How are you going to get prostitutes to pay taxes? They deal in cash and there's no paper trail. Should the ladies of the night of the world start giving receipts for their services?
Hooker: "Ok that's $21.20 with tax. You don't happen to have exact change do you? Great, let me get your receipt."
Generally, it seems like many developers don't like to see their work criticized. They take anything you say, no matter how benign, and take it personally. Even when porting software to another platform. I was the first to ask a certain Mac OS X project about using prebinding to increase performance and make libraries more compatible with the rest of OS X. Of course it meant that there would have to be a substantial change in the way everything was complied. I was essentially told by the main developers to fuck off after writing a very reasonable post on the issue.
A year later they implemented prebinding, which means my effort wasn't completely wasted.
Parents don't like it when you criticize their children, even if in their heart of hearts they know the criticism is true. Here, software = children; developers = parents. It's not too hard to imagine nerdy group could be like that.
A similar flaw in their logic supposes that an equal number of XP and Linux machines existed. What if there were simply more XP laptops to begin with? They probably anticipated the demand on the WIndows side would he higher, so maybe they installed windows on more machines. That would easily explain why the Linux PC's were sold out while there were still MS machines left unsold.
I'm a fan of descriptive function names, but there_comes_a_point_where_its_too_fucking_much().
In Objective-C: [ThisIsMyObjectName everyMethodNameIsKindaLikeThis:thisIsMyArgument]
It's a good practice. You end up needing to comment only the functional aspects of your code rather than what all the syntax or variables are. It's like a built-in commending system. Even when I code in Java I use that naming convention. Why you ask? Because I want people to be able to read my code and when I take a break I want to remember what I was writing.
This assumes, though, that you comment your code:-)
I like the idea behind your analysis, however you are incorrect.
The disappearance (of the sites) = The sites' disappearance. In this case disappearance is a noun (more specifically a direct object), therefore it can use the possessive form (with 's) as well.
This is called lolspeak, and was largely popularized by the lolcats videos. The theory behind it (if there is such a thing) is to say something that sounds phonetically just like what you want to say, but is spelled in a fun manner.
Usually there aren't a lot of caps or numbers (that is mostly with l33t and similar) because it makes the text much harder to read. Readability is a hallmark for anyone who does this well.
Ex.
I'm teh suxxorz. wen he told me, i wuz liek: zOMG dat's totally kewl. I nevr thot u could dew taht.
Easy to read and also creative. It shows personality, In other words, It'z totally ballin'!
I had a very interesting time in high school looking through the all the NetWare stuff our school had. It was especially insecure because the IBM computers we had used token-ring at the time, and there was a way to gain root access if you knew the name and password of even one regular account. Anyway, they had all their filesystems mounted as shares on every student's computer (even the system ones) so I decided to look through them.
If you are sensitive to foul language you can skip the rest of this post, because it does get pretty graphic. I assume most people on/. are able to handle it.
I had found a few folders that were installed as root or admin on the server's main filesystem. These were especially disturbing since they were named things like: "Little Girls taking it fat up the cock" "Faggot cum in boy's face and he likes it" and "Cock-sucking babies with bloody cunts" you get the idea
So anyway, I found these files and folders named all these terrible things on what was supposed to be a secure filesystem. I informed our IT guy about the situation immediately. He asked me, "Just what do you think you are doing looking through system files?" I merely directed him to the folder with the offending language and told him, "You need to worry about that first." And he never said anything more to me about it.
The point is, if you don't put things like key loggers or other programs/files on the computers, i.e. you have not actually changed anything, it's not as a big deal. Where this kid went wrong is that he was so eager to prove his point that he decided to alter the systems and cause a definite security breach. Were we both good intentioned? Yes, but I at least had the sense not to exacerbate the problem by putting illegal stuff on the servers. That was his lapse in judgement.
I was a long time computergiants.com customer. They have really great prices on high-end hard drives and storage equipment, but their service has quite a few problems. I ordered two WD HDD's and paid for 2-day shipping. The items were in stock, but it took two weeks for me to get the drives. Then I found out that my credit card had not been charged for the purchase. I waited a week, and after not being charged or sent an invoice, I called the RMA department to return the unopened drives I had.
