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@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Red Velvet poptarts for breakfast.

Yeah those are pretty awesome, I love red velvet anything so long as it has cream cheese.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Switched to the Slate theme... looks nice

You damn kids and your white on black text, I can't do that, because switching to other windows it's so bright afterward. Black on white isn't just my favourite adult entertainment, it's the only way I can look at websites.

In all seriousness, yes, hurts my eyes even when looking at Winamp and going to a white window afterward, so I use the default "skin" for ML, except I have to zoom out to 90% because the text is too damn big, and that's with my already massive resolution

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:

I just find self-reported surveys of any sort to really be wholly unscientific. I hate them!

Yes, survey are crap. We should take a poll to see who likes them.

This is me when I read about a new "study" which proves some diet is better than the other because of self-reported survey data based upon what people think about themselves:

And that's true with other surveys similar to that as well, people are so horribly bad at reporting information about themselves, I can never take it seriously no matter what it's reporting, unless we're reporting on the kind of people who respond to surveys.

But diets and food are the worst, just ask any morbidly obese person, almost all will tell you they "don't actually eat that much" (ironic survey). People just aren't good at it.

@RojoLoco said in Best. Post. Ever.:

I'll be upset with you if ML turns into 10,000 of the same "what is best antivirus" posts.

Hopefully we will just get smart people coming over. And lots of them.

We already get "I want to start a web hosting company" posts.

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@RojoLoco said in Best. Post. Ever.:

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@aaron said in Best. Post. Ever.:

@RojoLoco said in Best. Post. Ever.:

I'll be upset with you if ML turns into 10,000 of the same "what is best antivirus" posts.

Hopefully we will just get smart people coming over. And lots of them.

@Nic could answer that one pretty swiftly!

Yeah, my actual vote is for Webroot.

We've been using it. Seems as good as anything else (we never had anything get through on other products, either) , and it so much smaller and easier to use.

The small footprint/fast scanning are my favorite parts.

Yeah, it's awesome.

So easy to install, and get going, too.

Ever try to set up whatever the Symantec product is called? Better have a priest on call.

You mean like a PadreSJ?

Misread that as a potential JS library.

@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:

@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:

I don't know of any of the gurus or anyone involved in the long hunger strikes or religious fasts that go on for decades that aren't just frauds. Plenty of them have been found to be cheating on hidden camera and so forth. There's just some things the human body is incapable of. I usually use Bobby Sands as a measuring tool, if it was longer than that I'm sceptical, but if it's longer than the morbidly obese guy who drink nothing but water and took vitamins for 1 year for the BBC or Channel 4 years ago, then I pretty much say: it's a lie, they're full of it.

16 years? Yeah right. Not only that, like @RojoLoco said, it was a waste, the goal wasn't even accomplished, so why is this failure even talked about?

My honest guess is, she just got tired of hiding her food eating and lying about it, maybe she wants to go out to eat at restaurants or something,.

This is the real deal, m8 ... btw ... just because she's ended her fast, does not mean that she has stopped fighting against AFSPA (Armed Force Special Powers Act) .. AFPSA was introduced by the Indian Govt. to give the Army, so called "Special Powers" in certain areas termed as "Disturbed"... AFSPA gives anyone from the the armed forces, right such as

"After giving due warning, an officer is allowed to open fire or use other kinds of force even if it causes death."

"To arrest anyone without warrant who has committed cognizable offences or is reasonably suspected of having done so. "

"Army officers have legal immunity for their actions. There can be no prosecution, suit or any other legal proceeding against anyone acting under AFSPA."

"This draconian law is widely misused by the armed forces .. There have been numerous instances where innocent civilians have been killed, arrested & tortured, and woman raped... "

What Irom will now do is fight as being part of the system, rather than fro the outside ..

Just because I criticise her fast as pretty much impossible, does not mean I am defending this law at all, I never defended it or said it was a good thing, so don't move the goal posts, poison the well, etc. I want to know how someone could have essentially no calorie intake for 16 years and still look pretty healthy when even anorexics who basically do the same thing do not, even though many of them eat from time to time. Yeah, and magic isn't real so it's bull plop.

Her nonsense and lies have nothing to do with the law, on top of the fact she really didn't accomplish her goal, that's an indisputable fact, so it was a waste of time. The goal of her fast was to remove the law, it didn't, what else can be said?

just because she's ended her fast, does not mean that she has stopped fighting against AFSPA

Uh, yeah, I believe it does, when her stated goal for the fast was to remove the law, the law is not removed, so she stops the fast and then says she'll continue to fight it in politics; I'm not sure how else anyone could possibly interpret that.

If she's not fasting anymore, it does mean she's ended her fast, that's how fasting works.

Let's hope as a politician she can do some actual good though, and I'm being serious about that, I'm not being sarcastic at all.

@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:

@tonyshowoff ... Narrow & unenlightened

Well, I'm sorry that you think being broad and enlightened requires believing a fraud. This is a thing both my culture and Indian culture share in common that I dislike: people believe absolute frauds all the time, never question them, and in fact to question them means to believe in whatever they're opposing.

If enlightenment means that I have to believe a little girl can see your insides with her eyes (here) or that someone can fast longer than most anorexics live with even less calorie intake and still look healthy (there) then count me out, I'll stay unenlightened and stick to science.

Fight the law, but do it right and where it matters. It is a barbaric set of laws and again her clearly, blatantly obvious fraud has nothing to do with the law, other than making it seem like only frauds care about it, and to clarify this because I know you'll intentionally misinterpret it: I'm saying it can create a perception of that, not that literally only frauds care, so don't bother.

