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They're just falling victim to the same mistake in reasoning that leads people to hate "Congress:" Namely that congress is not a monolithic entity. And neither is the NSA. There are three branches and the completely insane SIGINT maniacs, who are apparently bound and determined to make sure nobody ever trusts American hardware again, are only one of them.

That, and as the NSA are doubtlessly aware, this particular game is horrifyingly stacked against the defenders: You have to be perfect, unfailingly, every single time. If they get lucky once, the whole network the team has spent hours or days cleaning is screwed again, possibly literally in a matter of seconds.

*snert* captcha is "inspects"!

SNERTS. SNERTS= Snot-nosed, egotistical, rude, twits.

I'm a physicist who's a half-way decent programmer. Dealing with other physicists' code is a shameful experience... Some of the things that go through my head:
* "Goddamn fortran-77... Is it necessary to be actively hostile to readability, maintainability, anything-ability?"
* "-mc-model=large isn't the solution, taking this code out behind the shed and putting a bullet through its header is the solution."
* "You think you're going to "just" move this PDE solver from OpenMP to MPI? *snert* Have fun!"
* "Why in the fuck do you want to write a parallel Poisson solver? Whole programming teams have suffered that hell precisely so you don't have to..."
* "Did that 3000 line comment-free slab of gotos and bit-twiddling I just page-downed past say something about FFT near the start? Seriously? We have these things called 'libraries' now, Jesus..."
* "My ability to compile the code with -g and take note when gdb says exactly where the program crashed is not magical"
* "Oh god, common blocks... Please kill me."
* "If you're branching the code because different features only work on different compilers, something is disastrously wrong and you need to stop."
* "Renaming the single .f file that contains the entire code is not 'branching.' "
* "Creating a sequence of file_1.c, file_2.c, ..., file_35.c is not version control."
* "The way you've formulated this code, the coefficients diverge to infinity at every point on the boundary. That might be why your boundary conditions aren't very well behaved..."
* "My ability to put 'latex manuscript.tex' and 'dvi2pdf manuscript.dvi' into a makefile is not magic, it is basic automation."
* "If you can't understand why the numerical 3rd derivative looks like crap, you shouldn't be trying to compute it."
* "Am I to understand that this PDE solver's manifest inability to reliably compute a stable derivative is *not* a show-stopping problem?"
* "If your linear code is behaving nonlinearly, you may want to look into that..."
* "The only way to change the resolution of this simulation is to alter a header file and recompile the whole thing? And this is considered... normal?"
* "Your code has so many compile time arrays that the linker barfed? This may just overflow the failcounter back to win..."
* "Yes, I'd be delighted to clean up this fortran code that you've been organically modifying since 1978."
* "My ability to paste the first line of the error into Google is not magic, you can do this also."

The fact that our CS dept does not have any sort of "How to write code that doesn't give Lovecraft's ghost nightmares" course does not help.

But seriously: Friends do not let friends write fortran.

As I near the end of a nominally successful electrical engineering career that spans the humble analog beginnings of automation to the roboticized present, I can look back and smile at what a smart-assed punk kid I was, deriding the old-timers with snot-nosed comments and the immeasurable over-confidence of youth.

Barring an early death, everyone gets old. Know what? I neither desire nor require the respect or veneration of the young. I got mine. As jobs get scarcer and pay less with each passing year, all I can say to the smartaleck young snerts is, "Suck it. See you in St. Croix."

On the other hand, ask me nicely and I'm happy to lend a helping hand.

Respect is a two-way street with no speed limit.

If I might nitpick, the ICE's 15-20% efficiency figure is the gas tank-to-wheels efficiency which includes substantial losses in the transmission and differentials. The ICE itself might be 30+% efficient. In diesel-electric applications, where the ICE is optimized to run at a single speed, efficiency can be even higher. Diesel-electric plus batteries for peaking (Even a Lincoln Navigator uses less than 20hp except when accelerating) with an all-electric drivetrain seems like an excellent immediate-term way to reduce fuel consumption; I wish it was more widely available.

As far as using cheaper fuel, the whole reason we use more expensive grades now is to reduce pollution. Remember back in the early 2000s when gas was reaching obscene new heights like $2.50 a gallon (*snert*), but diesel was like $1.50, then all of a sudden the price of diesel was >= gas? That's the price of desulfuring the diesel, because sulfur oxides are bad to breathe and are the main contributor to acid rain (sulfur trioxide + water = instant sulfuric acid).

I love to read the little young snerts sounding so clever in their cock-sure certainty that in their Peter Pan worlds they can ridicule and mock those of greater age with impunity.

Guess what, snotty? You are nothing but a geezer in training, awaiting your inevitable turn. The only escape? Premature death.

How's that aging thing working for ya?

Gee, there must be a reason why 18.18 chains is 1.818 furlongs...

