Root Access

bwDraco

00:01

I have reason to believe that carrier aggregation is not working on my phone...

LTE performance has been very erratic for me and I don't know why.

It's like dropping to 3G HSPA+ sometimes gets me more reliable service.

cutrightjm

I just saw a help vampire with 507 questions and 7 answers... Really?

allquicatic

@PotatoCat I mean they were going to award the bounty automatically (half of it) within 24h if I didn't pick someone

@cutrightjm haha on stackoverflow there's a guy with like 5000000 questions and 0 answers

Blankman, blankville

63.2k 192 557 915

ruby-on-rails java c# ruby asp.net python jquery

Ben N

165

Q: Please charge rep for questions after threshold

Similar things have been asked before and declined: Award no rep or limited rep for questions Drop giving rep for questions This suggestion, Restrict People With Low Answer/Question Ratios From Moderation Tools, really illustrates the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking...

feature-request status-completed reputation questions users

allquicatic

2091 questions, 16 answers

8

Q: 50 question per month limit?

I get a message: Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 50 questions in a 30 day period Why is there a question limit? 50/month is just not enough :)

support questions rate-limiting monthly-question-limit

Bob

00:18

@bwDraco No, I can't "get him to". I can, however, pass along a softly-worded request.

@allquicatic That's amazing.

But he's got answers :(

@allquicatic He's been outranked! At least in pure question count.

B. Clay Shannon, Monterey, CA, USA

7.1k 57 194 397

c# jquery html winforms css windows-ce compact-framework

allquicatic

only 7.1k? wow

Bob

@allquicatic He places lots of bounties, I think.

@allquicatic Guy with the most questions and also no answers:

mrblah

25.4k 104 244 368

c# java asp.net-mvc nhibernate asp.net jquery javascript

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/540158/…

cutrightjm

@allquicatic I haven't eaten today so I'm hangry and I'm trying to not just post something really rude on his question

Bob

00:33

@PotatoCat Heh. My network does VoLTE, but I can't use it. I'll probably never be able to.

cutrightjm

Like most of those questions are answered by Google, probably the first result

Bob

Let's see... MVNO, so no VoLTE support there yet.

And even if there ever is... it requires a carrier-specific ROM.

I suppose I could flash with a Vodafone CSC...

@cutrightjm ...the first result is probably Stack Exchange.

"can be found on Google" is not a good excuse to not allow/answer a question on SE.

24

Q: How do I describe this circuit?

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Yes, this circuit diagram is correct. No, I did not design it. How do I describe this circuit in words? I thought about "a switch and light bulb in parallel, instead of series" but the circuit is so bizarre that I want to make sur...

schematics short-circuit bad-wiring

the comments... :D

A fire hazard... — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2 days ago

A danger imminent indicator, with a push-to-make-explosion switch. — Tom Carpenter 2 days ago

"Illuminated self-destruct button". — Lundin yesterday

cutrightjm

@Bob it doesn't matter. Google includes Stack Exchange. The answers for most of the questions are already on here.

The fact is 0 effort is put into most help vampire questions

Potato Cat

00:54

Well, it's bleeding obvious it's fresher's week at the local universities when all the streets are full of drunken half-naked teenagers hobbling about at 1am...

Ben N

> The amount of explosion is based on the current and voltage the power source is meant to provide.

(from a new answer)

Potato Cat

@allquicatic Oh I see

And you didn't want harrymc to get half of it? :-P

@cutrightjm What's the opposite of a help vampire?

bwDraco

01:21

> It's a light circuit with a switch that, when closed, shorts the power source (turning off the light in the process).

Threw my hat in.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

01:39

LOL 50 a month guys on a roll

thats 2 questions per day

That Brazilian Headless Horse

01:59

4 hours ago, by That Brazilian Headless Horse

I didn't pay a dime for the ticket; the way I arrived here is quite crazy, I didn't get to watch a single talk...

I only arrived home now, 5hrs later, and the way I left the place was even crazier

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh

was it in a car pool?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

In the end of the night I was at the home of someone I'd never seen before

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

5 hrs Im sorry :(

That Brazilian Headless Horse

But I had pizza, so i had that going for me which is nice

Potato Cat

02:18

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Were they headless too?

