The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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The point is that UK sockets are inherently safe, and fitting one of these socket cover things removes several of the protective features.
On its own, that wouldn't be too bad - parents can do WTF they like.
However, several Councils started insisting that nurseries and primary schools had to fit them, at which point the IET got involved as that is Belgium stupid
Calling for a ban is a reliable way to get publicity, and after a while the HSE were forced to take a position of "discouraging" their use.
Thus were the idiot Council Jobsworths defeated.
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However, several Councils started insisting that nurseries and primary schools had to fit them, at which point the IET got involved as that is ■■■■■■■ stupid
Wow.
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@abarker said:
Plugs into an unused outlet so kids can't screw with it, and it's a PITA to get out.
Unfortunately companies still make those things in the UK, and the only thing they achieve is to make the previously inherently safe socket dangerous.
They snap easily, leaving the shutters forced open, none of them are the right physical size so they usually pop out slightly - exposing live parts.
A couple of designs even deliberately expose live copper that would be untouchable without it.
- and one of those even has a bulbous appearance perfect for a child to suck.
I've had several fights with Council safety inspectors over that. Fucking idiots - the name of the thing is irrelevant, what matters is what it actually does.
Thankfully the HSE (eventually) backed me up and told the Council they were stupid.Err... in the US, "shutters" are not standard.
inb4 wtf US safety policy is trwtf
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I presume you're talking about the management, since it is usually them dictating the (in-shop) rules.
Nah, I think the point is that if management can't trust their employees to have common sense, they'll set rules that assume the employee can't tell the difference between 15 and 50.
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Gawd, I'm thankful for our SchuKo.
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Like file names with newlines.
Back in high school, my friend Tom and I were writing a tic-tac-toe program on the school's Apple IIe. For some reason we thought it would be clever to name the file tic^Ttac^Otom^M. Imagine our surprise when that didn't work as expected.
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I shunted 79 posts to a new topic: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
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But Jasmin Enriquez, 23, who was date-raped as a student at Pennsylvania State University, branded sex contracts ‘pure evil’, saying: ‘They are nothing more than stunts and money-generating schemes which distract from the real issue which is education. We need to educate students of both sexes. Informed consent is an ongoing, shifting process which cannot be encapsulated in a contract. A contract fails to safeguard a woman who might change her mind after signing it.’
Like "the morning after when the woman's boyfriend found out" or "she doesn't really fancy the guy she shagged last night."
On a lighter note, there's no mention in any of the articles about whether there are checkboxes for “Dirty Sanchez” and “Rusty Trombone”...
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Dammit
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Oops. Corrected.
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Yeah, but we both got one in before. ha ha ha.
Badge Please
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Yeah, but we ('@luhmann and @loose) both got one in before. ha ha ha.
So, Mr @PJH, Badge Please
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but we both got one in before
In the given context ... no thanks ... I'm not the type to cross swords
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see edit above :)
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Yeah, but we both got one in before
(back to the other topic)
Went to a bar when visiting the U.S. and wasn't surprised to be carded. But even my manager (50+) was carded, so kind of had a chuckle.
Never been carded in Japan, even when 21 (probably looking younger). Then again they (Japanese) are trying to clamp down on under-age drinking of their own people. I doubt they give a belgium about foreigners (as long as they aren't breaking other laws).
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The labels are there. If you willfully ignore the labels, the solution isn't "ban fucking everything", it's "let the idiot go to hell on his own accord".
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Regulations-Laws--Standards/Rulemaking/Final-and-Proposed-Rules/Magnets/
Belgium you Discourse : / is not confused.
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Confused is a good word. I get that preventing Darwin-award-by-proxy is a good idea, but is it really such a problem that it warrants a ban, an information campaign, a free downloadable poster, and a
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Filed under: fucking magnets, how do they work?
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I'm used to being asked for ID because shops here are required to id anyone using a credit card, to limit card fraud. Just to check the name matches.
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I'm used to being asked for ID because shops here are required to id anyone using a credit card, to limit card fraud. Just to check the name matches.
Must have an operating rules exception on file with the Visa & MC folks then...because that's normally (i.e. the Visa international operating rules say no) not allowed.
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VISA doesn't allow shops to check that people making the purchase are the actual people they issued a card to? Hmm, is the concern that people may be dissuaded from using cards?
The requirement is set by law here, so VISA's own requirements take a backseat.
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But even my manager (50+) was carded, so kind of had a chuckle.
I've mentioned elsewhere that this is learned, defensive behavior. It sometimes--shuts down arguments from the underage fucktard behind you, who now has to come up with a different bullshit reason you should sell to him without him showing you ID.
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VISA doesn't allow shops to check that people making the purchase are the actual people they issued a card to? Hmm, is the concern that people may be dissuaded from using cards?
Basically -- the idea is that the signature on the card + the signature on the receipt are the ID for the transaction, as that works even if some petty intergovernmental squabble causes some foreign country to not recognize some other foreign country's ID system.
The requirement is set by law here, so VISA's own requirements take a backseat.
As I said, there's probably some sort of national addendum that says that the "no extra ID" thing doesn't apply in Argentina.
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Must have an operating rules exception on file with the Visa & MC folks then...because that's normally (i.e. the Visa international operating rules say no) not allowed.