They sent me a DHL box to send them back with, and I put the drives in the drop box, happy that I had done the Right Thing(TM). Well the day after, I was billed for my order, fully a month after I had originally authorized the credit card transaction, and two weeks after I received the products. Over the next few months I went between various customer support agents trying to get my money back that had been improperly charged. I had all the paperwork to file a dispute on my CC ready. I called a manager there, and he gave me the name of an owner.
After telling that owner about my situation, the next day, I received my money back minus the shipping costs. This started in May and ended in September. I still had to pay for their shipping mistake, though, and I will never shop there again.
Ah, but it's not just limited to Microsoft and Linux. I would add the following to the list: 1. Ron Paul and Libertarian ideals 2. Making a joke relating to masturbation 3. Talking about how evil software patents, and patents in general, are 4. Telling of how the RIAA is pure evil
For those of you who are hyper-sensitive: this post is not a criticism, but merely a realistic statement of fact.
If you are willing to spend a little money, you can get Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress for your page layout program then use a nice plug-in called MathMagic that typesets mathematical expressions really well. The user interface is much better than MathType but it is a program meant for publishing documents. Adobe Illustrator is great for handling all those EPS documents you run into that aren't quite right. I've found that editing MATLAB graphs by adding text and resizing is a great way to get things into your reports.
You didn't mention what type of science you are doing, so if you are an EE the best way to get schematic diagrams is still a LaTeX derivative. Circuit Macros is still the best I can find for now, located at:
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
Takes a few weeks to get really good at it, but the diagrams are the absolute best. There was a person who was making print quality symbols for gEDA through gschem, but I'm not sure that ever panned out. If you want a simple way to draw diagrams in ps then you might send the author an email.
Along a similar line as Harry Potter- I'm surprised no one has mentioned Brian Jacques' "Red Wall" series of books. Perhaps I am getting older, but those were a lot of fun when I was in elementary school.
The series is about various critters who act like humans. Lots of well described scenes, battles, and specific personality traits characteristic of which type of critter you are looking at. Your kids will probably learn some vocabulary too.
I thought I would point out that unless you want to keep others from getting infected from your laptop, you probably don't have much to worry about. By getting over the flu you've already developed the immunity you need to keep from getting sick from those germs again.
Viruses need living tissue to reproduce and evolve- since you have immunity now they are doing no harm to you. Your wife might not like to get sick though.
That said, if you go to the drug store and get isopropyl alcohol you can take a cloth and gently clean your computer with it. The alcohol seems less likely to be able to damage electronics as it evaporates very quickly, and since your laptop is mostly aluminum it's easy to clean.
Why did this article get tagged "censorship?" I don't see anyone in the government trying to censor this exhibit.
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You are correct, except that we know the pressure on the surface of Mars is lower because of the thin atmosphere. Jupiter or Venus are better candidates for what you are describing.
So I was developing some special tools for a company that happened to interface with their Active Directory and Exchange servers. As it was just the start of the project and I was but a lowly intern, it was suspected that I was somehow sweeping the ldap tree and locking every user out of their computers about once an hour. Now an interesting event coincided with this problem- we had hooked up a VPN to an office in China a day or so prior to having logon issues. In any case, the IT department called Microsoft business support to try to get a fix on the problem while out users were tearing their hair out and "Unlock me" was a frequent message found on our Blackberrys. We were told to "increase the threshold" on the number of times one could log in incorrectly before locking out. This did reduce the number of lockouts by a factor of two. Now everyone (including the admins) were getting locked out only every 2 hours
So there I was, I couldn't really do any new stuff on the project because of the technical issues we were having. I ended up doing a lot of end user support and unlocking people's accounts while we waited for a fix. We brought in a consultant with to help us figure out the problem. I was asked it this was my doing and I simply had to say, "No my software does not do anything like that. I am not sweeping the LDAP tree, it's not my fault." After a couple weeks our China office was having problems with their VPN connection- it was incredibly slow. So someone got the idea to look at the equipment remotely (it was mostly Cisco stuff) and check the logs in a certain PIX firewall. Well it turned out that our LAN was hooked up to the internet as our PIX was set to allow any IP address access through the firewall. D'oh! Remote computers had been accessing our internal AD domain and tried brute force logging in for the past few weeks. The only thing that saved us was our excellent password policy.
So after we redid the configuration file on the PIX firewall we were back in business without 250 people getting locked out all the time. I was able to finish my software app, although I did not have time enough to make much documentation. As someone at the company said, "This is one of those things that you just kind of forget about and never mention again.";-)
For the record-
Men cannot get RLS. They can have poor circulation in their legs but that is a different matter... that is why only women appear in the RLS TV commercials.
