ok, so this guy is saying that.. he found 5 or 6 ways to improve the performance of his program by attacking things in an entirely different fashion... ok..
back in the day, i discovered a really great trick... you might represent it as something like...:
boolean a; a = 1 - a;
this is a zillion times more efficient than if(a == 1) a = 0; else a = 1;
it is also about the same as a |= 1; if you were going to use bitwise functions.
And, in related news, it seems that the National Hockey League Players Union has invested a quarter of a billion dollars into furthering the research into this wonderful new technology.
Dude, ChanServ has been around for longer than you have, most likely.
Besides, what's it matter if channel takeovers can't happen on DALnet due to ChannelServ, when the ENTIRE FRICKING NETWORK HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY SHUTDOWN FOR FOUR YEARS BECAUSE OF SCRIPTKIDDIES DOS ATTACKS.
IRC is not a file transfer network. IRC is a chat network.
So many people are using IRC for so many things that it's not built for, that it has become nothing but a gigantamongous tangled mess full of SHIT.
The only way to save it is to destroy it. If not, eventually, it will all be taken down forever by script kiddies, such as what happened with DALnet (last i knew, they'd had a 4 year long DOS attack on them...)
Start over. The WHOLE NETWORK. Not the fucking file transfer protocol that's hacked over on top of it. Jesus.
Try clicking in the address entry bar on Safari, and typing in "www.lycos.com", or whatever other search engine you would like to use.
Just because the menu bar's search function pulls up google, doesn't mean you have to use it. Or did using a Mac for this long rot your brain to the point where you can only do things either the Mac way or the Extremely Difficult way?
Remember way back when, when the McDonald's signs used to say "Over 80 billion served", with a 2-digit counter that would get increased every now and then? Well, when they started building new ones back in the 90's, the signs simply said "Billions and Billions served."
i think this would be great, but WINDOWS doesn't SUPPORT my SCSI CONTROLLER.. so I -have- to use Linux, and then use Wine to run my computer! DOH! hehehehhe
No, it's not. I was sued for a website that I ran. I took it down, they withdrew the suit, and I was not crushed in legal fees that I couldn't afford. Rather than a C&D (which could have preceded this for all we know), the guy suing me spent about $25,000 to get the biggest guns in the country to come after me, knowing there wasn't a damn thing I could do to defend myself.
This might have been the only way to get Google's attention to what appears to be a seriously offensive snippet that is displayed if you search for him using certain keywords.. a seriously offensive snippet, including text from a preceding paragraph.. that implies that he has done something bad that he hasn't.. (even if he has done other bad thigns!)
I'd be pretty pissed off if i did a search by my name, and found someone's 'blog or something going from a statement like "i think michael jackson is a damn child molestor; kurt munther supports this theory as well.", and Google gave me a summary that said:
"...a damn child molestor; kurt munther supports this..."
See the point?
If he complained to Google, Google probably should have done something about tweaking the results on that hit.
I have to admit, I'm kind of glad too. So far, all these huge virus outbreaks have been to apparently test how fast one can infect a million machines, or what not.. or as spam gateways.
If people's machines start dying, hell, there goes some serious IT expenditures.. that means I have the opportunity to start making serious cash again..:D
Here are many of the things that I have heard on the radio (since my CD player broke a few months ago) on the morning drive into work, between Howard Stern, and some local DJ's, and such..
(and, keep in mind, I almost always enjoy the Howard Stern show, but is 7 in the friggin morning a good time for his show? i'd say probably not - they relax the airwaves a little bit at night, when kids are likely to be in bed.. not in the morning, when they are likely to be in a bus on their way to school with some schlep bus driver blasting this to them all.. just one possible example)..anyway, these are the things that I dropped my jaw and gaped at, thinking "they aren't REALLY doing this on the RADIO are they?"
explicit details on performing oral sex on two men simultaneously
explicit details on two women performing oral sex on one man simultaneously
playing pr0n music in the background, and graphically describing a pr0no flick over the air
discussing anally raping a presidential candidate with a strap-on vibrator
talking in vivid detail about how awesome some girl on a magazine cover's "cameltoe" is
yelling at a caller with an obvious accent, "THIS IS AMERICA, SPEAK ENGLISH!".. this is just some.. i can't remember.. i know i've been utterly shocked (not offended.. but shocked) at what has been going across the airwaves lately.
