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There are plenty of examples of people suggesting ping to 1.1.1.1 as a delay in batch scripting. The thought of batches all over the world now failing because people used a kludge method to pause was only slightly more amusing than the thought of all the junk traffic 1.1.1.1 would see as a result.

For our next amazing trick, we're going to make 555-xxxx a valid number range! Follow the action live at example.com!

Javascript is a steaming pile of shit, riddled with vulnerabilities and broken from tip to top.

So of course they try to allow some overrides:

http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Basically, you can google anything with "javascript disable" and get developers asking how to fuck their users in the pee hole. Often, there's an answer.

It wouldn't actually prevent users from viewing source though- I'm not aware of a way to do that. However, if there is, you can find it at good old google bombing expert sex change:

http://www.experts-exchange.co...

Also note: the real workaround for this isn't globally disabling javascript, though if everyone did that the web would shape up immediately. The real workaround is the various -monkeys that let you redefine pieces of javascript locally. Many sites go through several hoops to prevent loading on a browser that won't run their shitscript, but redefining parts and/or loading your own CSS can get you around most of it.

The rules of humor state that simply linking to a porn site is too plain and crass, but variations can be acceptable: - Linking to something that looks like a porn site from the address, but is actually not. Eg, penisland.net - Linking to something that is porn, but not in the sense most would expect. Eg, fchan.us, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wetriffs&tbm=isch

Got it. In a single go, like this porn site.

My favorite was always expertsexchange.com (now experts-exchange.com).

Either way, they want to take an appendage in exchange for information.

Agree with above post. Powershell is going to be your bread and butter. I've been working in a Windows Environment for over 6 years and Powershell is by far the most useful thing. It's the Admin Console for Exchange 2007 and up, Sharepoint 2010 and up, and a slew of other products. If you want to get your hands dirty in Powershell, a good way to start would be to read the articles posted on EE. Experts-Exchange.com has a few Powershell articles to get you up and running relatively easily. And yes, I may have written a couple of articles on there. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Powershell/A_4327-PowerShell-Where-do-I-start.html Good luck and Powershell is extremely worth your investment of time.

I don't understand why experts exchange has such a bad rap. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page (I know it's a ways, keep going), the answers are there. StackOverflow is much better of course, but I've found many odd answers on expertsexchange.

for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.

As others have said, this only works if you have a Google (and possibly other sites) referrer. If you go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html, you will not see any answers at the bottom. If you go to http://www.google.com/search?q=Exchange+2007+shell+cmd+to+show+mailbox+sizes+in+a+store%3F+site%3Aexperts-exchange.com and click through on the first result, then you'll see the answer at the bottom. If you then go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html again, you will once again not see any answers at the bottom.

When I saw the headline of this article, experts-exchange.com is the first thing I thought of. More often than not, whatever question I'm Googling is answered by one (or more) of the five links before EE or the five after. Now that I know you can still see the answers at the bottom, perhaps my first step when I see EE in the results won't be to search again with "-site:experts-exchange.com" added on. As far as I'm concerned, EE is using a paywall on their search results, and hiding the answers at the bottom solely to avoid getting removed from Google. They even have a cute little "Tired of scrolling?" ad at the bottom next to the answers which isn't there on the direct page. Even though I can now see the answers, I dislike the practice, and it has thus far kept me from even giving the site a second look.

I didn't realize that you could cover the cost of subscription by answering questions, so I'll probably do that just to have the access handy for when a problem does come up. I do enough free tech support on my site and other forums, so I might as well answer a few questions at EE and "get something" for it. Again, this decision is based on your post, whereas EE's site has conditioned me to simply click "Back" or "X" when I stumble upon one of their pages while trying to solve a problem, or just completely exclude their domain from my searches. While I'm sure there are smarter people out there, I am generally considered quite knowledgeable and helpful, and yet I'm the kind of person EE is alienating. Based on the other comments here, I'm not the only one (and while /.ers might not be the most friendly people in general, they're probably more knowledgeable about tech issues than average).

for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.

As others have said, this only works if you have a Google (and possibly other sites) referrer. If you go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html, you will not see any answers at the bottom. If you go to http://www.google.com/search?q=Exchange+2007+shell+cmd+to+show+mailbox+sizes+in+a+store%3F+site%3Aexperts-exchange.com and click through on the first result, then you'll see the answer at the bottom. If you then go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html again, you will once again not see any answers at the bottom.

