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Posts made by kaamoss
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RE: Need a non-WTF Web host
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RE: TDWTF meter
This is probably a retarded idea, but what about overlaying anyther png for the line, instead of drawing it with gd?
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RE: TDWTF meter
dtech, thanks for all the work you put into this. IT's an awesome idea and one of the coolest things I've seen in here on the sidebar for the past 2 years, aside from SS of course. I'm sure a few people here would like to put some time into working on this, perhaps we could start a small sourceforge project?
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RE: Another Luser WTF
@Mark said:
Not saying either is right, but that's my £0.02 / $0.02.
Well actually, given the pitiful weakness of the dollar, your £0.02 is more like $0.039...you should really only give your £0.01 so it dosn't outweigh us poor Americans :)
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RE: Another Luser WTF
Well, I mean you did the right thing telling him what the problem was, the problem is that he's too daft to get what you mean. I don't know what types of customers you have but this sounds like most of the customers I have. If I were you I'd tell the client to install some kind of VNC and just take this dolt out of the loop. If he want's to sit back and watch the magic as you right click on the time and change the date, so be it. Don't let the bastards keep you down.
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RE: 3rd Grade Math Wtf
@jetcitywoman said:
Yes and no. :-)
Sorry, I've been fighting with the forum editting non-tool trying to make it look exactly like they had it printed. I give up...
Printscreen the part of the article for us, or link us to it? You could go the SSDS route, and video it from your computer for us too.
Ohh, I'm guessing it's a printed newspaper article? You could snap a pic I suppose.
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RE: 3rd Grade Math Wtf
Uhh ohh, someone hasn't learned about the numberline yet apparently.....and their parents forgot about it? This "problem" is way too easy for anyone to not understand.
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RE: Google ad representative line
@morbiuswilters said:
@Saxov said:
So it is not a WTF that a common JS feature, is to create a method which always return true, and still requires a parameter ?I have no idea how callbacks work and am just talking out of my ass.
FTFY.
Haha well said morbiuswilters, but I think Saxov's post could also be read as"This is why google doesn't want to hire me"
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RE: /var~
@morbiuswilters said:
<font size="4">Okay, people, <font color="#cc0000" size="6">WTF???</font> Is there a Ritalin shortage this week or have SpectateSwamp's beard trimmings finally become so saturated with pot smoke they've learned how to use the Internet when he's out of the shack?
Stop posting retarded nonsense and bumping this thread, you jackasses. This isn't 4chan, Slashdot or Digg and it sure as hell isn't a mental competency hearing, although I think you'll pull off that "shit-for-brains" plea just fine.
Just stop, in the name of fuck. </font>Uhhhm, do you need some help getting that sand out of your vagina there? Smoke some pot and relax dude....
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RE: Hotel Keycards
This made me think back to some hotels that I was at in Europe(Amsterdam, Brustles, England, Ireland). When Iw as there I noticed that the elevators all required you to use a keycard to operate them. The first time I used one, I could hear and feel a distinct mechanical click as I slid the card in. The next time I took one, I tried using a regular buisness card to open the elevator and it worked flawlessly everytime. Seems silly to spend the money to put something like that in place when all you need to bypass it is a card shaped piece of paper...hell a paperclip might work.
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RE: Pleece add me to the lits o' trolls
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@bstorer said:
Dear ammoQ,
Please make TedsAuntieTed go away and never return. Thank you.
Love,
bstorer
Might as well add Lysis to that list, as it is the same person..,
You know, I was thinking about this tonight. It seems strange to me that the new trolls to the sidebar wtf are not spouting out controversial or absurd views, but simply childishly taunting MasterPlanSoftware(MPS). I started trying to think why this might have happened, and I have to assume that these trolls figured out they could easily get MPS's proverbial goat via the HUGE string of SSDS replies by MPS. It then occurred to me that they easiest way to get rid of the trolls may just be to make MasterPlanSoftware go away....or you know, stop feeding the damn trolls.<o:p></o:p>
Cheers<o:p></o:p>
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@belgariontheking said:
POST 1000 WOOT
Sorry man, you are only post 999. I will let you have it when we get to 2000.
