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Anyone but a stupid moron should realize the importance of requiring valid identification for the purpose of voting. Valid identification is required to open a bank account. It is required to log on to your bank’s website. Its required to purchase anything online. How much more so should it be required then to vote for…

OpenVAS describes itself as “The world’s most advanced Open Source vulnerability scanner and manager”. Installing the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner on Debian (as of this writing the current stable release of Debian is version 7 “Wheezy”) is fairly straightforward. You can just follow the directions here: openvas.org: Quick-Setup and Quick-Start OpenVAS-6 Packages: OpenVAS for Debian via…

If you have USB flash drives and are curious to know what their performance is http://usbspeed.nirsoft.net/ is a site which lists the results of speed tests for hundreds of different USB flash drives. It also offers a utility, available in both 32- and 64-bit versions, called USBDeview which reports detailed information about USB devices and…

The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/us-usa-immigration-guatemala-idUSKCN0I325W20141014 A shakedown by a bunch of thugs. Why is the U.S. responsible for their shit? The…

The popular drug ketamine – also known as “special k” – has been found in studies to provide a fast-acting reversal of symptoms of depression. The latest study is about its reversal of anhedonia which is a loss of interest in pleasurable activities which accompanies bipolar disorder. nimh.nih.gov: “Rapid Agent Restores Pleasure-seeking Ahead of Other…

Was sorting through some old directories of books and wanted to see which files were not actual text documents (or some related files such as images). The GNU find command is simply amazing: [code]find . -regextype posix-egrep -type f ! -iregex ‘.*\.(txt|pdf|mobi|epub|htm|jpg|djvu|doc|rtf|gif|html|docx)’ [/code] GNU find is part of the findutils package in Cygwin, Debian, and…

Make sure xorg is install on the Linux system. In Cygwin install: xorg-server xinit font-adobe-dpi-100 In a Cygwin shell run: startxwin export DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -XC remotehost Then in the ssh shell you can launch commands, e.g.: xcalc & References & info: Cygwin/X User’s Guide; Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X; Displaying remote clients Cygwin/X User’s Guide; Chapter…

Photo taken with a cheapo LG Optimus L9 phone and enhanced with Topaz Clarity.   Had seen this sign a few times before and wanted to take a photo of it. This last time I passed it I remembered to. You don’t usually see signs like this. In fact its the only one like it…

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Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are working on solving how to program computers using natural language. They claim to have made a significant breakthrough with respect to how the ordering of things via natural language can be correctly interpreted by a computer. This really makes me step back and think. Right now there…