The Bridge

4:00 PM

even had a button to run said process

doctors and nurses within the NHS are seriously IT illiterate

This person seems confused about the concept of protocols and products. We happened to invent a protocol about 10 years ago, and produced an open source implementation. He is now complaining that bugs in Apple's implementation of that protocol is our fault and we should fix it.

ickleislands

interesting argument

QAdley

@ickleislands I'm potentially starting out in IT healthcare soon. Hooray.

ickleislands

did you manage to get a full 30 seconds of laughter off before responding to him?

I'm glad I don't work "in" IT healthcare

QAdley

@ickleislands Much banter has been exchanged (our support team added it to our tracker for some reason)

ickleislands

4:02 PM

I work for a company that makes software that targets said market though

QAdley

@ickleislands It's not really "in" I guess

@ickleislands We could be targeting consumers and IT pros. Sounds like fun!

ickleislands

Working "in" Healthcare IT, especially a job in this country, is not for somebody who can do the job

You simply wouldn't fit in, if you know what I mean

agent86

I had one defect filed when I worked in a consumer electronics company where they said "device does not function if you jam a brick in it"

I politely responded with a fix of "remove brick"

user15026

@agent86 O.o

ickleislands

<certain large healthcare organisation> in the UK staffs it's internal IT with the most undereducated people possible

@agent86 lol

QAdley

4:04 PM

@agent86 That is wonderful

ickleislands

I have a weekly argument with our development team along the lines of "why did the user do that?" "because you allowed them to..."

It's getting better, it used to be daily

QAdley

Ah, this guy's getting more and more confused. Wonderful.

ickleislands

@QAdley as long as he doesn't try the line "I've worked in IT, I know what I'm talking about"

QAdley

@ickleislands He's a musician

ickleislands

Well I've worked in music, but I don't know what he's talking about.

Ian Pugsley

4:09 PM

@agent86 oof

QAdley

Wow, this app he's using (not ours) links to its own website with the text Out of Web site! Web site

I don't know why but I'm doubled up with laughter at that. One of those days.

agent86

@IanPugsley yep, them's a lot of games!

FAE

@IanPugsley Here, feel better about yourself

QAdp

@Wipqozn Only the best for you guys

UQAllulloo

So, I found this review of the newest Indie Royale bundle...

QAdley

4:13 PM

@UQAllulloo !!!

QAdp

@agent86 steamcalculator.com/id/badp

got you beat by $8!

(that said it's pretty much a worthless score)

(actually the value is €1,606.47 aka $2,009.86)

I don't think I've actually spent a tenth of that

ickleislands

I'm still not sure if people on Arqade are trolling me or not

agent86

@QAdp I think in some cases it counts bundles + the individual games. for instance, "counter strike deleted scenes" is worth $99 since it comes in the valve bundle.

ickleislands

Like they automatically try to find a way to disagree with me rather than understand what I'm saying

agent86

I think in yours, master levels of doom 2 is $35, although that's the price for the id bundle that contains it.

QAdp

4:17 PM

@agent86 Well you gotta value it somehow

user15026

@ickleislands Example?

agent86

@QAdp no you!

:5226545 f yourself!

ickleislands

-4

Q: Merge request [rushing] -> [starcraft-2]

As part of the Arqade clean up can we get rushing (9 questions, all currently tagged starcraft-2) merged into starcraft-2 please? I know rushing is not a starcraft-2 specific term, however it is currently only used on starcraft-2 questions. Vote to burn please! Since people aren't able to read...

user15026

@agent86 :(

QAdp

@agent86 Individual games without that bit is 58,95 € and the bundle's 34,99 €

user15026

4:19 PM

@ickleislands I don't think the tag needs a merge, I think it just needs to be removed.

ickleislands

The guidelines in the clean up say request a merge

I'm only doing what the community has told me to do

So why is the community disagreeing?

if I understand correctly, merging results in the tag being essentially deleted as it has no questions left on it, while not 'updating' the posts in a way that they appear on the front page

I'm sure somebody can confirm/deny that

@AshleyNunn in fact, the exact same thing happened here: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/4976/…

So it's not like it's a one off

so could somebody clarify what I'm meant to be doing?

user15026

I have no idea why people are disagreeing.

user15026

I personally don't care how it gets done.

