🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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I'm also not sure about the legality of all this - I mean, one of the "features" is that you can sign up other people for their "service".
At least over here, this would run afoul of data protection laws, opt-in laws and privacy laws.
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@Fox said:
Oh, that's good. But can we still appropriate your rape culture anyway?
You can chill with netflix as much as you want. Just don't expect anyone to call it rape culture.
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I'm also not sure about the legality of all this - I mean, one of the "features" is that you can sign up other people for their "service".
At least over here, this would run afoul of data protection laws, opt-in laws and privacy laws.
That does seem to be fairly illegal.
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they're charging you a euro a can/cup for store brand cola and coffee. Bollox to that.
Yeah, no. I'll just bring my own.
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Talk about dodging a bullet...
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If that's a bullet, what does the gun look like? :ERROR_SUITABLE_EMOTICON_NOT_FOUND:
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No, thattwitchs the gun, the bullet looks something like this:
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Nothing can be remedied by adding cream and sugar to a coffee.
True, it's woefully inadequate to make the coffee taste tolerable.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL FUCKING SAVAGES
True again. Civilized people drink tea.
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only the hardware people. The Real Programmers™ drink coffee, black like their souls
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Well, you know, there are still people who think "going upstairs for some coffee" involves drinking coffee, so I'm not surprised that people whoosh at that one.
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Yes, funnel all your money directly to us in the Pacific Northwest! Buy the Starbucks! Fly Boeing! Use Windows! Muahaha!
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Fly Boeing!
I don't think that Boeing is an airline. They do, however, make airplanes for many large airlines (which is what someone means when they say "fly <company>").
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It ain't Boeing, I ain't going.
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What's wrong with Airbus?
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Ain't Boeing.
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How not?
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Just use the concentrated tablets like civilized people.
For that to be also a bad enough idea, I think I'd need to skip to the under-tongue nicotine-caffeine lozenges. F No-Doz. I likes the taste of coffee, anyway. Tastes like spite.
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I would think "Airbus is not Boeing" would be obvious.
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Is this post 9000?
Also, can you tell the difference visually? I thought that I was the only one here that cared enough about aircraft to be able to differentiate different models/manufacturers of aircraft by looking at them...
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What's wrong with Airbus?
For one, they practically took hold of the ARINC-664 standard and force everyone else to pay them for the rights to use modern avionics networks.
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Also, can you tell the difference visually?
Yes? There's only maybe a dozen models of passenger jet active right now.
It also shows up on your airline ticket, and is shown before you reserve a seat. In case you are either blind, or an ignorant fucker.
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Bad idea:
To quote a comment:
What a treat.
Have a bad date?
Wanna forget about it?
Forget that!
Now you have 48 hours to "negotiate" the rating your date gave you!
Wondering how it will differentiate between, say, John Smith and John Smith. Oh, and Tim, Tim, Tim, and Tim.
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Wondering how it will differentiate between, say, John Smith and John Smith.
Mobile phone numbers. I haven't read enough to really understand how it works, but apparently you can create an account for, and review, anyone whose mobile phone number you know, and that person has no way to prevent you from creating their account.
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@abarker said:
Wondering how it will differentiate between, say, John Smith and John Smith.
Mobile phone numbers. I haven't read enough to really understand how it works, but apparently you can create an account for, and review, anyone whose mobile phone number you know, and that person has no way to prevent you from creating their account.
You appear to be right. From their FAQ:
I envision lawsuits when someone has a profile started for them and then ends up with several negative reviews. Between that and the likelihood that this will be violating privacy and opt-in laws in various countries ...
Sure, it will be popular at first, but then it will collapse under litigation and legal problems.
