â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Certainly a bad idea, but the implementation shows how powerful C++ is
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Standing in the middle of the road is a Bad Idea, you can get hit.
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Those people that try to find "loopholes" in basic laws are the craziest.
They seem to believe that written text becomes laws by some magical force of the universe.
The laws are laws because people accept them as laws. The "real" interpretation of a law is always, by definition, the one that most people in power (judges and policemen) have. So unless you can convince a non-negligible fraction of people in the justice system that JOHN SMITH and John Smith aren't the same entity, it's irrelevant. How is that so hard to understand?!
Related: "If a judge leaves a courtroom can I declare myself in charge?". Well, you can...
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I like how the dude at 1:20 is just sitting there at the iMac's login screen doing nothing.
What else would you do with an iMac?
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Funny to think this would have been an incredibly valuable medical tool 100 years ago. Now it's a literal joke.
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100 years ago, they wouldn't have a cell phone to plug it into.
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Eat it? It's apparantly pretty expensive for an apple....
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Apparently, you can call into a Target store, ask for a certain extension, and have complete control of the PA system.
As pranks go, it's fairly low-grade. But Target has a problem. Staff at the store in Campbell, a small city just south of San Jose, were all but powerless to stop it due to how the PA system is designed. And it's not an isolated incident. According to local media, it's at least the fourth time this prank has happened since April. In one instance, a store had to be evacuated.
Semi-unrelated picture http://i.imgur.com/zo1aMB5.jpg
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Bad idea: Using this stock photo on your website homepage:
It doesn't seem like a bad idea.
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Apparently, you can call into a Target store, ask for a certain extension, and have complete control of the PA system.
What did they do, go with the Cardboard™ model phone system? I would think any decent PBX should be able to disallow access to an extension from an outside line. Don't know that for a fact, just seems likely.
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disallow access to an extension from an outside line
It likely is, hence why they have to ask the operator to connect them to said extension.
Now, TRWTF is said operator not questioning why ANYONE on the line needs to get connected to said extension.I mean, I guess if you're not regularly on the cashier station, you might not need to call it yourself, but that's no excuse to not know it and nip weird requests before they start. What's next, someone calling up and asking to reverse transaction 3817 please?
Filed under: Standard Social Engineering tactics
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A lot of PA systems are hooked up to the pbx and are activated by dialing an extension.
I would think any decent PBX should be able to disallow access to an extension from an outside line.
They where being transferred. So if the PA system wasn't reachable from outside then that security was already circumvented because a transferred call isn't external anymore. PBXs hardly have security features to speak off in terms of call routing.
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the Cardboard™ model phone system
There's a thing called Google Cardboard for phones. It is unrelated.
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Bad Idea: WiFi connected kettles with poor security: https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/finding-wireless-kettles-with-social-networks/
Interconnecting embedded things over the public internet is still a terrible idea. Also, anyone that uses the term 'IoT' should receive a complimentary disease.
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@Cursorkeys said:
WiFi connected kettles
Why are these even things?
For the same reason that brought us the webcam?
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Now I wonder if the coffee maker is safe ... http://smarter.am/
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So unless you can convince a non-negligible fraction of people in the justice system that JOHN SMITH and John Smith aren't the same entity, it's irrelevant. How is that so hard to understand?!
This is what happens when you have implicit casts of characters to integers. SMDH
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At least it looked like someone caught - and hopefully kept - the kid.
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For the same reason that brought us the webcam?
I have seen that coffee pot for real. In fact, where I was at the time and with the network in place being what it was, it was faster to go and look by hand than it was to use the webcam version.
Stuff has moved on a bit from then…
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..., but painful if the pot had hot coffee in it.
It didn't. It had stale cold coffee in it. :donotwant:
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@Cursorkeys said:
WiFi connected kettles
Why are these even things?
I would prefer WiFi connected kitties.
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I would prefer WiFi connected kitties.
The CIA tried that once. Unfortunately, the cat got hit by a car and died.
