The DMZ

It's got a pretty strong flavor so you want to be careful how you use it, but a really high smoke point. It also doesn't seem to change the flavor of popcorn, strangely.

Plus, it leaves the popcorn very non-greasy.

Adnan

@Simon Only one of these two sentences is true

Simon

Well played, well played.

I see your face on the picture now.

Scott Pack

@Adnan I have a gas range so my thermal response is much better.

Hiroto

we need cooking-recipes in the room tags

Adnan

1:08 AM

@ScottPack Well, I cannot afford cooking with olive oil.

I should probably start buying those second-press olive oil to use it for cooking

Hiroto

olive oil is what I use for pretty much anything that needs to be cooked at a really high heat, otherwise I just use vegetable oil

Simon

What has the world come to? The woman makes me clean stuff while she's playing video games.

Scott Pack

@Hiroto For high heat I go with grape seed. Olive is pretty ok, but I wouldn't call it high.

cookingforengineers.com/article/50/Smoke-Points-of-Various-Fats

I'm really surprised olive is so high on the list. It seems to burn much easier than that.

Ah, yeah, Extra Virgin is pretty low. Nevermind.

Adnan

@Hiroto I usually go with the exact opposite.

Hiroto

extra virgin is the cold-pressed stuff, right?

Scott Pack

1:12 AM

I really don't know.

Adnan

Veg oil for cooking, and oilive oil for everything else olice oil

Scott Pack

I've been meaning to get some safflower oil to try out.

Hiroto

The expensive stuff is the cold-pressed stuff you use in salads, @Adnan

Virgin olive oil is the cooking stuff

Scott Pack

I just get annoyed with the oils imparting too much flavor.

Things like butter I use because I want the butter flavor. Most of the time I just want to use a flavor neutral oil.

My dad will make pancakes with olive oil. :(

Adnan

@Hiroto I don't know, I almost never cook with olive oil

@ScottPack I feel the opposite. I love when olive oil imparts its flavour.

Hiroto

1:15 AM

I use it way too much (Spaghetti with garlic oil is fantastic)

Scott Pack

I think pesto is my go to olive oil based drug of choice.

Adnan

@Hiroto The hell is garlic oil?

Hiroto

slice up a crapton of garlic cloves and fry it in olive oil, then drizzle it over al dente pasta with plenty of pepper

Scott Pack

You take olive oil. Throw some garlic in. Wait.

Adnan

@Hiroto @Scott Ahaaaa! Never knew that that is called garlic oil.

AJ Henderson

1:37 AM

@RoryAlsop which one is that?

themirror?

AviD

6:38 AM

@ScottPack why in the world wouldn't you want the olive oil taste??

sometimes I add olive oil just for the taste. even when I dont need oil.

@Adnan you can't afford not cooking with olive oil.

besides the fact that it makes everything delicious, and frying seems to come out much better, it also happens to be a hell of a lot healthier for you.

AviD

8:28 AM

Everybody. They all do. All of them.

Rory Alsop

8:58 AM

@ajhenderson derfder

AviD

@RoryAlsop hodor

Rory Alsop

And as @avid says, olive oil works for everything

4

AviD

@RoryAlsop hey hey, dont start any rumours going, I explicitly said it works for cooking everything.

I have no clue how olive oil would work for any of those... "dubious" activities.

Don't want @Adnan blaming me for anything.... ;-)

Rory Alsop

9:55 AM

Hahahahaha

Iszi

@AviD I'm sure Popeye would have something to say about that.

AviD

@Iszi lol

@Iszi rule 34?

Iszi

@AviD Sorry. Not into the anorexic types, myself.

AviD

@Iszi nor I, but someone must be. How else would you explain Clay Aiken?

Iszi

@AviD Never bothered to. What's your interest in him - hmmm?

AviD

10:03 AM

@Iszi wait - Clay Aiken is a guy??

Iszi

@AviD Well, I suppose about as much as Justin Bieber is.

Terry Chia

@Iszi Maybe we could get @ScottPack to verify him?

