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Are DVR's pretty much standard these days with cable packages in the US or what?
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Are DVR's pretty much standard these days with cable packages in the US or what? If by "standard" you mean "included at an extra price," then yes.
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I have URLs for small files and they are sequential (like one character of the URL changes for each sequential file). Is there an easy way for me to set up a program to automatically sequentially download these files? And also to generate the list of URLs by changing the one character without me having to do it manually?
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Dudebro posted:I have URLs for small files and they are sequential (like one character of the URL changes for each sequential file). Is there an easy way for me to set up a program to automatically sequentially download these files? And also to generate the list of URLs by changing the one character without me having to do it manually? use this. Zegnar fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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Mar 4, 2011 16:07
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holy crap, that's perfect. Thank you.
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Mar 4, 2011 16:18
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Ripping some jpg porn galleries are we? Yeah. back in my day we used ezpics / ezcode.  (this new one zegnar linked looks way better)
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Mar 4, 2011 16:32
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heh REAL men write their own iterated scripts to do this with curl 
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haveblue posted:They are, actually. There are little bits of magnetized metal inside those security tags, and the gates respond to them. They might also respond to other metal objects. This is incorrect, at least at the vast majority of retail stores. While it is true that those security tags do contain metal, that is not what the sensors by the door are detecting. Long story short the metal in the security tags vibrates at a very specific frequency. The door sensors look for that frequency. Read more here - Acousto-magnetic systems If they looked for metal they would go off all the time for belt buckles, poo poo people bought at other stores, etc. Besides the amount of metal in those security tags is tiny, they are less than paper thin. Airports don't have metal detectors that good. A more likely explanation is that you have an old security tag sewn into your jacket/gun holster/pants and it has re-activated. This happens all the time and is meant to be a "feature" so that stores can re-activate tags from returned merchandise. It happens when the tag gets enough of a magnetic charge (I suspect this often comes about in old tags from exposure to static electricity). Info comes from me working in management at a major retail store for 3 years. Pogo the Clown fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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Wagonburner posted:Ripping some jpg porn galleries are we? While I would normally be using it for that, it's not actually for porn pics. This steadydownload program is good, but it seems kinda clunky being built on the .NET framework.
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Why do some people call muslims moslems? I have only seen ultra-conservative morons using this spelling - is there a reason for it?
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Anjow posted:Why do some people call muslims moslems? I have only seen ultra-conservative morons using this spelling - is there a reason for it? Internet says it is an antiquated way of spelling Muslim. From the civil rights movement, then it did not seem to be offensive, but today it seems to only be used by the ignorant. Some of this was inferred from this article
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So why are guns setting it off? I had a little pistol that set off the anti-theft things at this one Toys'R'Us. That kind of sucked.
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Eyeball posted:So why are guns setting it off? I had a little pistol that set off the anti-theft things at this one Toys'R'Us. That kind of sucked. Obviously I don't know about specific examples, but I've never known a store to have regular metal detectors. Are you sure it was the gun, and not let's say a jacket you happen to wear often? I've even seen these tags hidden inside the soles of shoes. Something that happens A LOT (like multiple times per day) is a woman comes in, door beeps, and she goes, "Oh it must be my cell phone!" Wrong, modern cell phones do not set off these systems. 95% of the time it turns out to be an old security tag that is sewn into the lining of her purse or wallet (the other 5% is a DVD she borrowed from the video store). Keep in mind these things have different sensitivity settings, too. We got a lot of grief from customers because "Your sensors always beep at me! That doesn't happen anywhere else!" That's because we had our sensors turned nearly to full sensitivity and I knew several stores in town whose systems would barely work even if you held a security tag right next to the drat tower. We caught every item in town that some lazy clerk elsewhere didn't properly de-sensitize.
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Pogo the Clown posted:Obviously I don't know about specific examples, but I've never known a store to have regular metal detectors. Are you sure it was the gun, and not let's say a jacket you happen to wear often? I've even seen these tags hidden inside the soles of shoes. I can't speak for Bojanglesworth, but I definitely confirmed that it was the pistol that was setting off the alarm. That's the only time I've had one of those alarms go off on me, other than stuff that didn't get properly demagnetized right before I walked out of the store.
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Eyeball posted:I can't speak for Bojanglesworth, but I definitely confirmed that it was the pistol that was setting off the alarm. That's the only time I've had one of those alarms go off on me, other than stuff that didn't get properly demagnetized right before I walked out of the store. I'm not saying something wasn't happening, god knows I don't know every variable here, but I'd bet good money it wasn't the gun itself. Gun holsters can have tags all over/inside them and the small RFID tags are drat hard to find, even sewn in between the linings. Sounds like you may have tried to put the gun through separately, which doesn't necessarily mean you didn't set off the towers with another item on you. The range of detection is up to 3 feet depending on sensitivity setting/brand/etc. Standing back and holding an item into the range of the sensors won't necessarily keep a hidden tag on your person far enough away to trigger the alarm. For men it's most often a wallet or jeans. Edit: Stores that have these types of scanners will have a de-magnetizing thingy for their merchandise. Ask to wave your belongings over it to find the source of the frequency. Most stores are happy to help you find the issue. Pogo the Clown fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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Ridonkulous posted:Internet says it is an antiquated way of spelling Muslim. From the civil rights movement, then it did not seem to be offensive, but today it seems to only be used by the ignorant. Yeah, Moslem and Musselman are both antiquated versions of Muslim. I don't think anyone actually uses them to be offensive though, though some people seem to think that since they're older names they're more correct or something.
