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Hey everyone, I popped back in, sadly someone hacked abhnation and I can't get anything from there until Acid shows back up and corrects stuff.

As to the topic at hand, the elections are interesting though not followed to closely and so far I am supporting Trump as POTUS.

The new Death Note movie sounds interesting though. The last two were pretty good in my opinion. I do have to wonder though, what will it be like and how they will go about presenting it. I really liked Light in the series or at least his idea of trying to make the world a better place, not to much of a fan for the method though.

The Flash will be interesting especially when I get caught back up with the series. Though another series I recently got into was The Last Ship, now that show I am really enjoying and excited for the next season to start.

Hey welcome back Jinto!
Long time no hear, hope things are going well over there.

I don't know if you're talking about the new Japanese movie or the proposed American one that WB
is planning on making. AFAIG with the latter they are getting negative talk about whites playing
Asians( though I think they do have a point considering all the available actors and actresses who
are either Asian or partially Asian). I think WB is simply going for people that movie goers might
be somewhat familiar with, though that doesn't explain why they couldn't find some Asian ones
that could do the job.

Now AFAIG with the Japanese one: it should be interesting since most of them sound like they will be entirely new characters. Matsuda is one of the returning characters from the original movies.

It does look like Trump will be the nominee for now unless Cruz can catch up to him in the next several weeks. It's too bad though that TPTB in the GOP are trying all they can do to stop either from getting the nomination. And just today Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News has told his people to
dump Rubio.
So it looks like they are doing all they can on the GOP side to get Hilary elected!

I thought Abhnation was no longer available.

Welcome back Jinto!
I've been to Abhnation in the past months but it shouldn't be a problem.

Well, I'm fine as long as the story, atmosphere and the actors are the right mix.
With a new character cast & story it will be difficult to make a good impression since everyone will compare them to the well known.

Trump is gonna be president! And some people are already fighting over that he won't start WWIII. -_-
http://www.infowars.com/donald-trump-is-the-only-candidate-not-calling-for-ww3/
It doesn't matter whether he wants to or not what matters are the decisions he will make.
Obama won the Nobel peace price yet he started things that let to insurgents in Iraq and hasten the rise of IS. He rallied and caused the Syria problem. That's half of the crisis that arose during his time the other half were caused by France/Brits with Libya and Putin with the Ukraine.

Boeing's New Self-Cleaning Toilet
http://www.boeing.com/features/2016/03/self-clean-lavatory-03-16.page
using UV light to kill germs.
Well, we got coating technology that do the same for nearly a decade. I've been wondering why it's still not widespread yet. At least hospitals should have it but still don't. Flesh eating germs have become the most dangerous these days...

Let's talk a bit about pattern locks on phones. I didn't bother because it's obvious but now there's a paper on it so:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/08/22/surprise-people-choose-predictable-android-lockscreen-patterns/
Simply said people are bad regardless and it's not as good as your normal number password.
https://www.quora.com/Android-operating-system/How-many-combinations-does-Android-9-point-unlock-have
A simpler explanation than above:
From an encoding point of view the pattern is just window dressing for nothing but numbers, only less in this case.
For a normal code with x digits and 0...9 numbers you got 10^x combinations.
For the pattern you got only 1..9 numbers but each node has a more limited choice for the next follow up number. For example at 5 you have 8 choices; for 2, 4, 6, 8 you got 7 (all across), for the corners you got 5 choices.
So if you got 5398785 as password
normally this represents a 10^7 combination space to look for
pattern this represents only 9*8*5*5*7*5*7=441000 (includes starting #) or 4.41% of the normal
As you can see you got far less combinations with a pattern lock.
Yes, pattern is easier to remember but you need a longer code to catch up.
The most combination you can cover with pattern is with 5 and alternating with even numbers e.g. 5254565852 etc.
With x digits this would give you 9*8^(x/2)*7^(x-1/2) combinations. However, since you use even numbers only, the actual combinations used is half! ... reduced to 1/2^(x-1) so I would look at these first.
To compare with the example above (5254565852) you need at least 1+log(10^10/8 )/log(7)=10.7 digits (4831838208 combinations)... better yet 12 digits to have comparable strength to the normal way. You need far more to account for the even numbers trick. In this case log(2^5)/log(7)=37.8 more digits! or 51 digits in total. You think you can remember such a pattern?
But "crackers" only need to look at the surface to guess the pattern with far less combinations to try. Of course as Apple does it reducing the number of tries helps somewhat.
Edit: How long does it take to brute force crack it?
I dunno
If you take a prime searching program (from 0 to 2^32=4 billions range) running on a pre-pentium @100 MHz with 100 MOPs in 8 milliseconds... and theoretically on a current 3 GHz CPU with 3-600 GOPs in 1.3 microseconds ... I guess it could be finished before you lifted your finger.