When I saw the headline of this article, experts-exchange.com is the first thing I thought of. More often than not, whatever question I'm Googling is answered by one (or more) of the five links before EE or the five after. Now that I know you can still see the answers at the bottom, perhaps my first step when I see EE in the results won't be to search again with "-site:experts-exchange.com" added on. As far as I'm concerned, EE is using a paywall on their search results, and hiding the answers at the bottom solely to avoid getting removed from Google. They even have a cute little "Tired of scrolling?" ad at the bottom next to the answers which isn't there on the direct page. Even though I can now see the answers, I dislike the practice, and it has thus far kept me from even giving the site a second look.

I didn't realize that you could cover the cost of subscription by answering questions, so I'll probably do that just to have the access handy for when a problem does come up. I do enough free tech support on my site and other forums, so I might as well answer a few questions at EE and "get something" for it. Again, this decision is based on your post, whereas EE's site has conditioned me to simply click "Back" or "X" when I stumble upon one of their pages while trying to solve a problem, or just completely exclude their domain from my searches. While I'm sure there are smarter people out there, I am generally considered quite knowledgeable and helpful, and yet I'm the kind of person EE is alienating. Based on the other comments here, I'm not the only one (and while /.ers might not be the most friendly people in general, they're probably more knowledgeable about tech issues than average).

for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.

As others have said, this only works if you have a Google (and possibly other sites) referrer. If you go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html, you will not see any answers at the bottom. If you go to http://www.google.com/search?q=Exchange+2007+shell+cmd+to+show+mailbox+sizes+in+a+store%3F+site%3Aexperts-exchange.com and click through on the first result, then you'll see the answer at the bottom. If you then go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html again, you will once again not see any answers at the bottom.

When I saw the headline of this article, experts-exchange.com is the first thing I thought of. More often than not, whatever question I'm Googling is answered by one (or more) of the five links before EE or the five after. Now that I know you can still see the answers at the bottom, perhaps my first step when I see EE in the results won't be to search again with "-site:experts-exchange.com" added on. As far as I'm concerned, EE is using a paywall on their search results, and hiding the answers at the bottom solely to avoid getting removed from Google. They even have a cute little "Tired of scrolling?" ad at the bottom next to the answers which isn't there on the direct page. Even though I can now see the answers, I dislike the practice, and it has thus far kept me from even giving the site a second look.

I didn't realize that you could cover the cost of subscription by answering questions, so I'll probably do that just to have the access handy for when a problem does come up. I do enough free tech support on my site and other forums, so I might as well answer a few questions at EE and "get something" for it. Again, this decision is based on your post, whereas EE's site has conditioned me to simply click "Back" or "X" when I stumble upon one of their pages while trying to solve a problem, or just completely exclude their domain from my searches. While I'm sure there are smarter people out there, I am generally considered quite knowledgeable and helpful, and yet I'm the kind of person EE is alienating. Based on the other comments here, I'm not the only one (and while /.ers might not be the most friendly people in general, they're probably more knowledgeable about tech issues than average).

Many things are wrong with EE.

I used to find useful answers there a few years ago. Haven't found much lately. Most "experts" seem to have gone somewhere else, leaving only half-competent MS admins, who may be asking good questions, but don't get much answers. (and yes, it seems most threads are very Windows-centric; that's OK, but I don't use Windows much anymore).

The worst is the emails you get when you are registered, pestering you to earn points and all that crap. Really feels like a spamming site. Here a few excerpts:

Congratulations! Your Article ... was voted as "helpful" by one of your peers, earning 50 bonus points.

Help other people out by sharing your article:

      Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com)
      Twitter (http://www.twitter.com)
      Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)
      Digg (http://www.digg.com)

Your overall point total is now 550.

Writing helpful Articles is one more way to earn points on Experts Exchange. Well-written Articles also earn points upon EE Approval (4,000 points), Editor's Choice (5,000 points) and when used in solution (up to 500 points).

Go to Articles: (http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/)

----

Congratulations, ... - You're an Expert!

You've earned at least 10,000 points and you are now a Qualified Expert with FREE Premium Services.

As a reminder, here are the benefits of Premium Service: ...

Simply earn 3.000 points each month (about two questions) to maintain your Expert status and free Premium Service Membership. There is a one month grace period before your account will revert into a Limited Membership.

----

We noticed you did not earn 3,000 points last month and you are now in
your Grace Period. Don't worry! Just earn 3,000 points by 3/1/2011 and
you'll maintain Qualified Expert status, which includes FREE premium
membership.