So what's the point of continuing to post in this thread. Are we trying to find an integer overflow exploit on CS? Can someone stop the madness? Telling Spectate Swamp what's going on is just a waste of key strokes. Typing this almost makes me want to kill myself....
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@TDC said:
@MarcB said:
@DrPhil said:
Does anyone else get the "It puts the lotion on its skin" feeling?
Well, when you look at the place on Google Maps, you can see what the source of all the problems is... it's a Trailer Park... Explains a lot, it does.
I see, so it is a cardboard shack.
I think that you meant to give this link.
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RE: What porridge is just right?
@Nether said:
@Jonathan Holland said:
class PasswordChecker implements IPorridge throws PorridgeTooHotException
What, no PassWordCheckerFactory?
If I recall the story of mom, pop, and baby bear, the porridge was either too hot, too cold, or just right. I'm pretty sure that it should throw a PorridgeNotRightException to cover it being too hot(long) or cold(short)...Unless you wanted to throw two different exception types. Then we could wrap it in a dummy try, catch, finaly for good measure. I love java
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RE: "War" Between Hackers and Scientology
Someone needs to tell scientoligist to <font size="20">RTFB</font> (Read The Fucking Bible).
I'm down to write a bot to spam the reward webserver, sourceforge project anyone?
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RE: Apparently India has not learned about Regular Expressions yet
Haha ok, so this "developer" obviously dosn't know RegEx, that stuff's just too complicated anyways...
What I can't understand, is if you were going for straight string manipulation, wouldn't you go through the string value of the input char by char, and remove the char if it's not a number, then given the length of the number, you can tell if it's valid and format it properly. I mean, this is like the Swamp Search of javascript validation.
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RE: Pray for my soul
@ObiWayneKenobi said:
...snip
Well, okay, I know what I did to deserve it, but still. I'm tempted to start wearing a crucifix to work to ward off the demons that must infest this code....more snipping
I think you've got it all backwards man, this application IS your crucifix and you're hanging on it. It's incredibly difficult to convey the technical shortcommings of a system to buisness users / management types for the most part. You're much better off taking the characterization tests idea and running with it.
I feel for your brain, having to sift through this code all day durring the week, but good luck!
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RE: DreamHost $7.5 Million Billing System Error
I know that the bank fees incurred have a real cost in the customer's time/frustration. On the other hand, if you can't goto your bank and dispute the charge as unauthorized, they should be more than willing to reverse the bank fees as well as the original charge. If you have anyone auto billing your checking card, you should probably even be used to this by now.
I dispute at least one charge on my account every 2-3 months. I know the company fucked up, but bank "overdraft fees" are BS and usually the customer service reps are happy to reverse them given a reasonable situation. If not perhaps you should switch banks...and hosting companies.
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RE: Calc.exe is apparently cutting edge technology
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Should have used SwampSearch for a random result.
So is SwampSearch the new Paula here, or is this going to pass with time.... ?
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
Take it and do or don't do whatever you like.
Spectate, I can see you're obviously a visual learner(read as semi-retarded). I've put some graphics together to help you gain some insight into how we all see you as:
I hope you're starting to get it now....
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RE: A very good spambot protection...
@tray said:
@derula said:
I'ld like to hear your oppinions on what they were thinking :)
They were not thinking.Maybe they thought that bots still only index links to .html and .htm files, and by that I mean not thinking/living in a cave....
P.S. maybe your school sucks derula....
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RE: Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ?
@dlikhten said:
@belgariontheking said:
Well all trolls are people. Get rid of people and you take care of the trolls.
You might say "get rid of the internet." That would accomplish nothing, as people can troll in real life. Seriously, I work with a guy who has no respect for anyone. Just walks around and tries to start shit and watch the carnage ensue.
I would smudge some wine on his desk tip :P When he has the nice and bright shirt on.
What I would do is get some strange/disturbing porn, load it onto his machine, hidden, while he's at lunch or something. Wait a few weeks, then submit an anonymous tip to HR that he's looking at pr0n at work. Problem solved.
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RE: Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ?
