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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Does it have any ram-afications?
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It's an army life this computing thing. General Failure is the boss of Private Browsing.
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Wait until Kernel FaultCheck gets a hold of all this.
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Why he's Corporal Punishments boss, of course.
"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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You just haven't met the right people.
"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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I'd only worry about that if side-effects included blowing the kernel.
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Well, General Failure is a by product of the well-known oxymoron "Military Intelligence" and a piece of army philosophy:
- To make the right decision is commendableTo make the wrong decision is regrettable
- To make no decision at all is unforgivable
Reading your hard disk may (or may not) have been one of the few times that the first bullet describes.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: To make the right decision is commendable
To make the wrong decision is regrettableTo make no decision at all is unforgivable
+5 
Jeremy Falcon
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Please check my answer below. Its in invisible ink. Maybe I ran out of ink. I don't know.
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He's Major F***-up's boss
::edited to protect the kid sisters::
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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He is just keeping an eye on Sir Cumference.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I love the comment: “Who would have thought that there were such clever criminals in Ellesmere Port”
I guess, once it's posted, you need a court order to open it to see if it contains stolen items - and when it's delivered the best the police can do is "handling stolen property"
That's clever - if they put as much thinking into actual work instead of crime they could do really well...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds like they were doing quite well anyway! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Having worked in Ellesmere Port a few years ago, and having bought my lunch in that ASDA in many occasions, I can tell you that the usual shoplifter in that hellhole is a drug addled invertebrate that would lose in a battle of wits with a snail.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Great idea !
But their reaction is quite poor. This a great example of how people are always fighting symptoms of problems and not root causes. Plus I do not see how the provided solution (hide the envelopes behind their desk) prevent people from using the envelopes.
Bad solution idea:
- Hide the envelopes. Needs more resources to handle people needing envelopes, hides products that are to be sold from potential customer view, and openly consider customers as potential thefts.
Better solution idea:
- Scan the items that have been posted. Maybe the thieves do not always think about removing the RFID label.
- Put RFID in the envelopes. Expensive idea, but removing the RFID would destroy the envelopes.
Best solution:
- Move the post office outside of the store. The root cause of the problem is the very possibility to outsource goods from within the store. This is a no-go.
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chriselst wrote: A couple of days old this story, so risking a repost, but a brilliant idea
Novel action prompted after The Pirate Bay was raided... tsk tsk... the consequences 
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"The post office then takes it away without you going through the alarm gate."
Should still be easy to catch when the mail bag goes through; and the perps have conveniently supplied their names and addresses for the cops. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Should still be easy to catch when the mail bag goes through; and the perps have conveniently supplied their names and addresses for the cops.
I'm going to guess the post office have their own entrance so they don't have to carry bags of letters and parcels through the shoppers and main doors then walk to where the van is parked.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I find this a "fishy" story: if the staff in the music/video department were aware that customers were taking goods they had not paid for and putting them in envelopes to post to themselves, then they are accessories to crime.
I'd say the store manager was also stupid and/or negligent to allow the relocation of the packaging materials in the first place.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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While we're on the subject of code reviews, what do you guys think about sloppy code that's not formatted well? I tend to not think I'm that anal retentive, but I admit the poindexter comes out when I see sloppy code that's not kept up to a proper margin, not indented decently, old commented code left in, etc.
Oddly enough, the coders that write messy code tend to also have messy cars and homes. It's gross.
Jeremy Falcon
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However awful my code might be, at least it's properly formatted...
I agree with you; it's the same when I interview a developer that turns up looking like a homeless person: if you can't be bothered to take care of yourself, why would I believe that you'd be any different with your attitude to coding?
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