Posts made by Master_Chief
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RE: Big money in freelance web design! posted in Side Bar WTF
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RE: Big money in freelance web design!
@RTapeLoadingError said:
@Master Chief said:
@PeriSoft said:
It's a brave new world, gentlemen - thanks to the miracle of the internet, we're now worth less than a 16-year-old burger flipper in Tulsa.
To people like that, yes, yes we are.
People outside of IT have no idea how long things take which is probably due to the relative newness of the industry. I wonder if people in other professions get similarly ludicrous requests as the OP?
Absolutely. Ever read http://notalwaysright.com?
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RE: Big money in freelance web design!
@PeriSoft said:
It's a brave new world, gentlemen - thanks to the miracle of the internet, we're now worth less than a 16-year-old burger flipper in Tulsa.
To people like that, yes, yes we are. But there are a couple things to consider:
A serious client, such as an enterprise business, wouldn't post a job on oDesk. They would hire an entire firm to do it, and be ready to pony up more than a hundred clams.
This guy, who is probably the next 17 year old "genius" who has the next FaceTubeSpace in mind, would be hell to work with to begin with, has no money (I'd be amazed if he could come up with a hundred bucks), and, if he does manage to get this done by someone, it will no doubt be done in the poorest of poor small countries somewhere east of nowhereistan, be completely unusable, unmaintainable, and unimaginably bad. Any money he manages to make will then be pissed away on new coders who try and figure out what the HELL those people were smoking when they took that job.
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RE: This Gawker Thing
@serguey123 said:
As I said, security is not a black/white thing. The level of security needed to protect something is directly proportional to how important that thing is.
You can enforce strong passwords and people will still pick dumb passwords or use super strong ones and tape them to the monitor.
I see two scenarios for them
- Security is unimportant for them, if so TRWTF is that they try to make people believe they care becoming hypocritical after the PR nightmare.
- Security is important, if so TRWTF is that they were incompetent, lazy and complacient,got punished for it and expected a different outcome.
BTW, strong passwords that we need to remember are not the holy grail. We should do better as well.
I'll be sending you that 200 pages manual for the screwdriver you just ordered.
I disagree, I think everything should be secured the same, because of what was brought up earlier, that people use the same emails and password combinations across multiple sites. But, I also think that, in the event they get that login info stolen, the website shouldn't be held responsible, the user should.
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RE: This Gawker Thing
@blakeyrat said:
(There were 1.5 million in total, but they stopped the dump at 1.3.)
Oh well thank God. You know I think at that point, stopping an attack is rather moot. Kinda like, your barn got broken into and they got all the prized stallions, but hey, you saved the feed bags.
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RE: This Gawker Thing
@serguey123 said:
The problem is that much of what we do is black magic to the average Joe. Is hard not to be seen as stupid outside of your element. I agree that users should get a clue but at the same time you should not need a Uni degree to use a website. I mean, do you want to read a 200 pages manual to operate your microwave? I guess not, what we need is to make it look easy in the outside, make it good in the inside. Usability is as important as security.
A retarded website like this should have a authentication mechanism that is good enough to prevent spam and stolen information and easy enough not to burden the user that only wants to make a moronic comment. Security should be as good as the information that is guarding.
A dilemma right?
In conclusion, they should not have resetted the password then, that is only publicity telling "we care", although they should prompt the users to reset their password now and then.
Sorry for the confusion, but I was merely commenting on password policies, not the situation Blakyrat found himself in. Frankly I agree with everything they did, storing passwords in a retrievable format is absolutely stupid, but whats done is done, and blanketing everyone who had data leaked versus who they thought had a password leaked is a very good idea, IMO.
My problem is that passwords are nothing new. People should know how to set a proper one without us having to hold their hands into doing it. And if corporate secrets are stolen, or Government secrets leaked, or their identity is stolen because they like to use "password" as a password, then they should be held responsible for not properly securing their stuff.
If someone doesn't lock their house, they have no reason to complain when someone walks off with their belongings. If you leave your car unlocked and running all day in the parking lot, you have no space to bitch when someone drives it away. Why is it computers are so different from anything else?
