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Pretty sure most of us here would do just fine.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
PC gone mad. These days, if you say you're English, you get arrested and thrown in jail.
Eh. I think most people have known for a long time (~50+ years, if they're old enough) that such a thing would be frowned upon. I mean, it's not a new thing that you shouldn't tell your first-grade class to put shoe polish on their face to look like Africans.
Unless you were trolling.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
I would have thought that serving eviction papers and getting her evicted would be a fairly straight-forward process. Deadbeats have their stuff legally thrown on the street every day.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Restricted UI - push 1 for pastry, 2 for sandwich, 3 for pizza, 4 for soup, etc.
So TRWTF is it has no 5 for urine?
Urine ought to be number one....
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
I would have thought that serving eviction papers and getting her evicted would be a fairly straight-forward process. Deadbeats have their stuff legally thrown on the street every day.
Evictions take a long time, depending on the state/city/etc... where you live it might not even be possible.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Soon it will be the only restaurant...
I don't like measurements like this, because Taco Bell is popular simply because it's everywhere. Hard for a place in New Mexico to be America's favorite when most of America hasn't been to it. Same way Chick-fil-A is America's most popular fried chicken outlet, despite Harold's in Chicago being the best in the world.
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@anotherusername http://web.archive.org/web/20180321000005/https://tribunist.com/news/gunman-opens-fire-in-high-school-armed-school-resource-officer-returns-fire-and-neutralizes-him/
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I would have thought that serving eviction papers and getting her evicted would be a fairly straight-forward process. Deadbeats have their stuff legally thrown on the street every day.
Evictions take a long time, depending on the state/city/etc... where you live it might not even be possible.
@chozang
And she lives in a certified snowflake zone
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@chozang
And she lives in a certified snowflake zoneThe school is in New York City. They served her an eviction notice, apparently, which means they went to landlord court, or whatever they call it. So it would normally just be a matter of throwing her stuff on the street when the day came if she was still there.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Soon it will be the only restaurant...
I don't like measurements like this, because
Taco Bell is popular simply because it's everywhereI like to ruin jokes.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Unless you were trolling.
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There is now a ‘Black dot of death’ iMessage bug aimed at iPhone users that will completely crash the Messages app if opened.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
There is now a ‘Black dot of death’ iMessage bug aimed at iPhone users that will completely crash the Messages app if opened.
Two gripes:
- The video moves when it isn't playing, I thought the player was broken and auto-played while paused
- The video does not show the "Black dot of Death".
I want my two minutes back.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
There is now a ‘Black dot of death’ iMessage bug aimed at iPhone users that will completely crash the Messages app if opened.
Two gripes:
- The video moves when it isn't playing, I thought the player was broken and auto-played while paused
- The video does not show the "Black dot of Death".
I want my two minutes back.
I couldn't get it to play at all, your two steps ahead of me. Instead, it's just a dark black box, and tapping it makes it blink or something...
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Breathalyzer has flaws
Breath temperature can fluctuate throughout the day, but, according to the report, can also wildly change the results of an alcohol breath test. Without correction, a single digit over a normal breath temperature of 34 degrees centigrade can inflate the results by six percent -- enough to push a person over the limit.
The quadratic formula set by the Washington State Patrol should correct the breath temperature to prevent false results. The quadratic formula corrects warmer breath downward, said the report, but the code doesn't explain how the corrections are made. The corrections "may be insufficient" if the formula is faulty, the report added.
Issues with the code notwithstanding, Washington chose not to install a component to measure breath temperature, according to testimony in a 2015 hearing, and later confirmed by Draeger.
Kyle Moore, a spokesperson for Washington State Patrol said the police department "tested and approved the instrument that best fit our business needs," and believes the device can produce accurate results without the breath temperature sensor.
The code is also meant to check to ensure the device is operating within a certain temperature range set by Draeger, because the device can produce incorrect results if it's too hot or too cold.
But the report said a check meant to measure the ambient temperature was disabled in the state configuration.
