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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
They're offering something called Digipass Nano - a device put over the SIM card. It then works as a SIM application. As such it actually does wiretap all your communications in order to capture the authentication request and prompt for the PIN code to confirm stuff.
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@TimeBandit That sounds like a
bugreally good feature.
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@PJH That's nothing new. One of my former class mates needed a new Badminton racket and simply replaced the label of a 100DM racket with a nearby 10DM one. That was in 1994.
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@PJH Who wrote that headline - William Faulkner?
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@lolwhat A 9 year old male is a lad. A 19 year old male is an adult man.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat A 9 year old male is a lad. A 19 year old male is an adult man.
You're not a man until your car insurance drops to the lowest possible age cohort.
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@HardwareGeek Well, I was referring to the sheer length of the sentence...
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@lolwhat Eight month suspended sentence seems short to me.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat A 9 year old male is a lad. A 19 year old male is an adult man.
Wrong post - they're referring to the footballer one.
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@PJH Oh, that one. Yeah, Faulkner.
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@lolwhat Maybe they were just trying to write the whole article in the headline.
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@TimeBandit I assume that it's stemming from the brokenness that occurred with their login servers yesterday?
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Article @TimeBandit linked in In other news today... said:
It turns out that most Windows users don't know what "KBxxxxxxx" actually means
They also usually don't know what "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" means either, and those errors aren't being improved.
But I suppose I'll take what I can get...
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@Tsaukpaetra
It means one should stop licking their finger before turning pages.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
It means one should stop licking the finger before turning pages.
Definitely!
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and locks passengers inside for more than an hour.
The first rule of relying on software to do things like opening car doors is don't rely on software to do things like opening car doors.
claiming the driver “accidentally made a series of operations that activated the system update” during a traffic jam on Changan Avenue
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Any relevant staff such as an engineer or project manager with awareness of customer experience would have prevented this. There should never been a system upgrade reminder when driving and it is normal for ordinary users not to understand the reminderJesus, they tried to upgrade the car software in the middle of the road?
This is a "both parties are at fault" case if I ever saw one.
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You couldn't write a better movie script - sex in a van, a car chase by the victim and then by the police, thievery, a dating site...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat A 9 year old male is a lad. A 19 year old male is an adult man.
Not a Brit, but is there any vagueness at all to the term "lad"? In American English, the word "boy" (and even more so "girl") can be modified by the context. If you say, "I'm gonna go out for a drink with the boys" doesn't mean you're doing anything illegal.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat A 9 year old male is a lad. A 19 year old male is an adult man.
Not a Brit, but is there any vagueness at all to the term "lad"? In American English, the word "boy" (and even so more "girl") can be modified by the context. If you say, "I'm gonna go out for a drink with the boys" doesn't mean you're doing anything illegal.
Yep, pretty similar, 'going out for a drink with the lads' is fine.
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article @boomzilla linked in In other news today... said:
used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat sounds a lot like The Chase:
Great flick. Outstanding sound track.
I wouldn't know. All I know is that it keeps coming up on my DVR when I'm trying to record a game show:
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Definitely!
I'm afraid I don't get the reference. Can you perhaps pass by value instead?
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@Applied-Mediocrity It's a medieval murder mystery, in the end it turns out the poison had been applied to the pages of a book, so the victim self-administered as they licked their finger to lift the pages.
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Bell is on my black list since about 25 years, and they keep reminding me why
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Last year, Americans spent more than $80 billion playing state lotteries, that's around $250 for each citizen, more than what was spent on concerts, sporting events and movie tickets combined.
Found TR
Over 25 states took in more from their lottery proceeds than from corporate income tax.
Nope. Nope, this one is it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'll use that one as an example to demonstrate my pupils how knowledge in statistics can earn them a lot of money
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@Rhywden
Seems like a way to ensure your students' knowledge of statistics results in them losing money
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Bell is on my black list since about 25 years, and they keep reminding me why
Bell may not exactly have its finger on the pulse of common sense on this particular subject.
Quelle surprise!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
TE;DR: a particular lottery gives winnings to people with fewer matched numbers when nobody wins, and says in advance when that will happen.
Because that increases the chances of wining significantly, he brute-forced tickets to guarantee almost double returns.
I don't know why TFA calls that a "loophole."
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@TimeBandit "Journalism"
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
I don't know why TFA calls that a "loophole."
Only playing when you know that the odds are in your favor is a "loophole" because the game was designed under the assumption that people will play it even when the odds are rigged against them. And statistically speaking, people did play it then; the game wouldn't have been able to exist at all if they hadn't.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
I don't know why TFA calls that a "loophole."
The average knowledge of anyone at a general news organization about the topics they're writing about ends at about 'zoom and enhance'.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
article @boomzilla linked in In other news today... said:
used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games
Well, since the Lotteries were actually designed broken, basic arithmetic was all that was needed.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Why so blue? Cats 'dyed' blue after ink cartridges explode in Clacton fire
News for the dumb it seems...
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Chrissie Augrandjean, who is a dog walker in the area, said: “I dog walk for a woman who lives opposite.</p>
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Because that increases the chances of wining significantly,
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@PJH that's fucking creative!
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Very impractical but very cool.
I suppose it's a lesson on why you should always sanitise your input.
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This story gets better and better.
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This can be said of every fucking method of communication ever. Fucking hell does anyone remember having penpals at school and there was always the warning that if they want to meet you just say no. I suspect Facebook is the real problem here. It just became normal for people to use their real data instead of hiding behind an alias and assume that 99% of everyone else is a troll.