@Mal1024 said:
Wow(tm). I've seen a person who doesn't even know what a hard drive is have a better grasp of the concept of Linux.
Seems likely "jerry" is a troll - especially since he claims hippies on drugs are the only people who understand Linux.
In all fairness, I'm a hippy on drugs, and I understand linux...maybe he's onto something here. I wonder if we'll ever get rid of spam/trolls on the internet, if only there was a way...
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
Wow, I just stumbled on some more forum postings by SpectateSwamp over on a nature photography forum, where he posts video of dying/trapped animals (unedited I assume, so he can use SpectateSearch to index it and randomly get "re aquanted" with each dead animal). At best this guy is a dick and at worse he's a perverse loser with too much free time. Someone find him a consulting gig or something.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
Just think. Next somebody will actually be improving OUR Desktop Search Engine. Cleaning up the code. Adding more functions. Explaining the bad parts.
A handful have seen the light. They are testing it out. One NOTE when doing random. Make sure you turn it off when finished. It gets a little confusing with text. Ie "rand" "norand" at prompt #2.
It's not just me working on the code anymore. There are some Swampies out there lots and lots of them.
Dude, come on, no one wants to touch that steaming pile of "code". The only Swampies out there are in your head. I will help you improve your code for the sake of the FOSS movement. Start by opening code.txt in notepad, press Ctrl-A and then backspace. Next, be sure to click save, and upload it to your ftp. While you're at it maybe you could trying running fdisk on your C drive, it should help defrag and speed up your Swampy(read as shitty) search.
Also, my fav comment in the code is this one:
'pause a bit and do a couple of beeps just to bug them
System.out.println("SpectateSwamp is brilliant!");
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@Nelle said:
I'm still trying to find out what kind of thing this SpectateSwamp really is ... So far I have eliminated humans and computers ...
I've could go both ways on it at this point. I'm thinking he could be a real person who's a decent programmer and generated/transformed that code from another language..I would also bet that the flow chart / program logic don't match up, but who the hell want's to find out. I think that's the point, a disgruntled programmer trying to get people to use/evaluate his brainfuck app.
On the other hand, the posts are all very similar in nature, but different tones on this board vs the other one he's on. Also, if it was a bot I'd expect him to be on more than a few boards. That's not to say a decent programmer couldn't create a configurable bot and set timing/post count/keyword triggers. The question is, why would someone write something like this*(assuming it's not generated) when EVERYONE knows google search. I don't understand it at all, but it's like watching a really long train wreck, it's hard to look away. I think if he's real, him and The PHP Master Architect should combine forces to create the next killer bit torrent or email client app.The Master could write his own open source multi threading library for VB...that doesn't actually use threads. Then SpectacteSwamp could make random calls to the lib all through to code, leveraging his search app and ability to display things randomly at his fingertips. Wow
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RE: How to find 2 checkboxes on a web page
@JvdL said:
@kaamoss said:
Using IDs for accessing dom elements via javascript is usually the route I go.
True, but there are cases where you have no knowledge about the HTML, its elements and their id, if any, in particular when you make generic JS.
That's a good point, I guess I'm so used to not reusing that type of javascript code becase I can type it in emacs faster than I can think what I want it to do. For my code reuse, I try to pull out useful code into custom moo tool classes. Moo tools also gives a short_cut/cross browser way of accessing any dom element you want. I personally think that jQuery is better for this, but moo tools animations/ajax classes just seem to work better for me. If you're consistently writing js you're shooting yourself in the foot not leveraging some kind of js framework.
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RE: How to find 2 checkboxes on a web page
Using IDs for accessing dom elements via javascript is usually the route I go. If I remember correctly, getting a dom element by document.getElementById('id') is typically faster than document.getElementsByTagName("input"), and returns one object, instead of an array of them. $0.02 deposited...
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
More video to come.
Dude, serriously, could you spare us? And wtf is with the lame out of focus cam-corder/laptop screen capture? What is this, wooden table v 2.insane? A simple google search would reveal great opensource tools that help you do what you want, written by people who don't write shitty code. One of those is Cam Studio, a personal favorite of mine. Then again, when you're SpectateSwamp, it's all about re-inventing the wheel right? Even if the wheel is a triangle made out of super glue....(pic for reference).
