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Jason C

06:25

The best spam I ever got was an email with the subject "flaming pants":

NEW ONE OF A KIND PANTS WITH FLAMES!
Are you looking for a fresh start? A new look? Well then look
no further because we have just what you need! Our quality flaming
pants are new, hip, and will always keep you warm. You might think
that a pair of pants this good would be expensive right? WELL YOUR
WRONG! For a limited time only you can get these funky hipsters for
only $399.99! We will even include another AMAZING offer! Now you can
buy 4 get 1 free! All you have to do is e-mail our company at

I got it 6 years ago and saved it because, you know, flames forever on our pants.

Unihedron

(face-keyboard)

Jason C

Oh that's right it wasn't mailed straight to me; it was spammed to comp.lang.c++

user163250

06:39

Wooble currently has 666 answers.

user163250

user163250

Should I take that as a sign of the End Times?

Unihedron

He has one question, so his Q:A ratio is 1:666! :o gasp

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron but it also means he has 667 posts in total

Sumurai8

yawns

Unihedron

06:44

leans on floor

Sumurai8

Watcha doing on the floor? Silly being.

remotely lifts @Unihedron from the floor, watches them hovering in mid-air for a bit and finally deposits them on a nearby couch, bed, or chair

Unihedron

falls asleep

SmokeDetector

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Aqua 11s Movie theaters because on webapps.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

SPAM ^

SPAM mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/56621/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Infrared 23 11s up on tex.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

06:52

Flagged all except the one on English Learners.

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron why didn't you flag the one on ELU?

Unihedron

It doesn't look like spam, just a badly composed / formatted question.

Jan Dvorak

But... our trusty bot thinks it's spam

Unihedron

It said "All-caps title"... But eh, sure. (flags)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Bred 11s it simply on ux.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

06:54

> Defragmenting (8%)
> Remaining time: >1day

Unihedron

I registered 4 new accounts on SE network just today to flag these spam posts. :D

Jan Dvorak

Good guy :-)

Welcome to the party

Sumurai8

I am wondering what kind of OS you are running @JanDvorak. Recent versions of Windows do it automatically, so it's probably not that.

Jan Dvorak

@Sumurai8 Win7. Where do I recheck my settings?

Sumurai8

@JanDvorak sevenforums.com/tutorials/…

Jan Dvorak

06:58

TIL about this page: stackexchange.com/users/233608/jan-dvorak?tab=reputation

Sumurai8

Stop gaining reputation already O_o

Jan Dvorak

Should I use the built-in one, or schedule defraggler instead? How often?

Sumurai8

I can't check the settings I have at home right now, but I think by default it should be once a week or so. If it runs often, it is done in no-time. Not filling up your hard drive to the absolute last byte helps too.

Jan Dvorak

Huh... the inbuilt defragmenter thinks the disk is 0% fragmented and hasn't run for quite a while despite being configured to and despite having defragmented (analysed) the other partition as well as `\\?\Volume{...}` (what's even that?) yesterday.

Jason C

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25032420/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25132882/…

Jan Dvorak

07:08

Worse, the built-in defragmenter apparently doesn't want to defragment the pagefile

Unihedron

Bam, one down.

Jan Dvorak

07:27

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125737/fast-weight-loss-diet

> I have fewer eighty joints

Shadow Wizard

24 helpful spam flags on drupal, hooray!

Unihedron

Are there never enough spammers? Lol

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard That's a good start ;-)

SmokeDetector

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Unihedron

Duplicate of the other one up there

Never mind, same question.

Jan Dvorak

07:37

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237553/…

> you need to do more damage to your body to your muscles

that. spambot. is. an. idiot.

Bart

@JanDvorak Not exercising is doing as much damage as I can do.

Jan Dvorak

@Bart there are also guns, knives, weird chemicals...

SmokeDetector

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Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector again?

iStimple

@Bart or eating to much Augustweggen

Bart

07:43

@iStimple I'm not that integrated yet

Jason C

wtf stackoverflow.com/questions/25133157/typecast-vs-using-valueof/…

Stupid questions, fine (and this one wasn't that bad). Stupid answers, and then accepted stupid answers? What the hell man.

I haven't participated on SO for a few weeks then I come back and see crap like that.

Stijn

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/25133643/…

Jason C

MO is to math.se as really want is to SO.

