What has happened to the 'do not feed the trolls' sign? Has it been stolen again?
Every post, except your post and the one other about 'common sence' , should be deleted from this thread.
And Zonk should be send to the timeout bin for posting shit like this every other day. I thought this sort of Slashdot crap had finished when Micheal left... Or maybe Zonk and Micheal are the same person..? I wonder.
Don't hit chisels with hammers, ever. Don't even use a mallet. If you need to hit a chisel then you are trying to remove too much material in one go or the chisel is blunt. And what do blunt tools cut, kids? Fingers!
People lose digits in workshops. My father lost three on a spindle moulder. My close friend lost the tops of all his fingers on a surface planer. Don't use wood working tools without the proper training.
If that excites you then you should have tried FooBar2000 many moons ago. It handles my 20,000 MP3s on my 10-year-old PC as if I was using iTunes on one of IBM's super-computer-clusters. As I type the name of a track the searchlist displays matching MP3s instantly.
Oh and it plays every other audio format you can think of.
You jest but half of the replies in this thread say "Raise your prices!" or "tell him to fuck off!"
C'mon people, he said he quite likes this person. A good mate. Probably has a laugh with him a few times a week. Not best buddies but he values the relationship. If these sorts of relationships are alien to you then I suggest you stop charging people for friendly favours and you stop telling people to fuck off.
"I'm sorry but due to other commitments I neither have time..." STOP. He's your mate not a fucking work client.
"What again mate? You been clicking yes to all those boxes again? Stay away for the granny porn sites mate, your computer doesn't like them." is a bit more jovial [you heartless fucks].
I cut my friend's grass for him last week and do you know what I charged him for it? Nothing. Absolutely fuck all. Why? Cus he's my mate. What did I get out of it? Two cold drinks, half an hours chat and 1000 black bin liners (don't ask). He's my mate for fucks sake. Favours for favours. Not one favour for another. We're mates and no one is bothering to count [you sad fucks].
To SpaceNeeded: Put this friend off. Tell him over the phone that you'll have a look at the weekend. Tell him that if he's really stuck then Google is also his friend. "Have you tried AdWare yet? Google can find it for you."
No ones life is so busy that you can't spare someone a few minutes of your time. When you spare those few minutes is really up to you though. This mate isn't whipping you with the leather.
Have a chat about some other shit while you're over his house. Unwind a little. Have a laugh. Have a cold drink. There's so much to gain from 'just fixing his PC'. You don't have to fully fix it. Just spend an hour fixing, chatting and drinking.
People are great; don't brush them away [or charge them you greedy slashdot monkeys...]
Being an ex-postman (survived one month!), I've seen the automatic sorting machines that read hand-written postcodes (zip codes in the US). I forget how many letters the machine sorted a minute, it was between 500 and 1000, but I do remember the 90% accuracy number that was boasted. The machine 'cheated' in some respects because it only had to read a 6 or 7 character postcode, of which there are only a small amount of combinations. The machine also checked the county and city if it needed clarification.
Any postcodes that could not be read, dark paper and red ink etc, were scanned and transmitted to a postal worker drone in another part of the country who would type in the postcode from their terminal. The machine would receive the code back a few seconds later and the letter would carry on its journey.
I still write simple local HTML applications for my own personal use.
Some posts in this thread say that computers don't come with a basic language anymore. This isn't a troll, but Windows comes with many 'basic' scripting languages that are truly basic. Visual Basic Script is fine for a lot of simple tasks. Jscript and JavaScript are no different. They all store variables, have many ways to perform loops, have complex math methods etc.
I can prompt users (me) for text input, manipulate it and show the results easily. Isn't that where all of us started?
I have no problem using ActiveX in my HTML application for more complexity. I have access to the shell with ActiveXObject("Shell.Application"). I can display the standard 'browse for folder' dialog BrowseForFolder() from within my application. I can save the application output to a file using File System Objects... It's all very instant too.
I know I'm never going to write a 3D First Player Shooter with it but...
