This doesn't even strike me as funny now. I lived in Texas for 12 years... and I swear I heard/participated in this conversation at least a hundred times. Down to the word.
I'm 17, and a few years ago when I was learning my first languages (Python, then VB (Thank you, high school!), then Java, and now C++) parsing text really did excite me, and still does.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've always thought things like that were pretty cool. I liked making a prime number generator. Learning regular expressions was fun.
I have a friend that had an account on a financial website where the question was "Who's your favorite fictional character?" He put "Cloud".
Years later, some ID thief looked him up on a video game discussion website, and found that his favorite Final Fantasy character was Cloud. Figured he'd try that, I guess, and gained access to his account.
Since then, I've been VERY careful with my question/answers. I mean, really, how hard is it for someone to look up where I went to high school with my full name? Or even my mother's maiden name? (Wedding announcements?)
I'm in the process of changing all the answers to the same answers but put through a simple algorithm, even like inserting "0"'s between every third letter, or only doing the second half of it backwards.
I'll probably never need the questions, but they're still there, for anyone who tries to log on to my account and clicks "Forgot your password?" to try their hand at.
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If you haven't seen the movie, you really don't know. I don't know anyone (seriously!) that's seen it that doesn't believe that he deserves and Oscar for it. He's just that good.
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If you haven't seen it, there really is no point in you posting. You simply cannot understand how Ledger's Joker is a perfect blend of all those elements.
I work as a cashier for a major retailer (I'm in high school, cut me some slack) that's testing touch screens in a limited fashion.
They never really work better. Ever. All us cashiers vastly prefer using just the keyboard. After a month, two months, six months... you get so used to the menus and keyboard shortcuts that you rarely look at the screen. I'm often 4-5 steps ahead of the aging IBM cash register I'm using. Often times I have change counted out before it tells me how much to give back.
Even still, lots of the cash registers are at terrible heights. I seriously doubt they have anyone testing these things.
He'd have to know the odds of any pair matching each or any of the markers. I'm just going to assume they're not 50/50 binary markers. Could be 12/21/40/20/3 for all we know. He'd need information on each marker, and the math would be quite a bit more in depth. Whoever did the original "odds are 1/xxxxx that a pair has a matching profile" did the real math.
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Our problem in America is that we've decided that corporations and businesses deserve the same personal freedoms that individuals do.
This shows me you have a great technical understanding for things, and that you don't care if your email address is harvested.
Mister "xxxxx@yyyyyy.zzz".
How did I do?
Step 7: GOTO Step 1.
You know, there are these guys in California looking for people like you...
That's "Intellectual Property", my friend.
Can someone who knows more chemistry than me explain this to me? I have a hard time conceptualizing why this would work.
This doesn't even strike me as funny now. I lived in Texas for 12 years... and I swear I heard/participated in this conversation at least a hundred times. Down to the word.
I'd just like to point out that even your physics isn't sound.
If we assume that both cars will be accelerating at the same right, and yours has more mass... then it will also experience more force.
But, hey, if it makes your point sound more valid by throwing in a physics equation, by all means, don't let me spoil the fun!
...And the FPS is born.
And this is fun to you?
I'm sure you're a lot of fun at parties.
For your information, you insensitive clod, some people mod "funny" stuff up as "informative" or "insightful" to be "funny". Or so they tell me.
I'm 17, and a few years ago when I was learning my first languages (Python, then VB (Thank you, high school!), then Java, and now C++) parsing text really did excite me, and still does.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've always thought things like that were pretty cool. I liked making a prime number generator. Learning regular expressions was fun.
And, yes, I'm a lot of fun at parties.
I just want to know who has time to Google all 1E8 eight digit numbers....
There were actual Y2K problems?
That IQ data is apparently based off SAT/ACT test results, which are NOT IQ TESTS.
I have a friend that had an account on a financial website where the question was "Who's your favorite fictional character?" He put "Cloud".
Years later, some ID thief looked him up on a video game discussion website, and found that his favorite Final Fantasy character was Cloud. Figured he'd try that, I guess, and gained access to his account.
Since then, I've been VERY careful with my question/answers. I mean, really, how hard is it for someone to look up where I went to high school with my full name? Or even my mother's maiden name? (Wedding announcements?)
I'm in the process of changing all the answers to the same answers but put through a simple algorithm, even like inserting "0"'s between every third letter, or only doing the second half of it backwards.
I'll probably never need the questions, but they're still there, for anyone who tries to log on to my account and clicks "Forgot your password?" to try their hand at.
There is a biiiiiiiiiig difference here.
Lucius isn't infallible.
Batman is.
If you haven't seen the movie, you really don't know. I don't know anyone (seriously!) that's seen it that doesn't believe that he deserves and Oscar for it. He's just that good.
If you haven't seen it, there really is no point in you posting. You simply cannot understand how Ledger's Joker is a perfect blend of all those elements.
Go see the movie.
I think Lucius actually meant to imply that Bruce was Batman, just to finally get the kid off his tail. It worked?
This does not necessarily mean it's in Switzerland
Not where I hang out.
I work as a cashier for a major retailer (I'm in high school, cut me some slack) that's testing touch screens in a limited fashion.
They never really work better. Ever. All us cashiers vastly prefer using just the keyboard. After a month, two months, six months... you get so used to the menus and keyboard shortcuts that you rarely look at the screen. I'm often 4-5 steps ahead of the aging IBM cash register I'm using. Often times I have change counted out before it tells me how much to give back.
Even still, lots of the cash registers are at terrible heights. I seriously doubt they have anyone testing these things.
Nothing in that post is the least bit racist. Troll-like, maybe, but racist... no.
He'd have to know the odds of any pair matching each or any of the markers. I'm just going to assume they're not 50/50 binary markers. Could be 12/21/40/20/3 for all we know. He'd need information on each marker, and the math would be quite a bit more in depth. Whoever did the original "odds are 1/xxxxx that a pair has a matching profile" did the real math.