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[Bauglir]

So, the incredibly stressful shift at work where I'm the bottleneck for everything. Going along, find out that all of the bags of one of our controlled substances (meaning a bunch of paperwork) expired the day before. Fine, no worries, I figure, I don't think we've ever dispensed one of these in the entire time I've been here. Plenty of time to reorder this. Not 5 minutes later, an order for 6 prints. First one due to be delivered in 5 minutes. Cue mental Rageguy.

Note to self: Never get optimistic.

[ChairmanPoo]

I've found something interesting...

So, CBS is one of the major groups that supports SOPA, right?

Turns out, a subsidiary (Or something, I'm not sure of the correct term...) of CBS called CNET openly distributed piracy software!

Here's the lawsuit over it!

It happens a lot. Sarkozy was found to have made 400 illegal copies of a DVD of a documentary (a documentary about... Sarkozy! Guess he's very pleased to have met himself), and torrent seeds were traced to the Elysee palace.

[Tellemurius]

Shots fired next door for the second night in a row. We suspect the new neighbors of cooking meth, as well, but the wife forbade me from blowing their house up.

So you can't blow it up.........
BURN IT DOWN.

[MaximumZero]

Shots fired next door for the second night in a row. We suspect the new neighbors of cooking meth, as well, but the wife forbade me from blowing their house up.

So you can't blow it up.........
BURN IT DOWN.

I wish. She's proactively banned me from destroying the house in any manner and/or injuring anyone inside unless absolutely necessary. *sigh* Oh, did I mention that the police in this town are utterly useless?

[Heron TSG]

One could argue that all law enforcement officers are useless in comparison to MaximumHero.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Obviously the correct answer is to seal all their doors, windows, etc. with the strongest adhesive you can find and let the problem sort itself out.

[Doomshifter]

Obviously the correct answer is to seal all their doors, windows, etc. with the strongest adhesive you can find and let the problem sort itself out.

Reminds me of that one Darwin Award winner who farted himself to death by sealing his house up and eating beans.

But, I'm all for burning said house down. Perhaps you could mine under it, except for a single pillar, link that pillar to a lever and then (A) Pull The Lever.

[alway]

Coordinate systems.
1. Hrm, a simple scale, rotation and translation should be what we need. *does it* Hmm, still doesn't look quite right. (T*R*S matrix)
2. Ah! It's because it needs to be translated before that stuff, as we need the origin in the center! (T2*R*S*T1 matrix)
3. Told by group member we need to do an offset relative to object in another coordinate system followed by another scaling, with values which may or may not be getting set correctly in code. FML.

[MaximumZero]

..what I should do about the house next door..

pffff...hehehehe. Thanks, guys, that brightened my day.

[Bauglir]

Program cannot launch because shell32.dll is missing from your system... Ooooops. Simple fix, since I had the sense to back it up before I messed around with it, but my Linux LiveCD is bugging out, too, apparently, so I have to reinstall that first. Goddamn fetch quests.

[MaximumZero]

Program cannot launch because shell32.dll is missing from your system... Ooooops. Simple fix, since I had the sense to back it up before I messed around with it, but my Linux LiveCD is bugging out, too, apparently, so I have to reinstall that first. Goddamn fetch quests.

While you're out, grab 10 wolf pelts and FreeBSD on a 3 1/2 floppy disk. You'll need them for the next quest.

[Simmura McCrea]

Trying to submit coursework, page keeps freezing the whole browser. It worked like 2 minutes ago.

EDIT: Still fucked. You'd think an application for a university of 5000 students would be a little more robust.

[Telgin]

Pfft.  You would think that, but I know my university at least has some pretty unreliable networks and software.  I went from a university of ~2,000 students to one with ~10,000 and the problems I encountered got proportionally worse.  The dropbox system they use is pretty bad, and is apparently even worse for the instructors.

[Biag]

Just found out that the arts supplement for the CommonApp requires a letter of recommendation from a "teacher who is familiar with my work." There's only one teacher who is familiar with my work, and he doesn't own a computer and won't be back in town until Monday (the day AFTER the deadline). Why the hell did I not get this stuff locked down last week?

[nenjin]

I hated Dropbox, Secure Assignment and the other digital submission stuff for college. It always seemed a little fishy to me. I mean, one stated goal was combat plagiarism using digital methods. But doesn't basically handing tons of your academic work over to some database who keeps it indefinitely pretty much open to the same kind of abuse?

Luckily it was only starting as I was graduating so I didn't have to do it in more than a couple classes.