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Replacing text

Gaiax — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:25:10 +0800

Hey fellas, I know this topic doesn't seem to belong here, but I couldn't find a suitable section to ask this. I am looking for a way to replace or just generate some digits at the end of a word.

Basically I need to generate 10000 line of text on notepad, just wondering is there any way other than typing it manually.

Sample0000
Sample0001
Sample0002
Sample0003
Sample0004
Sample0005
Sample0006
Sample0007
...
Sample9999

I would appreciate it if anyone could help me.

US Soldiers pose with a dead body

Gaiax — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:30:10 +0800

Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians

'Trophy' pictures show US soldiers posing with corpses of Afghan civilians they are accused of killing for sport

The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed in an act military prosecutors say was premeditated murder.

Moments before the picture was taken in January last year, the unsuspecting victim had been waved over by a group of US soldiers who had driven to his village in Kandahar province in one of their armoured Stryker tanks.

According to testimony collected by Der Spiegel magazine the boy had, as a matter of routine, lifted up his shirt to reveal that he was not hiding a suicide bomb vest.

That was the moment Morlock, according to a pre-arranged plan, threw a grenade at the boy that exploded while other members of the rogue group who called themselves the "kill team" opened fire.

They would later tell military investigators that the boy, a farmer's son, had threatened them with the grenade.

The pictures include a similar photograph of a different soldier posing with the same victim and a photograph of two other civilians killed by the unit.

There was no sign on Monday of the anticipated public outrage. But with Afghanistan on holiday for the Persian new year celebrations, and media outlets initially unable to get hold of the images, anger may yet build.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, recently confided to officials that he feared it might trigger the same kind of scandal as that at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, where images of prisoners being abused by US soldiers sparked anti-American protests.

For weeks the US government has been working to pre-empt any outrage, with top officials, including the US vice president Joe Biden, in talks with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president.

Despite being a setback in the propaganda war between the western coalition and its insurgent enemies, Nato will be relieved that for the time being only a tiny sample of a total collection of roughly 4,000 images and video clips have found their way into the public domain.

The publication of the photos will also mark the ultimate disgrace of the group of young US soldiers, who are currently facing military justice for killing innocent civilians for sport and mutilating their bodies by cutting off fingers and ripping out teeth to keep as trophies.

Morlock has turned on his former colleagues, agreeing to testify against them in return for a reduced jail sentence. Some of the activities of the group are already public, with 12 men currently on trial in Seattle for their role in the killing of three civilians. Morlock has told investigators that Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs was the ringleader. In videotaped evidence, he has said Gibbs would pick out a possible target with a comment such as: "You guys wanna wax this guy or what?"

Gibbs, if found guilty, could receive a life sentence.

Hans-Ulrich Stoldt, a spokesman for Der Spiegel, said the magazine had other, more graphic photos.

"We published three but not others, and we even pixilated those we did print so that the victims could not be identified," Stoldt said. "We needed to document [the accusations] in some form, and were as restrained as possible."

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Xbox LIVE Labs IS A TRAP

Gaiax — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:24:46 +0800

Okay, so it's 5 AM. I'm just chilling with buddy iTzLuPo. He makes a joke about it capturing mic data and s***. So, I was like.. Microsoft sneaky so I'll take a look, I extract the files off the USB, look at the XEX.

I found out that.. yes, It's capturing "avatar" data, and network data. BUT also:

- CRC Disc drive data

- Current Microphone streaming

- Profile IDs, Games Played, Data, XUID, Achievement Data, Microsoft Points, Memberships.
(xuacs/XeGetPaymentInstruments.ashx./xuacs/XeGetPointsBalance.ashx./xuacs/GetPostalCode.ashx./xuacs/GetSubscriptionInfo.ashx)

- Current Screen IO/IOOut Settings

* MORE FOUND *

- Sends All information, of corrupted data re-routed to a MICROSOFT email.

- Grabs your crashdump.pix, and NAND information (looking for rebooters o.o)

- ANY information you have inputted, including messages, suggested gamertags, payments, and friend requests..

- ALL Gamertags you have ever had on that IP. (XeABCHGetContactlistGamertags.ashx)

- Any License Transfers/Machine Transfers (xbos/TransferMachineLicenses.ashx)

Hey, you agreed to the Terms of Use

"These results are recorded solely for the purpose of testing and improving the service and will not be used to identify you"

The "improvement" is us getting banned/removed. THIS IS WHAT MICROSOFT HAS BEEN WORKING ON o.o

Just thought I'd warn people.

For people that say PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN HURRR DURR!!

[WTShare] Are you going to buy the Kinect?

Gaiax — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:18:12 +0800

Since most seller have no stock on Slim 4GB without Kinect.
If you're interested in buying only the Kinect, we could buy the Slim 4GB with Kinect and split it.

Slim 4GB + Kinect + Game = RM1150
Slim 4GB = RM850
Kinect + Game = RM580

There's a saving of RM280 which we can share. If you're interested, PM me.

Location: KL / Selangor