AviD

@Iszi sure, JB is an effeminate man-child, but I thought clay was a slightly (very slightly) butch lesbo.

Iszi

@AviD No, Aiken's definitely a guy. Definitely a gay guy, but a guy nonetheless.

Funny thing - even the mother of his child has a guy's name: Jaymes.

Anyhoo, it's past 0600 - something I partially blame on The Doctor - and I should be heading to bed.

Annoying thing about Doctor Who: Most of the multi-part episodes don't follow the typical naming convention of "[Episode Name] Part [#]".

Had no idea, going into it, that Utopia was the first of a three-parter.

AviD

Utopia? Which one's that?

Iszi

10:14 AM

S3E12

AviD

ah right, where they find you-know-who...

I've found there is nothing "typical" about Doctor who episodes, least of all the naming.

Iszi

Well, there seems to be a bit of an oddity in season 4 where a couple episodes actually do follow the normal multi-part naming convention.

It's like the writers got bored of trying to think of unique names or something.

AviD

I'm also curious how much of the season they (the screenwriters) plan in advance, or just make it up as they go along.

Iszi

Know what the biggest disappointment so far has been for me? The Face of Boe. Seriously, he had so much more potential. I mean, the twist of his origins is cool and all but I was really hoping for something a bit more.

AviD

@Iszi yeah, with all those billions of years of history, he could have appeared a bit more.

but then, with over 900 years of travelling, it does seem that we get only the crumbs of it all, don't we...

@Iszi cant figure out which ones you mean...

Iszi

10:20 AM

@AviD Well, there's still 8 Doctors worth of history I need to catch up on sometime.

Right now, I should be catching up on sleep instead.

AviD

@Iszi yeah... I've been thinking aobut that too, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to do it.

Iszi

@AviD S4E17-18. The End of Time, Parts 1 & 2.

AviD

besdes the sheer amount of it, it is clearly of much lower quality, in acting, filming, writing, effects,... perhaps the stories themselves are up to it...

Iszi

@AviD Nevermind appeared a bit more. He could have just been a bit more.

AviD

@Iszi hmm. Yeah, I remember those - curious why imdb doesnt list them?

Iszi

10:22 AM

@AviD I expect it won't be much dissimilar from trying to re-watch ST:TOS now.

AviD

anyway - gnite

@Iszi yeah, just more so.

Iszi

@AviD Wow. It looks like they're missing a whole four episodes from the end of season 4.

AviD

also, for me at least, I started ST with TOS, so its at least familiar. I only got into the new seasons with the Doctor.

@Iszi and a few in the middle.

Iszi

@AviD I vaguely remember seeing occasional re-runs of TOS, or listening to it on the radio. Really didn't catch on until TNG though.

G'night.

Adnan

10:36 AM

@AviD Okay, I guess now I get what you mean.

The things is, I always buy the cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil. You really cannot cook with that

Terry Chia

@Adnan So you like your stuff extra-virgin?

AviD

@Adnan hmm, I guess not, havent really tried. I just buy large amounts of regular (ie. non-cold pressed) virgin olive oil, I think simple omelletes for the kids is the only thing I don't fry with it.

Adnan

@AviD It has a very low smoking point and the taste becomes really bad once heated to high temp required for sautéing, for example.

AviD

oh, and cheese - it seems to not interact well when frying cheese.

Adnan

@TerryChia That's why I like you :D

AviD

10:40 AM

@Adnan this might help:

Adnan

@AviD After @Scott suggested it, and now you seconded it, I think I'll get me some regular olive oil and try it out for pan frying

I'm not sure how to feel about this, but recently I've become hooked to

Regular Show

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Terry Chia

1:06 PM

Man - I hate refactoring code.

Bleeding pain in the ass.

Adnan

@TerryChia This is exactly what I'm doing now. I feel your pain

Perhaps not in the ass, but yes it's very painful

What are you refactoring?

Terry Chia

@Adnan I'm converting my GWT GUI code from using Java to layout the page into using UIBinder which allows me to use HTML to do the layout.

It's a damn boring job.