Unihedron

2

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn gone

Cerbrus

08:03

@Unihedron: I've had an OP accept a -40-ish voted answer over my +70 votes one...

(on meta, though)

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Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector again?

Stijn

@JanDvorak is that an automated response?

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn no

Jason C

@JanDvorak again?

iStimple

08:05

who's going to ask the 7,777,777 question Will it be upvoted, downvoted, or even closed?

Unihedron

I bank on being closed

iStimple

should happen within the next 48 hours right?

Cerbrus

How many questions does SO get per day, on average?

iStimple

i think about 4-5 k

really though, which number is more lucky than seven sevens?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)

Unihedron

08:09

Yet again?!

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector again?

iStimple

@undo wtf

Bart

What has the smokedetector been smoking?

2

SPArchaeologist

@iStimple 42?

Shadow Wizard

42 shades of smoke

Jan Dvorak

08:26

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125747/…

Cerbrus

08:37

Flag'd

Sumurai8

status-zapped

Jason C

Does drupal.se get so much spam because of the italicized site theme?

I'd spam it with a botnet out of principle if I knew how.

Jan Dvorak

*principle

Sumurai8

I have gained 410 reputation among several SE sites today... sadly 400 of that is from making accounts

Jan Dvorak

and no, it's not in all italics for me

Jason C

08:47

ACK I knew that. embarrassed

That's so weird; All of the text on that site is italics for me, even the "post not found" pages.

I will get to the bottom of this.

Jan Dvorak

disable all users\w+s

Unihedron

@Sumurai8 Same... High five?

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron -4 for downvoting?

Unihedron

Yeah. DV all the things!!

Jason C

Ah ha; it's because my DejaVu Sans font is italics.

Sumurai8

08:51

@Unihedron \o

Jan Dvorak

09:06

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125753/…

Sumurai8

SPAM ANSWER scifi.stackexchange.com/a/64932

Unihedron

@Sumurai8 That poor dude. lol

Jan Dvorak

@Sumurai8 edited???

Sumurai8

Someone edited it, but it is still spam

Jan Dvorak

Why does defraggler eat up so much CPU and not nearly as much disk bandwidth?

SPAM math.stackexchange.com/questions/864280/…

SPAM gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/81362/…

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125756/…

Unihedron

09:43

One down, spam-flag-pls this and this left

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125761/…

Unihedron

I'm about to run out of flags on drupal.SE...

Sumurai8

I still have 7 left there.

Jan Dvorak

> Did you probe that if you jade a rabble bag and a few layers of clothes, you'll ruin lots of fat?

If I find out what a rabble bag is, I might consider trying that out

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 that's baba, you know

Sumurai8

09:52

I don't like baba

Jan Dvorak

I'm officially a deputy on Math.se now

Sumurai8

I once wanted him to solve all my problems for me

it didn't work

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 sew him ;)

Sumurai8

so now I be mean to him and delete his spam

Jan Dvorak

SPAM superuser.com/questions/792614/…

Sumurai8

09:56

@ShadowWizard Is that a special type of sueing?

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 yup

Sumurai8

10:09

@ShadowWizard Ah, the type that stitches the loose ends together I suppose.

Jan Dvorak

@Sumurai8 wouldn't that be sewing?

Sumurai8

19 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 sew him ;)

SmokeDetector

10:27

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CONTACT FOR ONLINE VASHIKRAN FAMOUS ASTROLOGER RAVIKANT GAUR JI +91 7696632900 on scifi.stackexchange.com

Sumurai8

Baba! Baba! Is it you?

Jan Dvorak

10:42

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237568/…

Jan Dvorak

11:13

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125770/…

Unihedron

Two flags left on drupal.SE...

Jan Dvorak

Oh, wait, no, sorry. It's merely crap.

Unihedron

Isn't it too broad instead, then?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: INTERNAL STORAGE OF SAMSUNG CELL IS on android.stackexchange.com

Sumurai8

O_o meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/138/outspoken?userid=233566 <-- Oh dear :O

Unihedron

11:19

Grats on badge :P

Shadow Wizard

Grats!

