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Comment Re:Quid pro quo (Score 0) 187

I went to Georgia State University way back when. I was going as a CS major and I was taking a Chemistry class as an elective. I was doing horrible in Chemistry as I was a full time student and had a full time job too.

I struggled through the class and the lab. For some reason the final exam was in the computer lab. As I found out the exam was on the computer and had a time limit of 4 hours. To show how long ago it was, the exam was on commodore 64's.

It was a 200 question test and multiple choice. I struggled through the first 15 questions for almost the first hour. I decided that I was never going to finish the exam in time. I had fooled around with commodore's prior and knew the execute break sequence.

It dropped me to a command prompt and I started looking through the code to change it so no matter which answer I gave it was always correct. 10 minutes of searching through the code, I found where it matched up responses to questions. The bad news if anyone remembers programming for commodore basic is that you could lock the program memory.

The good news was that I found the variables holding the question I was on and the number of questions that I got correct. I set the next question equal to 200 and the number correct to 199.

I sat around for almost another hour. Then at the command prompt typed "run" and pressed enter. A screen popped up stating that I completed the test with one missed answer at a time of just over 2 hours.

I got an A in the class and nobody ever questioned my final exam test.....

Was that moral?

Comment Re:So many guesses. May I apply reverse logic? (Score -1) 233

The one thing that you are forgetting is willful rerouting. Say the pilot is looking for a payday of all paydays.

There were two people going to Europe. They had fake passports to board the plane. Somehow there were going to Europe AND not through China. China is the wrong direction for them. They were not the type to hijack the plane nor had experience to fly the plane if they actually did that. They have been cleared.

But say they had money to bribe the pilot to go to Europe. What is the best path to make it to Europe undetected. You don't fly through the middle east AND you are going to need a place to refuel. It would be much easier to refuel in Africa than in the Middle East somewhere.

The plane is off the coast of Tanzania or Madagascar. They were hoping that there was enough fuel to make it but had to ditch it a few 100 miles off the coast of either one. It wasn't a hijacking, but a paid rerouting.

That is where the plane will turn up in a few years. Oh and the satellite data they have isn't correct. Well, it is correct but it wasn't plotted correctly.

Comment Re:They were busy (Score -1) 196

It sounds like an old Window 95/98 flaw that was almost similar. When signing on to a user account, a dialog box would pop up with the user id already filled in. Type in a wrong password, it would give you an error dialog box that you had to press "Enter". When enter was pressed it would clear out the user id and password. If enter was pressed again without entering a user id and password... it would sign you in to what ever account you were originally trying to sign in to.

Comment Re:really? really. (Score -1) 558

I agree. As what the doctors are now saying that is wrong behavior as in not talking, will one day be seen as something that will change later on when in more social environments, just as I did. As for being a leftie, at least you can sit next to your SO at a table and not bump arms while eating.

Comment Re:really? really. (Score -1) 558

My son has been diagnosed with autism because he doesn't talk to anybody and he is 3 1/2. The problem is he just doesn't feel like talking. I was the same way when I was a kid. My mom says that I really didn't start talking until I was 5 years old and had started school.

Nowadays that gets you labeled as "Autistic".

At 2 years old, I taught him how to say the alphabet. At 2 1/2 years old I had him writing the alphabet. I don't know many children his age that can write the alphabet even now.

I read to him now every weekend that I have him. As I read the book to him, he points at the correct words that I read. That to me says that he is smarter than average.

If he generally wants something, he will point at it and say nothing. He has done that most of the time in the doctors office when they try to evaluate him. He will speak if made to as when he wants me to pick him up, he will come to me and tug on my arm. I will wait till he says "Up" before I pick him up. I most times have to ask him what he wants a time or two but will usually say it in a minute or two. Oh and his mother only speaks Spanish, so that might also be confusing to him too.

