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Comment Evolution ?? (Score 1) 417

IF it is true that 96 percent of marine life died in the past... it doesn't bode well for the evolution theory either.

Someone please explain the Evolution of marine life if it all went extinct.

Last time I checked the definition of extinct meant permanently gone.

From nothing comes nothing ;-)

Comment Ignorant Proof it (Score 1) 408

Nothing as we know is guarenteed to be fool or bullet proof but every little bit if armor helps. So here's some thoughs about upgrading your geekdom...

If houshold members are leaving without setting the alarm then you can opt for auto arming via RFID proximity wearables (Keychain tags) that sense and log when someone enters and exits the home --or-- keeping with the same principle with much less expense; It seems as though everyone today is carrying some sort of smart phone and many auto-connect to their WiFi LAN when home to achieve faster speeds and cut down on data rates because 'Unlimited' is not really unlimited data.

So... Since most people do not leave home without their phones you could set up your network to monitor all registered mac addresses and when the last one disconnects from being out of range it could trigger an event to set the alarm. Also when one of the macs arrives it will only allow disarming via the keypad as usual thus training your cohabs to use the damn thing.

CONS: Of course the phone route would require that participating phones do not turn off the WiFi radio in a energy saving mode and they must be kept charged.

How to implement any of this will be another mind numbing journey through the internet of things. My keyword tips are: Open Source, Linux, & eBay (Crestron & Security Systems)

Comment Polarization of the facts... TRUTH IS: (Score 1) 409

Clearly the proprietor of this research is polarized and began a one sided view and attack of racism without presenting any unbiased facts regarding the other side of the racist coin.
I'm quite sure that if we accumulated the data on the other side of the 'racist' coin we'd find to a higher degree that this racist hatred exists far more abundantly against whites than whites against any other race.

If whites are all so racist, then please explain how the great majority of whites have forsaken their own heritage to adopt the cultural mannerisms of 'African Americans' and how the term Wigger was born?
No, I think we see more white people embracing the black culture than any other Non-black race on the planet.

How many Asians and Hispanics are running around your town dressed in the latest of thugwear exposing their undergarments 'grills' & 'bling', grabbing their crotches, driving jacked up cars with 22" wheels, and dumbing down their dialects and vocabularies to try and fit in with the "Niggas"?
How many other races have a large number of their population (both sexes) involved in relationships and sexual flings with blacks?

If we examine all of the racist data that can be accumulated we would find that it is white people who are the most hated and discriminated against race of all. So let's all keep singling out a few white trash examples to keep the hate whitties fire burning.

Even in the smallest regard, One need look no further than their own mirror to find a bigot.

While it is true that racism or bigotry does exist and that it is not helping anyone in this country by any means other than to serve it's intended purpose by those who are trying to keep it alive and thriving. Which is to say that it serves no purpose other than to divide and conquer a nation.

It is being used as a political tool in a toolbox full of deceit for keeping a war machine churning.
What most people fail to see is that this hatred is being spoon fed to them by those who want all of this animosity to flourish.

It serves a purpose, and it is serving it well.

Everything that is happening today is all part of a big picture; pieces of a puzzle that when finished will reveal a great horror that none of these idiots will have realized was coming since they have all played a part in keeping themselves dumbed down and blinded by their own hate fired ignorance of the puppet masters behind this whole mess.

Mark my words, It's been a long time in the works and it is coming.
We have been warned time and time again but nobody wants to hear or accept the truths that have been irrefutably documented and presented.

The public at large is more concerned with themselves, their own lives, and their own opinions than becoming educated about and involved in actually making positive changes in this country and stopping the corruption that has such a firm grasp of it's balls.

Time to wake up Sheeple.

Time to make a difference starting with the person in the mirror.

Let go of all this stupidity and start opening your mind to what is really happening here or before long we will all be looking back at how great this country actually was, all the freedoms we took for granted and let slip away, all those who have fought and died for those freedoms, and that we were all too full of shit to see it coming.

