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19 People and Animals That Regret Everything

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chocogoat:

what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?

y2k lol everyone was like “the supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!”

This is the oldest I’ve ever felt. Right now.

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU WEREN’T BORN YET IN 1999.

Ahh the Millenium bug.

It wasn’t a virus, it was an issue with how some old computers at the time were programmed to deal with dates. Basically some computers with older operating systems didn’t have anything in place to deal with the year reaching 99 and looping around to 00. It was believed that this inability to sync with the correct date would cause issues, and even crash entire systems the moment the date changed.

People flipped out about it, convinced that the date discrepancy between netwoked systems would bring down computers everywhere and shut down the internet and so all systems relying on computers, including plane navigation etc. would go down causing worldwide chaos. It was genuinely believed that people should all switch off computers to avoid this. One or two smart people spoke up and said “um hey, this actually will only effect a few very outdated computers and they’ll just display the wrong date, so it probably won’t be harmful” but were largely ignored because people selling books about the end of the world were talking louder.

In the end, absolutely nothing happened.

Oh gosh.

I’ve been a programmer working for various government agencies since the early 1990s and I can say with some confidence:

NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE WE WORKED VERY HARD FIXING SHIT THAT MOST DEFINITELY WOULD HAVE BROKEN ON 1-JAN-2000.

One example I personally worked on: vaccination databases.

My contract was with the CDC to coordinate immunization registries — you know, kids’ vaccine histories. What they got, when they got it, and (most importantly) which vaccines they were due to get next and when. These were state-wide registries, containing millions of records each.

Most of these systems were designed in the 1970s and 1980s, and stored the child’s DOB year as only two digits. This means that — had we not fixed it — just about every child in all the databases I worked on would have SUDDENLY AGED OUT OF THE PROGRAM 1-JAN-2000.

In other words: these kids would suddenly be “too old” to receive critical vaccines.

Okay, so that’s not a nuke plant exploding or airplanes dropping from the sky. In fact, nothing obvious would have occurred come Jan 1st.

BUT

Without the software advising doctors when to give vaccinations, an entire generation’s immunity to things like measles, mumps, smallpox (etc) would have been compromised. And nobody would even know there was a problem for months — possibly years — after.

You think the fun & games caused by a few anti-vaxers is bad?

Imagine whole populations going unvaccinated by accident… one case of measles and the death toll might be measured in millions.

This is one example I KNOW to be true, because I was there.

I also know that in the years leading up to 2000 there were ad-hoc discussion groups (particularly alt.risk) of amazed programmers and project managers that uncovered year-2000 traps… and fixed them.

Quietly, without fanfare. 

In many cases because admitting there was a problem would have resulted in a lawsuit by angry customers. But mostly because it was our job to fix those design flaws before anyone was inconvenienced or hurt.

So, yeah… all that Y2K hysteria was for nothing, because programmers worked their asses off to make sure it was for nothing.

Bolding mine.

Absolutely true.  My Mom worked like crazy all throughout 1998 and 1999 on dozens of systems to avoid Y2K crashes. Nothing major happened because people worked to made sure it didn’t.

Now if we could just harness that concept for some of the other major issues facing us today.  

this meme came so far since i saw it this morning. god i love tumblr teaching tumblr about history.

As a young Sys Admin during Y2K, I can confirm that it was SRS BZNS.  I worked for a major pharmaceutical company at the time.  They spent millions of dollars on consultant and programmer hours, not to mention their own employees’ time, to fix all their in-house software as well as replace it with new systems.  Sys Admins like myself were continually deploying patches, updating firmware, and deploying new systems in the months leading up to Y2K.  Once that was done, though, the programmers went home and cashed their checks.

When the FATEFUL HOUR came along, it wasn’t just one hour.  For a global company with offices in dozens of countries, it was 24 hours of being alert and on-call.  I imagine that other large organizations had similar setups with entire IT departments working in shifts to monitor everything.  Everyone was on a hair trigger, too, so the slightest problem caused ALL HANDS ON DECK pages to go out.

Yes, we had pagers.

For hard numbers IDC’s 2006 calculation put the total US cost of remediation, before and after, at $147 billion - that’s in 1999 dollars.  That paid for an army of programmers, including calling up retired grandparents from the senior center because COBOL and FORTRAN apps from the ‘60s needed fixing.

Also note that there were some problems, including $13 billion in remediation included in the figure above.  Some of these involved nuclear power plants, medical equipment, and “a customer at a New York State video rental store had a bill for $91,250, the cost of renting the movie ‘The General’s Daughter’ for 100 years.”

Y2K was anything but nothing.

Reblogging because this is a side to the story I had never heard.

Yes, but also there are people who weren’t born yet in 1999 and they’re old enough to be on the internet.

Everything about this is just….wow.

carebearpikachu:

THIS IS SO CALMING AND FUN

A rather massive coronal hole was recently spotted on the Sun by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The region—the size of 50 Earths—is spewing material into space at tremendous speeds. It may look terrifying, but astronomers say it’s nothing to worry about.

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From a paper presented at SIGGRAPH Asia by a group from Stanford, a system for tracking the facial expressions from one person and putting them on the face of a second person in real-time. This is crazy. (via @gavinpurcell)

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tabbydragon:

I love that everyone looked at the turkey and asked themselves “who is responsible for this thing?” And then everyone pointed at everyone else.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau issued a remarkable mea culpa last week about the state of online advertising. In response to the rise of ad-blocking software, IAB VP Scott Cunningham said digital advertisers should take responsibility for annoying people and driving them to use ad blockers:

“We messed up. As technologists, tasked with delivering content and services to users, we lost track of the user experience….

“We build advertising technology to optimize publishers’ yield of marketing budgets that had eroded after the last recession. Looking back now, our scraping of dimes may have cost us dollars in consumer loyalty…

“The consumer is demanding these actions, challenging us to do better, and we must respond.”

The IAB goes on to introduce new advertising principles called L.E.A.N. (Light, Encrypted, Ad choice supported, Non-invasive ads) as a start.

This is a fundamental shift in vantage point for the Ad Tech world. In 2013, LUMApartners famously created its first LUMAscape capturing all of the fragmented, disparate Ad Tech players involved in the processing of serving up an ad to a consumer. It’s an industry organized around itself, not around the needs of the consumer. Thus we see retargeting ads for sweaters we’ve already bought, video ads that auto-play with sound, and pop-ups that take over your screen.

The rise of ad blockers represents a significant identity threat for advertisers and publishers. But it also highlights a truism of modern marketing – there is no such thing as a captive audience. All media is earned media. Even when marketers pay for media, we have to earn people’s attention.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the implications for ad blockers for marketers.

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Still life, Edwin Giesbers, The Netherlands. Amphibians and Reptiles, WINNER.

The winners of the 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year have just been announced, and the top images depict an extreme gamut of beauty and ferocity found in the natural world. The grand title winner was ‘A Tale of Two Foxes' taken by photographer Don Gutoski in Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada that captures an unusual deadly clash between between red and Arctic foxes. The two species aren’t known to prey on each other as they generally hunt and live in different climates, but as their habitats have gradually merged over the last few years, the two animals are now on an unexpected collision course.

Kathy Moran, senior editor for natural history projects at National Geographic and jury member, referred to the photo as “one of the strongest single storytelling photographs I have ever seen.” She continued, “the immediate impact of this photograph is that it appears as if the red fox is slipping out of its winter coat. What might simply be a straightforward interaction between predator and prey struck the jury as a stark example of climate change, with red foxes encroaching on Arctic fox territory.”

The winning photos seen here were selected from 42,000 entries from 96 countries, and will be exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London from October 16th, 2015, through April 10th, 2016. You can read the story behind each winning image in this gallery. (via PetaPixel)

A whale of a mouthful, Michael AW, Australia. Underwater, WINNER.

A tale of two foxes, Don Gutoski, Canada. Wildlife Photographer of the Year, WINNER.

The company of three, Amir Ben-Dov, Israel. Birds, WINNER.

Flight of the scarlet ibis, Jonathan Jagot, France. Young Wildlife Photographers:
 15–17 years old, WINNER.

Life comes to art, Juan Tapia, Spain. Impressions, WINNER. Story.

Ruffs on display, Ondrej Pelánek, Czech Republic. Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 11–14 years old, WINNER.

The art of algae, Peter Soler, Spain. From the Sky, WINNER.

Shadow walker, Richard Peters, UK. Urban, WINNER.

lackyannie:

turnedblueintime:

the first ever ‘close-up’ shot, in all of film history, was used on a cat, in the 1903 film “A Sick Kitten”

WE HAVE LITERALLY BEEN RECORDING AND WATCHING CAT VIDEOS SINCE IT WAS FIRST HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

Hovertext: The third largest number is called Weinersmith.

