Out of the Blue

I'm suffering from frequent Explorer crashes from an OCX related to Flash, which rises ever-higher on my list of least favorite net technologies based on the number of times it is misapplied (Flash games rule, Flash websites are so often noisy wastes of time). I've tried reinstalling Shockwave and clearing my cache, but this persists. If this eventually forces me to reinstall Windows on my work machine I'll be tempted to add Flash to the list of things of things like RealPlayer that I refuse to allow to install themselves, unfortunately that would leave me unable to check out the numerous Play Time links that make appropriate use of the technology.

Flashy Links! Thanks Mike Martinez and Ant.
Play Time: Missionred.com. Thanks User Friendly.
Stories: Police: Man's Testicles Locked In Padlock. Thanks Warren.
Man forgets wife at Italy petrol station for 6 hrs.
Five Siblings Sue 'Extreme Makeover' Show. Thanks John.
Science! Jinxed computer users might be sending out a bad vibe, researchers suggest. Thanks Warren.
Errors Cited in Assessing Climate Data (registration required).
Giant waterfall discovered in California national park. Thanks Jim.
Images: Truck Explosion.
Follow-ups: Spacecraft Blasts Off to Gather Mars Data.
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Re: Political grenade on a Friday
Aug 13, 2005, 05:08
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Re: Political grenade on a Friday Aug 13, 2005, 05:08
Aug 13, 2005, 05:08
 
Come to think of it... why don't we treat the world like a PC. With all the shit floating around it's time for a format. Maybe we'll get it right in 3 or 4 tries.

They tried it in germany in the 40'ies, didnt work, and most, myself included, think it was a terribly bad idea

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Re: Political grenade on a Friday
Aug 13, 2005, 02:48
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Re: Political grenade on a Friday Aug 13, 2005, 02:48
Aug 13, 2005, 02:48
 
(...)ya think people would actually get it together and try to learn from the mistakes and take action to prevent it again instead of all this he said/she said, they had/we have crap.

Which is excactly what the 9/11 commission is there for. to find the faults in the intelligence pre-9/11, so it wont happen again.

Thing is, if that commission chooses to ignore certain mistakes, well then its corrupt and not of much use.

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Re: Political grenade on a Friday
Aug 12, 2005, 21:35
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Re: Political grenade on a Friday Aug 12, 2005, 21:35
Aug 12, 2005, 21:35
 
9/11 happened. It was horrible, and we will never forget it. But fer fuck sake, what happened happened, and cannot be changed, ya think people would actually get it together and try to learn from the mistakes and take action to prevent it again instead of all this he said/she said, they had/we have crap.
*goes and hides in a hole pondering the words of Gene Roddenberry*
Come to think of it... why don't we treat the world like a PC. With all the shit floating around it's time for a format. Maybe we'll get it right in 3 or 4 tries.

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Re: Political grenade on a Friday
Aug 12, 2005, 20:58
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Re: Political grenade on a Friday Aug 12, 2005, 20:58
Aug 12, 2005, 20:58
 
Investigations are now under way into what was done before September 11, 2001, about Able Danger's identification of Atta and three of the other future hijackers as members of an al-Qa'ida cell operating in the US and why the 9/11 commission also chose to ignore the unit's intelligence findings.

yup.
pre 9/11, at least one group had hard information, yet the only action taken was to discredit/ignore that information.
and now post 9/11 someone's trying to re-write history.

they didn't/don't want the info to interfere with a pre-determined conclusion, a pre-determined conclusion that served then and serves now to advance some Goal, some Agenda, that's greater than the lives of 2700 people.

for one's edification, read up on "Western Goals"
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/wg.php#P10863_2186461

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Re: Five siblings
Aug 12, 2005, 20:14
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Re: Five siblings Aug 12, 2005, 20:14
Aug 12, 2005, 20:14
 
no idea who's right, wrong, whatever, i'm just surprised this hasn't happened before, also surprised there hasn't been a murder on any of these shows, or at least assault.

it's like when Letterman used to have Rupert the deli guy go up to strangers and act crazy, eventually someone's gonna pull a gun or knife and attack ya.

