970: The Important Field - Revision history

42.book.addict: /* Trivia */

2024-12-05T17:08:21Z

‎Trivia

172.69.223.53: /* Trivia */

2024-10-06T11:38:29Z

‎Trivia

Raviolio: /* Explanation */

2024-01-11T16:02:39Z

‎Explanation

Raviolio: Zoom in -- the black emblem is most visible in the last panel. I think changing "soldier" to "man" makes sense here, though then again it could very well be a woman (or neither, or both).

2024-01-11T16:01:12Z

Zoom in -- the black emblem is most visible in the last panel. I think changing "soldier" to "man" makes sense here, though then again it could very well be a woman (or neither, or both).

172.69.7.97: /* Explanation */ after further examination i saw the cap was green. I did not, however, see a “black emblem”

2024-01-11T15:56:42Z

‎Explanation: after further examination i saw the cap was green. I did not, however, see a “black emblem”

172.69.7.97: /* Explanation */ was previously “a soldier with a green hat with a black emblem on the front”, which cannot be seen because xkcd comics are A) monochrome and B) 2D

2024-01-11T15:54:10Z

‎Explanation: was previously “a soldier with a green hat with a black emblem on the front”, which cannot be seen because xkcd comics are A) monochrome and B) 2D

172.69.135.119: /* Explanation */

2023-11-11T02:55:05Z

‎Explanation

172.70.91.152: /* Explanation */ Just in case the correct target involved fully intentional killing. Which it might or might not, depending upon the mission.

2023-03-08T03:30:49Z

‎Explanation: Just in case the correct target involved fully intentional killing. Which it might or might not, depending upon the mission.

162.158.186.244: /* Trivia */ nuke

2023-03-08T03:02:57Z

‎Trivia: nuke

Theusaf: Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

2022-05-26T19:58:44Z

Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

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 ==Trivia==
-*This is the only comic so far to feature a soldier using such a green Hat.
+*This is the only comic so far to feature a soldier using such a Green Hat.
 **The green hat with the black emblem implies that he is part of the military. The color code of his hat is #123E0E.
-**Until realizing that the hat is green not black it could look like [[Black Hat]].
+**Until realizing that the hat is green not black he could look like [[Black Hat]].
 ***Although the hat seems in the first panel to only have a line going towards the front of the cap, this changes in the later images, making it here look more like a Black Hat type of hat.

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 **The green hat with the black emblem implies that he is part of the military. The color code of his hat is #123E0E.
 **Until realizing that the hat is green not black it could look like [[Black Hat]].
-***Although the hat seems in the first panel to only have a lie going towards the front of the cap, this changes in the later images, making it here look more like a Black Hat type of hat.
+***Although the hat seems in the first panel to only have a line going towards the front of the cap, this changes in the later images, making it here look more like a Black Hat type of hat.
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic, a man wearing a green cap with a black emblem on the front is using his computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks him to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for his email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right (launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage).{{citation needed}}
+In this comic, a person wearing a green cap with a black emblem on the front is using their computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks them to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for their email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right, since launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage.
 It is common for online interfaces to force users to type certain details twice, as a form of redundancy checking to ensure that the user really has entered the correct details and hasn't made an error. Some forms even go the extra step of preventing the user from copy-pasting into the second field, which would render it useless as a redundancy check.

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic, a man with a green cap is using his computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks him to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for his email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right (launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage).{{citation needed}}
+In this comic, a man wearing a green cap with a black emblem on the front is using his computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks him to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for his email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right (launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage).{{citation needed}}
 It is common for online interfaces to force users to type certain details twice, as a form of redundancy checking to ensure that the user really has entered the correct details and hasn't made an error. Some forms even go the extra step of preventing the user from copy-pasting into the second field, which would render it useless as a redundancy check.

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic, a man is using his computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks him to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for his email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right (launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage).{{citation needed}}
+In this comic, a man with a green cap is using his computer to access an online web interface to launch a missile at a target. The joke is that even though the interface only asks him to enter the target coordinates once, it asks for his email address twice, even though the coordinates are by far the more important detail to get right (launching the missile at the wrong target could result in a disastrous unintended loss of life or property damage).{{citation needed}}
 It is common for online interfaces to force users to type certain details twice, as a form of redundancy checking to ensure that the user really has entered the correct details and hasn't made an error. Some forms even go the extra step of preventing the user from copy-pasting into the second field, which would render it useless as a redundancy check.

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