I witnessed an accident a few months back involving a small plastic SMART car and a Ford Transit Van. The Transit had rear ended the SMART car.
The front of the Transit was mangled; both headlights smashed, windscreen had a single crack running from top to bottom.
The SMART car's rear bumber was dented and the rear window had popped out of its housing.
I'm no road traffic expert but it looked like the SMART car had just flexed and bounced. I was amazed and I think the white-van-man was too. Safety nightmare? Not if I'm to believe my own eyes.
If I walked a mile in his shoes I'd probably be half a kilo lighter.
I had a friend at school who was twice the weight of everyone else. In the my school of 1,400 pupils, he was one of the half-dozen 'fat kids' - not unusual 20 years ago in the UK.
I played alongside him in the school rugby team. I watched him play rugby for the County side. I practiced Javelin, Discus and Shotput with him in the summer. I watched him throw the hammer for the county side. He ran an impressive 100m too (for a fat bloke).
If I called him a fat cunt he'd punch me so hard it brought tears to my eyes. If he called me a lanky streak of piss then I'd call him a fat cunt... He had an average amount of friends with no real enemies.
He was a nice bloke. I'd liked him.
Consequences for doing what school kids do? Having a laugh at someone else's expense is wrong? If only life were that boring.
Claiming compensation? Why? What good has it done? Feed the greed?
This PC madness inches its way into every part of life these days and it sickens me. If you act like a twat on video, your peers see it and start taking the piss, then I'm sorry to say that you have to suck it up and move on. Rise above it and it's already last week's news. Grow up FFS.
How's this for PC? Put the fork down (you fat cunt).
You might want to try some thicker tin-foil. Maybe go for the tight fitting dome shape as apposed to the classic, traditional, triangular shape. All in all, you aren't blocking enough.
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Is Scraping really that much of a problem these days?
My email address up there ^^ has been advertised on Slashdot since the start of the year. I've had exactly 16 emails sent to that address so far. The first one was from me testing it out, one has been from a fellow Slashdotter and the rest Spam. Where there's been an opt-out link, I've used it and there have been no repeat offenders.
I'm going to put my real email address back up after Spam #20. That's how much of a problem I think Scraping is.
You say that it's possible to edit the raw HTML but is it also possible to use and tags? How about adding links to external style sheets? Textboxes and dropdown menus etc?
Will Google serve my pages without line breaks as they do with their pages? I hope not as it's a nightmare to read and understand.
Does their editor create nice HTML or does it look like MS Word HTML?
Can I upload ZIP files, videos, MP3s etc?
I can't wait to have a play. Seems like it could be fun.
I found out about Rainbow Crack after our website was cracked. I found out about SQL injections after our website was hacked. I found out that 'passwords are obsolete' after mine was posted on a forum [after we got hacked].
We started off over 7 years ago running a gaming site. I did the graphics, my mate used Front Page to get a few pages together. We pirated a verison of vBulletin... None of us knew much apart from a Hello World HTML.
3,000 members later and a dozen or so clued-up kiddies thought they'd take revenge after we caught them cheating our league.
These days we've all learned a few more skills and the whole site is a fully automatic gaming league, linked to a licenced vBulletin with other security measures throw in when we become aware of them.
We are still amatures though. Know of us are experts. We muddle along...
I always posted my findings after each hacking but I too wish there was a one-stop-shop for all things related to web security. Sometimes the hobby can be too stressful - it shouldn't be - it should be as enjoyable as it was in the begining.
I haven't worked in a nuclear power plant (CCGT and coal, yes) but I have visited one as part of a school trip probably 18-20 years ago.
We stood in an observation room approximately 10 meters away from the core. The tour guide said something like "That man down there is actually stood over the top of core" and that's stuck in my mind ever since. There I was, in a normal room, only separated from the core room by a thin bit of glass.
Everyone had to wear little badges that changed colour if you'd been exposed to radiation. The tour guide had never seen one change colour.