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Re: Jinxed computer users = POOP
Aug 12, 2005, 19:48
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Re: Jinxed computer users = POOP Aug 12, 2005, 19:48
Aug 12, 2005, 19:48
 
in response to the article -

ARG!!! NO NO NO this is absolute 100% pure BULLSH*T,
there is no such thing as "mind control" or "influence" of physical objects on the macro level. (and quantum events don't scale so that proposal doesn't fly either)

These "studies" fall in EXACTLY the same category as Intelligent Design.

Coincidence + incomplete knowledge + the desire of people to believe in some magical mystical force beyond themselves = fantasyland nonsense like miraculous healings, telekinesis, psycho-cosmic powers, astral projection, and a whole laundry list of nutball stuff.

This kind of super-natural pseudo-science crap has been investigated OVER and OVER and OVER for Decades and is invariably DEBUNKED as either error or outright Fraud.

Shame on such a prestigious university for equating Ouija boards and voodoo superstition with Science.

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Re: Try reinstalling IE
Aug 12, 2005, 19:09
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Re: Try reinstalling IE Aug 12, 2005, 19:09
Aug 12, 2005, 19:09
 
all i know is that the "Fusion Flash Concert" ad is annoying as hell, taking up 3/4 of the screen.

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 17:09
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 17:09
Aug 12, 2005, 17:09
 
I especially like his lvl 11 body guard "bandits". Hehehe.

LMAO! That's what I was thinking about -- he's 20th but dies if you scowl at him too hard, and his bodyguards are all 11th! WTH? It's such a weird quest.





hmmmm... according to the CMG reps, it looks 99.999% certain that we're going to be locked-out of work come Monday so I guess I'll have a whole bunch more time for playin' GW to look forward to pretty soon! w00t?

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 16:34
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 16:34
Aug 12, 2005, 16:34
 
Plus you get there and he's like what LVL2?? I keep thinking they need to add a little speach-balloon over his head as he's charging at you that says "Gaallraaath SLASH!! Oh fuck me, I took the axe."

LOL, I never realised that. The guy has a fucking SKILL named after him, and then he uses a weapon that can't use that skill. Hahahahaha.

Yeah he's only lvl 20 himself, and a fat creampuff besides. Those assraping lvl 24 critters that he has strewn about his tower would murder him without blinking. I especially like his lvl 11 body guard "bandits". Hehehe.

On a sidenote, you can actually easily AVOID those lvl 24 murderers.

Creston

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 16:29
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 16:29
Aug 12, 2005, 16:29
 
I fucking hate that mission...

HEhehee!

Yeah, whoever built it definitely has a mean streak.

Plus you get there and he's like what LVL2?? I keep thinking they need to add a little speach-balloon over his head as he's charging at you that says "Gaallraaath SLASH!! Oh fuck me, I took the axe."


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Political grenade on a Friday
Aug 12, 2005, 16:23
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Political grenade on a Friday Aug 12, 2005, 16:23
Aug 12, 2005, 16:23
 
Interesting info not being widely discussed:

'Able Danger' Could Rewrite History

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165414,00.html

WASHINGTON — The federal commission that probed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was told twice about "Able Danger," a military intelligence unit that had identified Mohamed Atta and other hijackers a year before the attacks, a congressman close to the investigation said Wednesday.

Rep. Curt Weldon (search), R-Pa., a champion of integrated intelligence-sharing among U.S. agencies, wrote to the former chairman and vice-chairman of the Sept. 11 commission late Wednesday, telling them that their staff had received two briefings on the military intelligence unit — once in October 2003 and again in July 2004.

Weldon said he was upset by suggestions earlier Wednesday by 9/11 panel members that it had been not been given critical information on Able Danger's capabilities and findings.

"The impetus for this letter is my extreme disappointment in the recent, and false, claim of the 9/11 commission staff that the commission was never given access to any information on Able Danger," Weldon wrote to former Chairman Gov. Thomas Kean (search) and Vice-Chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton (search). "The 9/11 commission staff received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from former team members, yet did not pursue the matter.

