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F is for Five Finger Discount
Going through the alphabet last week for F we looked at File Sharing… which some people equate with stealing. This got me thinking about stealing and if stealing is always wrong.
This lead me to another F topic. The good old Five Finger Discount.
When discussing stealing I do not mean that people should steal from small businesses who are likely to be struggling in much the same way we are but rather from large corporations.
I'm also not suggesting people should break the law but am examining the issues surrounding wealth distribution and poverty in current times. Perhaps expropriate is a more appropriate word.
We live within the capitalist system, the capitalist system does not creative an even playing field where people have the same opportunities as others and the same access to the means with which to acquire the basic necessities of life.
The whole system is flawed some people steal millions of dollars and get bonuses and more money others end up in jail for stealing much less.
Large corporations make money through the exploitation of our fellow humans, animals and our planet and we are expected to play the game nicely and although we are aware that we are getting the raw end of the deal participate in the market place.
Crime Thinc have published a text which illustrates the reasons why someone might steal from a large corporations.
" Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy. It is a denial that people deserve to eat, live, and die based on how effectively they are able to exchange their labor and capital with others. It is a denial that a monetary value can be ascribed to everything, that having a piece of delicious chocolate in your mouth is worth exactly fifty cents or that an hour of one person's life can really be worth ten dollars more than that of another person. It is a refusal to accept the capitalist system, in which workers have to buy back the products of their own labor at a profit to the owners of capital, who thus get them coming and going.
Shoplifting says NO to all the objectionable features that have come to characterize the modern corporation. It is an expression of discontent with the low wages and lack of benefits that so many exploiting corporations force their employees to suffer in the name of company profits. It is a refusal to pay for low quality products that have been designed to break or wear out soon in order to force consumers to buy more. It is a refusal to fund the environmental damage that so many corporations perpetrate heartlessly in the course of manufacturing their products and building new stores, a refusal to support the corporations that run private, local businesses into bankruptcy, a refusal to accept the murder of animals in the meat and dairy industries and the exploitation of migrant labor in the fruit and vegetable industries. Shoplifting makes a statement against the alienation of the modern consumer. "If we are not able to find or afford any products other than these, that were made a thousand miles from us and about which we can know nothing," it asserts, 'then we refuse to pay for these.'" Read more …
Below I'm republishing a guide to shop lifting which was published in a student newspaper called Rabelais.
In a ridiculous case of moralistic censorship the article was banned and the editors of the newspaper faced to six years and/or fines to a maximum of AUD$72,000. You can read about the case here.
The Art of Shoplifting
Shoplifting is a topic that is practically relevant to many and it should therefore not become an exclusive craft confined to a small shoplifting elite. On the contrary, shoplifting is an art that deserves the widest possible dissemination. For your convenience we have printed below a step by step guide to shoplifting. Good luck.
Within capitalism, most of us are either (1) alienated from our labour and hence dependent on the ruling classes for commodities as basic as food and clothing, (2) excluded from the division of labour, in which case we are likewise dependant on the State, or (3) performing unpaid and/or unrecognised labour and hence dependant on patriarchal relations for food, clothing, etcetera. In any case, our access to resources is severely limited by contemporary relations of domination. One partial solution to this problem may be to STEAL.
Sadly, however, many people living precariously on low incomes tend to either: (1) avoid shoplifting for anachronistic moral and/or ethical reasons; or (2) remain ignorant of the better methods and techniques of shoplifting, thus failing to maximise their lifting potential.
From the onset, the golden rule of theft should be enunciated: NEVER STEAL FROM SOMEBODY WHO COULD CONCEIVABLY BE A COMRADE. Hence kicking into a house on Bell Street with a beaten up old Mazda in the yard is irresponsible and counter-revolutionary!
Be careful, too, about taking stuff from small 'corner store' type shops — you could be ripping off someone in a situation not dissimilar to your own. On the whole, it is best to play it safe and go straight for the big corporate fuckers.
Some people will suggest that shoplifters are a selfish breed, since 'we all pay for it in the end' through inflated prices to cover losses and so forth. However, comrades, this and closely analogous arguments are used to justify lowering wages, breaking unions, lowering corporate taxation and taxation on the rich and corporate sector we may as well sell ourselves into bonded slavery now, or join the Liberal Party.
No, the injunction against stealing from capitalism is itself a capitalist ideology and should be spurned as such. Although we have been taught that 'thou shalt not steal', an order historically backed by threats of divine retribution, this should not for one minute stop us from taking the redistribution of wealth into our own hands. Believe me, no-one is likely to do it for us.
What follows is a list of effective methods and observations that may prove useful.
Preparing oneself for the big haul:
1. If possible, you should always have some money on you when intending to shoplift, because if you've got none, it's rather hard to argue that to steal the item was a spontaneous decision. As a result, if you've got no money and are caught shoplifting you are more than likely to be charged for burglary as well as theft.
2. Buying something at the same time that you steal stuff doesn't necessarily ensure success. Approaching staff for items you are absolutely sure they don't have is just as good. Think of something that you know they don't have (i.e. a doona cover with a specific pattern on it or something equally obscure) and pretend that you are looking for this, so that you have an excuse for being there. If staff are ever suspicious of you or ask if they can help you, ask them if they've got the thing you are sure they don't have. Never screw this up — if you do you will have to buy the item or they may realise that you are there to steal.
3. It is always a good idea to carry a bag although you should never stash anything in it — if security/sales staff are suss on you the first place that they'll check is your bag and it may just get you off the hook if they can't find anything suspicious inside of it.
