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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
In other news: I don't have any of these butt-dial incidents. Even when my phone is unlocked my butt does not activate the screen.
I guess I'm just not juicy enough...
I carry my phone in my shirt pocket. Have never butt-dialed, but I once shoulder-belt dialed 911.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
In other news: I don't have any of these butt-dial incidents. Even when my phone is unlocked my butt does not activate the screen.
I guess I'm just not juicy enough...
I carry my phone in my shirt pocket. Have never butt-dialed, but I once shoulder-belt dialed 911.
I can also say when I use my phone in my shirt pocket, that the number of instances of unintended taps is 11 over the last five years. Mostly occurring when retrieving the device from said pocket.
It's also totally unrelated that the camera lense just barely peeks above the fold.
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I always put the phone in pocket screen-outward. Never accidentaly dialled anything.
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Hey, you "paleontologists" in the wild there, don't use such profanities!
Quite a clbuttic problem, isn't it?
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@BernieTheBernie I can get why someone might think āpubicā should be censored. It's a stretch for āboneā, but I can at least think of some profane use. But āstreamāā½
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie I can get why someone might think āpubicā should be censored. It's a stretch for āboneā, but I can at least think of some profane use. But āstreamāā½
Frankly it tells more about the censorer's own inclinations that any of us ever wanted to know...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie I can get why someone might think āpubicā should be censored. It's a stretch for āboneā, but I can at least think of some profane use. But āstreamāā½
Frankly it tells more about the censorer's own inclinations that any of us ever wanted to know...
That assumes that the censor is a real person, compiling the list. In 2020, it's much more likely that they just fed some online source (Urban dictionary or something) to bare-bone machine learning and called it a day.
This reminds me of one online dictionary from year 2001 (wow, it's almost twenty years ago) that was apparently created from various sources. It actually worked quite well, for its time. If you asked for translation of "pearl", you got various meaning, including the phrase "pearl necklace". With "see also: money shot" on top of that. Educational!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
That assumes that the censor is a real person, compiling the list. In 2020, it's much more likely that they just fed some online source (Urban dictionary or something) to bare-bone machine learning and called it a day.
I have some doubts. Considering how almost every other subjective in English has a double-meaning, the problem would have come up much earlier. It'd be impossible to get any text even slightly clipping zoology, food production or outdoor sports through that kind of filter.
Think about it: nut, sack, udder, bridle, saddle, strap...
These are all regular items in everyday use or consumption. Absolutely common. And they all have a double-meaning that would end up in the dictionary.Not to mention household items.
...blender, spoon...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Think about it: nut, sack, udder, bridle, saddle, strap...
These are all regular items in everyday use or consumption. Absolutely common. And they all have a double-meaning that would end up in the dictionary.As George Carlin said in an observation from the "seven words" routine: "Even in a Disney movie, you can say 'we're gonna snatch that pussy, put 'em in a box, and take 'em on the airplane!'"
I remember one guy online getting all twelve-years-old and giggling because someone referred to "skeet shooting", because the only meaning of "skeet" he had ever heard of was the Urban Dictionary one.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
I always put the phone in pocket screen-outward. Never accidentaly dialled anything.
My shoulder-belt-dial was with an old-fashioned phone with physical buttons instead of a screen. I always locked the keypad before putting it in the phone (some star-something combination that I've since forgotten) but it seems that even with the keypad locked it will still let you dial emergency services.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
I always put the phone in pocket screen-outward. Never accidentaly dialled anything.
My shoulder-belt-dial was with an old-fashioned phone with physical buttons instead of a screen.
I must be the only person to never carry my phone in a pocket anymore. Not since flip-phones disappeared.
Before I got my belt pocket, I carried my phone in my backpack.I always locked the keypad before putting it in the phone (some star-something combination that I've since forgotten) but it seems that even with the keypad locked it will still let you dial emergency services.
I think this is some regulatory crap again.
I had to fit a physical cover on my laudry machine's power button. The power button bypasses the child-lock, and will stop the machine mid-cycle. What's the purpose of a child-lock, if it doesn't prevent Junior from turning off the machine?
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I keep thinking that this is a solved problem until I realise that we have to migrate all that data and file systems.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I keep thinking that this is a solved problem until I realise that we have to migrate all that data and file systems.
Naturally most organisations will leave it until mid 2037 before thinking about it.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I must be the only person to never carry my phone in a pocket anymore
False. I too never carry your phone in a pocket.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Naturally most organisations will leave it until mid 2037 before thinking about it.
The problem will be archived data, as live filesystems are being fixed now. They probably should have been done 10 or 15 years ago, but we're still over a decade out so there's time for multiple cycles of natural replacement. Panic absolutely not yet needed.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I must be the only person to never carry my phone in a pocket anymore. Not since flip-phones disappeared.
Before I got my belt pocket, I carried my phone in my backpack.I keep mine in my pocket, as I truly do not have the body shape for putting anything on my belt (thanks to maternal grandparents' genes). I've never cared for keeping such things in a backpack, but I've seen many women on the train with their phones in their handbags. Often with cracked screens due to being pressed up against housekeysā¦
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
but we're still over a decade out so there's time for multiple cycles of natural replacement
That depends. Desktops and cloud servers, certainly. But an embedded Linux box that goes in a rail engine today is supposed to stay there for the next 30 years, and that is well past 2038 and its going there with an already 5 years old kernel that might not even have
time64_t
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In a previous life...