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This doesn't even belong here, but I can't think of where else to ask.. Let's say someone went out of their way to do you a favor but didn't totally finish what they set out do to, but they think they did everything. Do you let them know that they didn't finish? I'm in a weird situation- and I think I know the answer, but I'm not entirely sure. My mom, who can't work because of a heart condition, essentially married a very well-off guy who works for a pharmaceutical company. So her main tasks are house work, absorbing every skewed fact Fox News can spout at her all day every day, and.. well, that's about it. She's a house wife now. But she has money. My fiance and I gave her our credit cards to keep in her lock box so we wouldn't use them except in emergencies. We kinda got into trouble with them and we're just paying off the balance as much as we can. We visit once a week in their gigantic house and sit down for dinner and watch some TV shows on their huge wall-mounted 57 inch TV that we enjoy as a group, and my mom pulled me into a room and got a little teary and said how much she appreciated me coming to visit and how much she loved my fiance and yadda yadda.. anyway, her big secret was that she "paid off" my credit card, but not to tell my fiance because she couldn't do hers too. That's.. loving amazing! I was ecstatic. Well, I looked at my balance, and she paid of *MOST* of my credit card, but there is still $300 to go- $300 even, she paid it off to the penny except for $300. Not that big a deal, really! But I would feel like the world's biggest rear end in a top hat if I actually let her know that. What do I do? Let her know, or let it go and finish the rest off myself? My other fear is that they somehow botched the payment and she meant to pay off everything and they hosed up somewhere, so should I ask how much she thinks she paid? TShields fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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TShields posted:But I would feel like the world's biggest rear end in a top hat if I actually let her know that. What do I do? Let her know, or let it go and finish the rest off myself? Pay it off and tell her that it's 100% done, and thank her for paying it off. There isn't some way that $300 just slipped through the cracks. The money withdrawn from her accounts is very likely exactly what was paid against the card, unless your credit card company has some fiendish repayment policy.
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Just pay it off, and be very thankful for the help. vvvvv yes, that, a thousand times over. Fire In The Disco fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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I would also recommend that you increase the payment you're making to your fiancée's card(s) by however much you were paying to yours to pay it off that much faster. That will probably involve telling her though, but in my opinion you should probably do that anyway.
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Transfer however much your initial balance was from your fiance's card to yours and tell your mom you don't think she did it right and to try again
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I just transferred some money from PayPal to my bank account. PayPal says it will take 3-4 business days. Why is it that bytes can move instantly around the world, except if they're between financial institutions, in which case they'd move faster if I picked them up and carried them between the machines?
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Golbez posted:I just transferred some money from PayPal to my bank account. PayPal says it will take 3-4 business days. If a tiny bit of information were lost or inaccurate in an anime torrent, it costs at most a few hours of annoyance. If it is snooped on or maliciously altered or a router blows up in its path, the worst possible outcome is that you don't get your animes when you expect them. If these things happened to transactions between financial institutions, it could ruin lives and cost thousands or millions of dollars to sort out. The internet tolerates some errors and failures as a tradeoff for being fast and cheap. Communications between banks need to be as close to 100% reliable as humanly possible, which is why they do not have those two characteristics. As for Paypal specifically, they suck because they're a terrible company and you shouldn't use them.
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haveblue posted:If a tiny bit of information were lost or inaccurate in an anime torrent, it costs at most a few hours of annoyance. If it is snooped on or maliciously altered or a router blows up in its path, the worst possible outcome is that you don't get your animes when you expect them. I'm not sure I buy the security argument. It can't take more than ten minutes to verify that a packet is proper. Hell, take an hour. That still doesn't justify 3-4 business days. I know it's easy to blame PayPal, but I see this everywhere.
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Golbez posted:I'm not sure I buy the security argument. It can't take more than ten minutes to verify that a packet is proper. Hell, take an hour. That still doesn't justify 3-4 business days. I know it's easy to blame PayPal, but I see this everywhere. Bank transfers aren't done over the internet. They're done over a completely independent network infrastructure, part of which involves routing all transfers first into a central clearinghouse of sorts to guarantee that all transfers were properly ordered and all that. A lot of the time one or both of the financial institutions in question will have to make or receive a separate telephone call to help verify the transfer. This is why it takes several days. Keep in mind that as late as the 1980s, a bank transfer might take 4 weeks to go through.
