Root Access

qasdfdsaq

04:00

Also the new expansion a few weeks ago introduced yet another type of rep phaser, which seems to be all the rage right now

I've got sucked into the high-dps-metagame lately though. :-/

allquixotic

@bwDraco A natural gas dryer? Interesting! We have a natural gas supply (not a canister, the continuous delivery pipes).

But our dryer uses electricity to generate the heat

qasdfdsaq

Anyhow. 4am. Really need sleep.

Gnight.

allquixotic

Sleep well!

<--- @allquixotic on STO

qasdfdsaq

And once again, sorry for the drama

<== @qasdfdsaq on STO

allquixotic

:P

qasdfdsaq

04:01

lol aren't we original!

allquixotic

/friend @qasdfsaq when I log on next

fdsaq*

bwDraco

The last dryer that died on us was supposed to be a decent GE model.

Bob

bwDraco

We now have an Admiral.

Bob

Still not-so-patiently waiting...

bwDraco

04:02

Gotta go.

allquixotic

@Bob :D Eager to get your goods!

Bob

@qasdfdsaq 'night.

@allquixotic I should have three parcels in the next month :P

Oh, could you check how much USPS would charge for 30x30x100cm 15kg to sydney? just out of curiosity

allquixotic

@Bob Amazon told me I have received 21 shipments in the past 6 months. I felt guilty. Such fuel consumption. Such packaging. Such consumerism.

But then I snuggle my wind-up lantern, my headphones, my UPS... and I forget it all.

Bob

@allquixotic I've placed 7 orders in that same time.

Averaging 10 USD shipping per order, I think

allquixotic

Averaging $0 USD per shipping order. :D

Also, I've bought maybe 10 In-Store Pickup items from Best Buy (basically, a way to "reserve" your item, pay online, and pick it up without having to find it on the shelves)

Journeyman Geek

04:04

lol

bwDraco

!!/help doge

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco doge: so shibe, much doge, wow `/doge one,two,three[,nth]

allquixotic

That's how I got my Nvidia-nvidia-nvidia (not Powercolor or XFX or whatever) GTX 980

bwDraco

!!/tell 25870984 doge "fuel consumption" packaging consumerism

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Command doge cannot be used in /tell.

Journeyman Geek

04:04

@bwDraco we have a 15 year old dryer

Bob

@allquixotic That's what I did with Dick Smith - when the local store stocks the item

But they're possibly going to close soon.

allquixotic

!!doge "fuel consumption" packaging consumerism

bwDraco

Whoops, stupid chat formatting restrictions

ChatBot John Cavil

     wow
such "fuel consumption" packaging consumerism

bwDraco

Got the syntax wrong.

allquixotic

04:05

!!doge fuel consumption,packaging,consumerism

bwDraco

!!/doge fuel consumption,packaging,consumerism

ChatBot John Cavil

      wow
                  such fuel consumption
                         many packaging
very consumerism

    wow
            very fuel consumption
                      much packaging
so consumerism

allquixotic

whoops

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic that's why I have the 3 month rule

and the allowance ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I lack the discipline to do that, especially when living at home and making a living wage of my own. D:

If I had a 3 month rule, I'd have thousands of dollars saved in a savings account somewhere. What good's money just sitting there in the bank?!

Journeyman Geek

04:07

@allquixotic Most of the money I made at the sfx place is in the bank ;p

allquixotic

Interesting! Apparently, my UPS is reporting very frequent overvoltage delivered from the mains, on the order of 2 to 4 Volts.

Not enough to make it try and condition the power, but it's just weird.

Maybe the step-down transformer from the carrier voltage to residential voltage is not so great.

It could be 20, 30 years old :P

Bob

@allquixotic That's completely normal and within tolerance.

We have +10%/-6% tolerance here, on 230 V nominal.

Though preferred is +6%/-2%

Journeyman Geek

I'd really like to get a new monitor tho.

Bleh.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Dell Outlet?

Journeyman Geek

Naw. Fleabay.

