@Angelface said:
Don't worry. Bots don't go crazy.And there are days that I do question how sane i am!!!!
@Angelface said:
Don't worry. Bots don't go crazy.And there are days that I do question how sane i am!!!!
@da Doctah said:
ut if work makes people happyNo. Work makes you free.
@anonymous234 said:
Microsoft has been trying to get people to stop shutting their computers down for ages. They did the same thing in Vista.Now, if only their Security Essentials were not leaking memory in kernel, one would not have needed a shutdown.
@pjt33 said:
You've got that back to front. In most of Europe and Latin America the word cognate to billion means million million. The USA is the one causing global confusion here.I remember in some science video (Cosmos?) the presenter was using "thousand million years" where Americans would use "billion". I guess it was to avoid the confusion.
@Shoreline said:
I am dealing with it by using swear words instead of not committing arson.They didn't go as far as to take your red stapler?
@scudsucker said:
Bonus points for enabling the kludge only for your company IP.I therefore made a screenshot of the IE 6 right-click menu, photoshopped it to look like all options were disabled and made it the background image of a <div> tag. I added links placed over the Back and Forward menu items, with CSS stylng to show the active and rollover, and hid the whole thing with CSS. Then I hooked up the right-click event in IE to show that div, next to the mouse. Voila! Right-click menu with all options disabled except the ones the boss wants.
Of course this only worked for IE but he never checked any other browsers...
@drurowin said:
Now if it was MANDATED that sites use Facebook Connect for logins, I'd be all for it.Some websites require Facebook account to verify registration. Even if you don't login via facebook.
@Lorne Kates said:
iTunes has to be the #1 reason I will never own an iPod. My wife owns one, and it's great. As long as you don't have to do anything like put music on it. Which is kinda what I would want to do with an mp3 player.Use "Manage music manually", or whatever the option is called, and you'll be happy.
@HardwareGeek said:
I have not added any music to it, because in order to do so I have to allow iTunes to delete everything that was on it when she gave it to meYou can copy the music to your computer (using iTunes, of course) then let iTunes manage this iPad (this will clean it), and copy the music back.
@Planar said:
That's fine for symmetric crypto, but to make a good public/private key pair you need a lot of entropy. Your 128-byte example only provides 1024 bits, which is not considered secure these days. You'd need at least 2000 bits to be reasonably secure.I don't think you understand what it means.
Length of the RSA key (derived from a product of two primes) doesn't have to have anything common with your password length.
Entropy, by definition, is log() of number of possible states. If your key entropy is 64 bits then it's practically not worth to brute-force it. 128 bit - impossible to brute-force.
RSA key entropy is not equal its length. But that's a different problem.
@boomzilla said:
@blakeyrat said:Magnetars are so badass. The magnetic field itself could have mass density like 10000 greater than lead.he universe contains gamma ray bursts which can, in seconds, entirely sterilize entire solar systems of life, at least all forms of life we're aware of.Also, magnetars!
@Quango said:
When was last time IIS had a security patch? How many security patches were issued for IIS in last 12 month?
Our sites use IIS, so I sit happily watching all the Heartbleed Bug mayhem out there.Until the next patch Tuesday of course..
@Lorne Kates said:
But-- that's the actual fucking NAME of a productUpcoming horror movie: Contact from Lifeform 7even
@fire2k said:
And nonpasteurised milk. Say hello to brucellosis.@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
So answer the question I asked: how did people survive without the FDA telling us what to eat and drink, the SEC telling us what stocks are OK to buy, etc.?Once again, they didn't. They died from malnourishment, environmental pollution, child labour, work exploitation, slavekeeping, polio, polio again, rat feces, heroin (sold as medicine, remember?) and a million other things now thankfully prevented by state laws.
@lizardfoot said:
Bitcoin is only designed to be a currency; a form of cash that is not backed by any bank or nation and does not rely on the economic stability of any bank or nation.So when "economic stability of any bank" (MtGOX) turns out not great, Bitcoin is not affected at all?
@da Doctah said:
No. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue?@joe.edwards said:
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?Because you're a sadistic asshole?
And then there is than old bug with Intellimouse wheel that's causing extreme scrolling speed with some programs (namely, Microsoft Internet Explorer). The bug is there since forever.
@cmccormick said:
If you're going to work in an environment where you have to cover your ass (CYA), learn how to do it well (e.g. keep an email paper trail or email a meeting summary copying bosses...if it ain't on paper, it didn't happen)."The more paper, the cleaner your ass"
@dhromed said:
Nope. The path is always Windows\System32. For a 32-bit process it gets redirected to SysWoW64. Although placing application's DLLs to System32 is mauvais tone.@ratchet freak said:
@dhromed said:
Why use different folders at all?
so 64 bit DLLs and 32 bit DLL can carry the same name
You have to vary the path in your code whether it's the folder name or the dll anyway, so why not name your dlls different?