Now that I have a space I'm thinking of putting all the DVDs I have in CD Sleeves back in DVD cases,
but don't know where to find them. I need something like 100. I found that I can easily put 130
DVDs on each shelf. Lotta space as compared to what I had formerly.

Big news here is that Cruz visited Couer d' Alene during the weekend and later the pastor that
gave the prayer for Cruz was shot multiple times yesterday. Fortunately he's doing well.

I tried looking up Abhnation on Google but couldn't find it. Do you have to url?
thanks.

So you can have "Cruz was here" put up somewhere?

http://www.abhnation.com/
but for some reason I got redirected to some turkish escort site.
with "Baronh Alphabet - The Abh Nation" I still got a hit
http://www.abhnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=99
I got a bad feeling...

Today's world women day!
And Sharapova's doping case is making waves....
Well, the real story is different. Germany released a doping report in August 2015 which sparked a new point of conflict with Russia. Coincidence? Yeah, right. And with various other reports rules were changed! Russia promised to change but did not. Now Russian athletes are facing complete banishment from world sports events.
We will keep releasing documentations and reports until Putin caves in!  

Well, there's been talk for a while about reviving SETI! Many reasons came up recently requiring us to put more eyes or ears toward the universe. I wonder how this will turn out this time.


Tonight Google dares to unleash (the first) AI fighting against a human player in Go!!!!
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/google-ai-begins-battle-with-humanitys-best-go-player-tonight/
AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol. Lee Sedol is a Korean and the best human player of the past 10 years.

Mindcontrol!!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/magnetic-mind-control-works-in-live-animals-makes-mice-happy/
Well, theoretically not surprising. I mean we can read minds for a while. We can depict what a person see in his mind. Computers can even predict what a person will do ahead of time by reading minds. Of course they can also predict based of body languages used now in crime prevention systems all over the mega cities around the world.

Well I did try the second link and got the same result that you did.

So are we talking The Amazing Kreskin here?

I think the odds are pretty low that we'll find any actual signs of intelligent life now. And the fact that
the Chinese displaced entire villages for their FAST project will probably not sit well if they don't
find any.

Cruz won big time in Idaho. He is going to be the only one that can beat Trump.
One thing that really pissed North Idahoans up about Trump was that he kept talking about Idaho
potatoes that are actually grown in southern Idaho. Northern Idaho is entirely different.

Nope, not that sketchy.
http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-device-reads-your-mind-and-types-your-thoughts
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/mind-reading-computer-knows-what-youre-about-to-say-160107.htm

In about 5 years fighter pilots will carry brain control/surveilance systems... for good or worse.
http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-01-19
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/politics/pentagon-developing-brain-implants-cyborgs/

Pre-Crime
http://www.predpol.com/
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/11/na/cpp/
http://nypost.com/2015/07/08/nypd-wants-to-add-crime-predicting-software-to-arsenal/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/china-is-building-a-big-data-plaform-for-precrime/
There are two major systems in use in a dozen cities around the world. NY already has it completed redesigned & improved from a German system.


The caucuses are as good as done I don't see any reason why Trump could lose.

Well the Neo-con Establishment is praying he will.

And this sucks...just got a notice that my insurance with the Washington State version of Obamacare
has been terminated. But as normal with the webpage can't get on to the notice because ACCESS DENIED, basically since I tried too many times to access it without being able to...note it's been like
this the entire time, not the most easiest site to access.
Then again I have tried about four times to renew this year, so can't say I haven't tried.

The tv downstairs is larger than the one in my old room but the only problem is that it doesn't get any channels past 13,so I have to watch the upstairs one in the living room for shows like
Turn:Washington's Spies,The Flash and DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
Other than that I love the fact that it has a larger screen and so can enjoy my anime better.

