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A broken signature is nothing major. If the file wasn't detected with heuristic scanning for known virus signatures or detected through suspicious activity, then you can ignore such warnings most of the time...

...especially for older drivers that were never properly updated for Windows Vista, 7, etc. What you have is just an old, unsigned driver most likely.

If you download something new (that is written for Vista/7) and a signature warning pops up, I might be concerned.

I'm already logging everything.

There is no definitive answer as it's impossible to tell the age of a drawing.

...the simple answer is NO, as most loli/shota hentai would never survive the Miller test and would be branded obscene.

What the fuck does looking at boobies have to do with morals?
Frankly if I ever have children and they're *not* looking at porn in their teens, I better take them to a doctor. It's *unhealthy* not to have any interest in the opposite sex during puberty.

OK. You never know. One of them could turn out gay. (That way there'd be someone with *good* fashion sense in the family). So let me revise that:

It's *unhealthy* not to have any interest in *sex* during (and after) puberty.

What are we exactly protecting teens from, anyway?
Finding out how a vagina/penis looks? How's that immoral? They probably already know.
Having sex? As if they wouldn't do it anyway...
IMHO it's just puritan shame over having sex et all. Utter bullshit in other words.

Umm... sorry, but nope.

Do you have *any* idea how scary medieval knights were?

Those guys trained for warfare all their life. No, they were not stupid, hauling collections of plate... we're talking about the medieval equivalent of a main battle tank: strong, fast, practically invulnerable.

Sure you could kill them with ease if they came into range unaware ...once. They wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

Afterwards they'd starve you to death, killings your peons in the night, poisoning your wells scaring away whatever trade partners you've managed to secure.

Once again: medieval people were *not* stupid. We're talking about people with the equivalent training of having fought in several wars *and* being a West Point graduate. *Really* scary fuckers.

Your ISP could be practicing traffic shaping - that is screwing with torrent traffic. Read this on how you can circumvent this:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_BitTorrent_To_Outwit_Traffic_Shaping_ISPs

Frankly I was going to go with Survivor Post-Apocalypse, because that would mean a lot of people with expertise needed to survive would still be alive. (Nuclear/bio war can't kill everyone... humans are too fare spread for that). Also there wouldn't be any paranormal, out of this world shit (zombies) or anything else that would just flat out own you (dinosaurs, aliens, etc).

By the way, skills! I don't know jack-shit about them! Hey you! Yeah! I'm talking to you, city dwellers just like me. Do you know how to fucking slaughter a pig? Harvest some crops? Not die within a year, for squandering your meager food supply? Though so... me neither.

Then I realized how bad that shit could be, how the most likely people to survive would be the religious nuts, and the radical right as these people have the numbers, the organization and willingness to kill any other fucker who dare 'look wrong. They're also intolerant, bigoted and irrational... so a they'd quickly put my white, suburban, commie ass out of commission.

So yeah... it could be good, but chances are it'd be pretty bad.

So what's the next best option?

The Medieval Rambo scenario. There'd be a functioning society out there, there'd be law and order... and frankly the medieval people were a lot more sophisticated and cultured then what we give them credit for.

Heck, actually I wouldn't even need a gun - that laptop right there is the more potent "weapon": a nine hundred years of knowledge, skills, technology all there to be transcribed and disseminated.

The most difficult thing would be learning the language (it's nothing like English today), then I'd have to ingratiate myself with the powers that be. Take small steps and focus on the practicalities rather than lofty ideals.

Check my sig.
In the future please post requests in the Requests board.

It is *not* superficial. In fact, fractional reserve banking is at the heart of the problem. Worldwide debt exist because money is created through fractional reserve banking. The debt is not crucial *precisely* because it's not a natural consequence of capitalistic enterprise, but because money creation was privatized.

If the government could create money without interest on it, a lot of things would be different. Yes, inflation would still exist, but even with "expert, privatized" control it's still a problem contrary to all the propaganda that was used to push for private banking in the first place.

You're not getting it. Once the torture starts you can no longer tell whether the subject is telling the truth or making stuff up. He will tell you everything... that's fine. What makes the method useless is that he will tell you *more*. Whatever comes to mind, whatever he think of to stop the pain.

Once again: torture as a form of interrogation is unreliable.

Get it into your thick skulls. Even the GRU, the STAZI, the KGB didn't use torture to extract information. They used it to break people's wills, to "re-educate" them, to make them admit to whatever crimes their conception trial required.