Comment My 3yo girl is at 5yo levels... (Score 1) 338

Because of computer exposure that challenges and motivates her to accel. She still has plenty of playtime and social time too. This poor person wants honest answers to a simple question and instead got a lot of personal opinions and interjection on how to raise their kid. That is just Wrong! Tsk-Tsk!! So, my girl would be one of the many girls who would talk to this persons boy at any age. To answer the question directly; You will have to try each of the good answers given by the good people here to see what works best for you and your son. As Best is relational to ones own experience, YMMV and what is best in one person's opinion is clearly not in another's. Last thoughts... Have you tried zoodles? It was cross platform until they yanked the Firefox kid jail plugin. Which I still have and can send to anybody. Now they just cater to Microsoft and Apple Unfortunately.

Comment Hello Sheeple !? (Score 1) 178

Skimming the comments I can't believe how so many people are really this clueless.

These centers are part of the NWO agenda to strip and squash America.
Much of what we will see here has already happened for the most part and continues in Europe.

The Fusion centers are solicited under false pretenses. Give it a few more years and then the whole world will see what they were really built for. The U.S. constitution and bill of rights are being striped away slice by slice, freedom of speech, gun ownership, etc... All the past, current, and future events are leading up to Martial Law where U.S. citizens will be rounded up and placed in these fusion centers.

As this all unfolds and becomes more and more clear to people, they will also begin to realize how the N.A.F.T.A. will come into play and fit neatly inline.

Think about it. If the U.S. Government wasn't owned by a private banking cartel and truly cared about it's citizens, would they be wasting so much money on frivolous BS, or would they have poured it into the 2 major systems in most dire need of even fractions of what has been spent. Namely the Educational and Health Care systems.

No, instead they have been incrementally ruining this country by dumbing it down and poisoning it with genetically modified and chemically altered food products making everyone more and more dependent and less capable of realizing what is really going on. The greater majority have little to no means of getting the health care they need and the number of people falling through the cracks is staggering.

The U.S. public has been systematically trained to be more concerned with their TV shows, materialism, and trying to make ends meet than their own health and education. This ignorance of political matters, the country's history, racial inciting agenda, social engineering, and other incrementalism tactics are what will eventually kill of many of us as... ' The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' ... er, um, Know not how to do anything.

Everyone's keeping their eyes on the black man, and so many lost souls are still hoping for that promised change, but the change we're getting is not what they all expected from their new messaiah. All that social conditioning over the past 30 years about a certain races plight has payed off. Even the other ethnicities have adopted 'Change' on a grand scale. So grand in fact that they have forsaken and frown upon their own history and heritage, in exchange for adopting the ways, dress code, vernacular, and mannerisms of a race once foreign and despised by them. It's all history folks, look it up.

There is so much going on behind the scenes that the greater majority have no clue nor even want to know about. It's emotional for these brainwashed people. The ignorant are playing right along in mass numbers enough to carry the elite agenda right on through.

Mark my words, This century will be the last for the United States of America. It's too far gone to pull back now. What was holding her together is being ripped to shreds and quickly forgotten. The foundations upon which this great nation were built upon are all decaying and crumbling away, now faster than ever with our latest government players busting out the power tools to expedite things.

I'll leave you with the words of William Penn: "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."

Comment Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. (Score 1) 320

but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.

And this is why Linux will never be more than just an "alternative" desktop OS. Because its user base is always assumed to just KNOW how everything works, and if you pose a question that some neckbeard thinks is "stupid", he'll let you know it, and you'll be the focal point of mockery and derision. Linux needs to stop being that exclusive club for the cool kids and know-it-alls and start being a more user-oriented (rather than developer-oriented) community.

The Linux community needs a drastic culture-change before it's ready to compete on any meaningful level with Windows and OS X.

Oh, and I WILL be modded down for this, and it WILL validate my point even more.

Really!?
Anybody can USE a computer... for something. Even a doorstop.