To start earning points, create a question alert to answer questions in
your area of knowledge or write an article. Either way, we know you'll
have 3,000 points in no time!

Earn 3,000 points: http://www.experts-exchange.com/expertsZone.jsp?cid=1830

Create question alert: http://www.experts-exchange.com/editFilter.jsp?cid=1831&ssfSearchID=0&redirectURL=/expertsZone.jsp

Write an article: http://www.experts-exchange.com/writeArticle.jsp?cid=1832

etc.

Many things are wrong with EE.

I used to find useful answers there a few years ago. Haven't found much lately. Most "experts" seem to have gone somewhere else, leaving only half-competent MS admins, who may be asking good questions, but don't get much answers. (and yes, it seems most threads are very Windows-centric; that's OK, but I don't use Windows much anymore).

The worst is the emails you get when you are registered, pestering you to earn points and all that crap. Really feels like a spamming site. Here a few excerpts:

Congratulations! Your Article ... was voted as "helpful" by one of your peers, earning 50 bonus points.

Help other people out by sharing your article:

      Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com)
      Twitter (http://www.twitter.com)
      Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)
      Digg (http://www.digg.com)

Your overall point total is now 550.

Writing helpful Articles is one more way to earn points on Experts Exchange. Well-written Articles also earn points upon EE Approval (4,000 points), Editor's Choice (5,000 points) and when used in solution (up to 500 points).

Go to Articles: (http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/)

----

Congratulations, ... - You're an Expert!

You've earned at least 10,000 points and you are now a Qualified Expert with FREE Premium Services.

As a reminder, here are the benefits of Premium Service: ...

Simply earn 3.000 points each month (about two questions) to maintain your Expert status and free Premium Service Membership. There is a one month grace period before your account will revert into a Limited Membership.

----

We noticed you did not earn 3,000 points last month and you are now in
your Grace Period. Don't worry! Just earn 3,000 points by 3/1/2011 and
you'll maintain Qualified Expert status, which includes FREE premium
membership.

To start earning points, create a question alert to answer questions in
your area of knowledge or write an article. Either way, we know you'll
have 3,000 points in no time!

Earn 3,000 points: http://www.experts-exchange.com/expertsZone.jsp?cid=1830

Create question alert: http://www.experts-exchange.com/editFilter.jsp?cid=1831&ssfSearchID=0&redirectURL=/expertsZone.jsp

Write an article: http://www.experts-exchange.com/writeArticle.jsp?cid=1832

etc.

Many things are wrong with EE.

I used to find useful answers there a few years ago. Haven't found much lately. Most "experts" seem to have gone somewhere else, leaving only half-competent MS admins, who may be asking good questions, but don't get much answers. (and yes, it seems most threads are very Windows-centric; that's OK, but I don't use Windows much anymore).

The worst is the emails you get when you are registered, pestering you to earn points and all that crap. Really feels like a spamming site. Here a few excerpts:

Congratulations! Your Article ... was voted as "helpful" by one of your peers, earning 50 bonus points.

Help other people out by sharing your article:

      Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com)
      Twitter (http://www.twitter.com)
      Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)
      Digg (http://www.digg.com)

Your overall point total is now 550.

Writing helpful Articles is one more way to earn points on Experts Exchange. Well-written Articles also earn points upon EE Approval (4,000 points), Editor's Choice (5,000 points) and when used in solution (up to 500 points).

Go to Articles: (http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/)

----

Congratulations, ... - You're an Expert!

You've earned at least 10,000 points and you are now a Qualified Expert with FREE Premium Services.

As a reminder, here are the benefits of Premium Service: ...

Simply earn 3.000 points each month (about two questions) to maintain your Expert status and free Premium Service Membership. There is a one month grace period before your account will revert into a Limited Membership.

----

We noticed you did not earn 3,000 points last month and you are now in
your Grace Period. Don't worry! Just earn 3,000 points by 3/1/2011 and
you'll maintain Qualified Expert status, which includes FREE premium
membership.

To start earning points, create a question alert to answer questions in
your area of knowledge or write an article. Either way, we know you'll
have 3,000 points in no time!

Earn 3,000 points: http://www.experts-exchange.com/expertsZone.jsp?cid=1830

Create question alert: http://www.experts-exchange.com/editFilter.jsp?cid=1831&ssfSearchID=0&redirectURL=/expertsZone.jsp

Write an article: http://www.experts-exchange.com/writeArticle.jsp?cid=1832

etc.

