WTF Bites
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@Vixen Seems accurate enough. We're all alts of @boomzilla. I forgot why.
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I forgot why.
Uhh..... okay maybe not that book..... That book's probably best left unread.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Or whichever alter ego of @boomzilla it was.
???!!!Sounds about right.
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@Vixen Seems accurate enough. We're all alts of @boomzilla. I forgot why.
It was a hypothesis of my grandfather, which has been confirmed by others.
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I saw a scammer selling a physical coin as a "Bitcoin" for $2500. To me, the beauty of this scam is anyone stupid enough to fall for it won't realize they've been scammed until they try to cash their investment in.
I blame the news reports about bitcoin that invariably use the same picture of a big gold coin
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@Vixen Seems accurate enough. We're all alts of @boomzilla. I forgot why.
I don't think I've ever known why.
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@Vixen said in WTF Bites:
@error_bot styleFTFY
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Neural Style said:
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@levicki And how exactly are they supposed to create something that administrators don't have full privilege on?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@levicki And how exactly are they supposed to create something that administrators don't have full privilege on?
They manage it fine with folders like the WindowsApps folder. You can change ownership and then mess with the permissions but out of the box it's inaccessible to Administrators.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Contrary to what you believe, Administrators don't have full control over everything on Windows.
Yes they do. What are you talking about? Yay, something something TrustedInstaller, except you can just change the owner of anything from TrustedInstaller to yourself.
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sPassword = left(sPassword,8) ... If ((Uppercase(sPassword)) = (uppercase(Users.Password1))) begin ...
sPassword
initially contains the password the user entered,Users.Password1
is the password stored against the user record (in plaintext, natch).
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@loopback0 They couldn't even be consistent with the casing of Uppercase ( ) ...
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@loopback0 is this BASIC? What decade are you in?!
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BASIC doesn't have
begin
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Pascal/Delphi does, but it uses semicolons, and there aren't any here.So... no idea.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Yeah. I never understood why nobody ever thought "you know, this ambiguity is kind of dangerous. Why don't we just add an arrow pointing left or right to avoid it?"
Now that is easy: because arrows on the street always mean "go this way" (unless, in many places at least, they're crossed out).
I'd have to check but I think in Germany you'd find this combination:
Left: "no entry", right: "this way". Same meaning as in other places, and if you memorize "Red=Must-not" and "Blue=Must" when entering the country, it's quite obvious even without speaking any German.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Contrary to what you believe, Administrators don't have full control over everything on Windows.
Yes they do. What are you talking about?Actually they don't, though @levicki isn't using a very good example. A better example would be the Protected Media Path (DRM) which you absolutely can't fuck with unless you have a WHQL-signed driver, crypto APIs that don't allow you to export private keys marked "non-exportable" (unless you detour the responsible library to bypass the check), if you have an intrusion protection system (IPS) at the kernel level, it may disallow things like Administrators launching Web browsers or viewing other users' folders even if they have file system permissions, etc...
Consumer and enterprise systems are moving towards the concept of a Trusted Computing Base where there's a subset of components that cannot and must not be compromised even if an attacker gains control of the kernel. Yes, that means you no longer have unlimited control of your own computer. But the user community that truly needs that is very, very small and if they want it, they can just build their own systems.
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"Red circle = Must-not"
"Blue circle = Must"
"Red triangle = Warning"
"Blue square = Just FYI"
"Red octagon = come on, everyone except Luhmann knows this one"FTFY
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come on, everyone knows this one
Go full throttle to gain enough speed to clear the obstacle!
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"Blue square = Just FYI"
(inb4 rectangle: yeah, so are the other blue non-round ones)
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@LaoC I've never seen that sign, but I presume it means "just so you know, there's an irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road".
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@LaoC I've never seen that sign, but I presume it means "just so you know, there's an irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road".
Similar to a Dutch sign for a 'woonerf'. Residential area, speed limit 15 km/h, no parking except in marked spots, pedestrians have priority, there may be children playing in the street. When leaving one, all traffic on the road you're merging into has priority. Nowadays 30 km/h zones are more common, and indeed some woonerf's have been re-tagged as 30 km/h zones.
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I presume it means "just so you know, there's an irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road".
With a flying car overhead. Definitely worth seeing…
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Most people I know would benefit from following those simple rules.
I would love if most women would follow those rules
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There's a helpful WRONG WAY sign in the middle of the median between two sides of a divided highway.
This always startles me into thinking I may be driving into incoming traffic, and is of no use to anyone due to its utter ambiguity over which side of the highway it's referring to.
The last time I saw those, they had 2 of them - one to either side of the (wrong way) road.
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@LaoC I've never seen that sign, but I presume it means "just so you know, there's an irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road".
That's how we grew up... "Car!" (everyone moves aside, waits, resumes game)
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@LaoC I've never seen that sign, but I presume it means "just so you know, there's an irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road".
It's funny how close your made up answer is to reality. The sign means a "home zone", and it basically means the pedestrians can do everything they want, including walking (or standing, or playing) in the middle of the street, and every collision with a vehicle is always the driver's fault regardless of circumstances. So yes, it is indeed an "irresponsible adult playing football with a kid in the middle of the road" zone, and you can lose your license if you don't respect it.
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Similar to a Dutch sign for a 'woonerf'.
Without reading the rest of the post, I assume that's where you cheer for foam darts
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Do they post that sign when you enter a village or directly at the country border?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Not a WTF.
It is a in the sense that people consider "bimbo" derogatory term.
True. But it was conscious, not unconscious, so maybe not a RWTF.
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This doesn't seem like a good deal
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@error_bot !wa 80 CDN to USD
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
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@error_bot !wa CDN 80 to USD
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
Did you mean:
- 80 to USD
- CDN USD
- CDN 80
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@error_bot !wa cad 80 to usd
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
Did you mean:
- 80 to usd
- cad usd
- cad 80
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@error_bot !ocr this
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@error_bot !wa CA$ 80 to US$
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
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@PleegWat I suspect that (any result based on) exchange data is simply prohibited from being made available over the API.
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@dkf That seems quite possible.
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@error_bot Do you know google?
!google CAD 80 to USD