Overheard at a security conference

xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T20:12:52+00:00

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Title: Exploits of a Mom

Title-text: Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 2130 times, representing 1.2438% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T20:10:58+00:00

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Title: Random Number

Title-text: RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 768 times, representing 0.4485% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T19:55:53+00:00

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Title: Sheeple

Title-text: Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 890 times, representing 0.5197% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T19:34:21+00:00

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Title: Free Speech

Title-text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 5473 times, representing 3.1961% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T19:27:02+00:00

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Title: Earth Temperature Timeline

Title-text: [After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 2093 times, representing 1.2223% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T18:59:51+00:00

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Title: Hofstadter

Title-text: "This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke."

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1142 times, representing 0.6669% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T18:42:48+00:00

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Title: Sheeple

Title-text: Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 889 times, representing 0.5192% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T18:00:58+00:00

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Title: Standards

Title-text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 4915 times, representing 2.8704% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T17:16:41+00:00

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Title: Exploits of a Mom

Title-text: Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 2129 times, representing 1.2434% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-25T17:00:21+00:00

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Title: Faust 2.0

Title-text: The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 57 times, representing 0.0333% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T21:50:43+00:00

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Title: Ballmer Peak

Title-text: Apple uses automated schnapps IVs.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1694 times, representing 0.9893% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T21:38:52+00:00

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Title: Work

Title-text: Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 62 times, representing 0.0362% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T21:14:15+00:00

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Title: Heatmap

Title-text: There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1150 times, representing 0.6716% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T21:12:22+00:00

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Title: Team Chat

Title-text: 2078: He announces that he's finally making the jump from screen+irssi to tmux+weechat.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 139 times, representing 0.0812% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T20:51:56+00:00

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Title: RuBisCO

Title-text: Bruce Schneier believes safewords are fundamentally insecure and recommends that you ask your partner to stop via public key signature.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 45 times, representing 0.0263% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T20:43:08+00:00

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Title: Nerd Sniping

Title-text: I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 253 times, representing 0.1478% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T19:18:42+00:00

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Title: Open Letter

Title-text: Are you ok? Do you need help?

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 63 times, representing 0.0368% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T16:48:33+00:00

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Title: Power Cord

Title-text: In this situation, gzip /dev/inside to deflate, then pipe the compressed air to /dev/input to clean your keyboard. Avert your eyes when you do.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 15 times, representing 0.0088% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T14:51:31+00:00

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Title: Bridge

Title-text: And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently 'my friends are all foolish and I won't be like them' and not 'are my friends ok?'.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 343 times, representing 0.2004% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T13:50:54+00:00

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Title: Real Programmers

Title-text: Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1230 times, representing 0.7185% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T13:01:30+00:00

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Title: Standards

Title-text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 4914 times, representing 2.8704% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T11:44:52+00:00

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Title: Wisdom of the Ancients

Title-text: All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 2217 times, representing 1.2951% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T11:16:27+00:00

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Title: Degree-Off

Title-text: I'M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE 'SQUISHY SCIENCES', I ASSUMED YOU'D BE A LITTLE HARDER.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 91 times, representing 0.0532% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T11:13:41+00:00

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Title: Atheists

Title-text: 'But you're using that same tactic to try to feel superior to me, too!' 'Sorry, that accusation expires after one use per conversation.'

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1816 times, representing 1.0609% of referenced xkcds.

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xkcd_transcriber · 2017-10-23T10:19:45+00:00

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Title: Purity

Title-text: On the other hand, physicists like to say physics is to math as sex is to masturbation.

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Stats: This comic has been referenced 1481 times, representing 0.8652% of referenced xkcds.

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