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[1380921349] Damn cloud hosting service

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At Ryushare, when I try to download regularly, the message "Sorry! User who was uploaded this file requires premium to download." appears.

I only have this mirror available and the it's the only place who has the file I want.
Is there any possibility to download it from there without having to buy a premium account (which I also can't)?

[1380915951] W3C green-lights adding DRM to HTML5

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The Dark Age of the Web has begun. We are oppressed brothers! Come, quickly to 4chan! Arouse the hackers, arouse the trolls, the sleeping giants of the internet. War is on the horizon!

But seriously. We need to actually do something. Like now, if we still want to be able to use the internet the way we want to.

http://boingboing.net/2013/10/02/w3c-green-lights-adding-drm-to.html for more information.

[1380558284] How A Mammogram Works

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How a mammogram works

WHAT a mammogram is: a picture of the breast taken with a safe, low-dose X-ray machine. It is the gold standard or the most effective method to detect breast cancer early.

How does screening mammogram work?

• Undress from the waist up.

• Once in the exam room, stand in front of the mammography machine, a special type of X-ray machine that can move up and down, and side to side.

• The breast is positioned between two firm surfaces that will compress the breast. It is necessary to spread the breast tissue and eliminate motion, which may blur the picture. This may hurt a little. The compression usually lasts no more than 20 seconds.

• A radiation beam comes from above and penetrates the breast tissue, and the ray image is either created on a film cassette, located below your breast, or recorded digitally and stored in a computer.

• The images are then processed and made available for review and interpretation. Denser tissue, such as cancer, appears bright and white, whereas less dense tissue, such as fat, appears dark or grey.


Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in women, accounting for 18% of cancer deaths

Breast cancer accounts for more than 20% of all cancers in women


URGENT SIGNS

See a doctor immediately if you detect:

Painless lump in breast

Persistent rash around nipple

Bleeding or unusual discharge from nipple

Retracted nipple

Swollen, thickened, dimpled or puckered skin on the breast

EARLY DETECTION

Breast lumps are common among women. Only one in 10 lumps is due to cancer

FAMILY HISTORY

Women who have a family history of breast cancer may be at increased risk

40+ OLDER WOMEN

Risk of breast cancer increases with age. Most women diagnosed with breast cancer are 40 and above. Late menopause, having fewer children or none at all, being on hormone replacement therapy and weight gain are other risk factors

LOWER YOUR RISK

1. Lead a healthy lifestyle by exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy weight. Eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains while cutting down on fatty food and alcohol

2. Practise conducting a monthly breast self-examination, three to five days after the start of your period.

3. Go for regular mammograms. If you are aged 40-49, go for a mammography screening once a year until you are 50. After 50, go once every two years.

[1380522649] High-Tech Material

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High-tech use from plastic bags

Researchers from Australia's University of Adelaide (UA) have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial.

   The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags to make "carbon nanotube membranes" - highly sophisticated and expensive materials with a variety of potential advanced applications including filtration, sensing, energy storage and a range of biomedical innovations.

   "Non-biodegradable plastic bags are a serious menace to natural ecosystems and present a problem in terms of disposal," said Dr Dusan Losic of the varsity's School of Chemical Engineering. "Transforming these... (by) 'nanotechnological recycling" provides a potential solution for minimising environmental pollution at the same time as producing high-added value products."

   Carbon nanotubes are tiny cylinders of carbon atoms, one nanometer in diameter, or 1/10,000 the diameter of a human hair. UA said they are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered.

[1378042819] Why's our calendar so complicated?

