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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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      @JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        I find that British spellings, while often crazy, are a little more straightforward because they have more phonetic spelling rules than American English has.

        Except for clerk, why does that get pronounced clark?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
          last edited by

          @JaredBusch said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

          It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.

          That is my guess, but it seems so oddly localized that I am suspicious.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said:

            @JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

            Right, but now that it has been accepted as a word, not just an acronym, and defined as a z sound, it should be spelled appropriately.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said:

                I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.

                huh, now that one I've never heard of before... thanks.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Me either. Totally new to me.

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    Me either. Totally new to me.

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                    • stacksofplatesS
                      stacksofplates
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                      So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @stacksofplates
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                        @johnhooks said:

                        So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                        Hahahahahahahahahahaha

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                          last edited by

                          @johnhooks said:

                          So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                          That's awesome!

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @stacksofplates
                            last edited by

                            @johnhooks said:

                            So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                            Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @Dashrender said:

                              @johnhooks said:

                              So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                              Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                              Yeah, most likely this would not be a client I want for this reason.

                              I mean I will give them a chance, but if they try to cheap out like this, they will not likely pay my bill.

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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @Dashrender said:

                                @johnhooks said:

                                So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @stacksofplates
                                  last edited by

                                  @johnhooks said:

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  @johnhooks said:

                                  So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                  Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                  I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                  Awww, so a one time engagement.

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                                  • Minion QueenM
                                    Minion Queen Banned @stacksofplates
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                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    @Dashrender said:

                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                    Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                    I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                    Smart

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                                      @johnhooks said:

                                      @Dashrender said:

                                      @johnhooks said:

                                      So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                      Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                      I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                      They'll be back 😉

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                                      • Reid CooperR
                                        Reid Cooper @stacksofplates
                                        last edited by

                                        @johnhooks said:

                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        @johnhooks said:

                                        So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                        Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                        I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                        That's, um, great. How did they take the news that they had been scammed?

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                                        • RamblingBipedR
                                          RamblingBiped
                                          last edited by

                                          Wasting my time trying to file a phishing complaint with GoDaddy.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            Sounds like fun. It came from their servers?

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