THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@bstorer said:
An Insane Clown Posse cryptocurrency.
You laugh now but you won't be laughing when all the worthless fiat in the world won't buy you a sip of water.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@bstorer said:
An Insane Clown Posse cryptocurrency.
You laugh now but you won't be laughing when all the worthless fiat in the world won't buy you a
sip of waterbottle of Faygo.
FTFY.
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honk
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@dhromed said:
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I had a friend complain to me that trusting a CA to certify that they owned their website was a "point of weakness [in security]" because "the government can get them to [generate a fake certificate]"
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@Ben L. said:
I had a friend complain to me that trusting a CA to certify that they owned their website was a "point of weakness [in security]" because "the government can get them to [generate a fake certificate]"
Yeah, that's absurd. The US and Chinese governments, in addition to the governments of many other countries, have access to their own CA certs and can sign anything they want.
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This program prints your credit card number, followed by a newline. There may be some other output as well.
def credit_card k, n a = [0] * k * n d = lambda do |t, p| if t > n if n % p == 0 for j in 1..(p + 1) yield a[j] end end else a[t] = a[t - p] d.call t + 1, p for j in (a[t - p] + 1)..k a[t] = j d.call t + 1, t end end end d.call 1, 1 end credit_card 10, 19 do |n| print n.to_s end puts
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@Ben L. said:
This program prints your credit card number, followed by a newline. There may be some other output as well.
def credit_card k, n a = [0] * k * n d = lambda do |t, p| if t > n if n % p == 0 for j in 1..(p + 1) yield a[j] end end else a[t] = a[t - p] d.call t + 1, p for j in (a[t - p] + 1)..k a[t] = j d.call t + 1, t end end end d.call 1, 1 end credit_card 10, 19 do |n| print n.to_s end puts
cough
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Drugs advertised on TV as having a side effect equivalent to the problem they attempt to solve.
"Here's an antidepressant. It cures depression but also causes depression."
"Here's a drug that makes your penis big. It makes your penis small."
"Have you been poisoned? Try this antidote! It's a deadly poison!"
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@Ben L. said:
Drugs advertised on TV as having a side effect equivalent to the problem they attempt to solve.
"Here's an antidepressant. It cures depression but also causes depression."
"Here's a drug that makes your penis big. It makes your penis small."
"Have you been poisoned? Try this antidote! It's a deadly poison!"
Brain chemistry is pretty complicated, so the first isn't too surprising. A lot of psychoactive substances can have diametrically-opposed effects depending on circumstances or person.
There's no such thing as a drug that makes your penis bigger, so you takes your chances there.
It's not uncommon to treat poisoning with a lesser poison. For example, the treatment for methanol poisoning is mass ethanol consumption.
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@Ben L. said:
Drugs advertised on TV as having a side effect equivalent to the problem they attempt to solve.
Drugs that list both constipation and diarrhea as side effects.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
One day, for some unknown reason, I actually read the fine print in a drug ad. It said that 85% of people who took the drug in trials reported an improvement in whatever problem they had, compared to 59% who took a placebo.Drugs advertised on TV as having a side effect equivalent to the problem they attempt to solve.
"Here's an antidepressant. It cures depression but also causes depression."
"Here's a drug that makes your penis big. It makes your penis small."
"Have you been poisoned? Try this antidote! It's a deadly poison!"
Brain chemistry is pretty complicated, so the first isn't too surprising. A lot of psychoactive substances can have diametrically-opposed effects depending on circumstances or person.
There's no such thing as a drug that makes your penis bigger, so you takes your chances there.
It's not uncommon to treat poisoning with a lesser poison. For example, the treatment for methanol poisoning is mass ethanol consumption.
I find it fascinating that 59% of the people who took a placebo thought they got better. I guess that explains the customer base for Monster Cables.
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@El_Heffe said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
One day, for some unknown reason, I actually read the fine print in a drug ad. It said that 85% of people who took the drug in trials reported an improvement in whatever problem they had, compared to 59% who took a placebo.Drugs advertised on TV as having a side effect equivalent to the problem they attempt to solve.