My first gen MacBook Pro fell from the top of a tall couch- while open. As it fell it hit a wall, further complicating matters.
The notebook actually fell and the halves clapped together, breaking a section off where the latch secures the top and bottom. The section was on the inside and I super glued it back on- have not had any problems with since the incident. The only visible damage is a small dent where a "tooth" from the latch hit the keyboard side of the notebook and a small paint scuff mark.
I've also stepped on it a few times and the screen is still without a dead or stuck pixel. They hold up pretty well... I'm posting to/. on said laptop right now.
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Hooker: "Ok that's $21.20 with tax. You don't happen to have exact change do you? Great, let me get your receipt."
Generally, it seems like many developers don't like to see their work criticized. They take anything you say, no matter how benign, and take it personally. Even when porting software to another platform. I was the first to ask a certain Mac OS X project about using prebinding to increase performance and make libraries more compatible with the rest of OS X. Of course it meant that there would have to be a substantial change in the way everything was complied. I was essentially told by the main developers to fuck off after writing a very reasonable post on the issue.
A year later they implemented prebinding, which means my effort wasn't completely wasted.
Parents don't like it when you criticize their children, even if in their heart of hearts they know the criticism is true. Here, software = children; developers = parents. It's not too hard to imagine nerdy group could be like that.
A similar flaw in their logic supposes that an equal number of XP and Linux machines existed. What if there were simply more XP laptops to begin with? They probably anticipated the demand on the WIndows side would he higher, so maybe they installed windows on more machines. That would easily explain why the Linux PC's were sold out while there were still MS machines left unsold.
Not trying to be too harsh here, but you would rather do absolutely nothing and ignore the problem rather than try to fix it in any way you could?
In Objective-C:
[ThisIsMyObjectName everyMethodNameIsKindaLikeThis:thisIsMyArgument]
It's a good practice. You end up needing to comment only the functional aspects of your code rather than what all the syntax or variables are. It's like a built-in commending system. Even when I code in Java I use that naming convention. Why you ask? Because I want people to be able to read my code and when I take a break I want to remember what I was writing.
This assumes, though, that you comment your code :-)
I'm going to write-in CowboyNeal in November. Take that establishment!
I like the idea behind your analysis, however you are incorrect.
The disappearance (of the sites) = The sites' disappearance.
In this case disappearance is a noun (more specifically a direct object), therefore it can use the possessive form (with 's) as well.
Ex.
I'm teh suxxorz. wen he told me, i wuz liek: zOMG dat's totally kewl. I nevr thot u could dew taht.
Easy to read and also creative. It shows personality, In other words, It'z totally ballin'!
That comment is so ironic that I really don't know what to say.
Where the Taliban live has absolutely nothing to do with grammar. It's more like geography and political science.
I had a very interesting time in high school looking through the all the NetWare stuff our school had. It was especially insecure because the IBM computers we had used token-ring at the time, and there was a way to gain root access if you knew the name and password of even one regular account. Anyway, they had all their filesystems mounted as shares on every student's computer (even the system ones) so I decided to look through them.
If you are sensitive to foul language you can skip the rest of this post, because it does get pretty graphic. /. are able to handle it.
I assume most people on
I had found a few folders that were installed as root or admin on the server's main filesystem. These were especially disturbing since they were named things like:
"Little Girls taking it fat up the cock"
"Faggot cum in boy's face and he likes it"
and
"Cock-sucking babies with bloody cunts"
you get the idea
So anyway, I found these files and folders named all these terrible things on what was supposed to be a secure filesystem. I informed our IT guy about the situation immediately. He asked me, "Just what do you think you are doing looking through system files?" I merely directed him to the folder with the offending language and told him, "You need to worry about that first." And he never said anything more to me about it.
The point is, if you don't put things like key loggers or other programs/files on the computers, i.e. you have not actually changed anything, it's not as a big deal. Where this kid went wrong is that he was so eager to prove his point that he decided to alter the systems and cause a definite security breach. Were we both good intentioned? Yes, but I at least had the sense not to exacerbate the problem by putting illegal stuff on the servers. That was his lapse in judgement.
Since the link is messed up, can we just assume that they're doing a Chinese Fire Drill in space? That would be funnier.