No third eye, no cancer, no bleeding gums. Nothing to worry about.
Most power stations offer free tours. All nuclear power stations in the UK do. Well worth a visit if you get the chance.
hmm. I have 140 tunes on my 2gb (1.8gb without the marketing speak) Nano at it's full. 8 of those tunes are 1 hour long each so I suppose they can count as 10 tunes each. All at around 192kbps.
250 little photos totalling a few megabytes.
500 tunes on average my arse.
6 hours battery life on full volume if I'm lucky.
And it's covered in tiny little scratches even though it's only ever lived in my key-less, coin-less pocket...
So dissapointing. I now wish I'd choosen a different MP3 player. Teach me for being a fashion sheep I suppose. Baaaaaaaaaa.
I haven't used the eDonkey network in years. One of the reasons I stopped using it was because PeerGaurdian was needed to safely access the network. I'm sure that good old install-a-root-kit Sony ran the top five biggest servers and they were called 'Sonny1', 'Sonny2' etc. I'm sure I read that these were only there as honeypots.
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What has happened to the 'do not feed the trolls' sign? Has it been stolen again?
Every post, except your post and the one other about 'common sence' , should be deleted from this thread.
And Zonk should be send to the timeout bin for posting shit like this every other day. I thought this sort of Slashdot crap had finished when Micheal left... Or maybe Zonk and Micheal are the same person..? I wonder.
Go back to cars please. :)
Don't hit chisels with hammers, ever. Don't even use a mallet. If you need to hit a chisel then you are trying to remove too much material in one go or the chisel is blunt. And what do blunt tools cut, kids? Fingers!
People lose digits in workshops. My father lost three on a spindle moulder. My close friend lost the tops of all his fingers on a surface planer. Don't use wood working tools without the proper training.
Thanks for listening,
Inda (ex-patternmaker/model maker)
I would say there is a 1 in 3 chance of them being more advanced than us.
Why? Because there are only 3 possible outcomes. (1) They are better than us. (2) They are the same as us. (3) They are worse than us.
But I know nothing. Carry on. 50/50 sounds close enough.
If that excites you then you should have tried FooBar2000 many moons ago. It handles my 20,000 MP3s on my 10-year-old PC as if I was using iTunes on one of IBM's super-computer-clusters. As I type the name of a track the searchlist displays matching MP3s instantly.
Oh and it plays every other audio format you can think of.
You jest but half of the replies in this thread say "Raise your prices!" or "tell him to fuck off!"
C'mon people, he said he quite likes this person. A good mate. Probably has a laugh with him a few times a week. Not best buddies but he values the relationship. If these sorts of relationships are alien to you then I suggest you stop charging people for friendly favours and you stop telling people to fuck off.
"I'm sorry but due to other commitments I neither have time..." STOP. He's your mate not a fucking work client.
"What again mate? You been clicking yes to all those boxes again? Stay away for the granny porn sites mate, your computer doesn't like them." is a bit more jovial [you heartless fucks].
I cut my friend's grass for him last week and do you know what I charged him for it? Nothing. Absolutely fuck all. Why? Cus he's my mate. What did I get out of it? Two cold drinks, half an hours chat and 1000 black bin liners (don't ask). He's my mate for fucks sake. Favours for favours. Not one favour for another. We're mates and no one is bothering to count [you sad fucks].
To SpaceNeeded:
Put this friend off. Tell him over the phone that you'll have a look at the weekend. Tell him that if he's really stuck then Google is also his friend. "Have you tried AdWare yet? Google can find it for you."
No ones life is so busy that you can't spare someone a few minutes of your time. When you spare those few minutes is really up to you though. This mate isn't whipping you with the leather.
Have a chat about some other shit while you're over his house. Unwind a little. Have a laugh. Have a cold drink. There's so much to gain from 'just fixing his PC'. You don't have to fully fix it. Just spend an hour fixing, chatting and drinking.
People are great; don't brush them away [or charge them you greedy slashdot monkeys...]
