...— it trips over one of the simplest commands, indicating that Cueball's system is messed up. ''Really'' messed up.
...recting the Linux server to use the executable files meant for the virtual system instead of the correct ones in /bin or /usr/bin.
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...he number may be used as a divisor in some equation and this will make the system {{w|divide by zero}} and probably crash
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...complaining about Google's data-gathering when they launched ContextBot, a system which replies to vague, enigmatic social network posts with context from th
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...d. It did a flyby of Pluto in July 2015 and is on its way out of the solar system.
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...electing "1" on the rotary dial would not choose "1" in the voicemail menu system.
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...ftKey is a product that is installable on {{w|iOS}}/{{w|Android (operating system)|Android}}-based phones and tablets.
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...ory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems by creating a new system of evaluation for the problems you often have instead made the problem more
...ars, giving it an average year length of 365.25 days. The most widely used system is the {{w|Gregorian calendar}}, which also has leap days every four years,
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...funding, similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo, but rather than setting up a system to facilitate the process, he plans to use already-existing social networks
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...ple}} has taken with nicknaming the versions of their {{w|OS X}} operating system. They started at v10.0 "Cheetah", and have moved through genera from there
...ed in the table because they are used as the proper names of the operating system versions. In their normal use, as species {{w|vernacular name}}s, they are
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...e pun suggests, {{w|gastroenterology}} is the study of the human digestive system and the image shows the human {{w|stomach}}. To [http://idioms.thefreedicti
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...e average year 365.25 days, or 31,557,600 seconds. On the current calendar system, there are only 97 leap years in every 400 years, making the average year 3
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...ming. Humanity quickly sees this as a threat and attempts to terminate the system, and Skynet responds by attempting to wipe out humanity. Skynet is rarely s
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...s "packages". A software package might require that a particular operating system patch (a type of package) be installed first. That package might in turn re
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...buoyancy for ice in cold sea-water), the iceberg as metaphor represents a system where the large majority is unseen, invisible, or hidden in some way.
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...the market for competing standards gets messy and hard to follow, and {{w|system integration|integrating systems}} built around competing standards gets bur
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...e assumptions, a 30-square-meter system (which is a relatively small, home system) would be worth $1,740 per year.
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...motion of the planet Mars), Kepler was able to deduce that planets in the system do not move in circular orbits around the Sun, but rather in elliptical one
...ace telescope that was searching for exoplanets (planets outside the Solar system) from March 2009 to August 2013, by looking at exactly the same spot in the
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...grids, into which the nine non-zero digits of the normal decimal counting system must be inserted, with no digit being allowed to appear twice in a horizont
...binary}} sudoku puzzle which isn't subdivided. The joke is that the binary system has only two digits (0 and 1), and as a result binary sudoku puzzles would
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...around, so -1 is the same as the highest address - 0xFFFFFFFF on a 32-bit system), if it's pointing at any object larger than a byte, most of that object is
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...example, cannot be deleted because it is a critical part of the operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like (or
...laint, because Cueball has all the rights. For anyone versed in installing system software with the <code>make</code> command, this exchange is intensely rem
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...cking up human small-arms. A Predator-type drone, while a superior killing system, would be unable to do any of that. A drone which could interact with and o
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...ueball is holding up a {{w|boombox}} (a self-contained semiportable stereo system, typically with cassette tape or CD player, and complete with integrated sp
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...nickname "Little Bobby Tables." As the full name is read into the school's system's databases without {{w|Data sanitization#SQL injection|data sanitization}}
...d into a school database query, but rather by accessing some kind of input system (such as a website's login screen or search interface) and guessing various
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...arly controversial and Nazi-related statement again in [[984: Space Launch System]]. The title text also says Black Hat is based on a character named Aram fr
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...: -0.125em; line-height: 1ex;">e</span>X</span>}} computerized typesetting system. He is also a known fan of xkcd and asked two questions at the [https://www
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...yet the forked and meandering line features to the left look like a river system flowing through the very same landscape. The similar but more singular line
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...discovering "{{w|exoplanet}}s" or planets that exist outside of our solar system. The indication is that these planets are habitable enough for humans, even
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...dden within the comic. However, rather than using the conventional decimal system numbering which would start with 1 and count up, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... This "Con
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...start until year 1 ({{w|year 0}} does not exist in the Gregorian calendar system), so the 2nd decade didn't start until year 11, and the 3rd decade didn't s
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...enis-chandelieryes-penis-chandelier other parts] of the human reproductive system...
