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20 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd October 2012 14:39 GMT

WeaselNo7
Meh

Commentards

Crikey. I'm glad I'm not trapped on a submarine with you lot.

WeaselNo7
Paris Hilton

Re: Laudable but...

The trick is to nod and exchange knowing looks with everyone around you.

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WeaselNo7
Coat

I felt like I'd lost 20 pounds

You probably did.

Mine's the one that comes with spare trousers

WeaselNo7
Facepalm

I recently changed company, to be greeted by the horrible realisation that they use Notes. Do people actually opt to use this disgusting software? Or are all users in the middle of a plan for replacing it? It's just unusable!

My favourite Notesism so far: F5 to logout. *facepalm*

WeaselNo7
Coat

I find it interesting...

It's interesting that the fashion in weaponry is mov...

Hang on.

PONCE?!

WeaselNo7
Meh

Hang on...

I think everyone's leaping to conclusions here. With good reason, because it's intuitively true. However...

What if being at risk of cardiovascular disease means that people are more drawn to processed/salty meats? Some kind of genetic mutation that kills you slowly but makes you crave meat and alcohol. Or a parasite p'raps.

Causation, blah blah. You feel me?

WeaselNo7
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Re: <probably mistaken pedant>

Aha, gotcha. Needs a little 'm' though. Crikey, that article is a tragedy of units.

WeaselNo7
WTF?

<probably mistaken pedant>

Hang on.

500NM as a force? The N is a force (Newtons), no idea what the M is. perhaps they mean it's a pressure and measured in Nm^-2 ?

And 50kg of pressure? That's just a mass, right? It's not a pressure until it becomes a force (add gravity?) and you say how much it is concentrated over an area?

However, every day is a school day, there's probably some internationally-recognised shorthand going on here. The kind that I'm kept out of the loop on. On purpose. Bastards.

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WeaselNo7
Pint

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

So what's the considered opinion of the community now? How do our two favourite free suites compare now that this new Libre version is out?

WeaselNo7
Boffin

*dons pendant hat*

But surely -11 is less than -4... does that mean it's NOT a fireball? or is that hyphen indicative of something other than negativity? Nnnnnnnng.

WeaselNo7
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May I be the first...

... to welcome our carrion-eating ale-swilling overlords.

WeaselNo7
Meh

Maybe

It would probably avoid confusion if the article concentrated on this being an 'innovative use of an existing tomcat/other servlet container on an already compromised server to allow ne'er-do-wells to have easy web access to server content'.

WeaselNo7
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Java exploit?

Strictly speaking, is this a Java exploit? I might be reading this wrong, but it seems to me the server needs to be previously compromised so that a file is deployed. Only then is tomcat/other told to install a web portal to give easy access to the server for miscreants.

I'm guessing the ease of installing WARs is what's being used as an easy way of giving access, but apart from that, it's hardly a Java exploit?

I could certainly be wrong, not many details in that article.

WeaselNo7
Facepalm

Damnit!

God damnit! I was going to do this from 3D ultrasounds, but it turned out that GE ultrasound machines keep the model in a proprietary format.

And yes, I did get some strange looks from people when I told them. "Really? wouldn't that freak people out?" "Yes, yes it would"

WeaselNo7
Mushroom

Re:

I agree with the sentiment, outsourcing doesn't usually work (or at least we only hear about the failures and frustrations).

Outsourcing theoretically can be cheaper for the same service, because of economies of scale (they've probably done the same job elsewhere, so can shortcut straight to the good stuff) and no wasted resources (if an employee isn't on your work, they can transition onto other work, as opposed to them sitting there doing nothing or making up work).

That's the theory anyway. So, yeah. Explained.

WeaselNo7
Stop

Re: Doesn't work with SMP??

Good spot. Author should have noticed this! This makes the assault next to useless.

WeaselNo7
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Do you expect me to walk?

Noooo mister Bond, I expect you to fly!

WeaselNo7

Nnnnng

"around a hundred times bigger than the Milky Way"

*brain melts*