4. Remember that there is no such thing as a standard store detective — there is no qualifying dress code, age, race, gender or class. Grandma will bust you this week and next week it'll be a 5 year old kid.
5. Just as there is no typical store detective nor is there a standard shoplifter. Security do not go looking for the poorly dressed people. They may pick on you out of boredom, but remember, only an unsuccessful store detective picks on poorly dressed people. By the same token don't believe the stale myth that suits + dresses = more successes; security anticipate that professional shoplifters will dress up a bit. Wear whatever you want.
On entering the maze:
1. As soon as you enter the store, suss out the sales people. First impressions often count here. You could find a valuable blind-eye turning ally in younger or less-affluent employees. Alternatively, an employee can often stand out as a more wishy-washy gullible individual — so even if they see you they are likely to be too gutless to mention it, either to you or to security.
2. Don't be put off by signs such as 'shoplifters will be prosecuted' or 'security police patrol this store'. Often this is just bluff anyway, and in any case there is no security measure that cannot be undone by a clever shoplifter or a quick talker. Do, however, keep your eye on security and be on the lookout for video surveillance cameras.
3. Try to find where the video surveillance monitors are and who is watching them; often they are not even looking at them. See if you can get a glance at their monitor. Often it is one monitor hooked up to 20 cameras which changes sequentially (every 30 seconds or so). Other times it's one guy in a room looking at 50 screens while reading the paper or glued to the box. These monitors are usually pretty small and have a wide aperture, showing more of the room but not enough detail to adequately see what you are up to.
4. It is a good idea to keep your back to the camera as much as possible without looking suspicious. Check out cameras (hold-up cameras) are often set up to check on employees, so they are not hard to keep your back turned to.
Blind-spots and other lifting techniques:
1. A blind-spot is a section of the store where you are barely visible and can thus feel free to both dump and collect stuff, without fear of being seen. Display units can make perfect blind-spots — they ensure security is confident they have their eye on you, when in fact they can only see your top half — at the same time they enable you to keep your eye on security. For these reasons, the best blind-spots are usually below the chest — around waist high. Blind-spots are good for loading into the lip of your jeans or into a jacket.
2. Make sure your blind-spot is not under surveillance. Never hang around your blind-spot for too long. Most of all, be careful to never lead security to your blind-spot.
3. A good method is to take everything you want to your blind-spot and collect it all later in one go, or better still get someone else to collect it for you. Getting someone else to collect for you can be a great system, particularly with exchanges — which I'll come to later. If you are really pedantic, or you think that they are watching you, then load up, go to the toilets and pass the stuff under the wall/partition of the cubicle to a waiting friend in an adjoining cubicle and get them to leave with it.
(No item 4 in original text — ed.)
5. Speaking of dunnies and change-rooms, one of the oldest tricks in the book is to put more than one garment on a hanger (works particularly well with women's underwear), go to the change-rooms and put the garment underneath what you are wearing. Alternatively, if you are a woman, you can slip your old bra on a hanger and put on the new one. Don't be put off by the staff as you enter the change-rooms — they are usually quite disinterested and so long as the number of hangers you exit with matches the little plastic number they've given you they'll be satisfied.
6. On the subject of women's underwear, the lingerie department is ideally suited to male shoplifters — not only is it the perfect excuse for looking embarrassed or suspicious (they have come to expect this), but staff are less likely to harass you by trying to help you and will be more sympathetic generally.
Exchanging crap for more crap
Exchanging things — that is, taking the redistribution of wealth into your own hands by refunding yourself for an item you never paid for, or swapping something you stole that you don't want for something you do want, or swapping something that you don't want that is unstealable and therefore refundable — is a whole new ball game.
1. If you plan to steal something and then make an exchange always take stuff that people are likely to take back like sheets, or other obscure household items. If questioned you can say to them "as if I'm gonna keep the receipt, I didn't plan to bring it back". Books and other small but expensive items such as computer software are also great exchangeables.
2. Stealing women's underwear and cosmetics are the perfect alibi for male shoplifters who specialise in exchanges. Male customers always fuck up buying stuff for their girlfriends/wives/mothers and when it comes to lingerie, it's just too easy for a guy to look goofy, have sales staff sympathise and all too quickly agree to exchange or refund the items. This works particularly well around Xmas time when you can tell them you bought it for your mother but she already had that one.
3. Never take an exchange item to the store you stole it from and make sure the other store (e.g. Myers in Doncaster as opposed to Northland) has the same item before you take it back.
4. Make sure you have chosen your item before you approach anyone for an exchange. Also, tell the people in the first department that you want an exchange without mentioning receipts — they should send you down to the appropriate department for your other item and then ring up this department providing a referral, which if you are lucky will mean you do not have to provide a receipt given that everything appears legitimate.
5. The first time you exchange a stolen item for another product make sure you get something unstealable in return, like a video, watch, or something else kept behind a counter, so that the second time you do it, even if you don't get an exchange receipt they will not suspect that it is stolen.
6. Exchange receipts are a pain in the arse. Sometimes smart arse sales people will write a cross the original docket 'no original receipt' which is a problem, so if you have a bit of money on you, it is a good idea to exchange for something that costs a little bit more so that they have to give you a cash receipt.
7. Don't freak out if they call security while you are acting out an exchange — as returns will often require security's signature this is quite standard procedure and nothing to worry about.
