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@JBert Yes, that's the one I'm looking at as well. The reason I won't stick it directly in the driver's face is a court verdict some time ago where they stated that it's perfectly legal to make those stickers fiendishly difficult to get rid of - as long as
a) they leave no residues and don't damage the car (thus you better refrain from putting it onto the actual body) and
b) they are not in direct line of sight from the driver onto his primary driving direction (i.e. the car still needs to be road safe).
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RIP the NY Subway (yes, yes, it's actually clickbait / give-us-more-taxmoney-bait)
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Ford patents parking a car in the sun:
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@izzion Well, it is a legitimate concern - less people using the service means less money earned and thus less money for upkeep (let alone actual investments).
Even if there's a management problem which lead to those problems - first you'll need to get rid of said problem and then you'll still need to invest money.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Customer satisfaction studies show Chinese car consumers really hate the new car smell.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
RIP the NY Subway (yes, yes, it's actually clickbait / give-us-more-taxmoney-bait)
I don't know if the service is really worse now or it just seems like it. I've been here since 1990.
I still can go almost anywhere in NYC for a single fair, most trains and many buses run 24 hours. New Yorkers love to bitch about the MTA but we still have a better system than many cities.
There are just more options now than 20 years ago, bike sharing, Uber/Lyft, even working from home is easier because of technology.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Customer satisfaction studies show Chinese car consumers really hate the new car smell.
Personally I like the actual smell of a new car, not this fake scent they apply to it afterward.
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(oops, wrong thread)
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Okay, this is seriously cool stuff:
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@Rhywden Interesting. Ion propulsion made me think of space craft more than aircraft.
I would have thought this gives way too little thrust to be useful. Energy efficiency would be interesting to know, too.
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@topspin "Oh, you ride on giant fans? Well we electrocute the fucking air itself. "
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Wasn't there already a 7-eyed phone doing the rounds a few weeks back?
No.
But there's one with 9 !The 7-eyed model must have been the gimped one I posted and CBA to look up where.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann I'm currently toying with the idea of getting some stickers with a special adhesive - they're moderately difficult to get off but not impossible and still leave no trace after having been removed.
Bap that sticker onto the windshield (of course not in front of the driver!) and you'll annoy those shitheads who think that parking in a restricted zone is okay (i.e. reserved for disabled people, making it difficult for service trucks to get by, ...)
You used to be able to get the lick-and-stick kind in some bike shops in Germany. That kind of glue gets rock hard when dry and is a real bitch to scrape off, but with a wet cloth you can get if off without a trace so it doesn't count as vandalism. Just that drivers usually don't carry a wet cloth. Sticking it on their left mirror makes it illegal to even drive that car before removing it. A block of 25 or so went for a deutschmark IIRC ^^
Edit 'd but whatever
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Interesting. Ion propulsion made me think of space craft more than aircraft.
I would have thought this gives way too little thrust to be useful. Energy efficiency would be interesting to know, too.600 W for a 2.45 kg plane is fucking awful efficiency and obviously that thing wouldn't fly (hrmhrm) at scale because of ozone pollution. It's an interesting prototype but I doubt much will come of it. Electrical motors have become pretty efficient and low maintenance so it would have to come pretty close to that efficiency to make the solid-state advantage worthwhile.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Interesting. Ion propulsion made me think of space craft more than aircraft.
I would have thought this gives way too little thrust to be useful. Energy efficiency would be interesting to know, too.It's extremely low thrust on spacecraft, but those are trying to get by on very low amounts of propellant so they probably use a high exhaust velocity. An aircraft would use normal atmospheric gas as propellant at higher quantities with lower exhaust velocity, allowing them to spend less energy to get the same amount of impulse.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Sticking it on their left mirror makes it illegal to even drive that car before removing it.
Which is kind of counter-productive if the issue is that the car is parked where it shouldn't be.
Just saying.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
RIP the NY Subway
One simple and sure way to kill a public transport system is to "make it more profitable" by removing service on "unprofitable" routes / times.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Sticking it on their left mirror makes it illegal to even drive that car before removing it.
Which is kind of counter-productive if the issue is that the car is parked where it shouldn't. be.
Just saying.
Short-term, yes. Long-term it makes the event so much more memorable
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
RIP the NY Subway
One simple and sure way to kill a public transport system is to "make it more profitable" by removing service on "unprofitable" routes / times.
Cancel the last bus because it always runs a loss.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Cancel the last bus because it always runs a loss.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
RIP the NY Subway
One simple and sure way to kill a public transport system is to "make it more profitable" by removing service on "unprofitable" routes / times.
