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I'm watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D now and in one episode I watched last night the nerdy "engineer" had to boot up a Commodore (I think) to get the "servers" to recover after an attack. I saw 5 1/4 " floppies in use.
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Marvel is awesome.
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Chris Maunder
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The stories are very poorly crafted.
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Who cares? They're still fun.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I saw 5 1/4 " floppies in use.
The young'uns in the group are asking "what are these 5" 1/4 that he's talking about?" 
PIEBALDconsult wrote: boot up a Commodore
It's the only computer with HPI (Hamster Programming Interface)...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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He's clearly got Hacker Typer[^] helping him ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's my new favourite site
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Chris Maunder
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Is that the series with X-Files's Cancer Man as the bad guy? Not a character spin-off...I mean the actor who portrayed him, William B. David.
I remember watching the series only for the sake of seeing what he was up to. Was also curious to see him in another role.
What a waste of time. I'm unfortunately just the right (wrong?) type of OCD so if I start watching a TV series, no matter how bad, I have to see it to the end. That one is firmly in that pile.
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As for the 'missed humor' opportunity - I hear ya, it'd be fun to see even if just once. There's just so many ways they could do it.
In a similar vein - I still remember watching Angel (the Buffy spin-off), where the good guy's running in a parking lot, jumps into his car (a convertible, so he literally jumped into the driver's seat), and after fumbling around with his key not fitting in the ignition...realizes he's in the wrong car, and his (practically identical) is sitting a few rows away.
Made him waste many precious seconds going after the bad guy, but it's the sort of thing you're completely NOT expecting in a moment like this. OTOH, this is not atypical of Joss Whedon's type of humor.
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Yeah. Cancer man was such a great character.
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Chris Maunder
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I need to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a retired psychologist, early 70's, and spends 4-6 hours on the trainer 3-4 times a week.
On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit.
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That is awesome. That's where I want to be when I'm that old. What a legend.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit
So he went for the budget model!
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Chris Maunder
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We're in Ohio. He uses the trainer from November through February usually, or if we still have snow or ice.
Whenever he gripes about the weather outside, I tell him "Physician, heal thyself." 
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lol.
In Toronto we're still on trainers. In April.
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Chris Maunder
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Full security access is the easiest part of the plot. The password is the name of evil mastermind's cat, all in uppercase.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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Did you ever saw someone entering a good password in a movie 
I remember a space movie someone asking the password to engage the attack, the password was 1 2 3 4 5.
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Spaceballs.
I have the same combination on my luggage btw
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Once one a Micrsoft seminar 'security' the first question to the audience was "who of you is using his birthday as unlock code on his mobile phone".
25% of the audience raised there hand.
The speaker replied:
we have a lot of work to do, as it is already unsafe to use your birthday as unlock code, but telling in public your are using it.....
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I'm happy to play along with this story illusion. If you running a high end cutting edge operation. You don't hire the best. You don't hire a top 10% lock picker to pick a safe, no, you get top 0.1%. the kinda that makes no mistake.
The kind that built their own IDE that has 0% chance of crashing.
The ones that duplicate windows to remove all the bugs, but makes it look like windows still so any passer by wouldnt catch on that the OS is maxed out with all the best hacking software.
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(SPOILER ALERT - Stranger Things Season 2)
How about on Stranger Things (second season), Bob had to use BASIC to bring the power back online for the facility. Every key that he pressed produced a full line of code!
Actually, that would have been my dream back in the mid-80s, too. Know BASIC - save the world! And, my name is Bob, too!
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I know. BASIC. Surely it would have been FORTRAN! 
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Chris Maunder
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Loved the first season but the second one seemed to go off script and by the third it was a mess.
Victor Webster and Rachel Adams do a great job nonetheless...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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All I can say is, at least Continuum was better (subjectively, and by a very small margin) than Street Hawk or Mantis were. Those were real "lets see how badly we can use tech at the core of a TV series" bombs.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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True story.
Saw Billy Gibbons, of ZZ top fame, playing with "Moving Sidewalk". They were opening for Jimi Hendrix Experience concert in Texas in 1968. Billy said he got some inside guitar hints from Jimi. BTW Jimi's experience blew out some of the big amplifiers during the concert and had to take a break until they could be replaced.
Concert guys said that it the first time they had ever seen that happen.
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