This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an open source operating system. I use OpenBSD on all of my systems and I am not vulnerable to shit like this.
This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an operating system that nobody uses and doesn't get attention from exploiters. -fixed that for you.
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at slashdot's casus belli. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but I shall return to this point in particular. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on slashdot's harangues. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, slashdot has been using all sorts of jiggery-pokery to convince people that mammonism is a sine qua non for mankind's happiness. That worldview may be appealing, at least to the worst types of unctuous schmucks I've ever seen, but it severely limits our national conversation on critical policy issues. Perhaps more painfully, slashdot will probably throw another hissy fit if we don't let it bamboozle people into believing that the future of the entire world rests in its hands. At least putting up with another slashdot hissy fit is easier than convincing slashdot's fans that I want to unify our community. Slashdot, in contrast, wants to drive divisive ideological wedges through it.
Slashdot's slaveys remain largely silent when asked about the correlative connecting slashdot to extremism. The rare times they do deign to comment they invariably skew the issue to prevent people from realizing that I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that slashdot has a talent for inventing fantasy worlds in which it never engages in primitive, petty, or effrontive politics. Then again, just because slashdot is a prolific fantasist doesn't mean that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible.
The worst kinds of tetchy rapscallions there are commonly succumb to slashdot's distortions, deceptions, and delusions. I do not. Rather, I take pride in dispensing justice. When slashdot was first found keeping us hypnotized so we don't review the basic issues at the root of the debate, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that slashdot is planning to make life less pleasant for us, I'm undoubtedly downright terrified. I would like to end on a heartfelt note. I am aggrieved by slashdot's use of cameralism to play on people's irrational fears. http://www.pakin.org/complaint...
consider this: everything you now imagine to be impossible (too far, too inefficient to work) are ideas that can be overcome by human imagination and science.
To sit there and decry ideas that seem far-fetched right now has been the purvey of many naysayers before you, most of whom we now regard as rather silly.
[benefit of higher grade] - [cost of honestly achieving higher grade] > {[benefit of cheating] - [cost of cheating]} * [ risk of getting caught cheating] * [value of punishment for cheating].
Firstly, why are [benefit of higher grade] and [benefit of cheating] different variables? The benefit of cheating IS a higher grade. And isn't the [cost of cheating] not in fact the same thing as [value of punishment for cheating]!?
Secondly, your "more than" should be a "less than".
Thirdly, isn't the situation the simpler case of:
"some students will cheat if: [benefit of cheating] > [cost of cheating]*[probability of getting caught]"
Forsaken on N64 is in my top 5 shooters all time, and it already proved the zero-g spaceship shooter works great on thumb sticks - could be fantastic change of pace from the Modern Warfare stuff we've got now.
Put a PC gamer on the PS3 with me and let's try some Killzone 2 deathmatch. I win. Put me on a PC for some Quake 3, I get pwned.
It's not rocket surgery - the analog sticks aren't as instant gratification as a mouse for movement, because developers have more options than 0 or 1 - analog controllers allow for degrees of movement on the sticks, and therefore more realistic movement (inertia). This is why a game like Grand Theft Auto (driving) on PC is kinda sad.
Pitting them one-on-one in an FPS? Well, no shit. Not a valid experiment.
Agreed. I am staying away from Modern Warfare 2 due to the insane discrepancy between critical reviews (~94) and user reviews (>60), on metacritic. And it isn't a ps3/360 exclusive, so there's not even the "dipshit fanboy voting against the other console's games" effect to account for. The same "critics with their collective heads up their butts" phenomenon exists with movies too - check out the high reviews of "Lost In Translation", one of the most overrated films I've seen. Bottom line is that you can't rate a game on a first impression.
cuz it's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks, here in those hopeless fucking hole we call LA. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
My roommate got that virus on his laptop. It's a P3 500Mhz, a little old and slow to run these kitchen sink firewall/antivirus programs that are out now.
I did get SpyHunter to identify the problems, which it did admirably. (you gotta pay for it to actually FIX the problem).
When you go into Safe Mode and try to delete some of the offending files, it STILL access denies you. I had to use Task Manager to stop the explorer shell altogether, then 'DEL' them from the command line. Once done I ran ole' trusty Autoruns to clean up.
