bradendsley

Oxford comma absolutist. No serious person uses Calibri. My tweets are severely limited by my lack of understanding of what I am doing. All things N

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@helium_mobile Wtf guys? I don't want to switch to something with talk and text. You become just like all the others at that point. I just need a small data plan for my car. Dammit guys

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%.

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@BCBSTX if the physician prescribes a medication, and you mark it as needing pre-authorization, it can take up to 3 business days to authorize? Which meds do you think these are? Pain meds maybe? You think people in pain want to wait 3 FUCKING BUS. DAYS? GFY #BCBSTX_SUCKS_BALLS

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@OptimumHelp @optimum @Android @Apple @TMobile Why would you send me the link to @Optimum Mobile help? You don't support RCS for iPhones, the option IS NOT THERE to enable it. You force them to use SMS to talk to @android users. Seriously though, are you snooping on the messages? If not, just enable Rich Communication Svcs

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@optimum Why on earth would you not support RCS for iPhones so that they can communicate properly with @Android devices? You force @apple iPhone users to use legacy SMS technology to message. @tmobile certainly supports it. Are you snooping on the conversations of your users?

[Math Files @Math_files]

Why did the US ban this number in 2001? It sounds insane, but 25 years ago, the Motion Picture Association of America was genuinely trying to delete this number from the internet.

You see, back in 1999, a teenager in Norway named Jon Lech Johansen wrote a piece of code called DeCSS.

It cracked CSS, the encryption on DVDs. Suddenly, anyone could copy a movie with the click of a button. It was a nightmare for the movie studios.

They went nuclear. They sued the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

They threatened Slashdot, and their lawyers fired out cease-and-desist letters to anyone hosting the code. They called it a digital burglary tool.

But the internet found a loophole.

A computer scientist named Phil Carmody realized that computer code is just binary ones and zeros.

And you can treat that string of binary as a single number. That way, you get a really, really big integer—which is the illegal code.

But Carmody knew that just finding any number wasn’t going to be enough, because the government could still ban a random number.

So he needed a number that science would be forced to protect. He needed a prime number.

You see, the University of Tennessee maintains a prestigious academic database called the Prime Pages.

It records the 5,000 largest known prime numbers. Carmody realized that if he could turn the illegal code into a record-breaking prime number, the university would have to publish it.

His first attempt was 1,401 digits long. It was prime, but too small.

It didn’t crack the top 5,000 list. It wasn’t mathematically interesting enough to save.

So, he hacked the math.

Use this formula:
K × 256^N + B

Now, K is the illegal code part. 256^N is the mathematical equivalent of adding useless zeros at the end—like making a book longer by adding blank pages. It doesn’t change the actual content inside.

So, he kept adding “blank pages,” shifting the number, until he hit a mathematical jackpot—a 1,959-digit monster.

This wasn’t just illegal code anymore. It became the 10th largest ECP prime number ever discovered at the time.

It was checkmate.

The number was immediately added to the university database. For the MPAA to ban the code now, they would have to order a university to delete a scientific record.

You can’t censor mathematics.

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@myQConnect How in the hell do you not have a smart home connection directly integrated with @GoogleAtHome ?? That's utterly ridiculous that you don't support only the largest name in home automation! What a joke. Time to find some new device that is in the 21st century.

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@HCIactive How can you claim that our information is extremely important to you when you were breached? They took SSN, name, DOB, etc. Do you not encrypt your data, your SQL databases, traffic, etc? Who at the company is responsible for this? They did a piss-poor job.
#Fail

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@PNCBank_Help as a customer transferred against their will to your mortgage service, WHY CAN'T I USE ANY SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN MY PASSWORD? THAT'S HORRIBLE SECURITY PRACTICES. Not only that, but your 2fa is limited to a text or email. Disgraceful. Do better!
@PNCBank

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

Seriously @Disney, quit being such a money grubbing bitch of a company and keep your prices reasonable for @YouTubeTV subscribers. Taking #ESPN off the air for the @TexasTechFB game is just shitty!
#WreckEm

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@Allstate when I pay for roadside assistance via auto draft, and then I need it, I'm told it isn't active because it isn't paid yet. I see it come out monthly, explain please

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@JimmieJohnson you might want to check to see if your @GoNewmar coach has a VIN on it. If not, it's not legal to drive. @GoNewmar is shafting this Canadian couple on their King Aire when the couple received a $660k bill from the US Govt due to no VIN. #GOnewmarSucksAss

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@GoNewmar what are you doing about your coaches not having VINs on the chassis?

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@xcelenergy how can you let your customers add banking / card information to your site while only supporting email tokens labeled as "security"? Why not allow your customers to use Authentication Apps instead?

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@Microsoft why can you not sort folders alphabetically in your Android launcher? It's so simple to implement...

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

What a twat! I think close to 100% of women with that haircut are Karen's.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Dad was able to get a HR ball for his son but a Karen in the section was not gonna let him keep it

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@ECISDAthletics after a fun run-in with the lady "training" how to scan QR codes at the JV game today, it's an easy reminder of why I hate the shithole of Odessa. She wouldn't move out of my way to get into the stadium, but rather had this dumbass look on her face just standing

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@SamsClub @samsclubhelp Why are so many colors of sheets missing/oos when looking on your mobile app. Trying to find full/queen sheets and there are more colors UNavailable than available. WTH?!

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

@SmoothieKing why do you not allow @GooglePay through your mobile app? I certainly don't want to save my CC to your system.

[bradendsley @bradendsley]

So let me get this straight. You said yes and signed a bill that you didn't read all the way through, and now mad you signed said bill?

do better you idiot halfwit, not that I expect you to in any way about this or anything else.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.

I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.

We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.

This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.

When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.

We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power.

Not the other way around.

Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of.