People who are willing to research and learn before they ask for help usually find the solution before they have to ask because you are usually Not the first person to experience the problem you are facing.
Thus the attitude you have been getting is probably due to you Not doing your Due Diligence and getting to know the community that you say doesn't exist.
It's not an exclusive club. There are a huge amount of people new to Linux and UNIX that are getting along just fine.

RTFM (renaming the F word in a polite way) means to Read The Frickin' Manual and research the issues at hand.
Neckbeards and the rest of us, including noobs who don't expect the hand that feeds them to wipe their butts too,
are people that are not mocked because they know how to find solutions to their problems on their own and ask for help correctly when they run into a wall.

RTFM is what you may see every so often when looking for help that has already been covered by so many other contributors so many countless times.
You will often see this when a person has not done any research and just dumps all over the forums.

I mean really! Can you crack open the hood and fix this kind of stuff on a windows box? No!
You have to wait for Microsoft or some other vendor to fix the problem.

But at least with Open Source software you can LEARN how to CONTRIBUTE and HELP solve issues, instead of crying about how your FREE software has issues and the only contributions you offer are to Flame the whole operating system and community, no matter that there are UPSTREAM issues that also include ATI,AMD and other software that breaks inside Linux at no fault of Linux itself.

Usually at least when software misbehaves in Linux you can jump out of the desktop and grab a text only terminal window and kill the zombie, then return to your now functioning graphical desktop, instead of getting a blue or black screen of death - break my machine - reboot Windows over and over illness.

AND, Every Tool is available to you for Free in Linux, no matter what programming language or system you would like to learn about.
Now show me all that free stuff in Windows.

Here's a test run for those who are Linux Haters...
Grab any old proprietary machine, motherboard, graphics card, and other harware.
Assemble it all if you didn't find a complete system such as an old DELL, Gateway, HP, Compaq (Yes they were separate at one time), MPC* or whatever you can find in someone's closet without the original software.

Preferably put new hard & optical drives in, take ANY flavor of Windows off the shelf and TRY to get it ALL to work for you.
Then when you find out that there is no sound, network, and the video sucks... Come back here and tell me how GREAT the Proprietary Gods are again.

NOW...
Take ANY Linux distro Old or NEW and see how much Just works Out Of The Box, And when something doesn't work how easy you can generally find a solution to fix.

Compared to how many forums and websites you'd have to scour trying to find windows Drivers for a defunct company like MPC* that used modified Intel boards (as do most of the other guys still in business.)
Oh, and there are plenty of sites that will offer you virus riddled drivers for your pet Windows project.

I forgot... If you want to run anything newer than XP, you'd better make sure you DON'T have an old machine that any Linux distro can run on with just a $24 1GB memory upgrade.
No, You'd better find a money tree to buy super powered hardware JUST to run the Bloated Micro$oft OS' that came after XP.

So ladies and germs, Yeah, Linux and every other OS or piece of software has issues; They're called people.
People write software. People make mistakes. People expect their stuff to be perfect.
Psst... Nothing Is Perfect.

*MPC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPC_Corporation

Comment Linus / Romney's Aircraft windows (Score 1) 1223

What's the BFD? Really!? Nobody is perfect and even Linus can fire off before thinking.

But, if we think about Romney's suggestion and put some logic behind the idea, it's not that stupid after all.

Tell me what existing portal or hatch can be opened during flight now.
And why they cannot be opened during flight.

Simple; It would depressurize the cabin and cause serious problems ... Right?

So, why then would the obvious reason Linus thought this was a stupid idea be valid?
Would they not implement the same safety features used on the rest of the openings?

I'm sure passengers and staff won't just be able to open the damn things at will during a flight to flick ashes out. - as if.

Naturally if such a thing came to pass, they would not be able to be opened until safety sensors allow it.
Be it altitude, barometric pressure, and/or inertia that would all have to be within certain parameters before the window emergency escape latches would be allowed to function.

