I have mild aspergers and a controllable obsession with patterns and perfection and flaws in logic. I'm also a very, very skilled software tester (and programmer) so I guess it's true. I catch things that nobody else does and they seem so obvious to me. I've had a few contract testing jobs and I ripped those software packages a new one in every case. Once the designers stopped being pissed at me for finding so many problems, they fixed them and were happy they hired me:P
So what if my brain doesn't associate names with faces with events and I have a poor concept of time, I'm going to pick out dozens of bugs in your software really quickly lol.
I remember when all imeem did was stream music. Then they added all those stupid social networking and profile modifications to make it more like Myspace. Everyone was complaining that it was turning into Myspace. Then surprise, surprise, they literally turn into Myspace. Who didn't see this coming? Maybe if they'd have spent some development time on making their site stable instead of making it cute and adding stupid features, they wouldn't have ended this way. I guarantee Myspace isn't going to revive it in any remotely similar form. They're just going to reroute playlists to to the bands' pages and that's it.
I was hating ATI before it was cool lol. But seriously, their catalyst driver software is a piece of crap. That itself doesn't even work let alone some features in games. I never, ever, ever use anything buy Nvidia except when my card broke and I had to use an ATI one for 2 weeks. That was a very buggy 2 weeks. Their cards are crap, their software and drivers are garbage, and even their website sucks. So it's not a real big surprise that something like this happened.
What the NEW (northeast Wisconsin) version of Time Warner Cable does, and probably other branches too, is change the digital cable exact frequencies like once a week. So sure, my Olevia TV can tune into channel 142.12 but next week it'll be 142.9824. And yes, it does go out to 4 digits apparently. So I have to rescan my TV really often just to pick up digital and digital HD channels. Then to tune directly to them, I have to remember the idiotic 6+ digit number. I can't memorize them either because it keeps changing. Talk about a scam! Their provided DVR, which is on another TV, can magically retune itself and enumerate the channels to more friendly, whole numbers too. I assume it's getting a secret data update that tells it what the channels are changing to. They're going to get absolutely destroyed if the gov looks into that too!
I've had a website design customer start playing it on their laptop during a website consultation! I think that game messes with people's heads. Also, and I'm just reporting this as is without comment, a guy at my brother's work who happens to be african american plays it and 100% of his crops are cotton. Now how would that even happen? Lol. It just seems like something a normal, sane person wouldn't do:P
So let's see what the Slashdot community has come up so far...hmm, okay, use multiple EM frequencies at once or throw flour at it. Why am I the only one smart enough to know that using high frequency sound ways would work perfectly? Vibrations in the air will bounce off of solid objects regardless of any frequency of radiation cloaking technology. Just use one of those approximate distance sensing sonar thingies that use ultra high frequency and it'll say "Yep, there's an object there." I think they should stop inventing a cloak when a solid method of beating it already exists and can be built with current technology.
What are the options here? Upgrade their network to pretend like everyone will use the max speed like 75% of the time and charge me $300/month for internet to make up the expense OR disconnect someone that's taking up the same amount of bandwidth as 100 other average users. That's 100 customers worth and they're paying 1/100th as much for what that service would cost. I say kick em out. I'm a web designer and a very busy geek in general who uses youtube and Hulu and online games and I still don't even come close to the assholes that run downloads basically 24/7 just because they can and they're greedy.
At the end of TFA, they mention of course that idiotic "back in time" theory about the particles. Instead they counter with something that it is sadly actualy more logical:
We ourselves find it hard not to suspect the involvement of some pan-dimensional police force, seeking to prevent humanity acquiring parallel-universe portal capability before we're ready to use it responsibly
It's awfully hard to install anti-malware software to fix it if you get nothing but a black screen. I sure hope it doesn't do this in safe mode and that my antimalware software can install in safe more and that my definitions files have added this malware that may be like 2 weeks old or something. One of my customers is coming over today with a black screened laptop. How am I supposed to fix it? It sounds like they haven't even decided on the cause yet!!! Maybe it's malware, maybe it's a registry entry, maybe it's windows, who knows! In fact, if you actually read the article, they say this problem However, we do know that "black screen" behavior is associated with some malware families such as Daonol.A So in other words, MAYBE that's the problem. MAYBE! And since it's MS saying it, probably not. I don't think everyone with this problem suddenly all caught the same virus that I've never heard of before. Googling the issue comes up with fixes that people say don't work and useless speculation. Does anyone have an actual fix for this that actually works?
