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@Gurth I have the same issue with urban fantasy TV shows. 99 times out of 100, it's vampire hunter or teenage vampire or werewolf hunter or teenage werewolf or demon hunter or miscellaneous bullshit hunter. That's part of what drew me to The Magicians - magic school hadn't been done in live-action (without a laugh track) since Harry Potter. Then Netflix tries to copy them with The Order which is, for bonus ducks, teenage werewolf knights.
By the way, The Magicians is an awesome show and definitely worth a watch.
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@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
miscellaneous bullshit hunter
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
The old 1960s Dragnet TV show often dealt with burglary, robbery, fraud and other crimes, in addition to murder. Skimming through an arbitrary season of Hawaii Five-O, roughly half the episodes involved a death; others were about kidnapping, theft of government secrets from an ex-CIA agent (who as an ex-agent, shouldn't have had them in the first place) and trying to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands, jury tampering in a mob trial, etc.
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@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
That's part of what drew me to The Magicians - magic school hadn't been done in live-action (without a laugh track) since Harry Potter.
I think I saw parts of a few episodes of that a few years ago, but never caught a full episode as it was on at strange times on some channel that otherwise didn’t interest me much. What I did see looked interesting enough, though.
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
The old 1960s Dragnet TV show often dealt with burglary, robbery, fraud and other crimes, in addition to murder. Skimming through an arbitrary season of Hawaii Five-O, roughly half the episodes involved a death; others were about kidnapping, theft of government secrets from an ex-CIA agent (who as an ex-agent, shouldn't have had them in the first place) and trying to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands, jury tampering in a mob trial, etc.
I suspect Ransom doesn't have many murders either.
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@Gurth If you've got cable, you can get them at syfy.com (and they're also on Netflix).
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
Car 54 Where Are You?
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
Serious note though: The Wire. The main focus is on busting up a drug ring in Baltimore. There's plenty of murder though, so it only sorta fits your criteria.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
Car 54 Where Are You?
That was before even my time.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@Zerosquare Never watched that, but it’s very much the exception. I’ve long been thinking that it should be easily possible to make interesting, watchable crime shows about police who solve crimes like robberies, burglaries, or insurance fraud for all I care — but it’s almost invariably murder.
Does Person of Interest count?
I loved Third Watch, they had grunt workers from New York emergency services — patrol cops, paramedics, firefighters — getting through whatever bullshit was happening that day.
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I just remembered another crime series from that's not mainly about murders:
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Flashpoint
👍. I remember when I first watched it, I was thinking "Why don't they just pew pew pew? … oh, this is not set in the US. My bad."
Person of Interest and Flashpoint both include Enrico Colantoni, can we also mention Veronica Mars? Granted, it was not a "serious" crime show, and it involved several murders, but it dealt with many other detective problems and it got so much crap past the radar.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
I just remembered another crime series from that's not mainly about murders:
Sure, there are murders as well but a lot of it focuses on the day-to-day of beat cops, especially the earlier seasons.
It ended too soon .
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@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth If you've got cable, you can get them at syfy.com
Oddly, my cable provider isn’t among them …
and they're also on Netflix
No such luck there either:
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
can we also mention Veronica Mars?
Good point, that was mostly murderless and I really liked the show. The movie was pretty good too.
Granted, it was not a "serious" crime show,
Hey, I enjoy watching Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators exactly because it doesn’t take itself overly seriously — among other things, it has the best chase scene I’ve ever seen. It does feature at least one murder in nearly all episodes, though.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
No such luck there either:
Hah. I'd take a wild guess that you are not a fellow murrican and do not have a VPN.
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@pie_flavor It was the language in the screenshot that gave it away, wasn’t it?
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@Gurth Not necessarily. My roommate browses in Mandarin.
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@Gribnit Do you remember that comic by Geek and Poke back in 2011?
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
There was an episode of some show recently (I think The Blacklist) that was based on something like this. Someone tried to extort some rich guy by hacking his daughter's pacemaker.
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@DogsB said in Internet of shit:
Have they heard of this revolutionary thing called "paper"?!
I think Gutenberg even invented a press for it.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@coderpatsy said in Internet of shit:
the nature of the show (1 episode without a body at my last count)
How many TV crime shows are about crimes other than murder? For more than the odd episode?
Art theft, counterfeiting, general heists and con artists. I'm sure there were some murders in there too, but generally as part of some other crime.
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@TimeBandit Even working the way it's supposed to, how is that supposed to be better? Instead of pressing a button on your key fob, take out your phone and rub it all over the door handle. What if it's raining, or you're carrying a bunch of groceries, or your phone doesn't have NFC, or you've lost your phone entirely?
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
What if it's raining
Your phone is supposed to be waterproof
or you're carrying a bunch of groceries
You should order everything from Amazon
or your phone doesn't have NFC
Order a recent phone from Amazon
or you've lost your phone entirely?