(just googled "experts exchange java loop" for an example)

I'm nowhere special but if I go to this:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Java/Q_26747126.html

I can wait a few seconds, ignore the stuff about "Subscribe now for full access " and then scroll to the bottom to see replies by cmalakar and darovitz

Anytime I end up on ExpertS-exChange, I see the answers at the bottom of the screen. And I never paid them.

Here's a random example:

1. Google sudo site:experts-exchange.com
2. First results take me to a page that has results at the bottom.

The trick may be whether you are referred by Google or by some other link. Note that doing step 1 and then clicking on the link will give you the answer. But clicking on the link in step 2 will NOT give you the answer. They are checking the referrer.

The range of answer types are not very different from stackoverflow.com, since both are unpaid and unverified by anyone other than random Internet people who happen to stumble upon that specific thread. It often depends on the "experts" who are answering the question. Some experts are "good" and write original code, or copy from their own personal code base. Some will link you to an existing answer (either in EE or on the web). Some are "evil" and will outright copy information someone else posted without a reference or acknowledgement.

No, it's not simple scraping the way many sites just copy information from Wikipedia to gain page views. The terms of use(see 4.E.xi) prohibit improper copying. The right question to ask is whether or not such violations are policed/ignored/encouraged. I have no answer for that question.

Didn't read the post, did we? gp specifically said finding infringements which means "without permission". So exclude for a moment anything that was posted with permission because that's not the topic. Consider only things that might not be posted with permission.

Not sure what point you're making. Slashdot's footer says

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2010 Geeknet, Inc.

which supports gp's post. That post, and yours, and mine, are still copyrighted, and pushing submit doesn't transfer copyright to Slashdot, it just gives permission to post it. So you can't be complaining about the first sentence. Submit button does not change copyright ownership, it just gives permission, which makes me wonder why you are even considering that. It's a red herring.

Some sites, like I thin Expertsexchange... oops I mean Experts-exchange go out of their way to get as close to owning your post as they can:

you hereby: (i) grant EXPERTS EXCHANGE a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, transferable, fully sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, distribute, display, reproduce, perform, modify, adapt, publish, translate and create derivative works from Your Content in any form, media or technology, whether now-known or hereafter developed; (ii) grant EXPERTS EXCHANGE and its affiliates and sub-licensees the right to use the Member Name that you submit with Your Content for purposes of attribution; (iii) authorize EXPERTS EXCHANGE to assert and prosecute claims against any third-party making any unauthorized use of Your Content, including any use that violates this User Agreement ("Third-Party Claims"); and (iv) appoint EXPERTS EXCHANGE as your attorney-in-fact for the purpose of asserting and prosecuting Third-Party Claims.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/termsOfUse.jsp

This is probably what gp was referring to. Lots of sites just scrape other pages, including comments which are copyrighted by individuals. Expert sexchange will go file lawsuits and takedown notices to sites that scrape their content on your behalf, because they make money from your content. But this is the general case.

Specifically: Even if all I do is help someone by posting here a snippet of javascript I found on someone else's site, that's copyright infringement. Notice I didn't say the snippet was public domain or otherwise licensed, it was just on a blog - no license, which means it's technically copyrighted. This is a US-hosted site AFAIK and I am a US citizen, so there's no wiggle room here. Unless the site is hosted somewhere with an opt-in copyright, or the site explicitly licenses things in a way I can re-use it, copyright is held by the creator.

So Slashdot posts my comment, with my permission per the terms of use, and everything's fine. But the content is infringing material, which is not fine. and it's far too easy to take any random website and find something that's infringing. Even if you have to look at the JavaScript, which might have been posted on MSDN or a mailing list without a specific license attached, or the CSS which was copied out of "CSS for Dummies" without a license to reproduce (I haven't checked to see what license the examples are under).

And of course user comments, especially on a political site where people spew talking points they heard this morning... very likely that someone will post something that is similar enough to qualify as infringement.

"Programming" is a massive category. Some programmers need incredible math skills to do their jobs. Some programmers convert thousands to hundreds with broken substring operations, then keep their jobs, and make good money doing it. So there's a spectrum.

Aaaah, Expert Sex Change, you never fail to deliver.