dude, camels aren't cheetahs. You can just punch them in the face and they'll leave. They have no horns to maul you and have to turn around to kick you. You have to be a really clumsy, slow idiot to actually get hurt from one. You just flick em on the nose and they're out of there! They HATE getting hit on the nose.
what could they have possibly done to improve it? Raise the price? Cuz I bet you're still locked into their app store, their cell provider, and their everything else. It's still locked down and super proprietary and that's the one thing everyone hates about them. So what could they have possibly added that would make it better?
This case must have been really old or something. For years RS has had a trade limit and bank PIN that you enter with the mouse. So if you steal someone's account, you can't get into their bank to get any of their items. You also can't offload them onto another account because the 15 minute trade limit is around 1/100th the cost of anything remotely worth stealing. There is literally no way to move expensive items to another account without paying what they're worth to the owner. So he clearly didn't "steal" any items, just the account, which has been made completely pointless.
Apparently the stupid people who make and eat sushi haven't realized what humans have known for thousands of years. If you cook your meat, you don't die from deadly bacteria in it. Seriously, how many cases of dangerous bacterial infections have there been from eating completely raw fish. Especially those caught and prepared in the just WONDERFUL sanitation in the Asian fish farms and places where the sushi is prepared.
If you don't think it's real, what did bleach all the coral then? Why is that entire country sinking into the sea and buying other land to move to? Magic? The new Twilight movie? This is the same idiotic non-believer crap as the "we didn't land on the moon" theory. Hey, get out your telescope, look up at the moon, and see the laser-bouncing we put there. How did it get there? Hmmmm.
The last two power supplies and last one monitor I worked on that failed were from smokers. One had the ashtray about 2 inches from the computer. The coating of residue was ridiculous and the smell as I was working on it was awful and I'm sure very harmful! So I totally see where they're coming from with this one! Although logically they should also refuse to work on ones with people who own cats because the insides of cat owner computers are really scary too. Also, I'm allergic to cats and dogs so it's a health hazard.
Okay, here's what they're missing. This is the golden rule of dating sites. It doesn't matter if you're physically attracted to a person like crazy if they're a complete bitch or asshole. It really does boil down to that. They can be good looking and a superior genetic match and healthier and blah blah blah but if you can't stand the person or their personality or they're just an awful person, I bet it won't work out real well!
I'm no biologist but what gender you are determined what chromosome you get. Any amount of synthetic estogren won't change your gender at any age, born yet or not.
To you and the dumbass below this, light can't escape from a black hole. That's why it's black! So all this "it'll emit a photon" crap is BS. Black holes don't evaporate! Show me in one textbook where it says black holes can be destroyed at all ever or can let particles escape from them. There's 2 possiblities: 1, it isn't a black hole, they're being stupid calling it there. 2: it is a black hole and it won't "evaporate" and disappear be emitting particles or energy because that's idiotic since black holes can't do that. I bet #1 is the correct answer. I would bet that the LHC can't create a singularity capable of not letting any type of particle of any mass traveling at any speed escape from its event horizon. In fact, if you think about it, no matter how close two single particles get to each other, they aren't going to have enough gravity to suck in a third particle. That's mathematically impossible. The entire planet earth is generating gravity right now on my cell phone and if I drop it, it still takes like 2 seconds to hit the ground. I, as a significantly smaller object than earth, can reach down and pick it up with very little energy. So the gravity of two subatomic particles will be enough to form an event horizon? NO!
