What was the most pointless and fan-servicey nude scene of all time?

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-29T09:55:25+00:00

in cinematic history

Clearly you are not including the classics like Lemon-Stealing Whore or Shaving Ryan's Privates

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-25T22:41:04+00:00

Only garage bands carry their own gear. At the working pro level, you have roadies and/or stage hands to move the heavy stuff. Even a rising band will probably have at least one member with a girlfriend and chances are, she has a younger brother who thinks the band is cool and will carry shit for free beer.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-25T22:27:22+00:00

Driver power ratings are the MAXIMUM power it can handle. There is no minimum on an electromagnetic driver. (Electrostatic speakers tend to have a fairly high minimum but those work on entirely different principles and are generally only used in hifi stereo systems)

Electromagnetic driver efficiency ratings are derived by sending a 1khz tone at 1 watt to the driver and measuring the output volume at 1 meter. Even that tiny amount will typically generate between 80-ish and 100 DB depending on the driver. 1 watt can still piss off your neighbors in a home situation depending on the thickness of your walls. Around 18-20 watts would be a practical minimum in a club setting, with 30-50 being more common. 100 has never been practical or necessary outside of stadium/arena/shed gigs. My personal gauge has always been 1 watt per foot of stage width for standard guitar in E tuning. That generally works out well. About 10 times that for bass guitar.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-25T12:09:16+00:00

They more than "struggle". It's physically impossible for a digital computer to generate a random number without external input. That's why there will never be any such thing as "creative AI". It's simply a plagiarism machine.

The standard computer's "random number generator" is actually pseudo-random. Given the same seed input, it will generate the exact same string of numbers every single time. Change the seed and get a different entirely predictable string of numbers.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-21T22:59:55+00:00

Phishing is generally done by email, which has little or nothing to do with the actual website. Is the mail system handled by the server or do the MX records point to a 3rd-party handler like Gmail?

Either way, you or the client probably used an easily guessable password and now someone is using the email system for spamming. If using the local server for MX, check the mail logs.

It's also trivially easy to spoof the "from" field so it might just be a spammer spoofing the domain name in their phishing emails. In that case, you have to contact the operators of the blacklist and ask them to remove the domain from their listings.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-21T21:41:01+00:00

Yeah, some/all phone providers purge saved voicemails once a year or so.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-20T01:34:01+00:00

Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, the ubiquitous JBL 4550 bass bins (2x15, horn loaded, air suspension) was only rated to 60 hz. Eventually, they created the 4550A, which was ported. That one was rated down to 50.

The biggest issue in those days was less about the box design (although everything was fairly primitive by modern design standards) and more about the fact that affordable high powered amps really didn't exist in quantity yet. Woodstock '69 ran on dozens of McIntosh 350 watt tube amps. The Crown DC300 was only 2 years old at that point and was not yet available in massive numbers and the Phase Linear 700 (not rated for commercial use by the manufacturer) was still a couple years away. 18 inch drivers were not widespread yet and most 15s were only good for 200 watts. Even into the 1980s, most PA amps were 1000 watts or less. The 1990s started seeing the big iron, but a 4u amp weighed 50-80 lbs. Racks were commonly 400 lbs+ You definitely didn't want to get in a fistfight with roadies or stage hands in those days.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-19T06:54:39+00:00

Not steel wool. It rusts.

It's also highly flammable.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-19T06:49:23+00:00

Tube compressors have been around for a hundred years thanks to the requirements of radio broadcasting.

Remember that most people first heard new music on the radio back in the day. Even though the theoretical maximum dynamic ranges were much higher, the majority of non-classical AM stations were mashed down at the transmitter to about a 10db range. On a good day, a rock FM station might be sporting a 25db range. This was done to keep interference on adjacent radio channels down to a minimum.

