At the time I saw the Steve Balmer clip, I had just formatted my computer and had only installed a select few codecs. The codec to view that movie was screwed up in some way (reinstalling it fixed it), and I saw that movie going at 1.5-2x speed. I got a REAL kick out of that, until I realized it was my drivers that screwed up, so I reinstalled, watched it again, and it wasn\'t as funny the second time...
If you use a security module loaded into each page, you can have it scan each get variable, each post variable, each cookie variable, etc, etc, and clean up everything. It isn't as hard as it sounds.
Sure you could say you can forget about loading the security module, but include it in the header and that doesn't matter either.
...because SOME people treat me like one for PHP/MySQL over AIM. It's like someone put my AIM & MSN names up on php.net labelled "24/7 newbie tech support". These are REAL QUOTES of things people have said to me!
"I have the following error: 'Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ',' or ';' in whatever.php on line 2', but line 2 looks fine! PLEASE HELP!"
"You missed a semi-colon on line 1."
"It says line 2, not line 1, that can't be the problem."
"Believe me, it is."
"Okay, so which one is the semi-colon again? is that the one next to P?" ... *BLOCKED*
"Can I use a 'switch' statement for when I want a variable to be changed if a certain condition is true?"
"Why not use an 'if' statement?"
"Yeah, I was thinking about that, but I don't feel like writing one of those right now, can you write one for me?" ... *BLOCKED*
"I am getting a 'Parse error', but I don't even know what a 'parse' is!" *BLOCKED*
"Now I got this problem! 'Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in whatever.php on line 1', HELP!"
[I look at code and find:
echo($var1,$var2,$var3);]
"Don't take this the wrong way, but have you actually read a book on PHP, or even at least read a 'beginning PHP' guide on the Internet?"
"They make those?!?!?" *BLOCKED*
Really, truly, I do appreciate SysAdmins, because they have to deal with these problems, but with stupider people. They don't have the comfort of a nice shiny "block" button that I have.
Happy System Administrators Day!
PS: Does anyone know if there is a block limit for AIM & MSN? I hope not...
I've been using Slackware for my desktop for quite awhile now, and almost everyone in irc.freenode.net#slackware has been, too...
I don't know what people mean when they are complaining about X, every single time I've installed Slackware, I just login and type "startx" and it works fine.
The poster was alluding to the ubiquity of Flash and that making a website with flash was fine because it was supported by *all* major borwsers.
Yes, all major browsers are supported. He never said anything about all major OS's. Firefox on BSD is the same browser as Firefox on Linux, sure the plugins might not work, but that doesn't make it a different browser.
What I want to see is prefetching for the comments page on Slashdot, analyzing my brain to determine which posts I will reply to, and loading them in a separate tab. Also for the main page, by determining which topics I find the most interesting.
Yes, and a deluxe edition, superbit edition, widescreen edition, regular edition, boxed set with free ring edition, and one that wipes your ass for you.
In related news, a bill outlawing VCRs and DVD burners was proposed yesterday. RCA, Sony, Pioneer, and Philips, all members of the RIAA, would be forced to shut down for creating devices that allow children to steal TV shows and movies if this bill passes.
The RIAA is strongly opposed to this bill, quoted saying "WE R BIG BIZNIZ!" to the press.
No, that will make them terrorists, terrorists that must be stopped at all costs to defend the "rights" of the American people. Then this one riot will make all pirates generalized as terrorists, and before you know, nerds all across the world will be considered armed and dangerous (with computers). Slashdot will be forced to give out every IP that has ever connected to its site to the government, and CmdrTaco will be traced and arrested by the FBI, thrown in the same cage Saddam is in, for rallying the "troops" against the great nation of the United States of America.
They can also use Linux. If you check the Linux source, not only does it check if your CPU is on fire, it also checks to see if your printer is on fire!
# cd/usr/linux/src
# egrep -ri "(on fire)" *
This will return a lot, but here are two of the results:
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.c: printk(KERN_EMERG "CPU#%d: Possible thermal failure (CPU on fire ?).\n", smp_processor_id());
I usually just block the people without telling them. I filter out BOTH of my parent's email addresses, and they still haven't found out (they NEVER send any worthwhile emails, even though they spend 30 minutes to an hour every day using it).
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I'm saying that since cleaning up or making billboards don't really get in your way, they should both be considered relatively the same.