Rahul2001

02:56

Mornin'

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

hmm cant find how to change the TCP timeout in MINA. going to have to scoure class docs, then maybe source code

Rahul2001

@Burgi Couldn't ping you, it was 12:00 AM here :P

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

hello Rahul!

Rahul2001

hey

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

wait do you live in australia and have flash player 18 or higher?

Rahul2001

03:01

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Who? me?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

yes you :)

Rahul2001

uh... no, I don't... why?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

but you live on the other side of the world because it's morning for you nd night for me

wondering if you could login to this game and tell me what your ping is

well no login required

Rahul2001

Australia isn't the only place on the opposite side of the world :P

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I know, it's a general location what I meant of

:)

Rahul2001

03:04

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere @Bob Lives in Australia, IIRC

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

well the servers in the united states so I want to see what kind of ping someone living on the other side of the world would get

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Use a free VPN/Proxy?

Bob

@Rahul2001 ?

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Eastern AU to West Coast US is approx 200-250, East Coast approx 300-350

But latency is generally more related to the specific links (and sometimes even local ISPs) than pure geographic location.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

mmmm

I guess you're scared I will collect your IP address. no worries, as it would happen

I have a feeling MINA isnt into ack time outs

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere I'm on a school PC, I can ping if you want

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

03:19

that's worse, a home IP will only be accurate to a general city, maybe 40km accuracy

while, an IP of an institution such as a school can reveal the school board name, maybe even the school, which results in me having possibly an address of where you're located.

I just can't accept such information from you

and I can't help but reverse IP people hehe

not that that's the reason I asked, it;s just a side effect.

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Well then, I'll use a VPN

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

well that would make the ping unreliable because your data is being routed through probably if it's free a slow gatway

thanks for the offer though :)

Abhishek Saxena

Oh, lol @AbhishekSaxena left himself logged in into this school PC... (I'm actually @Rahul2001)

The SE logout system is buggy

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

hehe

Bob

@Rahul2001 A VPN would increase response time, though.

Oh, he said that.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

03:23

wow I know someone ..

HE?! how could you assume that I'm a he?

Rahul2001

It is me again...

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I like hugging cats for someone's sake!

Rahul2001

uh... right

Bob

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere So, what pronoun do you prefer?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

call me a male

Rahul2001

03:31

Not. Funny.

Bob

That's not a pronoun.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I mean I'm male

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere You have four options: (a) he; (b) she; (c) (s)he (although that is a pain to type); (d) it

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

actually there's a fifth, it's called them

and they

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere So you are multiple persons?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

03:35

confusing right? I am confused too

no people actually use they and them for singular

Singular they

Singular they is the use in English of the pronoun they, or its inflected or derivative forms, such as them, their, themself, or themselves, as a gender-neutral pronoun to refer to a single person or an antecedent that is grammatically singular. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender, as in sentences such as: "Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?" "The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." "But a journalist should not be forced to reveal their sources." The singular they had emerged by the 14th century...

causes an invalid something in your stack doesn it!

oh

Rahul2001

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere I think I'll just use "he"

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

yes please do

you can't see my tears in the rain

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

04:18

@Rahul2001 do you think it's impossible to set a TCP ACK timeout in java?

Bob

eh. connect timeout

send timeout

same-same

all socket methods take a timeout param

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

no it's niether a connect timeout or send timeout I think

connect timeout isthe time it takes to connect and socket timeout might be the time there is nothing going on on the socket

Bob

a connect timout is the time it takes to receive an ack from the server on handshake

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I need the time the program waits until it decides the connection is dead after not receiving an ACK in response to a data send

yeah on handshake

Bob

a send timeout is the time it takes to receive an ack from the server on send

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

04:28

oh okay awesome

Bob

s/send/write/

hm. maybe java doesn't have one o.O

could've sworn there was one

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

nice I searched "apache mina send timeout" and my question thread is link #5 already

Bob

java fail

30

Q: java socket / output stream writes : do they block?

