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Hey, do any of you MORONS here know how to HACK HOTMAIL?If one could, one would refrain from telling one how for, verily, I am the haxx0r.
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / What are you listening to?« on: May 24, 2006, 12:42:34 PM »
Song: The Rock
Artist: The Who Album: Quadrophenia 78
Quote from: ivan Even though you got the wrong answer, I like how you think, Odd_Bloke.Thanks! The only problems I actually had were: a) A + sign where I needed a - sign. We've all been there. b) The point at the program when I returned values. I was getting between 65 and 68, depending on where I returned the values, so I just worked it out between those to values (simply by setting one of the values to 0). I may go back and fix the program at some point, but there isn't really any need to now... Dan 82
Political Opinions / Gun Control« on: May 24, 2006, 09:20:16 AM »Quote from: 12AX7 Sounds to me like intolerance. You dont smoke, apparently, so you feel smoking should be banned. You dont own a gun, (or have the right to own one) so you apparently feel no one else should, either. People with this mindset are more dangerous than the criminals here with guns.I did mean that from a purely economic standpoint (and people with purely economic standpoints are exceedingly dangerous  ) rather than from a humanitarian/rights PoV. Personally, I think smoking should be banned in all public places, as I suffer from (admittedly mild) asthma. Guns I'm less clear as to my actual opinion on.  Quote from: Vespertine How on earth can you call the founding fathers misguided for wanting to ensure that the people of the nation they created had the ability to stand up to yet another tyrranical government?OK, perhaps I overstated the point. When the Constitution was drawn up, if people were armed, they could defend themselves from the government's army. After all, they were on an even keel barring cannon (which most people could not afford/would not want but the government would have). However, this is now less relevant. Unless you intend to sell cruise missiles and helicopter gunships to Americans in general, the government's army will be able to beat them, regardless of how many modified AK47s they may own. Surely this means that this article of the Constitution is antiquated? Cheers, Dan 83
New Geeks on the Block / Howdy« on: May 24, 2006, 08:59:58 AM »Quote from: Detta Welcome. Go Yanks.*narrows eyes* I see... Quote So what about NASCAR?I quite enjoy watching the highlight shows, when I catch them, and I did manage to watch most of the All-Star Challenge (when it finally stopped raining) but whole races tend to elude me. I can't say I have a particular favourite driver (which might be why I can't watch a whole race, as I have no vested interest). Dan 84
The answer I get is 2000 (highlight to view), with the unequal quantities being 1033 and 967. However, I have a confession to make. I didn't find the answer mathematically, I used the following Python program to brute force it:
Code: [Select] a=0
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Anarchy / Song Search...Again!« on: May 23, 2006, 10:54:38 PM »
In the UK, we have a song recognition service called Shazam, which you phone up and play the song into. It's tended to get everything that I've tried right and, looking at their website, they are available in the US. You could look into that...
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Political Opinions / Gun Control« on: May 23, 2006, 10:50:50 PM »Quote from: 12AX7 What does that have to do with their purpose? The recreational shooting point was made to illustrate that killing and or blowing stuff up are not the only reason guns exist; it wasn't commentary on their availabilty.Point taken. However, I'd be interested to see how many people who shoot recreationally would also be willing to defend themselves (i.e. killing/blowing stuff up) with firearms, even if not needed. Or perhaps, even more specifically, how many of those shooting recreationally do so in order to increase their effectiveness should they need to use a gun in anger. Quote You have some factual stats to back these statements up? How do you know their ownership is higher? How do you know they have fewer deaths?Turns out I was incorrect about the level of ownership, but the table half-way down http://www.guncontrol.ca/Content/international.html seems to support my point. Also: Quote from: MichaelMoore.Com The U.S. figure of 11,127 gun deaths comes from a report from the Center for Disease Control. Japan's gun deaths of 39 was provided by the National Police Agency of Japan; Germany: 381 gun deaths from Bundeskriminalamt (German FBI); Canada: 165 gun deaths from Statistics Canada, the governmental statistics agency; United Kingdom: 68 gun deaths, from