Random randomness

Cortilian · Post by **Cortilian** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:53 am

Skinypupy wrote:Oh, I still have to be at the event, since I'm helping to staff it. I just won't have any actual clients there.

Perhaps we have some DC OO'ers that could come by and pretend to be clients?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:49 am

Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:I know we had a clown comment in this thread last month, but I don't know if it warrants a new thread. Then again, it seems to be an issue everywhere...if I'm to believe the news. What I wasn't expecting was this message from a local police agency:

If you spot a person dressed as a clown call 911.
Speaking as someone that generally considered your locale as more of a reeking hellmouth than a denizen of dipsticks, I may have to revise my opinion. But at least you can now sleep safely, knowing that the long arm of the law is taking a stand against the fiendish criminal cruelty to *animals that has apparently swept the nation.
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NJ is not messing around with clowns. (insert Governor joke here)

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:53 am

Friggin' clowns. They should put all their asses in one car and tell 'em to get out of Dodge.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:39 am

Yeah, the Mini Cooper is much better as a clown car than any Dodge.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:52 am

How to ruin your day.

Step 1.

Call AT&T with a question

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:07 am

hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.

Step 1.

Call AT&T with a question

As a former Cingular/AT&T Mobility rep/manager, I agree. There were managers that I wouldn't have wanted touching my account. I can only imagine the hell that is their business services.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:15 am

hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.

Step 1.

Call AT&T with a question

How many times do I have to tell you that we're just friends, and I'm not interested in "seeing where things go"?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:21 am

So I'm in bed last night and thinking what are the top 5 comic book movies of all time after seeing an ad knocking Shamalamdingdong.

In no particular order I got:

Tank Girl
Unbreakable
The Dark Knight
Deadpool

And then not wanting to include Batman Begins because I already put in The Dark Knight, I come up with nothing for a fifth. The cinema has been all about comic book movies for over a decade, and I can't come up with a 5th stand out of the crowd movie.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:23 am

I'm not a huge xmen fan but the first one was decent. It treated the subject matter seriously (before that was the norm) and did a decent job of it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:25 am

I needed a number checked a couple days ago and never did get a person on the line. I know a lot of operators lost their jobs to computers years ago but damn. Seems the old days were hard in some ways but at least stuff worked. It wasn't AT$T but was a cell phone. Dialing 0 got me a recording telling me to try 411 for info and another for something else then a * something to speak to the company...sigh. I just wanted to hit 0 say hi I need a number checked and be done. I never did get it checked.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:28 am

GreenGoo wrote:I'm not a huge xmen fan but the first one was decent. It treated the subject matter seriously (before that was the norm) and did a decent job of it.

Most of Marvel's stuff has been good. The only things that lost my attention were the many faces of The Hulk and Raimi's Spiderman 3 (never saw the reboot) but none of it really stands out and makes me say "now that is a comic book movie!"

Could you consider Dark Man a comic book movie?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:32 am

ImLawBoy wrote:
hepcat wrote:How to ruin your day.

Step 1.

Call AT&T with a question
How many times do I have to tell you that we're just friends, and I'm not interested in "seeing where things go"?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:33 am

LordMortis wrote:So I'm in bed last night and thinking what are the top 5 comic book movies of all time after seeing an ad knocking Shamalamdingdong.

In no particular order I got:

Tank Girl
Unbreakable
The Dark Knight
Deadpool

And then not wanting to include Batman Begins because I already put in The Dark Knight, I come up with nothing for a fifth. The cinema has been all about comic book movies for over a decade, and I can't come up with a 5th stand out of the crowd movie.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:34 am

LordMortis wrote: Could you consider Dark Man a comic book movie?

Yes but I thought it was terrible, even at the time. Casting Bennie as the villain was also distracting, but in general I just didn't find it very good.

edit: Lol, Max makes a good point.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:42 am

Max Peck wrote:

It was really good, even top notch for the Marvel efforts but it just didn't stand out as being memorable for being the best for me.

GeenGoo wrote:it was terrible

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:43 am

Guardians didn't stand out but Dark Man is a contender for top 5?

You, sir, suck.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:47 am

Watchmen? Sin City? Or do graphic novels not count as comic books?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:58 am

GreenGoo wrote:Guardians didn't stand out but Dark Man is a contender for top 5?

