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RaoulDuke12 posted:If I've learned anything about sunglasses, it's they'll look really stupid on you unless you actually try them on first pretty much every single time. Is there anywhere you can go to try them out? Nowhere sells them in my area, the closest is over the US border. I figured gently caress it and bought them though, guess we'll know how they look when they get here Tuesday! And yeah, they look pretty 70's-ish in the brown (I hope not too goofy looking) but I'll mostly be wearing them in the car so no biggie.
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greazeball posted:How do passwords get stolen from a user? phishing
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Namarrgon posted:I have more commonly heard it called religious police and I'm pretty sure it's not just ex-convicts. Oh nice, way better than a totally-convict superstition-enforcement squad. greazeball posted:How do passwords get stolen from a user? Most all sites you use a pw on use an encryption session between your browser and their server, pw is still encrypted even on unencrytped wifi. No encryption on the site = you're vulnerable to having you pw sniffed even on an encrypted wifi (by your kids/spouse/parent, someone else on the network). If there is encryption like normal on the website no one's going to get your pw by sniffing any network. (unless they're running arp poisoning or something similar but you'd get some certificate errors on your browser.) Any sort of reputable app on a phone would use its own encryption too for sensitive info. Security question brute-forcing gets people into accounts too, even if you chose just "NYC" and "1995" as answers to "where were you born" and "what year did you graduate" how many accounts you think you could get? The scripts those guys use have every city and every possible year of graduation or make of 1st car or where was honeymoon, kindergarten teacher's name etc. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Feb 3, 2013 |
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Wagonburner posted:Security question brute-forcing gets people into accounts too, even if you chose just "NYC" and "1995" as answers to "where were you born" and "what year did you graduate" how many accounts you think you could get? The scripts those guys use have every city and every possible year of graduation or make of 1st car or where was honeymoon, kindergarten teacher's name etc. If they get through that it will probably just end up emailing you a new password. So I guess, keep your email passwords the most secure?
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syscall girl posted:If they get through that it will probably just end up emailing you a new password. So I guess, keep your email passwords the most secure? some non-email services yeah, but email itself, yahoo and probably most other will let you reset your pw right then and there with answering the sec questions, keep the pws and sec questions secure and tricky. Instead of "Kansas City" for where were you born, use "!qWerFFg6jB" but you have to keep a record somehow on your own of poo poo like that.
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Wagonburner posted:Security question brute-forcing gets people into accounts too, even if you chose just "NYC" and "1995" as answers to "where were you born" and "what year did you graduate" how many accounts you think you could get? The scripts those guys use have every city and every possible year of graduation or make of 1st car or where was honeymoon, kindergarten teacher's name etc. also, anyone who knows you can figure out those questions and get into your email. Just enter random garbage for those questions. And use gmail since it has the best security of all those sites.
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I have developed a recent troublesome behavior of walking the gently caress out of parties when my sensibilities gets bruised, either ethically or mentally. Tonight it ended with me arguing for hours with 3 uneducated laypersons under the impression that the components of the question are are separate * about the actual boundary between the** physical and mental when talking about dependencies. The google didn't help me find a 'easy' answer suitable for informal discussion or moderately-drunk-talk so I turn to you, the all knowing masters of the internets. * (I am not formally educated in this area) **(in my opinion ultimately false dichotomy) Lazer Monkey fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 3, 2013 |
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Feb 3, 2013 04:26
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Lazer Monkey posted:I have developed a recent troublesome behavior of walking the gently caress out of parties when my sensibilities gets bruised, either ethically or mentally. This is definite E/N gold so please post a thread **. I want to hear more about how these uneducated laypersons disagreed with your opinions on a topic in which you are not formally educated. Are you still drunk?*** "The google?" "'easy' answer" to what? "are are"? What? What are you even asking? Nevermind; save it for E/N. * there are some exceptions ** seriously please post a thread here it'll do you good. *** you're drunk aren't you? **** seriously stop with the footnotes
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Lazer Monkey posted:I have developed a recent troublesome behavior of walking the gently caress out of parties when my sensibilities gets bruised, either ethically or mentally. What?