It was not a troll. He was saying the same thing as you.
Bluejacking is not about sending vCards. I don't know much about it so I'm not going to give details. It is not about sending vCards.
Mod down or back this up with a link please.
Being an ex-postman (survived one month!), I've seen the automatic sorting machines that read hand-written postcodes (zip codes in the US). I forget how many letters the machine sorted a minute, it was between 500 and 1000, but I do remember the 90% accuracy number that was boasted. The machine 'cheated' in some respects because it only had to read a 6 or 7 character postcode, of which there are only a small amount of combinations. The machine also checked the county and city if it needed clarification.
Any postcodes that could not be read, dark paper and red ink etc, were scanned and transmitted to a postal worker drone in another part of the country who would type in the postcode from their terminal. The machine would receive the code back a few seconds later and the letter would carry on its journey.
I was impressed.
Bullets and a trigger. Please please please. It could solve so many problems. Divert to mailbox? This button?
Ooops.
Only in America.
My wife? The Trouble and Strife? The all seeing government?
Good or Evil?
I'd prefer a sports question please.
I still write simple local HTML applications for my own personal use.
Some posts in this thread say that computers don't come with a basic language anymore. This isn't a troll, but Windows comes with many 'basic' scripting languages that are truly basic. Visual Basic Script is fine for a lot of simple tasks. Jscript and JavaScript are no different. They all store variables, have many ways to perform loops, have complex math methods etc.
I can prompt users (me) for text input, manipulate it and show the results easily. Isn't that where all of us started?
I have no problem using ActiveX in my HTML application for more complexity. I have access to the shell with ActiveXObject("Shell.Application"). I can display the standard 'browse for folder' dialog BrowseForFolder() from within my application. I can save the application output to a file using File System Objects... It's all very instant too.
I know I'm never going to write a 3D First Player Shooter with it but...
"Don't sell HTML short." - nice one.
Google 5.0: ???
Google 6.0: Profit!
It's late. Please forgive me.
I witnessed an accident a few months back involving a small plastic SMART car and a Ford Transit Van. The Transit had rear ended the SMART car.
The front of the Transit was mangled; both headlights smashed, windscreen had a single crack running from top to bottom.
The SMART car's rear bumber was dented and the rear window had popped out of its housing.
I'm no road traffic expert but it looked like the SMART car had just flexed and bounced. I was amazed and I think the white-van-man was too. Safety nightmare? Not if I'm to believe my own eyes.
Who cares if they have a 100mpg patent for a carburetor?
1. No one in there right mind would use a carburetor these days.
2. There are already superminis with diesel engines that do 100mpg (85mpg with petrol). The Citroen C1 springs to mind.
End of pointless argument.
He took some cigarettes, a few notes, a mobile phone...
He also took my laptop out of its case, opened the screen, turned it on and booted to the Windows login screen. And that's how I found it.
It wasn't a bad a little laptop.
I wonder...
If I walked a mile in his shoes I'd probably be half a kilo lighter.
I had a friend at school who was twice the weight of everyone else. In the my school of 1,400 pupils, he was one of the half-dozen 'fat kids' - not unusual 20 years ago in the UK.
I played alongside him in the school rugby team. I watched him play rugby for the County side. I practiced Javelin, Discus and Shotput with him in the summer. I watched him throw the hammer for the county side. He ran an impressive 100m too (for a fat bloke).
If I called him a fat cunt he'd punch me so hard it brought tears to my eyes. If he called me a lanky streak of piss then I'd call him a fat cunt... He had an average amount of friends with no real enemies.
He was a nice bloke. I'd liked him.
Consequences for doing what school kids do? Having a laugh at someone else's expense is wrong? If only life were that boring.
Claiming compensation? Why? What good has it done? Feed the greed?
This PC madness inches its way into every part of life these days and it sickens me. If you act like a twat on video, your peers see it and start taking the piss, then I'm sorry to say that you have to suck it up and move on. Rise above it and it's already last week's news. Grow up FFS.
