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BehindMyScreen speaks plainly and with a great deal of knowledge behind his words. A real asset to the vine who does not play sides but instead seeks to find the objective truth.

— Yuriy Bilokonsky

I must commend you for your articles. Your articles are clear and eloquent because of your knowledge. Most of all, you have an opinion, and you do not shirk from announcing it. Newsvine benefits greatly from your insight.

— Leon K

Behind My Screen, besides having one of the more meta-logically awkward handles here, is also in possession of a very intimidating avatar. Be afraid.

He's also an amazingly astute commentator whose "Vineacity" is really a very poor representation of the respect and deference he commands in the community.

— Killfile

Behind My Screen is a relentless truthseeker. He has a depth of knowledge and a level of focus which are extremely effective in separating the wheat from the chaff. When Behind My Screen makes a point, it stays made.

— Brad Farris

Behind My Screen - There needs to more people like you on Newsvine that know what they're talking about and are willing to speak up in very certain terms. I'm always grateful when you properly slap me back into reality when I over step my limited bounds.

— kevinb66

Get your "Health Care NOW!" Icon

Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:34 AM EDT

I created a "Health Care for America NOW!" icon that I am offering up for free to anyone who wants to download it. I am providing the original Illustrator file and the PNG based on the Ai File. Go to town on it folks!

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politics, obama, democrats, republicans, health-care, social-media, icons

Iranian Special Forces Protect Mousavi Supporters from Basij Attacks

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:24 AM EDT (abc.net.au)

I've [Robert Fisk] just been witnessing a confrontation, in dusk and into the night, between about 15,000 supporters of Ahmadinejad - supposedly the president of Iran - who are desperate to down the supporters of Mr Mousavi, who thinks he should be the president of Iran.

world-news, iran, protests, revolution, mousavi, iran-elections

How-To: Forward an X11 Session to Windows over SSH

Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:39 PM EST

Today, I will walk the reader through something that is very useful to all those windows users who need to access an application on a remote Linux or Unix server and that application has the pesky nature to be graphical. There are two methods to get this done.

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MIT opens new 'window' on solar energy - MIT News Office

Seeded on Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:27 PM EDT (MIT)

MIT Researchers have discovered Photo voltaic dyes for solar panels that increase the efficiency of power collection of solar panels by a factor of 40.

science, greenvine, solar-power, discovery, mit, revolutionary

Oil and the Speculators

Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:16 PM EDT

Oil. It is used for many different products and is so intertwined in our society today that without it or a suitable replacement, civilization as we have come to know it will fall.

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politics, oil, recession, depression, gas, regulation, hedge-funds, speculation

How-to: Convert Divx/Xvid to WMV

Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:13 PM EDT

Many of you here may read the title and think, "Who the heck would want to do that!!". If you are happy with your DivX/Xvid files, then go forth and be fruitful with them.

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technology, movies, videos, how-to, divx, xvid, windows-media, transcoding

Nanny Sate no so good for Kids

Seeded on Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:55 PM EDT (UK Government)

A study commissioned by the new UK PM has concluded that insulating children from dangers hinders their success later in life.

politics, government, children, nanny-state, over-protection

McCain and Opening the Presidency to Foreign Influance in this Race.

Tue Mar 4, 2008 9:41 AM EST

This race will be about foreign influence on the office of the presidency. Right now people are focusing on Obama's foreign born father and how "they heard" he was a "Muslim", etc.

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politics, obama, mccain, democrats, republicans, presidency, 2008-race

Free Market Healthcare in a Single Payer System

Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:58 PM EST

Over the last few months I have been giving thought to the health care system in the US. A recent article that my father forwarded to me derided the Canadian health care system, which can use some criticism. One sentence at the very beginning however stuck in my craw.

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politics, health-care, u-s, single-payer, free-markets

Evolutionary theory was wrong! Science proves it!

Seeded on Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:15 PM EST ()

Yes, it is true, Evolution has been show to be wrong by scientists in Norway. but it is not what you think. They performed a very large genetic study and found that Darwin and evolutionary theorists have been wrong for a long time.

science, evolution, genetics, creationism, proof, eureka

Tech Review: The MagicJack IP Phone Device

Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:18 PM EST

My mother sent my family our Christmas presents this year. We have a tradition of opening them a few days before (due to the lack of space in my small home).

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technology, phone-service, phone-companies, magicjack, tech-revolution

Huckabee forum a fake says Ron Paul supporter

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:03 PM EST ()

This Ron Paul supporter seems to think that www.MikeHuckabeeForum.com is a fake. Lets hope he is right because those people on there are insane.

politics, election, republicans, ron-paul, mike-huckabee

The How-To Group Member Roster

Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:43 PM EST

It has been about a week since I announced the formation of newsvine's How-To group. I would like to list the members who have accepted invitations or those that have been admitted upon request.

