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The whole premise of these things is send it to millions of people and most will ignore it but you'll get a few thousand grannies who fall for it.
You don't need to fool a high percentage of people, it's just brute force to find the idiots.
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WiganLatics wrote: it's just brute force to find the idiots.
A good programmer would place a known idiot at the end of the list, so the algorithm is guaranteed to return success. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And a bad programmer would accidentally leave themselves as the idiot at the end of the list, thus returning success by dumb luck!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: A good programmer would place a known idiot at the end of the list, so the algorithm is guaranteed to return success.
Don't you have that backwards? It should be
-1. Send a message to a known idiot.
0. The known idiot oOpens an e-mail from an unknown source.
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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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No, I had it right the first time.
Given that this is a brute force method to find all idiots, the output should either be a list of idiots, or a failure indication. Adding a known idiot to the list removes the need for a failure indication, thus simplifying the code.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Dammit, now you just gave my father a list of instructions.
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Sorry.
I'll simplify things for him by just giving him an account number to transfer all his money into.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Though YouTube, Facebook, and email are ubiquitous now, they all started out with a single post, profile, or message, and that first action is not always what you’d expect. For your next trivia night
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Oh gosh. Y'all remember the net in '93? white pages with blue underlined text that went to more white pages and blue underlined text. Better and depth-less from BBS system of the yester year but still. Every so once in a while for reasons unknown a gussy web page like code project will load up sans graphics like it's 1993 all over again. Freaky and disturbing to see.
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Ron Anders wrote: Y'all remember the net in '93?
And the Lord said, 'Let there be Light!' And there was blink text.
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Go scrolling marquee or go home. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Ron Anders wrote: Better and depth-less from BBS system of the yester year but still.
Imagine how fast such content would load nowadays!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Don't worry - marketers would figure out some way to slow it down!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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There is a high degree of mistrust when it comes to the technology sector managing people’s personal data. This is according to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), that got released late last week. I can't imagine why
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Why would anyone have told them anything? 
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Quote: According to the report, just six percent of the public trusts businesses in the technology sector to handle their personal data responsibly.
According to experience, more than six percent of the public has an account with Amazon (self included), Google (guilty again) or Facebook. As ever, what we know and what we do don't always add up.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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*ahem*
s/tech
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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Identifying individuals by the way their eyes detect photons could be a hugely accurate form of biometrics, guaranteed by the laws of quantum mechanics. Looks like security through looking?
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If the cat is alive and dead on the same time...
Kent Sharkey wrote: could be a hugely accurate form of biometrics,
is this going to be hugely accurate and a complete disaster on the same time as well?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Did "photon" become a euphemism for "Babe", while I wasn't looking?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It uses context awareness to make copying text on mobile less of a pain. Coming soon: screenless viewing? keyboardless typing? computerless computing?
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Yeah, I was blanking on decent "whatever whatevering". Those were the only ones to pop into my festering noggin. I think @chris-maunder needs to use that API to finally put us out of his misery.
TTFN - Kent
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A computer cannot (yet) reach the imagination of our authors. There's room for us all yet.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Aren't we already in the tabloid-reality post-truth era, where mindless mobile meandering masquerades as mentation ?
jes sayin'
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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