@Veet Ugh spare me if you aren't going to actually response to the points instead of just saying you don't like them, please don't reply to me.

I don't think you know what poser means.

Here's a woman who has had anorexia for 10 years, that's roughly only 2/3rds the amount of time, and she's had food and IVs forced on her as well:

Explain to me how this woman lasted 16 years and is pretty damn healthy looking.

Plus IV drips won't make you plump and healthy, that's not how they work.

@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:

She inspired other around the country to take-up this cause .. If not in her state, the govt. did withdraw AFSPA from several other regions ..

Is that the whole story or is this like a Gandhi thing where someone gets far more credit and we ignore a bunch of other things going on?

@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:

also, have you guys in the WEST heard of Yoga ?

Yes, house wives everywhere do it very poorly, but the pants look great.

And if you're going to suggest Yoga can make someone not starve to death, please don't.

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

It's still happening in real time, now.

Yep, I'm up to 1,544

Insanity. I wonder if anyone is talking about it (other than us.)

Well, I spent several minutes just trying to find the appropriate forums earlier, but nobody had posted about it. I don't think anyone knows. I truly do not understand how the Korean thing repeatedly happened, and now this.

I wonder too, it's been years of this as a continuous problem. It seems like it would be easy to fix.

I can assure you, it is, we had (as you can easily imagine) a huge spam problem years ago before we implemented what I mentioned before. Spam does get through, but very rarely, and given there's a few hundred thousand people even active even on the least busy days of the year (Christmas, New Years, etc) there's always people reporting stuff, and if an account is new, it's automatically flagged and hidden for moderation later... if reported by a trusted account. There's a system based upon time, contribution, etc that I completely ripped off from Stackoverflow, though if you become a subscription member (no ads, certain HD videos through partners) then it skips all that crap and I trust you implicitly because you give me money.

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

It's still happening in real time, now.

Yep, I'm up to 1,544

Insanity. I wonder if anyone is talking about it (other than us.)

Well, I spent several minutes just trying to find the appropriate forums earlier, but nobody had posted about it. I don't think anyone knows. I truly do not understand how the Korean thing repeatedly happened, and now this.

I wonder too, it's been years of this as a continuous problem. It seems like it would be easy to fix.

I can assure you, it is, we had (as you can easily imagine) a huge spam problem years ago before we implemented what I mentioned before. Spam does get through, but very rarely, and given there's a few hundred thousand people even active even on the least busy days of the year (Christmas, New Years, etc) there's always people reporting stuff, and if an account is new, it's automatically flagged and hidden for moderation later... if reported by a trusted account. There's a system based upon time, contribution, etc that I completely ripped off from Stackoverflow, though if you become a subscription member (no ads, certain HD videos through partners) then it skips all that crap and I trust you implicitly because you give me money.

We had the same issue here and fixed it quickly as well. And then deleted the accounts that were created to do it to clean things up.

Oh definitely, the more clever bots will sit on accounts for long periods so we purge unused accounts regularly.

Yup, same here. If an old, idle account looks suspicious, we purge them so that they don't flag as spammable later.

We can't really look at them, because there are about 2,000 account creations per day, so it's automated. The job to clean them out runs once a day, but only deletes accounts which created no content (no uploads, no comments) and haven't been active in 30 days. I think we delete probably 90 per day on average through that.

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

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@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

It's still happening in real time, now.

Yep, I'm up to 1,544

Insanity. I wonder if anyone is talking about it (other than us.)

Well, I spent several minutes just trying to find the appropriate forums earlier, but nobody had posted about it. I don't think anyone knows. I truly do not understand how the Korean thing repeatedly happened, and now this.

I wonder too, it's been years of this as a continuous problem. It seems like it would be easy to fix.

I can assure you, it is, we had (as you can easily imagine) a huge spam problem years ago before we implemented what I mentioned before. Spam does get through, but very rarely, and given there's a few hundred thousand people even active even on the least busy days of the year (Christmas, New Years, etc) there's always people reporting stuff, and if an account is new, it's automatically flagged and hidden for moderation later... if reported by a trusted account. There's a system based upon time, contribution, etc that I completely ripped off from Stackoverflow, though if you become a subscription member (no ads, certain HD videos through partners) then it skips all that crap and I trust you implicitly because you give me money.

We had the same issue here and fixed it quickly as well. And then deleted the accounts that were created to do it to clean things up.

Oh definitely, the more clever bots will sit on accounts for long periods so we purge unused accounts regularly.

Yup, same here. If an old, idle account looks suspicious, we purge them so that they don't flag as spammable later.

We can't really look at them, because there are about 2,000 account creations per day, so it's automated. The job to clean them out runs once a day, but only deletes accounts which created no content (no uploads, no comments) and haven't been active in 30 days. I think we delete probably 90 per day on average through that.

Still small enough to not automate here, although that's rapidly becoming impossible.

That's a good problem to have though

Add ReCAPTCHA or something, jeeze!

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sure! Kids are in bed, and i felt the need to check Mangolassi.

Wild summer nights, am I right?

I just noticed at least the UK English dictionary for Chrome has "t*tties"

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Serena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38464603

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:

That is just nuts -

http://www.nbc12.com/story/34143793/residents-on-scnc-line-prepare-for-life-in-new-state-after-border-shift

Wow. Several people being forcibly moved from a democracy to a non-democracy isn't cool.

Think they'll make it a special economic zone like Hong Kong?

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/myth-authoritarian-competence-turkey-strongman/570514/

The attempted coup was a missed opportunity. Now if this was reddit I'd have to worry about being swamped by Turks like in World War Z telling me how stupid I am.