*snert*
--
BMO

> That only works until they have all their holes plugged.

Heh. Heh heh. *snert*

*snert* =D

I don't believe in Hell, but I wish I did so I could also believe that I was going there for snerting so painfully hard at that...

I started using the word "prolly" in 1979. Seems to have finally caught on. "Mickie D's" since 1975, "Nuker" since 1977, "Wally World" since 1983. You can thank me for SNERT, too (AOL Guide Room Jade - Circa 1994 - were not allowed to call members twits, so, acronym time!) I am still on a quest to get FLURP, FLEH, and DUFACHI into the official lexicon, though. Soon... soon...

Gonna cause whole different attitudes about clothing. Maybe the only relevant story isn't Green Patches. Maybe we should be looking at The Puppet Masters

*snert*

-Rustin

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Snert is Hagar the Horrible's dog. It will be in any password dictionary based on comic strip names.

"Snert" is dutch for split pea soup. It is very popular after skating and in winter in general

Just so you know...

For example, I dredge up the number 42 (the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything) and some nonsense word. Let's say it's "snert". Pump it through the construction process and I come up with "first47snertt". Not exactly intuitive, but I'm just adding the number of letters in "first" (5) to my number and the last letter ("t") to the end of the nonsense word.

The result is a pretty strong password. No cracking program is going to have the word in it's dictionary and knowing my password to First National isn't going to tell you that my password to Discover is "discover50snertr". Since "snert" is nonsense anyway, there's no way to tell where the letters come from; you could be sticking the third letter in "Discover" onto the beginning and your nonsense word could be "nertr". There are no rules to how to construct the password, but you want to have an obscure way for the base password to modify the gibberish in the rest so knowing one password will not give you the rest. It saves me the trouble of remembering a lot of strong passwords. Of course, if someone got ahold of several of my passwords and spent enough time on them, they could probably figure out the routine, but that's not as dangerous as using the same password.

And yes, that's just an example. It's not the process I use to construct my own passwords. Trust me, you don't want to know.

You might have a look at Clan Lord. It's a fantasy themed MMORPG by Delta Tao Software (same folks who brought you Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, and Spaceward Ho!), but it's different from most. It has more of an emphasis on role-playing, relatively few snerts (by and large the community is extremely friendly), and some rather unique additions (e.g., a bard's guild for which players must actually compose music and audition to join, and then can play instruments in-game to entertain other players). FWIW, it has a relatively high percentage of female players. My wife makes fun of lots of the games I play, but she likes Clan Lord, and we often play it together. Of course, there's lots of quests, skills to train, etc. Some players like to spend a lot of time chatting, and it's quite a good forum for that I think. It's actually beed described as "Wack-a-mole with chat", though it's quite a bit more interesting than I think that makes it sound.

Some links:
www.clanlord.com (has screenshots, link to free demo, etc.)
humorous advertising flyer
faq list
The ThoomCare Media Network (news in Puddleby).

There's two gotchas: The graphics are somewhat primitive, by today's popular gaming standards (but then, it's cheaper too). Also, it only runs natively on the mac - PC players usually use the Basilisk Mac emulator (see the faq).

HTH,
"Wheatstone"

About bloody time.

DEATH TO THE SAKRA! VIVA LA ELERIAN HOTTIES!

C'mon, you'd do the Elerian scientist babe. She could overclock me any time, rowrl.

Okay, so that was Moo 2. They better have the Elerians in Moo 3.

Or I'll be forced to buy it and ruin my GPA anyway. :(

*snert* EverCrack my ass. The MOO games are what all the hardcore gamers get addicted to!

That isn't a knock at Mandrake (surprisingly), that's a knock at all the other distributions. (Especially RedHat.)

How many years has NTFS resizing software been around? Quite a few! I do remember resizing (and sliding!) NTFS partitions back in the day. Had to use some shareware to do it, too, thanks to the lack of functionality in both fdisk and RedHat's Disk Druid.

Considering how important MS-based operating systems are to the business world (If you think otherwise, you're an idiot. End of story.), that RedHat would have added NTFS resize/slide functionality to their install process. I mean, they're supposed to be the 'business' distro and all.

*snert* Maybe Mandrake's work on it will beat RH and other distributions with the clue stick.

listen up, you ratty-faced maggoty scumsuckers: you can not hack it in the real world. you sniveling goat-humpers really don't have the testicles, deal with it. you masturbate your dog while sucking your friend's cock and take it up the ass as well. that's not the way the real world works, ass pirates. jerking off your friend in public may be fine for the gay pR0n world, and you all probably have futures as temp cum buckets for the large-cocked gay leading Pr0N stars, but you haven't got the size or the stamina to last very long. i mean jerking off on the bus and deep-throating your friends in the park at lunch is about all you'll amount to. so, do the hetero world a favor, will you, and just stick your tiny dicks in a light socket and shit yourselves.