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Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Endless Mike posted:

sprung the gently caress out of that trap

i know who i am

now you have to know, too

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Shame Boy posted:

i looked that book up once and read most of it, it's mostly a weird advertisement for those windows home server things, presumably in anticipation of them taking off and being a hugely popular product

i have one, it was a giveaway from a Microsoft IT event when Home Server launched.

man that was a hilarious clusterfuck of a product

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

infernal machines posted:

man that was a hilarious clusterfuck of a product

it was a cool idea with no obvious market

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
well it came out just before cheap consumer grade arm based NAS boxes that could run apps became a thing. the way it was presented it was meant for computer weirds to deploy in the basement and it would stream video and store music and back up your PCs and give you remote access to your stuff

the oems all made like one generation of appliance hardware for it and then gave up because no one was going to spend that much money to have a fileserver at home

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


quote:

In one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a “whale” – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders. The child had entered a credit card number to play a game, and in about two weeks racked up thousands of dollars in charges, according to an excerpt of messages between two employees at the social media giant.

Gillian: Would you refund this whale ticket? User is disputing ALL charges…

Michael: What’s the users total lifetime spend?

Gillian: It’s $6,545 – but card was just added on Sept. 2. They are disputing all of it I believe. That user looks underage as well. Well, maybe not under 13.

Michael: Is the user writing in a parent, or is this user a 13ish year old

Gillian: It’s a 13ish yr old. says its 15. looks a bit younger. she* not its. Lol.

Michael: … I wouldn’t refund

Gillian: Oh that’s fine. cool. agreed. just double checking

Facebook often failed to send receipts for these purchases, and links on the company’s website to dispute charges frequently failed to work, according to court records. A Facebook employee is quoted describing their attempt to dispute a charge.

“I was stuck in an infinite-loop of questions just today,” the employee wrote. “It feels like the form is this Frankenstein beast that we’ve bolted together.”

Intel&Sebastian posted:

It's called Ephebofraud

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

infernal machines posted:

well it came out just before cheap consumer grade arm based NAS boxes that could run apps became a thing. the way it was presented it was meant for computer weirds to deploy in the basement and it would stream video and store music and back up your PCs and give you remote access to your stuff

the oems all made like one generation of appliance hardware for it and then gave up because no one was going to spend that much money to have a fileserver at home

yeah weren’t they like 3 grand and up? I remember on review basically said “it’s like they designed a product line exclusively for microsoft employees to buy with their company discount”

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

infernal machines posted:

well it came out just before cheap consumer grade arm based NAS boxes that could run apps became a thing. the way it was presented it was meant for computer weirds to deploy in the basement and it would stream video and store music and back up your PCs and give you remote access to your stuff

the oems all made like one generation of appliance hardware for it and then gave up because no one was going to spend that much money to have a fileserver at home

cheap consumer nas boxes were a thing but they sucked real bad. think buffalo terastation

it was a genuinely cool idea, but the market for home-ONLY fileservers is pretty small. at least buffalo could target small offices as well as homes.

the Microsoft of that era was not going to risk cannabilizing small business sales to make a better product/market fit

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
there were a bunch of small business focused tech shops that started deploying them in places that previously just had workgroups and some rando machine with fileshares on it.

it was real bad


qirex posted:

yeah weren’t they like 3 grand and up? I remember on review basically said “it’s like they designed a product line exclusively for microsoft employees to buy with their company discount”

anything with a decent amount of storage in it was pricey.

also nothing worked very well. their storage spaces JBOD type thing was just a horrific mess of hacks and god help you if anything got out of whack. also gutting half of server 2003, then pasting in a bunch of otherwise unsupported tools did not result in a stable os that could accept windows updates well

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



mystes posted:

Lol if you eat something called "parmesan cheese" and not Parmigiano-Reggiano.

pecorino is better anyway

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

El_Elegante posted:

There's a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired by that same French excellence.

*falls over drunk*

that mental image of orson welles wagging his finger at the bottle popped in and i laughed out loud

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

Munkeymon posted:

pecorino is better anyway

sure, if you can handle the horrid aftertaste.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




jfc

:thermidor:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



El_Elegante posted:

There's a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired by that same French excellence.

*falls over drunk*

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

that mental image of orson welles wagging his finger at the bottle popped in and i laughed out loud

also :same:

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

quote:

The village of Champagne, Switzerland, has traditionally made a still wine labelled as "Champagne", the earliest records of viticulture dated to 1657. In an accord with the EU, the Swiss government conceded in 1999 that by 2004 the village would phase out use of the name. Sales dropped from 110,000 bottles a year to 32,000 after the change. In April 2008 the villagers resolved to fight against the restriction following a Swiss open-air vote.
hosed up if true

I live in the town literally next to champagne. can confirm this is true. also their town hall burned a year or so ago. also that's where I met me ex milf

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



is that a... mom you no longer want to gently caress?