QAdley

@ickleislands I've had my merge requests downvoted too, and I'm not sure why, there's no dispute that they should be removed

danRhul

yawn

ickleislands

4:26 PM

sigh

QAdley

@AshleyNunn Lots of people do - most notably those that look at the front page

fffthrrrrrrrppp

QAdp

@ickleislands yes

user15026

I wonder if people misunderstand how merges work? Like they assume that then forever that tag will get retagged as whatever it was merged to?

user15026

@QAdley yeah, I know. I am just saying that I don't.

ickleislands

@QAdp Am I doing the right thing by raising posts on meta or is there another method I should use?

QAdp

4:28 PM

@ickleislands Nah, I prefer slapping status-completed tags to questions :P

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Yes, that's exactly what it is.

People confuse Merges with Synonyms.

ickleislands

@QAdp well provided you can see through the lack of vision of the masses and not get involved in any attempts to argue over individual games on something completely off topic then win win

LessPop_MoreFizz

Which is an entirely reasonable mix-up to make.

QAdp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well most merge requests become synonyms too, so I can understand why there'd be confusion

LessPop_MoreFizz

@QAdp This too.

Lazers

4:29 PM

0

Q: Can't connent to servers?

I cant play online, I can only play solo. I have bought Minecraft so it should work fine, but when I try to connect to a server it says: Internal client error: java.net.UnknownHostException: session.minecraft.net I have tried over 20 different servers and i says the same thing to every single ...

minecraft

user15026

I suspect that people don't want the rushing tag to be permanently tied to Starcraft, hence the downvotes

Wipqozn

Take that @fluttershy! Yahtzee didn't like that game you really liked.

ickleislands

So it's a lack of clarity in my initial post?

Wipqozn

Checkmate.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Most of these merge requests would be very bad synonyms, so there's an instinctive NO WAIT DON'T DO THAT.

user15026

4:30 PM

@ickleislands No, I think it is just people not understanding, at the core, what a merge actually does

LessPop_MoreFizz

@ickleislands No, it's a lack of clarity in SE terminology.

ickleislands

well I've found even if I'm explaining the point of the question that people still jump towards thinking it's a synonym request

QAdp

2

↑ here's the relevant screenie

user15026

@ickleislands It's not you - people just don't get the system

ickleislands

ok so I have it right in that it's preferred to spamming updates on questions? ;)

QAdp

4:31 PM

when we merge tags, creating the synonym is an option one click away - but it's that, an option

LessPop_MoreFizz

@ickleislands Yeah.

QAdley

@QAdp Which, it appears, is off by default?

ickleislands

wasn't there a freehand circles tag?

QAdp

@ickleislands I think it is

QAdley

@ickleislands I think there is on MSO

ickleislands

4:33 PM

@QAdp that's exactly how I expected it would work

QAdp

user15026

So many pictures XD

ickleislands

@QAdp and no updates on the first page

QAdp

yeah, history is effectively rewritten

> updating post history, 21 rows affected

user15026

@ickleislands Right. That's how it works. Not viable for every case, but can be useful.

QAdley

4:34 PM

@QAdp Actually, remapping of faves/ignores could be an issue with this approach

ickleislands

@AshleyNunn I have several of these up on meta already, and there's quite a few more

QAdp

@QAdley The whole point of the effort is that you wouldn't clean up tags people would fave/ignore in the first place isn't it?

user15026

@ickleislands That may be, but I am just saying, you can't solve every problem with a merge

QAdley

@QAdp Guess not

ickleislands

of course not

you can solve enough for everybody to stop immediately thinking it's a synonym though

QAdp

4:36 PM

that said I do check that box more often than not

ickleislands

back to my original sigh then :p

user15026

@ickleislands I dont see how merging things = people not thinking it is a synonym - this doesnt educate people on how the system works, it just makes the system work, if that makes sense

Anna Lear

it's usually pretty rare to have a merge that's not also a synonym.

QAdley

@AnnaLear ...except for all our tag cleanups

Wipqozn

@QAdley Which is uncommon.