8. If you're having problems getting an exchange, big department stores normally have consumer rights people located upstairs somewhere — they can usually be contacted by information telephones. These are people with big egos who like to wield power and the sales staff, who are much lower down the hierarchy, are usually pretty freaked out by this power. If you do get the ego from upstairs on side, they will organise a sales person to look after you and after the egomaniac goes up upstairs again, they sure will — because the sales person does not want to reprimanded by the same person from upstairs more than once, you will be practically able to get them to do anything that you want them to. A good technique is to tell the person upstairs a different story to the one that you tell the sales person. You can get angry at this stage and tell them that they fucked you around, that you don't want an exchange any more and that you want a refund now and they will usually comply.
9. Be wary of the long term employee — you've got to know when to stop. Be particularly wary of the head of sales or middle management who have been working there for a long time (sometimes 20 years or more) and are not as scared of the big guys from upstairs as are the newer employees. You can often convince some of the younger staff that they are allowed to do refunds if you tell them that you used to work there.
10. Another commonly used technique is to take an empty bag from the same store with a receipt in it for previously paid for items and then nick the same stuff, which gives you the perfect alibi.
11. Better still, if you've got some money, find two things that are worth however much you've got, take them out of the store and stash them somewhere, then go back in and buy the exact same items. While leaving the checkout, make a big deal about it. "Am I doing the right thing? Will she like it? Will it fit him? etcetera" and then "what the heck!" (Make sure you don't go overboard and push them to mention keeping the receipt or worst of all mention it yourself!) Pay for it. About half an hour to a couple of hours later (not too long) take the stuff back to the same sales people and they'll usually give you cash without a receipt because they remember selling it to you. If you pull it off you've got a cash receipt and your stolen goods which you can exchange at another store.
Leaving the store safely:
1. Always double back just as you are about to leave the store so that you can check if anyone is following you (99.9% of the time they will follow you out of the store before they approach you). Alternatively, go up and down an escalator or in a lift and press every button in the lift and it will be obvious if anyone is following you.
2. If people are watching you, whatever you do, do not try to discreetly dump stuff unless you are absolutely sure that you can get away with it. If caught dumping stuff they usually won't charge you but they may fuck you around for a few hours.
3. If you are caught dumping stuff never let a store detective know it was because of them. Always make out it was a result of a sudden guilty conscience. Never let a store detective know that you know that they are on to you, because they won't put them on you the next time. That way you get to know store security and are able to keep your eye on them as much as you can.
4. If you want to have a bit of fun and don't plan to continue shoplifting that day, or ever, or you just don't give a shit, go up to a store detective and treat them like a sales person, asking them for help etcetera. It is just as embarrassing for them to be caught as it is for you. It is always a good thing to break their spirits or at least bring them down every now and again. Alternatively, use reverse psychology on them. Say "I'm going down to such and such department. I'll see you down there". Often they'll be too embarrassed that they've been busted and think that you won't do it now that you're being watched and you will have the run of the mill.
5.NEVER GET TOO CONFIDENT or you will start to make silly mistakes.
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Finally, if you get caught — lie your teeth out! Never admit to premeditation. Always say that the opportunity arose, so you took it. Don't act tough or be a smart arse. Cry. Bawl. Admit a guilty conscience. Beg them not to call the cops. Tell them that CSV will take your kids off you and then weep.
Even though some stores say they have a policy to call the police it is not necessarily true and they may, after lots of tears and admissions of guilt, just get you to sign a statement which says you'll never enter that store again. If the cops do arrive, it's a good idea to act scared shitless because they may assume you're a first offender and not bother to check your record. Don't antagonise the filth — it is their personal discretion as to how bad you get busted.
You are most likely to be charged with 'theft' if caught shoplifting, but you can be charged with 'burglary' as well if you don't have any money on you. 'Equipped to steal' is what you will be charged with if, for example, you have a slit in the lining of your jacket for concealing stolen goods. 'Obtaining financial advantage' and 'deception' are what you are likely to be charged with as well as 'theft', if caught exchanging stolen items.Carmen Lawrence, with thanks to Joshua and Destroyer 267.


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Part 4 of 4 – Montessori For My Autistic Sons
The following four-part series includes excerpts from an introductory letter written by a NAMC Lower Elementary diploma program student, Rachel, to her NAMC tutor. A mother of six boys, she was first introduced to Montessori in seeking alternative method of education for her first son. Her first four sons attended public school since kindergarten, with the oldest three beginning their education in Montessori preschool. Rachel's two youngest boys, aged nine and ten, are autistic and she has chosen to complete her NAMC 6-9 diploma so that she may work with her sons using the Montessori method.
A NAMC Student's Experience as a Montessori Parent: Autism
Part 4 of 4 – Montessori For My Autistic Sons

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The kart racing genre is a staple of gaming that each console generation experiences. While Mario Kart may have broken the original mold, several hundred others xeroxed it before the concept broke. But like every copy of a copy, it loses quality as each new version is thrust upon the unsuspecting game-buying populace.
Last year, to usher in the new control of the Kinect, Microsoft Studios showcased a then free-to-play, micro-transaction-funded kart racer, which was eventually scrapped for a retail version called Kinect Joy Ride. Much like those who played it, the game flailed. Now, the company has ditched the motion controls and slapped a "sequel" onto Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Joy Ride Turbo. And I played it.
You're welcome.
Joy Ride Turbo (Xbox Live Arcade)
Developer: Microsoft Studios
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
Released: May 23, 2012
MSRP: 800 Microsoft Points
While kart racers can be fun diversions and are often entertaining multiplayer experiences, Joy Ride Turbo is as lackluster as they come. It isn't that it's an incompetent game, rather, it's just not a very fun one.
