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Posts made by Dragoon
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How to create a hoax
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RE: The :doing_it_wrong: of the discojuice huffing dude
My experience is that a lot of people don't know that, actually.
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RE: What happens when the Board Of Discourse begins to panic?
As much as the managers are a WTF, the bigger WTF is them thinking that they could do that project at all.
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RE: What happens when the Board Of Discourse begins to panic?
It's a site written by a guy who just spent the better part of a year working on an NLP app that only an insane person would think was a good idea.
Though to be fair, maybe he just doesn't know that much about NLP and how fucking hard it is.
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RE: I'm glad they fixed THAT problem
They renamed Vista SP1 to Win 7. That SP1 is important, it is the part that made Vista non-shit.
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RE: Active directory and password reseting
We use an admin user in the MT to change the users password. It will work the first time, and fail for the next X (not sure, it was late and as I said, the person I am working with doesnt know AD at all) number of minutes and than allow that admin user to change another users password.
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RE: Active directory and password reseting
Ah... Active Directory propagation delays?
That is sorta where I have been leaning. The person that I have been dealing with at the customer site knows nothing about AD, and I know very little, so it has been a slow process. -
RE: Active directory and password reseting
I gave this customer a list of 5 things they could do to solve this problem, that was #1 on the list. Number 5 was, we write custom code that compromises security so that you can be lazy gits.
Surprise, the customer chose option #5.
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RE: Active directory and password reseting
Since this Customer is using certs for authentication, when the connections fails we use a backdoor info request in our application to ask the MT if this users password has expired. If it comes back as true, the MT resets the users password expiration date and sets the "new password on logon" flag to true.
We than restart the login on the client application and allow them to reset their password with some special code.
The issue is that this only seems to work about 50% of the time at the Customer location.
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Active directory and password reseting
We have a 3-tier software architecture. The Middle tier runs as a windows service, and is in the same domain as the server. The client can be in any location. The client and the MT are written in C# and use WCF for connections.
What a client has run into is that when a user from Domain A connects to the MT in Domain B, if the password for the account is expired in domain B that connection is rejected outright by the domain.
What is the best way to allow a user from domain A to change their password in domain B after it has already expired?
I currently have a hacked solution that works flawlessly in our test environment, but only works about 50% of the time in theirs, so I am looking for ideas. There is no rush, this was drop everything urgent last year, and we just learned yesterday that they finally got around to testing it.
fucking hate customers.
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RE: Pedantic Dickweedery At The Movies
You should listen to Neil explain why he pointed it out and what Cameron said to him. It really is quite funny and enlightening.
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RE: Senile Argyle Architect
I was going to make the same point, which is why I wanted to make sure I understood what he was saying.
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RE: Senile Argyle Architect
As a general rule, ANY failure at a system level test is a defect in the testing process prior to that, so the first step is to create a test earlier in the pipeline (as early as possible) and then to review testing in that area to see of there are other potential holes in the current test plan.
Just to be sure that I am understanding what you are saying. You are stating that if a test at the highest level fails, you should go back and determine where in the pipeline you could place a test to catch this issue?
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RE: Here's our chance: Ask Discourse Why Jeff Broke Bad
If/when he decides to respond to them they will appear on /. as their own article.
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RE: Another small topic! This time ash vs the evil dead!
I thought that ending was more fitting. Ash been the jackass that he was would of drank 7 instead of 6 drops.
By that same token he would misspeak the words again as well.
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RE: Filter everything that doesn't match regex
So if I understand what you want to do, you want to take a string like this: 1-999p555-4565 and remove the errant p as it should really be a dash and return the new string as the phone number?
If I haven't misunderstood your question, there is no elegant way within just regex to achieve this. The primary problem being that is the exact opposite of what regex is designed to do.You want to capture a string with some part of it not captured.
I think the easiest thing is something like this:
Doing a replace for all NOT [0-9extEXT.- ()+# ] with null and piping that string into your original regex is the only thing I can think of. -
RE: Break the brakes
If I need to stop, I am unlikely to think, "I could plow in to the back of this car and save a little bit of my tires".
Won't someone please think of the tires!
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RE: Break the brakes
You should try it sometime, everybody needs a little sun in the winter.
Yeah, winds (especially high winds) really suck when its below zero outside.
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RE: Break the brakes
When the sun is out and its dead calm, it isn't cold. It is only once the air starts moving or the sun goes down that you can really start to feel the chill in the air.
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RE: Break the brakes
-26C is fine for sun bathing provided the sun is out and there is no wind. Hell, it can feel damn nice outside when its perfectly still and the sun is out at those temps.
Now, once that sun goes down, its fucking cold.
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RE: Break the brakes
I never assume either of those to be true when driving on icey roads. But perhaps that is what I have only ever lost control once in my FWD car.
But really, in the end it comes down to how you drive your vehicle. Living in Colorado, it amazes me how many people fail at driving in any sort of adverse weather condition no matter the vehicle.
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RE: Break the brakes
if you have wheels turning then they are all turning and if they are turning at the same rate as the road is moving underneath of them then they are not locked or sliding.
That is not strictly true:
- the coefficient of friction is not guaranteed to be the same underneath all of the tires
- the angle of momentum is not necessarily in alignment with the direction of rotation
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RE: Break the brakes
Meh, not really. Not unless you lock all 4 of them. You cannot lock just one or two wheels. Literally cannot. By the very nature of how 4WD works, with diffs locked, if you have wheels turning then they are all turning and if they are turning at the same rate as the road is moving underneath of them then they are not locked or sliding.
