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From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 May 2010 13:20 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > There even a site that explains each one: http://xkcdexplained.com/ > >> > > >> > Good Lord. I don't know if that's incredibly sad or incredibly useful... > >> > >> Sad, I think. But harmless. And leaden. > > > > Funny, actually: very /very/ funny. > > Now try to explain why... Erm, no? It's trivially easy to explain why[1]. But since I'm sick of the abuse I've been getting here lately, and since I predict that were I to provide that explanation, I'd get more abuse from your sort, I think I'll not. Rowland. [1] I know this for sure because I've given the explanation for *that* side of my appreciation of humour in real life more than once, and people `get it' straight away, no problems. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 May 2010 13:20 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > >Without that knowledge of IP address space, there is no joke at all. > > I'm waiting for my daughter to ask me to explain today's XKCD. When > she does, I'll tell her about the old scary story. But I won't tell > her about the reserved IP blocks. Instead I'll get her to open System > Preferences and see what her own IP address is ... What would that tell anyone about `the 192.168/16 block'? I don't know what that phrase means, even with the pointers provided here. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Richard Tobin on 19 May 2010 13:25 In article <1jir3b9.1mzo9ge192173dN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> nstead I'll get her to open System >> Preferences and see what her own IP address is ... >What would that tell anyone about `the 192.168/16 block'? She would see that her address is 192.168.something! -- Richard
From: Jim on 19 May 2010 13:30 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Funny, actually: very /very/ funny. > > > > Now try to explain why... > > Erm, no? > > It's trivially easy to explain why. > > But since I'm sick of the abuse I've been getting here lately, and since > I predict that were I to provide that explanation, I'd get more abuse > from your sort, I think I'll not. Thought not. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 May 2010 13:32
Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > >> nstead I'll get her to open System > >> Preferences and see what her own IP address is ... > > >What would that tell anyone about `the 192.168/16 block'? > > She would see that her address is 192.168.something! Umm. Yeah, but: Which provides what information about `the 192.168/16 block'? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |