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I always find Communism funny. How can any government of the people be responsible for censoring the information they receive?

Email me if you need any dangerous info; be sure to include your public key and encrypt to mine/a.

The majority of blogs are on Blog sites or fourth level entries with a port number tagging along.

The "tiny" weblog won't be prevalent for long as the larget ones get advertising and the smaller ones are drowned out by "free blog" sites.

If you had enough computing power to run the Matrix, you could sure as hell break a little 128 bit key.

Anyone needed crypto that can stand up to that should look into FlameCrypt 5. It is nearly complete; I'm using a 512 megabyte key in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows with perfect MD5 matches. It's faster than other cryptographic methods. Pre-orders will be taken soon (15 days or so).

A FlameCrypt5 shell server is under consideration; it would most likely be a free upgrade.

If no one has heard of it they can't make fun of it. Until they realize that I haven't gotten around to loops in the released version yet :-)

I think that varied languages are a necessity. It'll be better when .jar files can be executed from the console, J2dk for Linux/ppc version 1.4 is released, caffeine springs from trees, and C++ no longer requires the programmer to deal w/ pointers. Oh yeah, and all BASIC interpretters are dumped into Sol.

seems to me that the thing to do is make "user.foo@bar.tld" where bar.tld is the server and foo is the host you gave your email to. A user command or webform would then be able to tell the smtp server to reject incoming requests for user.foo.

Another idea is to not give your address out. I've only recieved 4 sams for my account, all of which appear to be from spambots. (let's hope they don't read /.!)

What would be the best server-side spam filter operated by root, where upon request I could block spam with a particular title or source for all users?

Here is the free, if rather educational, version.

with screenshots linking to games.

is much faster to evaluate, especially on the 49g's 4mhz processor when doing symbolic shit.

Those who don't have a compatible palmtop can use FlameCalc if their pda supports Java. The development(next) release has enough features to do nearly all of my AP Physics stuff on my Zaurus, but loops/constructs are too unstable for a public release at the moment.

What I'd really love is Linux PDA in a graphing calculator case. I honestly don't care that it would be larger, a usable numeric keyboard would make up for that. It better have CF/SD and all the other goodies of course.

I'm working on a Java RPN calculator, here. I regularly use the console version on my Zaurus.

The upcoming version has loop structures and code objects to allow for more advanced scripting. Symbolic manipulation is planned for the future. I could use some help with this if anyone has Java or RPL math code they'd like to contribute.

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I've been programming for half my life (since I was 8 y/o) in one language or another, and I'm planning on graduating highschool a full year early. I have experience administrating a multi-user server with users ranging from clueless website admins to fellow developers. I also have experience in automotive mechanics and electronics.

1. How much will a graduate/undergraduate degree affect my eventual wages as a programmer?

2. If I got an electrical engineering degree instead of a computer science degree, would I be able to make more as an embedded technology developer? In the automotive industry?

3. Is college much better than highschool course-wise?

4. Will running various website such as this, that, and the other one help me with admissions? With scholarships?

5. If you woke up and it was X many years ago, would you redo college and grad school, or just go on to a career?

6. Know of any good tech scholarships?

1. I often hear that sports pay for themselves. Why the hell can't "your" football team pay for its own damn stadium?
2. I'm testing out of English 11 and 12 to graduate a full year early!
3. I'm looking at U.C. Berkeley, though I could be swayed to another school for some serious scholarship money.
4. My books are in fairly-decent condition, but we don't even have warm water in "Automotive Mechanics: Suspension and Steering", the most technical class my school offers.
5. As a minor, I don't have to wait for the count-down. Except for those ten days when they'll be minors and I won't be.
6. This is a much better explanation for why your school sucks. So many animated gifs of bouncy things stolen from geocities.
7. My school's site uses my DNS server on my domain. I'll make a snow-day or two my last week of school.

And as I said here, I'm only 16.

I think that I'm the last Ellen Feiss fan standing.

Here is a java game that I wrote with her in it, but it reportedly has display problems in M$IE/MSVM and j2re1.4.1 for OS X. I'll rewrite it as a JApplet when I get a chance.

And don't forget my classic Switch Article.

I think that I'm the last Ellen Feiss fan standing.

Here is a java game that I wrote with her in it, but it reportedly has display problems in M$IE/MSVM and j2re1.4.1 for OS X. I'll rewrite it as a JApplet when I get a chance.

And don't forget my classic Switch Article.

not because its owners are stinkin rich (are they?)

Buying out a company that everyone hates for handling ads won't make you more respected.

In other new, my company has decided to buy out Microsoft. We hope that this will help us in our global domination plans.

so you may connect to any one of several servers. The servers each have different databases to pool results from and different caches to display.

A google search for my site returns our old site that has had dead dns records for nearly a month above my new site. Sometimes my new site pulls into the lead, sometimes it isn't there, and at least one cache has the announcement that the old name was lost and a domain was purchased.

A lot of the "old school" stuff works more reliably in more situations with less hassle.

I primarily prefer command line interfaces, as opposed to GUI or curses/ncurses, because it is so damn easy to script it. I can encrypt all .jpg files in my web directory that I own with a single command.

Another example of "old school" being the better choice is in security. I have the logger daemon piping output to a dumb terminal so that I can watch what's going on. I'm about to add a second that displays httpd logs.

Old school games are also better; even after porting /usr/games/fortune to the web, winshit/wine, OS X, and OS 9, I still keep the console version on every box of mine (all of them are Linux, even the palmtops.)

Maybe we should have a no-GUI holiday in which we don't use curses, X11, Aqua, or winshitgui.

Please note that the winshit download has yet to be tested.

A lot of the "old school" stuff works more reliably in more situations with less hassle.

I primarily prefer command line interfaces, as opposed to GUI or curses/ncurses, because it is so damn easy to script it. I can encrypt all .jpg files in my web directory that I own with a single command.

Another example of "old school" being the better choice is in security. I have the logger daemon piping output to a dumb terminal so that I can watch what's going on. I'm about to add a second that displays httpd logs.

Old school games are also better; even after porting /usr/games/fortune to the web, winshit/wine, OS X, and OS 9, I still keep the console version on every box of mine (all of them are Linux, even the palmtops.)

Maybe we should have a no-GUI holiday in which we don't use curses, X11, Aqua, or winshitgui.

Please note that the winshit download has yet to be tested.

A lot of the "old school" stuff works more reliably in more situations with less hassle.

I primarily prefer command line interfaces, as opposed to GUI or curses/ncurses, because it is so damn easy to script it. I can encrypt all .jpg files in my web directory that I own with a single command.

Another example of "old school" being the better choice is in security. I have the logger daemon piping output to a dumb terminal so that I can watch what's going on. I'm about to add a second that displays httpd logs.

Old school games are also better; even after porting /usr/games/fortune to the web, winshit/wine, OS X, and OS 9, I still keep the console version on every box of mine (all of them are Linux, even the palmtops.)

Maybe we should have a no-GUI holiday in which we don't use curses, X11, Aqua, or winshitgui.

Please note that the winshit download has yet to be tested.

A lot of the "old school" stuff works more reliably in more situations with less hassle.

I primarily prefer command line interfaces, as opposed to GUI or curses/ncurses, because it is so damn easy to script it. I can encrypt all .jpg files in my web directory that I own with a single command.

Another example of "old school" being the better choice is in security. I have the logger daemon piping output to a dumb terminal so that I can watch what's going on. I'm about to add a second that displays httpd logs.

Old school games are also better; even after porting /usr/games/fortune to the web, winshit/wine, OS X, and OS 9, I still keep the console version on every box of mine (all of them are Linux, even the palmtops.)

Maybe we should have a no-GUI holiday in which we don't use curses, X11, Aqua, or winshitgui.

Please note that the winshit download has yet to be tested.

I would mention that it is FROB.US, as I mentioned in my previous post. If you are having dns trouble then bitch at me on aim, my sn is SHEENmaster.

it involves saying they have been educated.

Anyone want to become an FECE for only $20? Inquire here.

if lynx and links won't work then screw this!

I give the hosted users of my server ssh access for the sole reason that it keeps them from running shit like this.

/etc/security/ contains all the settings needed to keep them from fucking stuff up. Before I configured process restrictions a user's chat server spun out of control, eventually spawning so many processes that the mouse didn't get enough processor time to move and there wasn't enough ram to start another login shell or http connection!

Despite the BOFH myths, which I am guilty of perpetuating, not all sysadmins are jackasses. So long as the sysadmin knows you and you promise not to abuse priveledges you can get everything short of root and /dev/dsp access.

If you really need shell access and don't want to risk losing your account just send your sysadmin a thinkgeek caffeine sampler and some shirts. Massive capacity SCSI disks are a great substitute.

but it really did help me get started in programming oh so many years ago.

If you really do use BASIC, I recommend RealBASIC for Mac OS X. I could never stand it for serious development, but it's a lot better than VB with features like syntax formatting to make lame code easier to read.

I used it to throw together a custom client for my Fortune page for all the lame OSes in a few minutes. BASIC is still easy to look down upon and all implementations are seriously lacking in vital(at least to me) areas. RB doesn't have UDP support, and VB doesn't have syntax formatting.

Back to the serious topic and away from replying to a joke: Java's SWING toolkit is my favorite multiplatform toolkit. A single binary works for most platforms, and "advanced" features that we don't consider necessary in disagreement with our respective (former :) bosses.

For quickly drafting small projects, PHP and other server-side scripting languages are a great option. I would love to be able "throw togethor" something like this as well as package it into self contained binaries for winshit and OS X.

X11 aka X Windows, what started this whole trend and what all the hippest /.ers are using. Rather than just sounding cool, it is cool.

If you think "extreme games" are lame, check out my parody. It features Tux, Ellen Feiss, Beasty(Chuck), Bill Gates, and more.