How much extra is it to get that freakishly realistic british kid from the demo to start bitching at me in british-ese? lol. It's just not Natal without AI characters talking to you and throwing CG balls at your head:P Oh and how much extra would it be to make him stop talking like the girl from Resident Evil and actually speak American english so we can understand him and also not feel like there's zombies behind us.
I've got a similar but more efficient idea. Just have the sensors detect if you're a complete dumbass when it comes to driving and then automatically pull you over and kill your engine. Like if you consistently go 55 in a 65, swerve, and slam on the brake randomly like most Buick drivers and people from Illinois, then the system forces you to get the hell off the road and let the competent drivers go. That would clear up about 99% of congestion. At the front end of all large traffic slowdown lines is one dumbass ruining everyone's day by driving with their head up their ass and any efficiency calculations and route planning won't help congestion. Removing that dumbass will help congestion!
Since we all know only douchebags spend way too much on a locked down, overly-proprietary piece of crap iPhone to show off to their friends so they think they're cool, I'd like to see a worm that makes it randomly play over the speaker, "Warning! Incoming douchebag! Douchebag over here, watch out!"
The exact, precise spot on the map, pinpointed location is off by like 60 or 100 feet or whatever they say. But if you're using a receiver using the same technology and made by the same company and all that, they're both probably going to be equally inaccurate and in the same direction, thus making the devices accurate relative to each other. So long story short, you can use a similar receiver to find them really easily with a location based then "hotter, colder" based system when you get close and it'll work just fine. If all you get is a computer screen at your house that says "go to ____ street, that's where they are" then it's going to be pretty inaccurate.
It's okay, I was just going to go add 3 more letters to all my zip file passwords and then you'd just end up pissed off. I wonder how long it'd take all those computers to calculate how stupid it is to try and crack the typical 31 character password that I use for all my zip files.
Well no wonder it got removed! What a stupid feature! I mean it kinda sounds neat but my spare wireless router is about 5x smaller and 20x lighter than even my smallest laptop. I'd rather stick that in my pocket than lug around an entire computer.
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I have mild aspergers and a controllable obsession with patterns and perfection and flaws in logic. I'm also a very, very skilled software tester (and programmer) so I guess it's true. I catch things that nobody else does and they seem so obvious to me. I've had a few contract testing jobs and I ripped those software packages a new one in every case. Once the designers stopped being pissed at me for finding so many problems, they fixed them and were happy they hired me :P
So what if my brain doesn't associate names with faces with events and I have a poor concept of time, I'm going to pick out dozens of bugs in your software really quickly lol.
I remember when all imeem did was stream music. Then they added all those stupid social networking and profile modifications to make it more like Myspace. Everyone was complaining that it was turning into Myspace. Then surprise, surprise, they literally turn into Myspace. Who didn't see this coming? Maybe if they'd have spent some development time on making their site stable instead of making it cute and adding stupid features, they wouldn't have ended this way. I guarantee Myspace isn't going to revive it in any remotely similar form. They're just going to reroute playlists to to the bands' pages and that's it.
I was hating ATI before it was cool lol. But seriously, their catalyst driver software is a piece of crap. That itself doesn't even work let alone some features in games. I never, ever, ever use anything buy Nvidia except when my card broke and I had to use an ATI one for 2 weeks. That was a very buggy 2 weeks. Their cards are crap, their software and drivers are garbage, and even their website sucks. So it's not a real big surprise that something like this happened.
What the NEW (northeast Wisconsin) version of Time Warner Cable does, and probably other branches too, is change the digital cable exact frequencies like once a week. So sure, my Olevia TV can tune into channel 142.12 but next week it'll be 142.9824. And yes, it does go out to 4 digits apparently. So I have to rescan my TV really often just to pick up digital and digital HD channels. Then to tune directly to them, I have to remember the idiotic 6+ digit number. I can't memorize them either because it keeps changing. Talk about a scam! Their provided DVR, which is on another TV, can magically retune itself and enumerate the channels to more friendly, whole numbers too. I assume it's getting a secret data update that tells it what the channels are changing to. They're going to get absolutely destroyed if the gov looks into that too!
