In other news today...
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Somehow he hasn't been found yet, can't be that many people with crossbow bolts in them going to A&E.
Found a $1 DVD of old Lash LaRue westerns at the dollar store and while watching them, especially the fight scenes, it got me wondering: how hard would it be to sneak a bullwhip past the airport TSA agents?
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Can this go faster
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Somehow he hasn't been found yet, can't be that many people with crossbow bolts in them going to A&E.
One of those tiny crossbows looks like fun. I shot an arrow from a compound bow through a substantial door once so I can believe even a little thing could have some serious power.
Joerg Sprave has quite a few videos on pistol crossbows, they have quite a bit less punch than a compound bow potentially has.
https://youtu.be/0QauwWNk9iA
I own a compound bow thats 50-80#. and it's got quite the punch. I let some friends try shooting it on my birthday before all the beer, and they were rather surprised, first at how ridiculously hard it was to pull at 80# (only me and my brother did it with any grace), and then that the 30" arrows at that weight pretty much went all the way through the buttress I have. Normally I have it set at a measly 50# because I really don't need the power to shoot elephants, nor do I like hunting for arrows in the back yard when they punch through the buttress. :D
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dragoon Well, caffeine is a poison. It's just that it's a poison that we metabolise fairly effectively when it is in its actual toxic form, so we don't usually have a problem with it. In bulk though? The liver will become overwhelmed and then we'll be in real trouble.
I see similarities with 3-(1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)pyridine and ethanol there...
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No more Windows Phone for you
https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/19/microsoft-has-run-out-of-windows-phone-stock/
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Well that is damn nifty:
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Nah, I can't think of any problems with this:
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@dragoon The
BadEvil Ideas Thread is
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@boner Thank you for the warning.
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@timebandit I wonder if anyone selling Ubuntu phones ever ran out of stock.
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@magus They would have to get some stock first.
Was it ever available ?
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@timebandit I believe so?
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@timebandit Rest in RIP Windows Phone.
I wonder if it broke some kind of "most money spent building a product immediately before giving up on it" record.
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@anonymous234 Probably not. They kept it going for a long time, and occasionally new ones are still made for companies that want secure phones. And I wouldn't be surprised if some descendant of it returns. I mean, they merged the core of the OS, so it isn't that much work on the software side, and they got people to make apps for it eventually.
But you run into this PR pit. I will once again tell you about when I went to get a Windows Phone at a Verizon store. I told them what I wanted, and they specifically tried to get me to buy other, cheaper phones, as long as they weren't Windows. You can't fight that. That pit is just too deep.
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@anonymous234 Windows 8 RT
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Well that is damn nifty:
That's kind of neat, but am I wrong in thinking that capacitors are more costly than transistors are, in terms of chip space?
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@anotherusername DRAM uses a capacitor to store the data in each bit. (That's the dynamic part; it needs to be refreshed periodically because the charge leaks off the capacitors, and it will forget its data if the charge isn't refreshed.) It is much denser — i.e., more bits per chip — and consequently less expensive than SRAM, which uses 3 transistors per bit.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Nah, I can't think of any problems with this:
Most of them have it anyway.
The ones I work with: The devices that can connect to internet or any IP network are being replaced by applications running on standard tablets, so the system takes care of delivering updates there. The peripherals that are used by those applications can already be updated by the controlling applications. Just the implantable devices don't, but they don't have IP connectivity—they do have some, but the older have completely custom physical layer and the newer ones have custom bluetooth protocol, so they can't be abused that easily.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
So next year it'll rebrand again to
iSwatini
and then after a few more yearsswati.ni
?
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@boner
Tsss ... some people will do everything to take over the Nigerian Scammer business.
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Fixing the Android messaging mess...
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
How the successor to SMS will take on iMessage
Why do we need a successor to SMS in the first place? Between SMS and MMS, the two protocols do a pretty good job of filling the niche they were designed to fill.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
I wonder if it broke some kind of "most money spent building a product immediately before giving up on it" record.
If not, Microsoft is probably at the top of the list anyway. Zune, Kin, the disc-less XBone, Windows RT, etc.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Between SMS and MMS, the two protocols do a pretty good job of filling the niche they were designed to fill.
Maybe, but they don't count on your monthly data
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Fixing the Android messaging mess...
So, they couldn't get a decent share of the messaging service by building their own messaging app (Facebook messenger, What'sapp etc.), nor by providing a top-notch default SMS app for phone manufacturers to use. Therefore they decided to go one up and invent a brand new protocol, hoping that carriers will adopt it ("later this year", yeah, sure...) and that brand new apps will be developed for it (mostly, they hope it will be their own!).
