Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[LaurV]

Oohh! I can't believe they could be so mean, could they? For this particular question, I even did not think to 24... (and few others are ambiguous too, but I picked the common-sense answer).

[Xyzzy]

http://news.yahoo.com/remains-wall-i...131453200.html

[chalsall]

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers.

I personally find this a bit funny... In the early 21st century the Barbados government actually floated the idea that VPNs should be made illegal because they "could possibly enable illegal telephony bypass" (read: VoIP).

[chappy]

http://www.rockcitytimes.com/angry-m...work-shooters/

(note its a fictional news site--but if I'd had some diapers handy last night, I'd have tried it.)

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by chappy

http://www.rockcitytimes.com/angry-m...work-shooters/

(note its a fictional news site--but if I'd had some diapers handy last night, I'd have tried it.)

I sympathise with the (fictional) diaper throwing woman too. Not wanting to deny people their fun and chance to let their hair down, I still wish that something other than fireworks could become fashionable for this purpose. Fireworks are lethal when something goes wrong, to say nothing of the distress they cause to livestock and anyone of a nervous disposition. We don't have your July 4th celebrations here in Western Europe, but come new year's night (and, illegally, for up to a couple of weeks beforehand) the fireworks are in full blast here. It's been 13 years now since the terrible accident at a firework depot which wiped out an entire residential area of the Dutch town Enschede, and the brief lull in fireworks' popularity after that incident has long since been replaced by general cravings for yet bigger and louder bangs.

[Spherical Cow]

Here's link to some great math quotes; you may have heard of some of them, but there are some that might be new. Great reading- I lost a lot of time at work today because of this.

Example:

"My name is Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The "B" stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot."

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comment...mathematician/

Norm

[kladner]

Nothing to see here!

[jasong]

Originally Posted by firejuggler

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault...src=most_viral
As a foreigner, I have no problem with any question

Number 20 is the first one that I knowingly can't answer with 100% certainty. If I got 1 to 19 wrong, I didn't realize it, though I did everything in my head.

[chappy]

If I want someone to fail and I'm grading, they don't make it past question 6.

question 9 could be difficult--if you draw two separate lines you fail.
question 10, what first word? in that line? on the test? in English? Louisiana is the first word that starts with "L" on the test. there is none in that question.
question 11, only the 1 is necessary, all others (individually) can be crossed out.

Etc.

[Xyzzy]

[jasong]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07...tm_medium=feed

The politicians don't like how 2 laws "collide," so they're "fixing" the software to do what they want.

This type of stuff is the reason I get angry when people call the US a democracy, rather than a republic. The damn politicians don't even realize how US law is supposed to work.

The software is better at respecting the law than the politicians.

And, no, this has nothing to do with smokers, my complaint is connected to the fact they treat this as a bug, rather than realizing they need to rewrite the law.