@NSCoder said:
Just like how a properly shaped Möbius strip in three dimensions can still be used to hold a bunch of sticks together...
Yes, but what about a Morbius strip?
@NSCoder said:
Just like how a properly shaped Möbius strip in three dimensions can still be used to hold a bunch of sticks together...
Yes, but what about a Morbius strip?
Ah, Korea. Well - what do you expect? A year or two ago I found one of those web sites that lets you make an avatar for forums or whatever. It had all these layers, and on each one you could pick from various horrid, garish and often animated options, paper-doll style. Add a hat, a pair of boots, a balloon...
Anyway, for the hell of it, I decided to pick the most horrible option for each of (at least) 15 layers, and ended up with this:
Fantastic, isn't it?
I've gotta go with the checkerboard mug there.
Here's my entry:
Now here are some people who know just what they want:
"ABSOLUTELY NO TEMPLATES - ONLY UNIQUE WORK We need a creative, attractive front-end and over-all design. We are looking for an original artist who can combine concepts from several different sites into ours (we will give u examples).
We are looking for full website/online solution.
Well, it sounds like a lot, doesn't it? But don't worry - I'm sure the pay is commensurate with the amount of work involved.
Nice, eh? Well, you could argue that it's just an absurd asking price from a deluded poster. But that doesn't explain the four people who applied for the job.
Have fun yourself - oDesk is a veritable smorgasbord of opportunity. Copy writing jobs which require you to rewrite fifty book reviews (so they pass plagiarism filters, obviously), 500 words a pop, for $4 each? Entire web sites designed - with content - in two days, for $100? Steady work doing technical writing, IT admin, and audio production, for under $4/hour, with 400 hours of oDesk experience required? Check, check, check, and check!
It's a brave new world, gentlemen - thanks to the miracle of the internet, we're now worth less than a 16-year-old burger flipper in Tulsa.
@PJH said:
@blakeyrat said:If you log in, you can turn it off.Just took a closer look - you don't even have to log in; there's a link at he bottom to stop it happening: http://www.cracked.com/article_18839_7-planes-perfectly-designed-to-kill-people-flying-them.html?profanity=on
There should be a 'profanity=REALLYon' flag, which takes regular words and makes them profane - change 'butt' to 'ass', 'poop' to 'shit', etc... adds a few 'fucking's in random places.
What someone should really do is write a virus that attacks web servers, and does that kind of thing to normal web sites - changing 'terrorism' to 'tourism' and so forth would be a good start.
San Diego, California, woman has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to provide money and personnel to tourists and the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab, federal authorities said Monday...Nima Ali Yusuf, 24, was also indicted for making false statements to federal agencies in a matter involving international tourism, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy in southern California said.
The charge of making false statements to a government agency in a matter involving international tourrism carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
@Bulb said:
@HighlyPaidContractor said:That's not uncommon. It's a counter-measure against bayesian filters—they just add heaps of legitimate-looking text so the scam/spam stuff gets lost in the noise for the filter. They even often sent a random block of text without any obvious spammy purpose except to poison the bayesian filters by having you feed some common text as spam, lowering the efficiency of the filter.I once recieved the opposite of this. It was something about refinancing my mortgage, and the entire body of a Dickens novel. (A Tale of Two Cities or Great Expectations, I forget which.)
I had a series of spam last year which had two or three sentence clips that were talking about a family, vacations, photography, and so on... They all seemed to be the same style. So I google'd the text, and found some lady's blog - apparently the spammers grabbed the entire thing and were distributing it to hundreds of millions of people. Enough of them had been as curious as I was that she'd put a specific message to people who'd found her blog via the spams.
And on the other side of the coin, there are phishing spams that are so closely matched to the originals that they match down to the character - including the lines saying never to click on links and to type in the (correct) URL. Oops.
This will probably be gone before long, but it's pretty funny for the moment. Found on The Register (which has a screenshot); credit where credit is due.
@blakeyrat said:
@toth said:@arty said:launcher is "By far the most underappreciated feature of ... MacOS".Holy crap. If that site is indicative of the quality of Macs, it's a wonder they have market share at all.
That site, and the computers it's describing, are circa 1997.
@Jeffrey W Baumann said:
©1997-2010 Jeffrey W Baumann & LinkedResources, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Last Updated July 24, 2010.
Man, why does every thread have to turn into some off-topic flame war?
@Zemm said:
@Zecc said:@frits said:
I thought it meant condogenation.http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+condogenationNo definitions were found for condogenation.
Will have to add it to the dogalogue of words then! Lets eradidoge the C word altogether!
I laughed so hard it hurt almost as much as getting a doghater. I advodoge a thorough allodogion of funds to study methods for pladoging those who oppose purifidogion of our language. They live in ignorance, like dogtle, and their mollifidogion is essential. If necessary, they must be medidoged.
The revolution must begin, whatever the ramifidogions! We have lived in silence for too long, and I, for one, find it doghartic to dogagorically state our intentions.
We'll need a web site. Can anyone colodoge a server?
@RHuckster said:
@Jaime said:
Think about this: If you can cause a selloff and be the first to sell (so you sell at the highest price), then you buy all your shares back after the crash, you win. Even better, if it is published that this was a "computer glitch", then faith in the commodity isn't eroded and the price comes back up quicker.That kind of scam would be really easy to figure out and prosecute, though, wouldn't it? Even if you mark it as a "computer glitch" you would easily be able to see that the responsible parties gained greatly from that glitch and there would be possibility of a white collar minimum security resort in the future.
Don't they do a system-restore-like roll back of the trades to a certain point when something like that happens, though? I seem to recall reading something about that in some contexts, at least.
High frequency trading seems like something that's intrinsically gaming the system, though; it's hard to imagine a justification for it in terms of the market's supposed raison d'etre. At the very least, one assumes that the point of the stock market is to provide a means to interact with specific companies. High frequency trading is essentially a math game; the companies themselves are entirely arbitrary. I don't even know if high frequency trading even cares about which companies are which, or anything happening longer-term than a few minutes. I don't see how you can argue that it has anything to do with the performance of a company itself, and theoretically, isn't that the whole reason for HAVING a stock market?
@da Doctah said:
@Faxmachinen said:
@da Doctah said:
If only we could live in a world where all pointless annoying things stopped after 4.4 seconds.It would be a world covered in the corpses of flies.
You say "corpses of flies", I say "lizard chow". There's always a silver lining.