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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features
I call that epic team work and communication....not.
Good luck with that. Been there so many times, I can't feel the pain. 
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Or, after a long, and delayed, flight to Europe and a welcome sleep at the hotel, you finally log into your email only to be confronted by a message full of exclamation points that your library is crashing causing the world to end.
This is followed by the message, "Never mind, I fixed it."
You groan, knowing that said developer is, shall we say, less than knowledgeable. You get back, look at the "fix" and discover it's completely wrong and causes far worse problems (for which you are now blamed.) You check the original bug report and discover the person who filed it is using your API incorrectly. (Then you discover that there was a bug, but it had nothing to do with all the hysteria and, in fact, nobody has actually triggered it.)
True story from 1992 at a large, at the time, network company.
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Think of a happy thought, nothing's constant.
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A short account we recycled, then blamed another! (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Accused?
Short account -> Acc
recycled -> used
Andy B
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Well done - you are up tomorrow. 
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Accused!
OK, late, but I only just looked at it. 
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You are up ... no, no you're not. Bit late for the four hour deadline, I think.
Maybe I made it a bit too easy, but I liked it.
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Labview got there before me I see. Well, hours before me in fact.
Anyway, I like them easy, they are the only ones I can do!
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Just realized that Microsoft's support side offers a virtual agent (preview) and started to play with...
Me: I'm hungry...
VA: Could you try to rephrase the question? Using different words can sometimes help.
Me: Didn't ate in 14 hours already...
VA: Suggestions
anniversary update stuck @99% how to solve please
Today was updating hte Anniversary Update started Around 12 pm but since 5pm instalation stuck at 99% please help me to solve ...
14 Hours of Messages disappear!
All post in the last 14 hours disappeasred a few minutes ago! ...
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VA: Did this solve the problem?
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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This is really funny, I haven't tried it yet. Let me check it. 
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It seems that whenever you write a sentence with more than two words it runs the sentence thru a search engine (bing?) and displays the results...
For two word sentences are asks for more details...
Apparently no AI here so can't break it down really...
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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A lack of Intelligence at Microsoft? Who would have expected that?
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ELIZA[^] has finally come back! That joke is now 50 years old!
Quote: ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum regarded the program as a method to show the superficiality of communication between man and machine, but was surprised by the number of individuals who attributed human-like feelings to the computer program, including Weizenbaum’s secretary.Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those suffering from psychological issues and that it could aid doctors working on such patients’ treatment. While ELIZA was capable of engaging in discourse, ELIZA could not converse with true understanding. However, many early users were convinced of ELIZA’s intelligence and understanding, despite Weizenbaum’s insistence to the contrary.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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Just curious, but it solve the problem?
Format Success.
Welcome to your new signa&*(gD@@@ ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) @@@@@@*@x@@
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For sure! If your problem is related to boredom 
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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This pretty much demonstrates that their "virtual agent" is practically useless. Has anyone, serious, managed to solve a problem with it?
I don't know yet if we should really be worried about AI, but at least I know it's not going to be coming from Microsoft.
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To be fair - I do not think it has anything to do with AI... BUT! I tried to solve 'real' problems too, like 'Close COM port in C#' and got very poor search results (in Google and Bind directly I got much more relevant answers)...
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: To be fair - I do not think it has anything to do with AI...
Does it? The word is so misused nowadays it's hard to say what is or isn't.
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Remind me again what type of commotion is this?? LOL
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So I *think* I was lucky tonight.
Long story short, I landed on a web page I should not have opened while surfing imgur (some guy linked to a porn page in the comment section, tinyurl, etc...), and in a panic to rush-close this page, I CLICKED ON AN AD.  
What happened is then more than obvious : it opened a new page in the browser that asked for money to unpack my now "compressed hard drive", the webpage froze, actually windows froze completely while my hard drive started to crawl. No task manager, no nothing, so I powered down the PC.
On startup, only black screen after bootup, I could see the mouse pointer, and hear my hd being scanned. *heartbeat intensifies*. With all the ransomware currently out in the wild, I already feared the worse.
Immediate restart, went into the win10 startup mode (F4 in case you need it), tons of repair options, installed the last restore point.
Same behaviour.
Immediate restart again, back in win10 startup mode, and started in safe mode. PC started, all data still available on the hd. Long time I had not been sooo relieved ( yes I know, backup etc... ). Installed the malwarebytes copy I always have on my machine (because usually safe mode = no network = no download), launched scan, and bingo, had three malwares installed in the registry "image file execution"[^] keys. Learned what this is - check the link - and it is quite terrifying that hijacking a process is made so simple  
Once cleaned up, restarted, then some more hd noise on black screen after startup - just to maintain tension - but eventually the windows logon appeared, and now everything is up and running again *wow*
The windows 10 startup menu is _really_ good once you know how to enter and use it. I do not think I would have recovered that easily on XP or on win7. Plus everything seems to work without any problem now, gives a new shiny robust impression on win10.  If things should get worse, in the stratup mode, you can save some of your data (like pictures or videos) in a partition that is created on the fly, and reinstall windows without needing any external device.
I yet have to find out how clicking a link on a webpage can create registry keys with all the UAC stuff running in the background - I have no admin privileges in my session - but I guess it is the point of viruses to do things that are not supposed to be possible. For the records, it hijacked svchost.exe, mrt.exe, and mspgeng.exe, which are probably all launched at startup.
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You are very fortunate!
Quote: I yet have to find out how clicking a link on a webpage can create registry keys with all the UAC stuff running in the background
This part caught my attention. What browser do you use? I am surprised a browser can access those keys of the registry programmatically. Things that make you go hmm...
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Chrome. I suppose the click downloaded and executed some code that modified the registry keys, but the hd crawling started almsot instantaneously.
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