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technology, newsvine, how-to-group-article

Lets work on developing the publication standards

Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:47 PM EST

I am opening this article up to all group members. Those who have responded already thank-you. As a reward for your interest you get to have a say in the guidelines for publishing a How-To on newsvine.

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groups, how-to-discussion

Calling All How-To Writers

Mon Dec 3, 2007 9:13 PM EST

Until now, how-tos on the vine have not been very organized. I created this group as a resource for How-To writers on the vine. I hope that this group can become a collection of some of the finest technical writers on the vine.

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technology, newsvine, how-to, groups, new-group

Turning a Power Point Presentation into a video

Sat Dec 1, 2007 2:28 PM EST

So, you have this fantastic power point presentation and you need to turn it into a video so that you can include it in a project or run it as a marquee on a TV or website, or send it to your mom who does not have a computer, or something.

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technology, microsoft, software, how-to, power-point, video-creation

The Fix for IE7 Icons on CDs and DVDs after IE7 is installed

Seeded on Sun Sep 2, 2007 8:24 AM EDT (neowin.net)

I have been looking everywhere for a fix for this problem. Once I installed IE7 I started seeing the icons on my CD and DVDs become IE7 icons. This works and for those of you who do not know how to work this solution, please contact your local teenage geek for help.

technology, microsoft, internet-explorer, dvds, cds, icons

Conservative Elite is Anti-Democracy

Seeded on Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:33 PM EDT (Family Security Matters (Google Cache))

This article made such a fuss when it was brought to the attention of liberal bloggers that the Family Security Matters group in Washington, a front for The Center for Security Policy, who published this article on their site, had to pull it down to avoid creating bad press for c …

politics, bush, democracy, conservative, dictatorship

Is Mixing Economic/Government Ideologies a Plan for Disaster?

Thu Aug 2, 2007 6:01 PM EDT

I think that I can speak for everyone here when I give my condolences to the families of the Minnesota bridge disaster. The human tragedy was awful and completely avoidable.

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politics, death, taxes, conservative, liberal, minnesota, disaster, bridge, policies, republican-democrat

What Kind of Libertarian are you?

Wed Aug 1, 2007 9:43 PM EDT

There is a large population of Libertarians on Newsvine. This group makes up the majorety of the conservative thought here. I thought it would be interesting to find out what camp my Libertarian friends fall into in their policy beliefs.

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politics, economics, libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, life-choices, minarchism

Toshiba to Pull a Gillet with HD-DVD?

Seeded on Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:58 PM EDT (dvddossier.com)

I think Toshiba has the right idea with the High Def. Format wars. Make the player cheap and people will come. Anyone who looks at the history of format wars will see that the cheapest player (and media) won. HD-DVD wins in cheap media...

technology, sony, hd-dvd, toshiba, blue-ray, format-war

BP gets break on dumping in lake | Chicago Tribune

Seeded on Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:53 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

As a Michigander it make me upset that a state with the smallest shoreline on Lake Michigan can allow companies to pollute it with out any other states agreeing. Disgusting.

us-news, environment, michigan, pollution, indiana, great-lakes, oil-companies

The Case for more Impeachments

Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:22 PM EDT

Today in the US we have a large majority of the Democratic Party base railing their political leaders to put impeachment of President Bush back on the table. And a smaller majority wants impeachment proceedings to begin.

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politics, us, congress, president, senate, constitution, vice-president

Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows

Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:48 PM EDT (Apple)

Safari for Windows is now in public beta. If you are not aware, Safari was the first browser to be acid2 compliant and is based on the Open source khtml rendering engine. This is very cool news for web developers and users alike.

technology, apple, microsoft, windows, safari, world-wide-web, web-browser

THe iRex iLiad way better than the Sony Reader

Seeded on Sat Jun 9, 2007 9:19 PM EDT (irextechnologies.com)

Three things make this better right off the spot: 1) you can zoom in on PDFs. 2) It runs Linux 3) You can write on it!

technology, sony, ebook-reader, irex, electronic-paper-display, tech-geek-drool

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About Behind My Screen

Vineacity

Articles Posted: 44
Links Seeded: 54

Member Since: 1/2006Last Seen: 11/20/2009

A married father of three, BMS, as he is refered to on Newsvine, resides just outside of Detroit, Michigan where he is currently working in the health …

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