the Centre for Crime and Justice studies in Britain; Australia: 65 gun deaths from the Australian Institute of Criminology; France: 255 gun deaths, from the International Journal of Epidemiology. Quote from: 12AX7 I'll take your word for it, because I dont know anything about your binge-drinking over there; but I DO know - as I posted - that I dont see nearly anybody else other than Americans POSTING PRAISES about it. You know - "WoooHooo BEER!!! I got sooooo drunk last night..", etc..I think this is probably a level of exposure thing. More Americans have the chance to post this sort of thing (which they take advantage of). In addition, most Brits who get that wasted on a regular basis are incapable of spelling their own name, let alone typing it... Quote
When I say limit, I really mean ban. In the UK (at least), smoking would've been banned long ago (we've thankfully now got legislation banning smoking in public places coming into effect soon) if it didn't make so much money for the government and if it wouldn't almost certainly mean defeat for the incumbent government at the next election. There is no point in allowing people to own guns whatsoever, other than the fact they (and, misguidedly, the Founding Fathers) seem to think they should be allowed. Dan 87
Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Post Your Setup« on: May 23, 2006, 10:16:49 PM »
Processor: AMD Athlon64 3000+
Motherboard: ASUS K8X (something like that, I don't really remember) RAM: 1GB non-descript GeForce 2 MX400 (I'm most proud of this) Creative 5.1 Live! w/ Creative 5200 (or so) speakers WD 160GB and 140GB SATA drives Some CD-writer (but not DVD drive, since the last one failed  )550W PSU (it's blue!) As for my case, it cost me £10 (new). I'm also pretty proud of that...Dan 88
New Geeks on the Block / Howdy« on: May 23, 2006, 09:37:50 PM »Quote from: pbsaurus My wife is pregnant and we're seeing our OB/GYN next week. Just channelling James Burke, nothing to see here, move along...See, that's what I thought... I was hoping it was something else, but... no... 89
Political Opinions / Gun Control« on: May 23, 2006, 09:36:16 PM »
From a purely economic standpoint, it is the job of the government to limit consumption of demerit goods*. Cocaine is obviously a demerit good and, it would appear, so are guns. Thusly, the government should be trying to limit the consumption of guns†, as they reduce, through deaths, the size of the workforce. This reduced workforce leads to less competitive domestic industries, which leads to an increase in prices for consumers, as well as a reduction in quality of living. In addition, the US will become a less powerful global entity.
Honestly just looking for an excuse to use footnotes, Dan * A demerit good is one which reduces the effectiveness of the workforce through it's consumption. A classic example is smoking. † That is to say, the purchase/use of guns. 90
Entertainment / Movies« on: May 23, 2006, 09:28:32 PM »
For anyone who's really into film, I'd recommend checking out Filmspotting. It's a really good, biweekly podcast about film by two guys from Chicago. Check it out, what's the worst that can happen?
On a slightly more personal note, I haven't been to the cinema in absolutely ages. For one thing, now I'm legally an adult, it's beginning to become too expensive. Before I could get away with spending £5 but now I need to take a £10 note to pay the £6.25 ticket price and, of course, end up spending all of it on crap... Bloody kids... I do, however, intend to get out to see Mission Impossible 3 as I've heard good things about it (from the podcast previously mentioned, no less)... Dan 91
New Geeks on the Block / Howdy« on: May 23, 2006, 09:17:14 PM »Quote from: pbsaurus All we need to do is hook you up with a GYN and we're in bidness!A GYN? Incidentally, I didn't mention anything about my musical tastes (I knew there was something I hadn't included, it was bugging me even as I posted). I listen mostly to metal (System of a Down and Pantera probably being my two favourite bands). However, I also enjoy some rap (namely Jay-Z and Kanye West) as well as some other things which happen to come up... Still being bugged by something, Dan 92
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / The Geekery Map! (OMFGLOL!!1!)« on: May 23, 2006, 08:54:45 PM »
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / What are you listening to?« on: May 23, 2006, 08:49:23 PM »
Song: Love Is The Reason
Artist: Larry Norman Album: Tourniquet 95
Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / I need cablemodem support! (Rant)« on: May 23, 2006, 08:47:13 PM »
In Soviet Russia, sense irons you.
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Netscape?« on: May 23, 2006, 08:39:32 PM »
Firefox, or Lynx if I've borked X. That tends to be temporary though... (tends!)