Asking if math-skills are necessary for a programmer is kind of like asking if people-skills are necessary in the field of law. Some lawyers find success by performing in the courtroom and for the camera, while others find success in their skills with research, interpretation and analysis.

"Programming" is a massive category. Some programmers need incredible math skills to do their jobs. Some programmers convert thousands to hundreds with broken substring operations, then keep their jobs, and make good money doing it. So there's a spectrum.

But if I had to hazard a guess, I'd guess that the majority of programming jobs out there don't require very much mathematical heavy lifting. And often times if you do run into something that could be tricky, it's already been solved by someone else, complete with copy and paste source code.

Yet many programming jobs do require serious math skills, and probably (hopefully) always will.

TBH I don't know if some of the best software engineers I've met are any good at math. They're good at interpreting API documentation, good at structuring code to meet the strengths of the language they're using. Good at project planning, time estimation, and risk analysis. Good at understanding how computer and network systems work and -- often more importantly -- how they fail. They understand how users interact with software, and what users expect and want.

The truth is, software development has become as broad as life & human interest itself, and generalizations about the practice are becoming more and more meaningless.

Where can one get a list of IP addresses for countries like China and India so that server admins like myself can block these countries entirely?

Google can tell you within minutes what IPs ranges correspond to non-US locations. Here's one such list that's reasonably close. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Misc/Q_21787352.html. You should also be blocking bogons (address that you shouldn't see on the internet such as unassigned ranges) http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html.

Keep in mind that blocking all foreign IPs isn't foolproof as some US clients may still end up going through a foreign relay or some sort of proxy. Also systems compromised by foreign adversaries or foreign controlled botnets will be seen coming from within the US. I block all non-US addresses, bogons, a few problematic US ISP ranges, and a select list of other subnets based on previous attacks. The company I work for also maintains a very large list of addresses to black-hole (both in and out) based on other information such as previous attacks or IPs controlled by foreign companies. Outgoing traffic to specific addresses triggers red flags for potentially compromised systems.

Same here.

RefControl takes care of that nicely, though.

Set the referer for experts-exchange.com to forge “http://www.google.com/”. Then set these filters for AdBlock Plus:

experts-exchange.com#div(blurredAnswer)
experts-exchange.com#div(relatedSolutionsContainer)
experts-exchange.com#div(sectionFour)
experts-exchange.com#div(startFreeTrialEcho)

It’s like magic!

Sample page to test your filters. You’ll be impressed (I was).

Actually, going to the bottom of any experts-exchange page will give you the full answer. Just keep your Page Down button pressed until the page loads. Like this Linux Wireless question

No, I'm pretty sure that with expert sex change ... you have to view source, THEN scroll down

That's true if you click a link from, for example here, but not true if you click a link from a Google search result (first result is the same link as before). In the latter case, just scroll down and read your answer.

I wasn't the only person to have experienced this issue (which may have been more an ie8 than windows 7 issue) -

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Search_Engines/Q_24641989.html

(scroll to the bottom for the posts)

http://www.experts-exchange.com/

I thought experts exchange http://www.experts-exchange.com/ has a hyphen for similar reasons. I can just imagine the google typo suggestion popping up...

Hmm. A quick google doesn't reveal anything useful about this guy. Does he work for Asus?

Well, at least once Expert Sexchange was good for something:

I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or.

I primarily work within the following platforms:

Collaboration:
        Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007)
        Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0)

Web Content Management:
        Telerik Sitefinity CMS
        MCMS 2002
        MOSS 2007

I have previously taught in the Continuing Education Department of Bellevue Community College in Washington State, focusing on XML technologies and the occasional COM+ class.

I program in a number of languages, but primarily C#. I also like to use Python, mostly with Plone, a content management and portal framework built on Zope.

If you need a consultant for a specific project, let me know!

Regards,
Mike Sharp

rdcpro@hotmail.com

Ick.

np: Tocotronic - Samstag Ist Selbstmord (Digital Ist Besser)

Yes, it looks like a troll, nothing to do with Microsoft or ASUS whatsoever.

If you google rdcpro@hotmail.com email address from the WHOIS record of that domain, you'll find this:

"I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or." ...
Regards,
Mike Sharp

rdcpro@hotmail.com"

http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_1301691.html

And also this site:
http://rdcpro.com/

http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=ITSBETTERWITHWINDOWS.COM

Check out the owner's Expert-Exchange profile
http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_1301691.html

"I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or."