I was a long time computergiants.com customer. They have really great prices on high-end hard drives and storage equipment, but their service has quite a few problems. I ordered two WD HDD's and paid for 2-day shipping. The items were in stock, but it took two weeks for me to get the drives. Then I found out that my credit card had not been charged for the purchase. I waited a week, and after not being charged or sent an invoice, I called the RMA department to return the unopened drives I had.
They sent me a DHL box to send them back with, and I put the drives in the drop box, happy that I had done the Right Thing(TM). Well the day after, I was billed for my order, fully a month after I had originally authorized the credit card transaction, and two weeks after I received the products. Over the next few months I went between various customer support agents trying to get my money back that had been improperly charged. I had all the paperwork to file a dispute on my CC ready. I called a manager there, and he gave me the name of an owner.
After telling that owner about my situation, the next day, I received my money back minus the shipping costs. This started in May and ended in September. I still had to pay for their shipping mistake, though, and I will never shop there again.
Oh, wait....
Ah, but it's not just limited to Microsoft and Linux. I would add the following to the list:
1. Ron Paul and Libertarian ideals
2. Making a joke relating to masturbation
3. Talking about how evil software patents, and patents in general, are
4. Telling of how the RIAA is pure evil
For those of you who are hyper-sensitive: this post is not a criticism, but merely a realistic statement of fact.
He's from Arkansas.
You didn't mention what type of science you are doing, so if you are an EE the best way to get schematic diagrams is still a LaTeX derivative. Circuit Macros is still the best I can find for now, located at:
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
Takes a few weeks to get really good at it, but the diagrams are the absolute best. There was a person who was making print quality symbols for gEDA through gschem, but I'm not sure that ever panned out. If you want a simple way to draw diagrams in ps then you might send the author an email.
So no, it can't run Linux.
Along a similar line as Harry Potter-
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Brian Jacques' "Red Wall" series of books. Perhaps I am getting older, but those were a lot of fun when I was in elementary school.
The series is about various critters who act like humans. Lots of well described scenes, battles, and specific personality traits characteristic of which type of critter you are looking at. Your kids will probably learn some vocabulary too.
Thoughtful and well written series of books.
Viruses need living tissue to reproduce and evolve- since you have immunity now they are doing no harm to you. Your wife might not like to get sick though.
That said, if you go to the drug store and get isopropyl alcohol you can take a cloth and gently clean your computer with it. The alcohol seems less likely to be able to damage electronics as it evaporates very quickly, and since your laptop is mostly aluminum it's easy to clean.
Why did this article get tagged "censorship?" I don't see anyone in the government trying to censor this exhibit.
You are correct, except that we know the pressure on the surface of Mars is lower because of the thin atmosphere. Jupiter or Venus are better candidates for what you are describing.
And I thought people liked hulu-hoops...
That said, Cuban must be living in Cuba because he is so out of touch with his target audiences.
So there I was, I couldn't really do any new stuff on the project because of the technical issues we were having. I ended up doing a lot of end user support and unlocking people's accounts while we waited for a fix. We brought in a consultant with to help us figure out the problem. I was asked it this was my doing and I simply had to say, "No my software does not do anything like that. I am not sweeping the LDAP tree, it's not my fault." After a couple weeks our China office was having problems with their VPN connection- it was incredibly slow. So someone got the idea to look at the equipment remotely (it was mostly Cisco stuff) and check the logs in a certain PIX firewall. Well it turned out that our LAN was hooked up to the internet as our PIX was set to allow any IP address access through the firewall. D'oh! Remote computers had been accessing our internal AD domain and tried brute force logging in for the past few weeks. The only thing that saved us was our excellent password policy.
So after we redid the configuration file on the PIX firewall we were back in business without 250 people getting locked out all the time. I was able to finish my software app, although I did not have time enough to make much documentation. As someone at the company said, "This is one of those things that you just kind of forget about and never mention again." ;-)
Men cannot get RLS. They can have poor circulation in their legs but that is a different matter... that is why only women appear in the RLS TV commercials.
The more you know (TM)
The notebook actually fell and the halves clapped together, breaking a section off where the latch secures the top and bottom. The section was on the inside and I super glued it back on- have not had any problems with since the incident. The only visible damage is a small dent where a "tooth" from the latch hit the keyboard side of the notebook and a small paint scuff mark.
I've also stepped on it a few times and the screen is still without a dead or stuck pixel. They hold up pretty well... I'm posting to /. on said laptop right now.