Just use "find my iPhone" from your car's infotainment
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@hungrier
Stop being rationaltake out your phone
You're not supposed to put it away
What if it's raining
Buy one with IP69532
you're carrying a bunch of groceries
No point having groceries if they aren't in Stâgram
your phone doesn't have NFC
Buy one that does
you've lost your phone entirely
You don't exist; buy a new one, quickly
E: @TimeBandit "borrowed" my map
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
E: @TimeBandit "borrowed" my map
Sorry, mine was stuck in ice
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
mine was stuck in ice
Like fsck it was. We have Google in Bumfuckistan here, you know. Well, one per 10 people, and my stamp's only valid on every other Wednesday.
Admit you just made a mess of the maple syrup again
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
Like fsck it was. We have Google in Bumfuckistan here, you know. Well, one per 10 people, and my stamp's only valid on every other Wednesday.
It takes time for a couple feet of snow to melt, you know
Admit you just made a mess of the maple syrup again
That was not me, honest!
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit Even working the way it's supposed to, how is that supposed to be better? Instead of pressing a button on your key fob, take out your phone and rub it all over the door handle. What if it's raining, or you're carrying a bunch of groceries, or your phone doesn't have NFC, or you've lost your phone entirely?
It's an expensive car, they expect you to be able to pay for someone to fumble with the phone in one hand and hold your umbrella in the other.
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@TimeBandit You're holding it wrong.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
Even working the way it's supposed to, how is that supposed to be better?
Get the one with iWatch or iTurtleneck integration.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit Even working the way it's supposed to, how is that supposed to be better? Instead of pressing a button on your key fob, take out your phone and rub it all over the door handle. What if it's raining, or you're carrying a bunch of groceries, or your phone doesn't have NFC, or you've lost your phone entirely?
And here I am, almost completely sure there already are cars with "normal" key fobs that open the door once you get close to it. And you can even start the engine by pushing a button as long as the key is close to it.
Did I dream that?!
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But why would you use an existing, working and convenient solution when you can create a shiny new and broken one?
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit Even working the way it's supposed to, how is that supposed to be better? Instead of pressing a button on your key fob, take out your phone and rub it all over the door handle. What if it's raining, or you're carrying a bunch of groceries, or your phone doesn't have NFC, or you've lost your phone entirely?
And here I am, almost completely sure there already are cars with "normal" key fobs that open the door once you get close to it. And you can even start the engine by pushing a button as long as the key is close to it.
Did I dream that?!It works like that on my car, no phone required, and the system is far from new.
The only advantage of this phone thing / app is that you could "lend" a virtual key when you're not near the car or person wishing to drive it by somehow allowing some other phone to send the right NFC handshake. Not that I'd see that as a frequent occurrence, and you always get a spare key fob in any case.
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Canadian Weather
→This hour's hot and cold spots ...One of those collections is empty.
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@HardwareGeek Hot-for-Canadian-weather = above 0℉?
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@HardwareGeek Hot-for-Canadian-weather = above 0℉?
We use Celcius, so above -17
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
The only advantage of this phone thing / app is that you could "lend" a virtual key when you're not near the car or person wishing to drive it by somehow allowing some other phone to send the right NFC handshake. Not that I'd see that as a frequent occurrence, and you always get a spare key fob in any case.
That could be handy for car rental services.
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@boomzilla It might, but it's not new either.
We've already got a few cities where you can find cars and scooters (or is that a moped) which you can actually rent / unlock using a phone app.
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The five-man team operated with the help of a special remote they bought online and which could unlock a particular brand of gas pumps installed at Total gas stations.
The hack was possible because some gas station managers didn't change the gas pump's default lock code from the standard 0000. Hackers would use this simple PIN code to reset fuel prices and remove any fill-up limits.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@HardwareGeek Hot-for-Canadian-weather = above 0℉?
We use Celcius, so above -17
Fun fact time!
Why does Fahrenheit go from 32 - 212 for the freezing point and boiling point of water?
The summed up version: Mr. Fahrenheit had a hardon for the whole "360 degree" thing that geometry had. If it had existed, he would have written flash-fic between him and the abstract concept of sine waves.
He wanted his system to be the same-- so that you can mark important points of the system on a circle at significant places just by dividing up the circle. ie: at the 90 degree point.
(This is why they're called degrees)
So he started with the most obvious, well-known and widely used touchpoint: the freezing point of brine. For nautical folks, that's WAY more important than the freezing point of pure water. He slapped "0 degrees" on that. Then he set about trying to make other touchpoints land on nice round parts of the circle. Freezing point of water. Average human body temperature. Boiling point of water (under standard atmosphere).
He couldn't, because these touchpoints aren't actually related in any natural geometric way. So he kept 0 degrees where it was. He found that water froze at 32. So he added 180 to 32 and got 212f as the boiling point of water.
Good system.
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
0000
I hear that Skroob Petroleum is very unhappy about this theft.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
He couldn't,
That's only four points. A fourth degree polynomial should make that mapping easy and convenient.
Filed under: Not trying hard enough.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
Fahrenheit...Good system.
Yes, it's excellent.
Of course, "the boiling point of water" is not really a fixed target to begin with since it's so dependent on atmospheric pressure. However, the Fahrenheit scale is nice for weather and indoor temperature related uses, which is how I mostly use it.