Then I'm going to look into breaking out some pieces into more reusable chunks. Yawn.

Scott Pack

@avid Besides the heat point thing changing the flavor sometimes the taste just isn't compatible. Take the pancake example earlier. Buttermilk pancakes fried with olive oil just taste werird.

AviD

@ScottPack hmm, okay, I'll grant that. Similar to omelletes, I guess.

as I said it also does not do well with frying cheese.

Scott Pack

I wouldn't have thought of that but it makes sense.

Adnan

1:12 PM

@TerryChia Damn! I'm getting sleepy just reading that

AviD

@ScottPack Perhaps the exception to the olive oil rule is any breakfast food.

Except bacon. Anything works with bacon.

Scott Pack

Bacon is self frying.

Strangely, I still prefer pancakes fried in butter rather than bacon grease.

AviD

@ScottPack really? I would prefer bacon grease over pancakes, no matter how they're made.

Just the grease. in a cup.

@ScottPack but it does just show how little I really know about frying bacon... though I would have guessed, I am sadly lacking in experience in this field.

Scott Pack

1:33 PM

The most devout bacoholic I know is a practicing Jew. I haven't pried into the particulars.

Rory Alsop

2:22 PM

Mmmmmmmmmm. Bacon. Bacon omelette. Was a good morning before I had to hop on a plane. Off to India for a week. Do they have bacon in India?

AviD

@RoryAlsop I hear they do not.

Rory Alsop

:-(

AviD

Unless you want to look at soy bacon. But from experience, that's just not very good.

Rory Alsop

Soy bacon is just wrong

AviD

@RoryAlsop they do have cows though - I know somebody who got run over by a cow.

make sure you look both ways before you cross the street.

Rory Alsop

2:26 PM

I think we will have drivers in every city :-)

AviD

@RoryAlsop cool, but doesnt mean you wont cross any streets.

And get run over by a cow.

@RoryAlsop going for work, or vacation?

Rory Alsop

Work... Four different cities in one week. Going to be slightly tiring, I'm guessing

AviD

@RoryAlsop whoa. road trip!

Rory Alsop

I will try and avoid cows. I assume a steak is probably out of he question too

AviD

wait, does RBS have so many branches in India?

Rory Alsop

2:32 PM

Nah - will fly between each city. India is BiG

These aren't branches. They are data centres, call centres, dev labs etc

Plus, RBS has branches everywhere

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop I think "Big" is something of an understatement.

Rory Alsop

Yeah - it always amazes me how many times the UK could fit into other countries. Of course there are some countries that have surprised me by being small (I wish I had thought more about Israel before I went - I would have planned some more tourism)

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop Heh, UK. What about Singapore?

Rory Alsop

But India - huge. I will have four flights between cities in India, each of which is further than most of my flights in europe

Scott Pack

@AviD So does that mean you can get some really good beef jerky in India?

@RoryAlsop Yeah, the UK is only about twice the size of the state I live in, and it's the 34th largest (out of 50).

@RoryAlsop Thanks to the magic of wikipedia I can see that if the UK were a state in the US it would be ranked 12th in land area.

Rory Alsop

2:45 PM

North America is crazy huge. When I first heard about the percentage of USA'ians who never left their state I was sceptical. Until I realised this still meant that many travelled farther than a good percentage of Europeans.

Scott Pack

It never occurred to me until I was in college just how true that was. We'll drive 220 miles (~350 km) for a weekend trip to visit my in-laws.

Xander

@ScottPack @RoryAlsop The UK would file into Texas nearly three times. And Texas fits into Alaska 2.5 times.

Scott Pack

@Xander Pretty crazy. It's just slightly smaller than Michigan.

Xander

@ScottPack Yup. It takes 11 and a half hours to drive east to west across Texas from Port Arthur to El Paso, and the only reason it's that quick is that the speed limit for over 500 miles in west Texas is 85 MPH.

Scott Pack

@Xander I've flown over Texas but have never actually visited. The scale of that place is pretty mind-boggling.

