😈 The Evil Ideas thread
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Inspired by the https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/22116/html-entities-in-xml thread and the many others like it:
A library to encode XML (or other file formats) in ways subtly incompatible from the standard. You could set it to change modes every 6 months or 1 out of every 1000 requests and completely screw over everyone who has to receive the data.
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@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Looks like you bought this in the U.S.? If so, it is illegal. Apparently, no one has reported them to the FDA yet.
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@chozang It's kind of difficult to see, but the name there says "Peanut Oil Blend." Which probably keeps it legal.
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@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@chozang It's kind of difficult to see, but the name there says "Peanut Oil Blend." Which probably keeps it legal.
I didn't see that. But still, if someone complained, I bet there are regs about visibility.
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@chozang said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Looks like you bought this in the U.S.?
Energy content given in kJ instead of Calories? Also, package contents only metric, no fluid ounces. Probably not.
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@HardwareGeek
It's from Australia.@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Which probably keeps it legal
It keeps it ambiguous enough that it would need a few hours of judge and lawyer time to get declared illegal. Thus reducing the chances of someone actually bothering to sue.
Same as selling Spider-Man costumes but calling it "Red and Blue Spiderweb Superhero". It's still obviously illegal, but not completely trivial to prove it.
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@anonymous234 I prefer Echo-Locating Flying Nocturnal Mammal Man myself.
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@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek
It's from Australia.@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Which probably keeps it legal
It keeps it ambiguous enough that it would need a few hours of judge and lawyer time to get declared illegal. Thus reducing the chances of someone actually bothering to sue.
Same as selling Spider-Man costumes but calling it "Red and Blue Spiderweb Superhero". It's still obviously illegal, but not completely trivial to prove it.
Well, it turns out it wasn't sold in the U.S, so that explains it. However, if it had been, a call to the FDA probably would have been sufficient. No law suit would have been necessary.
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@chozang said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek
It's from Australia.@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Which probably keeps it legal
It keeps it ambiguous enough that it would need a few hours of judge and lawyer time to get declared illegal. Thus reducing the chances of someone actually bothering to sue.
Same as selling Spider-Man costumes but calling it "Red and Blue Spiderweb Superhero". It's still obviously illegal, but not completely trivial to prove it.
Well, it turns out it wasn't sold in the U.S, so that explains it. However, if it had been, a call to the FDA probably would have been sufficient. No law suit would have been necessary.
/me is wondering whether he should tell @chozang that other countries also have regulations about how things may be marketed, but figures they already know this and is just trolling.
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@chozang said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Looks like you bought this in the U.S.? If so, it is illegal. Apparently, no one has reported them to the FDA yet.
Also, there's no mention of daisies in the ingredients list
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@Lorne-Kates said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
I want to buy a fleet of junker cars. And by junker, I mean junker. $50-ish level. Barely works.
Wow, you can buy a moving car for 50 bucks there?
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@fbmac said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
I want to buy a fleet of junker cars. And by junker, I mean junker. $50-ish level. Barely works.
Wow, you can buy a moving car for 50 bucks there?
It's Canada so by "car" he means "moose".
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@fbmac said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
I want to buy a fleet of junker cars. And by junker, I mean junker. $50-ish level. Barely works.
Wow, you can buy a moving car for 50 bucks there?
If you have that many moose available to sell....
(yeah I just wanted to spin it differently)
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@chozang said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Well, it turns out it wasn't sold in the U.S, so that explains it. However, if it had been, a call to the FDA probably would have been sufficient. No law suit would have been necessary.
It's not ginger beer, so it's probably OK.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAVONi3GZs
"Let's say the same marketing words as Microsoft uses for their virtual reality headset, but play a video of crappy laptops and babies throwing up."
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This screw-you-driver
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A reality-show like hell's kitchen but with IT companies. I would love to see Gordon Ramsay scream at PHBs.
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@wharrgarbl said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
A reality-show like hell's kitchen but with IT companies. I would love to see Gordon Ramsay scream at PHBs.
That sounds like a Goode Ideas's thread entry...
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@wharrgarbl Dude, totally pitch that to Alex as a potential spin-off for the front page :D
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@Yamikuronue
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@Yamikuronue said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@wharrgarbl Dude, totally pitch that to Alex as a potential spin-off for the front page :D
Paging @apapadimoulis
A real version is probably impossible, but a fake one could be cool.
Maybe @Lorne-Kates can create a radio episode like this?
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@wharrgarbl said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@Yamikuronue said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@wharrgarbl Dude, totally pitch that to Alex as a potential spin-off for the front page :D
Paging @apapadimoulis
A real version is probably impossible, but a fake one could be cool.
Maybe @Lorne-Kates can create a radio episode like this?
++Hunger Games.
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@izzion said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@Yamikuronue
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@boomzilla
The first team challenge can be to figure out how to download the first challenge from the Internet before time expires.
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"INTRODUCING THE FIRST EVER [full model number of product]"
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@boomzilla I bet those'll sell really well in Japan.
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@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
R'lyeh wgah'
Well, yeah, I can integrate with that. Probably.
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C& operator=(const C& other) { return (*this += other); }
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@Rednaxela That'd depend on the definition of (the correctly typed version of)
operator+=
surely?
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@dkf
C& operator+=(const C& other) { return (*this -= other); }
maybe? :D
I have no idea if that's valid C++.
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@RaceProUK And then you'd need
C& operator-=(const C& other) { return (*this = other); }
to complete the set.
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@dkf
C& operator+=(const C& other) { return (*this -= other); }
maybe? :D
I have no idea if that's valid C++.
I think so, as long as you implement the
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operator.C& operator-=(const C& other) { return (*this << other); } C& operator<<(const C& us, const C& other) { return us[(long long) other]; } operator long long(const C& us) const { return reinterpret_cast<long long>(us); } C& operator[](long long index) const { const C& other = reinterpret_cast<const C&>(index); return (*this += other); }
NB: I haven't used C++ in about a decade, so I'm bound to have type errors above.
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Did you know powerpoint is turing-complete?
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@Yamikuronue At first, I thought "Well, yeah, obviously, because of VBScript." But then I looked at the paper, and they specifically state they didn't use it, nor did they use macros (which I think are just VBScript snippets anyway).
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@RaceProUK Nope. It's all animations
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Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
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@masonwheeler Why do you think it's here, in the Evil Ideas Thread? ;)
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
Sounds doable...
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
Sounds doable...
What if the receiver misses an email?
We need some sort of transmission control protocol.
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@Zecc said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Came up with this one during a Slack chat: ODBC via SMTP.
Sounds doable...
What if the receiver misses an email?
We need some sort of transmission control protocol.Well smtp does retries, right? And delivery reports? Should be fine...
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@Tsaukpaetra now wait for it to get flagged as spam!
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Came up with this one during a Slack chat: XMLJSONXML. XML serialised as JSON, then serialised as XML.
Don't panic: this doesn't actually exist!
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
Don't panic: this doesn't actually exist!
I'd be willing to bet $100 that it does exist out there somewhere.
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@RaceProUK said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
ODBC via SMTP
Routed via SOAP/SMTP? Entirely doable (indeed, routing SOAP over SMTP is a documented thing you can do in the SOAP specification). And scary.
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@RaceProUK https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS9H2Y_6.0.0/com.ibm.dp.xg.doc/json_jsonx.html
:Close_enough: