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That Brazilian Guy

16:00

> whenever anyone comes to you with a get rich quick scheme, it's them getting rich, not you

Telexfree (stylized as TelexFREE) is a trade name owned by Telexfree Inc, that became best known for its operations in Brazil held by Ympactus Comercial Ltda after it was involved in an ongoing investigation and trial for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme, and later for having its operations suspended in USA by SEC under the charges of operating a billion dollar Ponzi and Pyramid schemes. Telexfree Inc. owns the rights to the Telexfree brand worldwide. The company was created by Carlos Roberto Costa, Carlos Nataniel Wanzeler and James Matthew Merrill after the change of its former corporate name...

> On April 2014, an investigation in the United States confirmed that Telexfree worked under a Ponzi scheme and handled more than $1 billion worldwide.

> The Public Prosecutor of the Telexfree case (...) and the Judge (...) have reported death and kidnapping threats after the court's decision to freeze Telexfree assets and operations in Brazil

I remember back around 2013 everyone and their dogs was sooooo excited about this amazing opportunity to get free money!

People would sell their homes and spend all their life's savings.

qasdfdsaq

I need food.

3

Do you have food?

Dave

Ir lazers aren't visible by the naked eye though, unless you have some sort of night vision. I've been wanting to build me a face melting ir lazer for unexpected visitors for quite sometime

qasdfdsaq

@qasdfdsaq Who the hell stars this shit?

Dave

Not I.

That Brazilian Guy

bwDraco

16:13

That was me. Sorry if this was annoying.

That Brazilian Guy

bwDraco

On mobile right now.

qasdfdsaq

@ThatBrazilianGuy Do you have food?

That Brazilian Guy

bwDraco

I know I might be starring a bit, er, indiscriminately, so feel free to tell me to stop if you don't like it.

qasdfdsaq

16:17

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm confused. Do you or don't you have food?

That Brazilian Guy

@qasdfdsaq We all have food.

We all are food.

Food is all that is, was, and will ever be.

He who controls food, controls the universe.

qasdfdsaq

Yeah I don't get what you're saying at all

Bob

@bwDraco Eh, that's fine.

Stars are there to be used.

The only time I've ever told someone to stop starring was then they starred some 20 random messages in a row, and did the same thing the next day... and the day after...

2

(...psst that was not an invitation :P)

bwDraco

In that case, I'd probably raise a mod flag.

Bob

@bwDraco I generally prefer to deal with things in-room as much as possible.

Asking nicely does wonders.

Owners can clear stars if it's really necessary.

We can also pseudo-delete messages apparently (not purge, but at least remove them from this room)

Jumping to "call in the mods" can escalate when all I really want is to calm everything down.

qasdfdsaq

16:24

I wonder what'd happen if you moved a starred message to trash

Bob

(Of course, there are some situations where flags are a good choice ... but I consider that a last resort.)

qasdfdsaq

Does it stay starred here? Does it become starred there?

Bob

*cough*

→ 1 message moved to Trash

bwDraco

It's often hard to tell what should and should not be flagged here in chat, unlike on the main site.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq It gets starred there.

Whoever starred it can go check if they can un-star it :P

qasdfdsaq

16:26

@Bob Heh!

It wasn't showing as my star, but when I tried to star it again it un-starred

Yay for UI glitches

jokerdino

@bwDraco you got to feel it

Bob

@bwDraco It's a judgement call. I can't really answer that, because I honestly have a bit more power to directly take action than you (...that I discovered today anyway), but assuming I couldn't move messages then...

If it's a NSFW onebox from someone active, I'd ask them to un-onebox first probably.

bwDraco

I suppose that as my temperament improves, I'll be less likely to make mistakes like this. This shows I'm still very impulsive by nature.

Feb 3 at 6:26, by Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco funny thing is? I'm an impulsive hothead by nature. That said I'm a self aware impulsive hothead :p

Bob

If it's a NSFW onebox from someone not really active (and likely to not know how to edit, or miss the 2 min) I'd consider flagging.

bwDraco

I still stand by my promise to not make moderation decisions on emotional impulses.

Bob

16:30

If it's an inappropriate (subjective!) comment... generally I'd stick with asking nicely.

jokerdino

you don't really want something NSFW here, do you?

Bob

Actually, overall, I'd say flags are more for repetitive or continued poor behaviour.

@jokerdino No, not really. But the big problem with flags is they often come with suspensions, when it's not really necessary most of the time.

It's a giant automated hammer.

qasdfdsaq

I wonder what happens if someone went and flagged 50 messages in Trash

jokerdino

Don't try it, pls.

qasdfdsaq

Beyond 50 mods turning up and going "What's going on here?" "Dunno, shrugs"

Bob

16:31

@qasdfdsaq If it's a noticed pattern? Probably a CM getting called in, and said person getting suspended.

jokerdino

I and all other hapless blue mods get annoyed and you will be thrown out.

bwDraco

Yup. Let's not abuse flags.

qasdfdsaq

If it's one of the hot CM's I volunteer

jokerdino

Tough luck then.

Hm, I need to go check on the new additions to the CM team.

Bob

My personal policy is "try to get people to act better. if they insist on misbehaving then whack them".

Some people take the "delete it and let meta[.SE] figure it out"

qasdfdsaq

16:33

Wait, only mods get alerted? I thought I read somewhere that all high-rep users get alerted

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Spam/offensive alerts all 10k users

qasdfdsaq

And high-rep users get to vote on a flag, though a single mod vote overrides that

Bob

Mod flags only go to mods

qasdfdsaq

Hmm, that explains why some non-mod users seem to turn up randomly when flags go off

bwDraco

I'vr dealt with quite a few flags. I wish the system provided at least some context inline.

Flags go to everyone on the same chat server.

Aug 1 '15 at 15:23, by DragonLord

There are three chat servers: chat.stackexchange.com, chat.stackoverflow.com, and chat.meta.stackexchange.com.

Bob

16:39

@bwDraco Do you just have a searchable database of your old chat messa- oh wait.

qasdfdsaq

Has he gone into echo mode again?

jokerdino

@Bob he's gonna quote one of his messages again to answer you.

@qasdfdsaq we are talking about flags and flag abuse.

qasdfdsaq

It's not abuse if you yell surprise first! Oh wait...

Going off Dave's suggestion I was actually tempted earlier to see how long I could go where I would write nothing and every reply would be by quoting a previous message

jokerdino

No thank you, Elisa.

qasdfdsaq

in You Are Here, Sep 6 '13 at 15:47, by hippietrail

where is the flag abuse flag?

bwDraco

16:43

See ya in a bit.

jokerdino

@bwDraco Cya dragon!

qasdfdsaq

in Mos Eisley, Sep 6 '15 at 20:47, by Mike Edenfield

banned for flag abuse

Bob

@bwDraco cya

@qasdfdsaq So, a day later... how's the phone? :P

qasdfdsaq

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, Jan 15 '11 at 0:08, by TheX

who is that?

Mar 27 '12 at 15:32, by Journeyman Geek

insane battery life

jokerdino

@qasdfdsaq Eliza bot, sorry.

or should I say ELIZA.

Bob

16:47

@qasdfdsaq how long? and if you reply with a 6-to-8 weeks quote...

jokerdino

dont give him ideas lol

ubuntu

Bob

ubutnu

jokerdino

superuser.com/search?q=ubutnu Brilliant.

Faheem Mitha

Hello, people. Suppose I have a JPG file, which I want to use in an example, but don't want to use the actual JPG file. Now, is file run on the JPG sufficient to produce something similar?

Bob

@jokerdino I think the only thing I can do on a whim without repercussion is a bot-ban :P

Faheem Mitha

16:49

02_03_2016_008_047.0.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 109x109, segment length 16, baseline, precision 8, 141x825, frames 3

is my specific example.

qasdfdsaq

in Game Development, Jan 16 at 20:09, by Kevin van der Velden

@ShenRuki oh! Badly programmed eliza bot

Bob

@FaheemMitha "something similar"? why don't you want to use it? what do you mean "similar"?

jokerdino

@qasdfdsaq took you this long to find something to respond with?

@Bob didn't you kick off an episode for doing such a thing in the past?

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Oh, I don't want to make this particular JPG public. But I want something which has the same size and resolution. If possible.

This seems like the kind of question that has already been answered somewhere...

qasdfdsaq

in The Bridge, Feb 4 '13 at 15:49, by Grace Note

@fredley Not much available in these parts.

Bob

16:51

@FaheemMitha ...but you don't care about the content?

Just ImageMagick convert it to blank white?

Faheem Mitha

@Bob No. Anything would be fine. As long as it is non-empty.

Bob

@jokerdino Huh? Oh, I don't mean the reaction. I meant in terms of official SE response.

@FaheemMitha ... blank white with a single black dot in the middle?

You're going to have to define "empty" too :P

Raster images don't really have a concept of empty.

Faheem Mitha

@Bob The JPG is long and thin. I'm trying to split it in half lengthways, and place the two pieces side by side, and convert it to a PDF (using TeX). But I'd like a substitute to work with.

@Bob Fair enough. Random text would be fine.

Bob

@FaheemMitha So... colour gradient?

Faheem Mitha

Yes, an unwelcome appearance of the Paper Clip.

qasdfdsaq

16:54

Mar 13 '13 at 16:19, by Bob

@Luke they last 10 hours?!

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Black text on white would be fine.

Bob

@FaheemMitha If it's a one-off, open in an image editor and just chuck a large colour gradient across it.

jokerdino

@Bob well, SE could ban the bot.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Depends entirely on usage.

@jokerdino True. But that would be a massively overkill response.

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Ok. I guess I could just tell GIMP to color the whole thing grey or something.

Bob

16:55

@FaheemMitha For an image, a colour gradient is literally easier than text most of the time.

qasdfdsaq

in Electrical Engineering, Sep 9 '15 at 21:36, by Asmyldof

HUNGRY!

Bob

@FaheemMitha I suggested a gradient cause it's easier to tell if a split/combine worked :P

qasdfdsaq

in RPG General Chat, Jul 20 '11 at 18:14, by GPierce

Wow, hungry kitten is hungry

Bob

@qasdfdsaq What, 10 hours SOT?

Cause that'd be amazing.

qasdfdsaq

in The Bridge, Sep 1 '15 at 18:41, by SaintWacko

Scott Manley

Faheem Mitha

16:55

@Bob gradient means a gradual decrease in shade from one end to the other?

jokerdino

@Bob I remember balpha banning a bot because it greeted him.

Bob

@FaheemMitha A gradual change. In shade, hue, whatever.

qasdfdsaq

in The Bridge, Mar 4 '14 at 21:10, by badp

balpha?

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Yes, splitting would be easier to see in that case, true.

Bob

@jokerdino Let's not drag that back up.

jokerdino

16:56

@qasdfdsaq sí, senor.

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Ok. Thanks for the suggestion. Would GIMP be a good choice? I'm in Linux.

Bob

@FaheemMitha Sure.

jokerdino

@Bob buried.

Bob

Just drag a gradient with the rectangle tool or something.

qasdfdsaq

in Chez Cosette, Dec 21 '13 at 16:41, by Laure

@RegDwigнt no idea who balpha is .

jokerdino

16:57

@qasdfdsaq mastermind behind ghetto chat markdown.

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Ok. I'll try. Thank you.

Bob

@FaheemMitha docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-gradients.html

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Thanks.

Bob

@FaheemMitha Basically, delete everything in the image to make sure. Then add some colour to make your dummy image.

Faheem Mitha

Wow, that's colorful.

@Bob Ok.

I've never really used GIMP, but it doesn't seem that hard.

Bob

16:59

@FaheemMitha You can use any editor. I'd suggest Paint.NET if you were on Windows :P

(PDN is fairly powerful and really easy to get started in)

qasdfdsaq

> Bun-free Skinny: Any hamburger, bun-free. Please note this does not come with a bread bun

Faheem Mitha

@Bob I've got a Windows Virtualbox. At least for 90 days or whatever.

jokerdino

Betty, that is not oneboxed chat message.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq So... a patty and condiments?

