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So someone remade the Legend of Zelda - OOT Kakariko Village using Unreal Engine 4:
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I don't know the best place to post this, so I'll just ask here. I was just looking at facebook on my lunch break, just before setting my phone aside, I noticed the icon in the upper bar showing something had downloaded. I didn't remember downloading anything so I swiped down, & it said something like "f.txt" has finished downloading.

I did a quick Google search & see a bunch of people asking about this with Chrome, but this is on my phone & although my browser is Chrome, I didn't really see anything explaining definitively what the deal is.

Does anyone know?
 
I don't know the best place to post this, so I'll just ask here. I was just looking at facebook on my lunch break, just before setting my phone aside, I noticed the icon in the upper bar showing something had downloaded. I didn't remember downloading anything so I swiped down, & it said something like "f.txt" has finished downloading.

I did a quick Google search & see a bunch of people asking about this with Chrome, but this is on my phone & although my browser is Chrome, I didn't really see anything explaining definitively what the deal is.

Does anyone know?

I was doing some reading,One person said just delete it.And it seems to me that it is just a text file.Check downloads folder and if its in there,Just delete it.
And I found this too:
http://forum.pcmech.com/threads/solved-f-txt.234140/#post-1614151
 
Yeah, the 7.55KB file is in my downloads folder, but it's surprising that nobody seems to really have an answer for why a random file would download on its own like this. Also, that article you linked is about PC's, not phones.

Me no likey when weird stuff like this happens.
 
I was doing some reading,One person said just delete it.And it seems to me that it is just a text file.Check downloads folder and if its in there,Just delete it.
And I found this too:
http://forum.pcmech.com/threads/solved-f-txt.234140/#post-1614151

Here's some additional info
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28535603/google-chrome-forcing-download-of-f-txt-file

This issue appears to be causing ongoing consternation, so I will attempt to give a clearer answer than the previously posted answers, which only contain partial hints as to what's happening.

Some time around the summer of 2014, IT Security Engineer Michele Spagnuolo (apparently employed at Google Zurich) developed a proof-of-concept exploit and supporting tool called Rosetta Flash that demonstrated a way for hackers to run malicious Flash SWF files from a remote domain in a manner which tricks browsers into thinking it came from the same domain the user was currently browsing. This allows bypassing of the "same-origin policy" and can permit hackers a variety of exploits. You can read the details here: https://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/
Known affected browsers: Chrome, IE
Possibly unaffected browsers: Firefox
Adobe has released at least 5 different fixes over the past year while trying to comprehensively fix this vulnerability, but various major websites also introduced their own fixes earlier on in order to prevent mass vulnerability to their userbases. Among the sites to do so: Google, Youtube, Facebook, Github, and others. One component of the ad-hoc mitigation implemented by these website owners was to force the HTTP Header Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=f.txt on the returns from JSONP endpoints. This has the annoyance of causing the browser to automatically download a file called f.txt that you didn't request—but it is far better than your browser automatically running a possibly malicious Flash file.
In conclusion, the websites you were visiting when this file spontaneously downloaded are not bad or malicious, but some domain serving content on their pages (usually ads) had content with this exploit inside it. Note that this issue will be random and intermittent in nature because even visiting the same pages consecutively will often produce different ad content. For example, the advertisement domain ad.doubleclick.net probably serves out hundreds of thousands of different ads and only a small percentage likely contain malicious content. This is why various users online are confused thinking they fixed the issue or somehow affected it by uninstalling this program or running that scan, when in fact it is all unrelated. The f.txt download just means you were protected from a recent potential attack with this exploit and you should have no reason to believe you were compromised in any way.
The only way I'm aware that you could stop this f.txt file from being downloaded again in the future would be to block the most common domains that appear to be serving this exploit. I've put a short list below of some of the ones implicated in various posts. If you wanted to block these domains from touching your computer, you could add them to your firewall or alternatively you could use the HOSTS file technique described in the second section of this link: http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-tutorial/how-to-block-a-website-in-google-chrome.htm
Short list of domains you could block (by no means a comprehensive list). Most of these are highly associated with adware and malware:
ad.doubleclick.net
adclick.g.doubleclick.net
secure-us.imrworldwide.com
d.turn.com
ad.turn.com
secure.insightexpressai.com
core.insightexpressai.com

Also, random run fact... Adding the word 'solved' to a search can increase the chances of finding the answer
 
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Yogi Berra Quotes

"I never said most of the things I said."
"It ain’t over till it’s over."
"Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training."
"If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them."
"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
"I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five."
"In baseball, you don’t know nothing."
"I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"
"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
"I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field."
"It’s deja vu all over again."
"I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4."
"Never answer an anonymous letter."
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
"You can observe a lot by watching."
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
"You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there."
"It gets late early out here."
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
"Pair up in threes."
"We have deep depth."
"Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel."
"Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded."
"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
"A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore."
"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."
"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious."
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
"I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."
"I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
"I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
"It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility."
"So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."
"Take it with a grin of salt."
"We were overwhelming underdogs."
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
"If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer."
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
"You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go."
"I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine."
"If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work."
"If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be."
"No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded."
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six."
"You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you."
"Slump? I ain’t in no slump . . . I just ain’t hitting."
"How can you think and hit at the same time?"
"I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better."
"A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don’t know any.' They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know."​
 
Yogi Berra Quotes

"I never said most of the things I said."
"It ain’t over till it’s over."
"Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training."
"If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them."
"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
"I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five."
"In baseball, you don’t know nothing."
"I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"
"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
"I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field."
"It’s deja vu all over again."
"I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4."
"Never answer an anonymous letter."
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
"You can observe a lot by watching."
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
"You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there."
"It gets late early out here."
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
"Pair up in threes."
"We have deep depth."
"Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel."
"Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded."
"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
"A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore."
"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."
"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious."
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
"I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."
"I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
"I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
"It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility."
"So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."
"Take it with a grin of salt."
"We were overwhelming underdogs."
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
"If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer."
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
"You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go."
"I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine."
"If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work."
"If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be."
"No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded."
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six."
"You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you."
"Slump? I ain’t in no slump . . . I just ain’t hitting."
"How can you think and hit at the same time?"
"I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better."
"A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don’t know any.' They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know."​
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Operating instructions: don't do these things. Enjoy your scissor lift.

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And.....Good morning to you too? Whatever you are ....
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Praying Mantis
As a child, I remember seeing those frequently.

I haven't, however, seen one in a long time.
It is a praying mantis, and good to have around.
They eat many harmful insects.
Very True!

I have actually seen them attack and eat various insects. It is actually sort of fascinating to watch.
 
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Did any of you grow up hearing of something that looks like a giant mosquito, called a gallinipper? My dad used to tell us "they don't bite, they just eat mosquitoes".

In recent years I've learned that these are actually just ginormous mosquitoes! Although they do eat some mosquito larvae, they also like feasting on humans & animals.
 
I went to see Craig Ferguson last night, hysterical. He just makes me laugh. What surprised me not at all though was the guy sitting next to me. He played games on his phone the entire time! I mean, the whole show. Why bother going? Really. o_O

I HATE when people do that!!! I have a rule...no devices at the table.... or out at an event etc...it's just so ..stupid
 
I HATE when people do that!!! I have a rule...no devices at the table.... or out at an event etc...it's just so ..stupid

Maybe he didn't want to be there. A friend might have asked him to come along, or his wife, girlfriend or significant other dragged him there.

I used to go to sleep and avoid all the opening acts at concerts. I'd wake up for the main attraction. Sometimes it was the other way around. The opening act was far better, so sleep through the main event.
 
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