But humbling because it seems like a car engineer repeatedly reving an engine when trying to work out where some squeek or somesuch is coming from.
I was working on an engine that wouldn't start once, and I asked one of my bosses for a pointer. He said, basically, "whack the starter with a hammer. If it starts after that, or even sounds moderately different, it's a bad starter."
I whacked it with a hammer. It started. The starter was bad.
Common tactic is to get you to dial a toll-free number, which has a sexy voice convincing you to dial a 900 number.
Not that I would know.:P
Seriously (not that anyone's going to believe me, but this is really the way it happened), I figured, it's an 800 number, they can't charge me, what's the gimmick? So I called one out of curiousity, and got a tape telling me to call a $900 number. Typo intended.
First, ever had a magnet accidentally come into contact with your TV? Ever tried to fix it with another magnet, and deemed it "close enough"? There you go. You are a floating head. Your TV is a disk platter.
Uh. Mods are now definitely literally on crack. Not behaving in an incomprehensible and unpredictable manner, they are putting the pipe to their lips and inhaling the smoke from burning crack cocaine.
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FAIL WIN.
But humbling because it seems like a car engineer repeatedly reving an engine when trying to work out where some squeek or somesuch is coming from.
I was working on an engine that wouldn't start once, and I asked one of my bosses for a pointer. He said, basically, "whack the starter with a hammer. If it starts after that, or even sounds moderately different, it's a bad starter."
I whacked it with a hammer. It started. The starter was bad.
Hey. Mods. Whoosh.
Brain function? Grammar?
I'm using the INTERNETS!
Seven megabitsssssss...
I have nothing to say to that but "holy shit!".
Maybe that's sad.
Wasn't she also the one who came up with the term "bug"? *rtfa* Ah, yes.
Wow. And an admiral, to boot.
I think most mods weren't even born before '85.
Wikipedia has some links to online versions.
All two of you who haven't read it, go read it.
Be that a peg leg in ye pocket, or are ye just happy t' be seein me?
"Do you even know who I am?"
"Weren't you one of the Little Rascals?"
Common tactic is to get you to dial a toll-free number, which has a sexy voice convincing you to dial a 900 number.
:P
Not that I would know.
Seriously (not that anyone's going to believe me, but this is really the way it happened), I figured, it's an 800 number, they can't charge me, what's the gimmick? So I called one out of curiousity, and got a tape telling me to call a $900 number. Typo intended.
Not enough digits.
How about 1-800-HORNY-GOAT?
Wii see yii.
Fiixed.
Standards are a bitch.
Hey, I just found out that Slashdot censors social security numbers. Check it out: XXX-XX-XXXX.
Two things.
First, ever had a magnet accidentally come into contact with your TV? Ever tried to fix it with another magnet, and deemed it "close enough"? There you go. You are a floating head. Your TV is a disk platter.
Second, hand in your geek card.
Sorry, that should've been $1/1k.
The going rate is $1k. For a simple /usr/share/dict/words attack on some random account on some random site, it'd cost you about $100.
One-liner to encode is left as an exercise to the reader.
4c6c6f79642773206973207374696c6c2070616e7473.
Hmm. I was going to say "Too bad Tancredo dropped out", but then I read this and had to stop for a second... Probably still would've voted for him.
Pff. I'm training mine to.
Still, changing a lot of lines is easy with a small regexp search and replace.
One of my .sigs. Changes variable names at random.
How will they guarantee you're going to send a movie at all?
Uh. Mods are now definitely literally on crack. Not behaving in an incomprehensible and unpredictable manner, they are putting the pipe to their lips and inhaling the smoke from burning crack cocaine.