I don't think you should have a license to build a billboard, it doesn't get in anyone's way. That is, as long as you own the property it's on.
Since clean-up graffiti is not a physical object being built on a peice of land, it shouldn't be paid for. It's actually REMOVING dirt which didn't belong to anyone to begin with.
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You are offended easily. Since you are offended by a swastika, I'm assuming you are either Jewish and/or black.
I am not offended by a black guy calling me a 'cracker', I don't see see how that could offend me, crackers are usually a flesh-ish looking color, and they are identifying me by a color via a third medium.
Now I don't see how some black people are offended by the term 'negro', as I know at least some of them are not. 'Negro' is Spanish, and probably Latin, for 'black', so that's just calling them 'black'. On a scale of offensiveness, I would think that 'cracker' would be more offensive that the term 'negro', as it is associating a person with an object of a similar color, not a word that also means 'black'.
I'm sorry for being so non-PC, I should have used the term "African American" for black people and "Caucasian American" for white people.
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Popups, spam, and commercials are much, much different from this sort of graffiti and even billboards.
Popups, spam, and commercials GET IN THE WAY of the user/viewer when trying to see/do something. When there is a 'clean-up' graffiti on the wall, a driver in a car isn't going to be wanting to see the wall of a building. Even billboards don't get in the way of the person, it doesn't distract the person from driving, it doesn't pop out in front of you and force you to hit the brakes on your car. They are just there if you are stopped at a red light or staring at the long road on an interstate or highway.
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At the time I saw the Steve Balmer clip, I had just formatted my computer and had only installed a select few codecs. The codec to view that movie was screwed up in some way (reinstalling it fixed it), and I saw that movie going at 1.5-2x speed. I got a REAL kick out of that, until I realized it was my drivers that screwed up, so I reinstalled, watched it again, and it wasn\'t as funny the second time...
I love Firefox as much as anyone else, but aren\'t you exaggerating a little by saying 4MB... It\'s showing up as 7.7MB on my computer.
Or are you talking about the Windows version? I don\'t know what size that is...
We don't need a post like this for every Slashdot story... we don't have to go there to know it's just going to be a 503 message ;)
Tomorrow it'll be a search engine?
Close the blinds.
My blinds suck, I was under the impression I had to upgrade my COMPUTER to play this game, not my windows (no pun intended).
That is, unless you secure the site PROPERLY.
If you use a security module loaded into each page, you can have it scan each get variable, each post variable, each cookie variable, etc, etc, and clean up everything. It isn't as hard as it sounds.
Sure you could say you can forget about loading the security module, but include it in the header and that doesn't matter either.
...because SOME people treat me like one for PHP/MySQL over AIM. It's like someone put my AIM & MSN names up on php.net labelled "24/7 newbie tech support". These are REAL QUOTES of things people have said to me!
...
...
"I have the following error: 'Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ',' or ';' in whatever.php on line 2', but line 2 looks fine! PLEASE HELP!"
"You missed a semi-colon on line 1."
"It says line 2, not line 1, that can't be the problem."
"Believe me, it is."
"Okay, so which one is the semi-colon again? is that the one next to P?"
*BLOCKED*
"Can I use a 'switch' statement for when I want a variable to be changed if a certain condition is true?"
"Why not use an 'if' statement?"
"Yeah, I was thinking about that, but I don't feel like writing one of those right now, can you write one for me?"
*BLOCKED*
"I am getting a 'Parse error', but I don't even know what a 'parse' is!"
*BLOCKED*
"Now I got this problem! 'Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in whatever.php on line 1', HELP!"
[I look at code and find:
echo($var1,$var2,$var3);]
"Don't take this the wrong way, but have you actually read a book on PHP, or even at least read a 'beginning PHP' guide on the Internet?"
"They make those?!?!?"
*BLOCKED*
Really, truly, I do appreciate SysAdmins, because they have to deal with these problems, but with stupider people. They don't have the comfort of a nice shiny "block" button that I have.
Happy System Administrators Day!
PS: Does anyone know if there is a block limit for AIM & MSN? I hope not...
I think it's programmers in general. True I am very much into security (read it as you may), but I still think it's programmers in general.
Vision of Slackware as a desktop?
I've been using Slackware for my desktop for quite awhile now, and almost everyone in irc.freenode.net#slackware has been, too...
I don't know what people mean when they are complaining about X, every single time I've installed Slackware, I just login and type "startx" and it works fine.
