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@ScholRLEA AND DEN HIS BRAIN ASPLODED!!!!
[headAsplode.gif]
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
terrible pain from invalid feedback and so forth.
Yeah. It's annoying that the default interpretation for "unknown value" equates to pain. Like, WTF!
Filed under: All sensation is just a specific type of pain...
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Meanwhile, in Nebraska:
(the picture cracks me up)
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Guide to St. Petersburg said:
An Estonia's resident was attacked by a who grabbed his passport and flew away.
I think they accidentally a word. Also, 'An Estonia's resident'? Who checks their grammar? Swedish Chef?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
who grabbed his passport
OMG !!! Russian crow is hacker !!!
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
If you snort cocaine with it.
Look I don't think you have the right idea. You always use a £50 note and then when you are finished you find some homeless people and burn the note before their eyes, while chanting berating them for being plebs. The bonus round is kicking their head in and burning their with a Cigar butt after kicking in the pregnant belly.
... According to David Cameron. As we know he has done shite like this.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
According to David Cameron. As we know he has done shite like this.
Was this before or after he fucked a pig?
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I don't know which is stranger: that he thinks boasting about this as will get him votes and public support, or that, from some of the things I've heard, it probably will. Is crime so bad in the Philippines right now that this sort of ham-handed thuggery is seen as a step in the right direction?
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@RaceProUK Probably, I've bought the book on Kindle by only skimmed through it on my Pc. But I think the whole idea was to embrace being rich cunts. The fucking the pigs mouth isn't that important ... it all the other crap that led up to that.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Fox said in In other news today...:
Are you still drunk/drunk again?
funny enough I can't be in a continued state of drunkenness.
A friend of mine realized she had hit bottom when she could no longer get drunk.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oldest kid ever finally becomes a man!
Hmm. Sounds like a Y2K error.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
According to David Cameron. As we know he has done shite like this.
Was this before or after he fucked a pig?
During
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On December 21, 2016, Nokia sued Apple for infringing eight patents related to H.264 encoding and decoding. By its terms, the complaint makes clear that Apple’s usage of H.264 is generic, and that similar infringement claims could be made against any products with an H.264 encoder or decoder without a license with Nokia. Though a quick glance at prior cases make the stakes appear minor, a more reasoned analysis leads to the conclusion that the costs to Apple, and others using H.264, could be very significant.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=115511
I guess it's time for AV1 to make it big!
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@bb36e
It's the year of the Linuxdesktopencoder!
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@bb36e That's the fun with patents! You may have paid $$$$ to license 425 patents, but how many are left? You can never know!
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
On December 21, 2016, Nokia sued Apple for infringing eight patents related to H.264 encoding and decoding. By its terms, the complaint makes clear that Apple’s usage of H.264 is generic, and that similar infringement claims could be made against any products with an H.264 encoder or decoder without a license with Nokia. Though a quick glance at prior cases make the stakes appear minor, a more reasoned analysis leads to the conclusion that the costs to Apple, and others using H.264, could be very significant.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=115511
I guess it's time for AV1 to make it big!
Forget AV1, H.265 is in the house!
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@Tsaukpaetra this could increase the licensing cost for HEVC
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra this could increase the licensing cost for HEVC
More money all around!
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@Boner They shoulda created a GUI in Visual BASIC, see if they could track an IP address.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
It's a suspended sentence
Suspended by his testicles over a pit of lava sharks?
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@Lorne-Kates Call me old-fashioned but I always say you can't go wrong with scorpions.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Lorne-Kates Call me old-fashioned but I always say you can't go wrong with scorpions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQRprgbYdTw
Filed Under: I think everyone saw that coming.
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
Scorpions -
Rock YouImmutable Like A Hurricane - Official video clip HQ – 04:13
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Lorne-Kates Call me old-fashioned but I always say you can't go wrong with scorpions.
Old-fashioned or Old Testament?
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (1 Kings 12:11, KJV)
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
lava sharks
"Sharknado meets Lavalantula"
^ You should sell that idea to the SyFy channel.
(bonus if it's a 3-headed shark)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Old-fashioned or Old Testament?
I was going for Discworld, actually.
Just make sure you don't put scorpions and snakes and rats in the same pit.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
Just make sure you don't put scorpions and snakes and rats in the same pit.
What if you're crossing a river, which ones can you leave alone with each other?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
Just make sure you don't put scorpions and snakes and rats in the same pit.
What if you're crossing a river, which ones can you leave alone with each other?
Well, history shows that trying to cross a river with a scorpion is just bad news. If you're a frog.
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: I think everyone saw that coming.
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@dcon In other news,
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 27017 -j DROP
is a bad idea.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 27017 -j DROP
But it should make the MongoDB very safe?
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@CoyneTheDup said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 27017 -j DROP
But it should make the MongoDB very safe?
For values of "Lock it in a safe and throw away the key" types of safety. :)
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@bb36e Cue pointing out that the stars presumably exploded about 1800 years ago in 3... 2... 1...
Filed Under: Be glad for that extra distance when observing an explosion that large,...
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For some reason, I am now thinking of the "You have x minutes to reach minimum safe distance" alarms from movies like Aliens and games like Halo. If you have a drive that can exceed 0.90c and you still need a lead time measured in terrestrial decades to get to MSD, you are definitely too close.
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@ScholRLEA Set of these is mandatory for safety reasons.
http://www.mycooltruckstuff.com/images/thumbs/0000150.jpeg
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A news story talked about how a young girl had told her mom's Alexa, "Alexa, buy me a dollhouse," and the device, unable to distinguish between different voices, ordered one.
Guess what happened with everyone watching the broadcast who had an Alexa of their own?
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@masonwheeler See also: early Xbox One adverts that showed off the voice commands
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@Jaloopa Sure, but did any of those end up costing their owners upwards of $100? :P
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@masonwheeler no, they just played games or turned xboxen on or off.
Shirley there's a confirm step before it just orders something though? Or does it just pick the first result in an amazon search for "dollhouse" and confirm it? That would be a pretty terrible design flaw
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Telly station CW-6 said the blunder happened during a Thursday morning news package about a Texan six-year-old who racked up big charges while talking to an Echo gadget in her home. According to her parents' Amazon account, their daughter said: "Can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?" Next thing they knew, a $160 KidKraft Sparkle Mansion dollhouse and four pounds of sugar cookies arrived on their doorstep.
During that story's segment, a CW-6 news presenter remarked: "I love the little girl, saying 'Alexa ordered me a dollhouse'."
That, apparently, was enough to set off Alexa-powered Echo boxes around San Diego on their own shopping sprees. The California station admitted plenty of viewers complained that the TV broadcast caused their voice-controlled personal assistants to try to place orders for dollhouses on Amazon.
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This is not the first time an ill-conceived TV spot has caused havoc with voice-control systems. In 2014, a Microsoft Xbox commercial featuring actor Aaron Paul demonstrating Kinect voice control was blamed for causing consoles across the US to spontaneously boot up and launch the game Titanfall every time the ad aired. ®
Woah, dèja vu.
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@Zecc Looks like the same story; I just hadn't seen that topic.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
A news story talked about how a young girl had told her mom's Alexa, "Alexa, buy me a dollhouse," and the device, unable to distinguish between different voices, ordered one.
Guess what happened with everyone watching the broadcast who had an Alexa of their own?
A friend of mine alerted me to this one:
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler See also: early Xbox One adverts that showed off the voice commands
I liked the troll videos where someone would set their name to "XBox sign out" and act like a jerk to get people to say the name.