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RE: This Gawker Thing
@serguey123 said:
...yes the response is retarded, yes your password was not leaked off, but you see people are retarded, how much do you want to bet that people use stupid passwords that can be guessed from their email address and whatnot.
And how long do you think we should be required as developers, admins, etc. to keep coddling people from their own stupidity? Eternal September isn't going to end until we stop holding everyone's hand.
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RE: OS X Security Defaults WTF
@blakeyrat said:
@Master Chief said:
@blakeyrat said:
XP has a normal backup tool for your documents and images, right? The one in Vista and Windows 7 is quite nice, but I never used the XP version of same so I can't speak for it. (If all else fails, you can shove a robocopy line into a batch file, and make a scheduled task to run it.)
Heh, that's what I do. I have two 1 TB external drives and every night, Windows fires up a 67 line batch file that copies everything I could ever need to them, alternating every other day so I always have two days worth of backed up data.
What do the other 65 lines do?
If you're curious:
- 17 lines for an ugly hack to check which drive got backed up onto last, and make sure the other is active.
- 8 robocopy commands moving files from my user directories (Pictures, Docments, Videos, Music, Projects, Credentials, Contacts, Desktop) to their corresponding directories on the drive.
- 16 xcopy statements that grab things off the system drive, like the outlook data file, UI config files for my graphics program, and other misc. stuff I need.
- 2 goto lines for each option according to result of ugly hack in the first 17.
- Duplication of the 2nd and 3rd for the other drive.
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RE: OS X Security Defaults WTF
@blakeyrat said:
XP has a normal backup tool for your documents and images, right? The one in Vista and Windows 7 is quite nice, but I never used the XP version of same so I can't speak for it. (If all else fails, you can shove a robocopy line into a batch file, and make a scheduled task to run it.)
Heh, that's what I do. I have two 1 TB external drives and every night, Windows fires up a 67 line batch file that copies everything I could ever need to them, alternating every other day so I always have two days worth of backed up data.
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RE: OS X Security Defaults WTF
@blakeyrat said:
@Master Chief said:
Lots of things, mostly small nitpicky stuff that Microsoft just refuses to address. The way Windows stores its passwords, for instance, is downright awful (essentially the same since Win2K).
Well, ok, but that's not "The Unix Design," that's "some particular Linux distros have improved this aspect".
Well yes, but the universal point is that they did address it, both in open source and in enterprise linux. Not sure about OSX. Microsoft has not.
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RE: OS X Security Defaults WTF
@blakeyrat said:
I've never been able to figure out what makes Unix so inherently secure anyway over Windows NT-based OSes. (Single-user OSes, like Windows 98 and Mac Classic-- duh, but NT?) Unix doesn't seem to do anything that NT doesn't, except it has a less precise permissions model. The only real difference is that NT is hugely popular for home users, and Unix-like OSes aren't.
Lots of things, mostly small nitpicky stuff that Microsoft just refuses to address. The way Windows stores its passwords, for instance, is downright awful (essentially the same since Win2K). CentOS uses salted MD5 hashes, which are excessively hard to reverse.
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RE: OS X Security Defaults WTF
As my security instructor once said, most of Mac's inherent security lies in two large piles:
1) The stuff leftover from it's *nix roots (Which Apple spends a LOT of time trying to wreck for usability)
2) The fact that Mac's take up a sizeably smaller portion of the market, and thusly are not as big of targets as their PC brethren.
Unfortunately, with thei rising popularity, and the fact that most Mac users are college students who are both a; niave and b; covered in good credit, Apple may not be able to rely on that second one very much longer. Hacking a Mac, as I found out firsthand, is trivially simple (actually, very similar to hacking a CentOS box, which we did first.) when you have physical access to the machine. In fact, nothing short of full disk encryption will save you once a hacker has physical access to the machine in question, regardless of OS or hardware, it's simply a matter of finding the right software and hardware to make it work, and of course the knowhow.
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RE: OS-X Update WTF?!?!?!?
Can we go through a real reboot here?