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GW2 has a
/ip
chat command that tells you which server you're connected to. I did a traceroute to that IP:traceroute to 206.127.146.47 (206.127.146.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.658 ms 1.064 ms 1.261 ms 2 99-63-168-2.lightspeed.milwwi.sbcglobal.net (99.63.168.2) 27.412 ms 27.724 ms 28.129 ms 3 71.144.192.178 (71.144.192.178) 28.726 ms 31.683 ms 32.354 ms 4 12.83.79.145 (12.83.79.145) 30.393 ms 29.776 ms 12.83.79.137 (12.83.79.137) 30.041 ms 5 gar13.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.132.121) 35.405 ms 35.118 ms 35.643 ms 6 chi-b21-link.telia.net (213.248.87.253) 34.043 ms 26.287 ms 26.546 ms 7 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.248.197) 48.003 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.136.18) 47.519 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (62.115.140.66) 46.343 ms 8 ffm-bb2-link.telia.net (62.115.139.16) 144.066 ms ffm-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.131.150) 145.124 ms ffm-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.131.146) 142.322 ms 9 ffm-b1-link.telia.net (213.155.130.227) 143.512 ms ffm-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.137.123) 144.783 ms ffm-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.114.246) 146.754 ms 10 ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net (62.115.43.74) 134.811 ms 137.634 ms 139.100 ms 11 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.86) 154.176 ms 150.980 ms 153.833 ms 12 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.102) 491.450 ms 491.744 ms 243.288 ms 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * *
Or to use location names instead of computer addresses:
1 my router 2 Milwaukee, WI 3 Los Angeles, CA 4 Morristown, NJ 5 Chicago, IL 6 Chicago, IL 7 New York, NY 8 Frankfurt, Germany 9 Frankfurt, Germany 10 Frankfurt, Germany 11 Austin, TX 12 Austin, TX
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I thought you were on the EU servers? O_O
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I am. I'm on Gunnar's Hold. The people who introduced GW2 to me live in England.
Edit: Also, yes, apparently the EU servers are in Texas.
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Well shit. I propose that all the EU players transfer to US servers so at least all the GW2 players in the world can play together while ArenaNet murders your ping times.
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The trading post is already merged. It's my hypothesis that they're keeping EU and NA separate to make China not feel left out.
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Are the Chinese servers actually in China? Or Asia, at least?
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At least with Dota 2, the China and Korea servers are managed by different companies, not the game developers. Presumably because connectivity between China and the rest of the world is dodgy at best, and Korea... well...
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Yeah, why are you still drinking your caffeine? Just use the concentrated tablets like civilized people.
Fuck that, just mainline it. Hell, put in a PICC line and send it straight to the heart!
Booyah!
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Bad idea: not having gun control
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RGGv6ntj4Pk?version=3&start=12&end=55
Funfact: the red part of the USA graphic is a certain state
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Fun fact: the red part of the USA graphic is a certain state
You mean Idaho and Montana? Because the bulk of that certainly isn't in Oregon, like you are hinting at.
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Though Geolocation of IPs may not necessarily be accurate -- it's based largely on WhoIs records which holders of direct allocations (ISPs, larger companies) must keep up to date on pain of the wrath of ARIN/RIPE/ICANN
My last house was in the capital of my state, according to GeoLocation. I lived over 200 miles away.
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While on the subject of geolocation...
Bad idea: serving me a page which language is decided based on location, completely disregarding my Accept-Language header. Do people who make websites not travel?
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Or, displaying some numbers whose currency format is decided based on my computer's regional settings, completely disregarding the fact that they're amounts in US dollars.
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One of the drips sort of reaches into Oregon. But even then, the wrong part.
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Yeah, but if we're including drips and not just the central mass, then we also have to count Canada and Wyoming.
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I think that the overall take-away from all this is that Ben wouldn't recognize a geography if he met one on the street.
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I think that the overall take-away from all this is that Ben wouldn't recognize a geography if
he met one on the street.it came up and fucked him in the ass!My favorite way of putting this.
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He could probably have read the map if it was in codepage letters ...
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"Can I take myself off of Peeple?"
"No, not at this time. We might consider this for a feature later."Damn straight they will: "Want your trashed profile taken off Peeple? GIve us $$$$." Can see it coming. (Other web rating services have done that for companies with bad ratings. Yelp is one that is reputed to do this.) Legalized extortion.
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Well, considering the ping times, I don't really doubt the general accuracy of the IP geolocations. A ping time that bad would almost have to go transatlantic to be able to get that high, unless there's some issue server- or client-side.
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The biggest (legal) issue isn't people with carp ratings. It's people who didn't create their profile who don't want an issue. Those people didn't opt in and shouldn't have to pay to have their profile removed.
Businesses are one thing, but when you start putting individuals out there like this, you're asking for trouble. Especially when you must have an iOS device to access Peeple at launch.
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Especially when you must have an iOS device to access Peeple at launch.
So we're going to have iSheep creating profiles for us? This just keeps getting better and better.
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