Gameplay is split up into three modes: Championship Series, Stunt Track, and Single Race, with each having further separation of 100, 200, and 300cc classes. These class separations seem to make no noticeable difference in course or race difficultly, other than how much the racer AI rubber bands on the final race. In Championship mode, there is further separation for muscle, truck, and sport car series, with three races for each car. The fourth race set allows the player select any car class and race in the final three-race tournament.
As you race, you have your standard set of power-ups that you'll collect from crates along the course. Missiles, dynamite, and gas canisters used to increase boost can all be found. Boost plays a big part here, as drifting or doing tricks off jumps (with the analog sticks) builds up a small meter at the bottom of the screen, and boosting helps you power through the course off ramps and hidden shortcuts. In addition, there are also car-part crates hidden around the tracks which, when gathered, unlock more cars to race with. Sadly, this is the first of many problems with the game.
You start with one car of each type already unlocked for races, with four others in each type visible. However, to unlock these, you must gather three different crate types to unlock the car. Then, once unlocked, you must purchase it with coins, earned either from winning races, or gathered along the Stunt Track, which I'll get to later. Further confusing matters, there are also variations on the car types, unlocked in the same manner.
What makes this annoying, however, is that even if you gather all the crates from all ten races (a minimum of four in each) you still may not have the right parts to unlock one full car. You've gathered the wheels from one, but not the shocks or engine. You'll have the shocks and engine for another car, but be missing the wheels. I went through each of the ten races in single-race mode and just drove along and gathered up all the crates in each race, and only unlocked six cars (out of the 45 possible).
Then there's the races themselves. Despite each having various shortcuts and twists and surprises along the way, there is just an overall blandness to each race. The other drivers are innocuous, inoffensive nobodies who don't really pose much threat, even at the higher race difficulties. Thankfully, there's four-player split screen and eight-player online modes to present an actual challenge, but with only ten courses in total, repetition becomes tiresome and there's not enough variety in the courses to warrant more than a few runs per race.
Thankfully, there is the Stunt Track, which is the saving grace of this game. Here, you're allowed to tool around a giant course with ramps and jumps winding through valleys littered with coins. While this mode is also strangely separated into 100, 200 and 300cc classes, the course remains the same and it's not really a "race" even. You're not competing against anyone, just gathering items and exploring. And that may be why it works so well.
Unfortunately, even this is short lived, as there are only two stunt courses. The rest of the gameplay is rounded out with the same boring races from championship mode in "battle," "pro," or time-trial single races. I really have no idea what separates battle mode from pro race, as they appear and function exactly the same, but there they are listed as separate features.
While Joy Ride Turbo isn't a good game, it's not a bad game, either. It's a competent racer that could have benefited from better race and track design to make the experience a bit more enjoyable. Bland tracks, similar variations on popular power-ups, and no real sense of accomplishment for unlocks makes for a very boring racer indeed, and the lack of development into the game's one truly fun mode is a crime. Perhaps they'll release more stunt courses as DLC, but by the time they do, I'm fairly certain no one will care.


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Dual Looping Delay from 4ms Company, designed by 4ms and Gary Hall
Dual Looping Delay from 4ms Company, designed by 4ms and Gary Hall
The Dual Looping Delay (DLD) is an advanced audio processor for creative synthesis. Not a tape or analog emulation but a modern crystal-clear digital delay, the DLD combines features of delay, looping, and sample-tight synchronization for powerful and dynamic sound capture and modification. The DLD is designed to integrate seamlessly with modular timebase and sequencing devices such as the 4ms Quad Clock Distributor (QCD), etc.
What is a "Looping Delay"? ,Modern looping devices grew directly from hardware digital delays of the late 70s and early 80s. A looping delay, modeled on units such as the classic Lexicon PCM42, has the very long storage times associated with dedicated looping, but without triggered record and playback functions. By default, a looping delay records and plays continuously, though recording can be suspended at any time with Infinite Repeat. Sustain of delays and loops is mainly accomplished with regeneration, allowing an organic, evolving approach to sound creation as new material replaces old, more or less gradually. The 4ms Dual Looping Delay also provides advanced clock input and output facilities that allow for locking delayed and looped material with sequencers and rhythm devices of all descriptions.
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"Cats Hate Cops" is a tidy black-and-white pamphlet from Research & Destroy, a "radical zine collective" based in New York. Its title may seem, to the casual observer, like an editorial statement, but make no mistake: it's a fact. The zine's sixty-two pages comprise 150 years of cat-on-cop violence, all of it diligently chronicled by our nation's newspapers—hard evidence, in other words. The first report is from 1805, when, in Edinburgh, a man attempting to police his dairy met with a cat bite on the neck; the latest is from the Melbourne Age, which last January ran a sidebar called "Anatomy of a Cat Attack." ("Police close one lane and engage Scratchy, who resists." Attaboy, Scratchy!)
Whether these are disconnected incidents or the enactment of a kind of feline political philosophy remains to be seen, but my money's on the latter. It just makes sense. Cats and humans are coevolved; the Scratchys and Tigers of the world have had ample time to form opinions about authoritarianism and the police state. And think about it: Have you ever seen a cat driving a cruiser? Have you even once seen a cat with a badge? These animals want Friskies, not frisking.
Of course, the media tends to side with the state. "A mad cat upset the general routine of things last Friday morning at a grocery store," reads a 1939 blurb, failing thereafter to give the cat's point of view. Time and again, "Cats Hate Cops" describes a world in which the humane treatment of animals is not a going concern, and in which the police are generally assumed to be competent executors of the public will. The prose is often blunt: "After clubbing the animal into insensibility they shot it through the head," one story ends.
The zine is available from Brown Recluse Zine Distro; below are two of my favorite entries.
