azelfrath

I could not agree with you more had I said those words myself.

A year ago I had a great job as a sysadmin, then I got laid off. Shit happens. I got a job doing landscaping for $10 an hour til I could find something better, and when winter came I worked in a restaurant serving people in the city.

What did I do? I stopped eating out and put my cooking skills to use saving money by eating in. I cut out cable, lowered my Internet speed and got Netflix. Got more conscientious about power usage.

What did I learn? At that job I both cooked and took orders in a 24/7 setting in a large city. I saw wealthy executives and immigrant Somalians alike buy food. The one thing I took away from that is that poor people stay poor by making poor decisions. Pun. Intended. When you walk around buying lottery tickets and junk food, wearing bling bling, smoking a pack a day, and clubbing every night, of course you're going to hit a financial hurdle.

My advice? Exercise that section of your mind we call common sense. Shop smarter. Do some math. Skip the club. Stop smoking. Put that on a 4x6.

EDIT: Ignore that. I figured a slide show would not skip slides when you use arrow keys for navigation.

Can I get a direct quote? I'm not seeing any mention of TC on p15 or any other page.

As I read his comment I was going to write basically what you did, but I thought "No. No, that is too nerdy." So thank you =D

Relevant: I do wonder though if the disorientation would be less for someone with complete deafness in one ear. I would think that they are already somewhat used to the balance/orientation issues.

I have to ask: Does your naming company have a name?

I'm working on a perl script that will serve as a migration assistant from WhatsUp Gold v8 to Nagios v3. My company has 1,300+ hosts and 2,500+ services, all in various groups and states of health. It is my job to port over everything.

The version of WhatsUp we are using does not have a good way to export the configuration, and no API to query, so I am basically screen-scraping the web GUI for all the relevant info. I then do some basic sanitization (there are some illegal chars in Nagios configs), error-checking (how to handle a URL with a loopback IP address), and some cross-reference (putting hosts in groups and attaching services to them).

Overall it has been a great learning experience for me. I got to know Nagios quite well, practiced my perl a bit, and got to use git beyond just the tutorials I had read.

I plan on open-sourcing this as soon as I get permission from my employer. Company time and all that.

I'm a sub-par C programmer and the comments definitely helped me out. Instead of assuming the reader knows what each function does, they are explained in enough detail that the average reader could at least Google for more info based on keywords.

I see what you're getting at, but I think you're being a bit douchey about it.

Of course blind people do not have a "right" to access his content. Neither does anyone else. There is no law anywhere that says "X person or group has an inalienable right to view Google". That doesn't mean we shouldn't be considerate of disabilities.

ADD: He says blind people have "the same right" and not "a right", the implication here being that they have "the same right" as any sighted person.

I would assume this would be standard forensics. Might not be tools for their particular file format, but it would be possible to carve the data.

>As for the courier companies, every time they have to deal with a bad label or anything that requires a human to step in to help process the shipment you are slowing down the production line. Watch a couple videos of a Fedex or UPS sort facility to get an appreciation of what they deal with daily.

Vouch.

I worked as a FedEx loader/unloader for a year in college. We wear these cool wrist-mount computers with scanner rings to inventory the packages. A smudge, tear, wrinkle, or glossy tape can make reading the barcode a pain. When that happens you have to set the package aside, key in the numbers by hand, confirm the info, and then you can load it. Oh, and this is all while you are getting swamped with about 1 package every 3 seconds that might also need to go through this process.

As a sub-novice C/++ programmer myself, it's awesome to see a program like this being discussed. The source code is relatively short, it's a simple enough implementation, and all the feedback in the comments here is teaching me things I wouldn't necessarily be exposed to in a book.

This is terrible. Music should stimulate the mind, not dull it. Creepy little men "singing" is not going to make me more focused, but a nice piece of Baroque will certainly do the trick.

Because like the rest of human history, the most interesting details come to light long after everything has been said and done.

That could end up going south quickly. Scenario:

randomly browse to 4chan

randomly click on link

randomly have FBI raid your house a few weeks later

I like the concept, but it's not something I would run personally unless there were a lot of checks in place.

I think the purpose is to show how easily some of these scare tactics can be defeated. This took what, 40 minutes to get posted? Less than an hour to thwart what is being hyped up as a big deal for anonymity.

As an aside, I think you should name it CoverAlls.

EDIT: I guess I worded that a bit harshly. Underpants is meant to be a PoC for a tactic that may work in some situations, but the feeling I got is that people are taking it to be a lot more serious than it is.

That was honestly my first thought when I read about this. I could see Mehran playing this in his spare time. It would be a pretty great end-of-semester project too, having a competition like this in the class. Everyone would know Java, but they would have to learn a new language by building off what they already know.

$1,000 says this will be featured in a heist movie in the next year. This is exactly the kind of tech I used to scoff at when the uber-skilled hacker pulls up a 3D map of the target building.

You can do SQLi against your own database 24x7 and you'd be just fine in the eyes of the law.

I don't think this is irresponsible, exactly. Mischievous, yes, but there's not a ton of damage being done and it's something we can laugh at and say "Hey, that was pretty good."

This is the closest to what I intend to do. I wanna display interest without making it obvious that I am gonna push for the best offer from both parties.

I was thinking that, but a small part of me feels like that would come across poorly. I mean I know I am supposed to be looking for the best that is available to me, but I don't wanna turn them off by asking so bluntly.

That's what I was thinking, but it just occurred to me that perhaps the position hadn't been created yet. I mean yea, they still could have said something, but if I had been given advanced notice about a job that didn't exist, it would sorta make sense...

No, you're right. They could have at least acknowledged my existence =\

Export as PDF option might be a bit sketchy. You can inject whatever you want into the URL and it'll end up in the PDF. Not sure if it's sanitized (I am not familiar with the PDF file format) but if not, this could lead to exploitation.

Of course it wouldn't be on a grand scale necessarily, but as they say in several contexts, "a hole is a hole."

Vouch. I remember spending the entirety of my math class writing games on my TI-83+. I still hate my instructor for wiping my memory when she thought I was playing them and not writing them.

Imagine if all The Greats did this: Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, hell even 4chan.

80% of Internet traffic (just pulling that number out of thin air) blacked out? People will notice. People will care.

Wikipedia has the right idea and needs to kick this off. Then others need to follow suit.

<sarcasm> Actually yes, physically. The bug is in a beta version of Skynet. </sarcasm>

I tend to agree with you, and that's what my heart is telling me, but aren't there legal issues involved? I seem to recall the standard being something like "Wait 30 days after informing", but if they outright refuse to fix it before then and they say so, am I able to be sued for damages if I disclose?

Yea, but the Konami! The code my English teacher remembers so many years later. The code songs have been written about. The code that put unicorns on ESPN! Nothing else quite lives up to it.

EDIT: Nice. It just felt kinda dirty without it. I'll be expecting 10% of any donations made for my contributions.

How the hell do you make an easter egg site without including the Konami code in the site itself? I mean I know there's the part where you get to test out your code, but you'd think that it would be available some time before that.

abort();

Before reading this book, I had what I thought was a fairly solid grasp of computing. I was 19 (20 now), largely self-taught from spending nights on Google instead of going to parties, and if I didn't know the details of something, I knew enough about the concept to get by. I could program well enough in a few languages, talk about hardware, security, and protocols for hours...

I still had no idea how 10010011000110101001010 etc etc allowed me to play World of Warcraft. There was a small part of me that hoped beyond hope that computers were magic and there was some grand conspiracy going on to cover that fact.

Then I read CODE.

My hopes were shattered, but they were replaced by something much more treasured: Understanding.

In the wise words of George Carlin: "When does a kid ever get to sit in the yard with a stick anymore?"