βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Yeah, that broke me, because I post nonsensical stuff on purpose. It usually has a point, but the point is acute, so I fluff it quite a bit. I mean, the red text said what it meant to say. That AI programming can be cheap because you can target what your users want to know.
His post was nonsensical but only because I didn't have enough background information to parse out the satire at a weak glance. And the point is broad and encompasses a great deal of information.
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Bad Idea: Powering yourself with your own wireless emissions.
Don't be fooled. It's not an extra battery. Instead, the Nikola Labs case takes the 90 percent wasted energy your smartphone loses from pumping out a wireless signal and converts it back so the phone can use it for power. Nikola Labs claims the case can power the iPhone 6 30 percent longer using this technique.
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Bad Idea: Powering yourself with your own wireless emissions.
I have some emissions that could be converted to power. Never noticed any wires.
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Stop worrying about it too much; it's just a snide dig at you. The whole Prenda thing comes under the heading of When Idiots Go To Court and will no doubt be on the legal profession's equivalent of TDWTF for years to comeβ¦
Popehat is pretty laden with legal WTFery...for some bizarre reason, people think that the First Amendment somehow can be lawyered out of.So I've seen various retweets from their Twitter account, but I'm not sure I've read their blog. And now I'm sad I've missed it, because it's great. Interesting, well-written, often-times amusing. (I like the somewhat wry sense of humor, like "Now, ignoring a court's order to show cause is an atypical strategy," or something like that from an earlier post. Reminds me a little of "Things I Won't Work With.") That's totally getting added to my RSS reader.
Read the archives -- they are a treasure trove!
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Read the archives -- they are a treasure trove!
Oh believe me, I was reading for a couple hours. That's where I got the "ignoring a court's order to show cause is an atypical strategy" quote. :-)
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Yes, Ken is very fun to read.
I kind of miss the crazy Clark posts, though.
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That shit ranks up there with "we would defer to the expertise of the ATF if we were able to discern any."
Oh man, I found another gem (related to Prenda but I think a different case) in an old article:The Prenda Law gang, about whom I've written a word or two, suffered another setback last week in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. On May 27th, the D.C. Circuit overturned a trial court order permitting AF Holdings β a Prenda shell β to take early discovery from Cox Communications of the accounts associated with various IP addresses. The decision did not go well for Team Prenda. The D.C. Circuit recognized the various tactics criticized by other courts across the country, savaged AF Holdings' theories of why they would have personal jurisdiction over nationwide downloaders in D.C., and undermined Prenda's arguments about why they could combine multiple defendants in the same case. The court sent the case back to the trial court to see whether sanctions were appropriate for AF Holdings' notorious use of an allegedly forged signature on a copyright assignment. Protip β if a United States Court of Appeals refers to you as "law firm," with scare quotes thus, you're gonna have a bad time.
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Actually, this might deserve its own topic.
Especially since it seems like their argument is, "You shouldn't sanction us financially; instead we dare you to charge us with criminal contempt. Nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh!"
I mean, if you followed this stuff...
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You could just have asked me to jeff it >.>
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You could just have asked me to jeff it >.>
I had a different thing I wanted to post here. Some stupid British town taking DNA of dog poop to catch the owners. But now I lost it and am too lazy to find.
Oh well.
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Some stupid British town taking DNA of dog poop to catch the owners.
The borough of Barking and Dagenham.
http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/05/london-refuses-to-go-to-the-dogs/392666/
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The borough of Barking and Dagenham.
http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/05/london-refuses-to-go-to-the-dogs/392666/
Ah yes. I like the look on that dog's face.
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Some stupid British town taking DNA of dog poop to catch the owners.
It's not just them, sadly. I've heard of places in the US threatening to do it.
It's silly, but what are you gonna do when the neighborhood's full of people who don't pick up after their dog? Video cameras aren't terribly expensive, but paying someone to watch 'em all probably isn't very cheap.
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Ah yes. I like the look on that dog's face
My wife managed to get a picture of a tiger in that position, with that look, at the National Zoo once. Funniest goddamn thing.
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One of my useless superpowers was the ability to look out the car window while on country highways right as a random cow either craps or calves. Once I saw both at once! Usually, they're grazing, too.
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Why does Skype need 120MB of RAM?
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And its not posted here... why?