You, sir, suck.

The cinematography in Dark Man was completely comic book and there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was everything in cinema that Burton's Batman failed to accomplish.

GoG was a continuation of modern comic book movies.

Max Peck wrote:Watchmen? Sin City? Or do graphic novels not count as comic books?

Sin City broke ground but for reasons I can't explain was a disappointment. I can see where others would put it up there, though. 300 really wasn't that good and Watchmen didn't even begin to feel like it was accomplishing what the graphic novel did.

Sin City probably should be under consideration. It really did amazing things to capture the experience but it fails the I really liked it test.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:01 pm

LordMortis wrote:
The cinematography in Dark Man was completely comic book and there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was everything in cinema that Burton's Batman failed to accomplish.

Love Dark Man. The movie showed us what Raimi would do with Spiderman years later. And those (at least the second one) are considered some of the best superhero films of all time.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:03 pm

Guardians of the Galaxy claims title of most on screen deaths of any movie ever at over 80k

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:05 pm

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/shot ... in-livonia

Clown crime going strong in my area. Just stupid.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:25 pm

http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/f ... /91540380/

Let it be affordable have a good gas mileage and let my car last until it is in its second or third year.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:33 pm

Daehawk wrote:Guardians of the Galaxy claims title of most on screen deaths of any movie ever at over 80k

If tiny ships being blasted get credit, why not count everybody on Alderaan?

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:38 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:I know we had a clown comment in this thread last month, but I don't know if it warrants a new thread. Then again, it seems to be an issue everywhere...if I'm to believe the news. What I wasn't expecting was this message from a local police agency:

If you spot a person dressed as a clown call 911.
Speaking as someone that generally considered your locale as more of a reeking hellmouth than a denizen of dipsticks, I may have to revise my opinion. But at least you can now sleep safely, knowing that the long arm of the law is taking a stand against the fiendish criminal cruelty to *animals that has apparently swept the nation.
* balloon
NJ is not messing around with clowns. (insert Governor joke here)

I used to wonder whether Orwell or Huxley's dystopian vision of the future was more prescient, and most likely to come true. But now that I'm an older, wiser chap, I've increasingly come to realise one can but wonder when the new season of "Ow! My Balls!" shall begin.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:48 pm

Theranos and the Bureaucracy Gauntlet

Just two years after the blood-testing company Theranos was valued at $9 billion, the company has announced that it will close its clinical labs and blood-test centers and cut more than 40 percent of its staff.

Theranos says it is shifting its focus to a product it calls the miniLab, with the goal of commercializing "miniaturized, automated laboratories."

The company once seemed poised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry, with low-cost tests that used only a few drops of blood. But then, "the government began to scrutinize the company after experts found that the results of the blood tests were inaccurate," as NPR's Laura Sydell has reported.

The fall from grace was dramatic. Walgreens cancelled a lucrative contract with the company in June. The following month, federal regulators told Theranos that "they will bar the company's dynamic founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from owning or operating a lab for at least two years," as The Two-Way has reported.

The company has appealed the ban against Holmes, which has not yet been imposed, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The company will now "return our undivided attention to our miniLab platform," according to Holmes. The miniLab — billed as a small laboratory "capable of small-volume sample testing, with an emphasis on vulnerable patient populations" — was announced by the company in August.

When Holmes presented the new initiative at the annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, she "chose not to defend the company against the widespread skepticism over its testing methods," The New York Times reported.
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When the ban was announced, Theranos said it accepted "full responsibility" and "vowed to work non-stop to resolve the issues identified." As we've reported, the company denied that any patients were harmed by its tests and said Holmes would remain at the helm.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:55 pm

Daehawk wrote:Guardians of the Galaxy claims title of most on screen deaths of any movie ever at over 80k

O rly?

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:32 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:33 pm

Daehawk wrote:I know I mentioned movies that need to be made and some of them have been. I think I said Deadpool, Dr Strange, ROM, Micronauts, and Lobo and maybe something else. Now IGN has posted a story on 80's toy franchises that need movies and two of the mare in it too..ROM and Micronauts lol.