AviD

2:58 PM

@RoryAlsop ah, call centres. Of course. So we can speak directly to "Michael" over in "Birmingham". Hey what's the weather like over by you?

Xander

@ScottPack And Scotland itself is smaller than South Carolina, and a bit larger than West Virginia.

AviD

@RoryAlsop As Bill Cosby used to say, Europeans can drive to another language in under two hours. 'Merkans can drive for 8 days without hitting another language.

But don't feel bad, I can speak fluent NewJersese, and I can understand Texan and Floridian pretty well.

@Xander (Israel is just under the size of New Jersey....)

Adnan

Oh yeah, @Lucas, congrats!

Queen Mathilde is a hottie

Scott Pack

3:26 PM

@Xander Don't forget. West Virginia is small enough to have no natural lakes.

@AviD I don't find Floridians to have much of an accent.

Simon

4:08 PM

0

Q: Your boss calls

You're sitting in Starbucks drinking something, talking to the peoples. Your iPhone rings. It's your boss. He wants a file from his partner in Croatia stat. You log on and download it in this pubic place infested with vermin. You must deliver it to him pristine. If not you're canned. Your $400,00...

malware

What is going ON?

Adnan

@Simon I don't like that guy

Scott Pack

Which one?

Adnan

@ScottPack The poster of that question

Simon

@Adnan Me neither.

Scott Pack

Do you know eddie?

Simon

4:11 PM

All he does is post his homework questions.

Scott Pack

You know what I hate?

Adnan

@ScottPack Do you know eddie?

Scott Pack

@Adnan I'm looking through some of his posts.

Adnan

@ScottPack Invalid flags?

Scott Pack

Looks like a bit of a tool.

@Adnan Your face.

I should probably make lunch.

Adnan

4:13 PM

@ScottPack Well, I happen to like it a lot.

Simon

I don't like how rude he is when his questions are pure shit.

Adnan

@Simon At least it's pure. I don't really like other particles in my shit.

Simon

@Adnan True.

Scott Pack

I haven't had corn in a while.

Adnan

What the hell is happening in that room?

This is the 3rd flag I'm getting from it

Simon

4:17 PM

@Adnan Huh?

The boss calls thing?

Adnan

@Simon Oh no, it's chat flags. You don't see that

Simon

@Adnan Thanks for reminding me how much I suck.

Adnan

Ahaaa.. it's Muslims flagging other Muslims

Simon

Religion war?

Scott Pack

Who cares.

These days I mark all flags as invalid.

Adnan

4:18 PM

@Simon Not exactly. They both seem to be very Muslims.

@ScottPack Same here

Scott Pack

I've yet to see a flag come through that's even reasonably offensive.

@Adnan There are many different sects of Islam, and they are even more annoyed with eachother than Christians.

2

ManishEarth

@Adnan What's the room? I'll notify the Temperance mods

Simon

The dude asked 7 questions and yet none of them has an upvote.

Adnan

@ScottPack That doesn't seem to be the case here.

Scott Pack

@Adnan meh

Adnan

4:20 PM

@ManishEarth This one chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10432359#10432359

ManishEarth

thx

Scott Pack

Personally, I feel that people tend to take religion too personally. Just because I disagree doesn't mean I'm saying that you're worthless.

Adnan

Ahaaaaa! One of them believes in evolution and the other doesn't.

Interesting.

ManishEarth

Ah, Al Ummat is there (a mod). So they already know

Scott Pack

That's a pretty hot topic over here too.

Adnan

4:21 PM

@ScottPack I disagree with you and you're worthless.

2

Simon

@Adnan Haha, so it's close to a religion war, except it's about beliefs :P

Scott Pack

@Adnan See now, those are two independent statements. You just happen to carry both of them.

Simon

Alright, I have no idea what he's trying to achieve but I hope he's gonna get what he deserves. Poly told him to stop asking HW questions here and the dude replied "so you don't know".

Adnan

@Simon You see, we're okay with homework questions. It's just that kind of questions we don't like.

We want to see that you made an effort.

