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A friend got one of those robo calls saying it was from Microsoft and their computer was putting out error messages.
She then called me worried and confused. The problem is she does not own a computer. 
I explained that it was not Microsoft and the calls have been going on for a couple of years now.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: I explained that it was not Microsoft and the calls have been going on for a couple of years now.
You should have told her that it was a new feature of Windows 10, which allows a computer to know who it is going to go home with (i.e. its intelligence level has been raised to that of cats), and that the problem has been spotted while the machine that she is going to buy is still in the design phase.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: its intelligence level has been raised to that of cats
I call bullshit on that. AI isn't even par with human intelligence so how can it outsmart cats.
No way José!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Corporal Agarn wrote: The problem is she does not own a computer.
They found the 0,1% ! 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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My father was scammed with one of those calls recently.
I think they must be fairly convincing in their methods as I had told him time and time again that Microsoft would never contact him, and he still fell for it. 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Luckily both my father and in-laws are basically immune to those calls.
They don't speak English.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: She then called me worried and confused. The problem is she does not own a computer
Now that's funny!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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I'm still waiting for "the call".
I want to have them walk me through their takeover process with a Linux VM.
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high-precision surface calculation of sunspot (groups) from a scanned image of bad quality of a handmade drawing with a pencil of (different sizes over different images) based on a subjective observation by a user (different users over different drawings) through a telescope which has inherent issues of itself. 
there are only about 25000 drawings...
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Sounds like a Design by committee.
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Yeah, but his brother helped him a lot 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Ice melts faster if you pour soda on it...
(But really! How one can tell that your results - and I mean any result - is not precise? With such initial data!)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Be sure to use ata types with high precision, not just floats. 
So you are processing the observations of the druids at stonehenge?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What's the matter, any random generator should provide a sufficient accuracy!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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They really haven't got the hang of spying in Belgium, have they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So what's the problem?
Good luck!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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What is this, some sort of digitizing project from drawings of sunspots done in the 1800's?
Marc
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from 1940 onwards ... 
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V. wrote: from 1940 onwards ...
Ah nice. At least I had the right idea.
Marc
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Anyone staring at the sun through a telescope is bound to find that the spots get bigger and bigger quite rapidly
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Quit your whining and get back to work! The time it took you to post you could've gotten the first drawing loaded and processed. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Looks like you won in Bullshit-Bingo of image processing.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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So you can get sunspots on an iceberg?
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