Anna Lear

4:38 PM

@QAdley yeah, you guys are a special case :)

user15026

@QAdley Gaming is generally an unusual beast

ickleislands

@AshleyNunn I agree there are other options, I'm just pointing out the ones that probably should have it

QAdley

@Wipqozn Not right now!

user15026

@ickleislands Which I have no problem with?

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear I've been meaning to ask. Who is that human in your picture?

user15026

4:39 PM

@Wipqozn Probably someone she hired to be the human face of the cat organization

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn I thought it may have been her human servant, but your theory also makes sense.

Anna Lear

@Wipqozn It's a human who's my eyes, ears, and opposable thumbs in day-to-day life. As for the name... who knows? Who cares?

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear Excellent, I was right. It's your human servant.

Anna Lear

@Wipqozn More like puppet, but yes.

user15026

0

A: I cannot connect to a LAN server to play Counter Strike 1.6 with my friends

can anyone give me 2-3 servers....!! plz

user15026

4:42 PM

Not an answer, and the comment makes me giggle for some reason

GnomeSlicE

plz help me frns i need ur support — saksham 11 mins ago

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlicE Nigerian prince scam?

Nigerian scam

Nigerian scams (also called Nigerian 419 scams), are a type of advance fee fraud and one of the most common types of confidence frauds in which the victim is defrauded for monetary gain. There are many variations on this type of scam, including advance fee fraud, Nigerian Letter Fifo's Fraud, Spanish Prisoner Scam, black money scam, or Detroit/Buffalo scam. The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud. While the scam is not limited to Nigeria, the nation has become associated with this fraud and it has earned an unenviable reputation for being ...

Answers are intended to be used for answers only, not making requests for servers, and therefore I'm flagging this for deletion. Please read our FAQ before posting further. — Wipqozn 1 min ago

damn it. Grabbed the wrong link, and probably too late now.

Was just going to brag about beating your comment by a few seconds.

GnomeSlicE

@Wipqozn I didn't bother finishing mine since you posted one while I was still writing.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlicE I win. tortoise shades

GnomeSlicE

It's not a contest...

Wipqozn

4:47 PM

@GnomeSlicE Yes it is.

Everything is a contest.

fbueckert

Everything's a contest because that's all @Wipqozn can win at.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert So what you're saying is I'm better than other people? Because that's what I'm reading.

GnomeSlicE

> Dear BlogOverflow users:

> Some of our wordpress instances were exploited yesterday at 11 AM UTC. We noticed that the compromise had taken place today and took the blogs offline as soon as we noticed. We have since restored the wordpress files from backup* to a new set of servers. Using our logs we were able to identify the exploit used. It was a vulnerability in timthumb.php which was part of a theme installed on our wordpress instances. We have since removed this theme.

...Huh?

fbueckert

@Wipqozn I'm saying you fail at life. :P

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlicE Someone hasn't updated timthumb in awhile.

GnomeSlicE

4:52 PM

> What does this mean to you as a user? If you have an account on one of our blogs then your password has been reset. However, if you have used the same password on other sites then you should also reset that password on those sites because email addresses and password hashes may have been compromised.

Wipqozn

I think I know what bug they are talking about, and believe it was fixed well over a year ago now.

GnomeSlicE

57

Q: Stack Exchange Blogs Compromised and Passwords Reset

Some of our WordPress instances were exploited yesterday at 11 AM UTC. We noticed that the compromise had taken place today and took the blogs offline as soon as we noticed. We have since restored the WordPress files from backup* to a new set of servers. Using our logs we were able to identify th...

support blog blog-overflow

I dunno, the meta thread was opened yesterday.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlicE: You do know this is at the top of the starred list, right?

GnomeSlicE

@Wipqozn No, didn't even notice.

Ah fuck, I need to change my password... I use the same password EVERYWHERE

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlicE Luckily I used my "I don't care" passwords.

fbueckert

4:56 PM

Gah.

-1

Q: How close is GTA4 compared to the New York City?

Let's try again. I played GTA4. So I know a lot of places in game. Than, some times, I am watching a movie and I know some places because I have see it in game. Ok, there aren't all real places in the game, but, is correct to say that all places in the game have their equivalent in real life? If...

gta-4

GnomeSlicE

@fbueckert Voted to close, wtf.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlicE It could still be salvaged. But, yeah, closed is a transitive state.

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