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Oh, We'll not get rid of them completely, short of sending round large gentlemen with baseball bats - many members makes too big and tempting a target.
But the shorter the spam lasts, the less we get - spam farms are paid for success, not failure. So with luck they will go elsewhere. It's what, a year or so since the last flood of baba rubbish?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My word, that was quick! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Boom!
Done, deleted and gone.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Lovely.
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"Chappesses"?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Female chaps - you know, the ones with the lumpy chests and no facial hair. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127230/facebook-data-documents-parliament-deals-zuckerberg
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf
Let's pause any action for now until we have internal discussions about this tomorrow. I
should have better guidance for you Friday/next Monday. Don't be anxious - we'll do the
right thing to take care of this. Thanks!
Extra extra ... we have this API for sale.. you can suck a users data along with his friends ... read all about it ..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
modified 5-Dec-18 11:36am.
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I am shocked. I thought they were our friends.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Anyone else just read the subject line and concluded "duh--it's their entire business model"...?
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Does a computer get drunk if you use too many screen shots?
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We don't have those problems in our lab. We have way too many smoke tests.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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OriginalGriff wrote: too many screen shots?
Of Hack Daniels probably.
"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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Only if has a database-and-gin on it.
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Never mind the computer; think of all the drunk drivers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not where I work. The morons folks who send me screen shots take pictures with their phone.
In portrait orientation.
From three feet away.
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So - you seem to be having problems with the mental acuity of users whose cell phone is permanently affixed to their paw and the only active interface between their 'mind' and the rest of the world is aforementioned phone. (?)
OK - but what's the surprising part? At least they didn't text you the screenshot as an emoticon.
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The problem comes in when they complain that the text on a button is 3 pixels too far to the right.
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Not the Black Bars! Noooooo..... 
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I've seen all kinds of ridiculous, or so I thought. But this?! I'm just sorry for you mate.
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Thanks, Rajesh. The sad part is, most of these are pretty sharp guys as far as our hardware goes (we make commercial ink-jet printers).
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think I know what you're talking about. 
I work with scientists here, and I feel like an complete idiot (and rightfully so) around them most of the time because they're bloody good at what they do.
But then there's that odd instance when you'd see one of them either talking about how they'd like software components to interact, or actually doing it, and that would make me want to jab a fork into my eyes.
It does make sense in some way, given that they're not software engineers but are scientists. If they were any better with software, I'd not be having this job, so I'm happy for them to remain in that eccentric way with software related problems. 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: I work with scientists here
I worked with a scientist once on a consulting project. He had written some C code for some calculations that he was very proud of, and insisted I use his code in the simulation I was writing for the company. After a never-ending series of crashes in his stuff, I reverse-engineered it (no comments, natch) and rewrote it, complete with comments. The simulation started running without crashes, and was significantly faster to boot. The Mad Doctor was miffed but impressed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It depends on how much RUM they have.
I meant RUM...
Sorry -RUM
Dammit - memory.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Don't know, but now I'm thirsty.
I'm sure I've drank a screen shot or two before, but for some reason I can't recall
Though, seriously, now I wonder if someone has already created a drink with that name.
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I've no time toddy to talk about this.
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