Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by S485122

If the ATM running Windows XP is suitably isolated from the Internet, there is nothing to worry about. And whatever the OS, be it Windows 10.6 or Android Mustard Trickle, if an ATM is connected to the Internet, there is a lot to worry about.

Jacob

Back when I worked on ATMs, they were all either on non-Internet leased lines or dial-up, but things may have changed since then. I'd presume there would be some cryptographic security nowadays.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by xilman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25922514

Continuing in our long-winded theme, but moving from farting Jerry cows to eccentric English inventors whose names are a gas in German:

Colin Furze: Inside the mind of an inventor

[Xyzzy]

http://www.pinterest.com/mellowdesig...of-pareidolia/

[retina]

http://tarckbike.com/node/16533

[kladner]

Originally Posted by retina

http://tarckbike.com/node/16533

Grab a drink.....

I see what you mean. It is easy to get sucked into the tales.

[retina]

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-katy-pe...stone-mln.html

Normally comments on phys.org are crap and the story mildly interesting, but this time the tables are turned and the reverse is true.

[kladner]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...food4patriots/

Excerpt:

On New Year’s Eve, I learned FEMA’s “Dirty Little Secret.”
It was the title of a fascinating email, one that had somehow dodged my spam filter. The message was suffused with breathless concern about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s recent order of “420 million survival meals;” such provisions are apparently “the #1 most critical item in a crisis.” You see, “FEMA knows that if you control the food supply, then you control the people.”
Normally, such paranoid ramblings merit nothing more than a quick delete and a sad shake of the head. But the New Year’s note stood out because of the source. I was being alerted to FEMA’s nefarious plot by no less than National Review, the nation’s most important conservative magazine.
“Please find this special message from our sponsoring advertiser Food4Patriots,” the publication wrote. “This important support affords us the continuing means to provide you with National Review’s distinctly conservative and always exceptional news and commentary. We encourage you to patronize our sponsors.”

[EdH]

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[Primeinator]

The backlash to Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad. How many of my neighbors are secretly xenophobic, jingoist, closed-minded bigots? I was very taken aback by the level of backlash (and the color of some of the comments). Thoughts?

[retina]

Originally Posted by Primeinator

... Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad.

What is this? Link?

[Primeinator]

Originally Posted by retina

What is this? Link?

The shortened video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs

Google searches will reveal some of the backlash... things like "we need to boycott Coca Cola" to "leave America anyone who doesn't speak English" to "so that's the language of the terrorists" and many more (worse).