"The unit could record a result even when outside of its operational requirements," said the report. If the breathalyzer was too warm, the printed-out results would give no indication the test might be invalid, the report said.
Why can the state disable part of the device check with a simple configuration?
FileUnder: Our business needs are to fine more people
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Another day, another reason to never move to California:
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@dragoon housing prices? no, housing prices are dandy, why do you ask?
Jesus, have these people no sense whatsoever?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Jesus, have these people no sense whatsoever?
Oh, they have sense.
Unless you're talking about something common
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Digital assistants have better ears than humans
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html
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A quarter of companies don't have time for "security"
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@boomzilla BRB, trademarking "ballsy".
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But...What's a "building society?"
The Freemasons.
The first little pig built a house of straw, and the wolf came and blew it down.
The second little pig built a house of sticks, and the wolf came and blew it down as well.
The third little pig built a house of bricks, and the wolf, unable to blow it down, was caught and killed.
As a result, nobody ever gets to hear about the fourth little pig, who like his brothers had his own unique ideas about building materials. But because the wolf was stopped, the fourth little pig's house still stands to this very day:
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Gorske has eaten two Big Macs every day since 1972.
Why would you do that
"It's something that's just so good," Gorske said. "It's just like chocolate and I couldn't get enough of at first, but still it is my favorite sandwich."
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Humour is not welcome anymore
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Humour is not welcome anymore
Other project contributors chided Oliva for failing to follow the project's consensus-based process, which only exists until Stallman throws an exception.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Humour is not welcome anymore
By the end I was reading "Stallman" as "Stalin", quite unintentionally.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Even more bizarre is that going after the security certificate doesn't stop any actual infringement -- it just makes users a lot less safe. And yet, it's coming from the very same copyright holders who keep trying to tell people they shouldn't pirate content because it exposes them to malware and viruses and dangerous computers and the like. But removing security certificates would make that a much more serious problem. And yet, here we have a case where ACS went after a security certificate, a judge okayed it, and Comodo played along. That's dangerous for the way the internet works and is kept secure. If they want to go after the hosts, go after the hosts. Destroying the ability to protect users by encrypting the traffic is just evil.
A similar strategy is used for sex work and drugs, IIRC. Prohibit all the safety mechanisms and then tell the customers that you have to outlaw the thing itself for their "safety".
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Even more bizarre is that going after the security certificate doesn't stop any actual infringement -- it just makes users a lot less safe.
Eh, not really, from a technical perspective. From an administrative or psychological perspective, maybe. But then again, from an administrative perspective, a jurist doesn't understand technology. News at 11.
Comodo is certainly not to blame.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall Sure, but that's not what 7-Elevens have for nuking frozen burritos.
Your usual $50 Walmart microwave has something about "regular domestic use" in the manual's fine print that gives them the right to laugh in your face when you try to claim warranty when it breaks after two days on an 80/20 duty cycle.
Edit: yeah,
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
If "almost all major OS vendors" misunderstood what it said, that strongly suggests that it was written poorly.
TRWTF is the German BASIC program with line numbers in the four digits in the background.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Wow, it must have been a slow crime day.
Seriously, what kind of reaction did they expect. Why are they trumpeting about such a feeble drugs haul on their FB page? It'd be the equivalent of me posting the following on FB each day: "I did a big boy poo today! #soproud". (INB4 quotes out of context, the official status thread is that way, etc).
I can just imagine the officer's mum patting him on the head and saying "Well done PC Campbell! Now run along with your friends to stop some knife crime".
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God bless the Metro.
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@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
I can just imagine the officer's mum patting him on the head and saying "Well done PC Campbell! Now run along with your friends to stop some
knifegardening tools crime".
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@boomzilla You wait until someone tries to trademark “Johnson & Johnson”…
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@dkf Sounds gay.
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I'd be embarassed if I were a Maryland driver:
The Sheriff’s Office said the groundhog was “causing vehicles to stop and creating a hazard.”
YOU'RE IN A CAR. JUST RUN IT THE FUCK OVER IF IT'S DUMB ENOUGH TO STAND IN THE WAY.