Ornamental Dingbat posted:

That's one way to hide your hot science teacher boner

Bum the Sad posted:

Bette than the tried and true goon strategy of pretending to be a cat and running out on all fours while meowing.

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FSLabs head Lefteris Kalamaras responded to the uproar over the discovery on the company's forums, arguing that the hidden file does not "reveal any sensitive information of any customer who has legitimately purchased our products" (emphasis in original).

Tagra posted:

I'm currently keeping an eye on this trainwreck: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/flight-sim-devs-say-hidden-password-dump-tool-was-used-to-fight-pirates/


It's okay to invade privacy and steal all their passwords as long as the target is unequivocally guilty, right?

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"This method has already successfully provided information that we're going to use in our ongoing legal battles against such criminals," he wrote.

Tagra posted:

I'm currently keeping an eye on this trainwreck: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/flight-sim-devs-say-hidden-password-dump-tool-was-used-to-fight-pirates/


It's okay to invade privacy and steal all their passwords as long as the target is unequivocally guilty, right?

KoRMaK posted:

Was it covered in the eula

Memento posted:

I mean as long as a) you never wanted to sell a single thing ever again and b) wanted to encourage people to strip out the malware and pirate the poo poo out of everything you do sell, this seems like a great idea!

Gorilla Salad posted:

Didn't Steam teach these idiots that making your product more accessible is immeasurably better that putting in horrible protection that treats your customers like criminals?

Tagra posted:

I'm currently keeping an eye on this trainwreck: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/flight-sim-devs-say-hidden-password-dump-tool-was-used-to-fight-pirates/


It's okay to invade privacy and steal all their passwords as long as the target is unequivocally guilty, right?

Sagebrush posted:

lol. you think flight sim people use steam

Away all Goats posted:

https://i.imgur.com/zYQwpHd.gifv

Solice Kirsk posted:

There'd have been people taping and posting that if even half of that was true. And then a picture of some woman talking on a phone with no cops around at the end as "proof" just screamed made up to me. I'd probably believe it more if that wasn't included.

Gorilla Salad posted:

No. I'd hoped those idiots had learned the lesson of Steam.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

A stuntman's final stunt is always his worst stunt



Edit: unless you're Ken Carter, of course. He was a Canadian stuntman who was always trying to beat Evel Knievel's reputation and he spent 5 years trying to get his biggest and best stunt financed and promoted. Things went ...... not great.

This documentary is 100 minutes long but it's got some world class schadenfreude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA5WCpFY0PE

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Is that anything like the Riddle of Steel? Maybe we should get James Earl Jones in a bad wig to explain it to them.

Takes No Damage posted:

I just watched this whoooooooole thing. My favorite part was when two of the 'engineers' were first testing the gas tank for the rocket car, it exploded (that scene is actually the thumbnail for the video). So they ordered another one. It exploded. So they bought the parts and assembled one themselves because "if you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself." It exploded.

Highly recommended to watch a bunch of Canadian hillbillies try to put them Duke boys to shame

trickybiscuits posted:

Rondette posted:

It's so close to being a parody. Pro-click.

Yond Cassius posted:

I'd be disappointed if this got buried without comment (but not as disappointed as the cat).

Spectral Debt posted:

Nsfw https://imgur.com/gallery/j8Weg

Spectral Debt posted:

Nsfw https://imgur.com/gallery/j8Weg

ekuNNN posted:

Takes No Damage posted:

Or the part where they're building the giant ramp and the head engineer is being all friendly and giving interviews, then when they bring out the big crane to lift the huge metal end of the ramp that extends beyond the earthen base, it doesn't loving fit, the bolts are offset by like a foot. He wouldn't give any interviews after that But you're absolutely right, if you told me this was a mocumentary of rural Canadians that was just made to look like the 70s I would have no reason to doubt you. Especially if it starred Will Ferrell (my god, that would be perfect...). Getting Poe's Law'd hard right now.

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26-year-old woman has been arrested after an abusive note was left on an ambulance dealing with a 999 call.

The handwritten message, in which the writer said she did not care "if the whole street collasped [sic]", was left in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, on Sunday.