Bob

04:14

ugh :P

Journeyman Geek

Decided on what I want, I can get it within my allowance too.

bwDraco

@allquixotic The correct voltage range here in the US is 110 to 125 volts. Modern homes should give you 120 at the outlet.

Journeyman Geek

4k 4x HDMI 2.0 1x dp

allquixotic

@bwDraco I'm getting approximately 120 at the outlet, but it's registering 121 - 124.

> Question: The Box says CP1500FCLCD ADAPTIVE SINE WAVE . The spec sheet says "Output Waveform" ADAPTIVE SINE WAVE. Is this really a PURE SINE WAVE DEVICE?
Answer: I got the below from Tom's Hardware from someone who asked the same question and the answer they received from CyberPower:
"I received the following answer from Pietro Boggio, Senior Technical Support Specialist at CyberPower:
"No digitally created wave can be a true mathematically curved analog wave. But the number of digital steps used to create the wave can be great enough that the electronics used in even the highest efficien…

Wow, they have very intelligent tech support, too. Informative, even.

It's still my first day with it, but... 10/10 would buy again.

@Bob According to the manufacturer, my 32" Alpha LED IPS LCD consumes an average of 51 Watts when "On" (not specified what type of content, what type of connection, etc.). So subtracting 51W from 220W means my computer must be using in the 170s-ish Watts mostly idle (mostly = Chrome and other desktop apps running, but no games).

Bob

04:38

@allquixotic Still a good chunk more than mine :P

Probably the RAID card and GPU

allquixotic

Yeah, the RAID card, four HDDs and three SSDs gets pretty hungry.

Plus I have three USB devices connected directly to the motherboard without going through a powered USB hub, which eventually comes out of the PSU, which eventually draws from the UPS: my Roccat Nyth mouse, my Das Keyboard mechanical keyboard, and a WiFi USB dongle

RAID card: "1.0A @ 3.3VDC 1.1A @ 12VDC"

3.3W + 12.1W? Am I doing that voltage/amperage to power conversion correctly?

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic what's an alpha LED?

allquixotic

15.4W for the RAID card. That's significant.

@JourneymanGeek news.panasonic.com/press/news/official.data/data.dir/…

Journeyman Geek

ahh

allquixotic

Panasonic VIERA - Technologies for the IPS Alpha Panel

►

Journeyman Geek

04:46

Oh

and how long have you had the roccat?

Toying with giving them a third chance.

(love my Taipan but its too narrow)

allquixotic

about a month; the buttons used by my right thumb are a little wonky and hard to accurately and quickly press, but the pointing accuracy is superior to my old mouse, and the scroll wheel feels lovely

Journeyman Geek

ahh

I had 2 XTDs die so...

I'll wait till you've had it a year ;p

Bob

My 602 revived itself o.O

(middle button was getting a bit dodgy, but it's fine now...)

Daniel

05:04

!!/coffee

ChatBot John Cavil

@Daniel "undefined"

Bob

@Daniel heh. that's coffeescript

!!coffee 1+1

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob 2

allquixotic

!!> 6923354/1123903495403

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic 0.000006160096510348053

Bob

06:00

@allquixotic o.O

Bob

06:34

Any thoughts on the Archer C2?

Bob

07:23

...wtf. Just got a call with no id.

Recorded voice: "Please wait, someone will assist you shortly."

And they hung up.

O_O

Just got a call on my mobile from a private number. A recorded voice said "please wait, someone will assist you shortly" then hung up. :/

Tweeted by The_Rail_Life on October 29, 2015 at 12:41 AM

Well that was weird - answered a private number call, got an automated "Please wait, someone will assist you shortly." Then it hung up.

Tweeted by RuthElizabeth_R on November 25, 2015 at 10:43 PM

The only two references on Google...

HackToHell

08:45

@jokerdino What's the situation there ?

Bob

09:00

@allquixotic Matrix2 has a 3.5mm port, right?

Do you happen to know if it needs battery power when that is used?

O_O Google's scaring me

Leathe

daymn

Tom Wijsman

10:01

@Bob Deduces it from your e-mails.