Registrant:
Michael Sharp
12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd.
Box 238
Kent, Washington 98030
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ITSBETTERWITHWINDOWS.COM
Created on: 05-Dec-08
Expires on: 05-Dec-09
Last Updated on: 05-Dec-08

Administrative Contact:
Sharp, Michael rdcpro@hotmail.com
12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd.
Box 238
Kent, Washington 98030
United States
(877) 788-8066

Technical Contact:
Sharp, Michael rdcpro@hotmail.com
12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd.
Box 238
Kent, Washington 98030
United States
(877) 788-8066

Domain servers in listed order:
NS61.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS62.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

Experts Exchange has been doing this for years.
Users can post questions and (super-)users can post answers.
The Superusers earn points by answering hard questions and points get you a free premium membership.

I used to hang there for years, until they started asking money for premium services.
I still highly recommend it to small businesses. One membership can save piles of consulting fees.

Running as non-admin is easy, runas (which is only a right-click away)is very easy to use and works well 99% of the time. The annoying thing is remembering to right-click the msi/exe to use runas :) Do you need AV? IE is how BHO's like vundo get in to your pc, active-x is also a nightmare... I've been saying this for years! I have 5000+ users that we no longer install AV directly on their PC's, and we pass our PCI/DSS and SOX audits every year. There is no excuse for M$ to put users into Admin by default. Windows 7 however it does... the local admin account is disabled... but so what! It's idiotic, lock the administrator, but place a new user into admin group by default. -rich ClearSite

All recursion can be done by hand, using loops etc. see this google result for "Ackerman function non-recursive". This is approach can be much faster (and is never slower), but often much uglier than the "simple" recursive version. It also doesn't have the weird edge case failures though (for instance blowing the stack in C/python/etc. is basically unrecoverable).

Not for me.
A google search sent me here the other day (didn't notice the site till it was too late)
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/C/Q_23550166.html

I don't see any way to view the actual answers there

Semi-related: A quick tip it seems many don't know.. if you think you will actually find an answer on experts-exchange.com from, say, a Google search, click the link and scroll to the bottom, and by bottom I mean the part below what looks like the page footer and isn't. The actual, fulltext replies are all at the bottom of the page.

Quick example: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Perl/Q_23602251.html
Scroll down to the "Solution" section.

7-day trial my ass.

Hey! Experts exchange isn't so bad once you realize you don't even have to pay to get answers.

Eg. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/CPP/Q_22118650.html

Skip through the crap in the middle to make you think there's no actual solutions, and the solutions appear at the very bottom. Good work.

For years I have fallen back on http://itr.org/ for their wonderful Javascript F.A.Q.s

For asp I have fallen on the habit of going to google, typing the object name and 'asp', from there I find http://w3schools.com/ and http://4guysfromrolla.com/ to have the best code samples and descriptions of use. However, I hate navigating both of them so Google has become my default doorway into them.

I'm not ashamed to admit I hit http://experts-exchange.com/ as a last resort.

This is what I thought until I looked more closely. EE definitely seems to serve different pages to GoogleBot, and appears to serve different pages to people referred directly from Google. I believe this is a distinct violation of Google's listing policy, and to be consistent with how they treat all the other website operators Google should be immediately de-listing Experts Exchange until it serves identical pages to Google as what it serves to everyone.

Try installing User Agent Switcher in Firefox, then browse to this URL. If it's like me, you'll get no comments at the bottom, but as soon as you switch to mimicing GoogleBot, you'll get a heap of responses.

EE is definitely serving different pages to people referred directly from Google. Try clicking through to a result from Google and you'll get the comments at the bottom. If you open a blank tab, though, and paste the same URL into that tab, you won't get the responses (unless you're pretending to be GoogleBot again). This is definitely what happens for me, anyway.

There's also something weird happening in the Related Solutions section of EE pages, which is probably to do with EE giving Google different URLs to crawl. eg. Take a look at the "Related Solutions" section of this page on EE, and look closely at the URLs. (I reached this EE page using the top result of the Google search that someone pointed out elsewhere in the thread.)

When I look at the URLs in the Related Solutions section, they all point to what first looks like static HTML, but with "?eeSearch=true" appended to the end of the URLs. If I then go to the Google Cache edition, it looks similar but doesn't pass the eeSearch=true parameter.

I'm not sure what effect this has because with or without appending '?eeSearch=true', I still get the same behaviour which is to show comments on the page if I'm pretending to be GoogleBot, and not show them if I'm not. It's almost certainly something to do with tricking Google, probably to make Google think that they're static HTML pages when they're actually not.