"Here's an antidepressant. It cures depression but also causes depression."
"Here's a drug that makes your penis big. It makes your penis small."
"Have you been poisoned? Try this antidote! It's a deadly poison!"
Brain chemistry is pretty complicated, so the first isn't too surprising. A lot of psychoactive substances can have diametrically-opposed effects depending on circumstances or person.
There's no such thing as a drug that makes your penis bigger, so you takes your chances there.
It's not uncommon to treat poisoning with a lesser poison. For example, the treatment for methanol poisoning is mass ethanol consumption.
I find it fascinating that 59% of the people who took a placebo thought they got better. I guess that explains the customer base for Monster Cables.
This drug is 44.067797% better than the pretend drugs we gave some of our test subjects at treating the condition this drug is supposed to treat.
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@El_Heffe said:
I find it fascinating that 59% of the people who took a placebo thought they got better.
Not just thought, they did get better. Drug trials are usually based on objective criteria. This tells you two things: 1) a lot of people get better without the drug; and 2) thinking you're getting a drug has a powerful psychological effect which will actually make you get better.
A lot of drugs perform only slightly better than placebos. Also consider that drug companies get to game the studies--there can be studies which show the drug is no better than placebo and ones which show it's slightly better, and they can effectively spike the former and get the FDA to only consider the latter. So there are many drugs on the market now which aren't even better than placebos, which is kind of fascinating. It's also part of why health care costs are so high all over.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@El_Heffe said:
A couple of years ago I had a fairly major surgery and was having problems with chronic pain so I was referrd to a doctor who specializes in pain management. While discussing possible pain medications he actually admitted "We really don't know how any of this stuff works. If we give the same medication to 10 people and 3 of them say they feel better, that's considered a success."@morbiuswilters said:I find it fascinating that 59% of the people who took a placebo thought they got better.
Not just thought, they did get better. Drug trials are usually based on objective criteria. This tells you two things: 1) a lot of people get better without the drug; and 2) thinking you're getting a drug has a powerful psychological effect which will actually make you get better.
A lot of drugs perform only slightly better than placebos. Also consider that drug companies get to game the studies--there can be studies which show the drug is no better than placebo and ones which show it's slightly better, and they can effectively spike the former and get the FDA to only consider the latter. So there are many drugs on the market now which aren't even better than placebos, which is kind of fascinating.
It's also part of why health care costs are so high all over.
And yacht payments.
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@El_Heffe said:
A couple of years ago I had a fairly major surgery and was having problems with chronic pain so I was referrd to a doctor who specializes in pain management. While discussing possible pain medications he actually admitted "We really don't know how any of this stuff works. If we give the same medication to 10 people and 3 of them say they feel better, that's considered a success."
Pain management seems to be one of the trickiest fields. There's no easy, objective test of pain. So basically you have to take the patient at his word. Combine the fact most pain medicine is highly-additive with the fact so many addicts will fake or exaggerate pain symptoms in order to get medicine, and it's tricky. Oh, and some addicts really will feel the intense pain the claim, because once you get addicted to opiates withdrawal with amplify any pains you do have. Then there are doctors who hand that stuff out like candy; entire clinics that only deal in prescribing pain meds. It's crazy.
@El_Heffe said:
And yacht payments.
True, although there are fewer mega-rich people in health care than people tend to assume. A huge chunk of money just goes to feeding bureaucracy--in the government, at the drug companies, at the hospitals and insurance companies, at academic institutions doing medical research, etc..
And drug trials are astronomical in cost. That's why nobody does them except for the drug companies trying to sell the drugs. The FDA isn't rigorously testing new drugs, they're just reading the tests given to them by drug companies (and often performed by medical schools at universities all over.) The drug tests cost millions, take years, delay life-saving medications from getting to the market and often don't stop bad drugs from ending up on the market for years. That's not to say drug tests themselves are bad, but the way they're conducted in the US the main use of all that money seems to be to keep the various bureaucracies fed and give everyone involved a false sense of safety, rather than actually doing good for patients.
