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Most consumer-grade locks aren’t that secure. To wit, if you ever need to open a basic padlock or combination lock without a key, all you need is a soda can, a boxcutter, and a little precise cutting.

As the video above from Howcast demonstrates, you can (carefully!) cut a small piece of metal out of an aluminum can that’s sturdy enough to pop open the mechanisms on padlocks and combination locks. Be forewarned, the technique above requires cutting sharp metal very precisely, so you’ll need to use extra caution with this method.

How to Pick Any Padlock or Combination Lock | Howcast

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Pick a Combination or Padlock Using a An Aluminum Can and a Boxcutter 

Since 1988, Warner/Chappell has had an iron grip on the copyright for "Happy Birthday to You." Artists couldn’t sing it on a recording without paying up, even though it’s virtually ubiquitous in real life — it’s widely considered the most popular English-language song in history. At last, though, logic appears to be taking hold. In the wake of a lengthy class action lawsuit, Warner has agreed to a $14 million settlement that will put "Happy Birthday" in the US public domain well ahead of 2030, when the label expected the copyright to run out. So long as the ruling holds, you can expect to hear those very familiar strains all over music, movies and TV shows in the near future.

As you might guess, Warner isn’t doing this as a kindness. It’s estimated to have raked in $50 million through licensing "Happy Birthday" in the past few decades, and the plaintiffs believe the label would have scooped up to $16.5 million more if the lawsuit hadn’t happened. Rather, the settlement will head off an outright loss that would have proven much more costly. A federal judge had already ruled that Warner’s lyrics copyright was invalid — the company faced the real possibility of having to pay full compensation to everyone who’d licensed the tune in the past.

It’s rare to see any company settle a licensing case like this by agreeing to a public domain release. However, this suggests that copyright isn’t always sacrosanct among media giants. They’re willing to end their battles if the cost of holding on to royalties is too high. You probably won’t see this happen very often, but the fact that it happened at all is noteworthy.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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‘Happy Birthday’ settlement puts the song in the public domain

If you use Google Drive, you’re going to love this! Right now, if you complete quick security check that will make sure everything is up to snuff with your Google account, you’ll get an additional 2GB of free storage on your Drive account. This isn’t temporary storage like Dropbox or OneDrive tend to give out, but this is space that you’ll get to keep! To get your free space, head to this page. You’ll need to login with your Google account, and then just follow the steps. It shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes, and you’ll be checking important…

Read the full article: This 5-Minute Google Checkup Will Give You 2 GB of Free Space

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This 5-Minute Google Checkup Will Give You 2 GB of Free Space

Here’s a really neat animation that reveals how a chainsaw works. The piston inside powers the three-row shark teeth chain of blades at 70mph! We get to see how the hundred of parts come together in this dissection animation and even cooler, get to see the manufacturing process of the all-important guide bar of a chainsaw (the metal plate of the chainsaw blades).

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Video: Dissecting a Chainsaw

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How to win at Monopoly and piss off your friends

Correlation does not equal causation, but if the antis can do it . . . Courtesy thefederalistpapers.org [h/t mister3d]… Read More

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Superimpose These Maps. What Does That Tell You?

The latest Civil War trailer has very little new footage in, but we what do have? A great Iron Man and Winter Soldier run in and the first look of Ant-Man’s new look in the movie.

Yeah, this looks like these two have some problems:

Here’s the full thing:

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Ant-Man Finally Shows Up in New Captain America: Civil War Footage

If you want to lose weight, diet and exercise are both important. However, that doesn’t mean they’re equally important. This video explains why changing your diet has a bigger effect on your weight loss than exercise.

As we’ve discussed at length before, most of the calories you burn in a given day are spent just keeping you alive. While you can burn calories through exercise, you don’t burn that much. The video above explains that running for 20 minutes only burns around 200 calories or so. Whereas an average 20 oz. bottle of Coke contains 260 calories. If you could choose to get rid of 200 calories by working out for a half hour, or drinking water with dinner, which do you think would be easier?

The video goes on to explain that exercise is by no means bad. There are plenty of other health benefits to exercise that have nothing to do with weight loss. However, if your goal is to lose weight, quantifying how much you’re eating in a given day will be a better first step than hitting the gym after that burger.

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Why Diet Matters More than Exercise For Weight Loss, In One Video