I told him that virus is usually contracted from the bigger gay porn sites and he just looked sheepish.
dude that is the ugliest regex I've ever seen, and there's some errors in your explanation:
the parentheses are not escaped with a backslash (so they aren't literal parentheses) - all these do in a regex is "remember what's inside the parentheses in case I want to use it after running this match" (capturing group) - that is NOT "atomic grouping", which means that once an atomic group is matched it can never be "given back" or backtracked into by the engine trying to make the rest of the expression match.
the DOT-COMMA-DOT, even if your ()'s were right, almost certainly makes no sense either. Your real comma would end up being matched by a dot somewhere and your expressions blows up.
You're absolutely right about the crap regex support in most text editors. In my personal opinion, Dreamweaver CS3 is the best code editor I've used for regex and searching. It has standard regular expressions unlike dumbass contenders like Visual Studio or Ultraedit. It's missing some stuff, though, like named groups with named substitution, multiple line search, and (this is the worst part), the $ and ^ anchors don't seem to work. But none of that matters if your search is fucking slow (see: visual studio 2008): Dreamweaver CS3 search is very, very FAST - notepad++ simply chokes on directory searches, and all of the other lite little editors I've tried do too.
Valid Phone Number Validation that allows extensions and virtually all the common ways to list a (US) number:
/^[01]?[-\s\.]?\(?[2-9][0-9]{2}\)?([-\s\.]|(\s-\s))?[0-9]{3}([-\s\.]|(\s-\s))?[0-9]{4}\s?(([xX]\.?|(ext|EXT)\.?|\s)?\s?(?<![0-9])[0-9]{1,4})?$/
valid:
333 444 5555
1-333-444-5555
333.444-555
333444555 4444
333-444-555 ext. 123
1-(340)333 5678
333 444 555 x3456 ...and lots more ways to fuck up a number (validly)
a couple of points:
true there's no federal funding for further stem cell lines, and that's because Bush and his cronies are bible-thumping jackasses - or at least pretending to be bible-thumping jackasses because someone is paying them off. This is the same President who selects his science advisors based on political leanings instead of science.
Tell that about "no just cause" to the Iraqis who are allowed to vote without being afraid of their families sent to Saddam's rape rooms if they don't vote for Saddam.
>the END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. you should've learned this when you but a boy. There's a lot of injustice in the world out there. Clearly LYING about invading a sovereign country is not justified by the fact that that country does bad stuff. It's a matter of principle, not to mention our (former) credibility to the rest of the world.
Well, hell. I guess broad strokes are what the extreme left paint with
>Irony called. It says it's sorry you missed it.
For all your talk, you don't even have the balls to post with an actual account. I guess you don't REALLY want to oppose the war, because you won't use your slashdot account and risk karma.
>really just quite stupid. did you notice that his post is +5?
the military votes strongly Republican and so do military families. I guess Republicans ARE sacrificing, and more than just money.
dude, linux is a pain in the ass for ANYONE to install, unless you get lucky. Either your ethernet card doesn't work, or your soundcard, or your vid card, or something. I've used red hat 7.2, Fedora Core 4, Suse 10, and Mandrake something-or-other, and not ONE of them installed flawlessly. Installing linux usually makes me want to murder.
but your point is well taken; nobody will be migrating to Linux. It isn't free anyway, as they say, unless your time is worth nothing.
better regexes ? not likely
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Vim 7 Released
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exactly how do you figure vim has better regular expressions that P-E-R-L ???
I call bullshit, but feel free to post some evidence of this.
I agree with you. When I start reading a comment on/. or another forum (or anywhere), and the spelling/grammar is atrocious, I immediately skip that comment. I don't even *read* it - I do not take advice from idiots who can't (or won't) even bother to write coherently, and I don't have time to decipher nonsense.
And when (not if), GO AI has progressed to the point of beating really good humans, you'll yawn and say wake me up when they can play So what's your fucking point?
They might, but they wouldn't hire anyone who spelled capitalize wrong...at least i hope not. It's not 'o' unless you are talking about the state capitol itself.
Awesome! will I be able to use the Internet now?
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
I have FC3 on a dual boot with win2k. Low and behold, it can't make my ethernet card work and I can't get on the Internet. So much for Just Works.
Back in the day I put in RH 7.2...after MUCH effort to find and load drivers for my crappy USB modem, I got the 'net working...but it couldn't get the soundcard (the extremely rare Soundblaster Live! card) to work in digital mode, and I had no analog wire at the time.
no sound = hell with it i'll stay in win2k no 'net = hell with it i'll stay in win2k
Linux pisses me off. Perhaps I'll look at OS-X when I can afford a new 'puter.
Slashdot Mirror
This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an open source operating system. I use OpenBSD on all of my systems and I am not vulnerable to shit like this.