"The 9/11 commission took a very high-profile role in critiquing intelligence agencies that refused to listen to outside information. The commissioners very publicly expressed their disapproval of agencies and departments that would not entertain ideas that did not originate in-house," Weldon wrote in his letter Wednesday night.

"Therefore it is no small irony," Weldon pointed out, "that the commission would in the end prove to be guilty of the very same offense when information of potentially critical importance was brought to its attention."

"It could be a very crucial incident in terms of the lead-up to 9/11. It could reveal flaws in the intelligence sharing or the lack of intelligence that we have not yet focused on," Hamilton said of the military's tracking of Atta and its inability to get domestic intelligence agencies to follow up.

Among the most critical facts to be determined, if the information about Atta did exist in 2000, would be who then blocked the intelligence from going to the FBI, which could have tracked down the terror cell.

"Team members believed that the Atta cell in Brooklyn should be subject to closer scrutiny, but somewhere along the food chain of administration bureaucrats and lawyers, a decision was made in late 2000 against passing the information to the FBI," Weldon wrote.


"Fear of tarnishing the commission's legacy cannot be allowed to override the truth. The American people are counting on you not to 'go native' by succumbing to the very temptations your commission was assembled to indict," he added.

Maybe because one of the commissioners (Jamie S. Gorelick) was instrumental in creating the "wall" preventing info from passing to the FBI?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick

Critics say her duties on the commission represent a conflict of interest, contending that she is the single greatest cause of the organizational failures within intelligence that contributed to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Former acting FBI Director Thomas J. Pickard said that Gorelick had played a key role in setting the very counterterrorism policies being investigated. During her tenure at the Justice Department, which controls the FBI, she opposed FBI initiatives to work more closely with other US agencies to investigate and prevent terrorism, according to Former acting FBI Director Thomas J. Pickard.

During the 9/11 Committee, questions were raised as to why there was a "wall" that prevented information from being shared between departments such as the FBI, CIA and Justice Department. The reason - in 1995, she was the number two person at the Justice Department. Gorelick essentially decreed that, because terrorism was to be tried as any other crime, and information between organizations cannot be disseminated during investigations, a "wall" was set up - a "wall" that ultimately led to 9/11.

and then there is also this:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16242886%255E2703,00.html

NEW intelligence reports suggesting that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta arrived in the US in late 1999 or early 2000 - six months earlier than previously thought - are likely to spark a reassessment of public servant Johnelle Bryant's incredible story of a face-to-face meeting with the terrorist.

In an extraordinary 2002 interview later branded a hoax by some media -- including the ABC's Media Watch -- Ms Bryant claimed to have met Atta in late April or early May of 2000 when she worked as a loan officer with the US Department of Agriculture's farm services agency in Florida.

But despite some independent support for her claims, Ms Bryant's account was dismissed as a fake on the grounds that Atta did not get a visa to enter the US until May 18, 2000, and did not arrive until June 3 that year on a flight from Prague that landed at New Jersey's Newark airport.

Her claims were ignored in last year's 9/11 commission report on the events leading up to the terrorist attacks. The commission accepted the advice of US immigration authorities that Atta did not arrive until June 2000.

But revelations that a military intelligence unit known as Able Danger believed Atta had actually arrived in the US in late 1999, or at the latest very early in 2000, have lent new credibility to Ms Bryant's claims, while at the same time raising questions about the exchange of intelligence between US security agencies.

Investigations are now under way into what was done before September 11, 2001, about Able Danger's identification of Atta and three of the other future hijackers as members of an al-Qa'ida cell operating in the US and why the 9/11 commission also chose to ignore the unit's intelligence findings.


Republican congressman Curt Weldon has accused the commission of ignoring material that would have forced a rewriting of the September 11 events.

Spokesman Al Felzenberg admitted this week the commission had been sceptical when an Able Danger officer briefed it in July last year and said Atta had been in the US in late 1999 or early 2000. The investigators knew this was impossible, Mr Felzenberg said, since travel records confirmed he had not entered until June 2000.

