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@Burgi in the ~~american knockofff~~ battlebots 2 of the knockouts in the last round were exploding batteries

bwDraco

12:34 AM

Keywords:

"error message" "blue screen of death" "safely" "security risk" "maliciously" "virus" "infected" "official guide" "problem"

!!/wiki Spamdexing

ChatBot John Cavil

Spamdexing

In computing, spamdexing (also known as search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat SEO, search spam or web spam) is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It involves a number of methods, such as repeating unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system. It could be considered to be a part of search engine optimization, though there are many search engine optimization methods that improve the quality and appearance of the content of web sites and serve content useful to...

bwDraco

!!/wiki Keyword stuffing

ChatBot John Cavil

Keyword stuffing

Keyword stuffing is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique, in which a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content of a web page. Keyword stuffing may lead to a website being banned or penalized in search ranking on major search engines either temporarily or permanently. The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags. == History == Keyword stuffing had been used in the past to obtain top search engine rankings and visibility for particular phrases. This method is outdated and adds no value to rankings today. In particular...

12:49 AM

sigh. My mom updated her phone after ages, and everything is different

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

@Bob yup

Also, I need to switch my moto G back to the stock rom for a bit, since apparently the phone can't read the sim card sometimes

you sure it's not just a loose holder? happens fairly often

Both sim card slots, and its a known bug

and the moto G dosen't get used except as a placeholder phone so whatsapp sees a phone.

I did get a cheap 20 dollar/3 month sim card to test, but meh, I have some other experiments planned for it too

._.

Blackberry is badge engineering alcatel.

1:14 AM

wat

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/…

1:47 AM

@Burgi I think the robot wars format is better than battlebots

(<3 the mass meelees)

Also more options for mission kills over just blowing shit up (like tossing people down the hole)

and the general grungy low budgetness of everything

and the lack of PERSON YELLING THE ANNOUUUNNNNCEEEMENNNTSSSSSS

2:23 AM

\o/ though I had bricked my moto. IT LIVES AGAIN

2:38 AM

looks like my sim card slots are slightly borked

My fault but I'm not planning on using it as a phone so, meh

@JourneymanGeek Yay!

@JourneymanGeek Wait, did you pay 20 USD for the carrier plan, or for the plastic little square?

@ThatBrazilianGuy 18 dollars stored value

I can buy SIM cards here for 1USD on kiosks

Which I have 3 months to use after I activate it

Ooooh I see.

2:43 AM

which I haven't yet so I'll just blow it if I suddenly need more data

@ThatBrazilianGuy we don't have 'no value' prepaid sims or burner sims ;p

else I'd have just bought one with no value

I also want to mess with asterix and my mom's old phone is supported so meh

I'll get my money's worth ;)

@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah, that ain't happening here

fears or terrorism and loan sharks

and pokemon

I just read some conspiracy theory on facebook on Pokemon Go, Niantic and the NSA

Years ago I'd say "yeah, right, tinfoil hats, blah blah". Nowadays...

2:47 AM

mothership.sg/2016/07/…

Besides, the guy provided (supposed) links to official sources and TOSs

Let me see if it was in english or portuguese

> 1° Pokemon Go was founded by: John Hanke
2° He also founded the: Keyhole Inc.
3° Keyhole Inc is a project that made it possible to Google create the the Google Maps/Earth and Street view.
4° That Keyhole Inc was sponsored by the company In-Q-tel, which is a CIA company founded in 1999.
5° So far, it looks like CIA has indirectly access to all our surfaces maps, right? who knows? what would be better? if they get the access to inside our houses.
6° In the last couple weeks they released the Pokemon Go start-up.

(...)sources:
http://bit.ly/2aek3JD
http://bit.ly/29A7iFu
https://twitter.com/zergulio

Disclaimer: I haven't verified a single statement yet.

Let's start:

> *How the gurus behind Google Earth created 'Pokémon Go' - Mashable*
(...) John Hanke, the CEO and founder of Niantic, is a Google veteran (...)

Ok, so far, so good, Niantic, Ingress, Pokemon Go, are all about geomapping. Duh.

> Prior to joining Google, Hanke founded and was CEO at Keyhole, Inc.. Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, at which point Keyhole's flagship product was renamed to Google Earth

Ok, so the guy who create what would be bought by Google to become Google Earth, is the same guy who created Niantic/Ingress/Pokemon Go.

Ingress was batlantly obvious, to anyone with more than one neuron, a move to crowdsource geolocation data.

Not necessarily, inherently evil, per se. One could say it's suspicious.

> In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[9] The stocks were a result of Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, the CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.

@JourneymanGeek I don't really have a USB key I wanna dedicate to this, and I kinda want to keep it for the future D:

@Ariane "this"?

The Windows 10 install disc

Ok, so In-Q-Tel partially funded Google Earth. Seventeen years ago, FFS!

