--- Log opened Sat Jan 03 00:00:33 2015 --- Day changed Sat Jan 03 2015 00:00 < RangerZ> so... someone bought a PS4... and returned it with 2 bibles where the PS4 should have been 00:01 < RangerZ> and this is after a story where they did the same thing with rocks... and best part... the #1 comment "The only thing more useless than rocks, The Bible.. Man it just keeps getting worse and worse" 00:01 < RangerZ> sorry #2 comment #1 was 'I'd rather get a literal pile of shit than a bible.' 00:04 < _NSAKEY> Wasn't the rocks story talked about in here when it happened? 00:33 <@Mirage> given the level of competence and customer service that most places exhibit now adays make you really NOT feel sorry for them? 00:50 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has quit [Quit: bleh] 00:53 < aestetix> so Elonka is part of se2600 now? 00:53 <@Mirage> what gave that away...talk in channel or her mentioned in the minutes? 00:53 < aestetix> minutes 00:54 < aestetix> I haven't read the channel 00:54 < aestetix> I'm sure she'll set anarchival quickly. 00:54 <@Mirage> oh, you just hang out and say "penis" from time to time? 00:54 < aestetix> As Elonka doesn't take bullshit. 00:55 < aestetix> And vagina. 00:55 <@Mirage> too bad she hadn't moved to Nville in time or that she wasn't tehnically eligible to have run for Pres. 00:55 <@Mirage> I don't know that she would want to do it, but she can definitely organize. 01:28 -!- RangerZ1 [~rangerz@c-69-137-107-2.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 01:29 < RangerZ1> anyone use awesome WM? I got asked a question and I'm not sure how you get it to be the default WM 01:29 < RangerZ1> (when you connect via vnc) 01:31 <@Dagmar> What X session is starting 01:47 <@Mirage> holy shit...almost 12 minute commercial on youtube...wtf 01:48 <@Mirage> actually what little i watched was bordering on informercial 01:49 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has joined #se2600 01:49 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o klixa] by ChanServ 01:52 < RangerZ1> unity 01:52 < RangerZ1> i found some links and sent her those, we'll see if those do it 01:57 < RangerZ> http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/154966/kim-dotcom-launch-secure-skype-competitor/ 01:59 < RangerZ> also.... 01:59 < RangerZ> http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.635096 02:00 < RangerZ> this could _fuck_ isreal... b/c they _are_ guilty of war crimes, but neither they nor palistine has signed the ICC treaty... until now 02:00 < RangerZ> (yes palestine would also be fucked, but isreal by far has MUCH more to lose) 02:03 < RangerZ> [NYPD] has decreased by more than 90 percent versus the same week a year earlier, and felony arrests were nearly 40 percent lower, according to Police Department statistics. 02:04 < RangerZ> ....Yet reports of major crimes citywide continued their downward trajectory, falling to 1,813 from 2,127 for the week, a nearly 15 percent drop, according to Police Department statistics. 02:04 < RangerZ> s/[NYPD]/ the number of summonses for minor criminal offenses, as well as those for parking and traffic violations,/ 02:17 < aestetix> a 12 minute commercial? 02:23 < RangerZ> i would really hope it had a 'skip' feature 02:24 <@Mirage> yes, thankfully 02:24 < _NSAKEY> That sounds like the beginning of a newer DVD. 02:27 <@Mirage> those fuckers that make the decisions to force you to "watch" the previews before a blueray/dvd menu is available need to realise the fact that those are only relavent when the thing is released. A year later, let alone 5-10 it's just fucking annoying 02:27 <@Mirage> At least they haven't decided to block Fast Forward as well as Skip and Menu 02:28 <@klixa> blue rays should NOT have previews... you paid for the damn thing 02:29 < _NSAKEY> Neither should DVDs. 02:30 < _NSAKEY> The studios wanted to go back to the "good old days" with VHS and having previews, but without the ability to fast forward. 