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@kaamoss said:
I'm pretty sure if we ran into SpectateSwamp out IRL he might look something like this...
You sure he would look that intelligent?
good point... maybe it's more along the lines of this:
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
I'm pretty sure if we ran into SpectateSwamp out IRL he might look something like this...
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
I should have known. I'd find the answer here.
The techies don't know dick about Desktop Search. (with the exception of 1 or TWO)
That's why I have never had any takers on a desktop search challenge. Even moreso now, when they can look at and test out this wonderful program. They know the Spectate Swamp would make them look bad. There search came from internet search. What rubbish.
Why techies don't need search. They don't keep notes like I did throughout my career. 1 or 2 type written pages per day every day. Seldom did I solve the same problem twice. I'd check my notes for any previous errors. They don't keep notes because they are covering their butts and for job security. I was a consultant most of the time. My superiors loved the detail they got. I can search my inmails and find the first time I was called ignorant. That was a fun debate. You know you are winning when the other side resorts to name calling. I'm saving these nasty clips for motivational purposes. In the destkop search showdown I'll make them eat their words.
In all my years I seen some pretty sad code too. If I had spent my time whining about it like this bunch. I would have been down the road. I made changes to code where the originator was contacted and he said "Don't touch that Code" . I took 2 or 3 days to flowchart it and made the changes that worked. I was the maintenance guy for that project till I left.
I know now that I need to SHOW YOU how I use desktop search, to make compter life simpler. When you can understand everything that the program does. And you will. It will be far easier for you to make use of it. SORRY for calling you all clueless. You just never saw or heard of real desktop search before.
My data is at my fingertips and as secure as I want it. Can't touch this Search.
"Na na na na Can't touch this! Hammer Time!"
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RE: Microsoft minutes
I didn't mean to imply that apple never has bugs with time calculations, but I've used 3 macs since 10.2 and I've yet to see anything like that, except if the clock is reset on my laptop after I kill a battery. I guess I need to use my mac more...
Just curious, did you google those screens or have them laying around?
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RE: Microsoft minutes
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
It's not a unique problem to Microsoft; the following screenshot (by Mackie) is of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard):
Uhh ohh, it looks like someone ran out all their battery power and the system clock was reset to Jan 1st 1971 or some obscure incredibly old date. This has a tendency to cause erratic behavior all over mac os x...at least that's my experience, but I'm willing to bet the same happened to you.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
@PerdidoPunk said:
What impresses me is the amount of effort that went into producing the source code for this thing. It almost deserves a place in the Architecture & Design gallery of the MoMA.
So far you haven't seen this Search perform. Just looked and critiqued the code so far. But that's a start.
How can code with so many GOTO's possibly work. Is it a miracle. How can an illiterate write code that works? so many questions.
Has anybody had any luck building a new executable? Does the search work on vista?
GOTO hell???
???????
profit!!!
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@spectateSwump said:
DO NOT listen to Desktop Search!!! Video is danger and SpectateSwamp is hitler!
stop it right , you evil bastard, SpectateSwamp! Your bad program not interest!
Your program capture data but data will die if captured! --Data must be free! -- search is sin!
DO NOT listen to him and his program! Join me for the other side! DataRevolution is where it's at! I have written ingenious program in PHP that will free all data and video! It wont be easy but we can win the battle and all computers will be 100 times faster! -- It's because of network!
Go away and hide you enemy of data, SpectateSwamp!
Ummmm, could someone please email me teh cod3s to troll@trollyTroll.net
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RE: WorseThanFailure advertising WTF
Well, for one, he's got cornrows, and an incredibly awkward smile... Maybe I was just in a bad mood but he looked more like he wanted to shiv me than write some enterprisey .NET code
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WorseThanFailure advertising WTF
So I noticed this ad today on the homepage and was a little thrown off by it. You can check it out here..it features a gangsta looking black "programmer" named Hoop. The first bit of copy says something like "What's it really like to work on zune?" This feels like they're begging the question that I have some preconceived notions about what working on zune is like, which would obviously be false. Then we're given a view of Hoop, the self claimed software developer and some lame branding campaign "View<myWorld>". I', wondering if this is some sort of reference to generics, or just really lame marketing. Microsoft has one of the worst marketing/advertising teams ever.