Sumurai8

Thanks

Unihedron

not-an-answer stackoverflow.com/a/25137515/3622940

iStimple

nerd merrit badges? found searching for something else

iStimple

11:46

@Sumurai8 i do a firework display for you, yet no thanks? you are sure hard to please :(

Sumurai8

@iStimple I still haven't finished enjoying it and therefore cannot gauge the amount of gratitude I should show.

iStimple

@Sumurai8 oh, i see, that makes me feel better. Yea, sometimes things just leave you speechless.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125775/…

Sumurai8

@iStimple Ah, here we go. I seem to have finished enjoying the image right about... now. The calculated amount of enjoyment can be expressed through the word "thanks". From now on it will be a grainy jpg with graphical artifacts though.

rene

12:51

I guess Azure is now definitely off-limits here

2

Braiam

@rene so.... stuff hit the fan

rene

13:11

@Braiam Yeah...under new EU ruling you can get a fine of 800,000 euro's in case of a breach in privacy-sensitive-data. We take privacy serious....

Stijn

I'm pretty sure the EU will be quick to counter this ruling.

or at least they'll attempt to

DavidG

@rene Finally something about the EU to be proud of!

Braiam

BTW, I wonder how that will affect US software industry pockets

rene

It does have impact, at least for the market share within government agencies...

Braiam

13:37

@jadarnel27 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12278846#12278846

GnomeSlice

13:54

Today's Listening | Indie Dance / Nu Disco (Mixsets day 5)

Undo

14:31

@iStimple ... Not intended :P

Amal Murali

14:44

Any mods around?

129

A: Help design our Stack Overflow t-shirts

A late entry... the geek pride is in getting the reference. (besides - I'd love to deliver this to one of the "your text banner" t-shirt printers and watch them go crazy trying to figure it out ;-p)

The image is not loading anymore. If anyone's free, please edit it to add this image.

Shadow Wizard

@AmalMurali how do you know that's the original image?

anyway.... @Oded if you have a second ^^

hichris123

-5

Q: Why no one upvoted this question?

This the code for detecting the ardunio of the last variable.But last variable produces an error. Error is given below.The MySQL Server rejects the delete or update operation for the parent table if there is a related foreign key value in the referenced table. <style type="text/css"> #li...

^ Programming question on Earth Science.

iStimple

@rene so when the gov't leaks sensitive data , who pays? You too!!!?!

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 it's a troll. You can safely nuke his useless account.

hichris123

@ShadowWizard Welp, I'm deleting the post... soon? T-10 seconds.

Unihedron

14:50

La La lasa.
La La lasa.
La la la..
Salala la salala la..

rene

@iStimple It is trickier...the company that delivered the software has to pay...so that will be me, yes...

hichris123

@Unihedron Yup.

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 he will just post it, or other crap, again. But have it your way, it's nice you have faith in trolls. ;)

Carrie Kendall

is there a meta post explaining what happened to non-versioned ios and why it isn't available anymore?

iStimple

wow, 4 upvotes in 40 seconds of posting meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267778/…

Carrie Kendall

14:58

not sure what those links have to do with my question

Stijn

@CarrieKendall sorry, I misread what you said

Carrie Kendall

haha, no problem, i thought i was missing something :)

ProgramFOX

@CarrieKendall It is still available: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ios

Stijn

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ios seems to still be available, make sure that you're not looking at MSO or MSE

Carrie Kendall

it won't let me tag with it on an edit

Stijn

15:00

question link?

Carrie Kendall

holy..

Stijn

It's already tagged with ios

:p

Carrie Kendall

well, i am going to go get some glasses

and then have a chat with sadbot on reddit

hichris123

@ShadowWizard earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/741/iamsajeev ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: A LAME QUESTION on physics.stackexchange.com

TGMCians

15:05

\o

ProgramFOX

o/

Unihedron

> A car is going at a speed of 40 kmph. A train is also going at the same speed at the same place. Who will reach its destination faster which is also at the same place? -A LAME QUEATION FROM MY TEACHER.

Lame as hell...

Amal Murali

@ShadowWizard: That's from WayBackMachine

Stijn

The train, because it's not hindered by traffic!

Unihedron

Can we flag it as offensive?

Thanks @ProgramFOX

ProgramFOX

15:07

You're welcome!

Unihedron

I earned 1k rep in one day, I hope someone is proud of meh:

TGMCians

:D

Unihedron

@Stijn Post that :D

iStimple

Unihedron

WOW! That's surely some amazing fireworks! It reminds me of when I attempted to self-make some fireworks with gunpowder and blew the whole crate off like no tomorrow. Fun times! It's so beautiful! Thanks so much for the amazing graphics!!!