What are the chances this will actually work, vs. becoming just one more messaging app, with some carriers not implementing it at all, some implementing it poorly (such as not correctly reverting to SMS when needed), still others using it to gouge users on their data plans, and all that with a bunch of manufacturer-specific and 3rd party competing apps that will all be subtly incompatible?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Why do we need a successor to SMS in the first place? Between SMS and MMS, the two protocols do a pretty good job of filling the niche they were designed to fill.
Address spoofing. SMS suffers from one of the same things that voice telephone does, and that is address spoofing. (So does ordinary email, for that matter.)
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Why do we need a successor to SMS in the first place? Between SMS and MMS, the two protocols do a pretty good job of filling the niche they were designed to fill.
Address spoofing. SMS suffers from one of the same things that voice telephone does, and that is address spoofing. (So does ordinary email, for that matter.)
My cell phone provider used to text me stupid advertisements about phone promos etc. I kept blocking those numbers. Now they text me with my own cell phone number, and I can't block that one.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
So, they couldn't get a decent share of the messaging service by building their own messaging app (Facebook messenger, What'sapp etc.), nor by providing a top-notch default SMS app for phone manufacturers to use.
They don't have to. They already have one. Just like Microsoft lets you choose to make Skype handle texting (Which works rather well, actually) and Apple has iMessage, Google has had IM forever. They even let it take over texting I thought, with Hangouts. How many years ago is that now?
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We want you to recycle your old phone
so you buy a new onefor the environment
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 Windows 8 RT
It's amazing how bad that went. And Windows 8 in general. It was just bad decision after bad decision.
Hey, why don't we make it so the apps always run full screen, completely confusing everyone and making them completely awful on desktops? This ensures that we can't in any way exploit our dominance of the desktop to expand our app store that we're waging our entire future on!
Also, let's release some devices that only run apps from our app store, before our app store gains any traction! This surely won't confuse or disappoint users! Transitional periods are for pussies!
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
How the successor to SMS will take on iMessage
Why do we need a successor to SMS in the first place? Between SMS and MMS, the two protocols do a pretty good job of filling the niche they were designed to fill.
When I used SMS sometimes the message would take more than 5 hours to be delivered. Whatsapp has that nice checkmarks telling me when the message is already at the server, and when it reaches the reciptient's phone. I also get a lot of spam in SMS, so I muted it's notifications. There is virtually no spam in whatsapp.
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It just works ™
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The Canadian dream
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@timebandit And this is bad?
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@hardwaregeek It depends for who.
I hope they like winter
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@timebandit And good riddance. One of the things Trump hasn't been a moron about is American companies giving work to foreigners.
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@timebandit They're likely mostly from Latin America or India. As in, 'what's a snow?'
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
When I used SMS sometimes the message would take more than 5 hours to be delivered.
must have shit mobile carriers, then. Us Uhmericans usually get SMS delivered within a few seconds, even if the sender and recipient are on different networks.
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The lyrics, said to have come from a song by US rap artist Snap Dogg [Ed: in the embedded picture above], were ‘kill a snitch n**** and rob a rich n****.’
the words were posted to the bio section of Russell’s Instagram account, and then reported to police last year.
There, saved you a click.
Ms Clarke [Ed: defence] also pointed out that Russell had spelt the ‘n’ word ending in the letter a rather than er. She also quoted from the urban dictionary, which said that the word ending in the letter a meant a ‘black man wearing a gold chain.’
TIL.
District Judge Jack McGarva said: “There is no place in civil society for language like that. Everyone with an Instagram account could view this content. The lyrics also encourage killing and robbing, so are grossly offensive.”
He ordered Russell to comply with a curfew order restricting her movements between 8pm and 8am for 8 weeks.
She was ordered to wear an electronic tag on her ankle during this period of time. Russell was also ordered to pay £500 toward costs and a £85 surcharge.
Harsh.
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Snap Dogg
I'm dying.
This is hard to choose who I'm on the side of. On the one hand, fuck censorship. On the other hand, fuck music like that.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@timebandit They're likely mostly from Latin America or India. As in, 'what's a snow?'
Andes, this is @pie_flavor, he hasn't hear of you so far. @pie_flavor, this is the Andes. They're fucking big and high and from Latin America. Almost as high as this Indian dude here, please introduce yourselves.
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Where did I put my tinfoil hat?
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Pharmaceutical
mafiacompanies