Scott Pack

@Adnan That conversation is amusing. "You're asking actual questions that require thought and consideration! BAN THE INFIDEL!!"

@Adnan Right. Asking questions from homework is find with me. Doing your homework for you is not fine.

Simon

4:26 PM

@Adnan Yes exactly. At least, don't make it obvious that it's a hw question.

Adnan

@ScottPack Well, to avoid jumping to conclusions, I went through his profile.

He appears to be either an ex-Muslim or with good knowledge of Islam.

Scott Pack

What do you mean by avoid jumping to conclusions? I don't understand.

Gilles

@ScottPack oh, you've been visiting SO?

Adnan

@ScottPack Sorry, avoiding jumping to incorrect conclusions.

Scott Pack

@Gilles You take that back.

Gilles

4:30 PM

@ScottPack I'm too lazy to jump into conclusions, I prefer to slouch into them

Adnan

@Gilles That would apply much better to Meta.SO

Scott Pack

@Gilles I like the sound of that.

Jumping tends to spill my drink.

Adnan

He entered the chat with premise "there's no God". Like most religious individuals, the regulars there are incapable of processing such an outrageous claim.

While I agree with almost everything he said, I really think it wasn't such a great idea to go there.

I mean really, why would you rap to a Mozart concerto audience..

Simon

@Adnan That's one of the reasons why I dislike religion. A statement like this shouldn't make you mad, everybody has their own opinion.

@Adnan That'd be sick.

Scott Pack

@Adnan "Sick" is what hipsters say when they mean "neato".

Adnan

4:34 PM

@Simon Exactly. I mean they created a whole SE site with chat rooms and everything for that purpose. I don't think there's anything to fix them.

Just let them have fun with their beliefs.

@ScottPack and we all know how big of a hipster @Simon is.

Simon

Oh c'mon, I've been using the term "sick" since I'm a kid.

Back when hipster wasn't even a thing, alright?

Adnan

I hope you see the irony in your statement.

Simon

@Adnan That's the whole point :)

Adnan

Yup, I'm not following the conversation anymore. It's getting too YouTube-commenty.

Scott Pack

@Simon has been a hipster since before it was cool.

Simon

4:37 PM

@ScottPack Damn right.

Adnan

@ScottPack So before NULL ?

Scott Pack

Aw snap.

Adnan

5:06 PM

I've just tried your advice, guys. I've cooked some chicken stir-fry with olive oil.

Pretty neat.

Scott Pack

Nice

Unfortunately, StackExchange has no sites for questions on pubic problems. I heard there was an Area51 proposal for a "Relationship SE", but going to the nearest GP sounds safer. — Deer Hunter 11 mins ago

Adnan

Why do people delete their answers before -3. They're missing out on the peer-pressure badge

I must get it!

Scott Pack

I've been saying that for months.

Adnan

I'm now attempting.

Let's see

0

A: Possible to detect and log CORS and preflight requests in IIS?

In a web-server environment, there's no need for logging. The logging can be done client-side by using hashtables, as it's much more effective than server-side logging.

Scott Pack

5:25 PM

I want to see what maker has to say about that. Should be amusing.

Adnan

@ScottPack Have you UPvoted it?!

Come on! That's evil!

ManishEarth

6:11 PM

0

Q: Will space-related questions be migrated to SEx.SE (Space Exploration) after it goes public?

In two days, Space Exploration SE is going public. How will the migration of space-related questions proceed? Note: it is not my fault that the folks have chosen this moniker. After all, we have IT Security.SE (Sec.SE) and nobody complains.

discussion migration

You guys have been beaten

SEx.SE > Sec.SE

Simon

Like if space explorers would get the joke.

Gilles

there's only one way to resolve this!

ManishEarth

@Gilles IT Sexurity Stack Exchange?

Adnan

@Gilles Assassinate all space exploration mods and key members?

Gilles

@Adnan no, this isn't about murder.se

Simon

6:28 PM

murder.stackexchange.com

The panda is the murderer!

Adnan

@Simon Well, there's /r/murder

Simon

NCT

Gilles

@Simon with the ROP in the library?