What purpose does spreading this junk all over the metro area have? Most of it's not even remotely humorous... at least if it were, it would have some value.. but,.. it's mostly just lame bathroom humor on the air.. yuck.
Well, as it's probably well known, I am a radio shack store manager... and in my store, the sprint phones are dummies attached to a cabinet type display, with real ones locked inside my glass cubes at the counter. The verizon display is currently live phones attached toa cabinet type display, but as soon as Verizon can get dummies for all their phones, I am going the same route that I have gone with Sprint.
If little punk bastards wouldn't steal things that don't belong to them, we wouldn't have to have dummies:(
The website I use for all cell phone model information:
my network is basically served by a Tandy Sensation 2, a 486sx/33 with a 487slc/33 coprocessor installed. 40MB RAM, 2GB hard disk. It runs router services for.. uh.. 4 computers currently, and has run services for 10-12 computers. It also sports the network's email server, for three domains that I receive mail at. And a MySQL server, that I haven't had much use for lately, but it used to gain a few thousand SQL requests a day.
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ok, so this guy is saying that.. he found 5 or 6 ways to improve the performance of his program by attacking things in an entirely different fashion... ok..
:
back in the day, i discovered a really great trick... you might represent it as something like...
boolean a;
a = 1 - a;
this is a zillion times more efficient than if(a == 1) a = 0; else a = 1;
it is also about the same as a |= 1; if you were going to use bitwise functions.
OK. Great.
Project Janus, v2.0.. to make clones of big burly guys like Sylvester Stallone, to enforce DRM.. with a big ass gun.
(Judge Dredd)
You can have your teeth filed down sharp fangs, if you would like. This is the path many lifelong Gothic people have gone, to appear more Goth...
(anyone who's ever been to City Club, downtown Detroit, has definitely seen this in action)
And, in related news, it seems that the National Hockey League Players Union has invested a quarter of a billion dollars into furthering the research into this wonderful new technology.
(joke, but it should be real..)
Cool! Not much longer and we'll have Photon Torpedoes!!!!
presuming you are using numeric keys, as 'normal' rather than making it an associative array?
ChatSpace.
Dude, ChanServ has been around for longer than you have, most likely.
Besides, what's it matter if channel takeovers can't happen on DALnet due to ChannelServ, when the ENTIRE FRICKING NETWORK HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY SHUTDOWN FOR FOUR YEARS BECAUSE OF SCRIPTKIDDIES DOS ATTACKS.
IRC is not a file transfer network. IRC is a chat network.
So many people are using IRC for so many things that it's not built for, that it has become nothing but a gigantamongous tangled mess full of SHIT.
The only way to save it is to destroy it. If not, eventually, it will all be taken down forever by script kiddies, such as what happened with DALnet (last i knew, they'd had a 4 year long DOS attack on them...)
Start over. The WHOLE NETWORK. Not the fucking file transfer protocol that's hacked over on top of it. Jesus.
Chill out, brother.
Try clicking in the address entry bar on Safari, and typing in "www.lycos.com", or whatever other search engine you would like to use.
Just because the menu bar's search function pulls up google, doesn't mean you have to use it. Or did using a Mac for this long rot your brain to the point where you can only do things either the Mac way or the Extremely Difficult way?
This is just like McDonald's.
Remember way back when, when the McDonald's signs used to say "Over 80 billion served", with a 2-digit counter that would get increased every now and then? Well, when they started building new ones back in the 90's, the signs simply said "Billions and Billions served."
Just plain ran out of counter.
No point IN counting at this point.
Er, yeah, how exactly else are you supposed to access a member of an array?
My webserver box is running RH 7, and all I did was compile kernel 2.6, and reboot.
My Debian box is running -unstable, and all I did was compile kernel 2.6, and reboot.
Hmm.
i think this would be great, but WINDOWS doesn't SUPPORT my SCSI CONTROLLER.. so I -have- to use Linux, and then use Wine to run my computer! DOH! hehehehhe
this shouldn't be a LAW.
it should be.. hmm.. common sense.
