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Yeah, not to mention that there are Christmas songs about being nostalgic for Christmas songs.
Alt text made me laugh.
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Some very bored people came up with that word.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Filthy casual
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Do you even Delibird?
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
I always loved the “xkcd phone” strips, so it’s great he’s using that format in new ways.
From the cherry, to the apple, to the peach, to the plum
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You see that format a lot in marketing and pseudo-marketing displays, so it's only natural that someone would want to parody it. I like this one.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
One nitpick, though. Shouldn’t he be an ice type?
From the cherry, to the apple, to the peach, to the plum
Absolutely no relation to NLK
DELIBIRD
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
....You know, being able to remotely force your phone to play an obnoxiously loud siren wouldn't be a bad security feature in all seriousness.
edited 27th Dec '17 6:20:36 AM by Falrinn
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I like the remote detonation option.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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I think it would only work if you could activate it as your phone is getting taken away. If you activate it after the thief is gone, they're just going to destroy or toss your phone. If anyone finds it from the sound they won't be able to turn it off and will probably ignore it, lest they be thought of as the thief. When the battery dies, good luck. EDIT: If you could tie it into the tracking system, so that you could shut off the sound by turning on the GPS tracking, it might be okay, but imo still not effective.
The only reason car alarms deter theft is because you can't walk away with the car. A phone is way too easy to steal for that kind of attention-drawing security to be effective
edited 27th Dec '17 2:56:57 PM by frosty
I'm actually thinking more in terms of "annoy the thief out of pure spite" then any practical means of theft recovery.
I can actually already remotely track my phone and force it to ring at maximum volume if need be, but the ring can be easily turned off once it starts by whoever has the phone.
I actually like the "start ordering things off the internet to be delivered to the phone's location" best, because not only will is annoy the heck out of the theives, and cost them money, but imagine following the local pizza guy to find out who took your phone.
I think there’s a global conspiracy to see who can get the most clicks on the worst lies
"Here is your pizza." "I didn't order a pizza." "Oh, you are just another phone thief."
Car alarms aren't really effective either. I once lost my car key, and the car didn't recognize the spare one, so I had a mechanic deactivate the alarm. In daylight, on the open street. Nobody even noticed. Worse, people fail to notice if someone is sawing off a bike lock.
Android has remote tracking, remote erase, and remote ringing (although the last one only works for 5 minutes). So you only have to set your ringtone to a siren, and there you have it.
Redmess
The problem is probably that false alarms are too common, and people get desensitized to it, just like when the fire alarm goes off with a false alarm. The first time, everyone will be outside in five minutes. The fifth time, everyone will stay put and wait for the fire brigade.
The thing with the fire alarm is that, in office buildings at least, there are occassional fire drills. They keep repeating the drills until the building can be emptied within 5 minutes. And the common worker doesn't know whether it's a drill or not until they are actually outside and see (or don't see) the fire brigade. So for those, you actually have to watch out.
That one's, like, 2 days old. Today's is not up yet.
edited 3rd Jan '18 6:12:37 AM by petersohn
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
I make this joke every year.
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Today's comic: IATA Airport Abbreviations
. I get most of those but I'll need Explain XCKD for some of the more obscure ones.
"Flying to LOL and SMH."
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Does Randall know about SUX? They took their bad acronym and ran with it: you can buy souvenirs that say "FLY SUX".
The True Meaning of Christmas
. Is that supposed to be Black Hat Man or White Beret Guy? Either way, this comic is good. XD ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]")
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.