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...few active communities on that social network. As Android is an operating system primarily aimed at {{w|smartphones}} and {{w|tablet computers}}, installing
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...ction, it then becomes possible to derive any statement at all within that system (whether it’s actually true or not). In particular, if you start by assum
...riend's credit card number. Much like {{w|The Library of Babel}}, an axiom system which can prove ''any'' statement might as well prove nothing. Perhaps Cueb
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...ying game}} (Action-RPG) released for the {{w|Super Nintendo Entertainment System}} (SNES) in Japan in 1995, later to be known by the English title of ''{{w|
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...ito bites them and introduces ''Plasmodium'' into the person's circulatory system via their saliva. At this point, ''Plasmodium'' will travel to the human's
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...doesn't even know the number "4" because she's only working on the binary system, this character does not exist for her.
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...do this, but it is widely regarded as a very bad idea, as it can break the system in not-so-obvious ways (mostly by causing seemingly-trivial operations to i
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...sible rating (five stars). As there are nine possible scores in the rating system in the comic (1 star, 1.5 stars, 2 stars...4.5 stars, and finally 5 stars),
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...oftware. There is usually a quick way of removing pending items from this system by changing the status to closed and selecting a reason from perhaps a drop
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...ns further explanation. It is a note from the developer's {{w|Bug tracking system|bug report}}, which said they could not reproduce the error. Of course, the
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...s and substitutes are also features of the North American secondary school system. In [[1519: Venus]] and [[803: Airfoil]] she is seen teaching two non-math
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...(and scale) is space, where you get to first travel through your own solar system, then the entire galaxy.
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...}}. They look exactly the same when there is no clearly defined coordinate system as in this case. Given this oscillates between six and ten degrees north (u
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...an electronic circuit going "pop". The alarm could also be the anti-theft system being triggered, thus causing the machine to shut down and preventing false
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...d (0,0,1). With these chosen, the position and time of any particle in the system can be described. It is an axiom of Newtonian Mechanics that there exist "I
...rzealous teachers of science. Simply construct Newton's laws in a rotating system and you will see a centrifugal force term appear as plain as day.
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...x|GNU/Linux}}<ref>https://itsfoss.com/gnu-linux-copypasta/</ref> operating system. In this capacity, he's also known for being one of the most ardent and out
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...s [[1083|the only true alternative]] to either side of [[661|the Two-Party System]]. These supporters go under the name "{{w|Ron Paul presidential campaign,
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...ed in 2014 by {{w|Satya Nadella}}. {{w|Windows Vista}} is an {{w|operating system}} released in 2007; software critics widely panned it. It is unclear how fe
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...could raise warning flags, as one would not generally expect an operating system to be able to be described as Hitler-y to any degree at all. "Hitler-y" is
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...een slowed down by an (at the time) unknown force as they exited the solar system, which he says is caused by the force of his love, probably toward his mom.