@Bob In our country it is known they place a few of such calls, after which they have an advocate call you for a mass lawsuit against the unknown callers. They ask you money for the advocate, such that the advocate can attempt to get you a ton of money because of the damage the calls have caused you. Don't pay those fake advocates.

Bob

@TomWijsman I guessed that. Still rather disconcerting.

@TomWijsman ...I'd sooner just block private numbers.

Except certain family members use them. Bleh.

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, sometimes my dad leaves it on private after calling a customer, also known the dentist to use a private number, ...

It's fun to listen for the background noise in those few seconds.

Last time I effectively heard two hired students talking over something.

So they were probably creating a list of people whom pick up to call.

Funny I took up the first and second phone call, but not the third because I was calling someone at that time. :D

Probably was the thing they reported on the news about that fake advocate stuff, haven't called since the news came by so it probably were them...

Bob

@TomWijsman Apparently WinPhone lets you set it to call private to non-contacts.

Tom Wijsman

You might end up spending more work to add a lot of contacts that way.

If you want your number to show up for business contacts but not for sale customers.

Makes me kinda wonder how many business contacts would block private numbers.

tereško

10:20

mornin'

Bob

@TomWijsman Well, you could always get a second phone.

Cheap phone just for calls => $20

Tom Wijsman

@Bob And a second subscription.

Bob

@TomWijsman True. Though generally calls without data doesn't cost all that much these days.

That's the tradeoff for convenience.

Nate Kerkhofs

11:10

@Ramhound The program is Simulationcraft (World of Warcraft fan software that can simulate the in-game performance of any character) with the priority setting set to high

You launch it, configure it and then set it to work, and when I let it work while warcraft is open, Warcraft will have the sound loop in small segments. like forforforforfor-thethethethethe-Horhorhorhorhor-dedededede

R.Doto

biology.stackexchange.com/a/41183/19679 What do you usually do with answers that completely incorrect - was I right to provide him with the resources to fix it rather than provide the mods with a reason to delete it?

@Bob I get those all of the time ;) not from private numbers , however. It may just be a method of testing if the phone number is still in use so, the sales team don't waste there time on inaccurate details. also, it could be used to determine an estimate for the recipients location, allowing them to sell more focused products and hence, products that are more popular in that area to increase sales probability etc

Journeyman Geek

@R.Doto or write your own answer.

2

R.Doto

11:26

@JourneymanGeek I don't want to steal the limelight; )haha. He seems as if he's looking to get into biology more, i figured that it'd be nice to let him answer it. Also, it's too time consuming...

Journeyman Geek

@R.Doto I consider situations like that a teaching moment ;p

R.Doto

@JourneymanGeek good point hehe. On that note, I might write an answer later on!

@JourneymanGeek have you heard of the TPS (telephone preference service)?

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto Neither is appropriate. Flagging an answer because you disagree with it is NOT how StackExchange works.

Journeyman Geek

11:43

Nope

Providing more info is actually not a bad idea, but there's a chance it could be lost.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq I flagged it... :D I disagree with it , since it's entirely incorrect. He assumed that the muscular anatomy of a limb is the same as that of which moves our eye.

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto Again, flagging an answer because you disagree with it is not what flags are for. And it's not incorrect.

Nate Kerkhofs

@R.Doto Flagging is NOT for factually incorrect answers. Flagging is for offensive answers and answers that should be comments.

qasdfdsaq

@NateKerkhofs Spot on: biology.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq I flagged it for moderator intervention

Nate Kerkhofs

11:48

@R.Doto that's not what that flag is for though

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq lol - you think his answer is correct?

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto And that was the wrong thing to do.

@R.Doto I know his answer is correct.

Nate Kerkhofs

@R.Doto Flagging something means "hey, this answer goes against the rules of Stack Exchange, could you delete it?". It is not really against the rules of Stack Exchange to be wrong about something

qasdfdsaq

But since my opinion is no more or less valid than yours, that's why we both get one vote.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq Sigh. his answer didn't acknowledge basic ophthalmology.

