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I tried to sign up for a guided nightly walk in a nature reserve near where I live.
A friend of mine signed up at a specific time and asked if I come too.
I walk there almost weekly, but sure.
So I went to the website, chose my location and the time I wanted to participate and hit next.
I now need to sign up as a participant, a group or join an existing group.
So I'm thinking I need the group at that specific time, so I tick the group radio button.
Take a look at the groups, not what I'm looking for and decide to sign up as participant anyway (check that radiobutton).
Now I need to create a profile, ughhh... I hate doing that, but fine. I'll create your blasted profile!
All this time it's not really clear what I'm signing up for. My location or time aren't mentioned anywhere.
No confirmation or overview screen whatsoever and a payment later it seems I've joined some group at the other side of the country!
Got to read that in the mail I received after my payment.
Went to my profile page to see if I could change my trip, but I couldn't.
What I could change was my plain text unencrypted password...
I then went to my group page, I joined a group of total strangers, and I could somehow edit their personal info like name and email address.
I'm still like     
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A sale is only a sale if it is on good terms, if it was bona fide.
This one does not sound like one.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Got in contact with them and they'd try to put me in the correct walk.
It was booked full though, so if that's not possible (the guide will be the judge of that I guess) I'll ask for my money back.
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Are you sure you haven't signed up for a special Nigerian night walk. 
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Sander Rossel wrote: and a payment later
Err...you handed them your credit card?
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Credit card? We barely use those in the Netherlands 
I got one a few weeks back, but I haven't even activated it yet...
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iDeal, how else? 
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Dig out their contact info, you have a perfect excuse to rip someone a new one so get on the phone and shove it as high as you can go. You want a manager and the web designer bleeding out your hand piece.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Actually I called and explained very nicely that something had gone wrong.
I was told to send an email to the guy that handles those walks, which I did.
Got a reply very soon after that saying he'd contact the guide and try to put me in the correct walk.
I thanked him politely!
I prefer not to rip or bleed anyone if I don't have to
As for the password, I simply changed it to something I'd never use anywhere, something like 123456
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Have you reported them for obligatory shaming yet?
http://plaintextoffenders.com/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft demoed Minecraft using the Hololens at E3 this afternoon. Welcome to the future[^].
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Hats of to your Brilliant work.
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I want one! ...and I don't even play Minecraft. It seems the Star Trek Holodeck is one step closer.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I got a chance to try one during Build in April, and it is a great first step. However the demo videos are a bit misleading as the actual range of view is not that big. You have to be looking right at the hologram to see it, so some holograms get cut off when you hold your head straight and use your eyes to look up, down, left and right. I want to be able to see the holograms in my peripheral vision too, then it will be awesome!
But as I said, a great first step. We are on our way towards holodecks!
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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The security was interesting too. They make you place your jackets, phones, and any recording devices in a locked locker and then took us to a room across the hallway that had a beautiful view of the city. At one point one of the MS folks suggested taking a picture of the panoramic view. Ha ha...  ...some kind of test I guess
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Awesome demo, I'm not much of a gamer but I'd like to try this.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Watching the demo reminded me of several scenes in Avatar where the show the tree of life in holographic detail. We're getting there eh?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Excellent image! OT: was just thinking of the New Horizons probe, a bit more than a month away from hopefully cool (pun intended) Pluto pics.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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amazing! 
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If you drive people around all day but they don't pay you, would you have nothing to chauffeur it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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