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bothunter t1_jefozfx wrote
Reply to comment by Skips3000 in TIL that on top of the 3 matters of state that we’re all familiar with (solid, liquid, gas), there are at least 24 more, though most only exist under extreme conditions by gianthooverpig
I wouldn't expect people to know all the states of matter, but it's kind of sad that a lot of people don't realize there are more than three, and plasma is one of them. (and experiments involving plasma are fun as hell)
bothunter t1_jdai2a6 wrote
Reply to comment by benefit_of_mrkite in TIL of the Pig War, a border dispute between the US and the UK, around Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and Washington State. The only casualty was a pig, owned by an Irish farmer, which was shot by an American farmer for eating his potatoes. Both countries deployed military troops. by drak0bsidian
You would not be disappointed: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/10/pig-war-commemorated-bronze-pig-san-juan-island-national-historical-park
bothunter t1_jbqpwr2 wrote
Reply to comment by PenlessScribe in Georgia thieves busted by cops when they stopped to charge getaway Tesla by PenlessScribe
Even Colton Harris Moore was smart enough to know that you should just steal another car instead of stopping to refuel your current stolen car.
bothunter t1_jbg2pec wrote
>"His credit card was used at least twice, once I believe it was an ATM. I've heard there's video of a man using it, and it isn't Nathan. The second time was at a Greyhound station. Also, his wallet clip was found with his American Express, but no ID," said Still.
And no foul play suspected... amazing. Louisiana law enforcement never ceases to amaze me.
bothunter t1_j9h3zkg wrote
Reply to comment by milkysway1 in TIL that at its peak, AOL / America Online was responsible for 50% of CDs manufactured worldwide by eskihomer
Except those disks were absolute trash. You could only write to them a few times before they started flaking out. But as long as you didn't need reliability, they were a nice cheap alternative to the store bought disks. Just needed a piece of scotch tape to cover the write protect tab.
bothunter t1_j8t9e4y wrote
Reply to comment by avipars in TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document. by COMPUTER1313
It could affect the test books, but not the Scantron sheets.
bothunter t1_j8t952g wrote
Reply to comment by syncboy in TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document. by COMPUTER1313
This had nothing to do with OCR -- it was due to compression artifacts. Specifically it looked for common patterns and created a lookup table to save space. It's just that some numbers and letters look similar enough to that algorithm that it didn't notice that a 6 and 8 were different "patterns"
And that was the issue -- nobody was using the Xerox to scan the text -- they just wanted it to make identical copies like all other Xerox machines did in the past.
bothunter t1_j65kocl wrote
Fake products to go with their fake news.
bothunter t1_j64oxrd wrote
Lol... It doesn't seem that far -- until you start walking towards it. I've never made it myself, but I've definitely made the attempt.
bothunter t1_j52u0ml wrote
Reply to comment by DennisHakkie in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme
Fusebox? How old is your house?
bothunter t1_j52tro2 wrote
Reply to comment by Problem_Western in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme
As someone who lives in a super rainy area that doesn't believe in making lane markers visible in the rain -- lane assist is dangerous at best. That thing will pick up on anything in the road that happens to be more visible than the paint and try and steer the car accordingly.
bothunter OP t1_j48z0fy wrote
Reply to comment by aidan8et in California's New Digital License Plates Get Hacked by bothunter
I read about how the hackers broke in and holy hell it's embarrassing. Basically they left a bunch of validation up to the client instead of enforcing it on the server. Hackers just emulated their own client and forged a different fields in the request and the server just let them do it.
bothunter t1_j20q2ff wrote
Reply to comment by _Unfair_Suspension_ in Evidence unearthed by podcasters frees 2 Georgia men imprisoned for 25 years by efranklin13
Seriously -- I almost got arrested for having expired tags. Got pulled over, cop saw I had a book on marijuana and he decided right then he was going to arrest me. He got a K9 unit to "smell" drugs on my car and the proceeded to search my vehicle where he "found" a broken pipe. Then spent the next 90 minutes trying to get me to admit the pipe was mine. Eventually let me go without even writing a ticket when he realized I wasn't going to budge.
Then, despite 10 cops being involved in this incident, there was absolutely no record of the stop.
bothunter t1_izgkuul wrote
Reply to comment by InappropriateTA in TIL that in the UK, it is a crime to make new copies of the King James Bible. Although the text is technically in the public domain, the Crown claims Royal prerogative over the right to print, publish and distribute it. by al666in
That's the royal family in a nutshell.
bothunter t1_jeh05of wrote
Reply to TIL among the official HTTP client error response codes (like "404: Not Found"), status code "418: I'm a teapot" is the code used to indicate that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. by lofzfreak
That was just one of a long list of April fools Internet standards RFCs. Others include TCP/IP over carrier pigeon and the "evil" bit on internet packets used for nefarious purposes.