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How 'bout an obligatory xkcd?

The real question is: is there asbestos in their router?

Oblig http://xkcd.com/1526/

Obligatory xkcd.

Well, I got it from this XKCD. And he got it from this report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The trouble is, the AAAS seems to have changed around their website since then and the report is either no longer available or is just no longer findable by me.

So there you are. I'm willing to trust the XKCD guy, he's always been pretty diligent, but you can go hunting for the original document if you'd like.

This should answer your question https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

Basically, the energy intensive part of getting to orbit isn't getting high, it's going fast enough horizontally. You basically have to be going so fast that the ground falls out from under you (due to the curvature of the Earth) before you can hit it.

The ITU-R has outlined 4 methods for the future of UTC. Methods A1, A2, B, C1, C2, and D are from various delegations of the international assembly, and they are in serious disagreement with each other.

That's silly. There's no reason for it. Let's just sit down and come up with a new standardized method that covers all of these use cases.

Here, like this one:

http://xkcd.com/1338/

Oh so you want to use this language: http://xkcd.com/1537/

Yes, sheesh, I've never had any problems just throwing my search engine some extra terms for context. The irony in this Ask Slashdot cuts so deep it hurts.

Here's some obligatory XKCD:

What the poster will get if he he actually gets what he asks for: https://xkcd.com/979/
What the poster actually wants out of a search engine that "doesn't think for him": https://xkcd.com/1185/ (mouseover text)

Yes, sheesh, I've never had any problems just throwing my search engine some extra terms for context. The irony in this Ask Slashdot cuts so deep it hurts.

Here's some obligatory XKCD:

What the poster will get if he he actually gets what he asks for: https://xkcd.com/979/
What the poster actually wants out of a search engine that "doesn't think for him": https://xkcd.com/1185/ (mouseover text)

We're not anywhere close to have autonomous vehicles? I guess you miss some news lately.

If you're talking about self driving cars, they're still 10 years away.

And there is the modernized version:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

Of course, the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1295/

Oh yeah! I forgot; we had #ifdef __posix, too!

Absolutely non-obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

But yeah, I was ripping out a lot of legacy code and replacing it with POSIX; this was the late 90's, so it was already well-established.

And you're thinking of AB/InBev's or SAB Miller's namesake beer and not the other 100+ they each produce either.

But personally, I agree with Randall Munroe. All beer is disgusting swill, and I refuse to be socially pressured into agreeing with anyones' opinion that it's not.

Real men drink martinis. Not those fruity things in a martini glass that got popular a while back, and certainly not a damned "vodka martini", whatever that is. A martini is a 10:1 mix of gin and dry vermouth. (Which is why a "vodka martini" is not a martini.) It does not need a fancy glass, garnish, or any other frilly shit. Even the olive is optional, but they're tasty as hell, so I recommend it. It doesn't need to be cold, and a "shaken" one is just proof that you're a damned sissy. If you wanted a refreshing drink, you should've ordered a gin and tonic.

Martinis are too fancy-sounding? Don't have any vermouth? Drink a brass monkey instead. 1:1:1 mix of vodka, rum, and orange juice. You will have a headache in the morning. Manly.

But opportunity is on its way to own half of mars.

https://xkcd.com/806/

Ha. Like on the first episode of Scorpion, where smart guy is looking for a techie via the video feed from the airport air traffic control room; "You there; with the glasses and the short sleeved shirt!"

For those of you who don't know the wrench method, here it is. Don't forget to hover.

Shibboleet

https://xkcd.com/806/

Of course in the REAL WORLD you have to put up with the crap along with all the others :(

For quite a few years, the word for Charter tech support was "Linux." As in, "sorry, I don't have a start menu, the router runs Linux." That short-circuited whole swaths of the script. They even stopped asking me to reboot.

Nowadays, Tier 1 support is a robot. They stopped outsourcing to India after they hired a lowest bidder who would very quickly answer the phone, very carefully take down your name, address, and phone number (the necessary information so they could bill Charter for providing support), then instantly forward your call back to the US call center. It was a great time for customers, who got Tier 2 practically instantly. Punching through the robot's script is much harder.