"The information that (the officer) provided us did not mesh with other conclusions that we were drawing," he said. "There was no way that Atta could have been in the US at that time."

I like that - "did not mesh with their conclusions". Maybe they should have investigated further than, to see if their initial conclusions were wrong?



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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 16:20
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 16:20
Aug 12, 2005, 16:20
 
Yeah, that's the tough part. I am determined, though--like I am determined to someday make it through Lornar's--to ascend that mountain without dying.

I think I must hove some kind of issues that only a really good psychologist can fix.

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 16:17
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 16:17
Aug 12, 2005, 16:17
 
I am able to get to the point where I've killed a bunch of giants and it's just the human enemies left around the castle/temple/whatever, and I'm able to deal with the smaller groups, but then the necro casters show up and every time you kill something, one or 2 undead pets show up in its place. I can only cast corpse-consuming spells so often, you know! So at that point the swarming and screaming death starts in earnest.

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 15:30
nin
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 15:30
Aug 12, 2005, 15:30
nin
 
A full party of 8 leaving from TOA shouldn't have any insurmountable troubles..

Yeah, as long as no one leaves the group, mid mission...

I fucking hate that mission...

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 15:03
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 15:03
Aug 12, 2005, 15:03
 
We were a lvl 17, 18, and 19, and I think 4 bots. The only spot we had real trouble was right at the top. I kept asking my party if we should try and pull them, but they ignored me. Later, when I went back with bots, I succeeded in pulling them 4 at a time, which was manageable if the bots had brains.

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Mission Red
Aug 12, 2005, 14:53
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Mission Red Aug 12, 2005, 14:53
Aug 12, 2005, 14:53
 
Wow, mission red... That's a classic brings back some '01 Counter-Strike memories.

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 14:46
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 14:46
Aug 12, 2005, 14:46
 
By the way, I did that Villany of Galrath quest last night. What a freaking joke. Do they expecty ANYONE to be able to do that without dying multiple times? I like a challenge, but c'mon. And with mercs it's simply impossible because they're such idiots.

BAH! That quest is just misunderstood is all.

A full party of 8 leaving from TOA shouldn't have any insurmountable troubles.. I think most of the trouble stems from the fact that lots of people pick up that quest WAY before they're prepared to accomplish it (whether by virtue of not being a high-enough level, not understanding fundamental strategies of pulling/calling, or both).

Last time I did Galrath, I was 16th level when we started (myself, 1 other human person, 6 bots), and I kept track of how much XP I earned over the course of the mission: just a few hundred shy of 9000XP including the reward. PLUS I picked up a crapload of lewtz.

Well worth the effort now that they've fixed the reward!

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Re: Truck Explosion
Aug 12, 2005, 14:42
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Re: Truck Explosion Aug 12, 2005, 14:42
Aug 12, 2005, 14:42
 
Do they expecty ANYONE to be able to do that without dying multiple times?

Probably not. I did it with 8 players, each level 16+, 3 level 20s, and we still died quite often, and twice I had to pull the team back from the brink of disaster with a timely run away and ressurect later.

Yeah the quest is a joke. It should be something epic, and instead you get xp. Woohoo. At least you got 4000xp, though. I got 500!

Creston


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Blue - try another user
Aug 12, 2005, 14:39
Rob
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Blue - try another user Aug 12, 2005, 14:39
Aug 12, 2005, 14:39
Rob
 
Try logging in as another user and see if the crash persists.

You can also delete *ALL* registry entries associated with Macromedia (uninstall may not do that), as well as deleting anything Macromedia related from your Document & Settings folders.


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Try msnews.microsoft.com's IE newsgroups
Aug 12, 2005, 14:37
Ant
 
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Try msnews.microsoft.com's IE newsgroups Aug 12, 2005, 14:37
Aug 12, 2005, 14:37
 Ant
 
Blue, if you still can't fix it, ask over there in the IE newsgroups. Maybe someone can help you.
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