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Location: unknown - sole report happened in Minnesota on Opera browser from a small ISP
...ock bans" or "/z/ bans" to particularly annoying users, which redirect the user to a page containing beecock and the text "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE".
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xkcd's password generation scheme requires the user to have a list of 2048 common words (log<sub>2</sub>(2048) = 11). For any a
...method "obsolete", despite the comic ''assuming'' perfect knowledge of the user's dictionary from the get-go. He advocates his own low-entropy "first lett
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...but people do not usually read. Agreement to an E.U.L.A. is assumed when a user uses the software or service that the E.U.L.A. is attached to, which has le
...ir ''own'' immortal soul rather than negotiate with Cueball for his. It is unknown whether this clause applies only to demons or to ''everyone'', which would
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...hey can be downloaded. This comic depicts a {{w|dialog box}} requiring the user to confirm if they want to download a potentially dangerous file — an
..."<tt>~tilde/pub/cia-bin/etc</tt>". The first part is a public folder of a user named "tilde" (which is also the name for the {{w|tilde|~ symbol}}), "<tt>c
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...ral rule, section numbers work top to bottom, then right to left. A Reddit user has also [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/1l3na7/questions/cbvigrd a
...most guns; a revolver can't shoot lightning, summon items, or teleport its user. Finally, while Harry himself may or may not consider using firearms due to
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*''Pics from other camera'': Unknown pictures from a second camera.
...rily to install programs. A folder named "Temp" might also be created by a user to store unimportant text or image files, not intending or caring to give i
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...dall presumably enjoys more) in which the heroes must determine whether an unknown agent is friend or foe, which in some such media occurs by shouting through
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...lly published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. According to an [[User:FaviFake|email exchange between Randall Munroe]] and an editor from [[expla
...to clarify the exact date that [[36: Scientists]] was swapped in. Munroe [[User:FaviFake|responded the same day]], resolving a long-standing ambiguity surr
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| This implies that the user "got lost" on the IAU website and thought that the "planet name suggestion"
| Similar to "How Do I Join the IAU", this implies that the user confused the "planet suggestion" text box for a new email they are trying t
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...s [[April Fools' Day comics]], [[1350: Lorenz]] and [[1506: xkcloud]], the user does not move anything, but only supplies choices, text and drawings. The n
...h toggle-able passages and coins. Courtesy of user [https://www.reddit.com/user/lanzaa lanzaa] on this [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/3u4sy1/xkcd_
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...became part of the comics. This time the user input is like a game, as the user actively adds, moves and deletes items, and new items appear based on these
...ith a unique URL address. By [[#Saving your garden|saving this link]], the user is able to return to their garden repeatedly. This is important because the
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...ed after the program's name to change how the program runs. For example, a user of ''blerp'' might type:
It is unknown which section the man page in this comic resides in. It looks like it could
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...ture. This column always begins with the name of a known character, or, if unknown, the gender, if this is clear. For known characters, a link will be given o
| Comic: '''[[272: Linux User at Best Buy]]'''
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...age like "You have new mail" when this mailbox file is updated, but if the user doesn't know how to check this mail file, they will likely just ignore the
...the mail program cron uses will generate an error saying it can't find the user <code>/etc/crontab</code>.
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...system, using slightly different names, the main purpose still remains: A user can restore a file after they have deleted it -- hence the most common name
...ystem will therefore prevent the file's deletion, but some do not tell the user which program is using the file.
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...econd tweet will read 2/X, and so on. If X, the total number of tweets, is unknown at the start, it will be listed or 1/many or omitted: 1/
...“tweet” from the site twitter.com is shown. It contains a mock-up of a user photo of the fictional character F’nor that resembles [[Hairy]], includin
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...nues, with the aggressive “NO DRAMA ZONE” turning out to mean that the user is merely trying to keep any offended or genuinely upset comments away from
...rome, the user may only translate the entire page, while in this comic the user may also select some text and have only the selected part translated. Also,
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:This would give any user the password to OEIS. Anyone can {{w|Troll (slang)|easily forecast}} what h
...8. Other sequences suggested by Randall not listed (1-42 and 50-58, and an unknown number of submissions from 60 onwards) may or may not be accepted, but sinc
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...s/2018/10/02/facebook-hacked-50-million-users-data-exposed.aspx 50-million user hack of Facebook] and Google+ announcing they are [https://www.blog.google/
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