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Who is Cobra? Listening and learning with an open mind
It is a cosmic EVENT HORIZON created by big solar waves reaching the Earth from the Galactic Central causing the activation of "The Compression Breakthrough", this is when the light forces from above the surface of the planet and from below the surface of the planet meet in the middle, that is on the surface of the planet.
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Earth and the inhabitants have been in 25,000 years of imprisonment and quarantine (black hole). We have been controlled and manipulated by the dark side – or as we call them, The Cabal. We are now to exit the black hole after 25,000 years of prison. Our planet is the last one in the galaxy to be liberated. This exit is the EVENT HORIZON, or THE EVENT. THE EVENT will be a moment of breakthrough for the planet which will be physical and non physical.
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- Disclosure – the release of ET information.
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- Awakening of humanity slowly and gradually to the existence of positive non-terrestrial races and our galactic connections.
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- There is much, much more to look forward to.
The Event is actually many things at the same moment. It is when the light forces take over the mass media and release intel about ET involvement, about the crimes of the Cabal, about the advanced technologies, so FULL disclosure. This is part of it.
The other part of it is the mass arrest of the Cabal.
The other part of it is Financial re-set that the Eastern alliance has been preparing for quite a long time.
And of course we have been gradually going towards the first contact which is an actual official contact between the earth civilization and other positive ET races that exist throughout the galaxy. And the Event is a trigger point which begins that process.
That's the short overview of what the Event is. And of course we have the pulse from the galactic central sun. The galactic central sun is a living entity and it times the pulse of energy according to our global awareness and the level of that awareness and the level of the awakening. And when we have this compression breakthrough the level of awakening is high enough for humanity to receive that pulse of increased energy from the galactic center. (Source)
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June 28, 2010
Google Chrome Tests Unified Menu
If you use a recent Chromium build or Google Chrome dev channel, you can enable this feature by adding a command-line flag to the desktop shortcut: --new-wrench-menu.
To make the menu more compact, Google uses a single menu item for cut, copy, paste and another menu item that combines zoom options with full-screen.
Opera already uses a unified menu that replaces the menu bar, while Firefox 4 will include a single menu button. The unified menu takes up less space, it's less complex and it reduces clutter.
"The general purpose of the menubar is to contain all of the things that you want your program to do but you can't cram into the main UI. So the menubar generally ends up with a lot of stuff that isn't used very often, if at all, and yet is reproduced on every window and takes up a significant amount of real estate. It also has the tendency to become a dumping ground for new or hardly used features. Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar has been systematically removed from Windows applications built by Microsoft and other vendors. It has been replaced with alternatives like the Windows Explorer contextual strip or the Ribbon found in Office 2007," explains Mozilla's wiki.
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Pretty pointless for the mac version, seeing as the menu bar stays there regardless.ReplyDelete
Good. I can never remember which function is in which of the two existing Chrome menus.ReplyDelete
For what it's worth, I've been doing the same with Firefox 3.6, via the Personal Menu extension. As an added bonus, the extension allows me to remove items I don't need and rearrange them to my liking.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I think this is a good idea. When wanting to do something I always end up choosing the wrong button first, then having to open the other.ReplyDelete
I have a different menu on 6.0.447, instead of one field Edit a have standard 3 fields - copy,paste, cut and the same for Zoom optionReplyDelete
- Spiri82June 28, 2010 at 12:18 PM
A very strong point for Google Chrome is that it is cognitively light. Even if Firefox has become a lot faster lately, it just feels too bulky.ReplyDelete
I am glad the community behind Firefox now recognizes that, and is changing it's UI. I am especially glad to see that they chose to put tabs on top.
This proves that the extra competition from Chrome in the browser market has a positive impact on the evolution of other browsers.
I find remarkable the following fragment on their wiki:
"As noted on the 3.0 Windows Default Theme Issues Wikipage, Firefox feels dated and behind on Windows. Especially Vista and Windows 7."
That's not a compliment for other operating systems :D That's my main issue with alternative operating systems, out of the box they feel bulky and dated (and sometimes too brown). Maybe Chrome OS will have a comparable impact on open source operating systems?
This seems to be enabled by default in Mac Chrome 6.0.447.0ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM
IMHO, anything which is inconsistent which Windows on Windows environment is not user friendly.ReplyDelete
As one guy said above, I too always used to select wrong drop-down for selecting any option. Now it will be even worse as I will have to search for that option in the drop-down menu. I am not gonna stop using Chrome for this but I still don't feel this is the right choice.
Good idea to unify them. Like others, I too have to guess at which menu to use sometimes.ReplyDelete
They really should add 'extensions' on the menu too for more exposure. Most people still have no idea what (or where) extensions are - based on the # of current extensions installed.
Alex, quick nitpick...
In this phrase: "an unified menu", it should be "a unified menu". Even though the general rule is to use 'an' before a word starting with a vowel, it is actually the spoken sound that governs whether you use a or an.
Extensions is now buried under tools... they should move it back into the main wrench menu.ReplyDelete
If they are looking to save space, they should remove "Other Bookmarks" and/or make it an option. That takes up more space than anything (except for the URL bar).
- Spiri82June 28, 2010 at 1:00 PM
It also would be good to be able to hide extension icons that are next to the wrench menu. Some extensions offer the option themselves, others stay there for no reason, without an option to hide them. I like to keep a clean interface, without some ugly icon from an otherwise useful extension.ReplyDelete
I like the way Windows 7 has implemented this for the System Tray.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 1:50 PM
I like it. The only reason I use the Page icon is to create a application shortcut, and that's something I rarely do. Most options that I use in Chrome are in the Wrench icon.ReplyDelete
Would be nice to add an option to list just a user-defined tools and options in the Wrench menu, but that's probably not possible?
