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Chris Maunder wrote: Maybe the Rise of the Machines doesn't start with a bang. Maybe it starts with lots and lots of petty little tantrums.
Sadly, I think it starts (has started!) with the whining whimpers of lots of human beings. 
Marc
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Fortunately, this is not the result of a machine's newly discovered free will. It's just the normal inability of a software developer to generate both a meaningful error message with debugging info for logging and an understandable message for the user at the same time.
Once I had to fix a web application that sent me hundreds of mails when it had a bad day, telling me that an error had occured. No information about the error, or about the place where it happened, or (god forbid) any secret information about the user's parameters so that the error could actually be reproduced.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Start worrying when it starts saying things like, "'if' is the middle word in 'life'" or, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas"!
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You know, sometimes, computers get moody, when this happens I usually, take the screwdriver and menace it with "I'm going to repair you". Works like a charm  .
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I'll remember that for next time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think the screwdriver is more for your mental health than the PC's, especially if it works, because it is really out of whack if you see it does work.
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On the other hand, I've seen the behavior of many a PC towards my wife and it appears to emote pure malevolence towards her.
The worst I've gotten is a bug in the code that I can't find, I put in print statements because I didn't have a debugger at the time, take out the print statements because the bug disappeared and the bug doesn't reappear. The worst I've gotten before that was the print statements didn't help find the bug, but it remained throughout until I finally spotted the logic error.
Generally, computer problems are between the ears of the programmer.
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Ahh... Nice to see M78 for a change. I get tired (if not bored) with images of M42/M43. Its nice to see a picture of something in Orion that isn't red!
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Construction worker escapes burning building in Texas[^] 
Get a lottery ticket man! Now!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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He kept his cool and was very lucky!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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That's a looooong way down!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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He did it right though jumping to the lower balcony, he probably could have done that all the way down. I don't know if he could have done it before the upper part collapsed though?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Yeah - rather him than me though!
Those don't look too wide, and miss one, or slip...nasty.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I agree rather thee than me but if it was a matter of burning or attempting to go down the balconies and possibly missing one I'll take the later, at least there's a chance of getting out of it.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Yeah he sure does, not sure I would have stayed that calm.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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They say that Gravity is the weak force... 
That said I am inspired to go to the gym and do pullups and leg lifts.
But there is no exercise I know of for such calm except training and character.
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It is this month's recommended reading: Clicky[^]
Finally, someone who understands!
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Personally, I think This One[^] might be better. It also - quite coincidentally - doubles as the ideal x-mas present for the entire in-law side of the family!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Whats it about? "You hit the nail on the head"? 
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Recently watched a video along similar lines. Search for 'Psychiatry an industry of death' and you'll find it.
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What a story, not sure I would want to read it though.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I don't need a book, I already have one home.
~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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