@mott555 said:
32-bit binaries for 32-bit Windows, 32-bit binaries for 64-bit Windows, and 64-bit binaries for 64-bit Windows. Yes, we have two sets of 32-bit Windows binaries depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, and they do not work if switched!It's a shame you guys haven't heard of PVOID64 and IoIs32BitProcess. Use of either one would have made 32 bit binaries for 64 bit windows unnecessary.
Do we really need to know your email (and name)?
@m4u said:
That piece of code is not working for me in inform 7, why?This somehow reads like a poemList of Problems:
................................ See the manual: 12.7 > New actions
@blakeyrat said:
@OldCrow said:...and then Bond crashes it into the Golden GateDigressing a bit, when do you all think the system's going to come down? And how? Controlled de-valuation? Crash and burn?Quick! Buy gold!!! RON PAUL!!!!!
@OldCrow said:
Is there a currency left that is bound in value to something physical, like gold? I live in europe and just had the sudden realization that the central bank has been digitally printing bills to keep the economy up for the last half a decade.Yes. The currencies are bound to the national product, commodities, etc.
Gold is very wrong thing to bind to a currency, because its natural cost times available volume is too low to match the required amount of money to sustain the economy.
You guys may be unhappy at the thought of OPEC getting rich because of (allegedly) artificially high oil prices, but what would you say at the gold-mining third world countries that will reap 10000% profits from injecting gold into gold-sustained currency system?
@immibis said:
TRWTF is automatically giving programs the new common controls.FTFY
I noticed that about that time the stores got new card terminals (with very clunky PIN butons, by the way). I wonder if those were all compromized from the beginning.
Disable beep.sys driver, and there won't be any beeps (Device Manager->Show hidden devices).
@HardwareGeek said:
Because fork() duplicates the address space as copy-on-write, the total amount of committed memory doesn't increase initially. But as you start modifying the COW pages, it causes increase in committed memory, because instead of one shared page you'll get two non-shared pages. You cannot predict how much memory you'll need as a result of that. One approach is to reserve maximum amount of memory you may ever need after fork. This may be time-consuming.@ender said:
@HardwareGeek said:Um, I still don't get it. The only thing I see that seems somewhat relevant is "[t]he entire virtual address space of the parent is replicated in theWhat, pray tell, is the rationale behind it?fork().
child." I don't see a benefit from letting a process think it has more memory available that it could ever possibly use.
Was the process named Abraham?
@lolwtf said:
@alegr said:Suppose you bought your own cable modem-router at Fry's. The provider won't upgrade its firmware ever. That was the case with Motorola SurfBoard modem/router/access point. It was quite shitty, wireless was shit. Its "DoS attack protection" had the side effect of fucking with your DNS requests, so you keep getting "host not found" errors.From the end-user's perspective, is there any good reason for this?if you happen to have cable, a DOCSIS compliant device can't be end-user upgradeable (that's a DOCSIS requirement).
I think now that modem-router combos are bad idea. And if you happen to have cable, a DOCSIS compliant device can't be end-user upgradeable (that's a DOCSIS requirement). So you can't upgrade your cable router firmware, otherthan having your provider to push the upgrade from their end.
I've had pretty good experience with Netgear 6300 router. Although, I suspect the poor thing, when starts, runs the TFTP server for firmware upgrade not only on LAN side, but also on WAN side. It so happened that it used to hang during boot if WAN link was up.
@dhromed said:
He's a psycho-the-rapist.@Shoreline said:
It looks like you have an anger problem and you're taking it out on this person.You were fine until you went full-psychiatrist there.
So what if it's signed or not, if the sandbox is full of holes.
Fuck Java.
@GrizzlyAdams said:
This was one of the original causes of DLL Hell. App A loaded blah.dll from its AppPath, later App B loaded blah.dll, expecting the version from its AppPath. The linker saw a copy of blah.dll was already in memory, and used it. If the user started App B before App A, both got version B of the dll, and so forth
DLL Hell doesn't mean what you think it means. It was because the installers were dropping the DLLs to Windows directory.
The DLL loader does path search and name matching within the process boundary only, and only when a DLL is loaded by the base name. DLLs in different processes with different AppPath are searched independently.
If the same DLL file is loaded to different processes, they will share the read-only executable pages which reduces the physical memory pressure.
@eViLegion said:
In that case, I apologise for the excessive strength of my response... I had just been reading some blakey, and that tends to irrationally colour my subsequent unrelated posts!See you next Tuesday, then.