02:39 <@Mirage> I normally set the counter on my VHS to "0" at the beginning of the movie and set it to rewind back to "0" when done, so all my tapes were queued to after the previews 02:47 -!- InfoSecDog [~user@c-50-155-6-109.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [] 02:48 <@Dagmar> VLC freely ignores such things. 02:48 <@Mirage> Also, I've only encountered a select few that will still show the "don't pirate this " if you go to scene 2 and then jump back to scene 1 to watch the movie. 03:02 < RangerZ> Mirage: a few years ago, I went to biglots and bought a ton of dvds for 3$ each, when I'd go out shopping with the girl (we kinda made it a 'thing' to go see what new movies they had, etc), and I've barely watched them, lol 03:02 < RangerZ> Italian job probably gets the plays, because most people have never seen it 03:02 < RangerZ> that and Anti-Trust 03:19 -!- Mirage [~mirage@static-173-57-28-51.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: Lost terminal] 03:20 -!- Mirage [~mirage@static-173-57-28-51.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has joined #se2600 03:20 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Mirage] by ChanServ 03:20 <@Mirage> since i know several people in here like things that are wonderfully horrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAAbuGX-qEY 03:32 <@Mirage> omg..even better Gwar covering "Kansas - Wayward son": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baExq6xNhQ8 03:35 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has quit [Quit: bleh] 03:37 < RangerZ> Mirage: seek help 03:37 < RangerZ> medical help 03:37 < RangerZ> lol 03:39 < RangerZ> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHB0xzR8sL4 "game informer- GWAR plays kinect dance central" 03:45 <@Mirage> Covering "West End Boys": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5K4Py1L7mc 03:52 <@Mirage> RangerZ: loving the Wampa rug bit..=) 03:54 <@Mirage> omg..meeting "Joe" is greate 04:10 < RangerZ> yeah... 04:13 < RangerZ> the GWAR game 04:13 < RangerZ> too 04:18 < RangerZ> ok... I haven't really used facebook in a while... and god... i hate how out of order the posts are now 04:19 < RangerZ> and its obvious today.. b/c I got a ton of dec 31st post above newer ones 04:49 <@Bahhumbug> RangerZ: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr will re-add chronological ordering of posts (for the most part, there are some you have no control over but this handles it for the overwhelming majority) 05:17 <@Bahhumbug> http://www.angryduck.com/pics/feminism4119.htm 07:29 < aestetix> uh oh 09:20 <@oddball> Damn... it's supposed to get down to 8 Thursday. 11:28 < aestetix> wow 11:28 < aestetix> RangerZ: you'll be proud of me 11:28 < aestetix> http://gabriellacoleman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Hackers-Class-Draft2014.pdf 11:28 < aestetix> I am being included in a class syllabus now 11:54 < RangerZ> though... to be honest, you were being included in sexual harrassment class notes for a while now... 12:05 < aestetix> lol 12:29 -!- RangerZ [~rangerz@c-69-137-107-2.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 12:36 -!- RangerZ1 [~rangerz@c-69-137-107-2.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 12:38 -!- RangerZ [~rangerz@69.137.107.2] has joined #se2600 12:38 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o RangerZ] by ChanServ 12:54 < aestetix> I wonder how many vitamins you can inject via suppository 13:22 -!- RangerZ1 [~rangerz@DHCP-129-59-122-54.n1.vanderbilt.edu] has joined #se2600 13:39 < RangerZ1> jesus... i hate when I forget something simple that I should have remembered instantly... 13:39 < RangerZ1> I couldn't figure out how to get 'find' to search for a name... 13:39 < RangerZ1> forgot to put the search string in [ ' ]s 13:44 < _NSAKEY> RangerZ1: I do that with escapes sometimes. 