In other news today...
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@boomzilla I used to live near there. That's nowhere near enough of a drop to commit suicide. He may have broken a leg if he was lucky. Well, maybe if he dove headfirst.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I used to live near there. That's nowhere near enough of a drop to commit suicide. He may have broken a leg if he was lucky. Well, maybe if he dove headfirst.
Just time the jump so you go splat on the asphalt right in front of a large vehicle?
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https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1973856/feestvierder-doet-dutje-in-dixi-en-wordt-weggetakeld
Man falls asleep in portable toilet; wakes up at storage depot; calls police because the door is blocked.
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@pleegwat That's a really crappy situation.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I used to live near there. That's nowhere near enough of a drop to commit suicide. He may have broken a leg if he was lucky. Well, maybe if he dove headfirst.
How close together can those trucks park? Seems to me like there would be more than enough room between them for him to jump and hit pavement if he really wanted.
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This was mentioned in local news today, search for English version turned up the original as first hit, so:
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
The fact that everybody on this forum has a story about a long-delayed SMS kind of goes to show you shouldn't rely on them for anything critical.
And now I have one too!
Well, one for my father. Apparently he hasn't received most texts for the last two days.
Guess what happened five minutes ago? I won't let you! All 47 texts got delivered, one at a time, in ten second intervals.
I wouldn't have been annoyed if it was all at once, then we'd just hear a cacophony of notification sounds for a second or so and then done. Nope, nearly ten minutes of "Screeeee!!!!".
Wonderful.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I wouldn't have been annoyed if it was all at once, then we'd just hear a cacophony of notification sounds for a second or so and then done. Nope, nearly ten minutes of "Screeeee!!!!".
Some tech somewhere in the telco chain of failures re-ran a batch of CDRs that for some reason failed to process normally. Probably because an SDP node was acting wonky or some such silly stuff, but still working enough not to make watchdog systems react.
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I wouldn't have been annoyed if it was all at once, then we'd just hear a cacophony of notification sounds for a second or so and then done. Nope, nearly ten minutes of "Screeeee!!!!".
Some tech somewhere in the telco chain of failures re-ran a batch of CDRs that for some reason failed to process normally. Probably because an SDP node was acting wonky or some such silly stuff, but still working enough not to make watchdog systems react.
Yeah, perhaps. Now that his phone is "caught up", he can receive texts about ten seconds after sending, which is much more normal.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@carnage said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I wouldn't have been annoyed if it was all at once, then we'd just hear a cacophony of notification sounds for a second or so and then done. Nope, nearly ten minutes of "Screeeee!!!!".
Some tech somewhere in the telco chain of failures re-ran a batch of CDRs that for some reason failed to process normally. Probably because an SDP node was acting wonky or some such silly stuff, but still working enough not to make watchdog systems react.
Yeah, perhaps. Now that his phone is "caught up", he can receive texts about ten seconds after sending, which is much more normal.
One of the most interresting failure states I've had with SMSes is that I could only recieve one when I sent one. And it was a strict "Send one, get one" so if I had 5 of them waiting for whatever it was, I had to send 5 to get them all.
That one I have no idea how they managed to fuck up. And the tech I got to speak to after convincing first and second line support that I knew what the fuck I was saying was equally dumbfounded. That is probably the one thing I miss working in telco, that you could easily get escalated up the support chain by saying that you worked for that company.
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
That is probably the one thing I miss working in telco, that you could easily get escalated up the support chain by saying that you worked for that company.
Ah, I had trouble doing that at AT&T (Uverse). T2 and up had "special" numbers, and from the outside coming in you had to more-or-less authenticate, and T1 wouldn't escalate just because you said so...
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
Some tech somewhere in the telco chain of failures re-ran a batch of CDRs that for some reason failed to process normally
Wow, telecoms work off recordable CDs? I'm impressed it all works as well as it does.
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In a speech, NHS worker David Marsh claims he has disproved planetary motion, using a Nikon camera and an app from his back garden.
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TLDR: Somewhat creepy but probably legal; dead people basically have no privacy rights.
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
TLDR: Somewhat creepy but probably legal; dead people basically have no privacy rights.