I should definitely use the word cunt less often. I'm prolly gonna get fired over it one day.
@malaka said:
Thanks. I didn't need my eyes today, anyway.@RobFreundlich said:
They were yellow text on a white background (<font color="yellow">yes, really!</font>)Could be worse?
@CodeNinja said:
@ObiWayneKenobi said:*costumer"Cutsomer" instead of "Customer".
I dunno, that sounds pretty accurate. I'm sure everyone has wanted to cut a customer at least once, this is apparently just storing a list of them for a developer with anger issues.
Nice. An upsampled GIF made from overcompressed JPEG.
@dhromed said:
No. I'm a meat popsicle.@Mason Wheeler said:
If your thumbs are getting all sweaty when you're playing video games, then you're obviously... umm... I don't even know what to say to that, actually.Hands get sweaty. Are you sure you're human?
@spamcourt said:
I needed to resize an NTFS partition. Nothing too complex. I booted up an Ubuntu CDWhy Ubuntu, did not Windows partmgr work?
@pjt33 said:
@TarquinWJ said:The solution is to replace "This way up" with "This end points towards the pointy end of the rocket". Or "This way up. And make sure the part you are fitting it onto is the right way up first. Eejit."
No, the solution is to make it asymmetric so that there's only one way that it fits.
The relevant quote from the linked article:
The improper installation apparently required some considerable physical effort, which, somehow did not raise any alarm at GKNPTs Khrunichev's assembly plant in Moscow. Investigators immediately looked at already assembled Protons, including those in Baikonur, but did not find such an anomaly.
@morbiuswilters said:
JPEG encoder was choking on those textures.
Edit: Why the fuck is the original photo a 500k png? What the fuck is wrong with the dipshits at TechCrunch?
There was time, when add-assign (and other such operators) could be written as
i =+ 1;
Not kidding.
@OldCrow said:
Now, how about those marsupials (Kangaroos and such) that only live in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand? Was it him who saved them? How about penguins who live in Antarctica?
And yes, I do take Genesis as fact. The flood explains why we have now zero live dinosaurs, but a lot of perfectly preserved bones. But that's about all I'm going to say about this. Let's not flood the Sidebar with another argument on evolution, shall we?
How about elephants? There are about 10 living species of them, suppose each is at least 5 ton (a pair is 10 ton).
How about American and Asian animal species?
Suppose they all could fit on the Ark. How would Noah be able to gather them all from those remote places (which were not even known to the Bible writers)?
@Ben L. said:
Was that Dr Joe Newcomer?In the words of my professor, “Your optimizer produces correct code some of the time. Of course, the optimizer always producing a NOP for your entire program is correct some of the time, and it's a whole lot faster than what you're doing.”
@OldCrow said:
There is no single "cancer" disease. Cancer can be defined as unconstrained growth (or propagation of certain cell type) which disturbs the viability of the host, by consuming its nutrients and breaking vital functions (such as hematopoetics).@Buttembly Coder said:
@OldCrow said:Oh, they often have kids, ...But the kids tend to not inherit the cancer, which causes the mutation to be lost. Cancer is inherited in three generations approximately... never.Congratulations, you're close to figuring out how punnett squares work. each copy of a gene has basically a one in two chance to be passed on (greatly simplifying things, as you are a great simpleton), over three generations, that's one in eight, or "approximately never", if you use Christian Math, apparently.Actually, "cancer" is defined as growth that does not share an individual's DNA. Being prone to getting one can be hereditary. But the actual cancer is not carried in your DNA.
Therefore, the only way to really inherit cancer is to get infected from the mother while in womb.
Which one of us does not understand genes again?
Some cancers are caused by random mutations in a single cell, which turns off the self-limiting switches (allows the cell to divide without constraints). Some cancers are caused by a defect already inherited, but the gene not turned on initially. Some cancers (such as cervical) are caused by virus RNA embedding itself in the cells.
Mutations happen all the time in your own cells. The mutations that happen in your germ cells will be passed to your offspring (if it's viable), but typically won't affect you. The mutations in your body may not affect functions, or may cause cancer. That's the matter of luck.
@OldCrow said:
You haven't heard of BRCA genes, have you?@Buttembly Coder said:
@OldCrow said:Cancer's a good example against evolution in that it doesn't actually go into the gene pool, unless it happens to your sperm.I forgot about that part where cancer always kills people before they have kids. Cancer can and does persist through family lines.Oh, they often have kids, since they want to leave a mark in this world before they go. A heritage, if you will.
But the kids tend to not inherit the cancer, which causes the mutation to be lost. Cancer is inherited in three generations approximately... never. But I'm sure you'll find some individual family that has this; the world is still wast.