Where is the Application Shortcut option now?ReplyDelete
It looks like no different for me...ReplyDelete
I love the continued simplicity.ReplyDelete
I do agree that "extensions" should be more prominent, and things do feel a little cluttered at the moment. But, the change's not even on by default in the Win dev versions yet, so I can't complain.
I have 6.0.450. Before this article I thought I lost the age menu because I get only the Tools page. Now I understand : on my netbook (1024*600) I see only the Tools icon and not the 3 others ! Why, is the question.ReplyDelete
I am on Chromium 6.0.450.0 (50790). Thanks to the tip, I now see the new wrench icon and the shortcut works fine too (Alt + F). However, pressing the shortcut for the old Page menu (Alt + E) crashes the browser. Or is it just me?ReplyDelete
I am seeing the same as Láďa Říha, seperate Cut, Copy and Paste buttons, and also 3 seperate zoom buttons, making the whole thing quite unwieldy.ReplyDelete
It's combine all of the Tools!ReplyDelete
Follow the UI Design of the next Friefox 4
- AnonymousJune 30, 2010 at 3:31 AM
Big question is - how do you get 6.0.450.0? I'm still seeing 6.0.447.0 on the blog and via the about screen update feature.ReplyDelete
Alt-E crashes me, too...ReplyDelete
It doesn't work for me. I added that to the end of the line in the properties of the desktop shortcut that includes the .exe for chrome, but it looks that same as before.
as the single menu gets more complex, have you thought about going into the direction of moving away from an ordinary menu, more into the likes of office 2010 backstage tab? extensions and all directly there. it would result in the menu being only the most needed things (exit is not needed there f.e., extensions, history etc wouldn't be needed there anymore).ReplyDelete
i'm talking quite randomly now, but i'd prefer an evolution into that direction. menus for me are always clumsy as they don't fit the rest of the window or ui, and are always quite small and fiddly.
Everyone copying Opera as usual...ReplyDelete
@ Mark GillespieReplyDelete
You must not have noticed that Opera has started to look A LOT like Chrome lately. Flock has moved to the Chromium platform and now Firefox is bringing a Chromy interface. Safari even planned to do the whole tabs on top thing in version 4 but then abandoned it.
- AnonymousJune 30, 2010 at 11:12 PM
the mnemonics keys are gone?ReplyDelete
- Eric PJuly 1, 2010 at 3:52 AM
Yes, Opera took the way you move tabs in Chrome to Opera and yes Opera did get rid of the menubar after Chrome BUT ...
Opera had tabs on top before Chrome even existed.
There was a way (Alt+F11) to get rid of menubar before Chrome even existed.
Opera was first with full content search from address bar.
Etc. etc.
I'm another 6.0.447 that still sees the standard 3 fields - copy,paste, cut and the same for Zoom option.ReplyDelete
The screenshot is from Chromium 6.0.452.ReplyDelete
Hm. I'm "up to date" with 6.0.447.ReplyDelete
What OS are you on?
Any way to force a download?
Chromium is actually a different browser, it's the open source project that powers Chrome. You can download a snapshot ("nightly build") from this page. Make sure you download a build for your operating system and you scroll to the bottom of the page to download the most recent build. Chromium's builds might be even buggier and less stable than Chrome Dev Channel builds.ReplyDelete
How do you add this for us mac users?ReplyDelete
it has landed by default in windows dev chromeReplyDelete
I am running the Dev build, and I preferred the previous way. Is there a way to change this without downgrading? That would only be temporary as they would update the others soon.ReplyDelete
Where is the Application Shortcut option now? [2]ReplyDelete
I lost "Create application shortcuts" any idea for resolving this important functionality ?ReplyDelete
Thanks for your advice
Snap, I want "Create Application Shortcut" back!?ReplyDelete
I think having page options and tools as a separate menus is a cleaner and more intuitive convention.ReplyDelete
If you want to argue screen retail, how about moving `google translate` and `send this link with gmail` into the page menu where they belong. People who use those often should know the hotkeys and don`t need the icons. Now the menu is bloated and is likely to get more bloated.
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2010 at 11:18 PM
I HATE YOU! IT IS SOOOOOOOO NOT A GOOD IDEA TO CHANGE IT! HOW CAN I CHANGE IT BACK?!ReplyDelete


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The film is delightfully carried along by Alfonso de Vilallonga's moving and atmospheric score and Kiko de la Rica's lustrous cinematography.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and also screens at San Sebastian, is an engaging homage to both silent cinema and the golden days of the iconic toreros. The success of The Artist may well make it appealing to smart distributors, and festival showings will be pretty much guaranteed.
Young Carmen (played as a child by Sofía Oria, and later by Macarena García) is the daughter of once-legendary matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho), crippled in the ring and still grieving for his wife, who died during childbirth.
The wheelchair bound Villalta soon marries his conniving nurse Encarna (Maribel Verdú), leaving Carmen to be brought up by her former flamenco dancer grandmother (Ángela Molina). Encarna plans a nasty fate for Carmen at the hands of her chauffeur, but Carmen manages to escape but after hitting her head and losing her memory she is helped by a travelling troupe of bullfighting dwarves, eventually rising to fame in the corrida under the stage name Blancanieves.
Ángela Molina, Maribel Verdú and Macarena García are terrific as the three generations of Spanish women, all glowing with passion and fiery beauty and giving the film a real sense of vibrancy and urgency. Maribel Verdú probably has the most fun in the 'wicked Queen' role – replete with poisoned apple – with her character's prim and lethal beauty nicely balanced by moments of humour…best of all comes when her supposed cover article about her new home is dumped for an story about Blancanieves, leaving her with a small article and a picture of the back of her head.
