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Most people who spend on lottery tickets are poor, so it's unlikely they'd donate to a charity.
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What the heck wouldn't I do with that much money? Is my question.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I could support a lot of single moms... 
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TNCaver wrote: What the heck would I do with that much money?
You just don't have any imagination.
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That would be a good start.
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Did Bill Gates drop his wallet?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not for years.
I buy a single ticket for a single game that is good for the next ten drawings.
No chance to forget
No temptation to buy extra
I can tell that I lost 'at a glance' since it's always the same numbers.
Actually - if I only pocketed 3 MegaBucs after taxes and such - I'd be quite done with life as I knew it. I could very comfortably live on the investment proceeds indefinitely.
For any of you who know me, you wouldn't notice any changes in my: You'd never see me again.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You'd never see me again.
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Is a counterfeiter a kitchen installation engineer?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And your chips for free!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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a good engineer will take correct countermeasures.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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You sink to new lows! You're so obviously trying to faucet with those puns. I'm not sure, yet, how to counter this situation - I'll have to draw upon my reserves.
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Maybe, the kitchen is a good place to make some dough
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Granite, that's a clever pun.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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This morning my desktop did a fairly major Windows update out of the blue. I don't expect updates so early in the month. Aren't updates supposed to happen on a Tuesday?
I suppose this is the update that Microsoft rushed out to address the design error that apparently exists in Intel chips manufactured in recent years.
I read somewhere that this update will slow machines down by as much as 30 to 50 percent.
Well, subjectively I see absolutely no slowing down in my desktop. Just to check it out (rather subjectively) I created a systems drive image. It took the usual 5 odd minutes that it took two days ago.
What are the experiences of other members after the update, I wonder?
The only real effect of the update I noticed, was 2 GB of junk files left on the systems drive that took forever to clean up.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The slowdown may occur in special cases, but not in the overall performance.
This bug is outstanding and I wont be surprised if some secret services had used it for years...
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Quote: I wont be surprised if some secret services had used it for years...
If the Secret Service wants to see what I have on my machine, all they have to do is ask!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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They do want to look at what's on your machine. They just don't want you to know when they do it. That way it's a lot easier to plant evidence.
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Quote: That way it's a lot easier to plant evidence.
You're just saying that to scare me! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Not to scare you. Just to make you keep that thought at the back of your mind.
It used to be that this line of thinking would qualify you as a conspiracy nut. In a post-Snowden world, we now know this is the sort of thing they're not only capable of, but willing to do if it suits their purposes.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: I read somewhere that this update will slow machines down by as much as 30 to 50 percent.
Older machines may be that affected, but the newer ones should not have noticeable slowdowns. (Like driving a ferrari vs a school bus up a gentle slope, the ferrari has way more than enough power to maintain the speed limit even without changing gear.)
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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I've seen a dozen explanations of Meltdown/Spectre at a level that your old aunt would be able to comprehend.
Does anyone have a link to a decent description at the technical level of a Comp.Sci major?
I am particularly puzzled by this "bug" being present in seveal distinct chip families from independent and competing manufacturers. This seems to indicate something way beyond a simple typo in the design documents, but more of an issue at the architectural level, high above specific chip layouts.
Or, do "they" not want to publish such information, because "they" believe it would allow me to break into the machines of my colleagues, friends and neighbours, to steal their telephone books?
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