13:45 < _NSAKEY> Like, I'll escape stuff that doesn't need to be escaped because it isn't A-Za-z0-9, and it may not need it. 13:45 < RangerZ1> I spend a few minutes trying stupid things without looking at man or online... b/c I was like "I KNOW THIS...grumble" 14:44 < RangerZ1> http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.635144 14:45 < RangerZ1> man... Isreal is fucking desperate 14:46 < RangerZ1> "no you can't have your tax refunds... b/c you want to join International Treaties and the International Criminal Court... 15:15 < RangerZ1> God... I wish Isreal would just stop it with these bad news stories (not the stories, but the reason for the stories..) http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2015/0103/Jewish-settlers-attack-US-officials-visiting-West-Bank-video 15:28 <@Dagmar> You're basically asking Israel to stop being racist dicks 15:28 <@Dagmar> Not going to happen. 15:30 < RangerZ1> hey... I can't say that... I mean.. I legally can't say that and continue to get funding ... 15:30 <@Dagmar> Also... get this. Heheh. Apparently some twat in East Nasty that runs a little hippie shop has been having problems with getting reimbursed from the Car Charging Group that runs them, and apparently turned off the breaker to the charger 15:30 < RangerZ1> Eash Nashville? 15:30 <@Dagmar> Someone else apparently flipped it back on (probably the people who installed the EV station in the first place) and now he's ssticking accusatory nastygrams on people's cars 15:31 <@Dagmar> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153405822910130&set=a.10150818361305130.514730.616975129&type=1&theater 15:31 <@Dagmar> Also http://instagram.com/p/xXeyz3sQ1H/ 15:31 < RangerZ1> I can't see the FB post (and yes, I'm logged in) 15:34 <@Dagmar> Same thing is on the Instagram 15:34 <@Dagmar> It's Cam Marshall (freak extraordinate) 15:34 <@Dagmar> er extraordinaire 15:36 <@Dagmar> Seriously the dude claims he hasn't been paid by the Blink people in two months 15:36 <@Dagmar> ...therefore he cut off the breaker to the charging station. 15:37 <@Dagmar> ...and I'm like, "two months"? 15:37 <@Dagmar> Now, cutting off the breaker was stupid, but putting accusatory nastu letters on people's cars is just jaw-droppingly stupid. 15:37 <@Dagmar> It took me all of ten minutes to find a toll free number for Blink 15:38 < RangerZ1> yeah 15:38 <@Dagmar> ...and they gave me a number for that guy to call 15:38 <@Dagmar> The whole thing just changed management back in August, so I'm not surprised not everything has gotten handled 15:38 < RangerZ1> plus... you could have done a MUCH better PR job... put notes saying "I love having this charging station here, but if Blink doesn't pay me, I'll have to start charging individuals" 15:38 < RangerZ1> "please help contact Blink to straighten this out" 15:39 <@Dagmar> ...but that entire system is metered and pre-paid. that money is there. The only thing dude accomplishes by trying to turn it off is dumb 15:39 < RangerZ1> dumb is as dumb does 15:39 <@Dagmar> He's keeping himself from a cut of their profits for no more effort than a parking space that looks (by Google Maps) like it didn't even exist until the EV station was put in 15:41 < RangerZ1> whatever, I don't have time to deal with stupidity at that level 15:41 < RangerZ1> lol 15:49 < RangerZ1> so is VNC still the defacto remote access software? 15:50 < RangerZ1> or are things like this nomachine catching on/up? 15:55 <@Dagmar> Only if you're convinced you're running windows 15:56 <@Dagmar> I just got this from Reddit: http://imgur.com/a/2yOBy 15:57 <@Dagmar> Time to play "o/~ One of these things is not like the other... which one of them does not be-long? o/~" 15:57 <@Dagmar> ...and I'm going to just suggest it might be the third image. 15:57 <@Dagmar> When you see it. LOL 15:59 < RangerZ1> yep... hehe 16:01 <@Dagmar> I dunno if it's _supposed_ to be a beach crab or what... but it sure as hell looks like a goatse to me 16:01 <@Dagmar> ...and a whole bunch of other people judging by the comments. 16:02 < RangerZ1> its probably a beatle or something 16:13 <@Dagmar> It doesn't look like any of the Fab Four to me. 16:34 -!