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    Left or Right?

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    The left brain is generally the verbal and analytical whereas the right brain is generally creative and spatial (I'm currently teaching myself to draw from a  book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain). For me it looked like she was turning clockwise until I started reading your post and then it looked like she was turning anti-clockwise. I think that IQ of 160 bit if you try is bullshit though.

    Ewes are sheep. yipeeee!

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    Stewie has an English accent, not an American one, and although spoken English generally differs somewhat from standard English, anyone who says "youse" in place of you is clearly mentally retarded. Also it depends if you ask a prescriptivist linguist or a descriptivist linguist on what answer you'll get. 

    Punishment?

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    A: You could be storing stuff that is in violation of something or other, viruses, hacking tools, porn... use your imagination.

    B: Mounted encrypted archives can play havoc with backup software.

    At my last job I was specifically told that if I wanted to use truecrypt, the archive had to be stored locally, and not on a network drive.

    Well, that may be true, but the use of encryption itself isn't vandalism, maybe the storing of viruses or hacking tools could be (although I'd say it wasn't unless you actually used them).

    I understand why they might have the policy (although it's flawed considering the number of everyday applications use encryption), I just don't understand why it's in the vandalism section.

    Punishment?

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    Vandalism:

    Vandalism will result in cancellation of privileges and may result in school disciplinary action and/or legal action. Vandalism is defined as any malicious or intentional attempt to harm, destroy, modify, abuse or disrupt operation of any network within the school district or any network connected to the Internet, operation of any form of electronic communications, the data contained on any network or electronic communications, the data of another user, usage by another user, or district-owned software or hardware. This includes, but is not limited to, the uploading or creation of computer viruses and the use of encryption software.

    Huh? How is encryption in anyway related to vandalism?

    What programming language to learn?

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    Do you want to learn to program or to learn a programming language? Peter Norvig (from Google) gives this advice:

    Several people have asked what programming language they should learn first. There is no one answer, but consider these points:

        * Use your friends. When asked "what operating system should I use, Windows, Unix, or Mac?", my answer is usually: "use whatever your friends use." The advantage you get from learning from your friends will offset any intrinsic difference between OS, or between programming languages. Also consider your future friends: the community of programmers that you will be a part of if you continue. Does your chosen language have a large growing community or a small dying one? Are there books, web sites, and online forums to get answers from? Do you like the people in those forums?

        * Keep it simple. Programming languages such as C++ and Java are designed for professional development by large teams of experienced programmers who are concerned about the run-time efficiency of their code. As a result, these languages have complicated parts designed for these circumstances. You're concerned with learning to program. You don't need that complication. You want a language that was designed to be easy to learn and remember by a single new programmer.

        * Play. Which way would you rather learn to play the piano: the normal, interactive way, in which you hear each note as soon as you hit a key, or "batch" mode, in which you only hear the notes after you finish a whole song? Clearly, interactive mode makes learning easier for the piano, and also for programming. Insist on a language with an interactive mode and use it.

    Given these criteria, my recommendations for a first programming language would be Python or Scheme. But your circumstances may vary, and there are other good choices. If your age is a single-digit, you might prefer Alice or Squeak (older learners might also enjoy these). The important thing is that you choose and get started.

    spoof a false IP

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    Also it's not possible to spoof an "impossible" IP which from your posts I take to mean one with octets higher than 255 because the IP address in packets is not stored as an ascii string like "123.123.123.123", but as a 32 bit number. It's not possible to represent an IP outside the range of 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255 with 32 bits.

    Desktop cube, Windows style

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    Pretty cool. It woudl be nice if you could have multiple machines(not just vms) hooked up this way to share one monitor and then just rotate between them. (makes note to self, check google for possibilities).

    Well, you could using vnc or something in fullscreen.

    Edit: Oops, wrote vlc instead of vnc.

    Speed up connection

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    Your never really going to see 20mbit downloads for a file from a website. Torrents would probably even top out around 500kbps even on something like FIOS. This is because sites all have different speeds of their own.

    That's not true, I've downloaded from loads of sites at around 10 megabytes/second (which would be 80mbps) and torrents from private trackers at 2-3 megabytes/second. The get better speeds from websites a download manager which opens multiple connections to the site helps.

    4Chan finally produces something useful

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    I was at the Manchester rally and it was great. There were over 100 people there (one count at 13:30 was 110, although others have estimated a peak of 150) and the atmosphere was really friendly. There were guys there from SA, ebaumsworld, 4chan, and just unaffiliated people (it really isn't just /b/). There were people handing out free cans of coke, free rice crispy cakes, and other free stuff. There wasn't as much meme spam going on as there apparently was in London, and what there was had people laughing and kept up morale (although one person shouting "you just lost the game" resulted in a rather loud combined groan from everyone there). Thousands of flyers were handed out (I handed out about 50 myself) and the majority of people there spoke intelligently to interested passers-by, with the main down side of the being a small group would wouldn't stop clustering around a scientogist troll who obviously was intent on making us look like the bad guys. It ended at 15:00 (with the group bowing to the CoS building and singing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme tune as we left) due to the police asking us to disperse before people started coming out of bars after the Man United-Man City match which was on the same day.

    4Chan finally produces something useful

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    Of course they seemed nice, no one would join if they weren't nice. The general public (aside from critics/SPs) are treated much better than the members themselves. Check out this post by an ex-Scientologist for example. The entire religion is based upon bait-and-switch tactics, you start off just taking very cheap courses on improving communication and working on problems in your life all the while being love bombed and being made to feel like you belong. Scientologists don't even find out about the core beliefs of their own religion (i.e. Xenu and body thetans) until they reach OT3 (why which point they've spent around $160,000 or a lot of time working for almost no money), which means the majority of the members of the Church of Scientology don't actually understand their own religion.

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