SPArchaeologist

15:21

@Unihedron Which is double fun when the story comes from an user with a Minecraft-like avatar

Unihedron

... You had to point that out

SPArchaeologist

Now I have that mental image of you blowing up yourself by placing a tnt block over a redstone one :P

Unihedron

►

Stijn

271

Q: Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

I've inherited an old PC from my girlfriend's dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise: Two questions spring to mind here: Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a toaster? Why does Windows even have an icon for a toaster in the devices menu?

windows-7 device-manager

2

Unihedron

@Stijn Ahahahaha oh boy... xD

Shadow Wizard

15:28

@hichris123 nice!

TGMCians

2

Q: How to handle when OP delete question when someone answered

I see sometimes on Stack Overflow op delete the question once someone answered the question. I know OP can't delete the question once answer gets any one upvote but problem happens when there is no upvotes on answer. New users don't know about this that system can block to ask next new question ...

discussion

SPArchaeologist

@Stijn I want the model name of the printer! Would be the perfect present for our IT office

Sumurai8

15:44

@Stijn Someone seems to be spamming the vote button on that question

bjb568

@AnnaLear ^ More borked. (MSO)

Anna Lear

?

Unihedron

@Sumurai8 I noticed too. I have no idea who's doing it but watching the number jumping interests me.

bjb568

@AnnaLear Why was your post deleted? Because I deleted it.

iStimple

@Sumurai8 hot network question is probably why

hichris123

15:46

@iStimple It hit Hacker News.

iStimple

but why is there only 1 answer? that is the real question

-1

Q: Question Points bouncing around

So I was looking at this hilarious question on Super User when I noticed that the points were going up/down up/down constantly. I asked if anyone else was seeing this they did and thought it seemed weird so I thought I would bring it here. Any clue why this is happening?

bug

he just asked for it

Unihedron

Mega man user avatar! +50 charisma!

Braiam

> protected by Community♦ 2 hours ago

Unihedron

The points on that meta question is jumping as well...

TGMCians

lol

Bart

15:50

@Unihedron .. someone points out that votes are bouncing around ... what do you think will happen to the question that points it out ...

Unihedron

OMG Look at that answer on the meta question! Flashy number! :D

bjb568

"An error has occurred, please retry your request" I think I hit a rate limit.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Vashikaran specialist princess +91-9950211818 on english.stackexchange.com

bjb568

There are an unusual number of requests coming from this IP address. Wow!

Sumurai8

Baba! :D

user163250

15:52

If anyone wants to downvote a bad answer today, you can start with this one: stackoverflow.com/a/15483320/456814

Bart

@bjb568 still better than "there are a number of unusual requests coming from this IP address"

SPArchaeologist

So long for now and thanks for all the cupcakes.

Unihedron

Why does this answer look so close to mine? (It's one post across) Is that plagiarism or what?

(Plus, mine was there first)

Bart

@Cupcake perhaps leave a clear comment for the OP that .... ah, wait ...

@Unihedron because you answered the same question?

user163250

@Bart the comment is not so much for the OP, but for anyone foolish enough to actually try it out.

Bart

15:54

:D

Unihedron

@Bart I don't know... Maybe I'm over-reacting. I guess you're right. Thanks

bjb568

Can somebody copy-paste the LQRQ auto comments list here for me? I'm 20/day rate limited and need the text…

Bart

@Unihedron I would normally suggest you make sure creepers spawn in his immediate vicinity, but given that that's currently not possible ...

Sumurai8

No comment needed

This is commentary on another post, not an answer
“This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post.”

This is a “thank you” comment
“Please don't add "thank you" as an answer. Instead, vote up the answers that you find helpful.”

This is an “I’m having this problem, too” comment
“This does not really answer the question. If you have a different question, you can ask it by clicking Ask Question. You can also add a bounty to draw more attention to this question.”

bjb568

Yay! Thanks!

Sumurai8

15:57

This, by the way, proofs that I have been slacking at work :-|

I should have been rate-limited halfway through my shift

errr... not rate-limited; done all 20 reviews... whatever you call that

Words... words are difficult

bjb568

English… difficult.

Unihedron

Typing... difficult.

Bart

GOUEROUSJDGFjkldlajsd

Unihedron

MY hands ARE typing WORDS (this line took an hour ;-;)

bjb568

WOOOOOOOORDS!

WOOOOOOORLDS!