Humble Comic Bundle

Transformers, GI Joe, MASK, Micronauts, and ROM.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:13 pm

LordMortis wrote:

Google map of all the recorded scary clown sightings. Stay vigilant!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:19 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
LordMortis wrote:
Google map of all the recorded scary clown sightings. Stay vigilant!

Not even the ball park. Two sets of robberies and slashing a child need to be added to SE Michigan in addition to merely creepy clown sightings that were precursors. After one the shooting today, I rather doubt too many pranksters will just hang out being creeper around here any more. Though I don't doubt the crime will continue.

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:26 pm

Yeah, we're the Land of Juggalos! We've had sightings here for years...

Speaking of, Insane Clown Posse says 'relax' when it comes to creepy clown sightings

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:44 pm

Texas

On Wednesday, clown-related news dominated the region:

• Officials at a San Marcos apartment complex said they were increasing security patrols after someone reported seeing a chainsaw-carrying individual dressed as a clown Tuesday evening.

• In Austin, a 17-year-old high school student was arrested after police say he made “terroristic” clown threats on social media.

• Lake Travis school district authorities informed parents that Hudson Bend Middle School had been mentioned online as part of a wider “suspected internet and social media hoax” that “has been circulating nationally regarding comments about schools by clowns.”
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• Round Rock school district officials told parents that the Williamson County sheriff’s department “determined the threat to schools from an anonymous clown is a hoax.” The note continued: “Williamson County identified the source of the specific threat in our area and will take appropriate action.”
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On Tuesday, police at Texas State University said they were investigating an allegation that a man in a clown costume chased and a grabbed a woman who was walking out of a dormitory on Monday evening.

Also on Tuesday, Austin school district police Chief Eric Mendez wrote parents that his officers were “investigating multiple social media threats made by people dressed as clowns against several of our middle and high schools.”
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And on Monday, a Twitter user called @wisetheclown13 said he was “coming for easy targets” at Bastrop, Smithville and Cedar Creek high schools, and had a gun. Bastrop school district officials, however, said the threat was not credible but the district was operating under heightened security measures.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:12 pm

Laundromats are really behind the times. Back in the 90s I wondered why they didn't take dollar bills or credit cards. Today I go and its STILL quarters only. Im sitting there thinking I bet smartphones will have an app one day that you use to pick your machine and click to get use of the washer or dryer and its deducted from your account. I dont get why they dont have that now actually. I watched the lady working there have to put $7.50 of quarters into multiple machines at once to wash clothes. Struck me as primitive.

And their dryers....what are they..set to asthma in a 80 year old puff hiss wheeze strength? Not in 3 decades have they ever dried a load in one and sometimes 2 goes.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:11 am

So you sign up for a service that adds user threat assessment and awareness to your business' security package. You set up and fire off a random assortment of phising emails to your entire office without warning anyone, spread across 5 days, with everyone getting something different.

Two days into it, you get a report that one of the users not only opened a potentially malicious email attachment, but also enabled macros on the same attachment - they've poked a great big hole in your security. You run off to check on who it is, so you can put together a stern finger-wagging at them, and discover that it's your boss. The guy that insisted he needed Domain Admin privileges on his user account.

I hope he doesn't start trying to tell me he was expecting to be tested, and just wanted to see what it looked like - because I never told him I was sending a test, and certainly didn't tell him what it would look like (I didn't even know).

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:16 am

I would alert his boss first to be made aware of any possible fallout.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:43 am

There shouldn't be any fallout. This guy agreed that this would be a valuable thing for us to have, and signed off on the purchase!

This is the first time I've sent out phising emails to my users as a serious test, and he's the CFO/COO - his test email happened to be a spoofed financial institution with an Excel document attachment outlining our financial status with them. That's like leaving a pic-a-nic basket unattended in a certain park...

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:46 am

If Mattel came close to losing $3M on a spearphishing attack, what chance do the guppies have?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:18 am

If you're going to repeatedly tell people to use the latest code builds in the subversion trunk, then don't freakin' check in code builds to the subversion trunk that you don't want deployed yet!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:23 pm

http://attackoftheclowns.com/

What the hell, the first page is almost all Michigan. This is puppies.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:38 pm

I really do envy people that live in homes without gutters that are constantly clogged with leaves. If I haven't made it clear before, F owning a home.