Shibboleet

https://xkcd.com/806/

Of course in the REAL WORLD you have to put up with the crap along with all the others :(

At least one ISP is explicitly XKCD/806-compliant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://aa.net.uk/broadband-why...

Shibboleet

https://xkcd.com/806/

Shibboleet

https://xkcd.com/806/

Of course in the REAL WORLD you have to put up with the crap along with all the others :(

http://xkcd.com/806/

Better reference: http://xkcd.com/1446/

xkcd

https://xkcd.com/538/

It's more an example of the "create a new universal standard" approach to programming: The obligatory XKCD cartoon is:

https://xkcd.com/927/

Which is part of the coming complexity collapse as it will not stop at 15, 20, 30, 100....

It's more an example of the "create a new universal standard" approach to programming: The obligatory XKCD cartoon is:

            https://xkcd.com/927/

I think it's a sign that there's something seriously wrong when people are requesting a regular release cadence to fix all the security holes in the software that's supposed to be protecting them from security problems...

ObXKCD.

Not if they have a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

So, a dim lightbulb, in other words?

If you broadcast in an unfocused spherical pattern, 40 watts will do no harm. In a tight beam, even 1 watt can blind you and burn skin. But they cannot light up the moon.

C'mon people, I waited all day and I still have to post this for you?

https://xkcd.com/353/
which all of course ends in:
https://xkcd.com/521/ (mouseover text)

C'mon people, I waited all day and I still have to post this for you?

https://xkcd.com/353/
which all of course ends in:
https://xkcd.com/521/ (mouseover text)

I also strongly suspect they'd have exactly the same problem if they offered the same bonus structure in the US. Except the headline would be something about hacker ingenuity.

Or whatever you want to call it.

SURELY there is somebody who has enough knowledge and skill to do it

Absolutely there are people who could find all of it, and it may be possible to build or find a combination of tools to address all of the possible hiding spots they're able to think of. The problem is that those skilled people don't scale. As for the tool suite, while someone's attempting to assemble it, someone else is working hard at evading what's going into the suite - and even if they do put something effective together fast, how much confidence will there be that it actually got everything? It's like running a hastily cobbled together antivirus package on an already-infected system.

XKCD 1425 is actually somewhat relevant here in that a cleaning solution is that research team project, but Germany doesn't have the time to wait for it - better to EOL some equipment 2-5 years early and replace it than to wait for a solution that won't be available until have of that equipment would be EOL anyway.

And frankly, it's like something I tell my customers probably too often for my wallet's good: "I can fix it and I'd love to have you pay me to do so, but it's not worth you paying for my time to do so when we can replace it for around the same cost."

http://xkcd.com/1321/

Meh, it isn't science until you are tinkering with the DNA of the butterflies

Depends on what your domain of knowledge is.

If you want to get a good grip on something like say, sociology, learning with and from people who understand the finer nuances of the subject matter are important.

Besides, it's not like being self-taught doesn't have it's own perils either.

I'm not discounting self-education. If you can self educate? Great! But there's value in formal education, and while I'd hire a programmer who was self taught, I'm not hiring a self-taught lawyer.

I am a robot sent from the future to ask you to open this bag of potato chips for me.

Relevant Xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/

https://xkcd.com/932/

Just be thankful he didn't tell the sheeple to wake up

Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/927/

IOW, vaporware.

Here is the relevant translation chart.

Steve? Is that you?

That quote immediately made me think of this, completely non-obligatory XKCD.

Or I'll just design a rifle and name it an AR'; DROP TABLE Barrels;--

Registered to Bobby Tables?

Or even better, this

I'm surprised no one's posted this yet.

Actually, I've always been surprised at how reluctant many developers have been to accept regular expressions as a part of their trade. They are very useful shortcuts for string manipulation, and to Perl's credit they defined regex conventions for other languages, like Java and R, to name a couple.