WEEEEEEEEE<imsocool />!

Sumurai8

16:01

@Unihedron Many words. Such complexity. Very impressive. Wow.

2

@bjb568 Tsss; cool. If you are cooler than me, you must be dead.

Try being hot instead

Bart

@Bart I don't know if you intended for that comment to ypercube to come of and incredibly condescending and arrogant but that's how it sounds. — Zane 23 secs ago

... ehm, what?

Did I go wrong somewhere?

user163250

I remember someone messing around with the voting buttons on a question like that once.

user163250

It was annoying.

user163250

They said they were just testing out the JavaScript implementation on SO, because they wanted to learn how it works.

Jason C

@Stijn That's got to be a fastest upvotes per minute record; or at least up there.

Bart

16:04

Myeah, I remember that @Cupcake.

Unihedron

Nope, only works on SO Chat :/

user163250

@Bart he's reading too much into your comment.

Jason C

Haha

@Bart There are at least 5 people upvoting/unupvoting that question repeatedly now, including myself.

2

I'm watching it oscillate between 5 and 10

bjb568

Up/down means 3 people maybe.

rene

@Bart @Stijn Would Overkoepelende verantwoordelijkheden still mean Cross-Cutting Concern? If not, any better suggestions?

user163250

16:10

Um, people are having way too much fun messing with the voting buttons on that question... :P

Jason C

@Cupcake Haha

Do un-votes show up in SEDE?

Unihedron

we should mark this day as the Spam Vote Day of SE.

iStimple

SE goes down - 10 min ahead

user163250

@JasonC I don't see them as part of the schema meta.stackexchange.com/a/2678/163250

Jason C

Let's attack the favorite button

Is the starred count even live

Unihedron

16:12

Need some music to go with this...

Jason C

I can't stop, it's too addicting.

Unihedron

I got some edm. Let's do this!

Jason C

►

Unihedron

@JasonC <3

Jason C

@Zane Bart is Swiss. He doesn't take sides or start fights. — iStimple 7 mins ago

Bart

16:18

In what context @rene?

@JasonC except that I'm not Swiss

Jason C

@Bart Oh. Dammit, @iStimple!

Bart

@rene from the plain text I would say a straightforward "overarching responsibilities" would fit?

iStimple

@JasonC He's lived in Switzerland for 8 years. That's longer than @hichris123 has been alive.

hichris123

LIES.

Jason C

Ba dum bum

Burn

Unihedron

16:21

@ChrisF I have verified that ypercube's comment is correct. Apparently I've been clicking wildly on this posts' vote buttons for 9 minutes straight. — Jason C 2 mins ago

Well done... XD

rene

@Bart I would like the/a dutch word to mean to 'Cross cutting concern'.

I don't want to add yet another term....

Bart

Ah

rene

Auf deutsch querschnittliche Belange

Bart

"gedeelde smart"? :p

rene

That is it! I'll take that and let you know if the C-level/ business folks liked it ;-)

Bart

16:24

:D

Braiam

2

Unihedron

@bjb568 is so cute :D

4

bjb568

I am!

Use these auto comments with this userscript:

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Please include a minimal example that reproduces the problem, a clear problem statement, and any error messages or other information to help identify the problem. Without this information, it is hard to answer the question.

###Question info external
Please include all relevant information *in the question*. While outside resources can help answerers find the problem, please include as much information in the question itself because links can change and break.

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rene

gtg....

ProgramFOX

see you!

bjb568

16:27

Bai!

Unihedron

Seeya @rene!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BREAKER TRIP DUE TO INRUSH on electronics.stackexchange.com

Stijn

@rene I've no idea how to translate it. Seems to be a term specific to programming, and I often find translating those to Dutch is awkward.

bjb568

###Debug question
Stack Overflow is not a debugging service. Include what you have tried yourself to make this easier to answer and more relevant to future visitors.

Oded

@ShadowWizard archive.org to the rescue.

ThiefMaster

16:33

Please refrain from sticking screwdrivers in a wall power outlet. It makes you SCREAM IN CAPS, which is unreadable. Please edit your question so it is in an acceptable format. — Sumurai8 4 mins ago

hichris123

16:47

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/5562/…

bjb568

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/25143589/3890059

Unihedron

How does this answer even have a positive score? stackoverflow.com/a/3021938/3622940

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/22547643/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/47311/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/21313062/…

bjb568