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Prepare to be Inspired! (What could possibly go wrong?)
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The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is involved in a corruption scandal and his daughter allegedly signed forged documents to try to cover up the truth. A document purporting to have been written and signed in 2006 used Microsoft's Calibri font, which didn't ship in a stable version of Windows or Office until 2007. As such, its use in a document dated 2006 is extremely suspect.
Ultimately, the fallout of this is that Pakistan may soon be sans-Sharif.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
https://i.imgur.com/aJoqXIC.jpg
I think that's called "arson".
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RE: Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery
One day, I was goofing off and posted a resume to a well known Job Search Website. Except, it wasn't a resume. It was a page of random gibberish that I created with a random text generator I found.
A year later, the throw-away email account i used is still getting emails that say "We read your resume and think you would be a good fit for our company"
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Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?
“With AMP for Email, it’s easy for information in email messages to be dynamic, up-to-date and actionable.”
No. Just fucking no.
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Not wanting to be outdone by NCIX, Toys-R-Us steps up
A friend of mine recently invited me to join him on a trip to the now defunct toy store. His wife’s company purchased one of the buildings for its ideal location near a main highway, and before the scrappers came through to clean everything out, he thought I might like a chance to see what was left. Apparently his wife reported there was still “Computers and stuff” still in the building.
While the tech we found throughout the store was interesting, what we found here was actually quite disturbing. This room contained several boxes full of personal information about employees at this particular Toys “R” Us location, down to their medical history and tax forms. As soon as we entered the room, we found a photocopy of one woman’s drivers license and Social Security card laying on the table. The amount of personal information left behind for anyone to find was really staggering.
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Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft
One day, a while back, Windows 10 popped up a notification
"Check out the new album we created for you"
It was a collection of random pictures that I have on my computer. WTF is this shit? I didn't ask for this. Jeez, another completely pointless, useless "feature".
I had completely forgotten about this until I got an e-mail from a friend of mine. We had recently been talking about Windows 10 and I told him that I had given up and gone back to Windows 7. Maybe someday Microsoft will get their shit together. Maybe.
Today he sent me this e-mail::
So, Microsoft took the liberty of creating a "new album" full of my porn and displaying it to my entire family
I signed on to the family PC to a big alert from Microsoft. "Check out the new album we created for you!". You guessed it. Like 20 pictures from my porn folder that somehow they figured needed to be promoted today.
I have a very modest porn collection. A few hundred amateur pics, mostly just soft core stuff, discreetly hidden on the computer. Nothing really bad in there.
Why? Just why? I mean who the fuck thinks these things are a good idea? The kids have their own computers and rarely use this one, but I mean just what is the fucking point is all I want to know?
In no way, shape or form did I do anything to indicate I wanted MS to make a new album for me, much less put a big alert advertising it.
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Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there
Finally decided to leave the world of Milwaukee-PC-quality internet speed and switched to Spectrum (formerly Time Warner). The default password on my modem is T!m3W4rn3rC4bl3
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Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel
"Office developers have been wanting to write JavaScript custom functions for many reasons," Microsoft says, "such as: (1) Calculate math operations, like whether a number is prime. (2) Bring information from the web, like a bank account balance. (3) Stream live data, like a stock price."
https://i.imgur.com/DHrOyTN.gif
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Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising
Janelle Shane decided to train a neural network to generate new paint colors, complete with appropriate names. "For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?"
The results are possibly the greatest work of artificial intelligence I've seen to date.
http://i.imgur.com/lDTINlT.jpg
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Burglar breaks into “escape room”, panics, and calls 911
A burglar in Vancouver, Washington made four panicked 911 calls after breaking into an "escape room" business last weekend—and having trouble getting out.
Escape rooms are timed challenges that let groups of customers test their wits against a series of intricate puzzles. But NW Escape Experience's three escape rooms apparently so unnerved accused burglar Rye Wardlaw that he called 911 on himself.
The company offers customers three different rooms to choose from, including the "Kill Room," described by the Washington Post as "blood-spattered and designed to look like a serial killer’s basement hideout."