Nate Kerkhofs

11:51

Think about flagging in the same way as you would think about calling the police IRL: You call the police because someone in your street is shouting racial slurs at teenagers outside a school, you don't call them because someone tries to convince you that oranges are purple

R.Doto

@NateKerkhofs You can define your reasoning for flagging a post? I did.

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto And you're an opthalmologist and have some as yet undisclosed knowledge that suggests skeletal muscle in the eye somehow works differently than that in every other part of the body?

R.Doto

@NateKerkhofs That's irrelevant.

Nate Kerkhofs

@R.Doto Why is that comparison irrelevant?

qasdfdsaq

@NateKerkhofs Depends on their gender and attractiveness tbh.

Nate Kerkhofs

11:53

@qasdfdsaq Okay, I reworded it for something that MOST people would consider offensive

qasdfdsaq

@NateKerkhofs It isn't. The comparison is spot on, R.Doto is "irrelevant" :-P

@NateKerkhofs I take pride in not conforming to "most people" norms!

And now it depends on the gender and attractiveness of the someone shouting the slurs in relation to the teenagers being shouted at.

Argh this is getting ever more complicated by the minute!

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq No, I'm not an ophthalmologist. However, that doesn't mean that anything I say is incorrect as and when it lies within the parameters of ophthalmology?

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto The only thing you've said is he's incorrect, without providing any factual statements to back it up

Nate Kerkhofs

@qasdfdsaq I really don't think the police would care whether the person shouting "squinters" at the asian students is a fat bald dude or a supermodel

qasdfdsaq

@NateKerkhofs Actually they probably would

(Although that's another topic altogether)

Nate Kerkhofs

11:57

@qasdfdsaq They shouldn't, which is the point

qasdfdsaq

I was implying I would care in deciding whether or not to call the police, although once I realised that, I realised actually that's how all people behave

R.Doto

@NateKerkhofs moderators don't emulate anything close to a police serviceman. moderators, preserve and police officers protect.

qasdfdsaq

(Plenty of studies have been done about whether people call the police depending on whether a perpetrator is black, white, male, female, etc.)

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq are you asking me me to list why it is incorrect?

qasdfdsaq

In one demo, a black actor was stealing a bike and plenty of people called the police, swore at him, and even attacked him

A white female actor paid doing the same thing had nobody call the police, even when she said she was stealing, some men even tried to help her steal the bike

Nate Kerkhofs

11:59

Could we please get off the topic of racial prejudices in our society and get back to what should be flagged and what shouldn't?

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto Isn't the whole point of StackExchange to provide factual information and educate others?

"You're wrong because you didn't mention opthalmology" is neither factual information nor useful or educational.

@NateKerkhofs Honestly I doubt he's going to listen. His flag is going to get ignored, and his flagging rights will be removed if he keeps going, so it's not to our benefit to try convince him otherwise.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq Demos are inconclusive. the demographics are not large enough. Nor do they represent an individual of a race imo

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto So now you're saying the entire field of social psychology is wrong and so is biology and ophthalmology because, you know better?

Journeyman Geek

@NateKerkhofs just flag all the spam

If you're faster than me.

There's actually a reject reason for flagging an inaccurate answer.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq Please provide quotes to prove I said that.

qasdfdsaq

12:03

!!s/ignored/rejected

ChatBot John Cavil

@qasdfdsaq That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq you're irrational and making brazen conclusions

qasdfdsaq

!!s/ignored/rejected/

ChatBot John Cavil

@qasdfdsaq !!s/rejected/rejected (source)

qasdfdsaq

Ah fudge.

@JourneymanGeek That's what I meant :-P Rejected, not ignored. But eh! You know the terms better than me

@R.Doto Says the guy flagging other peoples' answers for moderators because "it didn't mention ophthalmology, also I'm right."

Journeyman Geek

12:05

@qasdfdsaq We never ignore flags ;p

Sometimes it takes longer to handle them, cause we arn't sure if its the right thing.

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek Some people do. I've seen mine go "aged away"

But yeah, declined, or rejected, or whatever the word is

For when flags are used wrongly. Users get a warning, then stop being able to flag if they keep making wrong flags.