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Sniep posted:

do you know how many ladles full it takes to fill a soup bowl from the ranch tub?

like, dozens of ladles full

and people just stood there, with purpose, dunking ladle after ladle into a bowl till it was full of ranch

they were probably going to take it home for later

after all, they probably always need more ranch

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


Krankenstyle posted:

is that a... mom you no longer want to gently caress?

how did you know?

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
ashley interviewee jack “joseph goebbels” dorsey and it’s very good

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1086001133481541632

https://twitter.com/pblest/status/1086006852536750081

heated game moment
Oct 30, 2003

Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1086249171240316928

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
online services scam? gently caress up if true

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

quote:

According to 23andMe's findings, Charlsie has nearly 10 per cent less "broadly European" ancestry than Carly. She also has French and German ancestry (2.6 per cent) that her sister doesn't share.

The identical twins also apparently have different degrees of Eastern European heritage — 28 per cent for Charlsie compared to 24.7 per cent for Carly. And while Carly's Eastern European ancestry was linked to Poland, the country was listed as "not detected" in Charlsie's results.

sounds one of the test runs gave up at “broadly European” and the other got more specific?

refleks
Nov 21, 2006



Feel like you skipped the best part of the exchange:

And is there any situation at all in which you would decide to delete the site?

Now I remember why I unfollowed you! Because that’s all you DM me, “delete the site.”

Well, that’s ... Maybe half the time.

But how is that going to help?

That’s the question, though. Is there a situation where you would just decide that it’s better to be free of this?

Should we just delete all the negative things in the world?

Are you saying Twitter is a negative thing?

Well, that’s what you’re assuming when you say that.

Not necessarily.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

refleks posted:

Feel like you skipped the best part of the exchange:

And is there any situation at all in which you would decide to delete the site?

Now I remember why I unfollowed you! Because that’s all you DM me, “delete the site.”

https://twitter.com/dril/status/247222360309121024?s=21

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

hobbesmaster posted:

sounds one of the test runs gave up at “broadly European” and the other got more specific?

weird that the process wouldn't be deterministic. sounds like their genetic profiling might be really lovely rather than what ever system they're using to categorise the dna.

different results across different providers isn't very surprising though because they're all going to be using a variety of proprietary data as the basis of their tests and it's all more vague guesswork than actual science.

Chalks fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 18, 2019

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



ya theyre looking for various markers in the dna, and a bunch of the markers are private to the company (probably based in part on the tests they receive). so company A might be good at matching Europeans but company B good at Asians, or whatever.

doesnt explain why their test is so lovely that the same company gives different results for the twins though

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
gotta wonder how much variance there is if you send in two different samples for the same person

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Jabor posted:

gotta wonder how much variance there is if you send in two different samples for the same person

identical twins have identical dna

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Krankenstyle posted:

identical twins have identical dna

not quite, article says 99.6%.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Jabor posted:

gotta wonder how much variance there is if you send in two different samples for the same person

that's effectively what you're doing with identical twins

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
they’re identical twins, they came out of the same set of sperm and ovary they should have the same loving ancestry

proving once more that these tests are bullshit and the ultimate goal is to sell DNA data to pharma companies and law enforcement

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

qirex posted:

"sando" is haram

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



hobbesmaster posted:

not quite, article says 99.6%.

welp

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009


It's close enough to make no difference. I bet the dna sequencing for one of the twins hosed up and all they were able to make of it was "european maybe?"

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
probably human, possibly a banana

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


FrozenVent posted:

they’re identical twins, they came out of the same set of sperm and ovary they should have the same loving ancestry

proving once more that these tests are bullshit and the ultimate goal is to sell DNA data to pharma companies and law enforcement

Even if they weren't identical, you'd get the same thing. They both have identical parents! It should be same between siblings of the same parents to begin with!

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
which is the better sandwich

cuban or reuben

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

that mental image of orson welles wagging his finger at the bottle popped in and i laughed out loud

what kills me is the shrill “ahhhhhhhhhh the frrrench champagne” as if it has snuck up on him and is preparing to kill him

makes me laugh every time

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

graph posted:

which is the better sandwich

cuban or reuben

Cuban

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

iospace posted:

Even if they weren't identical, you'd get the same thing. They both have identical parents! It should be same between siblings of the same parents to begin with!

statistically they’re the same though, one is just more specific than the other?

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

graph posted:

which is the better sandwich

cuban or reuben

gently caress lol

imo a good cuban is better but it's easier to find a decent reuben

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