Everything posted by sees_all1
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[exploit patched] Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web
If you're unsure the version of Java that you're running in Windows, open a command prompt and type "java -version" Wonder how this affects macs, since crApple writes their own jre.
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The Largest Contributor Wins!
I broke my dominant wrist. I got a new Asus Infinity tablet, and I can take notes with it easily. The next post will quote and use 2 rules from page 4.
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The Largest Contributor Wins!
Black Olives The movie 9 Ohio State's Football team Christian Rock Computer Programming / Math The next post will include 5 things the poster hates, but most people love.
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The Largest Contributor Wins!
What isn't joyful about avoiding a cesspool? TNPW do whatever the heck they want, but will not include a rule.
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The Largest Contributor Wins!
Somethings you can't unread. TNPW describe their hair.
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Education
Senior year at Purdue University for a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and minors in Economics and Mathematics. Will be interviewing this fall for jobs starting next summer. Not sure if I want to get an MBA or masters / phd in something after I graduate. What I've learned is that coming out of school, masters level engineers earn more, but the difference can be made up in the 3 years it takes to get the advanced degree. Also I've learned that if you pay out of pocket for a masters in a STEM degree, you're doing it wrong.
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The American Football thread
In addition to the Colts, I'm rooting for the Denver Broncos. Go Manning/Luck!
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Well Known RWT'rs banned.
Most casino odds depend on the game you're playing (assuming perfect strategy). Games of complete luck like slots vary in their odds, usually based on their denomination. My older brother works for a casino and showed me the house take. $.01 slots usually had a 10% take, $50 slots had the best odds with a 1.5% take. Oddly enough $100 slots had a 2.5% take. Basically these percentages are the averages of all their slot machines over a month, odds vary by game. Jagex really needs to take a stance, either endorse gambling or outright ban it in-game. Discouraging it really is neither one way nor the other.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
41. They're both running for president. I think part of the reason Romney chose Ryan was because he wanted to show he intends to govern as a conservative, not as a moderate. Had he picked a moderate, a tea partier might argue that you're swapping one big government champion with another.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
I hope Joe Biden remains as the VP pick and continues to campaign for Obama.
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Tip.It Times - 12th August 2012
Of course you couldn't ban them solely based on a highly unbalanced trade, but it's a first indicator. If you investigate further, you might see that that account is running a lot of goldfarming bots, or maybe that he abused a bug like the Crucible dupe, which then would be reason enough to ban him. You seem to think Jagex has the staff to investiage anyone who trips the meter personally. Even if it only took a minute per case including time between cases, that's only 60 an hour or ~500 a day assuming they do nothing else. That's assuming ONLY a minute per, for it to be any way accurate it'd have to be several orders bigger. It's just not practical, or effective, or even a good design to begin with. And let's not forget trading or giving away gold with no logical in game explanation that Jagex could tell. People give gold to IRL friends, in game friends, for contests, quitting, returning, loans, borrows, to invest, to test, etc etc etc. Heck, maybe someone pays 1b to get into a clan or something. Unless any mention is in the chat log, and even assuming Jagex can check for logs hours/days back, there are going to be times where trades just happen. Any detection system would be too inherently flawed to be effective, compared to other methods of prevention. You're mentioning a bunch of one time events. In each of those cases, a person loses wealth, but they don't gain it back immediately. They don't give away 500m, only to gain it back in 2 minutes (without trading). They don't get repeated corp drops to split, one is rare enough. They don't pay to be in 20 clans, only 1. Unless they really are quitting, they won't give away all their wealth. Even if they give all their wealth away, they can't gain it back immediately. Yes, illogical events happen all the time, but when they start happening 5, 10, 100 times on a single account, shouldn't that merit investigation? Why did it take JaGEx a month to take action?
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
They wouldn't have voted Obama, but they might have not voted in protest of the two or gone third party. I feel that Paul Ryan is also very eloquent with blue collar workers (Ohio and other rust belt states), which is why he's done well in Wisconsin.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Apparently Paul Ryan is unknown in Florida, which is too bad. Tea party is gaga over him though, so he's energized the conservative base.
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Tip.It Times - 12th August 2012
The point of tracking someones wealth is to flag a jmod to review their actions. The best way to implement this sort of system is silently, so that bug abusers don't know what will and will not raise alarms. 500m repeated gains on one account over the course of a week should raise an eyebrow or two.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Paul Ryan is a good choice. What Romney needs to do is contrast himself with Obama, not appease any specific political group. When the time comes to vote, Romney needs to shape the decision as big government and nanny state, versus freedom and self reliance. Other conventional wisdom says "do no harm," which means the VP needs to be as boring as Romney. If I were ignore that and pick my top 5, they'd probably be Allen West, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Condoleezza Rice, and Bobby Jindal.
