Hit Stop --> Stop --> Play and Other Tricks to Skip DVD Trailers and Warnings
The first tip, from CNET author Tom Merritt, is the easiest. Just press Stop, Stop, then Play on many DVDs to skip right to the movie. This method won't always work, so if it doesn't, don't give up hope! If twice doesn't work, Salon.com's Richard Rider says pressing Stop three times, followed by Play, will do the trick.
Finally, if you're on a laptop or desktop computer, Lifehacker alum Rick Broida had this to say:
I popped in a DVD and fired up Windows Media Player. When the first splash screen appeared, I clicked the player's Stop button. Then I clicked Play, and the disc skipped ahead to the previews. I repeated the process - Stop, then Play - and it advanced to the FBI warning. I did it a third time and presto: I landed right on the movie's menu screen.
These tricks may not work every time and with every DVD.
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Facebook Makes Your Info Public
Yesterday, Facebook announced an awesome new feature that lets anyone see your current city, hometown, education, work, likes, and interests, even if you've set your profile to private. Will this benefit individual users and their friends? Not unless the only thing you remember about your dear friend is that they enjoy leather-play and you're willing to scroll through reams of headshots to find them. No, this new privacy erosion is for the real clients of Facebook: advertisers, and the data-mining minions that toil on their behalf. However, there are two ways to be totally private. Read how HERE
Garden bird feeders spread diseases
EACH year, millions of people stack their garden bird feeders with seeds and nuts to help birds survive the winter. But as valuable as they are to many species, for a minority of songbirds in Europe and North America bird feeders appear to be a death trap.
Little is known about the impact of bird feeders on wild populations, and some ornithologists liken them to a global experiment in manipulating nature. "We should have a huge amount of data, but we don't," says Jim Reynolds of the University of Birmingham in the UK. Reynolds will be speaking at a conference in London next month, which for the first time will examine the pros and cons of feeding wild birds.
The disease has just reached California, and has spread to other species such as the American goldfinch. A new and more virulent strain has emerged in North Carolina. "It spreads much faster, and the eye infections are more severe," says Dhondt.
In the UK, a feeder-related disease has been affecting greenfinches since 2005. Trichomoniasis, or "trike", is related to a disease thought to have killed some Tyrannosaurus rex. It triggers throat swelling, causing birds to starve, and has killed about a fifth of the UK's greenfinches. In 2007 alone, around 500,000 died, according to Rob Robinson of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
Scott McBurney of the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, in Canada will report at the London meeting that trike reached Canada in 2007. There are also preliminary reports of cases in the US. This suggests the two outbreaks could overlap, with devastating consequences for finch populations.
None of this means that we should throw out our bird feeders. "This is the first big mortality effect," says Robinson, "but it's only in one or two species. We're safely feeding another 30 or 40." Other research shows that feeders help birds to survive the winter, and then to produce more young that have higher survival rates.
Mike Toms at the BTO says that simple measures like regularly washing feeders with clean water can reduce infection rates. He has also found that mesh or metal-frame feeders are less likely to spread disease than feeders with a single point of access.
More HERE
Little is known about the impact of bird feeders on wild populations, and some ornithologists liken them to a global experiment in manipulating nature. "We should have a huge amount of data, but we don't," says Jim Reynolds of the University of Birmingham in the UK. Reynolds will be speaking at a conference in London next month, which for the first time will examine the pros and cons of feeding wild birds.
The conference will hear that bird feeders have played a key role in two waves of diseases among songbirds, mainly finches (see map). Since 1994, an epidemic of an infectious eye disease called mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, which began in poultry, has wiped out 60 per cent of house finches in the eastern US. Undernourished and unable to see properly, they fall easy prey to predators. Experiments by André Dhondt of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, show that the birds pick up the Mycoplasma gallisepticum bacterium from making contact with feeders as they peck at seeds.
The disease has just reached California, and has spread to other species such as the American goldfinch. A new and more virulent strain has emerged in North Carolina. "It spreads much faster, and the eye infections are more severe," says Dhondt.
In the UK, a feeder-related disease has been affecting greenfinches since 2005. Trichomoniasis, or "trike", is related to a disease thought to have killed some Tyrannosaurus rex. It triggers throat swelling, causing birds to starve, and has killed about a fifth of the UK's greenfinches. In 2007 alone, around 500,000 died, according to Rob Robinson of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
Scott McBurney of the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, in Canada will report at the London meeting that trike reached Canada in 2007. There are also preliminary reports of cases in the US. This suggests the two outbreaks could overlap, with devastating consequences for finch populations.
None of this means that we should throw out our bird feeders. "This is the first big mortality effect," says Robinson, "but it's only in one or two species. We're safely feeding another 30 or 40." Other research shows that feeders help birds to survive the winter, and then to produce more young that have higher survival rates.
Mike Toms at the BTO says that simple measures like regularly washing feeders with clean water can reduce infection rates. He has also found that mesh or metal-frame feeders are less likely to spread disease than feeders with a single point of access.
More HERE
What's With Florida Women And Their VJJ?
If you are not a regular reader go HERE to see what I mean by asking that question then read the following.
A Florida woman claiming to have mistakenly sent a very revealing photo of her private parts to men she was chatting with on the Internet was arrested by sheriff's deputies last week and charged with battery after assaulting her boyfriend who had discovered the online activities. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office report, while Kizzy Campbell was away from the home they share, Johnny Lowe came across some "very provocative" chat messages between his girlfriend and "'other dudes'" on their computer. Checking more closely, Lowe, 28, looked at the outgoing messages and discovered that Campbell, 31, "had taken a photo of her vagina and sent it out."
more with photos HERE
A Florida woman claiming to have mistakenly sent a very revealing photo of her private parts to men she was chatting with on the Internet was arrested by sheriff's deputies last week and charged with battery after assaulting her boyfriend who had discovered the online activities. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office report, while Kizzy Campbell was away from the home they share, Johnny Lowe came across some "very provocative" chat messages between his girlfriend and "'other dudes'" on their computer. Checking more closely, Lowe, 28, looked at the outgoing messages and discovered that Campbell, 31, "had taken a photo of her vagina and sent it out." more with photos HERE
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