3:01 AM

(I was replying your previous tag)

@Ariane you can keep the ISO, and the USB key 'once' for the install

@Ariane No, this is a reply.

@Ariane this is just a ping, or watheveriscalled.

@ThatBrazilianGuy I don't even know how to do that

@Ariane What?

That reply thing.

@JourneymanGeek That's... smart.

3:03 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy the advantages may not be that direct. With something like google maps/keyhole, the tools are the important thing. As is the technology. CIA makes money for black ops and other things through something like this, encourages US technological development and has tools they can use.

Do you want to task a US Spy sat for non realtime looksees of say, something that never changes?

or make google pay for it, and grab a topo map easily at their cost?

Ingress as groundsourced geomapping makes sense for google

but people arn't going play ingress in say, afganistan or DAESH controlled parts of the middle east.

What I mean is, although factually correct, I think this information is mostly scaremongering.

Quite often its how you interpret information

Not because we have nothing to worry, but because I think we should worry about things like net neutrality, privacy laws, etc etc

da

Government and private agencies giving themselves the right to snoop our information and use gag laws to prevent business from even telling us they do that

3:08 AM

or your courts randomly holding web services to ransom so they'd cough up data that they've specifically designed themselves not to release

This has been going on for some time and no one needs Pokemon Go to achieve that

Although, in the context of what I said, yeah, Pokemon Go is kinda creepy.

But again, all those Android permissions 99,9999999% of the world click yes is equally creepy.

We live in crepy orwellian times and it's not going away.

Tfw I'm pretty sure I plugged that big USB3 cord onto my motherboard but the only USB3 port on my PC doesn't work.

Well, on the front of it.

@JourneymanGeek That's straight out of some distopian futuristic comedy.

@ThatBrazilianGuy Like what? I don't remember seeing anything especially alarming in the permissions I was asked for.

@ThatBrazilianGuy Brazil?

3:18 AM

i am alarmed by all the permissions that any program has asked for :-) WTF you need that, and this and that, and why this? while most of it is explained away we truely keep and over and over again, give up everything. ahh someday you might want it back, but then it is too late.

Eh, really? I don't think I've not understood a permission so far.

would it be so wrong to have a optionable list? Ok dont want that program to do this or that, sooo No!

how many programs have you given permission to your entire address book in the phone?

how many of them did you read the entirety of the TOU , before giving permissions ?

Every program that has a contact linking function I guess?

No one ever reads the Terms of Use. They're not even actually legal in my country

@Ariane Install xprivacy and watch closely all the permission some apps will ask

Also nowadays Android asks for most permissions at the exact moment when the app needs them, no?

3:22 AM

There are flashlight apps that record your audio.

@Ariane Android 6 supposedly does that. Android 5, not really.

xprivacy is a root tool that does exactly that, not only for builtin permissions but for many system calls.

Well, my phone does. I go to send someone a picture I take right now, and I get asked if I want to give X app access to my camera

@JourneymanGeek Now that's a movie I've been meaning to watch for ages

@Ariane You either have Android 6 or someone installed xprivacy on your phone

And ehm, there's also the idea of avoiding obviously suspicious apps. Flashlight? Audio? Eh no.

you don't really need a flashlight app these days

you can access it from the drag down settings toggle menu

@ThatBrazilianGuy Ah yes Android 6 it is.

3:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek It was just an example. It's ubiquotous.

@JourneymanGeek I guess some people still have old phones.

!! s/still have old phones/don't buy a new phone every year/

@ThatBrazilianGuy Or pick a brand that gives you more than 18 months of updates ;)

18 months is actually pretty good.

@Ariane Okay. .____.

Peoples, it's 0:24am and I have to go sleep.

3:26 AM

My mom's xiomi still gets updates, and its about the same age as my moto G

@Ariane they all do that, right before they come out with the new model, and DUMP the old ones.

@Psycogeek Not Nexus or Moto, AFAIK

Like, I panicked when one of my websites wasn't working on my mom's friend's iPad. iOS 7 damn it. Update, once in a century, please.

@JourneymanGeek I think the Galaxy S4 I used for a while went up to Android 5.x. I was somewhat impressed.

i had a motorolla flip it never got a single update ever, half the problem was the telecom that also abandonded it. From what i have seen i would rather be at some ?.9 version anyways. the truely fully tested and solidified. vrses the wizz bang new , we havent quite worked out all the bugs ?.1 version.

3:42 AM

I was looking at the americansolarchallenge.org Solar car challenge, all solar , with batteries , no hybrid or combustion, long ralley. Things like this need to instead be CannonBall Run style instead. How does anyone advance or learn anything new when all the designs, and paperwork and everything is so confined and stock? plus the entry fees, apon fees, apon fees.

