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    I was considering starting a Pintrest board for this sort of thing but figured it may be better here with you enterprising folk.

    This isn't really for amazing gardens like a lot of you have but more for neat tricks/DIY ideas. I'll get it started with a bunch of stuff I've seen around the web.

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    This one seems a bit dangerous with a shovel about.

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  5. Posted

    I was hoping this thread was about the other KFC I recently welcomed into my life. Korean fried chicken. It's so spicy and crispy. MY one true love!

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    Is it possible to cut out these advertising middlemen and just harass people directly using the forum software? Maybe some kind of prominent reminder notice, banner-style, asking them to pay an annual fee. Maybe it's just me, but I would find a direct request for cash to be far less offensive than random (or worse, targeted!) advertising.

    Funny you should post those pics Holographic You - girl #2 is the reason I installed adblocks - damn her distractingly jiggly bottom!

    Exactly one of the suggestions I PMed Torsten about :) They definitely can/do exist.

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    I don't think ads would really work here. Partnership ads are the only real option if you do go that route but I'm not sure you'd want most of the ads that could be placed here. Ads on such a small forum would almost never be clicked and the revenue would be a few dollars, if any. Further more, as WB said, ad agencies aren't just selling ads, they almost all collect a tonne of data.

    If you do end up going ads, my vote would go for partnered banner ads that go in the footer and maybe a random one in topics.

    Paid membership is a better option imo. Maybe add a private forum or two for the paid members, a bit of incentive? (other than supporting the site, obviously).

    I'm also going to drop you a PM about the costs... $5k/year seems quite a lot to run this forum. I have some more ideas I'll float too.

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  18. Posted · Edited by at0m

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/a/24234836/marijuana-the-illegal-medicine/

    Lou Haslam's son Dan is using medical cannabis to manage his nausea, vomiting and poor appetite from chemotherapy, but more recently has also used cannabis oil in a bid to halt the progression of his disease.

    "I ran the drug unit in the north west of the state, Tamworth through the Queensland border involved in many, many drug operations and many, many arrests of people using cannabis and growing cannabis," Lou told Sunday Night reporter Helen Kapalos.

    "I have never felt like I am breaking the law… If I am trying to save my son from the hell he goes through every fortnight then it’s completely the right thing to do."

    Dan, 24, was recently married when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He underwent major surgery to remove parts of his bowel and liver but after a year of intensive treatment it was discovered he had over 40 tumours in his liver.

    It was inoperable.

    "Before I started on the cannabis I would go straight to the private hospital after my treatment and I would just throw up because I couldn’t even keep water down, I couldn’t keep my anti-nausea pills down so they had to put it through my vein," Dan said.

    "I would lose about five kilos normally and I would probably take the next four days just to recover."

    It was his father who taught Dan how to roll his first cannabis cigarette.

    "It was quite funny actually, it was hilarious. He has never done it before," Lou said.

    After years undercover with the drug squad, it was never a father-son activity either had imagined.

    "It was awkward, it was like having the sex talk again, calling out dad and asking him to come out and roll me a joint," Dan said.

    Soon, Dan started recovering from his fortnightly chemotherapy in a day instead of a week.

    "Now he has his pump on the Wednesday, he comes out from the clinic and he goes and has a smoke and he has something to eat. He comes out with us on the Friday evening and has a beer — this was unheard of before," Lou said.

    "The experts say there are legal drugs out there that will do the job. No they won’t, he has tried."

    The Haslam family could face fines up to $220,000 and 10 years prison time, but say the change in their son's health is worth the risk.

    They have also gained the support of the Tamworth community — even senior police officials.

    "We have far better things to do then run around chasing people who are terminally ill using a bit of Cannabis to ease their pain," Oxley local area commander Clint Pheeny told Sunday Night.

    A year ago the NSW government came close to paving the way for people like Dan Haslam.

    A parliamentary inquiry recommended changes that would allow terminally ill patients to legally possess a small amount of marijuana for medical purposes.

    Support for this was unanimous and yet it was knocked back.

    The family tried to speak with NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner in the hospital while Dan was undergoing treatment.

    "She did tell me that smoking will lead to lung cancer which is a bit rich considering I have already got it," he said.

    "It was unbelievable."

    In a survey conducted by Sunday Night every health minister in the country said currently they did not support the legalization of medicinal cannabis.

    But the issue has become even more important to the Haslam family since Dan started investigating cannabis oil as a potential cure.

    After finding a recipe online from a man who claimed it cured him of terminal adenocarcinoma — a glandular cancer — he has started making it himself.

    "In a nutshell, the oil unlocks receptors on the cancer site and then the immune system recognises it as a cancer because at the moment it’s sitting invisible to my immune system."

    "I know people say there is no clinical studies but there is evidence to suggest that it can treat my cancer and I am going to give it a go and we have to have faith in it."

    Cannabis oil has developed its own black market following, not just for cancer patients, but for parents of children with severe epilepsy.

    Cassie and Rhett’s son Cooper is three and suffers a severe form of epilepsy as well as cerebral palsy.

    At a point of desperation, it was suggested to them by another family in a similar position to try cannabis oil.

    Straight away they saw results.

    "It was just great to see Cooper enjoying the little things that we all take for granted in life. It was one of the most touching moments in our lives, it was like seeing your child walk for the first time," Cassie said.

    Cooper takes the oil in a bottle, four times a day but the family faces an ongoing struggle to treat their son. Initially they were reported to the Department of Human Services but Cooper's doctors were so amazed with his progress that he began receiving cannabis oil treatment in the hospital.

    His ongoing treatment is not guaranteed due to a legal grey area surrounding cannabis oil use in Victoria.

    Watch the full story in the video above, and CLICK HERE to contact health ministers and view details of state law surrounding cannabis use in Australia.

    The Haslam family has started a petition on Change.org.au which already has 40,000 signatures.

    A pro MMJ story in Aus on a major network?!

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  22. Posted

    The truecrypt website has been taken moved to http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ and there is now a rather ominous warning.

    "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"

    It's not really known what's happened yet, it's very sudden and without explanation.

    Here's what we do know:

    • The binary currently on the website (7.2) is decrypt only.
    • It's signed with the keys previously used to sign TC binaries
    • It's really strange.

    What we don't know is why... Some theories include:

    • Hacked. Their website & keys somehow got compromised. This is pretty big if it is.
    • Canary. This is their way of saying "We're in trouble. Stop using our stuff".
    • Dead Man's Switch. Similar to the above but could also happen in-case of death/arrest.
    • Internal issues with the team. Power struggle, rouge, psychological issues.
    • Huge implementation issue/vulnerability/bug. Only option was to pull the plug so they don't have to disclose it to the public/LEO and put everyone at risk (they were recently privately audited so this is plausible)

    I'll try keep you guys up to date if anything else comes to light.

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    Not to mention your powerbill!

    Most definitely this.

    Computers chew up a lot of power when running these kind of tasks and with the cost of power in Australia, that can add really add up when you receive your next bill.

    The software itself is completely safe and I believe it's intentions are pure. It's run by the Stanford university and has been running since 2000.

    Here's the wikipedia page which explains what it does in some more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

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