At the same time the short-haired Macarena García is blessed with a warm beauty and gentle passion, especially as her innate bullfighting abilities come to the fore, and she is finally recognised as the daughter of a master when she faces a snorting bull.
The film is delightfully carried along by Alfonso de Vilallonga's moving and atmospheric score and Kiko de la Rica's lustrous cinematography,which makes great used of the smaller frame. Pablo Berger's film – clearly a labour of love – deserves to find a welcoming home, and fans of silent cinema should try and track it down.
Production companies: Arcadia Motion Pictures, Nix Films AIE, Sisifo Films AIE, The Kraken AIE, Noodles Production and Arte France Cinéma
International sales: Dreamcatchers, www.6sales.es
Producers: Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal, Pablo Berger
Cinematography: Kiko de la Rica
Editor: Fernando Franco
Production designer: Alain Bainée
Music: Alfonso de Vilallonga
Main cast: Maribel Verdú, Macarena García, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Sofía Oria


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Who'd heard of a pharmacy robbery 10 years ago?
Obviously, something in a pharmacy has to have become valuable enough to certain members of society that they'd be willing to take it by force.
And as many of us know, that "something," is prescription painkillers, mainly opiate-based medications such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Methadone.
Those drugs — whose effects are more are less akin to heroin's — are supposed to be used to treat cancer patients and those recovering from serious injuries. But they're terribly addictive. And now, a growing portion of society's drug addicts are hooked not just on meth, cocaine, and heroin, but also drugs with an FDA stamp of approval.
But why is it growing?
I am attempting to answer that for an upcoming story. But if any of you have your opinions or experiences with this, I am all ears.


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Jordan Culver and Rebecca Morin USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – A reporter's question about hydroxychloroquine led to a testy moment at Sunday's White House briefing.
Anthony Fauci was asked his thoughts on the effectiveness of the anti-malaria drug in treating coronavirus patients, and President Donald Trump interrupted before the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases could answer.
"He's answered that question 15 times, "said Trump, who had spent much of the news conference touting the drug's potential .
Earlier in the day, Fauci did answer a question about hydroxychloroquine when he was on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"The data are really, just, at best, suggestive," he said. "There have been cases that show there may be an effect and there are others to show there's no effect. So, I think in terms of science, I don't think we could definitively say it works. "
Coronavirus live updates: US deaths near 15 K ahead of 'hardest and saddest week'
The differing opinions aren't new.
Fauci and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro got in a heated argument Saturday over hydroxychloroquine, according to Axios and the New York Times.
According to the reports, Navarro brought in studies from trials overseas that show the drug, which is often used to treat malaria, was working to combat coronavirus.
Fauci maintained that there is still only anecdotal information and that more rigorous studies need to be done to see the true effect of the drug, according to the reports. Despite the two arguing about the drug as a treatment, the White House coronavirus task force has agreed to surge the supply of hydroxychloroquine to hot zones.
Fauci also conceded in an interview with Science magazine in mid-March that he and Trump "disagree on some things" but that the president listens and "goes his own way." Fauci at times has been absent from some of the briefings. When he's not present, that sometimes fuels speculation about his relationship with Trump.
Both Fauci and Trump have dismissed speculation that he does not attend some of the briefings because they are on bad terms.
In addition, Fauci now has security detail after receiving threats, according to media reports. The expert has drawn criticism from some of Trump's staunchest allies online who accuse him of contradicting the president.
Where's Fauci? Doctor's absence is noticed at White House coronavirus briefing
according to the CDC, "There are no US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -approved drugs specifically for the treatment of patients with COVID – . "
The FDA's website also has an answer for people who ask if they should take chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to prevent or treat coronavirus.
"No," an answer on the FDA's FAQ about coronavirus says. "Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are available in the United States by prescription only for the prevention or treatment of malaria and certain inflammatory conditions such as lupus." The FDA is working closely with other government agencies and academic centers to determine whether chloroquine can be used to prevent COVID – 728 or treat patients with mild-to-moderate COVID – . "
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Completely new to yii so be nice. I have an issue where the CSS will not load on my dev machine. I can upload to my test server (debian linux) and it works fine.
The generated application is completely standard with no modifications done to the code.
Please see attached pic.
My dev machine is a fresh install of windows 8, IE 10 (firefox and chrome fail as well), so I am assuming this is not a windows/IE issue, rather a deployment or security issue possibly.


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Google yesterday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding that its rival remove the YouTube app built for the Windows Phone platform.
The letter cited violations of the YouTube and YouTube API terms of service, including preventing the display of advertisements -- the way YouTube reaps revenue -- allowing video downloads and playing videos that partners have blocked on certain mobile devices.
"We request that you immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing downloads of the application by Wednesday, May 22, 2013," the letter read. "We were surprised and disappointed that Microsoft chose to launch an application that deliberately deprives content creators of their rightful earnings, especially given that Windows Phone 8 users already have access to a fully-functional YouTube application based upon industry-standard HTML5 through the Web browser."
Microsoft, which built the YouTube app for Windows Phone, launched it May 8. Although Microsoft's Windows Phone Store does not disclose the number of downloads for any app, the YouTube app has been reviewed by more than 9,000 users and as of Thursday, was the fifth-most-downloaded free app in its catalog.
The Verge first reported the Google letter Wednesday afternoon, with Wired following minutes later. Neither revealed how they obtained the document.