The woman, from Tunstall, was arrested on suspicion of public order offences and remains in police custody.

Mike Duggan, operational manager from the West Midlands Ambulance Service, said the paramedics also received verbal abuse as well as the note.

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A man who spent ten years turning an apartment into the ultimate Star Trek bachelor pad is going to lose it all in a divorce.

Believe it or not, Tony Alleyne's wife didn't leave him because he turned their apartment into a highly-detailed [and hideously expensive] replica of the interior of the U.S.S. Voyager, the starship from the sci-fi television show of the same name. He transformed his one-bedroom apartment after she left him, handcrafting the whole thing himself, and while it's a little crazy, it's also pretty amazing handiwork. Obsessive or not, and questionable choice of Star Trek series to emulate notwithstanding, the results are undeniably impressive.

Alas, that decade of hopes, dreams and hard work will all soon be in the dumpster. Alleyne's wife left him in '94 but apparently didn't bother to seek a divorce until recently, and now that she has, she wants to sell the apartment "as a conventional property."

"To say I'm gutted is an understatement. It is my life's work - and it looks like it's going into a skip," Alleyne said. "I admit there were tears."

It's hard not to feel sorry for the guy, especially since he sunk more than $150,000 into building his dream home, but tempering that sympathy is the fact that his soon-to-be-ex-wife is the one who actually owns the apartment and has been paying the mortgage on it since they split almost 20 years ago. It's a sad loss of a tremendous amount of time, effort and money, not to mention one of the most gloriously nerdy joints ever made, but I can't help thinking that if Alleyne had put some of that money and effort into actually paying for the place instead of turning it into his own personal television set, he might not have to chuck it all into the garbage.

Nckdictator posted:

Old but just remembered this

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115486-The-Ultimate-Star-Trek-Apartment-Is-Lost-To-Divorce

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A Star Trek fan who converted his flat into a replica of the Starship Enterprise has been jailed for downloading thousands of images of child abuse.

Anthony Alleyne, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was jailed at Leicester Crown Court for 34 months.

The 60-year-old spent 10 years and thousands of pounds converting his home, which was inspired by the long-running TV series.

He previously admitted 22 charges.

Alleyne pleaded guilty to 20 charges relating to indecent images of child abuse and two further charges related to offences of a serious sexual nature.

Of the more than 5,000 pictures he accessed between 2010 and 2012 many involved very young children and more than half were of the most serious category of abuse.

In sentencing Alleyne, Judge Philip Head said: "Without people like you accessing such material there would be no market and poor, desperate children would not be treated that way by depraved people.

"You have no real regret save for being caught."

He added: "This kind of sentence is what to expect if you are caught behaving this way at the expense of traumatised, brutalised children."

The police officer who raided Alleyne's flat said it was "decked out as Star Trek Enterprise ship"
Alleyne was made the subject of a 10-year sexual offences prevention order, meaning his computer use will be monitored.

He will also have to sign the sex offenders' register indefinitely.

The court was told he suffered depression and rarely left home following the break up of his marriage.

It was during this 17-year unemployed period he devoted himself to converting the flat into a replica of the Starship Enterprise, even building a replica transporter unit.

Police raided his flat in September 2012 after details from the police internet protocol unit but he initially refused to give passwords to online accounts.

He later deleted information from a different computer but experts were able to retrieve the information.

The court was told Alleyne was forced to put his flat on the market after his ex-wife, who owned the building, decided to sell.

He ripped out the Starship Enterprise design when he could not find someone to meet the £800,000 price tag and instead began to convert it into a design based on the spin-off series Star Trek Voyager.

However, he had to file for bankruptcy after taking out loans and using credit cards to start a business offering similar science fiction-themed makeovers.

cakesmith handyman posted:

I feel compelled to point out this is the second time in a month or so someone's left a lovely note on an ambulance while they're saving someone's life.

Stoke on Trent is a classy place, let me tell you.

Takes No Damage posted:

This gives me a 404

Randaconda posted:

I'm not a nazi furry.

Alas, the scootin' frooty is on me.