🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Maybe not such a bad idea if you track which you infected, then remove them from said list.
It's actually a list for announcing security-related updates, so not everybody on it is an expert, by any stretch of the imagination. (I'm certainly not.) But anyone who infects him(her)self from a zip file attached to an email, sent to a worldwide list, claiming the recipient is in debt from driving on a toll road is too stupid to be administering a Linux machine. (INB4 "... too stupid to live.") Presumably at least some of the people on the list — the people making and releasing the updates, if no one else — have sufficient expertise to trace the email to its source.
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Presumably at least some of the people on the list — the people making and releasing the updates, if no one else — have sufficient expertise to trace the email to its source.
An infected machine sitting in someone's living room?
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An infected machine running unpatched Windows XP sitting in someone's living room?
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Wow, that article is already fascinating and I've barely even finished the first paragraph...
That article doesn't even pretend to be unbiased, but assuming the facts stated are even vaguely related to reality, the professor advocating the death penalty is ...Professor Richard Parncutt, Musicologist at Graz University in Austria.
I'm sure a musicologist is an expert in climate science. Everyone should shut up and just trust his opinions on the subject.
Parncutt hates the death penalty and supports Amnesty International's efforts to end it.
... for everyone except, apparently, climate change deniers. That's truly special.
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So The Home Depot?
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Bad idea: driving down the road at 50mph, seeing a deer standing in the road, and not trying to slow down because, after all, the deer still could get out of your way and so so you don't have enough evidence yet you are going to hit it.
Filed under: Wait, what were we talking about again? :-)
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@HardwareGeek said:
That article doesn't even pretend to be unbiased, but assuming the facts stated are even vaguely related to reality, the professor advocating the death penalty is ...
>Professor Richard Parncutt, Musicologist at Graz University in Austria.I'm sure a musicologist is an expert in climate science. Everyone should shut up and just trust his opinions on the subject.
I'm going to summarize the article as follows:
- Some guy I never heard of said some wildly crazy stuff about another guy I've never heard of who said some wildly crazy stuff...
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<serious>Do you guys not have lollipop men and lollipop ladies over in the states?</serious>
We do, but we don't use such a stupid name. They're called crossing guards, which may or may not be a stupid name, but it's not as stupid as "lollipop men".
Plus that council's argument is specious. The guy's holding up a big frigging sign.
oh, I know how to solve that USA-style! Strobe lights and flashing blue LEDs. And the latest "innovation" in school busses: cameras.
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We have "crossing guards" who perform the same function, but they do not have lollipop-shaped signs
Generally they'll carry an octagonal stop sign, everywhere I've lived, if they have one.
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Good (?) news--it's free to play.
Anyone want to guess how they're going to monetize it?
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Excuse me; I think my brain's soaking into my shoes…
The proper thing for her to have done after getting that first response would have been to ask "have you completely taken leave of your senses? I must leave this stupid country !"
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Generally they'll carry an octagonal stop sign, everywhere I've lived, if they have one.
You're right, come to think of it, but IME they have very short handles and do not bear any semblance to lollipops.
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oh, I know how to solve that USA-style! Strobe lights and flashing blue LEDs.
A very busy street crossing I walk by every day got some flashing LEDs at the side. Since there are no traffic lights at that crossing I though "Cool. So someone that's not from here will have some additional indication to be careful if driving at night" (which is pretty much the only time when it's not busy enough that you have to drive at the snail's pace anyway).
The kicker? The LEDs were never intended for that crossing. Turns out they were set up somewhere else, but they set so many up that the tennents from the surrounding buildings complained at not being able to sleep due to flashing and the amount of light. So they distributed them all over the city.
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Teacher [...] Is Struck Off
Dang, you Brits take things seriously....
"from the register"
. Oh, just more weird slang. Carry on.
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Isn't it a shortened form of smegma, i.e. knob cheese?
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere several years ago they explicitly claim it's not. I'm not sure how believeable that is. It's like claiming you made up a new word, "fuc", that totally is not related to the word "fuck" at all.
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Dren. I thought we were past this frelling discussion.
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tually, for purposes you indended...
Enjoy.
I was going to fix that quote but then I saw your typo so I thought I'd just go with it.
If you're going to do that, you should put an alt or title on it.
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If you're going to do that, you should put an alt or title on it.
Point. Saved in my memory to be forgotten at a later date.
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You're right
But of course.
come to think of it, but IME they have very short handles and do not bear any semblance to lollipops.
Sure. I know I said that in one of my posts, but it might not have been this one.
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A very busy street crossing I walk by every day got some flashing LEDs at the side.
A major street near where I live has a school crossing. They decided that the regular flashing yellow lights (you know, about the size of the flashers on a school bus) weren't enough so they put a white line strobe in the middle of it. Then later they added flashing blue LEDs.
I'm waiting for a speed-activated spike strip, because I don't know what else could be next. The buses have two strobe lights on top, the red flashers when stopped to indicate "do not pass" (and around here the fuckers have taken to gratuituously driving with the yellow flashers on, I assume to trick people into thinking they can't pass a moving bus), two swing-out stop sign arms with flashing lights, and, as I said, they recently started adding cameras.