Say the pilots managed to land without too much damage and there were survivors onboard...
Naturally if you are on the ground in a burning tube or in the water and sinking, wouldn't you want as many exits as possible?

So, just because these 2 guys are under the microscope, doesn't mean they are any more or less human than the rest of us.

They just have enough balls to stand in front of everyone and speak their minds.

It never ceases to amaze me how quick the village idiots grab their pitch forks, er, um, I mean the masses are to crucify others.

Comment Re:Of those who actually asked for help (Score 1) 232

P.S. Another option is to install Linux, say Ubuntu and VirtualBox OSE where the same method I described earlier applies except this time all software is free and you have a host system that can be another firewall and look into the filesystem of any given flavor of Winblows in the case if a dual boot scenario. Though it might seem a scary suggestion, it is only scary for those who have never played with the software for fear of the unknown and vicious erroneous rumors about Linux... Again from the ignorant.

. Ubuntu and VitualBox are very straightforward and easy to install and set up. The same as a Winblows install with the added benefits of a huge community support system. Eventually, those who become comfortable with Linux, completely ditch Winblows. For those who don't want to see what is happening at boot time, Linux can be configuration to boot quietly, auto login, and run your Winblows VM at startup.

Laziness grows on people, it begins in cobwebs and ends in chains.

Comment Re:Of those who actually asked for help (Score 1) 232

Just recently, my parents were complaining about how their computer was behaving very slow and strangely. The number of malware, crapware and toolbars I had to uninstall via remote desktop using Teamspeak (we live on different continents) was enormous. Lol!

In my experience for customers whose machines are that far gone, or in most cases for that matter the best practice of removing all those nasties is to just back up all of the users important data, scan it to remove any sources of infection, wipe the drive and start with a fresh install. Then after all the updates and 3rd party installs are complete, install a ghost imaging service like Norton Ghost, and make a complete known good backup of the entire system which can restore it back to the same state the next time they are infected. Of course several snap shots can be made along the way as new software is installed. The beauty of this method is that the snapshots are stored on external media and not susceptible to infection provided that the external device is not left connected Or is optical CD/R or DVD/R. This practice is best served with a data backup plan as well, using an external storage device for the personal files that don't make it into a snapshot in time... i.e. are in-between a snapshot and infection. Though this method is time consuming, it is only so once and you will pull out less hair looking for all the crap you missed. Comparatively, the time to remove all infections and hope you got them all, then have a pissed customer when something shows right back up say from a root kit, this solution is best for absolute peace of mind and happy customers that will praise you to their friends on how much money you saved them in the long run. Now prepare for more customers. Final mention; I realize you are on another continent so naturally you would have to have someone with some savvy on the receiving end of your instruction to complete this for the customers who would be overwhelmed by the process. In this cat and mouse game of security, it is always the mice who win unless the cats get smart and realize that the mice will always get the cheese, so clone it and allow for those losses.

Comment Re:Why not? (Score 1) 541

"... Don't flame, I like Obama a lot, ..." (Kryptonian)

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In an unbiased frame of mind, examine your beliefs ask yourself:
'What are the facts that lead me to believe in this man?'
Do I have any substantiated facts or am I basing my judgment on feelings and/or hearsay?
Do I believe the press and what I have been told?
Have I really done any thorough research about this man?
What is the truth behind the veil?
What is his true agenda?

Speaking of freedoms... If you do enough research and
1. Get a look at the whole picture on a *global level (* to include influences outside the US )
2. Are a US Citizen possessing any shred of patriotism
3. Grasp the true foundations of this country and what our founding fathers intentionally laid out for us in the Constitution.
4. You are a Christian or at least have enough first hand knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from actually reading it to understand #3 in it's entirety.

Then you may understand what the fate of this Country and your freedom is.
Nobel's, Linux, and anything else you value here are Immaterial.

Look no further than the U.K. to see what is coming.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/america-as-the-last-man-standing.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/clips.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM6US0Qk5_8

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