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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Texas family begging for food... in New York!

« on: April 26, 2014, 11:34:54 PM »

I came across a rather odd family today.
I went to the grocery store here in New York (not the city) and outside was a man and his family (two children I think) with a sign that says "lost my job.  We need food.  God bless"
Ok, I figured, just a begger.  But why not get unemployment?  Why not get food stamps?
I walked past quickly as the store manager asked them politely to leave, which they did.

As I approached my car, I could hear them behind me speaking in Spanish.  The children specifically.  Then I saw the car they went into: A van with Texas plates.

Is this a new epidemic?  Is Texas so bad that losing your job requires you to drive all the way to New York just to beg for food?  Or is Texas simply dumping their poor on us New Yorkers and claiming it as "solving the poor problem"?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Scripts on the forum

« on: April 19, 2014, 07:05:48 PM »

Why are so many odd scripts trying to be run on this forum?

I've got NoScript on and it's currently blocking 26 scripts.  Stuff like easyinline.com, tvlsvc.com, peepsvr.com, tanzuku.net, and many more.

Is it just me?

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Technology & Information / HeartBleed - Why so long?

« on: April 10, 2014, 01:27:47 AM »

Why do you guys think it took the open source community so long to find this exploit?  And how did it even GET to the point of being an exploit?

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Technology & Information / Windows XP support ends today

« on: April 08, 2014, 07:26:28 PM »

Today marks the end of an era.  The day when XP, one of the most popular windows operating systems to date, is no longer supported.


Let us take a moment to remember the love and frustration it brought us.

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Technology & Information / solar roadway prototype completed

« on: April 04, 2014, 01:43:31 AM »

Solar Roads

Basically solar panels for roads.  So far: awesome.

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Technology & Information / Linux in weird/awesome places

« on: April 01, 2014, 10:22:01 AM »

http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/142210/16-weirdest-places-you-can-find-Linux?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2014-03-31#slide1

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Technology & Information / Coin (not to be confused with bitcoin)

« on: March 22, 2014, 04:19:12 PM »

https://onlycoin.com/

Anyone else think this is a really dumb idea?

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Technology & Information / if you have FiOS...

« on: February 10, 2014, 05:11:33 PM »

Test your Netflix and amazon cloud server connection.

Reports are coming in that Verizon is throttling traffic from those two hosts.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / The new "Family Jewels"

« on: January 19, 2014, 07:43:28 PM »

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/19/263128098/swiss-company-compresses-cremation-ashes-into-diamonds

I think it's a neat idea.

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Technology & Information / Steam on Linux

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:04:36 AM »

So I'm trying this again, but now with Debain (so I don't have to worry about Ubuntu's compatibility issues with ATI legacy drivers).

Unfortunately I'm having an issue that doesn't seem to exist...

I'm missing libatiuki.so.1

My first problem is that I'm not even sure where it should go.
My second problem is that it doesn't appear to be in the debian repositories.

I'm on Wheezy and I'd rather not upgrade to Jessie(which has steam in it's repository) unless it's relatively stable.

Unless someone knows of another option...

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Arts & Entertainment / Paul Walker dies in car crash

« on: December 01, 2013, 02:58:14 PM »

www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/2013/12/01/fast-furious-star-paul-walker-dies-crash/N6Z3jVDqE2TVXDuy1WzORN/story.html

Irony: He wasn't driving.