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    RIP Shirley Temple

    Ditto, while I can't say I gave it much thought I always assumed she died way before I was born - apparently that was just her career zing!
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    NAS+Virtual Machines

    Virtual machine hosts aren't designed to have guests tied to particular monitor outputs - its unikely you'll be able to do what you're looking for. I would suggest building low cost systems (e.g. Atom or AMD APU) to use as frontends.
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    /. beta

    The problem with the new design is that it was less scannable than the old one. Images on the left meant shit moved around the page (and really what images are you going to see on the site? linux logos? beakers?), not enough of a visual break between the stories and who needs text that bloody big?
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    Recommend a dating site

    You're overstating it a bit but the vague notion is true - you can run a race, jog it or shuffle it. All down to how hard you push yourself. Its not the car, its the mirror. Some girls will take a photo anywhere there is a mirror they can see themselves in: hallway, bathroom, work bathroom...
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    DOTA 2

    Guess it depends on what you mean by a glitch - we did it with Wraith King, Ursa, Troll, Ogre and Warlock for 13.7 million. Considering we fought him, took damage, died, etc I don't see that as a glitch (we also didn't manage to stack Ursa swipes on him for all that long). Our first attempt...
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    DOTA 2

    I found the New Bloom event to be entertaining, though I'm glad its 24-hours I used the jade tokens on two mythical chests - the first was a Necrophos scythe with a custom Reaper Scythe animation. The second chest was buggy, no items visibly appeared however searching my inventory for...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Well, Tuesday has come and gone, so I imagine they're done with the excerpts.
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Looks like some applications are starting to come out, Revision 3's application can cast, AllCast is supposed to be able to but at least for me never seems to find the device.
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Odd, I've noticed its pretty CPU intensive (hence my post recently doubting we will see cast tab on Android) maybe your CPU doesn't cut it? Its almost like you read my post yesterday as you even used similar phrasing....
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Worked for me when I used to cast Twitch.tv to my Chromecast. Of course I wouldn't have noticed a/v sync or similar problems.
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Could have done that already with the Cast this Tab feature!
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Hopefully the floodgates have opened -Google Developers Blog: Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
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    HDTVs

    When I've looked at reviews from purchasers there were quite a few people complaining about DoA as well as non-responsive support. Doesn't seem worth it over spending another $100 for a low end name brand.
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    DOTA 2

    Supposedly the ranked MMR was based on your hidden normal mode one.
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    DOTA 2

    Oddly I've had Bane about half the time, and almost always first or last pick. I think its partly novelty and partly the absurdity of interactions of some abilities. I'm around 3k so I doubt that is the cause :/
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    DOTA 2

    The number of early abandons in Ability Draft is absurd, I had 3 back-to-back games where someone abandons within a few minutes of starting. Sadly in one game I had managed to get Medusa with Split Shot and Slark's agility drain and some other fun stuff Bane with Dragon Breath, Mystic Snake...
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    DOTA 2

    I wonder what happens with Meepo ultimate and PL passive.
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    DOTA 2

    So? They probably won't start at 0 distance.
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    DOTA 2

    The Drow silence knockback also synergizes with her ultimate which requires heroes be a certain distance away from her.
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    I doubt this will happen, or if it is added it will not work for tabs with video. When I've used it with flash video Chrome consumes a significant amount of desktop CPU, this would destroy any ARM SoC and absolutely kill your battery. The stick is relatively dumb, I don't see what meaningful...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Agreed. I can't wait for the days of no publisher bullshit and we get the story when the author decides its done and edited.
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    The Netflix Thread

    The History of Future Folk- fun indie sci-fi and the music the aliens sing is very good.
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Thats in a whole different price spectrum
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    The MSI J1800I could be interesting for use as a router, new bay trail based celeron <10W, just need an ethernet card and a stick of ram.
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    Magic the Gathering - The Movie?

    I think you're probably living in a bubble.I'm Canadian, and while I know some people who watch anime they're all the super geeky types. I imagine the UK is the same, I have a few cousins that live there and none watch it.
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    DOTA 2

    I started at 2800, rose to 3100 dropped to 2600 in a week :/ Back up to ~2800 now. I found the captains modes to be worse, invariably the captain is a moron or a player spams one hero name repeatedly (usually a poor one).
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    Looking to learn HTML formatting

    You poor deluded bastard! You have Stockholm syndrome.
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    Looking to learn HTML formatting

    Adobe Brackets(open source) does some of this.
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    Magic the Gathering - The Movie?

    Wait, which side are you arguing for again? Hollywood movies are all the same.... In all seriousness, to mainstream western society Anime is only really ahead of furries on the acceptability scale. Back to the topic at hand, they made a movie from the game Battleship. Its hard to imagine...
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    Java & PGP

    Sorry started to write something, forgot to finish then forgot to come backBouncy Castle is popular as it was developed outside the US thus not subject to export restrictions. The shared key is actually what you generate by mixing your private key with their public key. The pass-phrase is...
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    DOTA 2

    Sing_sing gets randomly matched against S4 and bone7 and picks Mirana -Sing_sing - 1500 SOLO Q MMR PLS NO FLAM IN CHET - Twitch- about 1h15-1h20
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    EBook Readers

    Whats with all the talk about dirty tablets in our nice ebook reader thread?
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    DOTA 2

    I think Funn1k just isn't used to microing a lot of creeps in fights. He wiffed or didn't cast a lot of stomps even with centaurs present. I went 24-7-11 in my first enchantress game a couple months into playing and its still my highest # of kills. She's pretty hilarious with aghs...
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    Building custom PC-would appreciate input

    People are overstating the case for Intel processors over AMD for gaming. For the most part games haven't been CPU bound in a long time and users won't notice a difference between mid-to-high end processors from either manufacturer. That said, as much as I would like to promote AMD (so we...
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    Java & PGP

    I should clarify, your friend uses his own key.
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    Java & PGP

    It doesn't appear that you use the key you generated when creating a shared key? (At least your call to getMySharedKey() doesn't pass the public key) In pseudo code / logic: Your friend's code: To be honest I didn't know PGP had a Java wrapper, most people simply use the Java crypto libraries.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Tor now has Chapters 3,4,5 -Read an Excerpt from Words of Radiance: Chapters Three, Four, and Five by Brandon Sanderson | Tor.com
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    Tablets

    Not sure if you just miss worded this, but there isn't such a thing as a haswell atom. Apparently the Nexus 10 is nowout of inventorynot merelyout of stock. I wonder if this means we might see an upgrade to it in the near term, if we'll need to wait for Google I/O or if they simply go away.
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    Superhero Novels

    One not mentioned - Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis. Its been a few years since I read it but I recall it being quite good though I never got round to reading the rest of the series