I've had a website design customer start playing it on their laptop during a website consultation! I think that game messes with people's heads. Also, and I'm just reporting this as is without comment, a guy at my brother's work who happens to be african american plays it and 100% of his crops are cotton. Now how would that even happen? Lol. It just seems like something a normal, sane person wouldn't do :P
So let's see what the Slashdot community has come up so far...hmm, okay, use multiple EM frequencies at once or throw flour at it. Why am I the only one smart enough to know that using high frequency sound ways would work perfectly? Vibrations in the air will bounce off of solid objects regardless of any frequency of radiation cloaking technology. Just use one of those approximate distance sensing sonar thingies that use ultra high frequency and it'll say "Yep, there's an object there." I think they should stop inventing a cloak when a solid method of beating it already exists and can be built with current technology.
If it doesn't load since it totally got slashdotted, just google image search "lego brick gun"
What are the options here? Upgrade their network to pretend like everyone will use the max speed like 75% of the time and charge me $300/month for internet to make up the expense OR disconnect someone that's taking up the same amount of bandwidth as 100 other average users. That's 100 customers worth and they're paying 1/100th as much for what that service would cost. I say kick em out. I'm a web designer and a very busy geek in general who uses youtube and Hulu and online games and I still don't even come close to the assholes that run downloads basically 24/7 just because they can and they're greedy.
At the end of TFA, they mention of course that idiotic "back in time" theory about the particles. Instead they counter with something that it is sadly actualy more logical:
We ourselves find it hard not to suspect the involvement of some pan-dimensional police force, seeking to prevent humanity acquiring parallel-universe portal capability before we're ready to use it responsibly
It's awfully hard to install anti-malware software to fix it if you get nothing but a black screen. I sure hope it doesn't do this in safe mode and that my antimalware software can install in safe more and that my definitions files have added this malware that may be like 2 weeks old or something. One of my customers is coming over today with a black screened laptop. How am I supposed to fix it? It sounds like they haven't even decided on the cause yet!!! Maybe it's malware, maybe it's a registry entry, maybe it's windows, who knows! In fact, if you actually read the article, they say this problem However, we do know that "black screen" behavior is associated with some malware families such as Daonol.A So in other words, MAYBE that's the problem. MAYBE! And since it's MS saying it, probably not. I don't think everyone with this problem suddenly all caught the same virus that I've never heard of before. Googling the issue comes up with fixes that people say don't work and useless speculation. Does anyone have an actual fix for this that actually works?
dude, camels aren't cheetahs. You can just punch them in the face and they'll leave. They have no horns to maul you and have to turn around to kick you. You have to be a really clumsy, slow idiot to actually get hurt from one. You just flick em on the nose and they're out of there! They HATE getting hit on the nose.
what could they have possibly done to improve it? Raise the price? Cuz I bet you're still locked into their app store, their cell provider, and their everything else. It's still locked down and super proprietary and that's the one thing everyone hates about them. So what could they have possibly added that would make it better?
This case must have been really old or something. For years RS has had a trade limit and bank PIN that you enter with the mouse. So if you steal someone's account, you can't get into their bank to get any of their items. You also can't offload them onto another account because the 15 minute trade limit is around 1/100th the cost of anything remotely worth stealing. There is literally no way to move expensive items to another account without paying what they're worth to the owner. So he clearly didn't "steal" any items, just the account, which has been made completely pointless.
Apparently the stupid people who make and eat sushi haven't realized what humans have known for thousands of years. If you cook your meat, you don't die from deadly bacteria in it. Seriously, how many cases of dangerous bacterial infections have there been from eating completely raw fish. Especially those caught and prepared in the just WONDERFUL sanitation in the Asian fish farms and places where the sushi is prepared.
If you don't think it's real, what did bleach all the coral then? Why is that entire country sinking into the sea and buying other land to move to? Magic? The new Twilight movie? This is the same idiotic non-believer crap as the "we didn't land on the moon" theory. Hey, get out your telescope, look up at the moon, and see the laser-bouncing we put there. How did it get there? Hmmmm.