This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an operating system that nobody uses and doesn't get attention from exploiters. -fixed that for you.
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at slashdot's casus belli. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but I shall return to this point in particular. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on slashdot's harangues. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, slashdot has been using all sorts of jiggery-pokery to convince people that mammonism is a sine qua non for mankind's happiness. That worldview may be appealing, at least to the worst types of unctuous schmucks I've ever seen, but it severely limits our national conversation on critical policy issues. Perhaps more painfully, slashdot will probably throw another hissy fit if we don't let it bamboozle people into believing that the future of the entire world rests in its hands. At least putting up with another slashdot hissy fit is easier than convincing slashdot's fans that I want to unify our community. Slashdot, in contrast, wants to drive divisive ideological wedges through it.
Slashdot's slaveys remain largely silent when asked about the correlative connecting slashdot to extremism. The rare times they do deign to comment they invariably skew the issue to prevent people from realizing that I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that slashdot has a talent for inventing fantasy worlds in which it never engages in primitive, petty, or effrontive politics. Then again, just because slashdot is a prolific fantasist doesn't mean that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible.
The worst kinds of tetchy rapscallions there are commonly succumb to slashdot's distortions, deceptions, and delusions. I do not. Rather, I take pride in dispensing justice. When slashdot was first found keeping us hypnotized so we don't review the basic issues at the root of the debate, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that slashdot is planning to make life less pleasant for us, I'm undoubtedly downright terrified. I would like to end on a heartfelt note. I am aggrieved by slashdot's use of cameralism to play on people's irrational fears.
http://www.pakin.org/complaint...
consider this: everything you now imagine to be impossible (too far, too inefficient to work) are ideas that can be overcome by human imagination and science.
To sit there and decry ideas that seem far-fetched right now has been the purvey of many naysayers before you, most of whom we now regard as rather silly.
[benefit of higher grade] - [cost of honestly achieving higher grade] > {[benefit of cheating] - [cost of cheating]} * [ risk of getting caught cheating] * [value of punishment for cheating].
Firstly, why are [benefit of higher grade] and [benefit of cheating] different variables? The benefit of cheating IS a higher grade. And isn't the [cost of cheating] not in fact the same thing as [value of punishment for cheating]!?
Secondly, your "more than" should be a "less than".
Thirdly, isn't the situation the simpler case of :
"some students will cheat if: [benefit of cheating] > [cost of cheating]*[probability of getting caught]"
?
Forsaken on N64 is in my top 5 shooters all time, and it already proved the zero-g spaceship shooter works great on thumb sticks - could be fantastic change of pace from the Modern Warfare stuff we've got now.
oh shut up.
Put a PC gamer on the PS3 with me and let's try some Killzone 2 deathmatch. I win. Put me on a PC for some Quake 3, I get pwned.
It's not rocket surgery - the analog sticks aren't as instant gratification as a mouse for movement, because developers have more options than 0 or 1 - analog controllers allow for degrees of movement on the sticks, and therefore more realistic movement (inertia). This is why a game like Grand Theft Auto (driving) on PC is kinda sad.
Pitting them one-on-one in an FPS? Well, no shit. Not a valid experiment.
Fail.
Agreed. I am staying away from Modern Warfare 2 due to the insane discrepancy between critical reviews (~94) and user reviews (>60), on metacritic. And it isn't a ps3/360 exclusive, so there's not even the "dipshit fanboy voting against the other console's games" effect to account for. The same "critics with their collective heads up their butts" phenomenon exists with movies too - check out the high reviews of "Lost In Translation", one of the most overrated films I've seen. Bottom line is that you can't rate a game on a first impression.
cuz it's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks, here in those hopeless fucking hole we call LA. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
My roommate got that virus on his laptop. It's a P3 500Mhz, a little old and slow to run these kitchen sink firewall/antivirus programs that are out now.
I did get SpyHunter to identify the problems, which it did admirably. (you gotta pay for it to actually FIX the problem).
When you go into Safe Mode and try to delete some of the offending files, it STILL access denies you. I had to use Task Manager to stop the explorer shell altogether, then 'DEL' them from the command line. Once done I ran ole' trusty Autoruns to clean up.