If I am only WRITING to a socket on an output stream, will it ever block? Only reads can block, right? Someone told me writes can block but I only see a timeout feature for the read method of a socket - Socket.setSoTimeout(). It doesn't make sense to me that a write could block.

java sockets stream

I was thinking of C# msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4031100

> We will likely introduce a mechanism to do select-like functionality in 1.3. This would let the user do what he needs to do.

benjamin.renaud@Eng 1997-08-26

> This feature is now covered by the NIO API which provides non-blocking operations on sockets. An application wishing a very fine control over outgoing operations like a Socket write should therefore use the SocketChannels instead.

###@###.### 2002-10-29

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

yawn

I'll try the config writeTimeout in MINA although docs say nothing and some people said its a timeout for how long MINA has to write the packet from its buffer... soooooooooooo sounds like thats an application side timeout not a TCP thingie

Journeyman Geek

04:43

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere I do this by preference...

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

Keep-alive packets MUST only be sent when no data or acknowledgement packets have been received for the connection within an interval. This interval MUST be configurable and MUST default to no less than two hours.

oh

Bob

06:39

tumble

Burgi

07:22

morning

@Rahul2001 pffft! no pain no gain!

Burgi

07:49

why do i get ill just before my holiday?

Burgi

08:14

did you guys know that azure had a major DNS failure yesterday?

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi They also had Office 365 portal issues

Oliver Salzburg

10:25

Meh, Azure AD is disappointing :( I was hoping it would be a viable alternative to on-premise AD

Oliver Salzburg

11:18

> Hi we inherited an active directory design that we are looking to revamp -in
essence we have a total of 6 domain controllers for a user community mostly
for application authentication and should only need 4 maximum.

The problem is we have dozens of applications which have been written in the
past by external contrctors and which have been known to be configured to
point to a single domain controller instead of to the entire domain.

What a clusterfuck

Bob

11:29

o.O

I'm actually impressed. Pretty sure it's harder to auth against a specific DC.

Oliver Salzburg

Heheheh

Journeyman Geek

ahh home

@bwDraco heh, see "I might be somewhat hard to get hold of"

@DavidPostill that box is still on ABP. I need to upgrade that, oops. Still.

Bob

11:44

@JourneymanGeek Eh, worked for me on ABP.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco Clearly the don't want my thieving, adblocking self reading their content. I try to give sites I love that ask nicely 10 minutes to convince me their ads arn't annoying, but most don't make the bar

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere talking about stuff is fine. You should have a rough idea of how far you can go with respect to that. Other stuff, we occationally have to teach you

bwDraco

11:59

@JourneymanGeek what's your schedule like?

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco 8 to 6

bwDraco

Wow, that's long.

So I'm wondering if you can delete the last exchange in the ask-a-mod room...

It was to delete information that should not have been posted in the first place.

micro buster

hi

DavidPostill

hi

micro buster

how are you

visited here after a long time

DavidPostill

12:06

@microbuster I'm fine. How are you?

bwDraco

in Ask a Super User Moderator, 11 hours ago, by bwDraco

I realize our moderator coverage is less than it used to be due to JMG having a new job...

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco something that was said a few months ago, and no one really cares about?

bwDraco

Yeah.

Journeyman Geek

Is it a productive use of my time/powers as a mod?

bwDraco

(only random's last message, strictly speaking, needs to be removed)

Journeyman Geek

12:09

Shouldn't you ask him to?

micro buster

@DavidPostill doing work at aq

Journeyman Geek

Since it feels like an entirely appropriate response to what feels like a frivlous request.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco I'm so tempted to post a youtube link :)

bwDraco

Go ahead

There is nothing wrong with doing so

(explain why you believe otherwise)

DavidPostill

You asked for it :)

Jaws theme!!

►

bwDraco

12:13

Alright, then. How should I interpret this?

DavidPostill

!!/headdesk

ChatBot John Cavil

bwDraco

Sorry, sorry. Am I annoying anyone here?

DavidPostill

@bwDraco No, definitely not :)

micro buster

well can ask some thing to @ChatBotJohnCavil

@DavidPostill

rlemon

12:18

you guys should implement auto unoneboxing.

github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot/blob/master/source/plugins/…

whoever runs this fork that is

DavidPostill

!!/doge jaws shark revenge soup

ChatBot John Cavil

      wow
so jaws shark revenge

  wow
so jaws shark revenge soup

rlemon

!!/doge jaws,shark,revenge,soup

ChatBot John Cavil

      wow
much jaws
                very shark
                            many revenge
such soup

DavidPostill

@rlemon thanks :)

rlemon

12:19

I got you ;)

bwDraco

Alright, then.

