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@remi said in In other news today...:
mimick the process of trying to login to every user account with the new user password and see if that matches.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I would not have identified that as a prius. Hell, I would not have identified it as a car.
Likewise. Which makes this
Authorities say the driver was conscious enough to try and get himself out out of the vehicle.
an impressive testament to Toyota's safety engineering.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
mimick the process of trying to login to every user account with the new user password and see if that matches.
Well, obviously not by having some javascript trying to login into your service (although I'm sure some people would do that), but since you have a direct access to the database where everything is stored, you can do it in a smart way.
Apart from all the other reasons mentioned above why this isn't really a good idea, of course.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Prius drivers, amiright...
STOP!
Well, it did, in some way.
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@Zecc I wondered how long it'd take for someone to notice. And don't miss that one that says INJURY...
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Man critically injured after vehicle crashes about 20 feet into building
That's because normal cars have tyres and not feet.
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an unintended consequence of Brexit could be a surge in immigration of British migrants both working and retired.
Hah.
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@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
an unintended consequence of Brexit could be a surge in immigration of British migrants both working and retired.
Hah.
What I get from that article is that Spain is to Britain as Florida is to the US: a retirement colony.
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
Because...?
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
Because...?
One of UKIP's major beefs is immigration.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
Because...?
One of UKIP's major beefs is immigration.
That I knew. But this isn't really immigration, just people returning from a really extended vacation. Or do they view that as immigration to?
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
Because...?
One of UKIP's major beefs is immigration.
That I knew. But this isn't really immigration, just people returning from a really extended vacation. Or do they view that as immigration to?
I think it technically counts as immigration.
Anyway, what amuses me is that UKIP loves to moan about all the Eastern Europeans coming over here and stealing all the jobs and benefits (an issue UKIP loves to make sound far more serious than it actually is), yet if Brexit means all these Brits are forced to return, there'll be an influx considerably larger than any influx from Eastern Europe. And since they're retired, they'll be contributing little in the way of taxes and stuff.
TL;DR: the influx of retired Brits will cause far more issues than the trickling of Eastern Europeans.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at UKIP HQ if/when that happens
Because...?
One of UKIP's major beefs is immigration.
That I knew. But this isn't really immigration, just people returning from a really extended vacation. Or do they view that as immigration to?
I think it technically counts as immigration.
Anyway, what amuses me is that UKIP loves to moan about all the Eastern Europeans coming over here and stealing all the jobs and benefits (an issue UKIP loves to make sound far more serious than it actually is), yet if Brexit means all these Brits are forced to return, there'll be an influx considerably larger than any influx from Eastern Europe. And since they're retired, they'll be contributing little in the way of taxes and stuff.
TL;DR: the influx of retired Brits will cause far more issues than the trickling of Eastern Europeans.
Ah, got it. Thanks.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
TL;DR: the influx of retired Brits will cause far more issues than the trickling of Eastern Europeans
Yeah, but they won't be foreigners, so there's no problem.
Oh no, wait. Ukip totally isn't racist is it? I must have confused them with another party
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
they won't be foreigners, so there's no problem.
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I'm glad we could get that settled ...
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"This is one of the most exciting technological breakthroughs to be squeezed out by Japan in recent memory," said Sebastian Anthony, editor of Ars Technica UK.
Oh, I see what you did there.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
A surprising number of rock and metal bands make use of cowbells.
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@Maciejasjmj I imagine they are flushed with relief.
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The video shows officers approach Mr Abunbi on the street outside his own home and ask him for his name.
He replies: "I'm not telling you my name. I've done no wrong."
Mr Abunbi, a prominent member of Bristol's black community, said: "At first you don't accuse someone of being someone else. You ask questions.
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@PJH Seems to me that someone skimped their deescalation training.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Anyway, what amuses me is that UKIP loves to moan about all the Eastern Europeans coming over here and stealing all the jobs and benefits (an issue UKIP loves to make sound far more serious than it actually is), yet if Brexit means all these Brits are forced to return, there'll be an influx considerably larger than any influx from Eastern Europe. And since they're retired, they'll be contributing little in the way of taxes and stuff.
That doesn't seem right. I mean...they already are Britons and they're retired, so it's not like they'll be coming back and looking for work, right? But they'd certainly be paying VAT, which is pretty significant, isn't it? Though I suppose they're probably the demographic that uses the most health care.
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@boomzilla they'd also be drawing a state pension, although that might still happen when living abroad, I'm not sure
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But they'd certainly be paying VAT, which is pretty significant, isn't it?
