Some love for the TI-85! Mine is sitting on my desk right now, still gets used regularly.
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RE: Apple Watch
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RE: Apple Watch
Some love for the TI-85! Mine is sitting on my desk right now, still gets used regularly.
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RE: Coordinate conversion
@TGV said:
@Sutherlands said:
What in the world does that have to do with Excel? That just happens to be what he implemented the formulas in to convert the numbers. I don't remember the OP saying that was the problem.
Oh, come on! It's so obvious. Excel has to grid lines standard on the display. All you have to do is to paste in the picture, scale it properly, make a screen shot, and everything is hunky dory.1) Print the scaled image.
2) Place the scaled image on a wooden table.
3) Place a screen door over the table at height necessary to produce desired grid.
4) Take picture through the screen.
5) Bring film to 1-hour photo service.
6) Scan in developed picture.
7) Profit!
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RE: Making QR-Codes usefull
@bgodot said:
An apps that lets you turn on/off the lights from your phone (or a central server)? those don't look like standard light switches, maybe they are networked...
Looks like low-voltage switches. There are a bunch of manufacturers that make them. Makes it easier to do things like control the system using occupancy sensors, timers, ambient light sensors, etc. The switches themselves only have something like 24V on them, the high voltage to the lights is switched by relays that are mounted closer to the fixtures.
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RE: An early morning request for help
Sounds like the following sequence happened:
1) Someone from you dept. gave his business card to a girl at the bar while trying to hit on her.
2) Said girl leaves the card on the table.
3) Drunk guy #1, Drunk guy #2 and a few of their drunk friends take over the table (fill in cleaver names like the classic "Bob, Alice and Eve" from security discussions).
4) Drunk guy #1 goes to the bathroom but foolishly leaves his phone behind.
5) Drunk friends find the business card, convince Drunk Guy #2 to call the IT support line from Drunk Guy #1's phone and pretend to be him.
Be happy your IT support line can't recieve SMS messages or cell phone pictures!
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RE: Damn it another trick ad
@OldCrow said:
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I'm amazed by the fact that the one-in-6-billion idiot who buys the bottle of fake viagra is enough to fund the serving of all the ad-images.
Of course, this presumes that those who make the campaigns do not make a loss. But one would think that the scam artists learn from their mistakes.
...And this in turn is based on the presumption that the scam artists are not also fresh victims of a different scam, which might be a false assumption, true. But one should always err to the side of caution. Here, caution dictates that the opponent is intelligent, ruthless and flawless in their execution.
Edit: and making a profit. Always presume that the scammer makes a profit.
ISTR a write up from someone that located some inside info from a spammer some years back. The breakeven point was calculated to be something like 1 out of every 8 million spam messages needed to hit for the spammer to make a profit.
I also knew a guy who thought he was going to get rich off of spamming (well, more along the lines of hosting spammer's servers) many years ago. From listening to him talk, I got the idea that most of the spammers don't make squat (for that matter, I think the guy I knew ended up living out of a van...). The shady guys that sell the mailing lists and the software, however, may have done alright.
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RE: New-Google-Maps is, in fact, the real WTF
@pbean said:
@El_Heffe said:
@fennec said:
I've got a browser that's set to use new-Gmaps
How does someone find this "new" Google maps?In the main menu go to "Enter codes" and enter UP, UP, LEFT, A, LEFT, A, DOWN, B, RIGHT
Did anyone else reflexively mutter "up up down down left right left right B A B A Start"? No? very well, carry on then.
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RE: Got hacked do not open email from me
@Lorne Kates said:
@OzPeter said:
Anyone got any clever suggestions for what I should write?
Reply (not all): This happens. Change your email password. One other way to protect yourself is if you sign up for a website that uses your email address as a login, don't use the same password as you do to sign into your email. Often those sites get attacked, and the attacker will then have your password.
It's clever, as in it is a smart way to educate your friend on personal security, reduce the spread of malicious emails, and protect both you, him and everyone on his address book in the future.
I doubt that's the scenario that happened. The reply should be "Hey moron: your email service provider didn't really need you to email them your email and password 'in order to prevent your account from being locked out.'"
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RE: WTF-Inc is hiring
@joe.edwards said:
...I know Kung Fu.
Show me.
(door bursts open)
joe.edwards is fighting snoofle!
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RE: Anonymization
On the bright side.. now your company has plenty of time to implement all the required functions from your new release that were "left for later".