Microsoft issued a statement Wednesday after the Google demands became public.
"YouTube is consistently one of the top apps downloaded by smartphone users on all platforms, but Google has refused to work with us to develop an app on par with other platforms," Microsoft said via a spokeswoman. "Since we updated the YouTube app to ensure our mutual customers a similar YouTube experience, ratings and feedback have been overwhelmingly positive. We'd be more than happy to include advertising but need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs."
Ezra Gottheil, analyst with Technology Business Research, saw no end to the tit-for-tat, back-and-forth between Google and Microsoft.
"They're both contending for the territory where, by all accounts, Android has largely won," said Gottheil of the smartphone market. "Microsoft is an aggressive and feisty company, [so] this will continue, whether it's done publicly, or a behind-the-scenes chess match."
Microsoft has been the aggressor most of the time, said Gottheil, who ticked off Redmond's "Scroggled" attack ad campaigns and its pursuit of patent licensing fees from smartphone makers who rely on Android to power their devices.
"Microsoft has expressed its antagonism for far larger, but this is the first time I know where Google is fighting back in a public way," said Gottheil in a Thursday interview.
Google's CEO Larry Page, speaking at his company's I/O developers conference yesterday, called out Microsoft for not reciprocating.
"Take something as simple as instant messaging," Page said. "We've kind of had an offer forever that we'll interoperate on instant messaging. Just this week, Microsoft took advantage of that by interoperating with us but not doing the reverse. That's sad."
He attacked what he called "people milking off one company for their own benefit" as he referred to Microsoft's integrating Google Chat into its Outlook.com email service last week, while at the same time blocking efforts by others to tie into Skype. "We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft," Page added.
Microsoft made hay off that remark in its statement yesterday. "In light of Larry Page's comments calling for more interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers," Microsoft said.
Gottheil saw Microsoft's move as another poke at Google but declined to speculate whether it was a strategic move, and whether Google's response was likewise. "But I don't see this as a net loss to Google," Gottheil said of the Mountain View search giant's cease-and-desist.
In fact, the two companies rely on each other more than the public dust-ups indicate. "There's a lot of contested territory, but for Google to run their fundamental business model, they have to provide support for multiple platforms. So it's not a zero-sum game. Windows benefits from YouTube on it, and Google benefits from YouTube on Windows."
Google and Microsoft have squabbled over YouTube before. In March 2011, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, announced that Microsoft had filed a formal complaint with European antitrust regulators, and credited Google's blocking of YouTube metadata as the reason.
"Google has refused to allow Microsoft's new Windows Phones to access this YouTube metadata in the same way that Android phones and iPhones do," Smith contended. "As a result, Microsoft's YouTube 'app' on Windows Phones is basically just a browser displaying YouTube's mobile Web site, without the rich functionality offered on competing phones."
Microsoft's YouTube app remains available in the Windows Phone Store.
This article, Google issues YouTube ultimatum to Microsoft as Hatfield-McCoy feud heats up, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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Whatever happened to limited government?
The concept of "limited government" seems to have become a relic of sorts, writes SoldAtTheTop, mocked by one side of the ideological spectrum, paid lip service to by the other but widely discarded overall.
I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the notion of "limited government".
With the latest election, the last four years in particular and the last decade or so in general, the concept of "limited government" seems to have become a relic of sorts, mocked by one side of the ideological spectrum, paid lip service to by the other but widely discarded overall.
It's strange that such a basic concept could fall so far out of fashion… as if it has no merit at all… yet most "reasonable" people must acknowledge that there are "limits" to what the government can and should do.
By "reasonable" people, of course, I mean those who accept as valid the overall order of our society which seeks to balance the government "public interest" with the individual "private interest" and not those who occupy the extremes of the many philosophies who want nothing more than to radically reorganize everything (…one way or another) from the ground up.
For example, every month over 47 million individuals receive $133.42 through the Department of Agriculture's Food Stamps program for a total monthly cost of $6.28 billion dollars or $75.3 billion annually.
Now, given that this stipend is largely distributed to recipients via electronic credits through the widespread use of EBT cards (recipient accounts credited and credits transacted all electronically like credit cards), without incurring any additional administrative cost, the government could simply add another zero to the benefit bringing it to a monthly allowance of $1,334.20 per recipient and a program cost of $62.8 billion per month.
Why not do this? Wouldn't this bring dramatic benefit to the lives nearly 50 million needy Americans?
Possibly you think that we simply cannot afford such a benefit BUT in an age of trillion dollar deficits, lack of revenue is hardly a limiting factor for government largesse… the Federal Reserve simply increases the monetary base (i.e. tacks on a few more zeros to its own balance sheet), buys government securities (government bonds of one sort or another) and viola!
So again, why not simply increase the Food Stamps benefit by a factor of 10?
In fact, why stop there? It's just electronic blips…. Why not add TWO zeros bringing the monthly allowance to $13,342.00 per recipient and a program cost of $628.0 billion per month?
Clearly this would go long way toward solving serious issues like income inequality and poverty not to mention the economic demand (… along with Keynesian multipliers) that would be created by all that increased purchasing power.
So what's wrong with this scenario? Are there no limits?


text: by David Crane [email protected] Military.com SoldierTech has just published what I hope DefenseReview.com readers will consider an interesting article on the Hissatsu knife. The Hissatsu is a Japanese-style knife featuring an Osoraku-Zukuri-style blade. It was designed by James Williams of Ancient Edge/Bugei Trading Co. and Dojo of the Four Winds specifically for military Spec-Operators for CQB (Close Quarters Battle) engagements. …Read More »