Loathe that I am to quote the Sage of Ely and 0.2 of a professor, but:
(Source: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/FAQ2GovtIncome.pdf)
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@Jaloopa Yeah, my assumption is that, being called pensioners, they're already drawing a pension (and TFA clarifies that it depends on whether the NHS will continue to pay for their healthcare abroad, so I guess they're already drawing on that money, too). Though TFA also talks about people who aren't retired, so guess it's a lot of all of it. But then, that's all assuming that no deal can be made, at which point one presumes that the EU citizens currently in Britain would have to leave, so I guess it would depend on the differences between the returners and the leavers.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Loathe that I am to quote the Sage of Ely and 0.2 of a professor, but:
Yeah, ~20%, so I'll claim vindication there. If they're retired they already aren't paying Income Tax, and presumably they're already withdrawing on the National Insurance account. And they'd be paying a lot of those other duties, too, presumably.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Loathe that I am to quote the Sage of Ely and 0.2 of a professor, but:
Yeah, ~20%, so I'll claim vindication there. If they're retired they already aren't paying Income Tax, and presumably they're already withdrawing on the National Insurance account. And they'd be paying a lot of those other duties, too, presumably.
Ah.
National Insurance is the only one there that they're specifically excused from.
Barring not earning enough or tax avoidance/evasion, they're liable for the rest.
Including (contrary to your comment) income tax.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But they'd certainly be paying VAT, which is pretty significant, isn't it?
Loathe that I am to quote the Sage of Ely and 0.2 of a professor, but:
(Source: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/FAQ2GovtIncome.pdf)
Strange. Almost everything is in order from the graph's top to its bottom, except "other", which is customarily put at the end of the list anyway, "Petroleum Revenue tax", and "Capital gains tax". If I were the paranoid type, I'd think they put those two further up the list (6th and 3rd, respectively, instead of last and second to last) to give people a misleading impression.
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Someone revived the good old sport of "Punching Nazis right in their fucking face"
I heartily approve. I even turned off my animated-gif blocker so I could watch a loop of it.
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
Strange
As I said, Sage of Ely. He frequently misrepresents stuff.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Sage of Ely
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Sage of Ely
TLDR: bitter ex-accountant gets a dose of real life when he tries politics and fails.
Long story, and an "in joke". Ex-accountant who tries to envigle himself into the Labour Party, but doesn't actually grasp the basics of tax outside his worldview.
Lambasted for such on a blog or two for it.
Moved to Ely, hence that sobriquet.
Recently employed by a university for a day a week (the .2 of a professor. )
Basically someone who appears to have learnt more and more, about less and less, then thought his talents could lead him to a knighthood by diversifying.
Then Jeremy Corbyn dumped him. And he hit back.
UK politics basically.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Ex-accountant who tries to envigle himself into the Labour Party
Oh, and expected, and rightfully didn't get, a peerage from it.
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Red skittles used as cattle feed.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Red skittles used as cattle feed.
TIL candy is cheaper than traditional feed...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Red skittles used as cattle feed.
TIL candy is cheaper than traditional feed...
Cheaper than corn, anyway. Farmers around here can get a lot of free grass-type feed because it's so rural people have a lot of property not being used, so they just let the local farmers grow and harvest it from them. It doesn't take much work - let it grow naturally (they might spray seed at the right point of the year to make sure it's largely the right stuff) then come by and harvest with big machines periodically.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Red skittles used as cattle feed.
TIL candy is cheaper than traditional feed...
Skittles that they can't sell because they were substandard in some way.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Somebody here is using "123456" for password and you spoiled it for him/her.
He/she downvoted you for it.
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
He/she downvoted you for it.
Or else he/she was trying to scroll on mobile.
Yet another case of JavaScript making a site less usable.
I wonder how many people actually comply with that instead of closing the tab, using the developer tools to delete the popup, or revoking the website's JavaScript permission. Probably zero.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
Probably zero.
Got this little jiggy for that:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
I wonder how many people
Oh, right. Carry on!
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Don't call it 'haunted bread'
“Mr. Chambers said, “that’s what it is”, arguing that the Church “does not want us to use critical thinking” and is “asking us to eat the ghost of a 2,000-year-old carpenter”.
Wait, why was a priest watching this show:
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
I know that passwords are not stored in plain text (or at least, that they shouldn't...), but can you still compare their hashes to know if 2 users have the same password?
If you're using salted hashes, then no, you can't, as the salt will be different for each user.
And if you're not using salted hashes, start using salted hashes.
It can technically be done if you don't mind a full table scan.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
It can technically be done if you don't mind a full table scan.
If you don't mind a full table scan, your hash algorithm is not computationally expensive enough.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
It can technically be done if you don't mind a full table scan.
If you don't mind a full table scan, your hash algorithm is not computationally expensive enough.
Hey, it's plenty fast with up to 100 users! Nobody would ever need more than that!
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If you say so, website.
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Stupidly rich person prefers the day job that made him stupidly rich to running a country: