Ho Ho Ho: Got interested in "water extraction from air". Stopped research when I cognized that water extracted by dehumidifying methods is not generally considered suitable for consumption.
Thought I would share that here.
Ho Ho Ho: Got interested in "water extraction from air". Stopped research when I cognized that water extracted by dehumidifying methods is not generally considered suitable for consumption.
Thought I would share that here.
@mott555 said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@loose Imagine the IoT botnet you could run if each sheet of smart TP had its own IPv6 address.
Not to mention DoS attacks...hmmm
Need to make sure the sheets can't be hacked and have the tissue develop a waxy finish.
Hey! I have a new product and I'm looking for crudcrowd founding. Its a product with and App that will be marketed as iWipe® with the slogan If you are full of it, this is just what you need...
The product is smart toilet paper. Each sheet is a composite of photo sensitive, ultra soft tissue sandwiching the latest in bendy batteries and wifi enabled smart circuitry. It can detect how dirty the tissue is, and by inference how clean your arse is.
The App will provide useful and informative statistics about usage: Average number of sheets used per session; efficiency of each sheet (version 2 will be "gamified" allowing you compete for the daily Quickest, cleanest arse award. Allowing you to find the best comprise between sheet usage and time etc). The App will also keep track of the usage and order replacements without you having to get up (Other manufactures are interested in developing an automated roll replacement robot to take advantage of this feature.)
Just a heads up: Version 2 will also include DNA sampling so that you can personalise this for yourself and household / business. For those worried about the runaway cost of small expenses, Version 3 will allow you to limit the number of sheets used per session. For the sake of sanitation this limit will be based on individual usage history, however, a maximum can be specified (in terms of average + n sheets). When exceeded, as a reminder, the sheet in use can deliver a mild electric shock of increase intensity and duration for each subsequent sheet.
Investors: This product is expected to sweep the country and wipe out any residual opposition. Whilst the App is free, each roll is expected to sale for $5,000.00. So get in through the basement and clean up.
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@DogsB That is an evil idea, but fun nevertheless...
I have in my mind an image of those who pinch sweets, then quickly unwrap and eat them whilst constantly looking around to see if they are being watched.
there are a couple of @mentions who have come, unbidden, to mind but I shall not @mention them here. For even in my internet anonymity I place a value upon the number of attached limbs and appendages I have and the lack of holes, rips and tears in my skin
@Arantor Hmmm, no marker...
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OK , buttume
Here's how it works: I click a UK news item expecting a UK news item. I get confronted with an image that would not be out of place in any US cop show. Brain freaks out and provides me with the only possible explanation (as it does because it is incredibly lazy and will hand out the first answer in the hope it is accepted - this is true!) and tells me that this is "OK" because there is a Northolt in America - probably New England. You haven't read it right; you clicked the wrong link; they probably screwed the link up; etc.
Meanwhile: I'm desperately trying to find confirmation; re-reading the headline; considering going "back" to check / try again; etc. Finally I notice the UK number plate and try to wedge it into my brain with a crowbar and sledgehammer (Yeah, I know. A contradiction but we are dealing with a very stubborn "thing").
Eventually things settle down and, after deciding to share this with you guys, move on with my life.
@dfk You have to look really hard to see the steering wheel :)
Had to do a triple take on the registration number whilst my brain was screaming before things settled down
UK SWAT - You saw it here first
I've posted this here, rather than in more appropriate threads...
because:
"...Jeff Jarmoc, head of security for global business service Salesforce, pointed out that internet infrastructure is supposed to be more robust. 'In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters,' he tweeted..."
@Adynathos I would more readily accept:
ERROR_TEA_PACKET_TO_LARGE: Try setting max_allowed_packet to "one_bag" for MyTEA Server.
Wakeup: Coffe
Breakfast: Fresh OJ, 2 rounds marmite on heavily buttered lightly toasted white. Note: don't drink the Oj straight after the coffee.
Lunch: Tuna mayonnaise on brown, with tea.
Dinner: Ham, egg, chips and peas and an ice cold continental beer.
Supper: Cookies and ice cold milk.
Every day for the rest of my life, no worries!
Oh the irony...
For a long as I can remember (and that's a lot of onions hanging off of my belt) people and society in general have been bemoaning that coppers walking the beat have been replaced by squad cars and how it's made thing so much worse...
TL;DR: Some police officers requested assistance in making an arrest - they had the perps cornered but they were putting up a fight. "...Two police officers who were on foot patrol answered the call and began to run the 1.2 miles to reach their colleagues. While running they attempted to flag down passing cars..."
This just typifies what I "like" about the UK, on so many levels: It's click bait" for the UK society / culture individuals.
Please note the "...exempted from one-way systems..."
TL;DR: Cannot be arsed to figure out a summery - it is full of typical wild ideas and speculation with a complete absence of any form of "joined up" thinking. Especially this:
A Defra spokeswoman said: "It may be that in a one-way system they have an extra lane in which electric vehicles can go against the traffic or that they have filter lanes at traffic lights."
Long rant short: Urban traffic is shite as it is because we have "bus lanes" and "cycle lanes" and "sharing lanes" and "fucking this lanes" and fucking that lanes". Not to mention taxi lanes. All of which are fighting for access on a road system that was designed for single or dual carriage ways. (The standard solution is to have all of these lanes in parallel right up to 100 or so yards short of the junction etc; so that nicely filtered traffic causing no trouble for anybody has to fight for tarmac'd real estate at a time and place you definitely don't need it.)
The sad thing is that people get onboard because they want a piece of the "dream" despite their full awareness of the reality of the situation (Severe cases of Fuck you! I'm Ok all round).
Have they forgotten the chaos caused by the introduction of bus lanes and the resultant over enthusiastic take up - having them everywhere except bus stations?
Filed under: Official Good Government Idea
Filed Under: Just Plain Bad
Filed Under: Have Your Say
Filed Under: Any of these - CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK
Filed Under: It is. It really is...
Filed Under: ad infinitum ad nauseum, ad libitum
Until you have been to a Perl "help" forum for something other than amusement and curiosity you have not suffered. 9 times out of 10 the first line in any response is along the lines of ...why would you want to do that...; ...if you are asking this question you are doing it wrong... etc. 7 times out of 10 there is no second line
INB4: There is a lot of negative attitude (humorous or otherwise) directed at PHP here, but it is nothing compared to that given by "pure" Perlists to anybody else using Perl. There are a great number of similarities in the evolution of Perl and PHP, fortunately (so far) the PHP community have remained tolerant to causal users of it.
Assuming you just want your data back and not to run your new laptop with an old image.
I have been using v5.8 (they are now on v6) for some time and had no issues - malware, nag screens etc. That said, my most recent use of it (yesterday) involved reducing the size of my C: drive and on completion the Windows 8.1 recovery kicked in, but clicking "OK" everywhere got me back ok.
To state the obvious: Once you have queued your "operations", it reboots and does its stuff in DOS or similar.
@anotherusername Yeah, but I wanted to do something simple and common in a unique and stupid way ®
@HardwareGeek @TimeBandit @cheong Extrapolating from extant Apple business logic, then next move is going to be having the iPhone n refusing to be moved in anything other than an approved iBag Short of developing a iPoint iSingularity or similar localized gravity generator (to make itself too heavy to be carried); it will be implemented by refusing to work whilst in the not-iBag or ever again after being removed from it. Unless, of course, you purchase the iBag-iAdapter - this is an IBag comes with a cable that has an iCable with an proprietary iConnector at each end.
ooo! A toaster keeps popping up and going away before I can read it. Had to reload the page to complete the post.
Beef patties all round...
A news article that has, for me, a local impact and flavour. Poor, poor footie fans.
The real question is: Where are the missing cows?
@Tsaukpaetra said in A shiny new Put-It-In-Context Game thread just for you:
There's an argument that it's a good idea to do it just to get in the habit of doing the right thing. But sure whatever.
Said the engineer as he mashed the Off switch on the 'nix box that had been running for the last six years without a reboot, with his oil stained nail bitten thumb.
Now, if I could only remember what my mother told me to do in situations like this...
I think the film Serenity answered most of the big questions left with the cancellation of Firefly - pretty much as Joss Whedon intended. Especially as the film starts where the series ends - give or take a few days / weeks.
You could argue that it was a "cop-out", but if that is the case the cracks don't show and the paper holds up well.
The film does end the story, in that the big baddie is exposed, ok we don't get to see him getting kicked in the nuts but do you really need to see that? Anything after that would be contrived and certainly spoil the thing like <cough!>Star Trek Star Trek Reboot is great <cough!>
What I would like to see - because there is a hell of a lot of scope for it, it more back story.
INB4: And moar Kayleeeeee
@aliceif TIL Train conductors drive the train
INB4: That's why it's in the bad jokes topic :p
@Karla It's been 30 years since I last hit the tatami - a car accident put my back out. Still it's been ok of late so there's no excuse for not going back - there is something quite satisfying about slamming down an ippon. Which is my limit for Japanese integers.
And, I did have to check before I pedanted :p :
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Osotogari
Not Osotgari, both feet still on ground. 0goshi, maybe.
That said:
o-soto-gari = big outer reap
o-goshi = full hip throw
So I'm going to guess your English to Japanese is just about as good as my English to double dutch
@ben_lubar said in Long distance AV debugging:
can you make me a website
A perfectly cromulent question.
@Maciejasjmj I'm having a rant at toasters in general. The ones here (that I have observed) behave themselves (according to my rules) and are nice, calming, pastel colours.
Toasters are great. Toasters are fine.
Except when they try to be clever, get in the way or hang about eons after they're no longer welcome. WTF thought it was a good idea to pop them up top left of the screen / window? They are like some modal with the arrogance and self righteousness that comes with a veneer of legitimacy and importance.
Bottom left suits me fine. Close enough to make their presence felt, far enough that I don't have to read them so they can be safely ignored with all the contempt they deserve.
Edit
Did I say Top left and Bottom Left. Never could get the hange of the left / right thing. I meant top right and bottom right respectively. Thanks @Maciejasjmj for making me see that
@Boner Loose is short for Loose Cannon, my main avatar name since I started online gaming back in the late 90's - when I got Half Life and played TFC online. I had a 9600 baud modem and 120Hz AMD CPU. To get a playable frame rate I had to have a 320 x 240 screen. I was in defense and good I what I done, but if I waited until I could tell the Team of the guy running towards me, I lost the advantage. I was a Soldier and would send a rocket, to where they were gong to be, for splash effect.
In situations like this you need to create a sandbox environment around the issue, if only to contain it.
The last time it happened to me it was at the worst possible time, in the worst possible circumstances. I was in the process of moving from one residence to the next. I was about to depart with the final car load when I had uninterrupted buttock overflow.
Fortunately, I am in the habit of vacating the existing property a few days ahead of the scheduled time - this is so I can come back and clean up (literally in this case). It is also my habit to make the last load consist of things I will need first at the new property - coffee makings and some snack type food, sleeping bad and a change of clothes etc.
My first task was for somebody to get me the appropriate medication (since then I always have it on hand). I then spent the next twenty four hours onin the sandbox in a constant state of evacuation before I considered it safe to vacate.
@Yamikuronue If you drink different "classes" of drink, your excuse that you are conducting research becomes more viable. :)
My past experience with Local Authorities over noise / environmental issues indicates to me that an act of god is more likely to resolve the issue before they do. Non-Government Organisations, on the other hand, are a different ball of wax.
In the UK we have something called the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals): They don't have many teeth because there are few Laws that apply. What teeth they do have they use at the slightest opportunity and once they are in, they don't let go. Recently they have been getting bad press because of this and there have been many calls from many sources for them to be a bit more moderate. They subsequently announced that they will be, but there are few signs of it.
The general impression I got was that concerns over the welfare of the animal(s) was more likely to provoke an extreme response.
Although:
@flabdablet said in What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?:
... No, you can't go get a coffee. We will be asking
stupidquestions during the process and there will be a test at the end so Sit down and shut up and maybe you'll finally learn something."...
Adds piquancy
Quite a few years ago I watched a documentary type program. I don't remember what it was about but at one point the presented started ranting on about the inefficiencies of the French telephone system. To prove his point, whilst in a third or fourth floor apartment, he dialed the number of the apartment at the same level across the road. He then casually walked to that apartment and waited to answer the phone.
@Gurth Been waiting for an appropriate time / place for this:
Title Text:
"We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself."
@eskel I guess it would have been something like that, but it is an old memory. I have been dabbling with programming since I was 17 (which is getting on for 40 years ago). One of the earliest computers I programmed was nearly as old as me (at the time), had no memory to speak of and accepted its programmed by punched tape. The possibility that line interpretation was used may have responsible.
That aside, in this day and age, anybody that adds code and submits it without checking it should have a special place in Hell reserved for them. Then they should be shot on sight to ensure they go there.
@eskel In my dim and distant past I recall being told that under certain circumstances such declarations needed to be declared twice. I do not recall the language being used, but based on my language "history" it could have been C. It may have been related to recasting the type of variable, or something to do with not declaring the type prior to use. At the time, my response was along the lines of "Uhhh, OK".
INB4: I am not defending this philosophy, or even admitting that is something I have done - or do. I just think that the "old" programmer had valid justifications for this and was a habit he had gotten into. I was just commenting in case anybody had any similar "memories" - we are talking a long time ago 20+ years at least.
Urban Dictionary "word of the day" - 11/08/2016
...Challenge Accepted!...
@ScholRLEA Good story - the monkey thing. And I refuse to be triggered by my memories of just what I have seen the LSI series (03's, 05's, 23's, 73's etc) of PDP's hooked up to in "research environments" because the standard issue boards would have probably been rewired or had the FPLA's (where a lot of the "hardware" was) reprogrammed. And there would almost always be a home grown or severely bastardized IF card.
Yes the PC has a lot to answer for.
In it's day Open VMS was one of the most advanced OS's available and blew just about everything else out of the water. It set several standards and principles that are still valid today. As was the hardware and architecture it was built on. DEC as a Company failed because it was not commercially motivated. The machines and technology they developed died because Microsoft stopped supporting the Alpha CPU after Windows NT. As a service engineer for DEC / Alpha Systems I witness million of $ of equipment being abandoned, literally, over night.
@flabdablet There has to a rule not unlike the inverse square one, behind that. :) I totally agree that there is not a storage problem (I am almost certainly convinced that my network device is raided - I daren't take it apart to confirm that, and I @Tsaukpaetra shudder when I think about). I just have a massive version control one, especially on the more recent stuff. Just about every Duplicate File program I've tried breaks down in tears - so I'm writing my own that is based on duplicate or near duplicate directories trees.
@Tsaukpaetra Because of my backup policy during migration and upgrades during the 20+ years I've had a PC, I have a lot of replicated data. It is not enough to say "use the most recent" because it not contiguous, as I would only "restore" what I needed, if I needed it. Even then sometime I wouldn't as I would use the backup.
INB4: In most cases the "strategy" would be to use the original disk as an additional drive and /or have an image of it on my new drive.
INB42: I am a bit of a "pack rat" - you should see the size of my archived email store. Not so much compulsive as a result of considering deletion to be a last resort. Beside, it's fun to go back and discover the things I used think / do - it shows how much progress (or otherwise) I have made.
Found this:
And had to laugh (or cry - certainly there were tears involved), when I considered the 2TB of my archived data that I'm trying to "organize".
@blakeyrat It would be fair to say that the entire quarters would be referred to as "the mess" in an informal context. Beside, do not forget we are dealing with "headlines" - of the news variety specifically. Entities that have little relationship to content at the best of times, and quite often have no relationship to the language that they are written in :)
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fuck you, I say what I want.
That is self evident and I am not disputing that concept, either now or in general. Although there are others that might. I was just curious as to why "FUCK YOU". As a phrase it has a very limited meaning, namely "I don't care'. Which is understandable within the context of the personas exhibited here - and it would be an acceptable answer to my question. Except it was capitalised, which implies shouting. Unless I am mistaken, the shouting of the phrase "fuck you" is associated with a last, desperate, act of defiance in the face of almost certain annihilation. Which, I guess, is the ultimate expression of not caring about the consequences of any subsequent action.
@blakeyrat , @Arantor All other argument and learned contributions aside. Why say FUCK YOU at the end of the message?
Also, I have had "land line" suppliers that allow you to send and receive text messages, and there are landline systems out there that allow you to send emails.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You should add, "and if you're calling from a land-line phone, FUCK YOU!" to the end of the message.
Why?