I don't like the way the law is designed these days.

heritage.org/research/reports/2016/08/…

Potato Cat

@rlemon I think it exists already

!!unonebox

ChatBot John Cavil

@PotatoCat Functionality is disabled

Potato Cat

Well, not anymore

rlemon

why... would you disable it

:(

Potato Cat

12:23

@OliverSalzburg It sorta kinda is?

Can't remember if it was Azure AD or O365 AD but my last (large) organisation did use some form of delegated MS "cloud" AD

DavidPostill

@microbuster ???

Oliver Salzburg

@PotatoCat Azure AD is O365 AD

bwDraco

@rlemon Check the code; I'm pretty sure there's a technical reason for this.

Potato Cat

Well then :-P

DavidPostill

@rlemon Why exactly do we need this?

Potato Cat

12:26

Anyway, they started off using the off-site MS AD just for O365 services with the idea of moving all on-site AD off to it eventually (and just keeping a local mirror)

Seemed to work OK, or at least, nothing had exploded during my time there.

And that was handling 10,000+ logins a day

Oliver Salzburg

Well, synching your Azure AD with an on-site AD is one thing, trying to use Azure AD exclusively is a completely different story

For starters, you can't join a Windows Server to an Azure AD domain

rlemon

@DavidPostill because then gifs go away after 90 seconds

Potato Cat

As I say, that was the (eventual) plan. From what I can tell the organisation is still there, so either they've done it successfully, or still not done it yet.

rlemon

well, not away, but not oneboxed.

Oliver Salzburg

And the only benefit you get from joining a Windows 10 to your Azure AD is slightly better integration with hosted Exchange, I guess

rlemon

12:28

@bwDraco if there is let me know, I wrote the code for that one.

Potato Cat

@rlemon There's no technical reason for this

Oliver Salzburg

@rlemon Making me think I'm talking in the wrong room :P

rlemon

:P just look for the blue name

Potato Cat

It was disabled because the maintainers discovered (via me) that it was open to all users and they couldn't be bothered restricting it to mods/ROs so just turned it off

(IIRC. And I usually don't RC)

rlemon

open to all users? it is automatic

Potato Cat

12:29

Turning it on and off.

rlemon

you can add use: 'OWNER' to plugin permissions FYI

Potato Cat

Dec 7 '15 at 14:50, by qasdfdsaq

I wonder what unonebox does

Dec 7 '15 at 14:51, by Bob

@qasdfdsaq every 1.5 mins it unoneboxes old bot messages

Dec 7 '15 at 14:51, by Bob

I don't know why that's not a protected command. Hm.

rlemon

I don't really care about unonebox in here :P but you can just alter the permissions and it should work

for any commands really.

Potato Cat

Dec 7 '15 at 14:51, by Bob

I think you might've stuck it in the on state o.O

Dec 7 '15 at 14:53, by Bob

Oh wait no, I misread the code. He actually schedules the 1.5 mins fot after each message is posted

Anyway...

My guess is he/allquicatic disabled it completely rather than restricting it, but it certainly used to exist

Maybe @OliverSalzburg can try it to see if it's just me that's disabled from using it :-P

rlemon

!!/unonebox on

ChatBot John Cavil

12:33

@rlemon un-onebox enabled

rlemon

;)

Potato Cat

:-/

!!taytaytay

ChatBot John Cavil

i.imgur.com/SYvAqgs.gif ...

rlemon

add the permissions or remove the plugin is the only way to lock it down

DavidPostill

@PotatoCat Hehe. That's a bad test because I have it blocked :)

Oliver Salzburg

12:34

@PotatoCat I have the bot on ignore. I'm not a good person to interact with it ;D

Potato Cat

@OliverSalzburg :-(

rlemon

@OliverSalzburg ohh good, so you won't mind this..

sorry

ChatBot John Cavil

@rlemon Command giphy learned

Potato Cat

@rlemon lol

!!giphy test

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/test#.png ...

