches, hiccups, and pauses. In fact, I am listening now whenever Craig goes to commercial - pretty cool. Er, should have posted this last night

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So, you hang out here - what other fora do you go to? I also visit [URL="http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/"]Personal Finance Forums[/URL]

I just ran across this [URL="http://jalopnik.com/5610373/hackers-wirelessly-crash-cars-computer-at-highway-speeds"]hack[/URL] then I remembered a CSI: New York that revolved around a murder facilitated by hacking the gps then disabling the car in a 'bad' neighborhood, and setting off the alarms. Every device in your home that you can add to your network gives someone …