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@zecc
I think you mean
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Because you can't go fast enough for it?
I went up to 105 mph (170 kmh for those outside of 'MERICA) and I didn't even floor it.
So I would guess it's fast enough
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This means that the first heavy metal band to have all its members die of old age was Motorhead. The band that did drugs by the pound and drank entire liquor factories at once.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The band that did drugs by the pound and drank entire liquor factories at once.
The rolling stones are still going strong.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
You're probably more familiar with this sort of frozen
That's more like the stuff I'm (sadly ) more familiar with. Or the cartoon. (Presuming I haven't been hanzo'd there... )
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@dragoon No, that is a seaplane. A hydroplane is a boat.
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Some idiot planned to go to Venezuela and get himself emprisoned to get attention to some problem with children. He got 11 days in prison, and the media is all about him, and I have no idea what is up he wanted to show about children. Source is in portuguese - link
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
That's more like the stuff I'm (sadly ) more familiar with.
Indeed. On the rocks is superior to frozen.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
to get attention to some problem with children
They're simply starving, from my reading of it.
How getting arrested is going to feed them is not clear...
Anyway:
On Tuesday, in a long message posted on his Facebook account, Diniz reported details of his jail and his view of it. Among other things, he said he has not been sexually abused while being held in an 8-square-meter cell with 8 other Venezuelans, despite being forced to be naked on several occasions.
I don't know whether it's the translation or not, but he comes across as almost disappointed.
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Still waiting for Apple to port the Spectre/Meltdown security patch to Sierra because clearly they haven't pulled their heads out of their asses on High Sierra yet. Although given their recent track record, the patch probably detects when the exploit is being performed and gives up the cache contents immediately.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Although given their recent track record, the patch probably detects when the exploit is being performed and gives up the cache contents immediately
It just work ™
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
I don't know whether it's the translation or not, but he comes across as almost disappointed.
More seriously, English article with more details:
Jonatan Moisés Diniz said on Wednesday (the 10th) that he had planned out in advance to be captured by the regime of Nicolás Maduro.
In a video recording released by the NGO Time to Change the Earth in Balneário Camboriú (Santa Catarina State), the 31-year-old from the State of Rio Grande do Sul confirmed that it was his intention to call attention to the work done by the entity.
"It wasn't an act of desperation. I came face to face with powerful people from that country, people related to the regime. This was exactly because I wanted to go to jail, exactly to get this reaction", he said. "My going to jail was exactly what this was all about".
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
ObCrassAside: This reminds me of a parody fanfic I once read in which Capt. Kirk is described as burning his initials into a planet's crust with the Enterprise's phaser cannons, as a reminder of his visit.
One imagines that the inhabitants were no more pleased with this than this doctor's patients were.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Way to live the stereotype, Julian.
Filed Under: Either the nerd stereotype, or the tinfoil hat stereotype, would fit in this case.
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A Unique Service That Helps You Forget Movie Spoilers
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@sockpuppet7 Sounds great, where do I go to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign?
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@scholrlea Samsung already funded all of it for us: http://www.samsung.com/se/unspoilme/eng/
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@hungrier From the article, it doesn't sound nearly as bad as the headline implies (surprise!)
Thankfully for macOS users, the problem doesn’t allow access to sensitive user information and user and other more integral system preferences can’t be changed without an actual password. It’s also important to note that in order for the flaw to occur, the admin must first be logged in.
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@bulb I read that video title, and immediately thought, ", Dune was supposed to be Science Fiction!"
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I'm skeptical
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Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
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@sockpuppet7 That's the main thing I don't want to happen. Ever. And I want self-driving cars!
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea Samsung already funded all of it for us: http://www.samsung.com/se/unspoilme/eng/
For those who just want the video itself:
Edit: Putting in a quote to see if the embed fits the screen properly
Edit edit: Maybe inside a table?
Edit edit edit: Fuck it, here's a link.
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@tsaukpaetra Or maybe a quarter of it?
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra Or maybe a quarter of it?
Yeah, NFC why embeds are so broken no matter what....
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@tsaukpaetra Can you HTML it in, with size attributes?
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra Can you HTML it in, with size attributes?
No, the sanitizer strips everything.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 That's the main thing I don't want to happen. Ever. And I want self-driving cars!
You want self-driving cars with steering wheel and pedals, or you dust don't wanna them to be made by GM?
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
He's Here, He's Weer, He's Not Safe For Work (nothing actually shown, just some punnery, but still)
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
He's Here, He's Weer, He's Not Safe For Work (nothing actually shown, just some punnery, but still)
Malwarebytes is blocking oocities.org because "Unspecified"... :/
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
He's Here, He's Weer, He's Not Safe For Work (nothing actually shown, just some punnery, but still)
Malwarebytes is blocking oocities.org because "Unspecified"... :/
Most people wouldn't understand the actual reason, "It's the kind of site that @ScholRLEA likes to link."
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.
He's Here, He's Weer, He's Not Safe For Work (nothing actually shown, just some punnery, but still)
Malwarebytes is blocking oocities.org because "Unspecified"... :/
Most people wouldn't understand the actual reason, "It's the kind of site that @ScholRLEA likes to link."
That's a fair cop, m'lord.
In this case, the image is from a webcomic, circa 2000-01, called "Buster Wilde, Weerewolf by Night", about a (supposedly) straight man who turns into a flamboyantly gay werewolf under the full moon. The joke is that Buster was offended by the word 'fetch', so one of his lovers suggests using the word 'felch' instead, which when Buster asks, he says means, "to chase something hungrily".
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@pjh Easily solved. Tax the rat farms.
Unfortunately it wouldn't work so well in the real world, because
[…] catchers would capture rats, lop off their tails, and then release them back into the sewers so that they could procreate and produce more rats, thereby increasing the rat catchers' revenue.
See, no farms needed. Because, unfortunately, the real world has no dwarves.
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@sockpuppet7 Tried it. It worked great until about ten minutes in, when my screen decided it was a good time to repeatedly connect and disconnect itself, lagging everything to shit and completely ruining it. God dammit.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
Because, unfortunately, the real world has no dwarves.
No, it's because real world dwarves don't have significantly different cuisine to the rest of us.
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Kind of surprised no one has mentioned this here yet.
Filed Under: Replies leading to this topic being Jeffed to the Garage starting in 3... 2... 1...
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@scholrlea There were two false alarms, a half-hour apart - not just one.
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Huh. So that's a thing, I guess.
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@scholrlea Australia, where everything really is trying to kill you.
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@scholrlea Is Birdemic going to come true?
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/13/claim-birds-of-prey-deliberately-setting-wildfires/
Huh. So that's a thing, I guess.
Would have been really funny if the author was named Alfred...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
"Mr Victory told the Irish Independent he was stunned a solicitor would take on such a case. "
I guess Irish solicitors must not have quite the same reputation as American lawyers.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea There were two false alarms, a half-hour apart - not just one.
No, the second one indicated the first one was a false alarm. Took 30 minutes because there wasn't a process in place to send a "correction" message.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea There were two false alarms, a half-hour apart - not just one.
No, the second one indicated the first one was a false alarm. Took 30 minutes because there wasn't a process in place to send a "correction" message.
Good thing it's not email.
message2: "Sorry, false alarm"
()∞: "Please remove me from this list."
:helpful_person:∞/2 "But you won't see alerts"
:helpful_person2:∞/2 "Don't reply all"