How's this for PC? Put the fork down (you fat cunt).
You might want to try some thicker tin-foil. Maybe go for the tight fitting dome shape as apposed to the classic, traditional, triangular shape. All in all, you aren't blocking enough.
Is Scraping really that much of a problem these days?
My email address up there ^^ has been advertised on Slashdot since the start of the year. I've had exactly 16 emails sent to that address so far. The first one was from me testing it out, one has been from a fellow Slashdotter and the rest Spam. Where there's been an opt-out link, I've used it and there have been no repeat offenders.
I'm going to put my real email address back up after Spam #20. That's how much of a problem I think Scraping is.
You say that it's possible to edit the raw HTML but is it also possible to use and tags? How about adding links to external style sheets? Textboxes and dropdown menus etc?
Will Google serve my pages without line breaks as they do with their pages? I hope not as it's a nightmare to read and understand.
Does their editor create nice HTML or does it look like MS Word HTML?
Can I upload ZIP files, videos, MP3s etc?
I can't wait to have a play. Seems like it could be fun.
You can be sent to gaol in the UK for not handing over your key.
I found out about Rainbow Crack after our website was cracked. I found out about SQL injections after our website was hacked. I found out that 'passwords are obsolete' after mine was posted on a forum [after we got hacked].
We started off over 7 years ago running a gaming site. I did the graphics, my mate used Front Page to get a few pages together. We pirated a verison of vBulletin... None of us knew much apart from a Hello World HTML.
3,000 members later and a dozen or so clued-up kiddies thought they'd take revenge after we caught them cheating our league.
These days we've all learned a few more skills and the whole site is a fully automatic gaming league, linked to a licenced vBulletin with other security measures throw in when we become aware of them.
We are still amatures though. Know of us are experts. We muddle along...
I always posted my findings after each hacking but I too wish there was a one-stop-shop for all things related to web security. Sometimes the hobby can be too stressful - it shouldn't be - it should be as enjoyable as it was in the begining.
I haven't worked in a nuclear power plant (CCGT and coal, yes) but I have visited one as part of a school trip probably 18-20 years ago.
We stood in an observation room approximately 10 meters away from the core. The tour guide said something like "That man down there is actually stood over the top of core" and that's stuck in my mind ever since. There I was, in a normal room, only separated from the core room by a thin bit of glass.
Everyone had to wear little badges that changed colour if you'd been exposed to radiation. The tour guide had never seen one change colour.
No third eye, no cancer, no bleeding gums. Nothing to worry about.
Most power stations offer free tours. All nuclear power stations in the UK do. Well worth a visit if you get the chance.
"This geometry is then converted into a mesh of simple shapes, such as triangles or rectangles"
When I left the industry 8 years ago we'd already moved on to solid modelling. Meshes are so 20th Century.
I had a vast array of tools that seemed to do far more this new software is boasting. Nothing to see here as the Slashdot crowd would say.
I would love to get back into CAD work. Would anyone like to offer me a shot at a job in the South West of England?
hmm. I have 140 tunes on my 2gb (1.8gb without the marketing speak) Nano at it's full. 8 of those tunes are 1 hour long each so I suppose they can count as 10 tunes each. All at around 192kbps.
250 little photos totalling a few megabytes.
500 tunes on average my arse.
6 hours battery life on full volume if I'm lucky.
And it's covered in tiny little scratches even though it's only ever lived in my key-less, coin-less pocket...
So dissapointing. I now wish I'd choosen a different MP3 player. Teach me for being a fashion sheep I suppose. Baaaaaaaaaa.
I haven't used the eDonkey network in years. One of the reasons I stopped using it was because PeerGaurdian was needed to safely access the network. I'm sure that good old install-a-root-kit Sony ran the top five biggest servers and they were called 'Sonny1', 'Sonny2' etc. I'm sure I read that these were only there as honeypots.
Can anyone comfirm this or did I dream it?