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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @dafyre
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      @dafyre said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @wirestyle22 said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

      It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

      Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?

      Peepole hoo learnd frum fonicks.

      Well, I seriously think that spelling should be redone phonetically. I seriously hate examples like knife and laser.

      Of course rule still will need determined for long or short sounds and stuff. I mean otherwise how would you know that nif is the long i sound?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
        last edited by

        @JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          I find that British spellings, while often crazy, are a little more straightforward because they have more phonetic spelling rules than American English has.

          Except for clerk, why does that get pronounced clark?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
            last edited by

            @JaredBusch said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

            It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.

            That is my guess, but it seems so oddly localized that I am suspicious.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

              Right, but now that it has been accepted as a word, not just an acronym, and defined as a z sound, it should be spelled appropriately.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.

                  huh, now that one I've never heard of before... thanks.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    Me either. Totally new to me.

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      Me either. Totally new to me.

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                      • stacksofplatesS
                        stacksofplates
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                        So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @stacksofplates
                          last edited by

                          @johnhooks said:

                          So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                          Hahahahahahahahahahaha

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                            last edited by

                            @johnhooks said:

                            So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                            That's awesome!

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @stacksofplates
                              last edited by

                              @johnhooks said:

                              So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                              Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @Dashrender said:

                                @johnhooks said:

                                So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                Yeah, most likely this would not be a client I want for this reason.

                                I mean I will give them a chance, but if they try to cheap out like this, they will not likely pay my bill.

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                                • stacksofplatesS
                                  stacksofplates @Dashrender
                                  last edited by

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  @johnhooks said:

                                  So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                  Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                  I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @stacksofplates
                                    last edited by

                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    @Dashrender said:

                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                    Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                    I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                    Awww, so a one time engagement.

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                                    • Minion QueenM
                                      Minion Queen Banned @stacksofplates
                                      last edited by

                                      @johnhooks said:

                                      @Dashrender said:

                                      @johnhooks said:

                                      So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                      Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                      I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                      Smart

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                                        last edited by

                                        @johnhooks said:

                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        @johnhooks said:

                                        So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                        Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                        I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                        They'll be back 😉

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                                        • Reid CooperR
                                          Reid Cooper @stacksofplates
                                          last edited by

                                          @johnhooks said:

                                          @Dashrender said:

                                          @johnhooks said:

                                          So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

                                          Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

                                          I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

                                          That's, um, great. How did they take the news that they had been scammed?

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                                          • RamblingBipedR
                                            RamblingBiped
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                                            Wasting my time trying to file a phishing complaint with GoDaddy.

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