Home PC: Close down whatever programs you're using, saving open files, reboot. My worst computer ever took about 8 minutes, and was ready to be used again. Firefox saves tabs. Most programs start up in less than a minute.
Work PC: Updates are shoved down through the network off-hours, computers reboot overnight (even the worst of the worst WILL be up and running by the next day).
My point? You need to reboot. And in most cases you're talking a few minutes of downtime to keep your OS, which happens to be the most virally assaulted one on the face of the planet, secure. If you don't want to do that, disable the updates and shut the hell up. Note: This forfiets your right to bitch later about getting a virus. ;)
Unrelated; when did this turn into slashdot? And for that matter, when did desktop linux become a viable alternative to Windows?
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RE: +10MB
@dhromed said:
@Master Chief said:
You can quite literally pick any color out of a rainbow.
You can't put white text on a black background.
I know this because I just tried.
Can't say anything about 7.
Which is why it has a white glow around the black text, so it will be readable regardless of what color is underneath.
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RE: +10MB
@ender said:
@Master Chief said:
Also, who the HELL uses Windows 95 windows? Even my shitty little netbook running Vista HP can handle Aero just fine.
I do, because Aero's colour customization options are a joke. I'd like to use desktop composition (because it makes many things faster), but I can't stand black text on white background for very long, so Aero is unusable for me.You can quite literally pick any color out of a rainbow. Granted it's not as customizable as KDE, but it also doesn't die over it's own ass nearly as much.
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RE: +10MB
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
Yes, absolutely. Looks are not a high priority for me in that equation (perhaps because I grew up on Windows 3.1...). If someone made a good-looking minimal skin, I'd happily use it, but I'm not willing to sacrifice usability for looks. I could shrink stuff down even further, but it would sacrifice significant usability. At the moment, text I need to read is large enough to do so, but things like the taskbar text are too small to read - I get by on a combination of (shrunken) icons and the general shape of words because I already know what the text says.
The reasons for this balance being optimal (which aren't WTFs) are much more to do with screen shape - I'm using a wide-screen laptop, so vertical space is at a premium - than anything else. The difference between wide-screen and square monitors is such that, allowing for bottom margins not being important and so-on, you can squeeze enough extra onto the screen to make UIs designed for square screens usable in wide-screen. Well, taste also plays a part - curvy aero styling is fucking hideous.
If your screen is small to the point where you need to butcher and beat Windows into smaller pieces just so you can use it, you might consider investing in a new machine. Maybe one manufactured post-1999?
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RE: +10MB
@Cad Delworth said:
2. I also prefer 'Classic' for several other reasons, including just being plain less distracting while I'm working. I have enough distractions without some allegedly 'sexy' UI trying to grab my attention (the 'ooh look! shiny!' syndrome discussed earlier). Ditto, no daft 'zooming' animated windows or similar guff: when I open something, I just want it to appear, not do some ridiculous animation which seems specifically designed for people with an attention span measured in mS (hey look! I'm opening now! here I am!).
I totally get it now. That 0.5 second animation, fucking hell, I didn't spend $200 on memory and $300 on a CPU to waste resources on that.
Seriously, if that distracts you, stop using computers. God forbid you ever hit a rickroll page, you'll go epileptic.
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RE: +10MB
@blakeyrat said:
Nobody in the Linux world takes features like that seriously until Microsoft does it. Nobody was paying attention to Compiz (even though OS X had the same feature perfected) until after Microsoft announced Vista would have it, then there was a suddenly flurry of development to make Compiz stable enough to say Linux had the feature "first." That's just how they work there.
When Vista came out, Linux users mocked its aggressive caching and RAM usage. Now run Ubuntu with your performance monitor going, and it does the same fucking thing... haha.
Oh God, don't even get me started. I had an old POS Viao I used to use as a makeshift Media box running Kubuntu 7, never had speed issues. Tried to upgrade to 9 and it bricked the damn thing whoring memory out.
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RE: +10MB
@Xyro said:
Some of us see beyond the pixels ... beyond the code ... beyond ways to push blakey's buttons. I am blind to the pixels, I can only see what the pixels mean.
When I have to use Windows, I like the ghetto 90s look, because it allows me to brightly highlight the window that is in focus and give contrasted edges to the windows without focus. This is important to me because I use focus-follows-under-mouse, as it is for me far more faster to manipulate data between windows. Just in case you wanted to know.
I've never had issues distinguishing what window is active. *shrug* At least you provide a logical explanation, even if I disagree with the assertion.
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RE: +10MB
@blakeyrat said:
Seriously.
Oh wait, it's those "geeks" who are so afraid of change that they bitch and moan at every pixel that changes. The kind who get foaming-at-the-mouth-mad when Chrome removes the letters "http://" from their URL bar. Those kind of "geeks."
Or when MS tries to make Window decorations look somewhat nice, and just happen to blow away Compiz is terms of stability and performance in one shot? Those kinds?
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
I do it, but not because I don't like change. I just don't like the transparent-curved look, and like to minimise the amount of screen space taken up by title bars etc. It is eye-gougingly ugly, mind you. I would give a screenshot, but I don't hate you that much.
So you're willing to use an ugly window system to save 3 or 4 pixels worth of vertical space in your windows?
You sir, are TRWTF.
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RE: +10MB
Unable to reproduce. *shrug*
Also, who the HELL uses Windows 95 windows? Even my shitty little netbook running Vista HP can handle Aero just fine.
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RE: Putting the 'mental' in 'environmental'
Huh. We've been using CFL's all over the house for a couple years. Never even had one bad one, and I've also never had any of these issues you guys are talking about. No warm ups, no flickering. It's actually been quite pleasant, the whole house doesn't look yellow anymore post-sunset.
Honestly incandescents make my eyes hurt now. The light they produce is amazingly shitty. Just a hair above a torch.
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RE: Your opinion requested
@snoofle said:
A coworker has placed himself in an unusual situation, and doesn't believe my critique. I suggested we ask a wider, impartial audience. He has proof-read this for accuracy before I submitted it.
He has a 17 year old daughter who is putting together a professional dance recital-type show. They have hired dancers, choreographers, dance studios, etc. My friend is footing the bill for the entire show (upwards of $50,000 over a year). One particular singer/songwriter (between ages 25 and 30) is your basic 1960's hippie holdover. He's broke and living out of his car. He doesn't charge to perform, but collects a few bucks from the sales of CD's of his music.
This singer travels the country, counting on the cd-sales at each show to get enough food and gas to make it to the next show. The singer came from a rich family, but rejected the money, preferring to live the "hippie" lifestyle. He recently hit-the-wall, what with car repairs and no money.
My friend, at the time knowing this singer for a total of 3 hours, paid for all the car repairs, bought him a winter coat, and gave the guy his sprint wireless card so he'd have internet access, added him to his AAA plan so he could get free service, and gave him his credit card for gas so he could go on his cross-country performances. The singer will (hopefully) return next Feb to work on my friends' daughters' show. My friend just admitted he didn't even write down the number of the credit card he gave the guy and doesn't know what the credit limit is.
Having just proofread all of the above, my friend is now laughing at himself.
What do YOU think?
So, he handed for all intensive purposes a complete stranger enough money to fix his vehicle, access to the Internet, gave free leeway to travel to God knows where, and on top of all that, a credit card with no recalled maximum, after knowing him three hours, on the predication that he would return in a few months to play some songs for a theatre production?
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Can I have this guys email, I have a bridge to sell him.
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RE: The Clause
@dtech said:
This is exactly why such taxes should be mandatory.
Don't get me wrong, I consider myself a liberal (at least for dutch/european standards) but it is just neccesairy that things like healthcare, safety (firemen, police and the likes) and basic life services should be mandatory. Either through taxes (if provided by public companies) or regulation (if provided by private companies).
The reasen? Like this story: no (sane) person wants to be denied these services if they need them and it isn't fair for the rest if they do not pay for them and still get them.Sorry, but if someone is stupid enough to not pay for fire department services, they DESERVE to lose everything they own. We are a nation of adults for crying out loud, and any sane adult in the world should be able to work out that $75 < gross worth of everything I own.
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RE: The Clause
@hymie said:
@RHuckster said:
Whether or not it's a rare occurrance, a town refused to let firefighters do their duties because of a $75 debt. A far better course of action would be to put out the fire and charge the homeowner with a larger fee. The homeowner still needs to pay for the services, yet keeps his home (and pets, by the way, who perished in the flames). Instead, the firefighters and the town let someone's life get destroyed because he failed to cut a check for less than a week's worth of groceries.
You should go read the articles. Start with http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Firefighters-watch-as-home-burns-to-the-ground-104052668.html Then you will learn
- The homeowner did not live in the town. The homeowner lives in rural Tennessee, in a county that is both so rural and so anti-taxes that it does not have a fire department. On purpose.
- The nearby town in question, as a favor to the rural residents, offers fire department services to those residents for $75 per year
- The resident chose not to pay the fee, saying "I thought they'd come out and put [a fire] out, even if you hadn't paid your $75, but I was wrong,"
- The fire company used to try to bill after the fact. Half never paid that either.
- You can't run a fire department by billing after the fact. Fire departments need staff, equipment, and training; all of which need to be paid for on an ongoing basis, not on a per-fire basis.
Bingo. On the surface your heart immediately goes to "those evil firemen, why the hell wouldn't they put it out." But such arrangements are very common when the home in question is on the corner of No Ave. and Where St. Once you've run down all the facts, you have some assclown who cheaped out on a $75 per YEAR fee hoping that the firemen would just put it out of the goodness of their hearts and disobeying direct orders of their superiors. I'm sorry, if I have to pay $75 a year for fire department services OR risk losing my whole damned house, I'll pay the $75.
- The homeowner did not live in the town. The homeowner lives in rural Tennessee, in a county that is both so rural and so anti-taxes that it does not have a fire department. On purpose.
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RE: Magical Telepathic Software Required
@RHuckster said:
This reminds me of an old WTF article where someone was asked to produce a survey and after he built it the client demanded to know what the results are before the survey is administered. No amount of explanation was satisfactory to the client and he lost the bacon.
DAMMIT FRED! I WAS SAVIN THAT BACON!!!
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RE: $0 per month? Why, you're overpaying!
@mott555 said:
I guess I'm lucky. Our local RadioShack is friendly and they never hit you with annoying sales pitches.
Likewise. Ours (also in the mall even) is full of very nice folks, most of which do know plenty to do their job, and if they don't they just get someone who does instead of sitting there looking stupid. Plus, the manager, who I'm practically on a first name basis with, is always interested in hearing what I'm building with all the miscellaneous electronic crap I buy there (LEDs, motors, etc.)
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RE: Symantec is worse than many viruses
I haven't even used a separate firewall for any of my Vista, and now 7, machines since 2007. No viruses. I just block advertisements on sites I don't trust, and in general, stay away from the sewers of the internet.
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RE: In case you missed it
@Xyro said:
@Ted (unregistered) said:
Windows
D:I agree. It should've been built on ubuntu, that way only the GUI would crash, and the driver could've simply:
set_speed dev/traincar1 dev/traincar2 dev/traincar3 14_mph forward 40 torque 0 brake override terminal0
I mean, DUHHHHHHHHH.
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RE: Translation of 'That's a good idea'
@blatant_mcfakename said:
In hindsight I think I made a bit of a newbie mistake.
To give a collegue a bit of encouragement and to be polite I said 'That sounds like a nice idea yeah...'
The seems to have been translated as 'Actually I'll take on the whole mammoth project single-handedly, with no idea how much chaos and breakage I'm going to cause by doing it and in addition to a metric shedload of my own work' and said collegue had wandered off for a promotion.
oops... now I know better than politely giving encouragement or enquiring how a project is going...
I think a courier change is in order, you must be one hell of a motivational speaker.