The most often quoted reason in favor of torture is that sometimes we need the intel right now... well torture won't help with that. It will even contaminate the suspect. The human mind has a great capability to manufacture delusions, and given enough abuse a subject will start to genuinely believe in things that never happened.

So get it into your thick skulls: Torture as a form of interrogation DOESN'T WORK.

Um... Don't use VLC. It's subtitle renderer SUCKS.



Instead use a GUI version of Mplayer:
KMplayer, SMplayer, etc.

There are builds of Mplayer for almost every OS out there. Yes, even Macs.

Torture is unreliable. Period.

The FBI doesn't use torture.
The CIA doesn't use torture.
The NSA doesn't use torture.

...because they all know this.

It's only Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and their cronies who do.

Since the secret services weren't willing to compromise their *professional* integrity (trust me, these guys *would* shoot their mother if it protected Uncle Sam's interest, they'd have *NO MORAL QUALMS* about torture) by delivering false intel (WMDs in Iraq? Al-Queda in Iraq? Nope.) they turned to the military brass and told them: Get me the Intel I *want*, ou your ass is grass.

...so the brass did what they always do when faced with a problem:

They threw some soldiers at it!

Soldiers with *NO*, or just *days of* intel & interrogation training. So you have all these boys and girls with little training, lots of pressure from above to perform and get result, and *GET THEM NOW* and no control, no moral restraints.

...of course they went astray, especially when their higher ups commended them for crossing the line.

OK. Here we go again...
The only certain things in life are death, taxes and data loss.

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FAKKU's Shadowrun game taking place in highschool of the dead damned in a wacky settings where players can finally unleash the years of frustration brought on by education... in other words prepare for sex, drugs and rock & roll with a good helping of violence and satire... (and absolutely no good sense on my part).

Characters should be made from 350 BP, the SINner flaw can't be used.
Character sheets should be uploaded to http://www.myth-weavers.com for easy access and review by you & GM.

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[size=20]Introduction[/h]

Your old life has been a lie: You were a designer baby raised for bucks, your parents sold you or you've been so much of a delinquent that you got an honorary "admission" into SCHOOL. You were 14... a couple of years have passed since then.

SCHOOL (Special Combat Habitat for Offensive Operation Liaisons) is a gated community in TOWN (the Tactical Ops and Warfare Nursery). It's a lawless place where the only adults are teachers, all of them certified psychopaths or major SOBs. Gangs, clans and cliques rule the majority of TOWN and everyone should have at least a party of close friends nearby to watch your back. You will stay here for four years.

If you thought that was a picnic, you haven't heard about the exams: every year, you have to complete some classes and get grades. Not your garden variety maths of literature class either (though you do have to finish their equivalent too!) ...but stuff like weapon's training, demolitions, infiltration... and phys-ed that makes marine boot-camp look like a stroll in the park. Failed courses mean being retained another year... drop-outs are "expelled"... (along with the contents of their brain).

...this is hell. The good news? You can cheat. The bad news? So is everyone else. Unless you're on the bounce your hard-won grades and meager savings (the better courses needed for graduation take an admittance fee!) will be quickly swept up by the competition. Bullying is deadly around these parts.

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Schedule

Games are played every Saturday 14:00 CST / 20:00 GMT.

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[size=20]IRC[/h]

The games are played using IRC. It's recommended you get an IRC (compatible) client to play. Such as: Pidgin, mIRC, XChat.

The server we use is: irc.sorcery.net

(In mIRC & XChat type: "/server irc.sorcery.net").
(In pidgin add a connection selecting the type "IRC" and enter "irc.sorcery.net" as the server).

The room we use is: #school

(In either mIRC, XChat or Pidgin, once you're conneted to the server type "/join #school").

If you really can't be bothered (or you're playing on someone's else's machine) you can use this link to connect from a browser:
irc://irc.sorcery.net/#school.

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[size=20]Setting up a Dicebot[/h]

This is help for GMs to get the "Bones" dicebot up and running.

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[size=20]Usefull Links[/h]

Useful links will be added here.

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[size=20]Setting[/h]

More fluff about SCHOOL & TOWN will be added here.

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[size=20]Game Sessions Summaries[/h]

To be filled.

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[size=20]Character Sheets[/h]

Player Characters (PCs)

To be filled.

Non-Player Characters (NPCs)

To be filled.

