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Talking about marriage my boss once said to me "with my marriage you could make a movie like Romeo and Juliet ... but with a sad ending".

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I would like to log events like closing of switches. Very simple requirements. Log, in a text file, time and change in switch status. First problem to resolve is how to get the info to the PC. My machine has a serial DB9 connector and that seems to me like the simplest way to interface. I would have...

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What I find interesting about the case is that the app was not spying directly on the owner of the phone and user of the app but on his surroundings. So I need to be concerned, not only with my computer, my phone, my apps, but also with those of people around me or with whom I interact. In other wor...

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Spanish soccer league admits it's listening to app users through smartphone microphones The official streaming app of Spain's La Liga soccer division has been listening to its users, according to Spanish newspaper El Diario. The app activates the microphone when GPS detects that users are in a bar,...

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OK, I am running Live DVD Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia XFCE and it seems to work. I guess the only way to check for real speed would be to install it on a hard drive. Any suggestions of tests I can do before I commit to installing on HDD? Especially some tests to confirm the video adapter will work reason...

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Moem wrote: ⤴
Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:50 am
I would guess it's "the seabed". It's funnier that way.

Very good! I like it!

What noise annoys a noisy oyster most?

Any noise annoys a noisy oyster but a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster most.

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I came across this impressive drone video of orcas swimming with a swimmer in New Zealand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIcQMwYC1o Then I mentioned to my wife how orcas kill seals for food and can be aggressive and dangerous and I searched for some videos of orcas killing seals and sea lions. An...

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What hardware are you using? I was reading some Lenovo computers have a similar problem that certain controls like brightness or loudness will put an icon on the desktop when they shouldn't. In this case I think it is OS independent. You can try running another OS or the same from a live dvd.

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there are definitely official rules in English What official body issues these official rules? and, like it or not, using double negatives is considered poor English grammar. It is considered poor English grammar if you are using the Queen's (and my) English but there are English dialects where it ...

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Eradicating double negatives where one negative is meant, improves linguistical logic. So it would improve practical communication quality if we would avoid those logical abominations. Abominations to you. Completely logical to others. Like the American inch-pound-gallon measuring system. An abomin...

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Yes, I am aware of the existence of regulating bodies but they are mostly for show because languages evolve and those bodies just include a few years late whatever new words or expressions have been adopted by the general speaking population. In English there are a few prestigious dictionaries which...

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À propos double negatives: Did you know that there's also a double positive that indicates a negative? It goes like this: "Yeah, right." :wink: In southern Spain a very strong affirmation of agreement is a triple negative, "no ni ná" ("no nor nothing"). Because of its brevity and three similar syll...

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[...] the logically wrong use of double negatives. Nothing "wrong" about it. Languages evolve and mean whatever their speakers agree they mean. Many languages, including some English dialects, use double negatives to reinforce the negative meaning and there is nothing wrong about it. When someone s...

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rene wrote: ⤴
Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:01 pm
Coleridge.

They make great camping stoves!

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I once read some obscure writer:

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

and it did soundeth strange to mine ears.

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The examples and links I gave in the OP are entirely of a commercial nature. It is commercial entities spying on us for their commercial benefit. Of course, once anybody has a detailed file on private citizens then governments will have access and use that information. Use and abuse. Again, I am not...

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redlined wrote: ⤴
Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:09 pm
perhaps this is a drop-file location for dropbox??

Dropbox rings a bell too.

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I just find it strange that the same 19 version will boot with Cinnamon and not with XFCE and wonder what the cause may be.

I guess I will give 18.2 XFCE a try.

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There's two issues at hand. One is our privacy in our computers and our communications with others. This aspect is the easiest to deal with by using encryption and trusted devices and software. I encrypt my data at rest and I sometimes encrypt some of my emails just so that they do not call attentio...

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