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  1. Daedalus685

    Fake WIFI Hotspots

    The other day a coworker was telling me about a device their kid (well, grown up now) saw in a snow bank outside of a busy retirement home. Now they are not all that tech savvy, but the description "a box with blinking lights on it and a wire up to something on a telephone pole" immediately...
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    25 years since the Montreal Massacre

    http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/12/how-will-you-remember-the-december6-1989-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique.html It is 25 years today since the Montreal Massacre. It remains just as important as then (especially on the internet...) to take a moment and think about what we...
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    The ethics of placebo medicine and Alternative health care

    This topic is something that is rather pertinent in my life and I wanted to see if we could have a good chat about it here. Full disclosure: I have a degree in physics, I work in the Nuclear industry doing R&D so I do understand the principles of science. I have previously been on a wide...
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    New display Options

    I'm in the market for a new display and wouldn't mind some recommendations. Right now I'm gaming on an older 1920*1200 TN with sub par colours and brightness. Some specifics of what I'm looking for are: At least 24" size and at least 2560 x 1440. I'm running on a 6970 atm but will...
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    Anyone ever been to Argentina?

    Going down there in a couple weeks for work. Will probably be staying for 6 weeks or so. I've never been there before (or really anywhere for that matter) and was wondering what to expect. Will be staying near Cordoba (working at the Embalse reactor). I am expecting the climate to be...
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    GTX580 Canadian prices??

    Really odd... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-542-_-Product vs http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...-542-_-Product The Canadian prices are lower than US. Does anyone know why this might be? Usually the sticker prices here are ~20% larger than in the USA. Even when our dollar was...
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    Theoretical physics!

    Ok, because of the posts about the latest Steven Hawking book I'm a bit concerned about this.. Many replies were on the order of "if it is not observable or testable it is not science" using this such logic to claim Dr Hawking is now well within the realm of religion himself, or at best...
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    Leaving Turn signals on!

    This really bothers me, was wondering if it really irks anyone else or if anyone knows the legal liability in the following event from a few minutes ago: Simple 'T' intersection. I'm at the stop sign; to the right is a blvd with a limit of 50km/hr, and to the left is a previously windy street...
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    G20 Security Zone Announced

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/05/28/g20-security-zone684.html Link contains the map of the security zone for the upcoming g20 meeting in Toronto. My rage level reached a peak a while back when my tickets I had purchased to see the Jays play Philly for fathers day (I know fathers...
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    3 way SLI/CF scaling (Not English)

    http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles/amdnampoZGCa/Clash_of_the_Titans_3way_SLI_GTX_480_test/13 Check out the scaling numbers. I am floored by how well CF scales, when did they fix that? 3 480s sure is a beast though. The review is in German, numbers are still the same.. translate if you...
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    Issues With Slow Windows 7 Shutdown

    Hello, I have had a strange issues lately that is driving me nuts. Windows will take forever to shut down at what seems like random times, though subjectively it seems to take longer if I have been running the PC for a while. I have had shut down issues with vista before, but they were...