But in the next paragraph:
"This gives cops a perverse incentive to delete any evidence and films or text messages," she told Ars. "What's to stop them from doing that if they learn that this is a viable technique and if the person is dead?"
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
TLDR: Somewhat creepy but probably legal; dead people basically have no privacy rights.
Generally speaking if the cops know of specific evidence that you've got locked up somewhere, and they get a signed warrant to perform a search and obtain it, and you have the ability to give them the access they require to perform their search, you have two options: do so, or go directly to jail for contempt of court until you change your mind.
The fourth amendment only protects you against unreasonable searches/seizures of your property. If they have probable cause and a warrant, you ain't got shit. You can't even invoke the fifth.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
If they have probable cause and a warrant
Typically, the police have to establish probable cause to get a warrant at all. Or at least that's how they operate in the UK.
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@dkf yeah, they need both: they need probable cause to get the warrant, and they need the warrant to perform the search.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@dkf yeah, they need both: they need probable cause to get the warrant, and they need the warrant to perform the search.
By which time, the ex-warm corpse will be a cold corpse which will be unable to unlock the phone.
In the meantime, Mary Hassell suggests you take a number...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
By which time, the ex-warm corpse will be a cold corpse which will be unable to unlock the phone.
Yeah, about that. I don't think they were creative enough.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
By which time, the ex-warm corpse will be a cold corpse which will be unable to unlock the phone.
Fingerprints might still be intact.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername I am relieved that the 9th Circuit showed common sense. Given its reputation as the nuttiest court in the land, I would not have been very surprised if it had gone the other way.
No, that would be CAFC.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
he has disproved planetary motion, using a Nikon camera and an app from his back garden.
Did his back garden write the app?
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@hardwaregeek No, he grew the app naturally in the soil, as app developers have done for thousands of years before.
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@hungrier
That explains those organic Apple prizes
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Comcast: You can have Internet speed to enable you to stream video instead of watching cable TV, but only if you subscribe to cable TV
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Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to
fightpush more people into cord cutting.FTFTA.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek No, he grew the app naturally in the soil, as app developers have done for thousands of years before.
With a good dash of manure, as traditional...
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek No, he grew the app naturally in the soil, as app developers have done for thousands of years before.
With a good dash of manure, as traditional...
And watered with the soapy mix used to clean his pigs.
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In other headline gore today...
URL: washington-capitals-tom-wilson-suspended-hit
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Ho..leee....fuk
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@izzion That story breaking made me wonder if North Korea turned around because Iran dropped them like a brick.
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Keuper and Alkemade say the IVI system is also indirectly connected to the car's acceleration and braking system, but they stopped investigating the possibility of interacting with those systems fearing they might breach Volkswagen's intellectual property.
Yay, CAN bus.
A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a robust vehicle bus standard
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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@timebandit Always, for everything.
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@hardwaregeek
ESPECIALLY this year’s insane winter.
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Ohio State Trooper Hartford knew three things about Tyrone Warfield before stopping his car. He knew that Warfield, having recently exited a construction zone, was driving under the speed limit with both hands on the steering wheel. He knew that Warfield had touched the lane line twice. And he knew that Warfield was black. From there, Hartford cast off on a freewheeling investigation that began with a supposed marked lane violation, moved to suspicions of drunk driving, then to suspicions of trafficking untaxed cigarettes, and then on to drugs. The offense Warfield pleaded guilty to was even further adrift: the possession of gift cards re-encoded with stolen information. Because the initial stop was not supported by probable cause or reasonable suspicion, we reverse the district court’s denial of the motion to suppress and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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I for one welcome our new robot overlords
To entertain museum visitors, Pepper often dances and poses for selfies, which will undoubtably attract a crowd.
Pepper robots are also programmed to teach visiting students coding and software engineering in the Smithsonian's teen educational space ARTLAB+
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@boomzilla What an awkwardly worded tweet.
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@coderpatsy Pendantically correct language tends to be.
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Sad times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cynicalbritofficial/comments/8g4eoj/official_totalbiscuits_future/
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with the temperature at St James’s Park reaching 24.1ºC, the highest since it was first run in 1981.
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@dragoon Wow.
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that is what ~75F? That is hardly what I would call a hot day.