THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@ben_lubar I feel for Steve Suconcock.
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@ben_lubar Nice. I've always been partial to this clbuttic mistake (eight years ago, really?):
I'm sure the Buttociated Press were embarrbutted about that one!
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@PJH
Does it come with spandex diaper pants?
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Voice messages on forums
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@Tsaukpaetra Sort of? Nothing is real when it comes through this shitty microphone.
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Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields@pie_flavor said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
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@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Actual passwords stored safely in their cloud?
From what I understand, they identify you purely based on the fact that you have access to your phone.
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Actual passwords stored safely in their cloud?
From what I understand, they identify you purely based on the fact that you have access to your phone.
No, that would be too secure.
They identify you purely based on your SIM card, which can be removed from your phone without the use of a password.
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@ben_lubar The SIM itself is passcode-protected though. And I'm pretty sure its own chip enforces limited attempts.
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Actual passwords stored safely in their cloud?
From what I understand, they identify you purely based on the fact that you have access to your phone.
No, that would be too secure.
They identify you purely based on your SIM card, which can be removed from your phone without the use of a password.
Not entirely, GSM authentication is horrifyingly complex, but it's basically just two keys:
The IMSI and the Ki, both stored on the SIM.
The IMSI really only gets sent once, when you authenticate against the HLR for the first time. The phone gets issued what's effectively a surrogate IMSI to use after that.
But once that is over with there is the handset's internal IMEI which is like a MAC address. That can be queried by the Mobile Operator and uniquely identifies the handset totally separate to the SIM.
(I have to do hardware that talks over GSM/GPRS so I've read the specs even though we don't get to touch authentication/channel security directly)
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Ice Age Park
Cool.
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@boomzilla I suspected from the start that the man-bun was just the thin end of the wedge.
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@boomzilla I like the "sixpack" one though, it's brillant.
It's also a picture from 6 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/o43ck/my_new_years_resolution_was_to_get_rippling_abs/
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@JBert said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like the "sixpack" one though, it's brillant.
I think I could make that work!
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@TimeBandit Per the article contents, the onebox title is wrong. It's not a pedal-powered car. It's a pedal-controlled car.
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@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's a pedal-controlled car
Yeah, but isn't every car pedal-controlled?
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's a pedal-controlled car
Yeah, but isn't every car pedal-controlled?
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Yeah, but isn't every car pedal-controlled?
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
And no hills...
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
And no hills...
I have a diesel V8 with 710 ft-lbs of torque. It is quite capable of slowing climbing up a hill without touching the accelerator, even when towing a trailer.
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
And no hills...
Yes, with hills it will be faster.
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
And no hills...
I have a diesel V8 with 710 ft-lbs of torque. It is quite capable of slowing climbing up a hill without touching the accelerator, even when towing a trailer.
But probably not on San Francisco's hills!
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I have a diesel V8 with 710 ft-lbs of torque. It is quite capable of slowing climbing up a hill without touching the accelerator, even when towing a trailer.
But probably not on San Francisco's hills!
It does well enough if you pound your feet that much
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's a pedal-controlled car
Yeah, but isn't every car pedal-controlled?
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Mine's perfectly controllable without touching the pedals if you don't mind being limited to 2 - 3 MPH.
And no hills...
I have a diesel V8 with 710 ft-lbs of torque. It is quite capable of slowing climbing up a hill without touching the accelerator, even when towing a trailer.
But probably not on San Francisco's hills!
We'll never know. My truck isn't California-legal. (Yes, there was a separate California-legal model of it...)
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
My truck isn't California-legal. (Yes, there was a separate California-legal model of it...)
The string "Except for California" must be the most used one by far in the auto-parts industry
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
We'll never know. My truck isn't California-legal. (Yes, there was a separate California-legal model of it...)
Is it linked to cancer?
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
We'll never know. My truck isn't California-legal. (Yes, there was a separate California-legal model of it...)
Is it linked to cancer?
In CA, everything is.
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A "let's play" style show, but you slowly reduce the amount of oxygen in the room while they play and watch them slowly start to fail at basic cognitive tasks.
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@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A "let's play" style show, but you slowly reduce the amount of oxygen in the room while they play and watch them slowly start to fail at basic cognitive tasks.
“The Legends of Hypoxia Challenge”
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@mott555
Are you the bastard I keep driving behind?
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@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A "let's play" style show, but you slowly reduce the amount of oxygen in the room while they play and watch them slowly start to fail at basic cognitive tasks.
I'm pretty sure there was a quiz show like that that my dad was watching on TV when I was younger.
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A "let's play" style show, but you slowly reduce the amount of oxygen in the room while they play and watch them slowly start to fail at basic cognitive tasks.
I'm pretty sure there was a quiz show like that that my dad was watching on TV when I was younger.
Didn't The Right Stuff have a scene like that? (I remember a "quiz" being done in a hyperbaric chamber)
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@izzion said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555
Are you the bastard I keep driving behind?You haven't died of cancer yet, so probably not.
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@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A "let's play" style show, but you slowly reduce the amount of oxygen in the room while they play and watch them slowly start to fail at basic cognitive tasks.
I'm surprised Japan hasn't already done this.
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
My truck isn't California-legal. (Yes, there was a separate California-legal model of it...)
The string "Except for California" must be the most used one by far in the auto-parts industry
Except for California, where it's 'except for everywhere else'.