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Just not on this scale
BBC Sends weird push notification[^]
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Quote: Despite reports on Twitter that the BBC has been hacked, it is pretty obvious from the content of the message that it is someone testing the system. Not least because of the words "I like testing" being included in the message, as well as mentions of "push", the technology that is being used.
Right, because hackers would be too stupid to make it look like a test. 
I always thought it silly how viruses would be named something like "deleteCdrive" or "formatc". They were stupid back in the day. They should have just named it "Microsoft Windows Process" or something and most people would have had no clue it was a virus. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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... against this level of sunshine.
I have a 30 odd page form to fill in. It is for Hungarian Authorities and is of course in Hungarian. This does not bother me.
The document to be filled in is in PDF format and I do not wish to print it out, fill it in and then scan it in so that I can email it as that would be stupid. I ask for a copy in word format and they send me the steaming pile of steeming kaa-kaa you can imagine. They have used some dodgy converter to save the PDF in Word format, there is so much excess formatting that as I type something extra pages are being added at around one every 10 words.
Can I not just have the original word document to amend? No, we can't send it to the public.
What?
The?
Elephant?
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Here.[^]
Our government did a better job: you can fill out the pdf form online, which is good, BUT cannot save it, so you basically have to fill it out in one single go (and pray to not loose the connection)(and for the fields to be long enough to hold the data you want to submit -10 chars for a town name is not many).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: 10 chars for a town name is not many
Just fill in the ZIP code then 
The console is a black place
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About a year ago I had a similar situation, but from a client who sent me a form to fill out. I asked for it in Word format, so they took a screen shot of the PDF and pasted it into a Word doc.
Just remember. It could always be worse!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Print Screen + Word.
--The Hungarian Authority For Simplification
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Quote: a mere 500 million light-years away
Gee, I hate when they discuss such trivial distances.
"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
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"and you think its a long way to the corner shop when you run out of milk..." 
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glennPattonWork wrote: and you think its a long way to the corner shop when you run out of milk..." 
I do  , but once I complete my IOWA (Intergalactic Originating Wormhole Apparatus) I'll be set!
"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
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It's full of stars, my god, it's full of stars.... which movie? 
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Debbie does Dallas
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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It's funny - I'm so use to seeing diffraction spikes that the stars don't look right without them...
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What always blows me away when looking at pictures like this is how many friggin' galaxies and stars there are, how many planets there must be, and how much life must be teaming out there. And then I'm rather dismayed by how vast these distances are and how unlikely it actually it to traverse space to a nearby galaxy, yet alone another star in our own galaxy. And of course, I'm dismayed by how difficult communication is right here amongst ourselves on our own planet. None-the-less, I'm still blown away by the magnitude of the whole thing.
Marc
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Wait till you get your hands on this[^] It makes quite a loud pop if you stomp on it 
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Oooooo I want some, it would drive the cats crazy'er
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Order a weird collection of stuff from Amazon. I get lots of it that way.
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Mike Hankey wrote: drive the cats crazy'er
+++ DOES NOT COMPUTE +++
+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++
+++ REDO FROM START +++
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Yep, size matters.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Thanks for the reminder. They use those to pack my coffee (two 1kg bags of beans in a carton about 25cm on a side), and I need to order more this week. I'll do it right now...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Super Lloyd wrote: Any... mmmm... ranked enough member feel like validating my new (and short) web article?
Are you bribing the officials? That's a serious offense.
But serious, where's the bribe? What's your offer? Cash, I want cold hard cash.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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