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Who doesn't know HTML« on: May 23, 2006, 08:35:02 PM »
I understand that this is a dead thread (well, semi-conscious at best), but it really, really, really should be (assuming we're talking about really old school BASIC):
Code: [Select] 10 CLSThough for extra effect, you could add: Code: [Select] 30 GOTO 20And, as to HTML, even if I did know it that well, I'd be more keen to use a slightly more modern standard (though I can't remember the actual name of any)... Terribly sorry for performing thread-first-aid, Dan 98
New Geeks on the Block / Howdy« on: May 23, 2006, 08:26:30 PM »Quote from: Chris I think all of that easily puts you in the "Top 10 Biggest Geeks" category.*does the geekiest dance possible (you know the one, where you put your hands on your knees and knock them together and at the same time, rather cunningly, swap hands and knees (or maybe only one of those two, to avoid crippling injury), that one* EDIT: Removing a rogue bracket. 99
Political Opinions / Gun Control« on: May 23, 2006, 08:24:03 PM »Quote from: 12AX7 Wrong. There is also an entire industry out there for recreational target shooting. Chuckle if you must, but to completely ignore that is to be false about the entire issue.Surely, to a great extent, this has to do with the fact that guns are available. In the UK, sans right to ownership, there is not a recreational shooting industry at all, as far as I'm aware... Quote I'm not going to try to convince you of anything, btw. I have found that there seems to be a profound difference in how Americans view certain things and how others view them. This is one example; guns. Almost NO ONE who is other than American sees ownership as a right (constitutional or otherwise).As someone outside the US, I'm not sure I have the right to comment on this, but I am largely channelling Michael Moore's spirit. Canada, for example, has many, many fewer deaths caused by firearms and yet has a much higher level of ownership (they are a hunting nation, eh). IMHO, the only thing that can explain this is that (some) Americans view guns in a different way. Obviously it's impossible to comment on what causes this difference, but that's not going to stop me. Possibly the fact that ownership is a constitutional right convinces some 'red-blooded' Americans that they need to own a gun in order to be American. After all, the constitution says so... It is an unhappy coincidence that these people are often also the people you least want to own a potentially lethal weapon... Quote Another is, oddly enough, alcohol. I am always reading the Americans posting about their great love for BEER! and how many beers, and COLD BEER! and SEQUILA!! and so on and so forth... I almost NEVER hear another nationality praising and worshipping alcohol like that.As a Brit(isher), I have to disagree with you. We have a binge drinking culture like no other. I can't pull up any ready statistics, but we're worse, I assure you. Any Saturday night in any even slightly major population area is a reminiscent of Spring Break (though less good natured). Quote So I fully expect us to mainly disagree on this subject, with neither of us giving up. Aint that cool, though?To quote Family Guy (and maybe someone else): Sir, I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Yours, Dan 100
New Geeks on the Block / Howdy« on: May 23, 2006, 08:11:00 PM »
Hi guys (and girls),
My name's Daniel, and I haven't had a drink since la... what's that? Not an AA meeting? Man am I wasted... Anyways, a bit about me. I live in Peterborough, England. I'm 18 and currently doing my final A-Level exams (well, unless anything goes hideously wrong) and should probably be in bed ATM. I'm taking Maths, Further Maths, Economics and Theatre Studies. I am taking a gap year and, after that, hope to take MORSE (Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics) at Warwick University. In my spare time, I read (a lot), dabble in programming, watch American sports (especially baseball), read audiobooks for Librivox, generally potter around on my computer and, very occasionally, sail. I'm particularly into Napoleonic historical fiction (especially naval fiction), my favourite series being Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin and Sharpe (pretty much in that order). I am, however, currently reading Filmmaking For Dummies (or somesuch), as I wait for my local library to render the next book in either the Hornblower or the Aubrey/Maturin series. I have also recently finished listening to a Librivox recording of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. My programming language of choice is Python though, in all honesty, I have never done anything of much import with it. I have a couple of half-arsed scripts hanging about, which never quite reached completion (either through sloth or the discovery of a much better tool for the job than I'll ever write). If it can be classed as a programming language, I'm also conversant in LaTeX and, in fact, used it to write my CV (though using LyX as a proxy) and covering letter (using pure, uncut LaTeX). As previously mentioned, baseball is, in my opinion, a sport par excellence. My teams are the Marlins and the BoSox, in the NL and AL respectively. Some may say that I should only support one team, but have you seen the Marlins this season?! I also follow American football (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and ice hockey (Anaheim Mighty Ducks), though to a lesser extent. While being a sports fan may seem to disqualify me from geekdom, I think it's important to realise that I have to stay up until 4am to watch a full game. Computer-wise, I run Gentoo Linux (and only Gentoo, none of this dual-boot rubbish) on an Athon64 3000+ w/1GB RAM and an nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 (old skool!). I enjoy gaming, but nothing like as much as I do being able to use my system properly (hence Gentoo). My sailing and love of naval historical fiction are intertwined and I can never really work out which one came first. I started out in dinghies (and, indeed, own a Mirror dinghy) but haven't sailed in one in a while (mainly because I'm too big (and too heavy) to fit in comfortably). A couple of years ago, I spent 11 days on a square-rigged tall ship, sailing in the Mediterranean, which was an absolute dream come true. I hope to sail across the Atlantic in a tall ship, if not in my gap year, then at some point in my future. Well, this actually turned into slightly more than a bit about me, so I'll leave it here. Cheers, Dan |