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"It's a good thing I decided to test this machine out," writes Jim, "We had been looking to replace / repair our oven, and it seems we can just bake on the hard drive."
Paul noted, "According to my calculations, $3.61 of this choc topping works out to 0.35 grams of pure indulgence."
"Every time I deposit a check via the web to my bank, the java applet says it is sending the scan to Morena," reports Chris Reid, "I hope she works for the bank."
Jon Wilson is a little bit suspicious about the price per liter.
"Blue Cross Blue Shield wisely recognizes that many English speakers can't communicate with doctors dependent upon changes to the language in the last 1,500 years," wrote Mike.
"I got this while trying to extract a ZIP file," writes David Strickler, "That compression is pretty impressive if it can make a 5.99 PetaByte file only 414 MegaBytes in size!"
"I took this picture when I was activating interactive TV for my brother," writes Erik Jansman, "I am sure this isn't supposed to happen."
"Gee, that was helpful," wrote K. Chang.
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Re: extreme ZIP compression.
At the end of the 1990s there was a brief fashion in the anti-anti-virus crowd for crafting ZIP files for email attachments that would be only a few K long, but expand to many GB of zeros, the idea being to attack the AV scanner that was looking at emails by exhausting its disk space. More sophisticated scanners simply implemented transparent on-the-fly expansion of the interesting parts, which for 16GB of zeros is effectively almost none of it. (You need to read enough to know that what remains isn't interesting: does it begin MZ? it's an executable - does it begin 0xD0, 0xCF? it's an Office D0Cument File - etc.) |
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[Doctor]: What seems to the trouble Mr. Chaucer?
[Patient]: Bifil that in that seson on a day, in southwerk at the tabard as I lay... |
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at $10027.78 per kg, that chocolate topping is almost expensive as injet ink. Almost.
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