Faheem Mitha

But I tend to avoid Windows in general. Using proprietary software tends to bring me out in hives.

qasdfdsaq

17:00

in The Bridge, Oct 27 '14 at 17:51, by Koviko

QUote of a quote is still a quote

in The Frying Pan, Nov 24 '10 at 5:03, by hobodave

lol

Bob

I want to try one of those burgers stacked 30cm high some day.

jokerdino

Lol is trademarked by our lol king JMG.

It's a shame you didnt use one of his 19402 lols.

qasdfdsaq

> searching for
lol
when said by Journeyman Geek14327 messages found

Faheem Mitha

That's a popular acronym. Personally, I like ROTFL.

Bob

no one ever accused dinos of being good at counting

not enough fingers, y'see

@FaheemMitha it's a channel in-joke

Faheem Mitha

17:03

@Bob What is?

Bob

@FaheemMitha JMG saying lol a lot

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Ah. I must be missing the punch line.

jokerdino

I remember times when the star wall only contains lols from him.

qasdfdsaq

in The DMZ, Feb 19 '15 at 10:08, by Flyk

as much as I like sex, I don't just hop into bed with anybody

Faheem Mitha

And lots of people say lol.

Bob

17:04

Oh, that's just she-who-<>-not-be-named

who also has triggers on a dozen variations of her name and possibly the SWMNBN phrase too

qasdfdsaq

Oct 31 '15 at 1:00, by ChatBot John Cavil

@qasdfdsaq - penis - penis - penis - penis - penis - penis - penis - penis - penis (source)

Jun 16 '11 at 12:26, by Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

@Bob whozza whazza

qasdfdsaq

in The Comms Room, Sep 2 '13 at 6:07, by Journeyman Geek

... wtf?

Faheem Mitha

@qasdfdsaq What's the point of all the quotes?

qasdfdsaq

Nov 10 '15 at 21:16, by qasdfdsaq

Your face.

Faheem Mitha

17:22

@qasdfdsaq Clear as mud.

Bob

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Clearly, you have time on your hands.

Oops, sorry, thought you were @qasdfdsaq

HackToHell

GeoJSONs are too large

duzzy

It looks like there is a Soyuz launch today. That should keep @qasdfdsaq busy for a little bit. :P

HackToHell

And there isn't a way to make them for only specified things

qasdfdsaq

17:48

Oct 6 '11 at 7:54, by Journeyman Geek

the americans had the russians ;p

@duzzy Nice. Thanks for the tip

Bob

@qasdfdsaq you should def. build a replica

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Of what?

Soyuz? I think a million people have probably done a better one than me by now

qasdfdsaq

18:07

So I need to pick and buy a coffin on wheels

Faheem Mitha

If I upload an image to SE, is it preserved as is, or is it modified? The size is 159K.

qasdfdsaq

!!cat

ChatBot John Cavil

@qasdfdsaq That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: caat, wat

qasdfdsaq

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

qasdfdsaq

18:19

Jul 27 '13 at 18:08, by Gowtham

fuck you I am a cat

HackToHell

18:40

whoa

there there

don't dig deep

!!info caat

ChatBot John Cavil

@HackToHell Command caat, created by HackToHell on Thu, 29 May 2014 13:05:18 GMT

HackToHell

And that's me

Damn it's been nearly 2 years

!@#@! time runs fast

Can't say the f work -.-

duzzy

LIVE: Soyuz rocket to launch Resurs P3 Earth observation satellite

►

Andrew Smith

20:37

no way

bwDraco

21:58

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/…

I knew it. They're going to pierce the corporate veil.

Feb 28 at 22:54, by bwDraco

The U.S. government could go so far as to attempt to pierce the corporate veil and personally charge Tim Cook et al., at least on the basis that Apple's open letter to customers on this issue is attributed to Cook.

They could go so far as to put Apple, Inc. on a denied entities list. This would bring their business to a screeching halt and send their stock tumbling through the floor.

The basis for this would be that Apple is actively aiding terrorists, no matter how ludicrous this claim may be.