In Washington State it's weird: we have both a primary and a caucus but the Dems only have a
caucus. But basically it's all decided when we vote any way. In any case I think I shall vote for
Cruz if he's still in contention simply because Fiorina endorsed him and also my sister in Alaska
likes him.

Yeah, the system doesn't work as it should.
The way things are with the net and computers these days it's also possible the computer you used might not work properly for that site. With numerous updates these days (MS Win with self promo ads) I'm experiencing weird net behaviors.
Note also:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/irs-shuts-down-identity-security-tool-for-taxpayers-due-to-security-problems/

You know there's this old trick with connecting to the VHS recorder and watching via the AV channel or programming the VHS recorder channels. Maybe doesn't work with today's digital systems... I haven't tried this in a long while.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/france-votes-to-penalise-companies-for-refusing-to-decrypt-devices-messages/
Well, you can take cell phone hacking classes at the École Polytechnique since before 2008. Any student can do it.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/skywall-anti-drone-bazooka/
This is fun but there's a cheaper more effective system available since 1-2 years that uses a "microwave gun".

It's already 5 years since Fukushima, many people still live in those temporary container homes. The "government" seriously want to ship people back but they still can't say or do it outright yet. Probably trying to postpone until a later government has no choice. Bad luck.
Reminds of my school where those temporary annexes are still in use after like 30 years and still no end yet.

Hmmm....this seems to be another bad day here since I can't seem to get anything posted. Will see if this works.

I dunno. Maybe the computer got victimized by "yesterday's" advertizing day: adblock let them lose and the people distributing crypto-ransomware got a field trip to millions.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/big-name-sites-hit-by-rash-of-malicious-ads-spreading-crypto-ransomware/
Well, I was busy and didn't go online a lot... so I seem to have caught none.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/nasa-chief-apollo-engineers-who-criticize-sls-dont-grok-modern-rocketry/
These days NASA seems to be fighting on all kinds of fronts due to limited funds and hence, talks about various things...

Yeah Monday definitely was one of those days here.

NASA has more competition these days than in the past when it was simply the Russians they had to worry about. Now it's the ESA and the Chinese and a lot of other people.

Well now that I have more space I can add a lot more to my DVD collection both anime and non-anime.
I think I can get two rows in on each shelf more or less.

I was actually surprised that I got all of my DVDs that weren't in the CD Sleeves on the top shelf without difficulty.

I got another one of those questionnaires from the GOP on Monday. Again they want money.
I simply filled it out and sent it in without doing the ' give us money' part at the end.

Funny I haven't gotten one from the Dems.Maybe they don't need my money?

Not a good month on my mother's side of the family. Last month my aunt fell and had to be in the hospital for a couple of weeks and now she has health care workers coming in to look after her.
Yesterday my uncle fell while getting his mail(his toy dog wrapped her lease around his legs when
another dog came by and tripped him)and had to be airlifted to Spokane.
Like I said not a good month for my mom's side of the family.

OTOH I was googling my paternal great great grandfather and found an interesting description of
what he and his older half brother and half sister and older full brother and their mother all looked like.Evidently everyone in the family was tall and good looking.Though he and his older half brother
sound like they might have been somewhat heavy( it said 'corpulent').
He and his older half-brother were 6' while his older full brother was 6' 3".
The source I found also said that the home place was very beautiful with four rows of trees from the
house to the county road.
This being Tidewater Virginia it must've been rather flat as well, though nice looking before the Civil
War hit.
Too bad I couldn't find actual pictures though(also it didn't say what my great great grandmother looked like.It was written by one of my great great grandfather's half-nephews the son of his
half sister.)

My great great grandfather's older full brother was a Baptist preacher who went to Texas with his
wife and her kin.

Sometimes I wonder if those "loosely connected" events point to similar future events. For example I'm certain there's a psychological connection in pilots whenever there's an aircraft incident. Usually you see minor things happening in following days.

There's enough information to do that? Well, "handsome" is a measure that's changing with the ages. If you look all those old paintings of mostly "chubby" women.. it was certainly a "beauty criteria". So the fact they mentioned "corpulent" ... -_-;
Did you try community pictures etc. maybe someone got on one of those by chance. Well, it will be difficult to identify people on them, though.