Potato Cat

12:36

:-/ not what I was expecting

micro buster

lol

!!define A+

ChatBot John Cavil

@microbuster A+ An academic grade issued by certain educational institutions. Slightly better than an A.

Potato Cat

!!giphy Idontunderstand

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/Idontunderstand#.png ...

Potato Cat

:-o

!!giphy cheeseburger

ChatBot John Cavil

12:39

li.rlemon.ca/cheeseburger#.png ...

micro buster

hmm

Potato Cat

I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

That's smart

!!giphy reindeer

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/reindeer#.png ...

Potato Cat

This. Is. Awesome.

DavidPostill

li.rlemon.ca$image blocked :)

Potato Cat

12:43

!!giphy rlemon

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/rlemon#.png ...

DavidPostill

@PotatoCat Some of us don't wish to see your cat droppings :)

Potato Cat

!!giphy DavidPostill is the grinch

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/DavidPostill%20is%20the%20grinch#.png ...

Potato Cat

Hahaha. So funny.

Hahahahahahahaha

micro buster

12:45

!!giphy oh really

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/oh%20really#.png ...

DavidPostill

Potato Cat

!!giphy yes really

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/yes%20really#.png ...

micro buster

!!giphy not at all

ChatBot John Cavil

12:46

li.rlemon.ca/not%20at%20all#.png ...

DavidPostill

@rlemon Now look what you've done :)

rlemon

I sorry

3

RO's can always use undo

!!undo x4

ChatBot John Cavil

@rlemon You do not have permission to use the command undo

Potato Cat

@rlemon You kidding? This is the best thing to have happened in years!

Journeyman Geek

MINDJAIL EVERYONE!

2

micro buster

12:48

!!giphy MINDJAIL EVERYONE!

ChatBot John Cavil

li.rlemon.ca/MINDJAIL%20EVERYONE!#.png ...

Journeyman Geek

I'm actually considering it.

If you want to play with the bot, there's a seperate room for that

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Good :)

rlemon

!!forget giphy if it is troublesome

micro buster

hmm

Potato Cat

12:49

If you do that I will come to your workplace, hunt you down, and take away ALL your dog treats

jokerdino

I wonder if whitelisting would be a good idea.

rlemon

some rooms dont like it

Journeyman Geek

@PotatoCat My workplace is literally a basement.

DavidPostill

!!forget giphy

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill Command giphy forgotten.

Journeyman Geek

12:50

With a cunningly hidden entrance.

micro buster

@JourneymanGeek ok send me the link

Journeyman Geek

@microbuster go to 'site rooms' and go find 'bot overflow'

rlemon

chat.se needs a sandbox

Potato Cat

Bot Overflow

Room for chatbot-related clutter from Root Access. The bot is ...

Journeyman Geek

@rlemon bot overflow is our litterbox ;p

micro buster

12:51

got it

DavidPostill

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/1/sandbox

@rlemon

rlemon

that is chat.so

not chat.se

micro buster

!!well giphy command learned in bot overflow

ChatBot John Cavil

@microbuster That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: tell

micro buster

!!tell giphy command learned in bot overflow

ChatBot John Cavil

12:55

@microbuster Command command does not exist. (note that /tell works on commands, it's not an echo.)

Journeyman Geek

sigh

micro buster

!!how do you echo

ChatBot John Cavil

@microbuster Indubitably

Journeyman Geek

@microbuster We pointed you at the sandbox room. If you insist on testing the bot here, I'll be inclined to remove your rights to use the bot.

micro buster

ok

Bob

13:24

@PotatoCat ...I don't remember disabling it?

oh hi @rlemon

rlemon

Bob

o/

Bob

yea, bot overflow was an idea stolen from the JS room :P

just like the bot itself

XKCD

"I've noticed you physics people can be a little on the reductionist side." "That's ridiculous. Name ONE reductionist word I've ever said."

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

14:19

@Bob stealing is bad!

Bob

Yes, well, doing questionable things to mechanical reindeer is also bad.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

only if you are doing damage to property which you do not own

Burgi

14:52

mechanical reindeer?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi saints row 4.Double the fun and 4 times the bugs when you play with a friend.

I'm pretty sure we were shoulder deep in the rear thruster

Burgi

o.O

Journeyman Geek

after this we're probably doing the borderlands series

Bot Overflow

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