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  1. Re:Incorrect function usage. on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Very true..
    For instance read qsort and then take a look at some of the qsort included examples on the web and you will find that no two agree..wtf..
    I have only contributed to one app that used qsort but my own attempts have been pretty strange..
    In other situations I have used a handcoded bubblesort, insertionsort, easily.

    Am I clueless or is there some lack of info in man qsort(),that causes every programmer to do it 'n' ways???

  2. Re:_Complete_ imcompetents? on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    How can you be a complete incompetent and still be able to code most of an application
    correctly...hmm
    copy it out of a textbook maybe? You'd probably get that wrong..





    TROLL:
    /. 'ers are mostly schoolchildren and pompous asses

  3. Re:The security guard from hell... on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 1

    Oh, Ouch..urkk..choke..good story.

  4. Re:Lost bullshit education, work hard on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    Umm, Limekiller...
    You seem to need a hobby..

    I'm glad I trolled you and you responded
    and I'm glad that I have a fan but I
    think this relationship is unhealthy
    and I need my space 'kay?


    If you need help with your visual basic coding
    please do a google search or go to msdn.

    If you need affection and appreciation please go to your girlfriend.
    I don't have time in my busy schedule to play.
    You may want to ask your mother who
    your father really was, so you can get over this.
  5. Re:Simple solution - get off your ass. on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    You are lucky, and moronic. Think about it.

  6. Re:Lost bullshit education, work hard on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    How would we know harvard man? Is it truth of fiction? How many of us will ever know? Think about it. You are loathed and for good reason.

  7. Re:Lost bullshit education, work hard on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    Ohhhh, jesus f**kin keerist, you make me so ill I feel like puking up my goddam six pack. You have no appreciation of history and are blissfully unconscious. You have no idea of how to construct a better future for everyone but it is your "type" that gets elected. You think that a fucking ford taurus is a "good deal". You are a worthless sack of shit and I hope you are the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  8. Re:New Title? on Wartrapping? · · Score: 1

    Pussy, you can't even reply to a well stated response to your asinine rebuttal. You suck.

  9. Re:Not looking forward to the outcome on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 1
    "..For every case where you can name a big time moneyed winner, I can name a small time non-moneyed winner..."
    Are these cases that are germane to the point however?
    Are you talking about rulings on patent law, intellectual property, copyright, DRM, monopoly, etc..
    I would love to see your statistics that in the big cases, where money matters and huge corporations put their resources on the line, the little guy wins half the time.
  10. Re:Video Cameras on Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother · · Score: 1
    I'll cover your second question mainly since the first ignores the spirit of my comment.

    Firstly:
    If your intent is not an issue here, which in essence derives from your motivation, then why is the issue of motivity and subsequent action of such large consequence in civilized law?

    Secondly:
    "illicit" in this context refers to the encroachment on any individual's privacy without their consent and foreknowledge so that unknown parties with unknown motivations can use information gained in an unknown manner in a way these same parties desire.

    I would say that regardless of the intent the "scrutinized public" method is still intrusive and without merit in a free society.
    Are we all supposed to be actors in a public scene now? Do we march into public wearing our best face so that we don't have black marks on our records somewhere, or god forbid that we have to be called in to explain our behavior because of the prevailing political climate, or someone's pet law or a speck on the lense. All this voyeurism may ruin reputations and lives and still be laughed out of existence in a more temperate political climate years too late.

    If you believe that the act of scrutiny is devoid of motivation you are not thinking clearly. If you are willing to be surveilled, by all means, support legislators who want the public scrutinized. I personally am not and will not.
  11. Re:What are you? Thief? Rapist? Burglar? Murderer? on Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother · · Score: 1
    But you are so silly! You must fight the bear I think.
    In typical asinine conservative fashion , you are reacting to a legitmate concern by pointing out all the highly unlikely things that enforced public scrutiny will enable, like catching more criminals. Or maybe just getting that extra few bucks for selling the footage to Faces of Death XXV a few years down the road.
  12. Re:Video Cameras on Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother · · Score: 1

    Quite a bit of difference between illicit monitoring of unaware individuals and potshots of various habitats as a private individual eh..?

  13. Re:Nice, but.... on Protecting Your DRM Rights · · Score: 1

    Isn't it sad that we are expected to buy a product, which IMO, has historically had the connotation of "owning this particular copy of what I purchased." and yet we are expected to be stupid enough to let the producers of the product, tell us after our money is spent how we can use our property? Our corporatized and patent glutted economy can not survive on it's fat dog eat fat dog methodology so it must screw the consumers, not once, but as many times as possible and in as many ways, to guarantee a marginal profit. In the mean time a politically active corporate lobby gains the attention of our government and pushes through laws that guarantees their dysfuctional and inefficient models survival without oversight or expert moderation and influence of any sort. This is the kind of crooked corporate presence in politics that got the english into so much trouble with the colonists if you look back far enough. As a matter of fact there are a lot of interesting parallels in our current situation and the situation vis-a-vis the revolutionary era.

