You really are an idiot. 10 out of 10 to the 'vigilante censors' and 0 out of 10 to you. Posting videos of illegal activity on the web will get you into trouble. This surprises you? Would you respond the same to someone reporting child abuse videos? or wife beating videos? There are laws to protect animals and your group obviously broke them. If the worst that happens you is that you have to take down your videos of animal cruely then you should count yourself bloody lucky you're not posting this drivel from a jail cell!
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RE: The Secretive Hidden InterNet Censors
Latest posts made by voyager
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RE: How many people here are programmers?
By day I'm a Linux sysadmin, by night I'm a web dev, mainly Java (with Apache Struts) and PHP (shudder)
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RE: The Secretive Hidden InterNet Censors
You really are an idiot. 10 out of 10 to the 'vigilante censors' and 0 out of 10 to you. Posting videos of illegal activity on the web will get you into trouble. This surprises you? Would you respond the same to someone reporting child abuse videos? or wife beating videos? There are laws to protect animals and your group obviously broke them. If the worst that happens you is that you have to take down your videos of animal cruely then you should count yourself bloody lucky you're not posting this drivel from a jail cell!
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RE: What's Your Duplex?
Alas auto very often doesn't work. I work in an IT department in a University ans we often have to hard-code wall plates to full or half duplex depending on the situation. Dell servers running Linux seem to have real problems negotiating with our Cisco switches. I think every port in our server-room is explicitly set at this stage because when the duplex goes wrong on a a production server the result in not pretty and generally results in a lot of annoyed users.
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RE: IPod Attacks Windows!
[quote user="shadowman"]
Only a minor WTF really -- but the irony really struck me as funny. Although my favorite quote: As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hearty against such viruses...Huh? They're shipping viruses to people and they're mad at Windows for not stopping them?!?!
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That's not the full quote! The full quote shows Apple in a much different light. I REALLY hate people who quote out of context, it's aactaulyl a form of lying in my opinion.The full quote was "As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hearty against such viruses, but we are even more annoyed with ourselves for not spotting it" (or something to that effect)
Bart.
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RE: Because we've all written code like this back in the day...
[quote user="CDarklock"][quote user="viraptor"]
If you don't know where a variable comes from, it seems you don't use any typical style in naming.
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If you work in a real shop where the code you write is added to code someone else wrote and will later be used by someone else entirely, you cannot rely on the idea that the last guy used your style of naming, nor can you rely on the idea that the next guy will understand it.
And if the last guy and the next guy happen to agree on an alternative style, then you are the WTF.
But "this.name" is ALWAYS an instance variable, no matter what anyone thinks about the format or spelling of "name". Nobody can change that. Its usage is clear and unambiguous in absolutely every situation, and it is therefore impossible to improve upon it.
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Exactly! I work on code in an environment where the team is very dynamic so people come and go all the time. Our coding stantards are simple:
1) user this with instance variables2) use camelBack notation starting with a lowe-case letter for function names e.g. getSomeProperty()
2) use CamelBack notation starting with an upper-case letter for class names e.g. MyClass
We write Java code so this is a pretty standard way of doing things. The CamelBack in particular, just have a look at the Docs on java.sun.com and you'll see that's how it's done in Java. No need to invent custom styles. User the industry standard for names and make your code explicit. I like my code to read almost like English so that when I move on to other things the person who replaces me won't have to post my code up here :)
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RE: Because we've all written code like this back in the day...
[quote user="Phill"]
The other thing that really gets me, along with superfluous calls to super (or base in C#) is people that insist on referencing everything with this. this really annoys me. It should not be used unless an ambiguity exists, any other time is ugly and annoying.
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What really annoys me is people who don't use this when accessing instance variables. Using this makes code FAR easier to read and saves you constantly scrolling around to see where variables are coming from. Local variables are obviously distinct from instance variables this way.
To each their own!
Also, there ARE legitimate reasons to call super in constructors you know! A call to super is not a WTF in it self.
Bart.
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RE: Irish Government about to give the biggest WTF redefinition of a "Television Set"
Some day my government are going to surprise me by not being incompetant when it comes to anything IT. First they want to make all ISPs keep all IP traffic records of all users for THREE YEARS, now they want me to fork out 150 euro per computer in my house .... FUCK THAT!
There is an election in less than a year, i can't come soon enough to get rid of these moronic moneywasting incompetant fools.
(I am fully aware the Irish people will, in all likelyhood, vote the idiots back in ala George W but I live in hope of being prooved wrong :) )
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RE: Don't use SSH
@m0ffx said:
I'm sure there's something that lets you encrypt your login details but then sends everything else in cleartext. Not sure what it is though, but I'm sure there's something that lets you do that.
Of course that only works until you need to use su(do)...
I doubt it very much. WHY would you do that? It makes no sense. After doing all the donkey work for an encrypted handshake why tear your excrypted chanel down at that stage, you've done most of the work, you may as well continue to reap the rewards!
I spend my life on servers and everything I've seen is either cleartext all the way or encrypted all the way.
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RE: Don't use SSH
@roto said:
I work at one of those "Big League" shops where the IT department rules the land and we programmers are lowly peasants forced to succumb to their will.
One day our network administrator noticed that port 22 was open on a box we were using for testing. This was obviously an attempt to hack our systems because only port 23 was open on all the servers he had setup. He decided to sniff the traffic and try to figure out what was going on. After he realized that he couldn't read the captured packets he came storming down demanding we shutdown that machine because it had been compromised and someone was sending encrypted traffic from that machine. After we explained to him that SSH was a secure replacement for telnet, he asked us not to use it because he couldn't sniff the traffic.
Oh this brings back memories .... BAD ones!
I happen to know of a certain head technician in certain department in a certain university who to this day insists on logging into his servers as root via telnet despite being told and shown years ago that it is not secure. Said technician has also not yet replaced his old HUBS (not switches, hubs, I kid you not) right at the core of his network so as he sends his root passwords over the wire in plain text anyone in the department can do a verbose TCP dump and read off the root passwords to the servers.
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FTP to DataBase
I'll keep this anonymous but what I will say is that I work for an Irish IT Department. We have outsourced our web development stuff for reasons I don't quite fathom. I got a phone call recently from our outsourced company that worried me a lot.
We are in the odd situation that our outsourced company only do static web pages so anything that's dynamic we have to do ourselves and then send to them for skinning. I wrote a new simple app and sent off the details of the app and where the template files were to the contractors and heard nothing for a few months. I finally hear back and the conversation goes like this:
Them: I'm working on the xxxxx app
me: excellent ... what can I do for you?
them: I can't find the stuff
me: you got my email with the locations on the server?
them: yes, but I can't see where the data goes
me: it's stored in a database, the details were in my email
them: a database ............ (long silence) ....... Ok .... where is that
me: on the web server
them: I can't see it
me: the details are in the email
them: I'm in here and I can't see it
me: where are you?
them: I've FTPed to the server with my Dreamweaver extension, I can use dreamweaver to read the database right?
me: what?????
them: I can use dreamweaver to read the database base because I have the FTP extension. You just have to tell me where on the server the file is.
me: no, that's not how it works at all.
me: half hour tutorial on database and our MySQL front end
FTPing to a relational database with Dreamweaver .... what ever next!