- K4k [~K4k@unaffiliated/k4k] has joined #se2600 17:40 < aestetix> wow 17:40 < aestetix> CNN.com looks completely like a tabloid now. 17:40 < aestetix> Who the hell thought that design was a good idea 17:41 <@Dagmar> Oh god 17:41 <@Dagmar> It's pretty, but *fuck* wading through all that whitespace to find the actual news 17:42 < aestetix> I hate this whitespace/tablet trend. 17:50 -!- npcomp [~eldon@c-24-126-240-124.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 17:58 < _NSAKEY> aestetix: It's like they've decided desktop users don't exist. 17:58 < _NSAKEY> If I'm reading Slashdot on my phone, the new beta layout is great. Otherwise, it needs to die in a fire, along with all of its designers. 18:02 < _NSAKEY> Ugh. You guys are right about CNN. 18:04 < _NSAKEY> You have to wonder if their elderly TV audience even looks at the website. 18:04 < aestetix> I am surprised that they don't have a showcase on "Best of Instagram" 18:08 < _NSAKEY> I stopped taking the 24-hour news channels seriously when they started incorporating random feedback from Twitter into the broadcasts. 18:09 < _NSAKEY> They were cross-promoting, and that's understandable. It just felt so forced and unnatural. 18:10 <@Dagmar> My thinking is... I'm watching a "professional" news program. 18:10 <@Dagmar> I generally expect a "professional" to take things seriously and do some research and perhaps a bit of fact checking, followed by some actual thought and perhaps then tell me the information along with an insight or two. 18:10 < _NSAKEY> Yeah, I don't really care what @JoeUser123 thinks about the story they're talking about at the moment. 18:11 <@Dagmar> "NARF! THIS WAS ON TEH TWITTERERNETS 2DAY!" 18:11 <@Dagmar> If *I* can fucking do it, I don't need them. 18:12 <@Dagmar> Kind of irksome that the most quality "professional" news reporting seems to only come under the billet of 'comedy' programming 18:12 <@Dagmar> Like, WTF do these people do all day that the best they can come up with is a twitter search 18:14 <@Dagmar> GODDAMNIT 18:14 <@Dagmar> OWAIT 18:14 <@Dagmar> Motherfucking LOVE the BBC 18:14 <@Dagmar> http://observer.com/2014/12/cookies-arent-grains-debunking-the-single-universe-theory-of-black-mirror/ 18:15 <@Dagmar> ^-- Black Mirror : Christmas Special watchable on YouTube from that page 18:15 <@Dagmar> It's boxed, but fuck it. 18:15 <@Dagmar> I thought the only thing airing on Christmas was Dr. Who 18:16 <@Dagmar> The BBC kinda has a way of pinning nerds to the couch 18:16 <@Evilpig> http://www.yelp.com/biz/claw-daddys-new-york 18:16 <@Evilpig> gonna have to go check this plac eout 18:17 <@Evilpig> Dagmar: Black Mirror - S00E01 - White Christmas.mkv 18:17 <@Dagmar> This one's already on my screen. It won. 18:17 <@Dagmar> I'm just pissed I didn't even know 18:18 <@Dagmar> Like, they didn't do one last year after season 1 so I didn't expect they'd do one this year 18:18 <@Dagmar> ...but I very much dig that the BBC just put the thing up on YouTube 18:18 <@oddball> Holy hell... apparently both Obama and Biden are coming to town Friday. 18:18 <@Dagmar> That's pure awesome 18:18 <@Evilpig> I thought I mentioned it when I snagged it a week or so ago 18:18 <@Dagmar> oddball: fuuuuck 18:18 < _NSAKEY> Why are they coming back? 18:19 <@Evilpig> to snarl traffic and make people upset 18:19 <@oddball> Some collegel initiative announcement. 18:19 <@Dagmar> oddball: That's likely to make the usual offsite meeting traffic problematic 18:19 <@Dagmar> Fuuuuck 18:19 <@oddball> http://www.tennessean.com/story/insession/2015/01/03/obama-returns-to-tennessee/21231119/?hootPostID=[%27e17c4ebfaaad6ebe09e3d20d5f0c143a%27] 18:19 <@Dagmar> yeah that'll very likely involve the Vanderbilt area 18:19 <@oddball> Doesn't say where they're doing this. 18:19 <@Dagmar> That's because they never do 18:20 <@Dagmar> The prople involved know it and they've likely been told to keep their mouths shut outside of NTK 18:20 <@oddball> So... the interstates will probably be closed all day. 18:20 <@Dagmar> lol 18:22 <@Dagmar> damnit I have a guild raid 18:30 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has joined #se2600 18:30 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o klixa] by ChanServ 18:31 -!