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Lazer Monkey posted:I have developed a recent troublesome behavior of walking the gently caress out of parties when my sensibilities gets bruised, either ethically or mentally. I've read this five times. I've got absolutely nothing.
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Looks like he was discussing physical addiction vs psychological addiction and asking how not to be a dick when he's drunk.
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He's apparently a Danish person which, combined with obvious drunkposting, explains the confusing as hell post. I still think there's a fun E/N thread somewhere inside that ball of pompous craziness but we'll have to wait a few months to find out assuming he keeps up his past posting habits.
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Is there a quick way to make iTunes re-source the whole library without duplicating everything that's already there? I don't buy music through iTunes so there's a whole bunch of stuff that isn't in the library, not to mention it's a huge pain in the rear end to manually add every new file to the library. Can I just c/p everything from my music folder to the iTunes media folder?
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razorrozar posted:Is there a quick way to make iTunes re-source the whole library without duplicating everything that's already there? I don't buy music through iTunes so there's a whole bunch of stuff that isn't in the library, not to mention it's a huge pain in the rear end to manually add every new file to the library. Can I just c/p everything from my music folder to the iTunes media folder? Go to "add a folder to library" and select "my music."
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Lazer Monkey posted:I have developed a recent troublesome behavior of walking the gently caress out of parties when my sensibilities gets bruised, either ethically or mentally. Are you asking how not to be a dick at parties or about whether physcial and mental addiction are different. How not to be a dick at parties: Don't do things that will make other people's night less fun. Addiction: They're very different. If you're physically addicted to something you may literally die if you cut it out cold turkey. A lot of the terminology used in the treatment of both is similar but when you're dealing with a physical addiction there's the added, well, physical dimension of it.
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I think his question is "Tell me that I'm a good person, Something Awful." Sorry, bro. You are the dude at parties that everyone wants to avoid. If you can't control
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Shnooks posted:Ugh, really?! Even if they're autoclaved regularly? I do work in almost two dozens hospitals, and all of them use single use drapes. That's the norm now. May I ask why you're so angry about synthetic drapes?
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I read the autobiography of a New York cop who joined the force in the 90s. He writes that at the time people with criminal records (eg car thieves) were allowed to join. Is this still true?
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Feb 3, 2013 18:50
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Are you asking how not to be a dick at parties or about whether physcial and mental addiction are different. To be more accurate, medical professionals use the term dependence to describe the physiologic need to continue to take a drug to prevent withdrawal symptoms. Addiction refers to the psychologic need to continue abusing a drug despite demonstrated negative effects in a person's life.
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A lot of photographs of beach sperm whales show their penises protruding from their bodies. Is this a by-product of the stress they suffered when they beached?
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Baron Bifford posted:A lot of photographs of beach sperm whales show their penises protruding from their bodies. Is this a by-product of the stress they suffered when they beached? God you're weird
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My phone contract is up at the end of this month. I'm thinking of bailing out of AT&T and moving on to Verizon. They seem cheaper with similar coverage as AT&T. Finally going to get a smart phone!  I'm going to be signing up for the plan with my fiance. The Verizon plan in our price range is unlimited voice/texging, and 4gb of data. Is 2gb of data per person going to be enough? This will be my first smart phone so I have no frame of reference and neither has my SO. What is typical usage?
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2GB sounds excessive. I only need 200MB of data tops per month, because I use Wi-Fi as much as I can (before I got Wi-Fi for my home, I used 500MB per month). But maybe you're really addicted to surfing on your phone.
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I cannot, despite having taken a college course in 3d animation and having a degree in multimedia, get the hang of Google Sketchup to make a 2d floorplan. Is there a recommendation around here beside sketchup? I just need something very basic that I can put boxes with my measurements into a room. Top-down, 2d is fine.
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Huntersoninski posted:My phone contract is up at the end of this month. I'm thinking of bailing out of AT&T and moving on to Verizon. They seem cheaper with similar coverage as AT&T. Finally going to get a smart phone! Yeah, I use WiFi whenever I can (at home, at work, at school), so my cellular data usage is pretty low. According to my phone's statistics (iPhone, for reference), I've received 4.5GB since the end of December 2011.