Well I tried to look up to see if I could find any pictures of Nansemond co. Virginia before the Civil War, with not much luck. I wonder how tall his father was. He died when my great great grandfather was
around five.
One of his maternal uncles was the sheriff of Hertford co. North Carolina.
So both sides were pretty well respected people.

I don't know where in Texas my great great grandfather's brother settled.

From what I know I probably have distant kin that I don't know about all across the South.
My 3xs great grandfather had a maternal uncle who settled in Kentucky; his uncle had a
sister and brother-in-law who also settled there.
Then my great great grandmother had kin on her mother's side who went to Tennessee.
But mostly it's Virginia and North Carolina.

The Brussels attack is going to make it less likely now that people will sympathize with the Syrian and
Iraqi refugees than even before.

It has been pointed out that torturing the Paris suspect wouldn't have probably have helped.

In any case why do we listen to a man like Trump who knows nothing about torture and totally ignore someone who has gone through it himself like McCain and knows what it's like and why it never works?

Well, it's meant to happen. There's no way to stop people who use bombs. And imho the refugee wave was started by IS. Remember two years+ ago how the wife of the leader got caught trying to escape? They knew they were going to be bombed but they couldn't just escape. Hiding among the masses was the only solution.
In their warped minds they claim even just cause against Belgium. Remember the 10 million Congolese who died under colonial rule. There are people with grudges out there. But have no illusions IS would do even worse to african "slaves" as had happened in the past. Boko Haram siding with their enemies is just ironic.
Yep, in their minds they think they are right. Torturing would only confirm they are in the right. Other than weak minded people no fanatics would ever talk.

Trump has no interest in anything but himself with a penchant for grandeur. He's just talk and relying on popular opinions. And frankly the masses just want to listen to what they want to hear and close their eyes to everything else. Only someone more extreme than him could beat him... Hitler!

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/paris-terrorist-attacks-burner-phones-not-encryption/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/israeli-mobile-forensics-firm-helping-fbi-unlock-seized-iphone-report-says/
Fighting terrorists is not going to bring in money so I highly doubt Trump has as much vested interest other than getting voter approval. He's more interested in spying for economic & political & social engineering reasons.

Before the hunt for eater eggs starts...

ArsTechnica these days seems to report/re-post lots of science news/papers

So ancient virus genes are found in humans. Not really surprising but people want to reactivate it for research. I doubt it's dangerous since we obviously overcame it but non-the-less this might offer new ways to explore for homicides. Who knows.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/16/1602336113
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ancient-virus-found-hibernating-in-the-human-genome-and-it-might-wake-up/

This sounds like autism is common and could hit anyone:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/those-without-autism-spectrum-disorder-diagnosis-may-still-be-on-genetic-spectrum/

We are close to create or design (new) life!!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/minimalist-genome-only-473-genes-synthesized-and-used-to-boot-up-a-cell/

So a new hypothesis says Saturn's moon arose from the a giant ring.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/saturns-inner-moons-may-have-formed-only-recently-from-a-giant-ring/
On one hand it wouldn't be surprising if one moon grew but all of them from one ring, yet end up in different orbits/altitudes? For one it would mean a major imbalance in formation (mass, density, material type etc.). If they changed orbits they would either be gone away or crashed. So I have some doubts.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/medieval-monks-used-king-arthurs-grave-as-an-attraction-to-raise-money/
Uhm, it's still a tourist attraction...

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On other news Putin defends/avenges russian reporters deaths by sentencing a certain Ukraine female pilot. With his omnipotent powers she was caught red handed before it happened! Yet, frankly over a hundred other journalists died under mysterious circumstance in Russia in the past decade(s).

Meanwhile turkish reporters are on trial for reporting about the intelligence agencies activities... things everybody knew already.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-media-idUSKCN0WR0IT
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-arms-idUSKBN0O61L220150521
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/12019905/Turkey-arrests-editors-over-reports-Ankara-supplied-weapons-to-Syrian-fighters.html
https://www.rt.com/news/323899-turkey-officers-treason-arrests/

The only problem I can see of scientists trying to reactivate ancient viruses is of course the military attempting to militarize them.

I finally got my renewal for my health insurance in the mail yesterday so that's taken care of for another year.

