Posted on 02/12/2016 10:53:21 AM PST by Swordmaker
Damn it. I followed the instructions and it bricked my phone!
Actually, I did it to my Droid. The Droid is fine but every iPhone within 20 feet got bricked.
No matter what, NEVER devide by zero!
I tried that in my Delorean and it took me back to 1970.
Don’t believe what they say about having “it all to do again” and being smarter about it the second time around.
Oh no, I hope you get it fixed.
UNIX of the iPhone
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Apple gave up on their own OS’s years ago and they run a customized Unix ... so why all the non-stop hate for Android?
This thread is technically inaccurate. Setting an i-phone or other IOS device to the UNIX “0” date automatically routes Federal funds to the “Hillary 2016” campaign and also automatically generates thousands of Facebook “likes” for pro-Hillary posts. Every sincere Clinton supporter should do this immediately.
Seriously, one of my kids fell for this prank, it took the Apple store 10 minutes to fix it and they didn’t even charge us for.
Actually, this “trick” is a space-time continuum issue. Setting the date for 1 Jan 1970 is pre-Apple founding. So doing so is impossible, as your iPhone would exist in a time before the company Apple was founded, making it a paradox, hence the iPhone is bricked.
This whole thing reminds me of telling a room full of 11yo kids, “Don’t look out that window at those elephants or they’ll stampede and hurt somebody!”
...where’s that Picard_Double_Face_Palm gif when I really need it???
I wouldn't change a thing. Although, I remember waking up with a hangover in my own vomit on the bathroom floor. The following year, I made it to a sink before vomiting. I had fun back then on New Years Eve.
Tech bkmk.
Ditto that.
What are Apple and all those Linux people planning to do to get rid of the Y2K+38 bug? Or are they just not going to worry about it until 2036? After all, we may be governed by robots or Muslims then, anyway.
Your iphone would also be worthless if you physically took it back to 1/1/70 in your time machine.
But it wouldn’t set time_t to 0 for anyone in the Western Hemisphere?
Quite seriously and if-and-only-if there was even such a thing as Time Travel.....my preferred destination would likely be 1 Jan 1963.
1970 was about six months AFTER I'd finished active duty, 1966 was about the time that I realized that I had screwed up when I'd enlisted, 1964 was when I actually did the deed and that second semester in '63 was when I goofed off and put myself in the position where I had to enlist or get (shudder) drafted.
Still, if all of those things had not occurred, I'd never have met Grandma and.....
Hell, Time Travel would probably require most of the energy involved in the collision of two Black Holes anyway, so screw it.
School will be out in a few minutes and the grandkids are supposed to come over and play. I can live with that.
Plus, even if it works, it could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Granted, that's the worse case scenario. The destruction might, in fact, be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.
Damn it, Larry. I told you not to do that!
Now that's funny. Thanks.
Good to know. Thanks. I certainly was NOT going to test the Genius Bar's ability to fix this issue by doing it to any of my iOS devices; I was not that curious.
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