Cancel the last bus because it always runs a loss.
The council murdered my village's bus service to $town by moving to two slots a day only: depart $village 8:50am and depart $town 5:05pm. It was thus completely useless for getting both to and from work and they cancelled it entirely a couple of months later due to 'lack of use'...
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Police finds €350,000 in a washing machine. Sole inhabitant arrested on suspicion of money laundering.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
RIP the NY Subway (yes, yes, it's actually clickbait / give-us-more-taxmoney-bait)
Mor tax money? Can't do that. That tax money has Jeff Bezos' name on it
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
If you know someone who wouldn't let their kids get vaccinated, you have my permission to smack them in the mouth.
For chickenpox, though? It's contagious, and the kids feel bad for a few days, but it's nothing like the other diseases that you get vaccinations for, which can be lethal or debilitating. And unlike the flu, you only get chickenpox once.
I've heard of "chickenpox parties," where, when one kid in the community got it, other parents would bring their kids over to play in hopes that they would get it, too.
Edit: Ah, 'd here.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
In the future every phone will look like this on both sides:
AAGGHH!! My trypophobia!
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Uninteresting story but the photo is excellent.
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@TimeBandit
He should probably take it easy lest he Some Day One Day gives himself a Sheer Heart Attack.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
He should probably take it easy lest he Some Day One Day gives himself a Sheer Heart Attack.Paging @Groaner
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Idiocy, but you knew that - they didn't even bother researching:
Anne Vincent said: "The name Wool has nothing to do with sheep. It comes from the Saxon word for spring (welle)."
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Meanwhile in Poland...
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
If you know someone who wouldn't let their kids get vaccinated, you have my permission to smack them in the mouth.
For chickenpox, though? It's contagious, and the kids feel bad for a few days, but it's nothing like the other diseases that you get vaccinations for, which can be lethal or debilitating. And unlike the flu, you only get chickenpox once.
I've heard of "chickenpox parties," where, when one kid in the community got it, other parents would bring their kids over to play in hopes that they would get it, too.
Edit: Ah, 'd here.
That's the fun part, get the measles after it an you can have chickenpox again! Whee! Such fun!
Since measles removes your immune systems ability to fight off other diseases that it has learned to deal with. Seems a few viruses has that ability.Not that you can't die or be permanently crippled from complications of chickenpox though.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Poland...
Seems to be one of the more common products for that to be found with.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Poland...
Seems to be one of the more common products for that to be found with.
Hey, if you can hide de deadly black taranchla....
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"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task. And the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?" -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
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Ooooooohhh!!! It might of being a php hack!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It might of being a php hack!
Doesn't seem like it
But Winzen told ZDNet that he doesn't believe this to be the hacker's actual point of entry.
"It is a vulnerability reported as a possible point of entry by a user and my setup was, in fact, vulnerable," he told us. "However I would deem it as unlikely to have been the actual point of entry as the configuration files with database access details were read-only for the appropriate users and commands run by this vulnerability shouldn't have had the necessary permissions."
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task. And the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?" -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
Time to re-read Brave New World, everyone.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It might of being a php hack!
Doesn't seem like it
But Winzen told ZDNet that he doesn't believe this to be the hacker's actual point of entry.
"It is a vulnerability reported as a possible point of entry by a user and my setup was, in fact, vulnerable," he told us. "However I would deem it as unlikely to have been the actual point of entry as the configuration files with database access details were read-only for the appropriate users and commands run by this vulnerability shouldn't have had the necessary permissions."
Because there are no escalation vulnerabilities anywhere.
If someone gains a foothold on the system, you are only as secure as the worst program available in that particular foothold.There have been people jumping through database logs to gain root access...
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@dkf I even read that in his voice. I've played that game way too many times.
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Github is hosting the law
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Github is hosting the law
#1: He corrected a typo in a cross-reference, not changed the law:
FOIA is subchapter II, not subchapter I. In other words, the link to “subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2” took visitors to the wrong part of the law.
#2: I'm fairly certain the
pull request
changed nothing in the official document - as indicated by the noun in that statement, he was asking for a change to be made to that typo.
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But, it's for
our profityour security !
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
I've played that game
way too many timesnot nearly often enough.FTFY
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By law, police officers in The Netherlands are not allowed to enter places of worship during religious services. So, reverends from around the country have taken turns holding services at Bethel
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@JBert They're still at it?
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@PleegWat Well, I must admit that the article is from November 21st, so I wouldn't know if they have given up yet. Feel free to chime in if you know more.
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@JBert All I've seen before was a one-paragraph article back when they were planning to start, sorry.