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The Largest Contributor Wins!
We had to go through quite a few test subjects to get it right for you. The Next Post Will not have a rule.
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CNN: 7 Dead. Up to 30 People hurt; Shooting in a Wisconsin Sikh Temple; Children held as hostages
What's the problem? Guns, Knives, or violent crime and criminals? Banning guns in the UK hasn't stopped violent crime. It hasn't even stopped gun crime. You didn't look at each of the articles. 8 killed, 5 wounded. 8 killed, 15 wounded. 8 killed, 32 wounded. 7 killed, 10 wounded. 4 wounded. 4 wounded. Also, if you had looked you would've known that there were 2 incidents in Japan, 1 in Dublin, and 1 in Columbus Ohio (last time I checked, that was in the US.) Bombs aren't legal, but you can fashion an IED from lots of household items. Bleach is legal. Ammonia is legal. Mix the two, violent reaction that will seriously harm people. Propane canisters are legal, which are basically bombs waiting to be set off. The point I'm trying to make is this. You can legislate the heck out of anything, but in the end the only people you're harming are the law abiding citizens.
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CNN: 7 Dead. Up to 30 People hurt; Shooting in a Wisconsin Sikh Temple; Children held as hostages
I think Great Britain needs to ban knives. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/2419444/Knife-deaths-up-by-a-third-since-Labour-came-to-power.html There's no way to get an accurate picture though. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2012/apr/12/london-knife-crime That's not even to mention the number of times someone accidentally cuts themselves. Who knows how high the number might actually be?
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CNN: 7 Dead. Up to 30 People hurt; Shooting in a Wisconsin Sikh Temple; Children held as hostages
Should've posted this first. What irritates me with each of these events is the asinine commentary that occurs after each one, and how insensitive people can be to the victims and their families. "If only there were no such thing as guns, these people would still be alive" "If only everyone was carrying a gun and the damage could have been minimized" "If only we had another law to try and prevent people from ... " The unfortunate reality is that there are bad people in this world that want to harm others, and short of turning everyone into mindless zombies, there's absolutely no way people can prevent this sort of tragedy from occurring. The last point I'd like to make, and one that's been stated over and over about how guns allow for worse massacres than knives, is simply wrong. Doing a quick google search on "mass knife attack" yielded 8 separate events that occurred in the past few years: [hide] http://www.bbc.co.uk...-china-19091840 http://edition.cnn.c....school.attack/ http://online.wsj.co...2326321030.html http://en.wikipedia....school_massacre http://en.wikipedia....habara_massacre http://www.mixmag.ne...ouse-mafia-show http://www.news-hera...2a780618632.txt And lest we forget about how 9-11 was perpetrated http://archives.cnn....tion.terrorism/ [/hide] The difference between a gun massacre and a knife massacre is that no one in the media has a political agenda with knives, they only care about gun control. EDIT: Found this to be relevant http://abcnews.go.com/US/sikh-temple-oak-creek-wisconsin-officials-white-supremacist/story?id=16933779#.UB9QraPHkzx
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London 2012 Olympics
Because the feat is impressive. The people that disagree with you aren't saying it's not impressive, they're saying it doesn't make him the "greatest olympian ever."
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Dark Knight Rising
After seeing this movie, I felt that The Dark Knight was a bit out of place in the trilogy. Also, mentally the biggest problem I had with the film was the technology. The tumbler was awesome because it was realistic. The bike that spawned from the tumbler required a little suspension of disbelief, but otherwise worked. The flying thing in this movie was just... bleh. It don't work that way.
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Shooting Massacre at Dark Knight Rises Premiere
Getting hit by a small caliber gun even in a bulletproof vest would still take the wind out of him, and would likely distract him long enough for lots of people to get down. That said, I've read since the event that a very bright strobing flashlight would also provide that desired effect, I think everyone (regardless of belief on guns) would do well to look into that as personal protection.
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Shooting Massacre at Dark Knight Rises Premiere
And which law abiding citizen feels the need to bring a weapon to a movie? I bet if you polled everyone in the auditorium, you'd find that the most dangerous thing in there was a pocket knife.
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Shooting Massacre at Dark Knight Rises Premiere
Can we please show respect to the victims and hold off the policy debate for a while? I feel we should all be showing empathy, and at the very least wait for the complete picture before making hasty generalizations or statements we'll later regret. What happened is a terrible tragedy, and my heart goes out to the victims, their friends and families, along with the parents of the shooter. I can't imagine how they feel.