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A lot of US government websites have been taken offline. The reason is that they are frequent targets, and if a site got hacked with no one available to fix it.... Best to disable the functionality and restore it after (when?) people come back.
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Ya, that would be terrible if someone hacked time.gov and made the posted time be 42 seconds different than the real time. What tyrants.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And if someone hacked the site to deliver a virus or trojan? Or replaced the page with a hate-spewing screed? Pages in the .gov root domain are constant targets, no matter how benign their function may be.
More likely, though, would be the servers going down. By taking the site offline, the now furloughed staff can be reasonably sure that no one is relying on the page to provide accurate information. It seems a reasonable safety measure.
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It's just a joke.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If this was the soapbox this could become a lively debate.
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Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Without anyone in the office who is going to keep editing the HTML source to keep the time correct?
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You might be right.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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School photos have arrived, the choice was +£20 for each single picture [with a tastelessful cardboard frame] or download the images [5 of them] for £45.
Yup, £45 for five bloody images. Now for the best part. No, not paying £9 per picture but for this bit - allow five days for delivery. So, I have to wait UP TO FIVE DAYS so they can send me a secure link so that I can download the pictures. If they're not RAW, then the photographer will be!
Five frogging days to prepare a link! Unbelphantlivable! I guess they don't need studio spots as they're such sunshines.
speramus in juniperus
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They have to add their watermark. ![Smile | :)](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/smiley_smile.gif)
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Went round my brother's house a few months ago, there was a new display of 5 photos of his family on the wall, professionally taken, and they did look good, which was what my missus remarked to them.
"How much" she asked?
"Erm, quite a lot" my brother's wife replied.
"Go on..." I encouraged.
"Just over a thousand" she admitted.
A grand! A $%£^ing grand! For five photos of people you see every bloody day anyway!
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Damn right! Just glue the kids to the wall instead!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Pictures or it didn't happen!
speramus in juniperus
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That's the whole point: you replace the pictures with the kids.
And Social Services get very narky when you try to post kids on websites, apparently...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Here you go[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did you break in and take that?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I used the DroidNinja camera app.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed. We went to a photographer to get some professional pictures taken of our little one.
At first we were thinking to get a photo on a box type thing - I changed my mind when he said it would be £500.
The Mrs wanted to get one, I spat my dummy out a bit and said no bloody way am I paying that amount of money - we ordered some prints which we were not even allowed the digital versions of and I will not be going back.
Since then I've managed to take some nice photos of the boy without needing a professional to do it.
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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It'd not like they need special rooms and equipment to develop the negatives and then create a finished product from them taking time and care anymore.
Any idiot with a printer can create the finished product once the actual photo has been taken.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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What the elephant. You can buy a decent SLR and a tripod and take it yourself for that money ... a printer's might charge you £30 to print it on nice material, but four figures is just ridiculous.
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Order 1 reasonable sized photo. Scan at high resolution, print on photopaper, or email to other family members. simples.
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We [Yes, that's Mrs Wife] wanted two of the pictures which came out at around 40 notes, so a lady for the others is 'a bargain' :chortle:
speramus in juniperus
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Dress girls in smart clothes, with freshly wiped faces and run a brush through their hair.
Take picture.
Print or email to as many friends and family as you see fit.
The cost?
28p (Prices may vary)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: The cost?
28p (Prices may vary)
It's a bit more than that, I need to get ink for the printer but I don't know where to go.
speramus in juniperus
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