This is what I thought until I looked more closely. EE definitely seems to serve different pages to GoogleBot, and appears to serve different pages to people referred directly from Google. I believe this is a distinct violation of Google's listing policy, and to be consistent with how they treat all the other website operators Google should be immediately de-listing Experts Exchange until it serves identical pages to Google as what it serves to everyone.

Try installing User Agent Switcher in Firefox, then browse to this URL. If it's like me, you'll get no comments at the bottom, but as soon as you switch to mimicing GoogleBot, you'll get a heap of responses.

EE is definitely serving different pages to people referred directly from Google. Try clicking through to a result from Google and you'll get the comments at the bottom. If you open a blank tab, though, and paste the same URL into that tab, you won't get the responses (unless you're pretending to be GoogleBot again). This is definitely what happens for me, anyway.

There's also something weird happening in the Related Solutions section of EE pages, which is probably to do with EE giving Google different URLs to crawl. eg. Take a look at the "Related Solutions" section of this page on EE, and look closely at the URLs. (I reached this EE page using the top result of the Google search that someone pointed out elsewhere in the thread.)

When I look at the URLs in the Related Solutions section, they all point to what first looks like static HTML, but with "?eeSearch=true" appended to the end of the URLs. If I then go to the Google Cache edition, it looks similar but doesn't pass the eeSearch=true parameter.

I'm not sure what effect this has because with or without appending '?eeSearch=true', I still get the same behaviour which is to show comments on the page if I'm pretending to be GoogleBot, and not show them if I'm not. It's almost certainly something to do with tricking Google, probably to make Google think that they're static HTML pages when they're actually not.

I went here, and it doesn't show the replies for me.

Wow. That was rude. You could have at least looked at my other reply to the person who asked how this was done. But, since you couldn't be bothered to do this, I will post it again for you.

When you go to one of these pages through a Google search, simply scroll to the bottom of the page.

For your convenience, here is a sample Google Search. Click the first search result, or if that is to difficult, you can click here.

Now, scroll to the very bottom. I, unfortunately, have no way of doing this automatically for you. However, if you take the effort to do this, you will find that I am, indeed, right.

Like that experts-exchange site (SWF) that often sits in the top Google results.

That only happens when Google is the referer. See for example this question which is the first result for this google query. When visiting the link from slashdot the answers are hidden.

Wow, I never thought to scroll to the bottom of the page, I guess expert-SEXCHANGE lost another battle. - http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_23596292.html

Well I guess I don't know the credibility of what I came across in researching a different matter, but there was this description on experts-exchange.com (nope dont have the resolutions)here. I guess that's why I'm asking... any real world success / horror storries? Our issue turned out to be a newly rebuilt box after a failed hard drive with a mis-configured hosts file (that had had the patch applied, but was not the culprit).

Eh? Search for Chmod all files within a directory Linux, then click the first link and scroll down completely. Voila, solution.

The other day I was looking for some bash command help, and the third google result was from http://www.experts-exchange.com./ If you access it directly, it hides the answers and asks you to pay. But from google, you get to the answers directly because of some glitch.

The other day I was looking for some bash command help, and the third google result was from http://www.experts-exchange.com./ If you access it directly, it hides the answers and asks you to pay. But from google, you get to the answers directly because of some glitch.

Am I the only one to notice something? Visit: http://www.experts-exchange.com./Microsoft/Development/MS_Access/Access_Forms/Q_23223103.html It's a question about the SQL Insert command. Scroll down. Down down down, below the obnoxious "Zones" that go on for ages. And then...there are all the responses in plain sight.

As always, that kind of position is missing the fact that google is technically doing the same thing.

It's not that far fetch: imagine you are googling for your favorite show, and find some url with a video stream; and it's form a respectable "nbc.com" or the like website. How do you guess it's supposed to be a paying service?
Want a real life example? The other day I was looking for some bash command help, and the third google result was from http://www.experts-exchange.com./ If you access it directly, it hides the answers and asks you to pay. But from google, you get to the answers directly because of some glitch.

What I'm saying is you can't blame the user (or here, the website) if they never went through a dsiclaimer page that made them realise: "well, if I click this link, I will have done something illegal". Free equivalent services exist.

Is this significantly different than sites like www.experts-exchange.com which allow you to buy and sell solutions/code snippets?