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Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
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@El_Heffe said:
Also relevant to this thread in that photo: wearing Google Glass.Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
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@bstorer said:
@El_Heffe said:
Also relevant to this thread in that photo: wearing Google Glass.Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
I believe that was the joke.
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For some reason I'm thinking about eggs.
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@El_Heffe said:
For some reason I'm thinking about eggs.
In the theory of projective planes, oval is used to mean a set of n + 1 points in a projective plane of order n, with no three on a common line (no three points are collinear). See oval (projective plane).
An ovoid in the finite projective geometry PG(3,q), is a set of q2 + 1 points such that no three points are collinear. At each point of an ovoid all the tangent lines to the ovoid lie in a single plane.
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@bstorer said:
@El_Heffe said:
Also relevant to this thread in that photo: wearing Google Glass.Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
Wow, the future is pudgy, ugly and sad.
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@El_Heffe said:
Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
Unless black. Black guys can be as bald as they want. As a white guy who may one day face bald-dom, I think that makes up for slavery.
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@Ben L. said:
@El_Heffe said:
Marc Andreesen is a natually occuring ovoid.For some reason I'm thinking about eggs.
In the theory of projective planes, oval is used to mean a set of n + 1 points in a projective plane of order n, with no three on a common line (no three points are collinear). See oval (projective plane).
An ovoid in the finite projective geometry PG(3,q), is a set of q2 + 1 points such that no three points are collinear. At each point of an ovoid all the tangent lines to the ovoid lie in a single plane.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@bstorer said:
I'll just leave this here.@El_Heffe said:
Also relevant to this thread in that photo: wearing Google Glass.Trying to hide the fact that you're bald by shaving your head.
Wow, the future is pudgy, ugly and sad.
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A person complained on Twitter that their US Airways flight sat for an hour on the tarmac at Charlotte, North Carolina making it an hour late in Portland, Oregon.
US Airwyas reponded:
(NSFW)
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Bad idea is playing with security
http://news.yahoo.com/14-old-dutch-girl-arrested-american-airlines-twitter-162628877.html
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@El_Heffe said:
A person complained on Twitter that their US Airways flight sat for an hour on the tarmac at Charlotte, North Carolina making it an hour late in Portland, Oregon.
US Airwyas reponded:
(NSFW)
Fake, unfortunately.
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@Nagesh said:
Bad idea is playing with security
http://news.yahoo.com/14-old-dutch-girl-arrested-american-airlines-twitter-162628877.htmlAh, the majesty of the Police State.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@El_Heffe said:
Not if their most recent tweet is anything to go by...A person complained on Twitter that their US Airways flight sat for an hour on the tarmac at Charlotte, North Carolina making it an hour late in Portland, Oregon.
US Airwyas reponded:
(NSFW)
Fake, unfortunately.
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@mikeTheLiar said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@El_Heffe said:
Not if their most recent tweet is anything to go by...A person complained on Twitter that their US Airways flight sat for an hour on the tarmac at Charlotte, North Carolina making it an hour late in Portland, Oregon.
US Airwyas reponded:
(NSFW)
Fake, unfortunately.
Interesting. I read yesterday it was fake but maybe it was a pissed-off employee? Seems like a really stupid way to get yourself fired and sued.
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Judging by the fact that the airline is apologizing it would seem to be real. Apparently, it originally started when this was twittered by someone:
https://twitter.com/ARTxDEALER/status/455767347295711232/photo/1 (nsfw)
According to the airline, "We captured the image to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."
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@Mike Hunt said:
Judging by the fact that the airline is apologizing it would seem to be real. Apparently, it originally started when this was twittered by someone:
(nsfw)According to the airline, "We captured the image to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the
image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."This is going to do wonders for Twitter's mkt cap.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Mike Hunt said:
The picture seems to still be on Twitter. Apparently it's not that big of a deal.Judging by the fact that the airline is apologizing it would seem to be real. Apparently, it originally started when this was twittered by someone: (nsfw)
According to the airline, "We captured the image to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."