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RE: Dell Power supply
@Jaime said:
No. The whole point of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act was to make it illegal to make warranty coverage dependant on "tie-in sales". Also, if your Dell power supply fries your Dell laptop, then they'll replace the power supply under warranty. However, they are under no obligation to replace the laptop that the power supply fried regardless of brand. There is a 90% chance that a Dell power supply is simply the cheapest aftermarket power supply available with a Dell logo stamped on it. The only thing you gain by using a Dell power supply is avoiding finger pointing when it isn't clear whether the power supply or the laptop is broken.
I gotta figure there is some kind of loophole for manufactured items. I highly doubt any car company would repair your car on warranty after you put in a cheap chinese part and blew up the engine, just as well as Dell wouldn't repair a laptop on warranty that had its motherboard fried after you plugged in a cheap chinese power supply.
And if there isn't one it should be added, that's assanine that I can get a warranty covered repair after my own damn screw up. Not that I would ever use anything besides the manufacturer parts, but common sense isn't so common these days.
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RE: Chinese Bootleggery
@EJ_ said:
Some day when your nagging spawn is pulling at your pantleg saying "daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, video game, daddy, daddy, daddy" you'll eventually just tune it out, and then how are you supposed to know which fucking console they wanted; they'll just step on it or pee in it anyway, so why get the $300 one when there's a $50 one that breaks in the same amount of time.
Just kidding of course :)
About the parents being clueless thing - My parents are very smart and "with it" and my Dad has said things like "I always told myself that I'd like the music my kids listen to, my parents didn't like my music and that always bothered me but... I can't stand your music" while listening to something I brought up, haha. I think it's just a generational thing, even if you tell yourself "I'll get my kids" there'll be things that you just won't be able to fathom. I'm a soon-to-be parent and wondering the same things myself, will there be videogames or music or whatnot that my kid likes that just makes me think "what the fuck is this shit?"
It has nothing to do with being "with it," it's English comprehension. Or, in this case, the parents in question simply not listening to their child.
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RE: Kind Words?
Why is it people still think the Internet is full of loving, caring people, and where are all the sites that perpetuate that view?
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RE: Chinese Bootleggery
The worst part of these things is all the ruined birthdays, christmases, what have you when the parents have that smug ass look on their faces like "oh yeah, we did good with this" as they eye up junior opening his brand new Playstation 3, only to find inside some chinese garbage called "Polystation" that runs the same games he's played on his computer for free for the last 5 years. And the kid will inevitably get grounded when he flips shit because it's disrespectful to point out to your parents that they never f%$#ing LISTEN to you, which had they, they would have easily been able to distinguish "Playstation" and "Polystation", not that it matters because it's a gift, and you should love them for it because they spent $25 of their hard earned dollars on it.
Seriously, anyone ever notice that parents just seem to drop their entire IQ when video games come up? My mom is one of the most intelligent people I know, but when she took to get me a game I wanted one day way back when I was a kid, explaining the difference between Playstation and N64 felt like I was trying to explain color to a dog.
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RE: Cleaning my USB flash drive
@Xyro said:
@Master Chief said:
@Xyro said:
Oh.... ok then.Why is it so necessary to remove the function keys in order to add in a "browser back" and "browser forward"? WHO ACTUALLY USES THOSE?
*raises hand*So, like, you're mousing around a webpage, hand on the mouse, right? Then you take your hand off the mouse to press the forward/backward button on your keyboard? Or do you browse using the space bar or page up/down keys or arrow keys, so that your hand is alreayd on the keyboard? Do you use the forward button, or just the back? (When my hands are near the keyboard, I use the backspace key to go back, but that's just me.)
Actually when I'm on discussion boards (such as this one) I usually don't use the mouse at all, just enter, pg up and down to read the posts, back button on the keyboard, tab, read, back, tab...You get the idea.
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RE: Cleaning my USB flash drive
@Xyro said:
Why is it so necessary to remove the function keys in order to add in a "browser back" and "browser forward"? WHO ACTUALLY USES THOSE?
*raises hand*
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RE: The short bus
@Xyro said:
@Master Chief said:
@Xyro said:
...point being, the username could already be longer than 20, and thus cause problems with the software mentioned by the OP's. This was also in response to Renan's suggestion that 20 characters ought to be enough for anybody.Or what if the company's username policy was something common like first initial + last name? My last name has 10 characters and I'm not even Indian!