This is incorrect. A spinning wheel can still be sliding and in many scenarios a still spinning wheel will actually slide further than a locked wheel will.
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RE: Poll: Which smartphone OS do you use?
According to what I can find the OS is officially Other/Proprietary.
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RE: The data you don't need
It really does depend on the store and where it is even amongst suburbs. King Soopers is the dominant chain where I live. Over the years I have been into ~12 of them, and the differences between them (all within ~50miles of each other) is quite remarkable.
In one case, an entire third of the store is devoted to "organic" foods. The one closest to me, has about half an aisle. (these two are both in suburb communities of similar wealth).
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RE: No StackOverflow for you! Or: How to get away with <del><del>murder</del><ins>cheating</ins> </del><ins>public masturbation </ins>!
Wow, that is even worse than a participation award. You have to at least show up for those.
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RE: No StackOverflow for you! Or: How to get away with <del><del>murder</del><ins>cheating</ins> </del><ins>public masturbation </ins>!
One of my physics teachers sold physics cheat shirts (had the most useful equations upside down on the shirt). This was the only allowed cheat "sheet" for the exam.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Why would we be short on food?
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Why do people always take the short path. Solve the problem at the start and have restrictions on who is allowed to have kids. If you are to stupid, no kids for you. There, problem solved.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
There are already laws against waving a weapon around in public.
There are already laws against leaving a weapon within reach of a minor.But please, continue to ignore the laws that we already have in place and add more covering the same thing. That will surely stop these things from happening.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Oh, without a doubt. I was thinking more in terms of replicating existing weapons at home with download and print/mill tech.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Where did our broke government get the money to pay them?
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Just what this country needs, more government expenditures without any product produced. That is how you build a healthy economy.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
A tax like that would require a national registry of firearms. Something that will be a nightmare to administer and would probably cost FAR more than it would generate. (this is government we are talking about, it will be so mismanaged healthcare.gov will look sensible)
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Few things:
- only over the last couple of years has it been affordable for someone to make a weapon themselves at home.
- There has to be a demand, the US clearly has a demand for firearms, while many other countries do not.
- It is possible that nothing will change and there will simply be an uptick in illegal firearm sales
Finally, it was ment as a question. Does anyone foresee this becoming an issue. I am unsure if it will or not, but I think it does warrant a discussion at the very least.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
While that might very well work, that is not one that has been proposed currently by the administration.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Even if we assume that the new and improved laws/enforcement (that you propose) are effective how will the recent rise in cheaper CNC machines effect the prevalence of homemade weapons?
History has repeatedly shown us that the harder the government makes an item to obtain, the more people will create it themselves. With the decreased costs and ease with which firearms can be created, wont we simply see another war on drugs?
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Everyone knows you use cocaine to fix a stuffed-up nose.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
Yup, and you can still buy Meth on the corner.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
The government is well known for its use of subtle force to get what it wants (like refusing federal money until states pass laws that the Feds want).
To make the leap in logic that perhaps they are using their powers to delay what should be an otherwise quick check is not out of the realms of possibility.OR, people just really like a good conspiracy theory. Really, its a tough call.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
I see the two as different things, but can't argue the point.
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RE: <abbr title="Yet Another <abbr title="Gun Wars 2">GW2</abbr> Topic">YAGT</abbr>
What is the point in improving them, if we don't even enforce the ones we have?
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Yes, because he is the ONLY person in history who has said anything before later carrying said thing out. ONLY PERSON.
Nobody has ever sent a death threat to someone and later killed them. It has never happened. Ever.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
Words are words. Actions are actions.
History is filled with people ignoring someones words only to see those actions unfold.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
I admit that people overreact to a given situation. I also admit that people will use quasi-rational arguments to justify (to themselves or others) something they want to do anyway (i.e. buy a lot of guns).
Is this in it of itself crazy, I don't think its any crazier than anything else humans do on a daily basis. People are fucking nuts, I thought that was well established?
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
This just in: Sane people see slippery slopes, plan accordingly.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
I'm not saying any sane person would do this. But I'm pretty sure there are a lot of crazy folks who got their guns legally.
Show me the proposed gun law that would prevent this person from getting a gun. (trick question really, there isn't one). The only situation that it might cover is where they are currently under the care of a physician for a small selection of mental illnesses. Which, if you look at the recent mass shootings, would cover exactly 1 person (the aurora shooting). In this case there is little evidence that an inability to legally acquire a weapon would of deterred him as he was well planned and prepared to inflict a lot of harm outside of firearms.
Gun control laws are not meant for the good sane people. But they might weeds out some of the lunatics. And in my opinion it is save to err on side of caution.
Yeah, lets create a set of laws that will do almost nothing. Cost an exorbitant amount of money and be almost unenforceable.
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RE: The HORROR of uncoordinated movement!
I won't stand for this "Waiting for the facts BS".
He was clearly a Muslim killing the Christians for the crimes committed during the crusades. We should firebomb everyone in a hijab until they learn to love GOD like we do.
Oh... and ban guns.
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RE: No phylogenetic trees for you
I was responding to anonymous234.
I would argue that if the government did not take the money from us to feed the homeless. The difference between what we give to our "neighbor" and what we give to others (not in this country) would not be that large.
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RE: No phylogenetic trees for you
Some people would rather we actually went out and helped those people directly instead of the clusterfuck of government doing it, which everyone (even most of those people I just mentioned) uses to soothe their consciences and ignore the problem, because someone else is taking care of it.
Personally, I prefer we helped get them off the street. Not just hand them a sandwich and say "see you tomorrow".