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/can-retailers-ask-id-with-credit_card-1282.php
the card networks -- Visa, MasterCard and the like -- have the most say in whether merchants can even ask for identification. The agreements merchants sign when they decide to accept cards from those networks include rules that govern card verification procedures.
All the networks allow a merchant to ask for identification. MasterCard and Visa, however, explicitly prohibit retailers from requiring an ID to accept a properly signed card. "They can ask for that ID, but you can refuse to show the ID and they still must accept the card," says Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that advocates for consumer privacy rights.http://usa.visa.com/merchants/protect-your-business/fraud-control/card-present.jsp
If the signature panel is left blank...
Ask for ID and force the customer to sign the card (or decline it.)
If the card has a “See ID” in place of a signature…
Ask for ID and force the customer to sign the card (or decline it.)
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Ask for ID and force the customer to sign the card (or decline it.)
in practice I have never seen this enforced (in fact when i worked as a cashier i was instructed to not request the customer sign the card if they had placed See Id in the signature area, and to refuse the card outright if it was not signed before the transaction started.)
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As long as the chip-and-pin terminal is happy, who cares?
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this was back before chip-and-pin was a thing stateside, but basically yeah. i had to request ID for transactions over 500$ but those were pretty rare. beyond that things basically just went through.
we got the occasional defer from somone who was traveling and forgot to tell their card company but those usually worked out.
had one person who pickpocketed the guy in front of them at the register line, resulting in him getting punched by the owner of the wallet when i thanked the guy by full name and he asked me "who?" that was an interesting incident report to write up. (it was one queue so the walet owner was just oine register over checking out at the time)
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in practice I have never seen this enforced (
Some rotten woman in a bookstore in Appleton, WI, made me sign my card once before she'd sell me a book.
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Bellevue police initially believed that the driver, Marilyn Perry, 62, was on her cell phone at the time of the accident, or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Police learned about the prayer defense after Perry and her attorney convinced a Huron County judge to place her in an intervention program [] and on three years probation. The judge also ordered Perry to make up to $10,000 in restitution.
http://www.norwalkreflector.com/article/news/7919111
The 62-year-old Lindsey resident said she often had her head down because she was so upset as she drove through Bellevue
Huron County Public Defender David Longo provided some background Thursday about Perry’s mental state before the Aug. 7 accident. He said his client and her husband had been having domestic problems and just before the crash, Perry’s husband attempted to keep her hospitalized.
“Her driving was not what it should have been,” Longo said.Masters of understatement, those lawyers...
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An Aboriginal boy named Sterling looks down, clutching his chest, which is bare except for the suicide vest of McDonald’s take-away containers crudely strapped to it.
His burden is clear; the fast food he consumes has rendered him a ticking time-bomb for disease, and the expression on his face indicates it is a future he believes is inevitable.#wibble.
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Looking at that boy makes me hungry.
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"I'm very fortunate in that I do what I love," says Schlappig, stretching out in an ergonomic armchair as we reach 30,000 feet and just before the mushroom consommé arrives. In the past year, since ditching the Seattle apartment he shared with his ex-boyfriend, he's flown more than 400,000 miles, enough to circumnavigate the globe 16 times. It's been 43 exhausting weeks since he slept in a bed that wasn't in a hotel, and he spends an average of six hours daily in the sky.
He basically manipulates frequent flier programs to continually fly, largely in first class. It's a Thing, and the participants call it the Hobby.
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https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10969223#
DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google SENDER TMG on behalf of Universal Pictures France Sent on July 15, 2015 RECIPIENT Google [...] Copyright claim #2 KIND OF WORK:movie DESCRIPTIONJurassic World ORIGINAL URLS: ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING URLS: [...] 3 http://127.0.0.1:4001/#/fr/
(found from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/23/movie_studio_finds_pirated_jurassic_world_on_localhost/?mt=1437659841432)
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now how will EU law handle that? Google can't remove the content because they didn't index it.....i know how it should be handled, but i also know how complex EU law can be and how much Google is still in hot water in some circles over there.
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Reg readers will know...
...that there is nobody more pedantic than a Reg reader.
Correctmeifimwrongbutareyouaskingfora CHALLEEEEEEEENGE!?
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That poor kid is going to be forever called "Double Bacon" by his cruel classmates.
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URL pretty much covers it.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/viral-video/11757510/Man-tries-to-stop-friend-smoking-by-putting-party-poppers-in-his-cigarettes.html
AAAH! AUTOPLAYING VIDEO!
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
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Don't be a grumpy cat. Use click-to-play.
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/attachments/20130701/86725128/attachment-0001.pdf
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well that's firefox, no.
and that's not a flash video for me because flash is disabled. that's a <video> element.
that they seem to programatically click to make it auto play.
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What exactly do you mean, then?
The video the article is about is flash-click-to-play-walled on my machine.
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well that's firefox, no.
You don't get what I meant.
It was about the lack of acceptance for click-to-play amongidiotsnormal and even advanced users.
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What exactly do you mean, then?
looks like it loads HTML5 video as a fallback to flash.
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You don't get what I meant.
i do get it. i reject Firefox as a browser, and i despise sites that do everything they can to disable the click to play features built into chrome (yes they are all enabled, i've double checked that twice now)
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WHAT THE FUCK?!
that's what loads for me with flash disabled.
feel free to check it for yourself.
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No I meant ...
Why the fuck would you use newer better technology as a fallback?