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You don't know it needs that. Empty RAM is useless. Blanking RAM is a no-op.
Put those pieces of knowledge together and know Zen.
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And its not posted here... why?
Because it's at home and I'm not. I'll try to remember to look for it tonight.
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Bad Idea: Pepper-spraying yourself while attempting to commit robbery.
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-pepper-sprays-himself-during-robber-attempt-095706059.html
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My useless superpower is looking at the clock at exactly 13:34. No idea why.
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Is that the time when the Golang Team does releases?
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One of my useless superpowers was the ability to look out the car window while on country highways right as a random cow either craps or calves.
My useless superpower is looking at the clock at exactly 13:34. No idea why.
My useless superpower is that I always get the bayleaf.
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Bad idea: Protest to kick the Tories out of government two days after the General Election
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The best bit is some of these ignoranuses have vandalised the Women's War Memorial
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That reminds meβ¦
Bad idea: Vandalising war memorials.
Seriously. Just don't.
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Probably praying for the M60 to be a bit less broken.
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At M60 J23 Aston-u-Lyne now; highway is utterly petrified. Worst traffic jam ever; can't understand why.
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Apparently the M60 is the place to go for a stroll tonight.
Regular followers will not be surprised by the no. of peds found on motorway
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\*[clicks first link](http://t.co/P7NRiBwk)*
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And yet highways.gov.uk/twitter actually works, so they've some how broken the link to a working URL.
EDIT: WAAAAAAAIT A MINUTE. Link broken, but typing in the URL works.
EDIT2: No it just breaks with the www. at the start
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EDIT2: No it just breaks with the www. at the start
The entire concept of putting
www.
before a domain name has caused more trouble than it's worth. Some sites work with www., some sites work without it, and some sites have different pages on each. Then there's this abomination:http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~cs101/ - How To Use Microsoft Word
http://cs.uwm.edu/ - connection refused (but there is a mail server running on this hostname)
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Probably a bad idea:
If you're going to drive around a more sportsy car than your typical sedan and SUV, drive aggressively, peel out from stoplights, and ignore the speed limit even more than most people, then I'm guessing a "RCKLESS" vanity license plate is unlikely to help you stay under the radar, convince police to just give you warnings, etc.
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The entire concept of putting www. before a domain name has caused more trouble than it's worth.
Having http://www.domain.whatever and http://domain.whatever point to the same thing is pretty trivial though.
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Bad idea: The Big Max
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Bad idea: Protest to kick the Tories out of government two days after the General Election
Heh...the preview frame on the video probably tells you why they won in the first place:
It was right that we were prepared to mobilise against dirty tricks.
Yeah, like people voting differently.
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The entire concept of putting www. before a domain name has caused more trouble than it's worth.
You do realize that it had (and still has, for large enough service providers) a purpose at some point? In the olden days, when hardware was expensive and laughably weak by today's standards, and when we didn't have Apache, nginx and similar, you used to need a separate machine to run your website, a separate one for the mail server, etc.
Those machines, by convention, had specific hostnames: your web server machine was called
www.domain.tld
, your mail machine was calledmail.domain.tld
etc. Hell, you might've had separate machines forPOP
andSMTP
servers (smtp.domain.tld
anyone?).The problem is not the idea of it. The problem is people keeping up with those conventions to this day, no matter if they really need a separate
www
machine (or a cluster of them) or not. Which is, in large part, also helped by regular users stickingwww
in front of everything, even though I specifically told them that the URL is justdomain.tld
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The entire concept of putting www. before
I've never read up on why, just thought it was one of those "canonical" things. But it turns out there are good reasons for it; an implementer just needs to be consistent about it. Article: Why use www?
One thing particularly relevant to your discussion: No-www, which he calls naked domains, are always supposed to forward you to a www domain.
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even though I specifically told them that the URL is just domain.tld.
Urgh, I hate that.
"Me: Ok, now you'll go to
mail.website.com
and log in.
*user typeswww.mail.website.com
*
DNS error
Me: ... Never type www unless I tell you to."
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Let's be honest, what were you expecting to happen?
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Bad Idea: Retweeting a 'Retweet this or bad things will happen' tweet.
Seriously. It just makes you look a total fucktard.
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Corresponding Good Idea: Start a retweet chain that says "If you retweet this, you are a total fucktard"
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Guaranteed 100000000 retweets.
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