This is going to do wonders for Twitter's mkt cap.
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@Mike Hunt said:
I for one found this image utterly inappropriate. US Airways doesn't even fly the 777.@morbiuswilters said:
@Mike Hunt said:
The picture seems to still be on Twitter. Apparently it's not that big of a deal.Judging by the fact that the airline is apologizing it would seem to be real. Apparently, it originally started when this was twittered by someone: (nsfw)
According to the airline, "We captured the image to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the
image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."This is going to do wonders for Twitter's mkt cap.
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@bstorer said:
@Mike Hunt said:
I for one found this image utterly inappropriate. US Airways doesn't even fly the 777.@morbiuswilters said:
@Mike Hunt said:
The picture seems to still be on Twitter. Apparently it's not that big of a deal.Judging by the fact that the airline is apologizing it would seem to be real. Apparently, it originally started when this was twittered by someone: (nsfw)
According to the airline, "We captured the image to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the
image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."This is going to do wonders for Twitter's mkt cap.
I'm offended at the implication US Airways flies anywhere interesting.
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@morbiuswilters said:
I'm offended at the implication US Airways flies anywhere interesting.
Flying into a giant cunt
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ackermann :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer ackermann 0 n = n+1 ackermann m 0 = ackermann (m-1) 1 ackermann m n = ackermann (m-1) (ackermann m (n-1)) up :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer -> Integer up a b 0 = a*b up a b 1 = a^b up _ 0 _ = 1 up a b n = up a (up a (b-1) n) (n-1) g :: Integer -> Integer g 0 = 4 g n = up 3 3 (g (n-1)) main :: IO () main = print $ ackermann (g 64) (g 64)
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Pineapple vodka* and Diet A&W Root Beer.
OH WAIT, THIS ISN'T THE GREAT IDEAS FORUM.
(*Made from pineapple, but distilled until flavorless, like all vodka. Not vodka with pineapple flavouring added.)
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@El_Heffe said:
Don't miss Lonnie's Weather Forecast
I originally read that as Lorne's Weather Forecast and was disappointed that nobody in the clip was named Lorne Kates.
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A 250GB hard drive? What a joke. I'd fill that up with mixer porn in a couple of days.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
This.
That's.. weird.
The Google results for my username are interesting. Some of that stuff is legit, and some of it I have no idea how it got created. Like, here's a Pastebin under my username, but it's not mine. It looks like some crappy PHP login code for a site called "www.coldfusioncoderz.com", which appears to be a dead domain. I don't even recognize the site name, although I do recall way back in TDWTF history there were a couple of CF programmers on here who were trolling and they created a bunch of fake accounts try to sockpuppet real people here, including me. So maybe that's where it came from.
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The markov spam. The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack.
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Giving a speech on how we need to waste more money on Amtrak while standing three fucking inches from certain, spectacular, disembodied-head-soaring-through-the-air death.
Seriously, the only thing that would have made that video better was if the train hit him. I mean, the timing! His flunkie's all "Safety.. as you know, is paramoun--" then BAM! Decapitated Senator!
Oh, Lord, why do you taunt me so?
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@morbiuswilters said:
Giving a speech on how we need to waste more money on Amtrak while standing three fucking inches from certain, spectacular, disembodied-head-soaring-through-the-air death.
WTF did YouTube do to their UI now?!? The video ends and the description disappears, replaced by a zillion buttons to share it on every social networking site known to mankind, none of which I use. I don't want to share it; I want to read about what I just watched.
Seriously, the only thing that would have made that video better was if the train hit him. I mean, the timing! His flunkie's all "Safety.. as you know, is paramoun--" then BAM! Decapitated Senator!
Oh, Lord, why do you taunt me so?