Or something like that. It made me feel guilty enough to remember it anyway.

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq really?

Wierd

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq are you serious or are you just trolling? I can't understand why you are unable comprehend why it's not correct

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto I can't understand why you are unable to comprehend that it is correct

You've not made a single objective statement as to why it's incorrect.

Journeyman Geek

(also guys... its getting a wee bit heated, and the whole topic is over something on another site. What happens in vegas should stay in vegas ._.)

R.Doto

12:07

@qasdfdsaq wait. Let me log onto the meta on my PC I'll provide a summary for you

Journeyman Geek

Also, moderators are janitors ;p

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek Yup!

Tada

Journeyman Geek

so wierd

R.Doto

@JourneymanGeek Nope. Not feeling the heat.

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto That's what she said

After poking her in the eye and saying "This doesn't hurt because opthalmology"

R.Doto

12:09

@qasdfdsaq ?

Journeyman Geek

qasdfdsaq

@R.Doto I suggest doing what JmG suggested 45 minutes ago. Write your own answe.r

Journeyman Geek

;p

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek No-one ignores your flags because they see a big diamond next to them >_>

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq Oh, I don't need someone to handle my flags any more

And I think I handled ~900 flags this month ;p

@qasdfdsaq heh, I got this before I got elected mod superuser.com/help/badges/121/marshal?userid=10165

R.Doto

12:11

@qasdfdsaq we have nerves and hence pain receptors lol. good one.

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek Nice. I'm sure I could manage that one day.

I'm having second thoughts on this one. Perhaps I should have flagged it as "Off-topic" and asked for it to be migrated to Biology so R.Doto could tell people why their answers are wrong because opthalmology.

R.Doto

@qasdfdsaq it's off topic on biology SE

@qasdfdsaq better luck next time :)

@qasdfdsaq p.s. It's urology, not ophthalmology :) Eyes and genitals are not the same thing. ikr mind blowing

qasdfdsaq

Skeletal muscles aren't eyes either, but you seem to be able to confuse those so...

Journeyman Geek

@R.Doto dude. calm down please.

We do have a be nice rule here, and even if the f word is censored, it does seem a little bit like a personal attack.

@R.Doto He might be. He might even be winding you up.

Dosen't mean you need to let him.

R.Doto

@JourneymanGeek good point. Although, it was intended to be a personal attack haha

Mokubai

12:22

@qasdfdsaq aged away flags are probably close votes...

Journeyman Geek

@R.Doto I'd like to assume it wasn't. In fact, I'm going to delete that. In fact, I'd warn you not to do that again ;)

Oh Reinforcements. Hai!

Mokubai

Heya @JourneymanGeek

Seems a lot happened while I was asleep...

R.Doto

@JourneymanGeek -.- To make it even worse, my flag for that answer was declined. and the answer got another up vote! !!

Journeyman Geek

Oh, I missed most of the shitstorm too.

Not what one wants to wake up to.

Granted I'm running 14-16 hour sleep cycles the past few days

R.Doto

@JourneymanGeek the funny thing, is that both of my flags to close an answer/question get declined... for them to close it shortly afterwards?????

Mokubai

12:28

@R.Doto If your flag was "this is wrong" then I'm not surprised.

Journeyman Geek

@R.Doto I totally can't speak for the actions of mods on other sites.

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek whoa nice

R.Doto

@Mokubai I'll show you. give me a minute

Mokubai

@JourneymanGeek Sounds like a good night sleep. Any reason?

Journeyman Geek

@Mokubai had a horribad cold the last two weeks, and the cough medicine I was given has psudoephidrine.

Stuff tends to knock me out.

Mokubai

12:31

@R.Doto "Wrong" is not a valid flag. Completely irrelevant, jabbering rubbish or spam is "not an answer"

@JourneymanGeek yowza. You on the mend now though? Had seen you were a bitquiet for a few...

Journeyman Geek

@Mokubai more or less.