I told him that virus is usually contracted from the bigger gay porn sites and he just looked sheepish.
the only special characters or metacharacters inside a character class are the closing bracket (]), the backslash (\), the caret (^) and the hyphen (-)
/.// - wouldn't work either - it would only remove the first character:
/.*//
dude that is the ugliest regex I've ever seen, and there's some errors in your explanation:
the parentheses are not escaped with a backslash (so they aren't literal parentheses) - all these do in a regex is "remember what's inside the parentheses in case I want to use it after running this match" (capturing group) - that is NOT "atomic grouping", which means that once an atomic group is matched it can never be "given back" or backtracked into by the engine trying to make the rest of the expression match.
the DOT-COMMA-DOT, even if your ()'s were right, almost certainly makes no sense either. Your real comma would end up being matched by a dot somewhere and your expressions blows up.
You're absolutely right about the crap regex support in most text editors. In my personal opinion, Dreamweaver CS3 is the best code editor I've used for regex and searching. It has standard regular expressions unlike dumbass contenders like Visual Studio or Ultraedit. It's missing some stuff, though, like named groups with named substitution, multiple line search, and (this is the worst part), the $ and ^ anchors don't seem to work. But none of that matters if your search is fucking slow (see: visual studio 2008): Dreamweaver CS3 search is very, very FAST - notepad++ simply chokes on directory searches, and all of the other lite little editors I've tried do too.
/^[01]?[-\s\.]?\(?[2-9][0-9]{2}\)?([-\s\.]|(\s-\s))?[0-9]{3}([-\s\.]|(\s-\s))?[0-9]{4}\s?(([xX]\.?|(ext|EXT)\.?|\s)?\s?(?<![0-9])[0-9]{1,4})?$/
...and lots more ways to fuck up a number (validly)
Valid Phone Number Validation that allows extensions and virtually all the common ways to list a (US) number:
valid:
333 444 5555
1-333-444-5555
333.444-555
333444555 4444
333-444-555 ext. 123
1-(340)333 5678
333 444 555 x3456
>the END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. you should've learned this when you but a boy. There's a lot of injustice in the world out there. Clearly LYING about invading a sovereign country is not justified by the fact that that country does bad stuff. It's a matter of principle, not to mention our (former) credibility to the rest of the world.
>Irony called. It says it's sorry you missed it.
>really just quite stupid. did you notice that his post is +5? >a complete non-sequitur.dude, linux is a pain in the ass for ANYONE to install, unless you get lucky. Either your ethernet card doesn't work, or your soundcard, or your vid card, or something. I've used red hat 7.2, Fedora Core 4, Suse 10, and Mandrake something-or-other, and not ONE of them installed flawlessly. Installing linux usually makes me want to murder.
but your point is well taken; nobody will be migrating to Linux. It isn't free anyway, as they say, unless your time is worth nothing.
exactly how do you figure vim has better regular expressions that P-E-R-L ???
I call bullshit, but feel free to post some evidence of this.
get a freaking ps2 for 140 bucks. or apparently, a ps3 when they come out.
:P
if you still insist on a ps1, i can sell you mine call me
don't generalize what Bush and certain other idiots think into the "American viewpoint", dumbass, k thx
[sic]!? lol
venerability - Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position.
I think maybe you meant VULNERABILITY.
polititians. Nope. Politicians.
acknowlage. Nope. Acknowledge.
imminent. YES!!!!
Yeah I knew what you meant, but the reasoning in this post makes as little sense as the spelling does.
I agree with you. When I start reading a comment on /. or another forum (or anywhere), and the spelling/grammar is atrocious, I immediately skip that comment. I don't even *read* it - I do not take advice from idiots who can't (or won't) even bother to write coherently, and I don't have time to decipher nonsense.
~mantis
And when (not if), GO AI has progressed to the point of beating really good humans, you'll yawn and say wake me up when they can play So what's your fucking point?
:)
I think we'll just let you sleep
~mantis
Ohhhh the RvB PSA! Why didn't I think of that!
Dude if you aren't even providing a link at least spell out the fucking acronyms. Don't worry, we won't deduct any l33t points.
Thanks!
~mantis
They might, but they wouldn't hire anyone who spelled capitalize wrong...at least i hope not. It's not 'o' unless you are talking about the state capitol itself.
I have FC3 on a dual boot with win2k. Low and behold, it can't make my ethernet card work and I can't get on the Internet. So much for Just Works.
Back in the day I put in RH 7.2...after MUCH effort to find and load drivers for my crappy USB modem, I got the 'net working...but it couldn't get the soundcard (the extremely rare Soundblaster Live! card) to work in digital mode, and I had no analog wire at the time.
no sound = hell with it i'll stay in win2k
no 'net = hell with it i'll stay in win2k
Linux pisses me off. Perhaps I'll look at OS-X when I can afford a new 'puter.