Official Off-Topic Thread

[Dusty]

Chrome is pretty speedy, but watch out for Google's EULA!

Initially, by installing Chrome, the user pretty much gave Google permission to use anything that the user posted anywhere.

Google then said "Oops!" and things may be okay now?

In addition to that,

Chrome's "Omnibar" can also access all keystrokes a user types, and Google will store some of this information along with IP addresses.

Having a browser do this is kind of creepy any way you look at it.

And people say Obama is the Anti-Christ! Google has more power than he ever will.

[Willows]

Back on the lost strain of pixelation being noticed by the interwebs, saw ye olde bioshock image on a website my instructor was rifling through for reference and recognised it well enough to find it back later.

http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=pixelation&IncludeBlogs=1&IncludeBlogs=1

I'm kinda scared, really. Always considered Pixelation a back-of-the-woods underground hideaway oasiscabin.

[ptoing]

Well that is the same thing that was posted on BoingBoing. The internet is of a shortlived and fast viral nature. Any news posted on a site like BoingBoing will spread like a forestfire.

Just as an example of what this did: In August we had 130k visitors half of which happened between the 27th and 29th. The normal average per month lies around 50k.

[Zolthorg]

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=4265.0
petition to make FAQ get an avatar
signatures: 1

[Panda]

Since "FAQ" is not a member anymore, getting an avatar for it would be useless.
Mainly because we wouldn't be able to access the profile to add it.

[Zolthorg]

Snake's Revenge

[ptoing]

Yeh, i accidentally deleted the FAQ member, but that would be fixable easily enough.

[Atnas]

Chrome's "Omnibar" can also access all keystrokes a user types, and Google will store some of this information along with IP addresses.

Having a browser do this is kind of creepy any way you look at it.

you can disable it

I'm not that spoiled where I get all fussy about zoom, but I am patiently waiting for someone who's knowledgeable about this stuff to take the source and use nearest neighbor for zooming instead. 

[leroy]

took a flight from Helsinki,

Aw nuts I never figured you for a fellow Finn! 

PS love your deviations.

[JJ Naas]

Aw nuts I never figured you for a fellow Finn! 
PS love your deviations.

Thanks.

There are at least five Finns here that I know of: you, me, ter-o, huzba and SirSami.