Syrian internal politics

I dont understand why Americans think they need to invade Syria to help out the "rebels".


This is an internal conflict, sure there is lots of damage being displayed on the news each night but this "Damage" is being done by both sides, the footage you are seeing on tv more often than not is rebels blowing up the government positions.

Imagine if texas decided to seced from the USA tomorrow and take all of its oil with it to a new country....do you think the USA wouldn't send in the marines to protect its interests?

Or worse how would you feel if Russia started funding the Klu Klux Klan with weapons and "logistical support" is the favorite euphimisam i keep hearing American poiticians use.

Transvaginal ultrasound law in Virginia

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Punanny State - Virginia's Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

I'll approve this as law only when the politicians signing this in for a vote have this procedure done to them first.

LMAO at the other "personal affronts" referenced by these politicians as "governement interference".

PeaPod Fail !!

Would have been cooler if you could use you kow QR CODES to scan the items instead of a proprietary mobile app to scan 1d bar codes.
FAIL!!
 

The largest US internet grocer Peapod is encouraging Philadelphians to grocery shop while they commute (images below). Users scan a QR Code poster on station platforms to download the Peapod app and scan the UPC codes below the items on the ads.
www.Cognation.net/QR

Dust cloud echo's

Great article in Time at the moment - http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2106904,00.html?xid=gonewsedit

This bit blows my mind
It gets even better. The 1843 flare-up played out over 20 years, which means the light-echo version will do the same. "We took observations nine months ago," says Rest, "and we were looking at 1843. Now we're looking at 1844. It's like a movie. It's really cool.

I wonder what else we can see from reflections we arent able to track at the moment, eg like ripples in time from our own planet.

Pokemon's or QR codes who do you think are the most dangerous?

http://www.kptv.com/story/16940492/pokemon
SHERWOOD, OR (KTPV) - A Sherwood family received a big shock while playing with some new Pokemon cards recently.

They scanned what they thought was a quick response code, which is similar to a bar code and can be scanned for more information about merchandise, but it took them to a pornographic website.
Ben Lapp used his smart phone to scan the code, which was promoting the Pokemon Online Challenge, but the responding web search wasn't what he expected.

Sorry but i'm calling bullshit on this entire story here. The QR code above displays in clear text the same 13 digit text shown on the right.

This is pure bullshit calling QR codes dangerous or saying there is some kind of fault with QR codes ..."Think of the children"

There is no way typing SP9-FN4N-FXD-S38 into your mobile browser search engine its going to return porn.....unless DAD happened to be googling porn while he was at work that day and forgot to clear his browser history.

Some reporters are so gullible.

Cheers,
Dean
http://www.Cognation.net/QR

Best use of Fiverr.com ever

Lol we were just having a chat about http://www.fiverr.com/ the other day - Best use of Fiverr i've even seen.

http://www.facebook.com/jerryp
http://www.facebook.com/jerryp/posts/307595035955996
so i used a website to commission an electronic musician in croatia to remix a recording of my stolen car call to the detroit police department into a techo song for $5. these are the most excellent results: http://soundcloud.com/lemonbattery/detroit-police-department-1 lolol. big ups to the croation house scene. it took less time for the song to be completed then it did to report the car.


 Detroit Police Department Stolen Car - DJ Mental Blue mix 1



Jerry Paffendorf you sir are a god amongst us mere mortal geeks - i sir salute you.

Cheers,
Dean

Trixbox FeePBX CentOS - " Loading ata_piix driver problem "

Weird situation, changed over from an ATA hard drive to a Sata hard drive for my Trixbox Asterisk server (i also tried the most recent version of Freepbx and the same CentOS issue...)

Everything else on the server is exactly the same, just the hard drive was changed over basically when installing the trixbox iso i get an error message on the install screen: " Loading ata_piix driver " that just hangs.

i thought it was a cable not seated problem or a bent sata cable etc etc...fut fut fut around nope same problem.

Google is your friend and i found this post http://fonality.com/trixbox/node/40362 to hit F4 then enter 'linux irqpoll' however...for me it screwed up the installation with lots of errors.

Another solution i ended up trying is at installation hit F4 then enter  LINUX NOPROBE -  didn't solve the problem for me either.

I ended up finding this post - " Linux SATA problem with Abit IP35-E " http://codeandlife.com/2008/05/22/linux-sata-problem-with-abit-ip35-e/  and although i use ABIT IP35-pro's this ended up being the solution for me.


Turns out all I needed was to swap SATA cable from SATA1 port to SATA5 or SATA6. Now everything works great.

Unfortunately, we lose one of the main benefits to SATA technology when we do this– NCQ. Putting it in port 5 or 6 tells it to operate in PATA mode. Linux recognizes this.

Everything is back up and running but times like this i think Linux is a PITA.....

Aereo - i wonder who their lawyers are?

Internet-TV Firm Gets IAC Backing
An Internet-TV start-up backed by media veteran Barry Diller could tempt more television viewers to cut the cable cord, but it might be in for a fight from media companies.


The company, Aereo, unveiled plans on Wednesday to offer New York City residents beginning March 14 the ability to stream broadcast-TV signals over Web-enabled devices for $12 a month.



Considering Ivi.tv got shut down with an injunction last year.... http://blog.collins.net.pr/2010/10/ivi-not-gotta-licensewhatye-going-todo.html  ...we'll see.

You might also want to check out the TVnow court case thats happening in Australia with Optus and Foxtel at the moment, explains some of the core copyright issues here - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2012/02/tvnow-court-case-in-australia.html
I wonder who Aereo's lawyers are? Though lets face it IAC has plenty deep pockets so expect this one to go the distance.

Cheers,
Dean

Touchcode will save us all....

ha ha ha FML - this article cracks me up

http://blog.laptopmag.com/qr-code-killer-touchcode-opens-content-by-tapping-paper-to-screen/comment-page-1#comment-287324


QR codes are bad because....
"However, reading a QR code requires activating a camera app on a phone or tablet, turning your device around, shooting a picture, and then waiting for the appropriate app to interpret the code"

But Touchcode is good because....
"To read the codes on a device, users will need to launch an app or site that’s capable or reading Touchcode."

Lol thanks for a laugh first thing in the morning, I hope the check cleared.

Netvibes acquired by Dassault Systems

Interesting that Netvibes was acquired, not so much the purchase but the purchaser Dassault Systems – any thoughts?

http://www.3ds.com/company/announcement/netvibes





I use it pretty much as my rss dashboard and review it first thing every morning (I used to use MS Live before they shut it down for the same reason).

I much prefer this format of RSS reader in that each feed is located in the same position on each tab, much more efficient.

Will be interesting to see what comes out of the sale and if this changes the company/product in the long run.


Cheeers,
Dean