For some more light hearted news:

I found on the METv webside a list of 8 Actors Who Almost Starred On Happy Days and
8 Actors Who Almost Starred on Gilligan's Island.
Both Mickey Dolenz and Michael Naismith of The Monkees read for the part of Fonzie.
Ironically they both were too tall. From what it said the producers originally wanted Dolenz for the role and even Henry Winkler thought he lost the role to him when he saw him come in for the audition.

And in an alternative dimension Gilligan's Island might have starred Carroll O'Connor and
Jerry Van Dyke!

Imagine Archie Bunker as The Skipper!

Then again what's even weirder is the fact that they almost cast Dennis Weaver as Howard Cummingham on Happy Days. Kind of weird thinking of Richie's dad being McCloud
and Chester Goode from Gunsmoke.

So in the end normal paper work is more reliable. Doesn't look like we will ever get rid of paper.

Makes me wonder why Gilligan's Island turned out the way it did. Maybe the prospects of a tropical island was not enough or was it the survival part?
Carroll O'Connor? Nah, don't think he would fit unless as skipper. Seems the skipper role was very contested.

As for Happy Days, yep, agree.

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For some reason the story of Mason Wells surviving Bruessel, Boston & Paris is make widely news. But he actually got hit only once... Compared to people who got really hit and their life hanging on the balance I don't see why the other times count here. If anything he got lucky.

Anyway, the Go match was won 3:2 by the machine. From the information it seems it played based on analysis & statistics rather than raw power. And revealed new strategies no human have ever come up with for centuries. Moves that were considered not successful but it proves us wrong. Looks like this might be interesting for the military but only practically useful against equal and well established enemy (lots of strategic targets). Simply said hardly ever useful.

Just over 24 hours ago MS was advertising for their AI chat bot Tay. But in less than 24 hours it developed racist and anti-feminist mentality and had to be taken down.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tay-the-neo-nazi-millennial-chatbot-gets-autopsied/
Needless to say the bot developer community all blame MS for being stupid in not placing filters. Yep, this never happened in the 20 years since the first chat bot was unleashed.
Well, imho not really surprising this happened. Besides I've been saying western language is full of racist implications at its core. And combined that with sex related language in everyday use mostly in southern part of Europe... the center of modern European languages. It's the perfect shortcut to these things compared to the rest of the world.

I don't know how many Americans even heard of Go before the match. It's interesting that the result was 3:2. So it wasn't an entire upset against the champion.

Speaking of upsets the Washington Huskies Women are in the Final Four for the first time ever!
They beat Stanford.

NASA says it has found the farthest galaxy using Hubble. It's 32 billion light years away.
It's so far away that it's at the farthest possible limit that Hubble can search.

The volcano that erupted in Alaska is making air flight in State hard, although they say now that
the ash is lowering.

Looks like most of the other candidates will probably wind up supporting Cruz in order to stop Trump from getting the GOP nomination or at least slow him down.

Trump's recent misstep about abortion might to be his downfall. The case is pretty much similar to same-sex marriage. Forbidding is cruel if you consider rape victims or poor women or underage girls. The rapists should be punished but we are living in a sexist world so women are the prime target for disadvantages.
A lot say these would reduce birth rates etc. So what? If they are worried then they should have more children themselves and not shove their "problem" or preference onto others. Don't they want to dominate other people anyway? So why not outpace others? It's hypocritical. The very same people perhaps may like to entertain the thoughts about having harems so wouldn't both of these get rid of rivals?   Hypocrites! And it with less rivals it would remove lots of love-crimes (murders). So against these means in the long run supporting murders!    More people=more murders => they are the one who supports homicides.   It's the hero's dilemma: saving the child(Hitler) only to have it turn into a murderer.

Should I go about "unforgiveable sins"? cause that's one of IS' argument.

I heard all kinds of stupid arguments on other issues. Like if only the romans would have lasted longer we would have less of a problem with the near east. Tsk. For one it was the roman who removed/killed people in the region that paved the way for the arabic affiliated people to settle in the near east and north africa. No need to go further.

I just stumbled over
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3un6pe/why_the_english_alphabet_is_stupid_gradeaundera/?limit=500
In the end the Alphabet (not imperial) is still the best because it's simple anyone can learn within an hour and with it any syllable can be constructed. The only downside is word length. If only we human wouldn't have a pletora of sounds it would be even better. Unlike Chinese where you waste two decades to learn pretty much the whole dictionary you don't need anything like that with the alphabet.