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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
My grandma used vinegar as deodorant for several weeks, while she was staying with us, and I never noticed any smell.
Formerly G.G.
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Can distilled vinegar work just fine? I have distilled vinegar. Does Baking soda with water work?
A real bad hombre
Just out of curiosity, does most malware try to steal your information or annoy you just for the lulz? What other purposes is malware used for? (I know about adware)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Some malware will masquerade as fake antivirus software that it tries to make you buy.
While malware may have once just deliberately annoyed people, most modern specimens have some way of stealing money or data for their creators.
edited 2nd Sep '15 9:45:00 PM by videogmer314
Or they use your computer to send out spam.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Malware tries to steal your money, steal your data to steal your money, or steal your bandwidth to make money illegitimately (such as renting out a botnet). Or inject ads for the same reason as that last one (which honestly is stealing your bandwidth too, just in a different way)
"Just as planned."
In some specific contexts it will also steal your data for its own purposes. If you're for example an investor, it may monitor you to see what you're going to trade to get in before you, but that's some very sophisticated stuff.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Jer gets all the girls
What are the rules on seatbelts in America? Are they optional? Optional in some seats but not others? Mandatory?
- Aussie here who is occasionally very confused by TV
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Click it or ticket.
You have to wear a seat belt in the US. Period.
Oh really when?
Jer gets all the girls
Huh. Okay, then TV has lied to me. Who could've forseen this.
Incidentally, the equivalent phrase I know is "Click clack, front and back"
edited 4th Sep '15 4:39:12 AM by Murataku
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Do solar panels wear out from use? Like, will a solar panel that's been exposed to light for x amount of hours need to be replaced when x is large enough, assuming nothing else acts upon the panel? Or can any given solar panel last forever?
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
They last anywhere from 5 to 20 years depending on the cost.
Solar power really is an extremely expensive and not very cost effective way of doing things.
Oh really when?
Space Molly Weasley
Is it possible for a Wiki to shut down?
"Anemone dear, I know you want to be more independent from me, but... please take care, okay?"
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
If the host server's owner(s) decide to do so, yes.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
They are crowd-created, but they're still hosted on owned servers.
Formerly G.G.
Can you drink water with baking soda in it?
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."
Space Molly Weasley
Can you save an entire wiki in one giant zip file such that it can still be read offline even when it shuts down?
"Anemone dear, I know you want to be more independent from me, but... please take care, okay?"
If it's Mediawiki, you could XML dump sets of pages with the Special:Export page. This can be imported into a new MW install, which mediawiki.org has instructions on a USB drive installation.
You can also download the HTML pages, either manually or with tools like HTTrack. This works for any site
edited 6th Sep '15 9:15:51 AM by Sixthhokage1
What is the name of the bias where one thinks negative situations happen more often than they really do, because negative situations affect one more than their positive alternatives ?
For example : traffic lights seem to always be red, because you spend time waiting at red lights but not at green lights.
Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a chore
Negativity bias
Formerly G.G.
Can Baking soda be used to wash your mouth?
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."
Formerly G.G.
Baking soda with water can also be a deodorant? Awesome! I do sweat a lot because excessive sweating and baking soda with water seems to good restore my pH balance. I t seems it might due to poor sleeping habits as well as sweat.
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."
Does anyone know what this
is? Taken today (11th September) at about 3-3.30 pm in the western sydney area (NSW, Australia).
I think it's a snake but I'm not sure (I thought a blue-tongue was one once)
And sorry about the picture quality, I took it on my phone then uploaded to facebook.
EDIT: Not a snake! My dad got home and took a closer look, turned out it was the handle of a cleaning tool XD You can see the other end of it, the green edging around a black rectangle in the top right of the picture. It's funny how much it looks like a snake XD
edited 11th Sep '15 12:13:57 AM by thekikoperson
Does Baking Soda and water work as an alternative deodorant? What are the possible side effects? Also, does distilled vinegar and/o apple cider vinegar?
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."