The last two power supplies and last one monitor I worked on that failed were from smokers. One had the ashtray about 2 inches from the computer. The coating of residue was ridiculous and the smell as I was working on it was awful and I'm sure very harmful! So I totally see where they're coming from with this one! Although logically they should also refuse to work on ones with people who own cats because the insides of cat owner computers are really scary too. Also, I'm allergic to cats and dogs so it's a health hazard.
Okay, here's what they're missing. This is the golden rule of dating sites. It doesn't matter if you're physically attracted to a person like crazy if they're a complete bitch or asshole. It really does boil down to that. They can be good looking and a superior genetic match and healthier and blah blah blah but if you can't stand the person or their personality or they're just an awful person, I bet it won't work out real well!
I'm no biologist but what gender you are determined what chromosome you get. Any amount of synthetic estogren won't change your gender at any age, born yet or not.
To you and the dumbass below this, light can't escape from a black hole. That's why it's black! So all this "it'll emit a photon" crap is BS. Black holes don't evaporate! Show me in one textbook where it says black holes can be destroyed at all ever or can let particles escape from them. There's 2 possiblities: 1, it isn't a black hole, they're being stupid calling it there. 2: it is a black hole and it won't "evaporate" and disappear be emitting particles or energy because that's idiotic since black holes can't do that. I bet #1 is the correct answer. I would bet that the LHC can't create a singularity capable of not letting any type of particle of any mass traveling at any speed escape from its event horizon. In fact, if you think about it, no matter how close two single particles get to each other, they aren't going to have enough gravity to suck in a third particle. That's mathematically impossible. The entire planet earth is generating gravity right now on my cell phone and if I drop it, it still takes like 2 seconds to hit the ground. I, as a significantly smaller object than earth, can reach down and pick it up with very little energy. So the gravity of two subatomic particles will be enough to form an event horizon? NO!
How much extra is it to get that freakishly realistic british kid from the demo to start bitching at me in british-ese? lol. It's just not Natal without AI characters talking to you and throwing CG balls at your head :P Oh and how much extra would it be to make him stop talking like the girl from Resident Evil and actually speak American english so we can understand him and also not feel like there's zombies behind us.
I've got a similar but more efficient idea. Just have the sensors detect if you're a complete dumbass when it comes to driving and then automatically pull you over and kill your engine. Like if you consistently go 55 in a 65, swerve, and slam on the brake randomly like most Buick drivers and people from Illinois, then the system forces you to get the hell off the road and let the competent drivers go. That would clear up about 99% of congestion. At the front end of all large traffic slowdown lines is one dumbass ruining everyone's day by driving with their head up their ass and any efficiency calculations and route planning won't help congestion. Removing that dumbass will help congestion!
Since we all know only douchebags spend way too much on a locked down, overly-proprietary piece of crap iPhone to show off to their friends so they think they're cool, I'd like to see a worm that makes it randomly play over the speaker, "Warning! Incoming douchebag! Douchebag over here, watch out!"
The exact, precise spot on the map, pinpointed location is off by like 60 or 100 feet or whatever they say. But if you're using a receiver using the same technology and made by the same company and all that, they're both probably going to be equally inaccurate and in the same direction, thus making the devices accurate relative to each other. So long story short, you can use a similar receiver to find them really easily with a location based then "hotter, colder" based system when you get close and it'll work just fine. If all you get is a computer screen at your house that says "go to ____ street, that's where they are" then it's going to be pretty inaccurate.
It's okay, I was just going to go add 3 more letters to all my zip file passwords and then you'd just end up pissed off. I wonder how long it'd take all those computers to calculate how stupid it is to try and crack the typical 31 character password that I use for all my zip files.
Well no wonder it got removed! What a stupid feature! I mean it kinda sounds neat but my spare wireless router is about 5x smaller and 20x lighter than even my smallest laptop. I'd rather stick that in my pocket than lug around an entire computer.