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[size=20]Post-Scriptum[/h]

Bullshit. A lifetime sentence can be terminated and the man set free. You can never bring back the dead. The quality of life one has in prison can also vary a great deal depending on the country.

10 years is a long time, much less 20, 30 years. During that time you can file several pleas for a reduced sentence and you, yourself may change as well.

The only question in my mind is do we endanger anyone by "only" sentencing people to prison instead death? The answer is very-very rarely yes, for that very thin selection of clever sociopaths, who'll doubtlessly kill but are too clever to be prevented and too normal (beside their horrible urges) to be filtered out as criminally insane. They're the exception, not the norm.

Most of the time, the death sentence is nothing more than a tool for venal, hateful people to exercise their vengeance than serve justice.

But it's little surprise that death penalty would be so popular in a country rife with bigotry and self-righteousness as the USA.

Contrary to how they're depicted in erotica, lesbians are not bisexual by default. In other words a guy has little chance to score with them.

A 66% increase is not the same as taking 66% of the profit. It means, corporate taxes are now 166% of what they used to be.

...and all in all I don't see what the tragedy is. Here's the kicker: a lot of companies *don't* pay taxes et all. Through careful shuffling of founds they make sure not to pay the coffers a damn cent.

Will this kill the building industry? I strongly disbelieve that, since buildings aren't raised just because the tax environment is good. They have to be built with a genuine demand paying for them.

In fact a lot of inane, or insane investments were made during the last housing bubble... all of those communities, whole towns are turning into a ghost towns now. The value of everything plummeted and there was nothing there in the first place.

...so no, I don't think raised corporate taxes are gona spell the death of that state.

In fact it might finally put enough money into the coffers, so that the state government can start spending it for infrastructure and other projects... all of which will mean jobs. A good infrastructure compels further investment even if the costs of operation are higher.

...in other words it's the New Deal all over again... and no. It *did* work. It's only neo-liberal shrills who claim otherwise. The shrills who wrecked the economy! Yeah, the same hacks who kept screaming for less and less government oversight, claiming that the corporations can police themselves... utter bull.

The system is a toolbox. If you want more qualitative elements, then limit skills and play up Aspects. If you want even less number crunching than make aspects and Fate-points a mechanic of getting narrative powers first most instead rolls.

So instead rolling a dice (which most of the time has little influence in FATE since it's *heavily* weighted to +1/-1) players/posters can narrate a short sequence or assume an outcome based on their aspects. The GM or other players can "bet" for who gets narrative power by betting ever more fate-points (and invoking aspects).

This also gives an incentive to tag or compel the aspects of your own or other's characters since that gives fate-points.

You have no idea what we're talking about.

Look up games like D&D, Shadowrun or the general Role-playing Games entry on wikipedia before you make further comments.

We're not talking about sexual antics, but a past time that involves making up characters and stories on the spot for entertainment.

Measuring the voltage on a PSU's outlets is a start, but nowhere near enough.

The critical thing to look out for is whether the PSU holds its voltage under its nominal load. Cheap PSUs are notorious for not being capable of this and this can be only measure when the PSU is under load.

Thing you can do:
-Buy a good PSU, reviewed by these guys: http://www.jonnyguru.com/

Here's why I reccomed these guys: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/410

-Buy a UPS. This solves problems with the purity of your electric source and protects your PC from power surges.

-Buy an external hard-disk to periodically backup your data.

-Buy a RAID card (preferably hardware RAID if you have the money) and mirror (RAID 1) the contents of your hard-drive. So called "firmware" RAID (often availible through integrated chipsets on your motherboard) are also a solution but will use your main CPU for calculations.

a) RAID 1 creates 1:1 copy of your stuff, is fast but you can only use 50% of your available space. (Needs at least 2 hard drives).

b)RAID 5 divides drives to stripes, and calculates a parity stripe for each set of data stripes. You effectively loose one drive to this purpose, so use you can use about 66%-80% of your available space. (Needs at least 3 hard drives).

Unlike RAID 1, when an error occurs to restore your data you *must* put a new drive into the array and rebuild it. If a further drive error occurs during this process you may loose data. This is more likely than one's given to think, since if the drives are old enough to fail, chances are when one is in bad shape so are the others.

c) RAID 6 is a better alternative as it creates 2 parity stripes for each set of data-stripes, so it can recover even from (albeit a single) drive error during array rebuild. (Needs at least 4 hard drives).