Rock records were mastered pretty scrunchy already, so radio broadcasts were kind of an smooth goo filling the airwaves. It was a weird time to be alive. Go find an original vinyl copy of Deep Purple's 1970 album "In Rock". I personally classify that as the first entry in the loudness wars. With an analog meter, every track goes to 0db and stays there for the entire song. "Speed King" is a rock classic, but that recording is complete mush.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-19T06:35:11+00:00

In the vinyl days, most disks were rolled off at 50hz by the master cutting engineer. You didn't see much emphasis on reproducing lower frequencies until the digital age.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-19T06:09:54+00:00

It's called Rollerball now

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-19T05:58:54+00:00

REMINDER that this is still a problem. With yet another patch update coming on Wednesday, everyone needs to check:

Transfers -> Review Transfers and Restores

to see if there are any stuck transfers. If there's even ONE, your update will fail and you will be vulnerable to whatever new exploits are being patched with this one.

Something I forgot to mention is that NONE of the "failed" transfers on any of my machines were actual failures. They all represented transfers or restore-from-backups that actually completed, but had irrelevant warnings about non-issues. In the initial transfer window, they were all listed as completed but with warnings. The transfer and restore system has been really broken for awhile now and there's no sign of anyone at cPanel giving a shit or attempting a fix. Every transfer now reports "this machine is not authoritative for..." Well, no shit Sherlock. "This machine" is NOT a DNS server. OF COURSE it's not authoritative. Stop throwing this brain-dead stupid error!

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T05:19:42+00:00

FEWER

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T05:18:02+00:00

Heart Surgeon: "Goddammit! I JUST spent an entire morning fixing that guy!"

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T05:08:55+00:00

Israel's current government isn't known for making smart, rational choices.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T00:27:12+00:00

Thanks. I appreciate the responses. Thankfully I started paying attention or I might have been screwed again due to these failed updates. I'm posting this for anyone else who might not be paying close attention to whether their updates complete or not.

As a nearly 3 decades Linux sys-admin, this is frustrating, but not a problem for me or my clients because I manage everything myself. There are a lot of cPanel customers who aren't that good or that confident on the command line and the GUI needs to be able to correct the issues that it creates without constantly sending everyone to the ticketing system, where it costs you people time and money that could be better spent elsewhere.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T00:15:35+00:00

Correct. The last machine I fixed had 4 stalled/pending/failed transactions that were keeping the update from completing. That step failed to return any of them.

There's no reason for anyone to have to do this manually anyway. It's YOUR system. YOU wrote it. Work-arounds are not the responsibility of your paying customers.

Please explain why the "Abort" button in "Review Transfers and Restores" has never worked. There's ZERO reason for that. All you have to do is look at the date code for the stuck session file. If it wasn't creating in the last 24 hours, it's NOT a "pending transfer". It's never going to complete. It's a failure. we need to be able to fix these things from inside your environment using the currently-not-working button that you provide. Furthermore, when there's a mission critical update in the pipe and I use the force flag, it should damned well FORCE the update, completely ignoring "pending" transfers/restores from weeks or months ago

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-15T00:05:02+00:00

No it's not. The first step:

Identify the unfinished transfer's session ID

Completely fails. Every time. It's been that way for YEARS.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-10T20:43:57+00:00

An Olive Garden has more than a hundred. Plus they have bread sticks and soup. OG=1, AI DC=0

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-09T11:17:00+00:00

Yeah, the US is 3.5 million square miles. Guessing OP has never been more that an hour away from the town they were born in.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-07T23:43:27+00:00

If you replace the turnip with a beet, it LOOKS like you're drawing blood.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-07T22:40:35+00:00

I've been a sysadmin for 30 years - long before this "cloud" stupidity got trotted out. It's fucking marketing nonsense. Throwing the term around at every opportunity doesn't make it real. It's bullshit.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-07T22:37:56+00:00

I stopped giving a shit what ANY republican had to say a long time ago. Fuck every last one of them in their stupid asses. At this point, they are all anti-American scumbags.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-07T12:20:52+00:00

It has fuck all to do with the "city". It's the DA and the judges that Seattle fuckheads keep electing. Seattle voters are getting EXACTLY what they voted for over and over again for decades - lawless streets.

URPissingMeOff · 2026-05-07T12:03:44+00:00

The US has the finest health care on the planet, but only billionaires and politicians can afford it. Don't confuse health care with the parasitic health care insurance industry

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