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Post by blackdivine »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #316
kpgraham wrote: post #90

Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text file appeared on the screen with full scrolling, search and save. I had my name and phone number embedded in the program. My first problem was when someone converted the Constitution of the United States into a COM…

Wow!! Reminds me of this - https://youtu.be/L8lA1pNvcz4 go to 2:45 Basically this guy is talking about the "first PC virus" called "Brain." 25 years after the virus first appeared (2011) finds a street address in Pakistan in the source code, goes to that address, and the malware authors are still there.

Yep, the authors are brother and owner of one of the first ISPs in Pakistan, Brain-net.

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Post by JdeBP »

PaulHoule wrote: post #108

Back when I was a grad student at Cornell I wrote a random number generator for Javascript (back before there was an RNG function for Javascript.) It got used all over the web, including the home page of Peoplesoft, which set me up to receive a lot of spam, and then when the "Love Letter" virus and it's competitors came, I was getting something like a million viruses an hour. As of 2005 I was the biggest email recipi…

Enjoy http://jdebp.eu./deluge-of-microsoft-worms.html

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by nommm-nommm »

problems wrote: post #93
pjc50 wrote: post #86

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Developers have phone numbers like anyone else. And when people aren't paying for support, because this is open source, there isn't exactly going to be a 24/7 support helpline.

Why do people have a publicly listed personal phone number though?

If you google my (unique) name my phone number comes up on various sites like whitepages.com and the like. I don't know how it got "out," perhaps it landed on some public record somewhere that's been scraped and then the scrappers are scraped and it ends up all over.

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Post by nommm-nommm »

vollmond wrote: post #301
DanBC wrote: post #179

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> I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation. good grief. that poor cent os person.

Taylor's followup (according to wiki) is icing on the cake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle,_Oklahoma#Controversy

Wow, what an asshole... "Taylor stated that those commenting about him online were "a bunch of freaks out there that don’t have anything better to do ... [CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he’s got on his hands.""

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by eriknstr »

I wonder if any of those carputers and infotainment systems are using a custom identifier in the curl they ship. Imagine scrolling through access logs listing regular Firefox, Chrome and IE entries and then all of a sudden you get to one that says

    User-Agent: Toyota Corolla
:)

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Post by digi_owl »

roel_v wrote: post #317
digi_owl wrote: post #261

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Ever heard about irony? Or maybe nordic self-depreciation is not something the SV culture is able to parse.

*self-deprecation Although IMO self-deprecation is often also self-depreciation, for some liberal interpretation of that word in this context, but I doubt that's what you meant.

My spellchecker got the better of me...

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Post by sedachv »

hinkley wrote: post #315
sedachv wrote: post #251

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> I love Donald Knuth but let's face it, from a productivity standpoint he's strictly below average. In fact, Donald Knuth is so below average from a productivity standpoint that there is an entire book published about books and papers that Donald Knuth published: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cp.html

Ah, I thought you had me there. Aside from Art, the Tex books, his earlier work on computational complexity and the one on AI, isn't most of the rest of that his bound lecture notes? His extremely long side rail into typography was mostly what I was talking about. Art was left unfinished that entire time.

You just posted a critique of the most prolific living computer scientist as not productive and then proceeded to compare yourself to him. Who are you? More to the point, how did you get to be so delusional?

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Post by pjlegato »

dbaupp wrote: post #187
kislotnik wrote: post #162

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You don't tolerate them but want them to tolerate others. TBH, I'd be totally fine if Linus ranted over my code because that's the way he is and I don't believe in community that tries to isolate an individual because he/she doesn't have a popular mindset. Edit: typical -> popular

The whole "you're tolerant so you have to tolerate intolerance!!1!" thing is not some clever loophole, it's just a weak attempt to justify why people shouldn't be called out for being unpleasant/bigoted. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tolerance#Paradox_of_tolerance

On the contrary, it's calling out the blatant hypocrisy and utter lack of self-awareness of those who claim to be tolerant and embrace diversity ...except for those people and views they personally happen to disapprove of. Tolerance is not a meaningful concept when it only applies to those you happen to like already.

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

lucio wrote: post #235
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #205

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Your argument is shit. (Another Linus quote) And here's why. "I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice per…

It seems pretty clear to me. "people who get offended should be offended" He's saying that if you want to join the team, you should have a thick skin. It's his prerogative as project leader. Maybe in his view there's a correlation between thick skin and the abilities required for a kernel hacker. "doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system." T…

You're reading a completely different hidden message in three separate sets of quotes spread out over a decade. At no time did he reference the kernel. Your idea is not clear, it's invented. And this idea you're pushing, that you have to be "tough" to develop for the kernel, is macho bullshit. It's software, not rugby.
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