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Seriously? How could someone make one of the most used things in anyone's life so much convoluted? Calendars! Gregorian calendar specifically, is one thing that pisses me off everytime I see at it! Come on, organizing time and scheduling events are such important things; you can't mess up with that and make it exceptionally disorganized! It's after all dividing 365 days (sometimes 366) in a logical way! So you are telling me we have 12 months (it's proper till this point) and each month may have 30 days or 31! And a month has 28 or 29! I mean, what the fuck? How did you come up with those numbers? 30 - okay. But for extra days you just made it 31? Seriously? And that without any rule as to who should have 30 and who gets 31! And well, how the hell did this February end up with only 28? Such a bad way of dividing days! And have you ever wondered about their names? "January", "February"!! Damn, does anyone in the English world know what it means?! I know, I know. They have some old Latin and Roman shit in their etymology. But my point is, the calendars haven't evolved! I wonder what happened to Americans in this regard. They've everything of their own - their own measurement system, their own games then why didn't they come up with their own version of Gregorian Calendar - 'The Modern American Almanac' where they removed these complicated and ridiculous names and replaced them with some sane, easy-to-remember names. "March". What the Romans had a long march during that time? And 'May'. Guys it's so 'certain' that every damn year this 'May' comes and it's not that it may come! Going further, Octo means eight and Sept means seven. Right? Wrong - because October is the 10th month and september is 9th. How's that for a fuck! Anyway,chuck it. Let's move on. Now a month has typically 4 weeks of 7 days each! Stupidity again! "7" days a week! damn it, 7 doesn't divide any popular round number which makes it harder to exactly divide the month into weeks. 31 days a month - 7 days a week - weirdest numbers I've ever seen working in a combination. Don't you think it could have been better organized? How often have you asked questions like 'hey, what day is August 15th this year?', 'how many weekends in this month', 'what day is that function, yeah the May 1st one?' etc etc? Why? Because the days (and hence weeks) don't start properly at the beginning of a month (and hence the year).

Let's see if there's an easier way of organizing days.

I'm gonna first divide 365 as 360 + 5. (I know... I know... I haven't ignored the leap year. I'll consider it soon).

I'll divide this 360 part into 12 months of 30 days each. Plain as fuck, no hassles. every month gets 30 days, equality at its best. I really want to change the names of these months but let's keep them for now. and then this extra 5 days is "Holiday time" of total shutdown after these 12 months! So, you get 5 days (and  6 days once in four years) after every year to just chill out and enjoy! This doesn't belong to any month, it's just 'Shutdown time', much like Christmas time. We can actually make the beginning of this 'Holiday time' coincide with Christmas by starting this "Hassle-free Calendar" on January 3rd. So, January 3rd becomes the first day of our calendar year and of the first month of 30 day. Going further, I would really like to fix this 'week' stuff. We now have a flat '30 day' months. Why not divide these into 5 weeks of 6 days each? This way, every first day of every month starts with the same day. Every year, August 3rd (in our calendar) is on the same day. Your birthday falls on the same day every single year (is that boring?? ;-) well, probably, but it's okay). There's no question of getting confused between days and dates. January 18th in our new calendar will always be the last day of the third week of the first month, no confusion. And if it's decided that last day of every week is a holiday, then every multiple of 6 is the off-day. Well, I'm not saying everything should be converted now to this new version of the calendar. I'm just wondering how easy it'd have been if this was how we had it initially. I don't see a single advantage in the current version of the Gregorian calendar we are using!
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[1220779301] encryption cracking

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i forgot my password to my truecrypt volume now i can't watch my 20 gigs of porn help

AES encryption algorithm
RIPEMD-160 hash algorithm
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[1379866246] Awesome window manager theme

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Hey i need some help. I am trying to install a theme on awesome window manager but there is still the default theme. I put the folder i have downloaded in /.config/awesome and change the rc.ula but nothing happens and when i change change directly the rc.ula file from /etc/xdg/awesome/, awesome doesn't start .
Thanks if you take the time to help me.

[1379980323] Reading audio with software

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How would I go about reading digital audio with software.  For example, how could I get a program to detect a frequency at a specific amplitude and produce to the user how many times that frequency at that amplitude.

[1379289483] dell latitude d620

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i have in my possesion a dell latitude d620. the last time it was used, the sdreen randomly went black. now every timebibtry to turn it on, the power light stays on for approx. 10 seconds, then shuts back off, without any sounds or other lights. how do fix?

[1374376996] ha

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just filled a couple spare TB HDD's with justin bieber, lady gaga, nickelback, lil wayne, lyrics to all of them, and technical manuals for random shit just so if my HDD's are ever seized some poor bastard has to watch/listen to/read all of it.