I know that he is smart because his mother will put on a Dora DVD at night for him to go to sleep and turn the volume all the way down not to disturb her other children. He has recently started saying out loud, the entire dialog of the video as it plays when there is no audio. So, not only can he speak, but he can remember the entire spoken content of a 2 hour video at age 3 1/2.

He will be fine, just as I was.

Comment Re:A good analogy: the sniper (Score -1) 158

It does not hold true. Gwinnett county, Georgia USA.

Neighbor to the right of my girlfriend shot in the chest in his home January 1st 2013 1am from a 9mm bullet that came through the exterior wall. Dies approximately 1 hour later at hospital.

January 1st 12:30am approximately(half hour earlier), neighbor across the street hearing celebratory gunfire from the apartment complex behind his house, the son of the owner of the house walks outside with fathers 9mm fires 5 shots into the ground emptying the clip in more celebratory gunfire. Then goes back inside. More shots are heard from around the neighborhood.

January 1st 1:15am approximately, Gwinnett county police find 5 casings and 5 spent bullets in the ground, arrest the father, the home owner and registered owner of the gun. The fatally shot bullet is too marred to make a positive match. In court it was determined that the trajectory the bullet took was in a downward path. The owner of the home that got shot and died house is 30 feet higher up on a hill than the neighbor across the street who was shooting into the ground.

The apartment complex behind the house of the neighbor across the street is up on a hill more than 50 to 60 feet up and more than 100 feet away through a bunch of trees. It was determined that the apartment complex was more than 20 feet higher than house of the owner that got shot providing a downward trajectory.

Didn't matter. The father, the home owner and owner of the gun is now serving 3 1/2 years in prison for a murder that he didn't commit. His son, late 20's early 30's should have known better. The father should have known better. It is a very unfortunate series of events that many people involved should have known better.

I don't know the full case but 3 1/2 years for murder doesn't seem like they convicted him on murder charges.

But in this case, the home owner was in fact held liable.

here is a map of the house https://www.google.com/maps?q=...

And anyone good at searching addresses, here is the address of the courts http://www.gwinnettcourts.com/
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Comment Re:Depends on the source - and the ears. (Score -1) 749

You are assuming that your ears are as good or better than the average persons ears. What if your hearing isn't as good as even average ears. I have never claimed to have good hearing as I am almost 50 years old. But, I have always been able to tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed audio. Most people can't. I would probably say less than 5% of the population. Does that make me have good ears that I can tell the difference?? Probably not.

Case in point. A number of years ago when I was going to church with an ex-girlfriend, one morning we were running late and had entered the church after it had started. Upon opening the main doors, I could hear this high pitch squeal. As we got closer to the auditorium I made mention to my girlfriend at the time that it was getting loud. She ask what was and I said the squeal. She said "Oh". Upon opening a side door to the auditorium the squeal wasn't deafening but was unpleasant.

I wondered why nobody else was bothered by it. After we sat down, I started looking around to see if anyone else was bothered with it. Out of the 250 to 300 people, I noticed maybe five that were showing signs of covering their ears. Some teenagers, some adults. Half women. Half men. I would occasionally put my fingers in my ears every now and then to take a break from it.

I noticed the guy at the sound board in his mid to late 60's happily oblivious to the high pitch squeal along with the rest of the entire audience.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the 5 or so people in the audience that were bothered by the squeal could also tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed.

I fear for the day that I lose the ability to hear high pitch sounds. I know it is coming one day. I fear it because I listen to live music and more so recordings of music, for the clean crispness of music. It will be a sad day for me when it is gone. It is also sad for me to know that most people don't appreciate music as I do because they don't hear it as I do. I am a real believer in FLAC for loss-less. Could I tell if something was better than 44.1k.... probably not.

On the other hand MP3's are probably good enough for every one in that audience that day that didn't have their fingers in their ears. And do you manufacture music for the masses that can't tell the difference or spend lots of money on the manufacture of music for the 1% of people that can truly appreciate it???

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