Of course, as on the previous thread about the suicide kid, someone said "common sense is usually not."
Not all games are intended for kids.
Whomever modded that Flamebait is a moron.
it's called "humor".
I'm lost.
What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with Starship Troopers 2?
I've never seen such a useless and moronic story posted to Slashdot in my LIFE, and especially get SO MANY replies.
The front page of google has been like this for weeks, all they added was the Froogle link off the top.
Come on, people, get with it...
No, it's not. I was sued for a website that I ran. I took it down, they withdrew the suit, and I was not crushed in legal fees that I couldn't afford. Rather than a C&D (which could have preceded this for all we know), the guy suing me spent about $25,000 to get the biggest guns in the country to come after me, knowing there wasn't a damn thing I could do to defend myself.
This might have been the only way to get Google's attention to what appears to be a seriously offensive snippet that is displayed if you search for him using certain keywords.. a seriously offensive snippet, including text from a preceding paragraph.. that implies that he has done something bad that he hasn't.. (even if he has done other bad thigns!)
I'd be pretty pissed off if i did a search by my name, and found someone's 'blog or something going from a statement like "i think michael jackson is a damn child molestor; kurt munther supports this theory as well.", and Google gave me a summary that said:
"...a damn child molestor; kurt munther supports this..."
See the point?
If he complained to Google, Google probably should have done something about tweaking the results on that hit.
Somewhere else, I read that it overwrites a RANDOM 128 bytes of a randomly selected drive, every so often.
So it could take out your entire pr0no collection before you notice, then wipe your boot sectors.
I have to admit, I'm kind of glad too. So far, all these huge virus outbreaks have been to apparently test how fast one can infect a million machines, or what not.. or as spam gateways.
:D
If people's machines start dying, hell, there goes some serious IT expenditures.. that means I have the opportunity to start making serious cash again..
Here are many of the things that I have heard on the radio (since my CD player broke a few months ago) on the morning drive into work, between Howard Stern, and some local DJ's, and such..
..anyway, these are the things that I dropped my jaw and gaped at, thinking "they aren't REALLY doing this on the RADIO are they?"
.. this is just some.. i can't remember.. i know i've been utterly shocked (not offended.. but shocked) at what has been going across the airwaves lately.
(and, keep in mind, I almost always enjoy the Howard Stern show, but is 7 in the friggin morning a good time for his show? i'd say probably not - they relax the airwaves a little bit at night, when kids are likely to be in bed.. not in the morning, when they are likely to be in a bus on their way to school with some schlep bus driver blasting this to them all.. just one possible example)
explicit details on performing oral sex on two men simultaneously
explicit details on two women performing oral sex on one man simultaneously
playing pr0n music in the background, and graphically describing a pr0no flick over the air
discussing anally raping a presidential candidate with a strap-on vibrator
talking in vivid detail about how awesome some girl on a magazine cover's "cameltoe" is
yelling at a caller with an obvious accent, "THIS IS AMERICA, SPEAK ENGLISH!"
What purpose does spreading this junk all over the metro area have? Most of it's not even remotely humorous... at least if it were, it would have some value.. but,.. it's mostly just lame bathroom humor on the air.. yuck.
Well, as it's probably well known, I am a radio shack store manager... and in my store, the sprint phones are dummies attached to a cabinet type display, with real ones locked inside my glass cubes at the counter. The verizon display is currently live phones attached toa cabinet type display, but as soon as Verizon can get dummies for all their phones, I am going the same route that I have gone with Sprint.
:(
If little punk bastards wouldn't steal things that don't belong to them, we wouldn't have to have dummies
The website I use for all cell phone model information:
phonescoop.com
my network is basically served by a Tandy Sensation 2, a 486sx/33 with a 487slc/33 coprocessor installed. 40MB RAM, 2GB hard disk. It runs router services for .. uh.. 4 computers currently, and has run services for 10-12 computers. It also sports the network's email server, for three domains that I receive mail at. And a MySQL server, that I haven't had much use for lately, but it used to gain a few thousand SQL requests a day.