R.Doto

@Mokubai gyazo.com/285431dcd0613cb3135ee4d2db9b672d (my flags)

Journeyman Geek

I'm just down to hacking up like a cat every couple of hours.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek But you're a dog!

Mokubai

@R.Doto I'd have declined it in exactly the same way. The decline reason is valid and we cannot "hide" answers except by deleting them.

R.Doto

12:36

@Mokubai what about the two below it? They were deleted for the same reason that i summarized, yet, they declined my flag?

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic that's what makes it so bad. :( One might even say its almost hairball.

qasdfdsaq

@Mokubai I can't cast close votes so not sure what you mean there, it's showing two were duplicate flags, two were "unclear what you're asking" flags and one off-topic flag under my aged-away list

R.Doto

@Mokubai Then they should of deleted it! I quote 'an altogether wrong answer' - it was lol

Mokubai

@R.Doto probably should have been close votes... I don't know what the questions were

DavidPostill

@R.Doto The TPS is wonderful, but it has no real teeth. Companies in the UK consistently ignore it (I average 2-3 calls per day). They also mostly use automated dialling (illegal) but don't provide caller ID so you can't complain. It doesn't, of course, stop offshore call centres (mostly from India judging by the accents) calling on behalf of UK companies.

allquixotic

12:39

Husky Dog Raised around Cats Actually Acts Like One

►

DavidPostill

Most of the calls are for "Government Funded Initiatives" for solar panels, boiler replacements and replacement windows.

Mokubai

@qasdfdsaq Close flags then. If you flag then " should be closed" then it puts it into review. If nothing happens then they age away after either 1 or 3 months iirc. They're not mod flags and we don't see them.

qasdfdsaq

@DavidPostill Yeah but once in a while some company gets fined millions for ignoring it and other people get scared

allquixotic

Dog acts like a Cat: Mishka the Talking Husky

►

qasdfdsaq

@Mokubai Ah I see

DavidPostill

12:40

That of course does not include the scams. I get at least 2 calls a week for a "car accident" registered to my address. I haven't owned a car for 10 years :/. When I call them out they just hang up.

allquixotic

you know what would be hilarious, is if they somehow trained a dog to walk like a cat (with the same gait and everything)

Journeyman Geek

A snauzer might pull that off

(long legs for their size)

Mokubai

@DavidPostill "Which car and accident was this? I've had so many cars written off over the years in horrific accidents..."

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic Awwww!

DavidPostill

@qasdfdsaq The biggest fine is only 200,000. They can only fine to a max of 500,000

Journeyman Geek

12:42

hm

One of my ebooks isn't loading on my kindle

Works on my PC but blah

Mokubai

We've got a cat that acts as bit like a dog... we've trained him to "fetch" the other cat at dinner time...

allquixotic

pictures-of-cats.org/cat-gait.html

qasdfdsaq

@DavidPostill Ah misread the millions of calls vs. millions of fines

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34984695

Still, £850,000 fine

allquixotic

> You can see from the video that when walking the domestic cat moves both the foreleg and hind leg on one side almost in perfect unison or together. Both left side legs go forward while at the same time both right side legs move backwards and so on.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

R.Doto

12:45

@DavidPostil I was going to register :P I guess there would be no point then. It's ironic that their website has an invalid security certificate, also haha. They don't have multiple domains so, it must just be an out of date certificate. I don't want my details sent by HTTP.

Journeyman Geek

> the person who uploaded it says that the cat has been rendered “decerebrate” for the experiment

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek :(

Journeyman Geek

Jokes about cats being brainless aside, that seems particularly nasty.

allquixotic

I didn't watch the video of the "decerebrate" cat

Journeyman Geek

ahh

arstechnica.com/science/2008/12/…

dogs are more efficient

Oliver Salzburg

12:46

Is there any way to make Microsoft product phone activation less painful?

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic It's clear from the stillshot it's a black and white VHS which implies it's decades old

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg don't activate over phone ;p

qasdfdsaq

@OliverSalzburg You can activate by text message now

allquixotic

Walk, amble, trot in the dog.