They might as well add one more huge fee and supply the pre-defined proper marketed solar products to the students. it could then be produced by Lego :-P

they could replace the word Challenge , with Scholastic hype safety confinement payment :-)

oh and they have to have 1 million in insurance too

4:02 AM

Hello guys

I'm with a friend right now, who's managing that tech competition in my school

He wants some more innovative levels for the hacking challenge

Any ideas?

4:14 AM

!!rconfused

Is the bot dead??

@Rahul2001 how long is it right now anyway?

I still don't know if you've fixed that bug yet

5:17 AM

"Each zip contains ROM and Kernel only. Radio Firmware are available seperately here."

Oh. Reading comprehension fail

I don't have time today tho, dropping by the 'official' government jobs assistance place today

5:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek Still no luck? :(

Not yet, no

hesus christa , online banking made easy huh. literally 160 Pages of tou and service agreement legalese trash, with cute fee numbers interdisperced throughout. 60 pages on the front, and 37 links to other pages. about 2% of which are "my rights" the rest are your loss of rights , services or expressed acuracy etc etc.

to imagine that a mere 65 years ago, a mere microbe of time, an entire ranch house and harvest loan was done with a handshake and enforced with a gun. i am thinking that death on non-payment qualifies as being much easier.

plus i left the bank with a booklet, a 48 Page booklet that is printed edge to edge in an 8pt font, Plus i have to forcably Opt-Out of marketing crap, as opposed to opt-in.

there is another 28 pages beyond the booklet. How the f--- is anybody going to get anything Done in todays day and age, where doing any single simple task garners one with 3 Hours of Lawyer speek crap designed solely to absolve them and take from you.

5:55 AM

@Bob hopefully this gives me a few leads

Paying a monthly fee to get spammed , and have your secure finantial information handed out to thier affiliates and marketeers?
Gads has it been that long since I signed up for a new account, yes it has, i made only like 12% of these agreements from my last checking account.
the world went to hell again when i wasnt looking.

@JourneymanGeek Good luck!

@Bob Friday's the actual job fair meet and greet thing. Today I'm talking to someone who's a 'job coach'

to top off the bank crasyness, people are now reflecting that when they needed cash, the green stuff to do a person to person transaction, they had to go to 2 branches to make a withdrawl to buy a used RV. bank doesnt have 10K in cash ??? What is the safe for? looks .

to add to, the "patriot act" Aka the nazifying of america for terrorism act, now has requirements for bank accounts. they must be attached to a valid address, and some stuff about NSA being able to access the data anytime.

Used to be people would just grab bank accounts for funzie things, like "Christmass account" or Travel account , paypal seperate account, kids college account. they were simple things to set up and could have "friendly names" on them, like "X-mas for the Smiths".

6:41 AM

A lot of the people here are older folk. Also the office space I'm in is this weird mix of startup and government installation. There's these weird oval cylinder pods here.

7:23 AM

hello I have a problem with my keyboard and i posted this question long ago with some name which i don't remember but the problem is quite weird. The keys which are not working are z x c v m , . / 2 5 shift i thought this will be hardware issue but when i press shift+b+v i get 6 typed on, so should i post this on main site but i doubt that this question i have asked but didn't get solution?

@DeNiSkA
1/ Have you tried with a different keyboard?
2/ Does the onscreen keyboard work properly?
3/ Have you restarted your PC?
4/ Does the keyboard work in the BIOS?

1) Other keyboards work fine
2) yeah onscreen keyboard works fine
3)lol! yes
4)No it doesn't work in BIOS

time to replace the keyboard

@DeNiSkA Then the answer is clear.
1/ If you have a laptop check the keyboard connector cable is not damaged or loose (note the design of some laptops causes wear on that cable).
2/ If the above doesn't fix it then replace your keyboard.

@Bob It could be the cable ...

oh, it means i have to open my laptop?

7:35 AM

@DavidPostill if it's the cable then that's still a keyboard replacement

at least the laptop keyboards I've seen have the cable permanently attached to the keyboard

@Bob Ah. OK.

could be a loose connection between the cable and board, I suppose

but then that shouldn't only affect a specific row

sounds like a short on the board itself, or a failed IC, etc.

anyway... won't hurt to try reconnecting it as @DavidPostill suggested, but plan for a replacement

this question looks quite similar

oh yea, forgot that laptop keyboards often don't put the controllers on the boards themselves

Nick

Could I bore you with a stupid small question. I'm on my lab system, I turned mouse keys on but it's only working as arrow keys work (ie, not moving my cursor)

7:38 AM

@DeNiSkA Yes, and the answer says check the connector like what I already said.

@Nick hit numlock

morning

@Bob @Nick Not too hard or you might break it. Pressing it gently works better for me :)

morning

if i replace keyboard should i backup first or no need(i don't know much about laptops)

@DeNiSkA Yes, you will have to open your laptop. Or get a repair tech to do it for you.