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Hovertext: Time for the HATEMAIL BONANZA

At long last, we release our second theme collection. 

Hovertext: A can also pass the Turing test by making people less human.

Today's comic reveals David Shiffman's SECRET PLOT.

Being rude in your emails or text messages doesn’t usually get you very far, especially when it’s already difficult to sense the tone with text. The FoxType tool can analyze your text and offer rewrite suggestions so you avoid unnecessary rudeness.

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Hovertext: The armadillo is actually a META-analogy for a cow, which is an analogy for flux.

Only about 50 tickets left for BAHFest West! We will probably sell out by tomorrow, so please buy soon if you don't want to miss out.

HUEEEEEE a cara de indignação do guri diz tudo. Mas ele tem um Chaves no bebê conforto, então tá de boa.

This holiday season will be filled with a little extra Yuletide joy and cheer, as Bill Murray is reteaming with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola for a Christmas special that will be exclusively available on Netflix.

So far we’ve only gotten a brief glimpse of the special, but a new A Very Murray Christmas teaser has just popped up online showing off some of the famous faces who will be helping Murray out. George Clooney, Michael Cera, Amy Poehler, Paul Shaffer, Jason Schwartzman, Miley Cyrus (who seems to be singing with Murray in the teaser), Chris Rock and more are all on board for what looks like a most enjoyable holiday party.

Here’s a new teaser for A Very Murray Christmas from Netflix:

As Murray says, “Tonight will go down as the greatest night in history.” And with this cavalcade of talent coming together for some holiday cheer, I wouldn’t be surprised if that turned out to be true. If you need any more convincing of the fun in store for us this Christmas, check out a new batch of lively photos from the special:

Maya Rudolph, David Johansen, Dimitri Dimitrov, Julie White, Jenny Lewis, Frederic Moulin, Rashida Jones and the band Phoenix will all be appearing as well. Many of them are also contributing to the soundtrack, which will feature new renditions of some classic Christmas tunes. It looks like even Chris Rock is getting in on the singing, if the photos above are any indication, and there’s bound to be plenty of special guests we haven’t even heard about yet.

Here’s hoping that some kind of soundtrack will also be made available to we can play that at our own holiday parties, even if they have considerably less famous people than this particular bash.

This winter, Bill Murray brings an extra-special dose of holiday cheer to Netflix with the premiere of an all-star musically-driven holiday special, A Very Murray Christmas. Set inside New York City’s iconic Carlyle hotel, A Very Murray Christmas opens with Murray preparing to host a live, international holiday broadcast. After a blizzard shuts down the production, he makes the best of the situation by singing and celebrating with friends, hotel employees and anyone else who drops by. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at the Carlyle hotel to help him; dancing and singing in holiday spirit.

A Very Murray Christmas hits Netflix on December 4th.

The post ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ Teaser: Bill Murray is Back with Chris Rock, George Clooney & More appeared first on /Film.

If you happen to live in a major city, or anywhere that has doubled as a shooting location on a film set, you know that the crew has to let the area know that production will be happening nearby. That often means that certain parts of a street are closed off, and that can make things like parking a real hassle. And some pranksters in New York City have decided to take that normal occurrence and enrage some of the locals beyond just taking away their parking spaces.

Jason Eppink and Mike Lacher have been posting shooting notifications around New York City for fake sequels such as Annie Hall 2, The Godfather IV and Do the Right Thing 2, presumably pissing off cinephiles and residents until they do a little internet research.

Here are images of the signs up around NYC from Jason Eppink’s website (via Movies.com):

In addition, after Eppink and Lacher started posting these signs around New York City, a copycat named “Chad” started doing the same thing for terrible sequels like Taxi Driver 2, and more original but equally unsettling ideas such as Williamsburg: The Movie and Bushwick: The Movie.

So if you happen to see any of these shooting notification signs around your neighborhood in NYC, make sure you check around online to make sure you’re not the victim of some sick joke like this. Or if you want to get in on the fun, Eppink’s website has a template that you can print out so you can make your own fake movie sequel shooting notifications for your hometown.

If Eppink and Lacher sound familiar, they’re the guys who painted a line down some New York City sidewalks, creating a lane for tourists and a lane for real New Yorkers. Before you know it, we’ll hear that they’re behind Pizza Rat too.

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Tom Kucy dug into the incredible motherlode of NASA's Project Apollo Archive of photos released last week to create this beautiful short film "Ground Control." (more…)

Hovertext: The silk neckerchief bubble was a dandy catastrophe.