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DARPA probably did it first, tbh.
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Presumably, watching any of the three series reviewed in this video is enough to get you listed as a sex offender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxprtj38WM
The takeaway: Srsly, Japan? This lolicon thing is way outta hand.
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You act like any sexual fetish in Japan is not. *coughtentaclescough*
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You act like any sexual fetish in Japan is not. *coughtentaclescough*
I actually watched some Hentai once out of curiosity, not knowing anything about it.
Japan.
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@Spanky587 said:
I would prefer WiFi connected kitties.
The CIA tried that once. Unfortunately, the cat got hit by a car and died.
Yeah, probably not a good idea. I'll stick to wired connection.
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@ScholRLEA said:
@Spanky587 said:
I would prefer WiFi connected kitties.
The CIA tried that once. Unfortunately, the cat got hit by a car and died.
Yeah, probably not a good idea. I'll stick to wired connection.
And then after that, ADSL cat proceeds to connect WiFi (despite your preference for wired):
(From xkcd Zealous Autoconfig.)
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[Pranksters putting pornographic soundtracks on Target's PA]
You don't need malice when neglect is enough.
TVs on Lisbon international airport were set to a generic TV channel who happens to now and then broadcast adult movies after 2 AM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqRI2TnBv1c
The video thumbnail is rather tame. Although it's picture-in-picture, the rest of the video might be considered NSFW.
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I knew I should have taken that night flight!
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Bad idea: Not making sure you're not next to a zoo when you go out hunting.
A group of hunters in Norway have shot dead two elk - before realising seconds later they were firing through a fence into the animal's enclosure in a zoo.
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Arne Nysted, who chairs the wildlife tribunal in Troms County, said there was no need to punish the men, the site reported.
"This is a regrettable mistake made in connection with lawful hunting on the outside of the park," he said.
"It was a fatal error, but everyone understands that it was not done at all on purpose."
what!
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Hey, at least it was only elk and not a tiger or some other exotic animal.
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Maybe his sister once was bitten by a møøse?
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Møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti, I hear.
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In all seriousness: These little beasties are quite a good reason for you to have a gun in your car in Scandinavia / Finland.
In case you hit one with your car and it survives the experience (or, indeed, you survive the experience), you may now have a half-ton of enraged moose to deal with.
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Most common cause of death when hitting a moose: you snap the legs by the kneecaps, it rolls 1.5Ď€ on the bonnet and what's left of the legs enter through the windscreen. It then kicks you to death while trying to find a comfortable rigor mortis.
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Indeed. Luckily we only encountered reindeers in the wild.
We also concluded that reindeers have to be about the dumbest animals in the world.
So, we were driving with our tour bus due north when we encountered three reindeers lying on the road on our side. Probably were enjoying the warmth. Since there was traffic on the other side, we had to stop.
The reindeers didn't move.
Our bus driver honked. One reindeer lifted its head in a "Whassup doc?" style, regarded us lazily and then lay down again.
Our bus driver got out of the bus and kicked them. They got on their feet but didn't go anywhere.
Meanwhile, there was no traffic on the other side anymore. So our bus driver turned to the left - only to find out that the reindeers had accepted the bus into their herd and were also running in front of the bus on the left side.
Thus he changed lanes to the right again - whereupon the reindeers also changed lanes.
This little game continued for about 4 kilometers until the reindeers found a moderately sized ditch to the side of the road they could tumble head over heels into.
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Bad idea: breaking down while black.
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Gender calculus
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Corey Jones, 31, a popular drummer in south Florida who played in the band at his church and worked as an inspector for a local city’s housing authority,
Sounds like a ruffian!
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Bad idea: Not making sure you're not next to a zoo when you go out hunting.
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Bad idea: this recipe: https://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/7866
Not only does it cost over a thousand gold just for the vendor ingredients, but there aren't even enough raw materials on the market for you to craft it (even if you did want to waste ten thousand gold).