😈 The Evil Ideas thread
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@FrostCat said:
But that covers the button, which was prohibited.
But it's big! It's red! It must not be pressed! Can you resist pressing that big, red, lovely, inviting, pressable button?
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
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Space Madness, possibly the best 10 minutes of cartoon ever made ever.
It's up against some tough competition, such as some of the superlative Oscar-winning slapstick in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. But to get into fighting in that league is damn good.
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Teenagers can be little assholes, though. He might lash out by pressing the button instead of pushing your buttons next time you don't let him go out with his friends or something.
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But in some cave, it's likely to be extremely damp, so of course it'll take a lot longer for paint to dry.
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Teenagers can be little assholes, though. He might lash out by pressing the button instead of pushing your buttons next time you don't let him go out with his friends or something.
If I were to buy such a computer, it would be clearly communicated to him that if he pressed that button, there would be consequences, for example, the total loss of his cell phone, computer, game console, etc., for a very long time.
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Ah, encouraging him to press the button again out of spite…
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Pretty much what I was going to say. Teenagers aren't the most rational bunch.
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Teenagers aren't the most rational bunch.
QFT. Or rather they can be rational some of the time, when they're thinking about stuff slowly and deliberatively, but they've great trouble turning down the impulsiveness, and that leads them to do dumb things too. They can't help it; their prefrontal cortices are still somewhat immature (IIRC it's the last part of the brian to go through that process).
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Ah, encouraging him to press the button again out of spite…
Pretty much what I was going to say. Teenagers aren't the most rational bunch.
Yes--then again, he's suffered through this penalty before (albeit for much smaller things) so...
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Yes--then again, he's suffered through this penalty before (albeit for much smaller things) so...
Then he's more likely than most to heed your warning, but I still would posit that there's a decent chance that he may, in a fit of rage, press the button out of spite anyway.
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Then he's more likely than most to heed your warning, but I still would posit that there's a decent chance that he may, in a fit of rage, press the button out of spite anyway.
I wouldn't deny that. But having to pay to repair stuff you broke out of your own allowances sharpens your focus like not much else.
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When I made the mistake of working as a security guard, I would while away the time by making copies of the Illuminet Press version of the Principia Discordia on the company copiers (I had made a master copy to run through the feeder). I think I was up to 500+ copies before I lost count.
While I took most of these home with me to hand out to strangers for no good reason other than to weird them out, I also hid something like 100 copies around the office building. Including two in the CEO's office library. I understand (from what a former cow-orker told me later) that the day I quit, the head of Security intended to talk to me about that...
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Abusing company (assuming you were a guard employed where you worked instead of a security contractor in which case it was customer) resources for the principia and then hiding them everywhere definitely fits with the distributed vandalism/art project that it is from. Getting fired for it should have happened a while previously though.
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Principia Discordia
Hail Eris!
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
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false things
Well of course false things are true, they truly are false! Because if it's not truly false it must not actually be false, for the false-ness of a false thing cannot be false if it isn't.
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"What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true. "
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."
Man IMDB totally spoils that episode, by listing Garak's first name right there in the character list.
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Filed under: needs more JPEG
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Oooh, gaslighting.
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A toy store coupon that excludes toys:
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A toy store coupon that excludes toys and baby food and diapers and wipes and video games and gift cards and photo studios and breast-pump rental fee and ...
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I once got a coupon to my university bookstore that was 10% off any item $50 or more, excluding textbooks, electronics, rentals, expensive memorabilia like the expensive pens and paperweights, etc. Basically, it was a coupon for a jacket with the school logo on it.
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Yes sir, I'll have a netbook for my baby, please. Oh, and I also want a few extra delivery fees, and can you remove the shipping and handling? I no longer want that item.
Filed under: What if everything in toys R us was a toy?
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A toy store coupon that excludes toys:
It actually leaves quite a few items, like furniture, pacifiers, baby clothes, bottles, strollers …
It's a registry completion coupon, a newborn doesn't really need any toys.
Evil Idea claim REJECTED.
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It's a registry completion coupon,
They have the same restrictions on normal coupons too:
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Now that one has a better claim. Still valid for bibs, baby clothes, pacifiers, mobiles, bottles, …
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Inline candidates are selected by whether their source including comments is less than 600 characters?
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Don't look at me like that. At least you have the option to change that limit.
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Ooooooooooooh that is quite evil!
Don't look at me like that. At least you have the option to change that limit.
That doesn't make it better...
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At least you have the option to change that limit.
I wonder what it is set to in Chrome and how long Discourse's JS file are ...
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Don't look at me like that.
Well yeah, I'm not blaming you. I'm just… :sigh: If it had been a measure of the parsed size of the function then I'd have thought “that's a bit funky but understandable” but to do it on the unparsed function just makes me wonder what they were thinking. Yes, it's tuneable, but that just means that that's one more damn thing that will be tinkered with when it shouldn't be (a bit like most of the memory control settings to a JVM) and which will be the source of much guff on the internet.
And I couldn't resist the picture.
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@Zecc said:
needs more JPEG
Now, come on, you know they don't care if you can read it: welcome to your new legal terms of service.
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They have the same restrictions on normal coupons too
I found this:
Sounds like they fired that whole marketing team and hired a new team of entirely lawyers.
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Sounds like they fired that whole marketing team and hired a new team of entirely lawyers.
Now, let's see, I bet all those
detailed restrictionswere due to the lawyers.Sounds to me like the lawyers win again...
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Evil idea: creating a YouTube video list with a single video, so that when embedded it loops over and over.
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Evil Idea: make sure the still from your YT video looks like a character is letting of some steam
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Fuck you.
I'm out of brain bleach, too.
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Evil Idea: make sure the still from your YT video looks like a character is letting of some steam
It was just a coincidence, I swear!!!
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@PC World said:
Tricky new malware replaces your entire browser with a dangerous Chrome lookalike
Security researchers have discovered a fiendish form of browser malware that stands in for your copy of Google Chrome and hopes you won’t notice the difference.
As reported by PCRisk, the “eFast Browser” works by installing and running itself in place of Chrome. It’s based on Google’s Chromium open-source software, so it maintains the look and feel of Chrome at first glance, but its behavior is much worse.
First, makes itself the default and takes over several system file associations, including HTML, JPG, PDF, and GIF, according to MalwareBytes. It also hijacks URL associations such as HTTP, HTTPS, and MAILTO, and replaces any Chrome desktop website shortcuts with its own versions. Essentially, eFast Browser makes sure to open itself at any opportunity.
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First, makes itself the default and takes over several system file associations, including HTML, JPG, PDF, and GIF
So, just like FireFox?
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You forgot to mention the downsides: pop-up ads, system file hijacking, and activity monitoring
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I think having a dodgy browser on my system pretending to be Chrome, that can look at all of my HTTP and HTTPS requests, is slightly worse than pop-up ads, etc.
Filed under: Who needs a man in the middle attack when you've got a malicious browser?
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You forgot to mention the downsides: pop-up ads, system file hijacking, and activity monitoring
No he mentioned Chrome.
But what does eFast Browser do?
\snark
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First, makes itself the default and takes over several system file associations, including HTML, JPG, PDF, and GIF, according to MalwareBytes. It also hijacks URL associations such as HTTP, HTTPS, and MAILTO, and replaces any Chrome desktop website shortcuts with its own versions. Essentially, eFast Browser makes sure to open itself at any opportunity.
It's not made by Real, is it?