►

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek How?

qasdfdsaq

12:46

And I think you can activate by app too

Oliver Salzburg

@qasdfdsaq I don't see the option

allquixotic

that's a dog walking - it would be hilarious to see someone train a dog to walk like a cat on command

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg donno, I usually end up activating normally

Oliver Salzburg

This is Windows Server 2008 R2

allquixotic

"OK, boy! Walk like a cat!" "GOOD BOY!"

qasdfdsaq

12:47

@OliverSalzburg Hmm, might be only in newer versions of Windows. Not sure when I saw it recently, I think it was Windows 8.1

Ah 2008 R2 is based off Win7 I believe

So I don't think it has that option :(

allquixotic

@qasdfdsaq Yes

DavidPostill

@qasdfdsaq That's a new one I didn't know about. It's good to see the fines going up. You have go to all the hastle to say your interested, wait for a call back and then complain when it's a withheld number :/
Then when they callback and you complain they say the calls are contracted out to a 3rd party... :/
Been there, done that.

Oliver Salzburg

The best part about the phone activation is, there are 2 phone numbers. One is toll-free, the other one isn't. And you can choose which one to call

Nate Kerkhofs

Well, that's what you get for using 8 year old OSes

Journeyman Geek

"Oh boy, Walk like an egyptian" baroo?

Oliver Salzburg

12:48

It is not clear to me why anyone would choose the number that will cost them money

And neither number can be called from a mobile phone

qasdfdsaq

@OliverSalzburg In the UK mobile phone operators have historically charged extortionate prices for "toll free" numbers

Nate Kerkhofs

@qasdfdsaq Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of having a toll-free number?.

Journeyman Geek

@NateKerkhofs some mobile operators are just like that.

Nate Kerkhofs

@JourneymanGeek Isn't there some official authority you can report them to for that?

qasdfdsaq

It's been recently ouwtlawed but before that, it was at the discretion of the operator

Nate Kerkhofs

12:51

Like an Ombudsman

Journeyman Geek

@NateKerkhofs ours are fairly well under heel ;p

Nate Kerkhofs

@JourneymanGeek and mods in general, again sorry for that tangent last night

In Belgium, about 2 years ago we had another major player enter the mobile phone market

The result is that all prices just dropped spectacularly

HackToHell

Does anyone know what _ ++ _ does in scala ?

Nate Kerkhofs

no, but this website does: scala-lang.org/documentation

or at least, it should know that

Oliver Salzburg

Well, at least I learned that you don't have to wait for the lady to finish her sentences

Lady-bot

Nate Kerkhofs

12:55

I hope that reply was not too offensive. I know link-only answers are frowned upon, but I think in this chat room, it's better to teach someone to fish than to just smack them in the face with a salmon

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DavidPostill

@R.Doto It doesn't matter if an answer is incorrect or not. It is still an answer. If you believe it is wrong then explain why and downvote it.

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Q: When is an answer not an answer?

Whilst reviewing answers I came across an answer that was several paragraphs long and I imagine that without reading it there are those who might consider it to be ok and happily move on to the next answer in the review queue. After reading the answer I decided to flag it as not an answer, becau...

HackToHell

Apparently it's an Anonymous function placeholder parameter

What ever the hell that is -.-

DavidPostill

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Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

discussion link-only-answers not-an-answer faq-proposed

@R.Doto

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Q: How do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?

What is the "Not an Answer" flag? What is the purpose of this flag? When should I use this flag? When should I not use this flag? Return to FAQ index See Also What is an acceptable answer?

support faq flags answers not-an-answer

allquixotic

My rule of thumb: "Is that an answer?" "NAA" :P (pronounced "nah" and standing for Not An Answer)

Nate Kerkhofs

Are we allowed to improve such "link" answers by providing the relevant information from the link?

R.Doto

12:59

@DavidPostill I can't downvote :P i need a rep of 125. So I flagged it, alerting the mods that it contained incorrect info and hence, was inaccurate. I should've have explained why it was correct, with technical details. Good point.

@DavidPostill it contained absolutely no evidence either, which is the frustrating part!

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