Oh, and no one cares about the zune or Hoop...
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RE: For your amusement, brought to you by std::vector
@jcoehoorn said:
People here complain here about Community Server all the time. It's really not all that bad, and can be a good choice for many forums. But here? On a forum including a large number of programmers? Community Server sucks for posting code snippets. There are about 1/2 dozen nice alternatives available for less than the cost of Community Server with a decent method for posting code snippets built in. So, not your fault about the angle brackets.
Instead of complaining about the forum, why not try using something like papernapkin, no paste, or pastebin? I'm sure you've probably used one of these before, why not again :).
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RE: Ahh, the corporate life...
This is one of the reasons that I'm happy I'm an independent contractor. This means no timecard apps or the like, I just create an invoice in quickbooks and get paid. A while back I was working for a large contracting firm that used a timecard submission system, an old asp/vb web app rife with bugs and problems.
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RE: Profanity in comments
I'm pretty sure that my favorite one there is this:
/* Sun, you just can’t beat me, you just can’t. Stop trying,
* give up. I’m serious, I am going to kick the living shit
* out of you, game over, lights out. */You've just got to respect that kind of determination.
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RE: The PHP Master Architect
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@superjer said:
PHP sucks because of some random dude's crappy Perl library that doesn't even run?
In other news: Bacon sucks because horses can't look up.
That was beautiful.
(Wipes a tear from his eye)
Yeah, but Big Al also says dog's can't look up....
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RE: The PHP Master Architect
I just find it incredibly hard to understand how someone who "sort of" knows what multi-threading is(though it's obvious from his PHP "implementation" that he doesn't) wouldn't realize that PHP is totally incapable of programmatically spawning threads. I'll probably end up working with this guy at some point professionally, if I don't already.
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The PHP Master Architect
So I was bored at work this morning and trolling a few forums, and I came across a gathering of some of the worst php programmers on the web possibly. Check out this gem of a thread: http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=72877. The OP is convinced that he has unlocked the secret of multi threaded php applications. He even has the balls/ignorance to post his code on sourceforge. Quite possibly some of the most WTFy php I've ever seen.
The best responses are from the people with 2k+ posts, while the noobs posts are humorous on a shocking stupidity level. Is this kind of crap common? It seems like everywhere I look I see this sort of thing...If people are this dumb maybe they should give up trying to write code? Btw if you take a look at the sourceforge page this app has gone through 5 iterations of release, even after the author was told many times that what he claimed his app did was impossible...My head Hurts
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RE: Conversation with the CEO at the company Xmas party
@SuperousOxide said:
Well H2 + heat + O2 (from the air) will result in burning.
Correct me if I'm wrong here(And I very may well be) but this like more like the water vaporizing than burning to me. Sure, if you concentrate enough heat & oxygen on water it will change from a liquid to a vapor, but that dosn't make me think of burning. I'm pretty sure that the phrase "burning through money like it's water" was either meant as a deliberate parody of management's lack of common sense, or the overabundance of water and the speed/exponential growth of a fire. Then again I had a bit to drink at lunch today....
Consider this my $0.02 contribution.
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RE: Kind sir, please email me the codes... x1000
Hey, I stumbled upon a similar thread today...let's hope some script out there is harvesting these kind sir's email addresses....
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RE: School's Web Portal
Reminds me of some "security" software called foolproof that was being run on computers in our compsci classes in highschool. I found a loophole by accident one day when explorer.exe crashed on me, and I added it as a new task. This would totally remove all limitations in place on the system. So getting around the security was as simple as ending the current instance of explorer.exe and adding it again....brilliant!
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RE: Police/Marijuana WTF
By this cop's definition of being high to a lethal extent, where time starts slowing down really fast; I'm pretty sure that getting high is like going to meetings at my office...