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@GOG That sort of argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.
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@GOG but he's pretty much harmless
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I keep thinking that this is a solved problem until I realise that we have to migrate all that data and file systems.
Naturally most organisations will leave it until mid 2037 before thinking about it.
Fortunately, I'll be retired then.
Wait a moment ... How will my old-age pension be paid when they don't get the dates right?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I make sure the screen goes off, so it's definitely locked.
Not sure what the timeout is, but if you power back on quick enough, it's not locked. (Samsung S7)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I make sure the screen goes off, so it's definitely locked.
Not sure what the timeout is, but if you power back on quick enough, it's not locked. (Samsung S7)
Doesn't work like that on an iPhone. At least not by default, I've no idea if there's a setting for it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I keep thinking that this is a solved problem until I realise that we have to migrate all that data and file systems.
Naturally most organisations will leave it until mid 2037 before thinking about it.
Fortunately, I'll be retired then.
Wait a moment ... How will my old-age pension be paid when they don't get the dates right?
I'll have been retired long enough that I'll probably enjoy coming back as a HPC.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I make sure the screen goes off, so it's definitely locked.
Not sure what the timeout is, but if you power back on quick enough, it's not locked. (Samsung S7)
Doesn't work like that on an iPhone. At least not by default, I've no idea if there's a setting for it.
On Android mine defaults to "lock instantly if you press the power button". You can also set it to instant on screen off too.
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"I'm only sorry I got caught."
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Toobin is one of the most well-known media legal analysts in the US. He has has worked for the New Yorker for more than 25 years, and is is also a senior legal analyst at CNN.
For those of us not in the US.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
and is is also a senior legal analyst at CNN.
There's is that feeling again that something in the the sentence is off.
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We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites. We are investigating the issue, and plan to roll out a fix in the coming days
Pull the other one. Its got bells on.
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@DogsB bring the law-suits!
We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB bring the law-suits!
We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites.
According to Cambridge dictionary, a bug is:
- a very small device fixed on to a phone or hidden in a room, that allows you to listen to what people are saying without them knowing
According to Merriam-Webster, a bug is:
- a concealed listening device
Sounds like the statement is correct, in both major variants of English.
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Sure, it's perfectly safe now:
Earlier:
So are they going to call it "Val-des-Sources fibers" now?
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You're Ć n idiot and I will happily pay for you to be sterilised so that you won't pollute the genepool.
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@DogsB Wrong thread and/or category, it seems...
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Toobin is one of the most well-known media legal analysts in the US. He has has worked for the New Yorker for more than 25 years, and is is also a senior legal analyst at CNN.
For those of us not in the US.
It also helps those of us in the US.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I keep thinking that this is a solved problem until I realise that we have to migrate all that data and file systems.
Naturally most organisations will leave it until mid 2037 before thinking about it.
Fortunately, I'll be retired then.
Wait a moment ... How will my old-age pension be paid when they don't get the dates right?
I'll have been retired long enough that I'll probably enjoy coming back as a HPC.
That could be a good idea.
Because we have lots of experience.
We still know the 9.9.99 bug, the year 2000 bug, the Euro introduction, ...
I guess at an equivalent of currently 200ā¬/h, I'd participate. Or is that actually too cheap?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
I guess at an equivalent of currently 200ā¬/h, I'd participate. Or is that actually too cheap?
Too cheap. I said HPC!
Oh course, I'll be in my mid 70s then. I may just want to watch the world burn.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
I guess at an equivalent of currently 200ā¬/h, I'd participate. Or is that actually too cheap?
Way too cheap. Suspiciously cheap even.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I may just want to watch the world burn.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
In a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.
One of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.
This brings up an interesting point. The common answer when you get money "that you shouldn't have" (i.e. a politician accepts a contribution from someone who later turns out to be shady) is to donate the money to charity.
What does a charity do when they are given money that they shouldn't have gotten?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
In a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.
One of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.
This brings up an interesting point. The common answer when you get money "that you shouldn't have" (i.e. a politician accepts a contribution from someone who later turns out to be shady) is to donate the money to charity.
What does a charity do when they are given money that they shouldn't have gotten?
Donate to a different charity, I guess?
The point is probably not that it goes to any specific charity, but that it does not go to somewhere that the person who moved the money illegally has any prior interest in.
A weak point of that theory is that you may be able to predict in advance which charity a well-known person or organization is likely to donate to.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
In a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.
One of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.
This brings up an interesting point. The common answer when you get money "that you shouldn't have" (i.e. a politician accepts a contribution from someone who later turns out to be shady) is to donate the money to charity.
What does a charity do when they are given money that they shouldn't have gotten?
It goes back to politics.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
In a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.
One of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.
This brings up an interesting point. The common answer when you get money "that you shouldn't have" (i.e. a politician accepts a contribution from someone who later turns out to be shady) is to donate the money to charity.
What does a charity do when they are given money that they shouldn't have gotten?
It goes back to politics.
It's a laundry cycle.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
In a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.
One of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.
This brings up an interesting point. The common answer when you get money "that you shouldn't have" (i.e. a politician accepts a contribution from someone who later turns out to be shady) is to donate the money to charity.
What does a charity do when they are given money that they shouldn't have gotten?
Well the money is pretty clearly stolen, so just like with receiving stolen cash, it is given to the authorities who do god knows what with it.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
it is given to the authorities who do god knows what with it
The cops' Christmas hookers and blow don't pay for themselves.