The room features a steel autopsy table, a fake dead body, and a "work bench for the murderer’s tools."
“If you don’t know what you’re getting into, stepping into that room is actually pretty scary,” the owner of the business told the Post.
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Tumblr bans porn and proves that it is really serious
By flagging its own announcement of the porn ban.
https://twitter.com/SadistHailey/status/1069784517148270592/photo/1
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Unable to Recover Data from 2018 MacBook Pro When Logic Board Fails
Assuming the user neglected to make backups, data may be lost forever on Apple’s newest MacBook Pro if the logic board fails, due to a non-removable SSD soldered to the logic board
2016 and 2017 models of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar have a "data recovery connector" that allows Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers to recover user data when the logic board fails.
Apple has removed the data recovery connector from the logic board on the 2018 13-inch and 15-inch models with the Touch Bar, meaning that the Customer Data Migration Tool can no longer be connected.
While it appears Apple itself is unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros, the Service Readiness Guide does state that customers can consult with data recovery specialist companies
Filed under: There aren't enough face-palms in the universe for a computer with a non-removable drive.
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Draggable Title Bar!!!
Microsoft has released Windows Terminal Preview version 0.3, the recently launched command-line interface, which it wants to be the newest and best experience for developers who use Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell.
And now, the really exciting news.
The program manager for Windows Terminal, Console, & Command-Line has posted a blog entry describing all the wonderful new features of the new Windows terminal. The very first thing listed, so exciting that it gets capital letters, 3 exclamation marks and 3 icons of some sort, is:
The Terminal is now DRAGGABLE FROM ANYWHERE ON THE TITLE BAR!!! 🎉🎉🎉
You can grab your terminal window, and . . . . DRAG IT AROUND THE SCREEN!!!
Just like the current old cmd.exe and every other Windows program ever made.
I guess it was a slow day at Microsoft
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
This family is really going to be sorry at 2 am
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VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development
This month is the 20th anniversary of the first release of the VLC video player. Like so many other applications, the fuckwad developers are hell-bent on destroying it.
As long as your videos are all in your local Videos folder, you probably won't have any difficulty with the new interface—but in its current state, it's not much fun for browsing large numbers of files in multiple directories. If you need to get out of your Videos directory, you'll need to click the hamburger menu on the upper left of the playlist and select Media-->Open Directory. Selecting Open Directory, unfortunately, doesn't actually take you to the new directory—instead, it scans all files both inside and beneath the new directory you select and adds them all willy-nilly to the Videos tab itself.
They have apparently been working on this for 2 years. The level of retarded fuckery is quite exceptional.
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Jeff'd Again
I despise Internet Explorer. And yes, old computers running old OS versions and old browsers represent security risks to their users.
Yet what of the users who don’t understand how to upgrade? Who don’t have anyone to help them upgrade? Are we to tell them that they matter not at all? Is the plan to ignore them as much as possible until they’re all dead and gone? Newsflash: This category of users will always exist!
This issue rose to the top of my morning queue today when I saw a tweet from Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror). Jeff is the force behind the creation and evolution of Discourse, and was a co-founder of Stack Exchange.
Yet this morning we engaged in the following tweet thread:
Jeff: At this point I am literally counting the days until we can fully remove IE11 support in @discourse (June 1st 2020)
Lauren: I remain concerned about the impact this will have on already marginalized users on old systems without the skills or help to switch to other browsers. They have enough problems already!
Jeff: Their systems are so old they become extremely vulnerable to hackers and exploits, which is bad for their health and the public health of everyone else near them. It becomes an anti-vaccination argument, in which nobody wins.
Lauren: Do you regularly work with extremely elderly people whose only lifelines are their old computers? Serious question.
Somewhere around this point, he closed down the dialogue by blocking me on Twitter.
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RE: Google+ officially coming to an end
Some time ago, Goog+ announced a policy requiring you to use your "real name". At the time, Goog+ was run by an Indian fellow named Vic Gundrata. Except, "Vic" wasn't his real name. Like many Indians in the U.S., he adopted a more "American" first name.
So, the person demanding that you use your real name . . . . was using a fake name.