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...entially a pun on this second meaning of the word "peer" - in the US court system, a "jury of your peers" means a jury composed of everyday people like you,
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...Wheaton station}} in {{w|Washington D.C.}}'s {{w|Washington Metro}} subway system, where the 70-meter (230-foot) escalator is. It's clear that Black Hat know
...re unable to use the emergency shutdown because Black Hat had disabled the system, presumably before ascending in the first place. This is stated to have cau
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...ining subject to the same pressures and problems with the larger political system; and the Goode Homolosine projection, while mostly resembling a flattened o
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...(used by the vast majority of servers) and other POSIX systems store their system log messages. The 'trying to start conversation' comment is probably a joke
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...owser is probably the {{w|Chromebook}}, a range of laptops whose operating system is based upon the browser {{w|Google Chrome}}, and which first became comme
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...the subtext is that somebody buying a complete pre-packaged home computer system at Best Buy wouldn't know or care much about computers.
...se does indeed heavily exceed the competition, e.g. {{w|Android (operating system)|Android}} (which is loosely based on the Linux kernel) handily out-competi
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...title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on early text messaging systems), meant
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...title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on early text messaging systems), meant
...; margin-right:-0.125em;">e</span>X</span></span> computerized typesetting system. He may not have a mountain hideaway (a reference to ''{{w|Kill Bill}}'', b
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...s between good and evil on Earth are also reflected elsewhere in the solar system.
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...title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on early text messaging systems), meant
:Roberts: So, how do we fix the system? Stab bad guys?
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...this would result in the following SQL command to be sent to the database system:
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...he head of Apple for the introduction of {{w|OS X}}, the default operating system used on all modern {{w|Macintosh}} computers. In {{w|OS X}} when there is a
..., however, the damage is irrevocable, a {{w|Kernel Panic}} happens and the system needs a restart.
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...e II Kardashev civilizations eventually completely enclose their planetary system in a Dyson sphere because space is way too big to look at all the time.
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...title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on early text messaging systems), meant
...they help out a guy called Jon with a CSS decryptor ({{w|Content Scramble System}}, not to be confused with Cascading Style Sheets).
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...title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on other early text messaging systems),
...a coder. GNU is supposed to be the pinnacle of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything the
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:Cueball: If we all did that the system would collapse!
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...e. The lights are probably on because the attack triggered the car's alarm system.
:[Black Hat is holding a golf club and speaking into a P.A. system.]
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...ther times, it can lead to wasted time, or worse, overengineering, where a system is made more complex and fragile than it needed to be, instead of robustly
:Off-screen person: I know! I'm developing a system to pass you arbitrary condiments.
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:Reporter: The newly-formed system in the gulf has been designated "Hurricane Eggbeater", and we once again pr
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...Cueball tries to defend his misogyny by claiming that one of his IRC chat system acquaintances is a girl, as if to imply that that makes his words no longer
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...em is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: They're right. The system is rigged."
:Elizabeth: Forget ''this'' rigging. The whole ''system'' is rigged against the middle class and families trying to ''climb'' out o
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:Dink: Sorry, Ender — seems like there were some system crashes. The battle's gotta be cut short.
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...y (and amusingly) extreme level, where the attempt to install an operating system snowballs into ever more complicated problems, resulting in Cueball and Meg
...profiles, and especially compared with the more popular Windows operating system.
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...strates the relative strength of passwords assuming basic knowledge of the system used to generate them.
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...1, based on its current major version being 11). It is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (G
...ver is that the actual viewer and the server do not need to be on the same system; X11 frequently runs over a network connection. This adds considerably to t
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...y convicted of heresy for his defending the {{w|Heliocentrism|heliocentric system}}, and is often used as an example of revolutionary ideas being suppressed
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...hack, as only in the latter does the attacker gain (partial) access to the system itself.
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...d be permitted from the right lane and left turns from the left lanes. The system in this comic would have turning traffic crossing each other, as well as th
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...ne temptation we might have in these cases is to blame the designer of the system. Here, the designer appears and testifies to the amount of effort that went
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...the reason: the man that entered the building is a sysadmin (short for {{w|system administrator}}), and he is concerned that his servers are losing uptime, o
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...its web browser, {{w|Internet Explorer}}, with its {{w|Windows}} operating system. This effectively destroyed the {{w|Netscape}} company, who up until then h
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