The poster was alluding to the ubiquity of Flash and that making a website with flash was fine because it was supported by *all* major borwsers.
Yes, all major browsers are supported. He never said anything about all major OS's. Firefox on BSD is the same browser as Firefox on Linux, sure the plugins might not work, but that doesn't make it a different browser.
SCO anti-gravity gun holding up stock price?
If they are wanting quick cash, why don't they patent their anti-gravity gun?
Pretty soon /. will just be another message board, with each post completely unrelated to the article because nobody will read it.
/. article now?
Can you not even read the TITLE of the
PHP 5 Relased; PHP Compiler, Too
What I want to see is prefetching for the comments page on Slashdot, analyzing my brain to determine which posts I will reply to, and loading them in a separate tab. Also for the main page, by determining which topics I find the most interesting.
Yes, and a deluxe edition, superbit edition, widescreen edition, regular edition, boxed set with free ring edition, and one that wipes your ass for you.
Oh, days?
I once spilled an entire cup of water all over my GFX card. Took a paper towel, dried it off (minute max), and put it back in (yeah, stupid...).
It worked amazingly enough.
It doesn't say that he specifically used that computer.
Oh yeah, I guess that extra computer in the corner could be used to check the temperature of the burning motherboard.
In related news, a bill outlawing VCRs and DVD burners was proposed yesterday. RCA, Sony, Pioneer, and Philips, all members of the RIAA, would be forced to shut down for creating devices that allow children to steal TV shows and movies if this bill passes.
The RIAA is strongly opposed to this bill, quoted saying "WE R BIG BIZNIZ!" to the press.
That doesn't do them much good if they can't get into the car...
No, that will make them terrorists, terrorists that must be stopped at all costs to defend the "rights" of the American people. Then this one riot will make all pirates generalized as terrorists, and before you know, nerds all across the world will be considered armed and dangerous (with computers). Slashdot will be forced to give out every IP that has ever connected to its site to the government, and CmdrTaco will be traced and arrested by the FBI, thrown in the same cage Saddam is in, for rallying the "troops" against the great nation of the United States of America.
They can also use Linux. If you check the Linux source, not only does it check if your CPU is on fire, it also checks to see if your printer is on fire!
/usr/linux/src
# cd
# egrep -ri "(on fire)" *
This will return a lot, but here are two of the results:
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.c: printk(KERN_EMERG "CPU#%d: Possible thermal failure (CPU on fire ?).\n", smp_processor_id());
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c:static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" };
just about anything but MP3 tracks can be printed on them
So it prints OGG & AVI files then?
I usually just block the people without telling them. I filter out BOTH of my parent's email addresses, and they still haven't found out (they NEVER send any worthwhile emails, even though they spend 30 minutes to an hour every day using it).
I'm saying that since cleaning up or making billboards don't really get in your way, they should both be considered relatively the same.
I don't think you should have a license to build a billboard, it doesn't get in anyone's way. That is, as long as you own the property it's on.
Since clean-up graffiti is not a physical object being built on a peice of land, it shouldn't be paid for. It's actually REMOVING dirt which didn't belong to anyone to begin with.
You are offended easily. Since you are offended by a swastika, I'm assuming you are either Jewish and/or black. I am not offended by a black guy calling me a 'cracker', I don't see see how that could offend me, crackers are usually a flesh-ish looking color, and they are identifying me by a color via a third medium. Now I don't see how some black people are offended by the term 'negro', as I know at least some of them are not. 'Negro' is Spanish, and probably Latin, for 'black', so that's just calling them 'black'. On a scale of offensiveness, I would think that 'cracker' would be more offensive that the term 'negro', as it is associating a person with an object of a similar color, not a word that also means 'black'. I'm sorry for being so non-PC, I should have used the term "African American" for black people and "Caucasian American" for white people.
Popups, spam, and commercials are much, much different from this sort of graffiti and even billboards.
Popups, spam, and commercials GET IN THE WAY of the user/viewer when trying to see/do something. When there is a 'clean-up' graffiti on the wall, a driver in a car isn't going to be wanting to see the wall of a building. Even billboards don't get in the way of the person, it doesn't distract the person from driving, it doesn't pop out in front of you and force you to hit the brakes on your car. They are just there if you are stopped at a red light or staring at the long road on an interstate or highway.