Feb 28 at 22:53, by bwDraco

For some reason, this Apple-FBI standoff could lead to a criminal charge against Apple. By providing encryption that cannot be broken and by refusing to backdoor iOS, Apple could conceivably be charged with providing material support for terrorism under the USA PATRIOT Act.

Psycogeek

ya know this just displays everything we have always thought. all this STUFF in the systems has always had a backdoor. everytime 1-2 people refuse to put in the backdoor they either QUIT, or it makes the news.

My next wonder is Intel IME , NIC device that works when the hardware is in the "off" state and new "remote" program for the hardware itself.

Do i care if they want to nazi into my computer? NO, i just dont want them slowing it down :-)

bwDraco

Only a matter of time before the United States government charges Apple and/or its officers with an actual terrorism or related crime (including providing material support for terrorism) under the USA PATRIOT Act.

!!/wiki providing material support for terrorism

ChatBot John Cavil

Providing material support for terrorism

In American law, providing material support for terrorism is a crime prohibited by the USA PATRIOT Act and codified in title 18 of the United States Code, sections 2339A and 2339B. It applies primarily to groups designated as terrorists by the State Department. The four types of support described are “training,” “expert advice or assistance,” “service,” and “personnel.” In June 2010, the United States Supreme Court upheld the law in an as-applied challenge in the case Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, but also left open the door for other as-applied challenges. The plaintiffs in the case had...

Psycogeek

22:13

for all the people who ever said "intel,microsoft,facebook,twitter is Not spying on you your being rediculous" You were right, they are not spying on you, they are just Forced by "national security" to assist in the government being able to spy on you.

And the #1 problem which Nobody has discussed, POWER, knowing all insider information , for trading, business deals, new products. Sure they are supposed to keep it internal, but if you knew you could make 1 Million dollers, because technoink is comming out with a stock changing product, do you Sit on it?

Follow the money :-)

this is why the privacy breech is "unconstitional" but does anyone use that known argument? "national security" trumps the constitution.

bwDraco

I think we're going to enter a state of martial law. The government could suspend the Constitution altogether.

Psycogeek

isnt that a Bush quote :-)

Mokubai

I am so glad I'm not a'merkin at times...

This island might not be that clean, but at least we're realistic about who not to trust.

Which is basically everyone. Politicians and lawyers least of all.

@bwDraco Anyway, I thought your constitution went out the window shortly after it was written

Psycogeek

22:29

well we have to have something to believe in

(were Different)

Mokubai

@Psycogeek You're unique, just like everyone else, eh?

Psycogeek

yea thats it

Mokubai

qasdfdsaq

22:43

Good job we're not forking forks the

Good job we're not forking forks then

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

DavidPostill

Where's my fork'n'knife

Psycogeek

Did you even read the android tag? "Unless the question is specifically regarding the device interacting with your computer questions are more likely to be better suited to android.stackexchange.com. For programming Android applications there is stackoverflow.com." — DavidPostill 2 hours ago

Tags? while there might be much interest in high end users playing tag games, I dont even read the descriptions in them often

bwDraco

Due to unforseen circumstances, I need to step out for a bit. See ya

DavidPostill

23:10

@Psycogeek When you add the tag to a question it show the summary as you are typing ...

If people bothered to read the tags we would have fewer off-topic questions ...

Psycogeek

Cool, it was right there in ya face. but reading all the tags one applies, when much of it is known and "redundant repetions" most tags describe what is already known.

It is like reading your 15th device manuel, the repetitive parts about not dunking it in the toilet can be ignored :-)

DavidPostill

Whatever. At least the luser knows after my comment why his question is closed/moved/etc ...

bwDraco

Thank heaven for zsh. The completion is absolutely amazing.

It'll tell you what options your printer supports for lp.

I'm also glad I set the printer up to allow remote printing yesterday. I'm caught in a situation that costed me a lot of time and at least I can print from my cloud desktop on the field to save time.

qasdfdsaq

23:32

Tags are for lusers

gumtree.com/p/suzuki-motorbikes/…

Mmmmm

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