Well, I represent that remark!

Imagine a system of pre-setup responses. Death of a family member form letter where you toggle the genders, etc and send it out. Imagine you have form letters for everything from each disease you've run into, to season's greetings for every holiday.

Now imagine the whole staff is OOO for the holiday. Except Steve the intern. Steve is told to push the macro to "Send preformatted messages #111432 to the list we set up earlier." Only Steve types 11432 or 111433 or any other typo one could conceivably make. And instead of 111432, the "Seasons Greeting" message, he sent out 11432, the "I'm sorry you have cancer" form letter."

Oops.

My current UID easily passes that metric, yet it's still the third /. account I've created.

People sometimes lose access to an old account and recreate them, or they get stolen/hijacked, or other things. Just a heads up.

No, GoDaddy punted the abortion website because it was soliciting personal information for them to go after according to the new law. It was literally asking them to Dox their neighbors and upload their personal information in violation of GoDaddy's Terms of Service, just like it was in violation of the "Trump friendly" webhost's Terms of Service, which is why the second host kicked them offline as well. It wasn't political at all, it was, you broke the rules that everyone has to follow, you get to leave now.

"Double the median household income, to spend on commodities that cost the same in CA as they do everywhere else."

Sorry but that is not true. Gas alone is $5/gal or more because of all of the pollution control crap they add. Want a single burger from your local fast food shop (no fries or drink)? $8 easy.

Need to hire a babysitter? GL getting anything for under $50 for a few hours. You might not cover the babysitter's parking fees.

When they say the cost of living is higher, they don't just mean the housing. Everything is higher, because -- shocker -- everyone has to try to live in those houses, and when they work, they need to get paid enough to pay their own bills. That means businesses need to charge enough to make enough money to pay their own employees and the cost of everything goes up as a result.

Found the obvious UMN employee trying to do damage control all over the thread.

Stop replying to the obvious UMN employee trying to do damage control.

Cancel culture my ass. Its called "actions have consequences", and it's been happening for years.

People spewing "cancel culture" are just pissed off the world isn't letting them get away with their bullshit any more. They're tired of people calling them out for who they are and what they've done and then having to suffer the consequences of their own actions. Fuck em.

I would never trust a line of code coming from that university again. For life.

IIRC, they need so many because they are at a lower orbit, and will drop out from normal friction far sooner then something in geosynchronous orbit.

At geosync, part of the design is they go into a parking orbit which is actually higher when they are EOL. Starlink, as annoying as it may be for astronomers at the lower altitudes means they are going to get more friction, and without orbital corrections will deorbit sooner. Still annoying until they do, of course.

iMac:~ haize$ which sh /bin /sh
iMac:~ haize$

Please get a clue before you keep running your mouth.

I hate to say it, but they already have a "Made for iPhone" program where there are special chips the iDevices are looking for, and if they don't find it they will complain the accessory may not work properly:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/201...

Last I heard it never went past fear mongering but was still annoying. I can't remember if there was a way to disable it or not but I'm sure if so it was on by default.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

3.5 mm refers to the size of the metal connector going into the socket, not the diameter of the connector. You're likely thinking of the diameter and not the length.

That said, both are likely a concern for Apple who like to squeeze things down to the smallest micron possible then brag about it. The whole reason they are trying to get rid of SIM cards is they don't like the amount of space it takes up. Reduced functionality, be damned... It looks prettier this way....

I hate to say it, but this kind of thing happening with our strategic forces is hardly new. There is a book by a hardened anti-nuclear weapon activist named Eric Schloss that goes into a lot of similar incidences over the years. He's obviously got an anti-nuclear agenda so read the book with a grain of salt, but the stories he talks about are true and verifiable.

One such gem: At one point in time, we had a default signal that got broadcast out to all of the strategic warning centers to make sure the emergency alert systems were functioning normally. The test message was the exact same message that got sent out in event of a real nuclear emergency, with one difference. The "test" Message said the equivalent of the following:

000 Nuclear Weapons have been launched at us.

Unfortunately, due to a faulty computer chip on the sending end, one of these 0's computer errored and became a 2. Instead of the regular "test" message that was periodically sent saying "000 Nuclear weapons have been launched at us", a fault with a $.40c chip turned a 0 into a 2 and made it say this:

"200 Nuclear weapons have been launched at us."

Once the error was discovered and the cause of the fault detected, the "test" message was promptly changed afterwards.

This is one example of hundreds of similar incidences, some far more concerning then others, and most of them we don't hear about until decades after the fact. Who knows how many more are out there that have yet to be declassified.

The whole point was to avoid the ISP's crappy, overloaded servers to begin with. If the DNS server doesn't respond with an NXDOMAIN for a non existent domain, it's not worth talking to.

Ever again.

You asked how it became the "breadbasket of the nation". It became that way because they used the tons of son and the river from the irrigation canals to turn it into one of the most agriculaturally productive areas in the world.

Clueless fucking retard. Open your eyes and get a damn clue. Offtopic my ass. It was completely on topic. How about you open your fucking eyes and start paying attention you fucking moron?