Cut it off at 20? You must know how to spell your name without writing it all out, yes?So go into the database and change it.
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RE: The short bus
@Xyro said:
Or what if the company's username policy was something common like first initial + last name? My last name has 10 characters and I'm not even Indian!
Cut it off at 20? You must know how to spell your name without writing it all out, yes?
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RE: The short bus
Unless your user naming conventions call for a small biography followed by last name, this probably won't be a problem.
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RE: Very minor time travel.
As a very active member, I can assure you that TRWTF is DeviantArt's CMS.
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RE: Facebook scam uses the Signature Guy trick
So which is TRWTF:
1. Facebook doesn't sheild against signature guy.
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2. The profile names all link to the Facebook page for the scam, which would make sense except YOU'RE ALREADY ON THE SCAMS PAGE.
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RE: Seattle gun ban WTF
The gun control point can be illustrated best by putting yourself in the criminals shoes for a moment. Regardless of what you plan to do (murder, robbery, mass killing, whatever) the gun-free zones are always better targets. Why would you take the risk of pulling a gun on someone in public when theres a decent chance 3 people within earshot/eyesight also have them and can take you out with a few well placed rounds? And you're going there to commit crimes much higher on the ladder than possession of a firearm, so what the fuck do you care about walking into a gun free zone with a whole stack of guns?
In all the research I've done on this topic, I have to find a SINGLE INSTANCE where a gun control law actually reduced gun crimes.
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RE: Feel the Sicness
@El_Heffe said:
@Judinous said:
"Hover over the images in order to get a larger view of these layouts. BTW, this is using HTML not Javascript. Because I am THAT good."
When I hover over an image the large image pops up in the lower right corner of my screen, but most of it is off screen with only the upper left 25% visible. Scroll bars appear in my browser but I can't scroll down or over to see the whole picture -- as soon as I move the mouse over to the scroll bars the enlarged picture disappears along with the scroll bars.
Pure genius.
I was just going to say that. I can do better than that without using javascript OR css for that matter.
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RE: Really secure private area
@morbiuswilters said:
@Master Chief said:
Huh, I don't see any of the distortions mentioned, in any of the screenshots. And I'm a severe graphics nut.
Clearly your eyes are no good.
Holy shit, I looked through again with my tablet in it's vertical "book" alignment. Fucking hell.
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RE: Really secure private area
Huh, I don't see any of the distortions mentioned, in any of the screenshots. And I'm a severe graphics nut.
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RE: The subtle signs of a scam...
@PeriSoft said:
Exactly. They wouldn't put the effort in if it wasn't worth it - scammers may be assholes, but they're not idiots. There's a reason they're making an ever-loving fuckton of money in greater percentages than honest people.
Seriously? People respond to those? I mean I realize my mom may not be quite as attuned as me to the sure signs of scam, but I've got so many damn warning bells that go off, I figure she has to have at least ONE.
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RE: Meta-WTF - WTF is the forum markup? WTForum? :)
@Thief^ said:
@realmerlyn said:
There's no description of the permitted forum markup. Is it just HTML? Probably not *all* HTML.
Clearly you've missed out on seeing "Signature Guy", an entire fake post used as a signature, created by closing all the tags of the post, opening a new set with fake user info etc, and then allowing the real end of the original post to close this fake one instead.
Before that I did something similar inside a post. With the right tricks you can break the post page's html parser and make it allow you to close tags which you didn't open, and open tags without ever closing them.
And people actually buy this software? Willingly?
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RE: The subtle signs of a scam...
Really makes you wonder why any company still thinks annoying the shit out of your customers is a good marketing strategy.
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RE: Just gimme the monies!
It's environmentialism, it doesn't matter if it makes sense, as long as you're on board, you're a good person.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
Keep an eye on your politicians. Video council meetings and put that up on the web. Always remove
last month's clips when the current videos are uploaded.For the most part the politicians don't like sharing video. So you know they are up to something.
They will try and prevent you from sharing these open meetings. Don't let them stop you.
Be brave share your local politics. Share your ...
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