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Oh, wifi doesn't count? Well! That makes it sound much more reasonable! I dont' think we'll be using it excessively, but I'm not interested in overage charges. Thanks everyone for your answers!
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Dragyn posted:I cannot, despite having taken a college course in 3d animation and having a degree in multimedia, get the hang of Google Sketchup to make a 2d floorplan. Visio has floor planning modules.
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What the heck is with all the "how we use cookies" notifications on websites in the past week or so? Did the EU issue some sort of new legislation or something?
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Costco question  Apparently you can use debit cards there but NOT one with an associated line of credit(overdraft protection). Also conflicting reports if you need to have the same address as the primary holder if you're the second account person. Anyone have a membership to confirm/deny?
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fivre posted:What the heck is with all the "how we use cookies" notifications on websites in the past week or so? Did the EU issue some sort of new legislation or something?
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Hoops posted:Are you British? Those have been around for about a year now, they passed a law saying sites couldn't store cookies without user consent. I've noticed a lot more recently too though, maybe a deadline for putting up these notices is about to arrive. No, I'm American, but I figure the EU tends to be more agressive with laws about internet privacy/not loving over consumers whatever, and I've also seen them more frequently on British sites (Telegraph, Top Gear), though I guess I don't visit many non-British EU sites, what with them being in moonspeak and all.
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In Denmark at least, we recently got a law saying that you absolutely need to tell people that your website is using "cookies". It smells a lot like the politicians finding out about "computers" "broadcasting an "IP address" and regulating it because they figure it might be harmful, without understanding it at all.
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Same new cookie law here in the Netherlands. It is kind of annoying really.
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Does anyone know of one of those cheapo FM transmitters with an SD reader or USB socket that is also easily moddable to have a stronger signal? I remember several years ago, there were FM transmitters models that were designed so you could pop them open and turn a tiny screw in order to get a signal boost.
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Is there a megathread for Video Camera questions? I'm looking in The Dorkroom and it mostly seems to be SLRs etc.
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Try this thread in creative convention maybe: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3144982
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Noni posted:Does anyone know of one of those cheapo FM transmitters with an SD reader or USB socket that is also easily moddable to have a stronger signal? I remember several years ago, there were FM transmitters models that were designed so you could pop them open and turn a tiny screw in order to get a signal boost. Would http://www.amazon.com/SainSonic-Ste...nic+transmitter work for you?
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Noni posted:Does anyone know of one of those cheapo FM transmitters with an SD reader or USB socket that is also easily moddable to have a stronger signal? I remember several years ago, there were FM transmitters models that were designed so you could pop them open and turn a tiny screw in order to get a signal boost. Belkin F8M066 (discontinued but easy to find NIB for  ) is easy to mod for more power. It's not turning a screw easy though. It's complete trash without the mod. Between my vehicles, wife's and friends I and a friend have done about 6 of these over the last couple years with good results. (it sounds as good as the hardwired inline fm mod I used to have)http://computerchristmas.com/christmas/link-how_to/HowToId-133/Belkin_Tunecast_Auto_Universal_FM_transmitter_Mod I did a variation on his mod that I think is easier and sturdier. I clipped off the "black box" with some tiny nippers, soldered the black boxes contact points together and hooked my external antenna to the internal antenna wire rather than soldering it to the board. My soldering iron seemed too big so I used a knife heated in a flame. edit: We made all of our external ants out of about 2 feet of a single strand/conductor of a cat5 except for the one for my Tahoe. The Tahoe is the only vehicle of the group with an actual old fashioned mast antenna, I made the external ant for that mod about 10 feet long, ran it out the door and wound it around the vehicle antenna a few times. You can walk away from it like 200' in a neighborhood with a portable radio and hear the bitchin jam band tunes. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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I've seen american immigration portrayed on TV a couple of times and one question they asked is Are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party, if they still ask why do they still ask that and what happens if you say yes?
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Dragyn posted:I cannot, despite having taken a college course in 3d animation and having a degree in multimedia, get the hang of Google Sketchup to make a 2d floorplan. Autodesk Homestyler is a neat little web-based program that's fairly intuitive to use. If you need something a little more robust, AutoCAD and Revit both have 30-day trial versions.
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