Recent content by Gwaihir

Today is the day. Will the North rise again? Will Cersai's PMS finally end? Will Dragons finally eat their mother? Do you care if everyone dies and becomes wights? I have my Ommegang Brewey Game of Thrones beer ready (three eyed raven tonight)

Having a cable issue with HBO primarily. I get lots of tiling and freezing. Comcast says that is because HBO is a large bandwidth channel which makes sense. They derect alternating good and bad connection to my cable box. My cable line goes into 1 splitter for Internet and cable. Internet...

I've decided that the only reason Trump got involved in politics was to fuck over Bush. He saw how much money Bush had raised and how the establishment wanted a third bush and Trump wanted to take him down. Bush is in single digits against Trump and the sheer beatdown that Trump keeps giving...

I keep hearing how the US and Euro models are saying we are going to get 2+ feet of snow somewhere over maryland, SE PA or NJ this coming weekend. Anything more definite yet, can we post some models from our resident meteorologists? My kids birthday party is Saturday and want to know if all...

Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Border With Syria - NBC News Turkey (NATO Member) just shot down a Russian plane on it's way to bomb syria because it violated its airspace. NATO is about to hold an emergency meeting.

I finished my chaffing and winnowing program and it works perfectly. However I am having trouble understanding one output. I calculate the MAC values witht this command in python: mac = [HMAC.new(password, block, digestmod=SHA256).digest() for block in transform] where block...

Not Homework I have been banging my head against something that should be easy and I can't figure it out. mac = [HMAC.new(password, block, digestmod=SHA256).digest() for block in newblocks] this generates Message Authenticaton Codes. There is a string "newblocks" that are all...

Did anyone ever get a rip of all the photos off the Penn State frat secret facebook page? Penn State shuts down - for 3 years - frat in Facebook photos scandal

Having trouble figuring out a new laptop for the wife. Her dell is 5+ years old and is dying a slow death. She needs it mostly for web browsing, emails, word processing and most importantly she uses it for crafting by connecting it to a cutting machine to cut out patterns. Ideally it will...

Family and I are moving to DC area for work. For a variety of reasons (mostly financial) we are going to be living on a military base, the problem is our eldest child is going to be starting school while we are there. The area schools are poor and 85%+ black. I don't really want him to go...

So I am a grad student at RPI, the student run group that shows movies had originally planned to show American Sniper. After the Muslim Student Association complained, they canceled the showing. After other students complained about that they announced that they will show it later in the year...

South Carolina police officer charged with murder - CNN.com No way this cop is getting off. Video shows him shooting unarmed guy 8 times in back as he is running away, then walking up to the corpse and planting a weapon. DA wasted no time charging him with murder. Even if it is south...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Tried To Give Steve Jobs His Liver Tim Cook was a perfect match for Jobs to do a living donor liver transplant. Very safe procedure for all involved, and it would have saved Jobs life. He refused because he was so egotistical he would rather die than owe someone else his life.

What software or mechanism do you use to budget. I have always made enough that I just spent what I wanted and never really concerned myself with keeping track. I'm at the point in my life now with 2 kids (with 529 accts), car payment, rent, 401k, IRA etc... that I need a better handle on...

MyPakage | It Just Fits | The World's Greatest Underwear Anyone try this? Looks comfortable but would like some other reviews before dropping $25 on underwear.