- ware [ware@phneak.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 18:36 <@Dagmar> This is fucking awesome TV 18:41 <@Dagmar> ...and I seriously love that the BBC finally sees YouTube as a legitimate distribution channel 18:46 < _NSAKEY> I expect more huge content producers to do the same, after The Interview went on YouTube. 18:46 < _NSAKEY> Maybe not right away, but it seems inevitable. 19:00 <@Dagmar> Well, digital distribution over IP networks is more efficient 19:02 <@Evilpig> I'm very curious to see what effect releasing the interview simultaneously on the web and theaters is going to have on the industry 19:17 -!- K4k [~K4k@unaffiliated/k4k] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 19:22 < _NSAKEY> Dagmar: Yeah, but the problem is getting the studios to adapt to reality. They're concerned about their region-specific distribution deals. 19:23 <@Evilpig> it's time they wake up to the reality that drm is bullshit, cross region locks are stupid, etc 19:24 <@Evilpig> louis c.k. showed it best when he made a million dollars by selling his movie for $5 a pop drm free 19:24 < _NSAKEY> You forgot to include "global simultaneous releases are the only real way to curb piracy." 19:24 < _NSAKEY> I get that they have to adjust the price for different markets. Like anything else in capitalism, it's a matter of what the market will bear. 19:25 < _NSAKEY> But not doing same-day global releases is just begging for piracy in the countries that don't get it first. 19:34 <@Dagmar> Oh. My. God. 19:34 <@Dagmar> The weather for here next Saturday. 19:51 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has quit [Quit: bleh] 19:51 < RangerZ1> Evilpig: Nintendo is thinking of getting rid of region locking on future consoles 19:51 < RangerZ1> I hope they do 19:52 < RangerZ1> Dagmar: I thought Thursday of Hi of 22 and low of 17... would be what you are more concerned about 19:57 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has joined #se2600 19:57 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o klixa] by ChanServ 20:00 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has quit [Client Quit] 20:12 < RangerZ1> http://local21news.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/alleged-sexual-assault-suspect-rough-shape-14525.shtml 20:13 < RangerZ1> his nephew beat the shit out of him for assaulting his g/f on NYE 20:23 -!- InfoSecDog [~user@c-50-155-6-109.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 20:30 -!- RangerZ [~rangerz@69.137.107.2] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 20:31 -!- RangerZ [~rangerz@69.137.107.2] has joined #se2600 20:31 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o RangerZ] by ChanServ 20:45 -!- RangerZ1 [~rangerz@DHCP-129-59-122-54.n1.vanderbilt.edu] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 20:45 -!- RangerZ1 [~rangerz@c-69-137-107-2.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 20:45 -!- RangerZ [~rangerz@69.137.107.2] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 21:18 < RangerZ1> so I do like how most major news is reporting on Marriot trying to block wifi 21:19 < RangerZ1> s/is/are 21:22 < RangerZ1> “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.” — [Kung Fu Monkey — Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009] ― John Rogers 21:22 < RangerZ1> lol 21:49 -!- Nexus1 [~mike@cpe-174-100-54-48.neo.res.rr.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 22:12 < strages> Dagmar: how's the cardboard project coming along? 22:13 -!- K4k [~K4k@unaffiliated/k4k] has joined #se2600 22:17 -!- K4k [~K4k@unaffiliated/k4k] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 23:26 < aestetix> RangerZ1: enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u8Jjth81_Q --- Log closed Sun Jan 04 00:00:34 2015