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Comment Re:the problem with Twitter (Score 1) 114

I agree, however, I got bored and wanted to find out how much potential storage twitter posts use on a daily basis.
500Million Tweets a day : http://www.internetlivestats.c...
* 140 bytes = 70Billion Bytes, or, 70Gigabytes roughly a day

If you double the char array to 280, thats only 140Gigabytes a day for just tweets.

Twitter have the money and network infrastructure to do this without question. I think its more a case that Twitter believes the 140 character limit is part of their "ethos", changing it would piss off all those users who wasted their life mastering the "shorthand of Twitter messages".

Comment Dont Install any. Use free manual scans. (Score 1) 467

Turn off Windows Defender via run > services.msc.
Run this free AV/Malware scan twice a month, or whenever you feel your system "may be infected".
http://www.eset.com/us/online-... (left option)

- No need to install a bulky Antivirus/Anti-Malware program that will slow your PC down more than an actual infection.
- No need to pay for something that you'll probably never use, let alone need.

If you "must" have active protection. Re-enable Windows Defender and put up with the performance impact it has on your system.

Comment Friends that spam.. Solution (Score 1) 225

If you're tired of seeing fake or misleading news articles posted by your friends to Facebook and then spreading like wildfire, you might be in luck.

No luck needed, i have the magic ability to remove that spamming "friend" from my friends list.
If i want to read the news, i'll choose someone who went to school, got a degree and is highly regarded in the news sector on a daily basis (eg:their job at BBC news).

So if enough people don't believe something and flag it false, it becomes "false." Something else for paid shills and opinionated people to do I suppose.

Facebook will never be a true opinionated platform unless they add a "DISLIKE" button. Until then, i fail to see the point of creating an artificial "fake" world for people to waste their life with. Facebook works by allowing its users to believe on the assumption that everyone loves them and everything they say is gold dust.

Comment Re:Once (Score 1) 217

Result of your request:

800-555-1212 -- Nemyst -- Confirmed quality number with confirmed name, removed from our call database -- Placed on working number selling list

I used to be so kind to call center workers, asking them to remove from the call list, with all the please and thank you's i could give. But most of the call centers would call back (most likely due to the above).

Now i tell them to "Fuck off", be abusive and swear my heart out. Surly that gets you put on the "black list" and removed from the system?
Works for me in the UK.

I feel sorry for the staff, but at the end of the day, their job is to piss people off and they know it.

Comment Re:US only and needs MS Silverlight .. (Score 1) 94

US only and needs MS Silverlight ..

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ph...
Amazon’s First Pilot Season of 2015, Featuring Slate of 13 Original Comedy, Drama, Docuseries and Kids Offerings, is Now Available on Amazon Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany

And yeah, Silverlight :S . Amazon must be getting some £££££ from Microsoft, either that, or their video/web department is run by 16 year olds that never heard of flash.

Comment Re:Bah ... (Score 1) 189

Bah, do what people have been doing for centuries ... have kids and make them get up and do it.

I did the "have kids" part, but it cant even crawl yet!
Misses will be pissed when i have to hire her services again.

Light-hearted joke. Dont go all "omgwtfbbq sexism" on me lol

Comment EFF meeting 101 (Score 1) 189

We can and should stand up against harassment.

EFF meeting:
Lets make a search engine?
- Google done that

Lets make the world more connected?
- Facebook/Twitter did that

Fuck it, lets enforce our own laws on the world and get donations to do it.
- Roger that. Lets create an issue that doesnt really need to exist and make people fall for it. Lets ignore the things that really matter like world hunger, corrupt governments and corporations. But hey, at least EFF will get popular sifting shit down peoples throats that DOESNT REALLY MATTER.

Comment Re:i5? Call me when they have the i7 (Score 1) 97

But for multithreads (getting more common, despite the complaints about it here),

If only the Java/python/ruby "script kiddies" could do the below. Your i7 would be worthwhile. :)

//Thread 0 - Scan Filesystem for music
unsigned __stdcall Thread_0(void*)
{
        while (cThread.bActive[0])
        { //Find Files
                for (int i = 0; i MAX_PLAYLIST_DIRECTORY; i++)
                { //Stop request, break
                        if (cThread.bStopRequest[0])
                        {
                                break;
                        }
                        else if (cFile.Playlist_Directory[i] != "")
                        {
                                cFile.Scan_Media(cFile.Playlist_Directory[i], "*.*", true);
                        }
                }
                cThread.bActive[0] = false;
        }
        return 0;
}

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