  14. Re:Count me in. on Help wanted: CTO at Warner Music. · · Score: 1

    Oh, you people don't have a sense of humor. That's pretty funny.

  15. Re:How many are buffer overflows? on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Nothing in C (IMHO) is going to be as convenient
    as a high level interface.
    The stralloc lib mentioned by the other poster
    really doesn't seem to be much nicer than the
    non-ansi string handling functions available with linux.

  16. Re:How much could he actually sue you for? on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 1


    It's sad shit for certain when a crappy forged header can provoke an escalation that could ruin an individual financially and cause him to eat shit in the "..please don't hurt me this is what happened, please believe me..", manner you describe.

    But, hell, these little sultans in their impervious fits of ignorant pique are another symptom of what is 'really wrong' with our society, values and legal system.

    Thanks for listening.
  17. Re:what could help congress.... on Hearing on Hollywood Hacking Bill · · Score: 1
    I wrote my critter and I was polite, punctilious and only complained only about those things I thought he could understand.

    1. Privilege

    2. Oversight

    3. Litigation

    4. Political Future

  18. Very effective! on Cringely On Civil Disobedience · · Score: 1
    Sure.
    The police and courts are dumb as shit. They, and the court system will be overwhelmed by the popular response to this infamous law and pledge to disavow it.

    Meanwhile, in the real world, the dimwits who turned themselves in will be sent off after signing an affidavit affirming that they broke the law and that they and their illicit property will be collected for trial and examination at a time convenient to the powers that be.

    After weeks of trepidation and anxiety our brave Mr.Disobedience realizes he acted a little impetuously. He really doesn't want to have a criminal record and lose his little secret liberties and 'puter to an uncaring and inefficient bureaucracy. He dislikes having to worry about the anonymous knock on his door. He loses hair, and weight, his work performance suffers due to insomnia. He starts to drink and smoke a little more than before. He begins to look over his shoulder and study casual passerby suspiciously...

    Does this story have a happy ending?
  19. Re:PPTP? on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Then use CIPE.
    http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html

  20. Re:Microsoft is a bunch of hacks on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    My question is how the fsck you know how many millions of lines there are to check any better than he does. Hmm?

  21. Re:How many are buffer overflows? on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1
    Usual complaints:
    Yes, but java is soooo slooow...
    It sucks so badly when it comes to string handling I almost prefer C.
    It's a clunky mess internally with deprecated thisnthat everywhere.
    Aside from that: Pptp implementations are not going to be written in a language with the overhead of java.
    Go write a channel driver in java and then one in C. You'll see things more clearly I 'spect.
  22. Re:Dead wrong... on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 1
    "... QUALIFIED US workers to satisfy demand. Notice I say qualified. Not 'History Teacher turned MCSE' or 'Accountant turned Flash "Programmer"'. Qualified Software Engineers, Ph.D MEs, Chem-Es, etc. There just aren't enough..."
    Some /.'ers has a seriously vile attitude about "Johnny Come Latelies", and "MCSE's". As if all of a sudden , by pointing out that so and so doesn't have an acceptable certificate or , god forbid, a diploma, or actually did something besides program from the age of 5 that you are actually proving something by caricaturing these individuals.
    Doesn't prove a thing except the fact that some parts of the IT industry are guilty of being narrowminded and prejudicial. Motivation,intelligence, experience and performance should be critical for success in a field, not who your frat buddies were, or how you wear your hair, or how well you lie on your resume.
    There are many factors involved in selecting the "right" person for the "right" job. I've noticed that some talent in the IT world could use a few years doing something else so they'd be a little more realistic in their expectations and get down off their pedestals.
  23. Re:Well I guess we can't win on AMD Opteron to support Palladium · · Score: 1

    "..Then you live in tyranny. I don't believe that George W. Bush would let that happen..." O' shit, you have got to be panning for the camera on that one...I mean what hasn't that braindead tightass supervened on this country?

  24. Re:Novel needs to do this .. on Novell Releases PostgreSQL for NetWare · · Score: 1
    "..I'm posing from a Novel site right now. Everyone here seems to be happy with netware for the most part. It works well with the corperate desktop (yes its windows), and like all OS' when its well maintained is pretty stable..."
    It's about as stable as greased horseshit.

    It's tcp implementation is f*ed in 5.0 and 5.1. Look at the # of tid's at novell support on buggy tcp issues.

    Add-ons for base netware are really weak. NEVER use border manager if you value your sanity.

    The http proxy provided with BM is slow and subject to (at least one)memory leak and cache corruption issues during normal operation.

    The nat implementation is BROKEN. Have internal (masq'd) hosts try to resolve names by having their resolvers point to a publicly addressed NS. Wham, memory leak that will never be patched (according to novell it's a misconfiguration)and freezes packet buffers when you run out of memory. Guess what? No more access..soft reboot. Never had that problem with linux or bsd nat, hmm...
    In short the list of tids at http://www.novell/support, should keep you wary and wide eyed. The prevailing business model at novell is microsoft themed anyway. They drop support for products when the bug count gets too high,etc..,etc..I'm not a big fan of novell.