Nick

7:41 AM

@Bob Thanks, i did tha bt it was moving so slow I didnt notic.

@DeNiSkA You should always have backups :)

@DavidPostill blog.parts-people.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/…

hmm, i have backup for games only ;P but i think now i should do for other files also

HP and Dell use that style

how did canonical manage to convince SE to host their forums for them?

7:42 AM

FFC with a ZIF connector on the mobo

The keyboard side of the cable is more or less permanently attached

@Burgi $$$

good point, well made

Nick

@DavidPostill Breaking it wouldn't be too bad for the world. This keyboard is crap.

8:05 AM

i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/10/… Weird thought, if moses could part the red sea, and displace millions of gallons of liquids, why couldnt he frak enough oil out of the ground to buy egypt outright :-)

@Psycogeek oil is gloopier

and in biblical times it was useless

not useless torches, soldier burning moats, hot oil treatments at fort walls etc.

and they could have driven out of the desert :-)

oh great now they want to know my mothers maiden name, but my mother never was a maiden

2

although she did attend the concert once

8:22 AM

@Psycogeek a maiden means virgin

oh well i think she still is one of them :-)

lol

@Burgi blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/…

@Burgi went through area 51 then canonical adopted it.

See also blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/unix-and-ubuntu-why-both

cat

9:00 AM

!! Cqqt

!! Caat

!! Is the bot dead again?

!!info

no its just you can't type

its not dead it just doesnt come when you call it :-)

lol

Apparently my resume is too hard to read. And I shouldn't be using that many I's in it.

9:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek One should use one instead (like the Queen does) ;p

Also apparently a button down shirt and jeans is underdressing for a job fair. Apparently work casual is long sleeves.

You should wear a suit and tie because it makes you look smarter, especially if you ignore the tie cutting of the blood flow to the brain :-)

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't that depend on how hot it is?

I almost won the hacking challenge, download 1terrabyte of porn in 24 hours :-)

!!info

ChatBot John Cavil

9:15 AM

@Bob I awoke on Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:15:45 GMT (that's about 15 seconds ago), haven't done anything yet!

Do question authors automatically get notified on comments to the answers (assuming they are not @pinged)?

@JourneymanGeek depends on the place, but... better to be overdressed than under

jeans lean a bit on the too casual side here :P

@DavidPostill iirc, no

@Bob Thanks.

@DavidPostill we can always test it :P

Oh, damn. your only question is self-answered -_-

@Bob :)

9:22 AM

This is a test to see if @DavidPostill gets pinged by this comment. — Bob 5 secs ago

@DavidPostill ^ did you get notified for that?

@Bob No. Even with the @ping

k, I'll delete the comment

@Bob That actually made sense reading this rule "Notifications apply to the author, commenters, and editors of the question or answer that you are commenting on—users not in that list cannot be notified. "

I just wanted to clarify as "question or answer" is a little ambiguous.

@DavidPostill and who's interviewing you

I don't get verb all the things.

Especially when a profile is supposed to introduce you to the employer.

@JourneymanGeek I was told to write, for example, "Experienced in creating and delivering training materials." instead of "I have experience in creating and delivering training materials. And "Able to team lead and coach." instead of "I am able to team lead and coach.". Does that make sense?

9:33 AM

Yup

@JourneymanGeek That way all the repetitive "I" (have)(am)(can)(was) goes away. A thesaurus also help you reword stuff so you don't keep using the same phrases.

also, skills/technologies in point form 0_)

@DavidPostill or, bullet points :P

hello!

...what geek just said

9:43 AM

@Bob Almost fixed...

There's a different between a profile and a skills/experiences listing tho

Profile is who I am, I'm trying to convey a cultural fit, no?

I'm skipping that whole exe thing...

It's now an online quiz

@Rahul2001 I haven't even seen it, cause I refuse to go further :P

I could by modifying the data sent, but meh

@Rahul2001 ... ... ... eh

If you want to send a copy over I'll take a look at the exe :P

<== curious

which reminds me, I need to install a copy of ida on this computer

joseph.pyrotech.club/mendacium.exe

@Rahul2001 was there any flavourtext?

back in an hour

9:46 AM

@Bob okay...

> IDA Starter Licenses start at 589 USD or 529 EUR. IDA Professional Licenses start at 1129 USD / 1019 EUR.

O_O

nopenopenope

IDA is pricy

maybe ollydbg... is that still active?

I haven't done proper exe RE in a while

@Bob Yep.

@JourneymanGeek Yes. I have Profile right at the start. Then Employment History (newest first). Then Education. Then Skills (list/bullets). Then finally Personal Development (stuff/hobbies outside of work that might be interesting to an employer)

anyone got any experience with umbraco?