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Rage wrote: I yet have to find out how clicking a link on a webpage can create registry keys with all the UAC stuff running in the background - I have no admin privileges in my session - but I guess it is the point of viruses to do things that are not supposed to be possible.
They exploited a stack of vulnerabilities to break out of the Chrome tab sandbox, break out of the parent Chrome process, and then privilege escalate themselves to admin status.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Because of stories like this, I surf the internet with NoScript and AdBlock always on blocking all scripts and ads by default unless I expressly permit them for any given domain. While it does break a lot of sites completely (single-page web apps) and leaves most sites looking pretty barren, it does prevent malicious scripts from launching due to an accidental/errant click. I event wrote a small program that lets me execute an HTTP GET request against a website so I can inspect the text stream that they send back. This has, by extension, also allows me to read Forbes articles while bypassing their adblocker countermeasures.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: allows me to read Forbes articles while bypassing their adblocker countermeasures If a site is going to be that much of a putz, I can do without their material.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Jeez, this happens so often maybe someone should start an EOWOTD.
"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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There is a way to postpone it until after the 23rd?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is a way to postpone it until after the 23rd? Turns out there was a scheduling conflict. The Nibiruians double booked their planet for a collision with Earth and a gamma ray cleanse at the same time. Oopsie! They didn't have another free weekend until the 15th of October.
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I've been doing my own exhaustive research into the EOW and, using passages from various books, birth dates, ages, peoples names and other notable events, can tell you, quite categorically, that David Meade is an unmitigated idiot.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: that David Meade is an unmitigated idiot. Wait!? What!? You mean I drained my bank accounts and binged on hookers and blow for... nothing?
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Well, not for nothing...
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Now I know you're joking.
binged on hookers and blow + the missus == EOW for one Mike Mullikin.
"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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If he spent all his cash, it is EOW for the Missus as well.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Maybe, but her EOW would be A LOT less painful than his.
"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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"... so now I'm praying for the end of time..."
-- Meatloaf
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I just can't figure out why anyone would want to predict the end of the world.
Get it wrong and you look like a complete pilchard.
Get it right and you can't pick up your winnings from the bookie - worse still, you don't even get the chance to say "I told you so!"
It's a lose-lose scenario.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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David Meade is a blundering dunderheaded idiot.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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54th? wow, congratulations)
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I grew up in a religious family and there was a guy at our church who claimed to understand all of the signs of the end times. I always found it funny that the scriptures say that even the angels in heaven and Jesus don't know the time or day, but some random guy has it all figured out!
Then again, maybe he's God and the joke is on us.
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Quote: I though redshirts always died. Wink |
Not always, but mostly ... see Redshirts
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Redshirts don't just die. The reincarnate as Klingons or Nazis and later go on to make soundtracks for movies: Basil Poledouris[^]
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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modified 25-Sep-17 12:03pm.
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I wonder if they spotted that? Star Trek Discovery.
Watched it. Very underwhelming. Why did they have to change the Klingons? Again? What purpose does that serve but to disconnect the universe continuity. Further, it was all FX and action and oddly placed flashbacks. Not great, bit boring. Still, might be better when they get to the Discovery and Jason Isaacs - a great actor.
Still think The Orville is better.
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(By accident?) I watched The Orville - a knockoff series.
A good starting scene is followed by two more episodes of near complete predictability and childish dialog.
What comes to mind? Millennials, this is for you!
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