Look, if people are STILL passing the busses, then randomly assign a motorcycle cop to 10% of the bus routes, changing daily, until enough people get the hint. More fucking flashing lights won't help.
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More fucking flashing lights won't help.
Make the "two swing-out stop sign arms with flashing lights" steel girders long enough to span as many lanes of traffic as necessary, at windshield height of the typical car. I'm sure that wouldn't stop some drivers from trying to pass, but it would effectively prevent repeat offenses.
Filed under: Do not GIS "decapitated car." Need brain bleach, and not in a funny way.
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There's people who deny that AIDS comes from a virus too, it's weird.
one of the biggest AIDS denialist magazines closed after the editors both died of AIDS related illnesses
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Bad idea: creating a kickstarter that you have to explicitly tell people is not a condom
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-gentlemans-single-use-monocle
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one of the biggest AIDS denialist magazines closed after the editors both died of AIDS related illnesses
Yay, karma is a thing!
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If you have a lot of friends with a weird sense of humor
I'm hanging out here so I guess I qualify
Actually it's not a bad idea ... if we ever do a WTDWTF RL meeting we'll be needing a batch of these
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So I'm following up on two browser projects at the moment: Vivaldi and Otter. Went to check Vivaldi snapshot news to see it they are actually fixing / adding important shit:
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Went to check Vivaldi snapshot news to see it they are actually fixing / adding important shit:
The answer is no. This must be their form of "cold-mapping"?
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Bad idea: creating a kickstarter
that you have to explicitly tell people is not a condomFTFY, you can just stop right there. In fact, Kickstarter is a bad idea in and of itself. It is just digital panhandling.
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Well, at least the Otter guys seem to be doing stuff:
Highlights: - ability to add custom toolbars, - option to set icon size and style per toolbar, - support for customizing statusbar and toolbar with tab bar (no configuration interface yet).
Get the damned stacks working already! I know that requires writing a new widget, but damn it, I'm spoiled!
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I was convinced it would die after the first high profile failure to deliver, but it seems to be going from strength to strength. Never underestimate the spending power of idiots
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I was convinced it would die after the first high profile failure to deliver, but it seems to be going from strength to strength. Never underestimate the spending power of idiots
All of those sites should have failed after they started the downhill slide that would release >20K pairs of these on the earth.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/axent-wear-cat-ear-headphones
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I believe I've already ranted about that particular abomination. External speakers have no place on headphones
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I believe I've already ranted about that particular abomination.
Several of us have. I also know one or two people (not personally) that have bought a pair; my opinion of their tastes took a slight dip…
@Jaloopa said:External speakers have no place on headphones
QFT
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I believe I've already ranted about that particular abomination. External speakers have no place on headphones
Surprise, surprise. If you hand people who are stupid enough to make headphones with external speakers more than $3M...they do foolish things. Right now the two "creators" (and I use that term loosely...) are in a legal battle. The person handling the money has went dark and has put some sort of legal injunction on the other and not letting her tell her side of the story.
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Bad idea: creating a kickstarter that you have to explicitly tell people is not a condom
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-gentlemans-single-use-monocle
$48,712 at the time of this post says you're wrong.
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Bad idea: creating a kickstarter that you have to explicitly tell people is not a condom
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-gentlemans-single-use-monocle
$48,796 funded out of a target of $25,000 (as of posting).Clearly not as bad as you thought…
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$48,712 at the time of this post says you're wrong.
$48,796 funded out of a target of $25,000 (as of posting).
Clearly not as bad as you thought…
Just because idiots put money behind it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
See:
https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/920704/files/20141010152224-Headphones_info2.jpg?1412979744
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Filed under: Do not GIS "decapitated car." Need brain bleach, and not in a funny way.
I remember some time back in the comments section of an article on Cracked.com about horrific sporting injuries there was much mention of a motor racing (Formula 1 IIRC) accident where a driver was decapitated. Apparently not just pictures but actually video footage circulate the internet - I can't personally verify as for once I decided not to click. I presume that's what you found?
Geez, that must have been a nasty shock. I'm sorry.
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Just because idiots put money behind it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
It's a good idea if you like to make money.
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Boxing with Evander Holyfield.
In fact, Romney is slated to fight former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield in the marquee event during a several-bout evening at the Rail Event Center near the Union Pacific Depot in Salt Lake City on May 15.
"It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious," Romney quipped in an interview recently. "It won't be much of a fight. We'll both suit up and get in the ring and spar around a little bit."
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bourgeois capitalist pig!
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your love of money is a microaggression against communist hippies. Check your privilege,
bitchCOMPLAN
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your love of money is a microaggression against communist hippies. Check your privilege,
bitchCOMPLANThat's an outrage! I mean, I'm still saying we should be shooting the commies in Cuba. What does it take to macroaggress these days?
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Does it involve SHOVING A SHOTGUN UP IT'S belgium belgium belgium AND PULLING THE TRIGGER?
Sorry... had some penned up rage there.
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It's for super mature audiences only.
Dammit the childish people are left out again! Racism! Rape-culture!
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