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Anjow posted:Why do some people call muslims moslems? I have only seen ultra-conservative morons using this spelling - is there a reason for it? "Muslim" more accurately represents the Arabic pronunciation (مُسلِم), even though most people incorrectly pronounce the "s" as a "z" sound. Just as "Qur'an" is the new trendier spelling of the old "Koran", though in practice native English-speakers don't pronounce the two any differently.
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Golbez posted:I just transferred some money from PayPal to my bank account. PayPal says it will take 3-4 business days. Get a Paypal business account and a Paypal debit card. Withdrawl the money from an ATM using your Paypal debit card, then deposit it right back into the same ATM using your bank card. It's extremely retarded, but I've done it once in a while if I need to transfer funds instantly.
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Bojanglesworth posted:Just think of it this way, you go to walk out of a store and the thing beeps, they throw some big fit and the customer sues the store because they made a scene in front of a ton of people. Not my thing, but people in America are sue happy and it costs the company less to just possibly let a guy walk with a $10 belt. To add to this from last page, even without a possible lawsuit, in many cases the cost in security man-hours to stop and report a shoplifter and follow through with it outweighs the cost of whatever you might've managed to fit in your purse and run with. It depends on the type of store, obviously - the wal-mart here ignores all but the most obvious or high-value issues, since most of the small, valuable stuff is locked to the rack. If they see someone pocket a $20 DVD, and it takes 4 $10/hr security guards a half hour to detain the guy until the cops show up, they're in the hole $20 on the ordeal, so unless they feel like making an example it's not worth it. (I am not a wal-mart security dude or any such thing, secondhand information)
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I'm trying to think of a word for a street along a beach, can anyone think of it?
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illcendiary posted:I'm trying to think of a word for a street along a beach, can anyone think of it? Esplanade?
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illcendiary posted:I'm trying to think of a word for a street along a beach, can anyone think of it? Boardwalk? Quay? Boulevard, even?
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illcendiary posted:I'm trying to think of a word for a street along a beach, can anyone think of it?
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Dead Alice posted:Esplanade? Brilliant! Thanks for the help! Also thanks to the other two guys who guessed wrong 
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Is a there a word or term for the notion that the smaller something is, the more common it is? Is this principle valid? An example of what I'm talking about: From a cosmological perspective, small stars are more common than large ones, and it seems the smaller they are the more common. Blue giants are rarer than yellow dwarfs which are rarer than red dwarfs which are rarer than brown dwarves. We're still collecting data on extra solar planets, but based on some educated guessing and the small amount of data in so far, I think that can be extended to gas giants being more common than brown dwarfs, ice giants being more common than gas giants, rocky worlds being more common than ice giants, dwarf planets more common than those, and asteroids more common than them. Obviously this sort of thought process skips over rare forms like pulsars, temporary forms like red giants, or components (obviously stars are more common than galaxies because galaxies are made of stars). Similar line of reasoning: bodies of water. Seas are more common than oceans, lakes are more common than seas, and ponds are more common than lakes. I know it's not completely true at the atomic scale, because while hydrogen is the smallest element and the most common, followed by helium, and heavier elements tend to be rarer, elements are created in stars and something like oxygen is more common than lithium because stars make oxygen more easily than lithium for certain reasons. (also kind of falls under the component stipulation, since stars make larger elements out of smaller ones). Elijya fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Mar 5, 2011 |
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Elijya posted:Is a there a word or term for the notion that the smaller something is, the more common it is? Is this principle valid? Dude come to Boston and smoke weed with me.
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Elijya posted:Is a there a word or term for the notion that the smaller something is, the more common it is? Is this principle valid? All of the thousands of islands in Micronesia, if gathered together into one land mass, would fit comfortably within Rhode Island. Which is there more of: Rhode Island or thousands of islands in Micronesia which spread across 1/6 of the Pacific Ocean? (Of course smaller things are 'more common' because it takes more stuff to make big ones, and there is a limit on the amount of stuff. There are more protons than atoms, there are more quarks than people, there are more grains of sand than there are beaches.)
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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I feel very, very stupid asking this. But can someone explain to me why Vatican Broadside by Half Man Half Biscuit is funny? I've seen a lot of people claim its amazing or hilarious - and it presumably has something to do with that last line ("In relation to me getting out of bed!") - but I don't understand why. Any help would be very appreciated.
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haveblue posted:As for Paypal specifically, they suck because they're a terrible company and you shouldn't use them. Paypal is a fine company that treats the many people making a living selling on eBay well, and their fees are not appreciably different than any other payment processors. I have never not used PayPal to receive payments, and I have never not used paypal to make payments.
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SuperS posted:Do any of the different sized bottles of Dr. Bronner liquid soaps have a safety seal? Since no one apparently answered this, all of the different size I have bought have had a seal, but apparently many places buy in bulk barrels and fill and refill containers as well.
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