Simon

@Gilles You got it!

Scott Pack

7:41 PM

@ManishEarth Son of a bitch!

TildalWave

8:06 PM

@Gilles - If you're here, you can unlock the CTF room now ;)

ManishEarth

8:42 PM

I'm here

TildalWave

9:05 PM

@ManishEarth cheers!

HamZa

9:23 PM

myscienceacademy.org/2013/07/12/…

Lucas Kauffman

9:42 PM

Getns

@Adnan thanks!

TildalWave

> "...might save civilization’s data for aliens if humankind is gone"

Lucas Kauffman

that edwardo guy is a douche :/

TildalWave

I always find quotes like this one really funny... if there's an alien civ out there that will find our recordings, they'd have to be at least as advanced as we are to read it... so, what could we possibly contribute except the laughs?

Gilles

@TildalWave archeology

AviD

@TildalWave why does everyone always assume that different civilizations will advance equally along the same paths?

TildalWave

9:50 PM

@AviD I'm not, I just assume our path is the lowest of the possible ones, and constantly being on the edge of self-annihilation kinds proves it

AviD

e.g. they might discover space travel, and advanced linguistics, but be sorely lacking other areas. Such as lolcats.

TildalWave

@AviD I did say "except the laughs" :P

AviD

@TildalWave I dont see how? we've advanced more in the destructive areas than in the ethics. or self-preservation.

TildalWave

@AviD and we still have big problems moving our asses to the nearest of planets

AviD

10:03 PM

@TildalWave give it 10, maybe 15 years. We have some big problems.

TildalWave

@AviD Too late for that IMO... and if I can be a bit more cynical, what storage medium do we store blueprints for the device to read this 1 million years medium? Or are "advanced alien civilisations" supposed to get it, because they tend to stick every little thingie they come along under an atomic microscope?

AviD

I'm leaning toward fifteen. There are a lot of them.

....

Adnan

@LucasKauffman That's understating it.

AviD

@TildalWave you're using our scientific concepts again.

TildalWave

@AviD Yeah... tough luck, don't think that'll ever happen. We'll be just as stupid when we settle other planets, as we're now, if not more.

@AviD OK,... so if I stop using "our" scientific concepts for a minute, how do we know that our planet isn't already littered with 1 million years old alien porn all over, we just didn't think of sticking every beach pebble under a microscope, or something?

AviD

10:10 PM

@TildalWave ah, there ya go!

ooo those pebbles are so damn hot....

Scott Pack

So. Allegedly I have the permissions to vote to delete questions on SF. Where the fuck is it?

TildalWave

@AviD Cute too, if you bother to look close enough :)

@ScottPack Probably on posts voted as low q?

AviD

@TildalWave oh shit, you just reinvented Scientology, all over again.

only a slightly pervier version of it.

TildalWave

@AviD noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adnan

@ScottPack I don't think you get that at 10k

Scott Pack

10:12 PM

@TildalWave where is the option to cast a delete vote.

TildalWave

@ScottPack How would I know? My max on SE is 6k something :P I'm just screwing with you :))

Scott Pack

Adnan

@ScottPack Oh wait, you do have that option.

AviD

@ScottPack between the close button and the flag button?

Scott Pack

@AviD Where?

TildalWave

10:15 PM

security.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools

Adnan

> You must wait for a question to be closed for 2 days before you can vote for deletion. This restriction is removed for trusted users.

TildalWave

It says there the delete option is in the close options

AviD

Adnan

@AviD The question needs to be closed for 2 days before 10Ks can vote to delete it

Scott Pack

@AviD I don't see the delete option.

Adnan

10:17 PM

@ScottPack Duuuude!

AviD

@ScottPack need them freehands?

Adnan

> You must wait for a question to be closed for 2 days before you can vote for deletion. This restriction is removed for trusted users.

AviD

@Adnan ah, well, there ya go

Scott Pack

TildalWave

@AviD only took 3 tries :)

Scott Pack

10:18 PM

So can only closed questions be voted on?

AviD

@ScottPack unless you're ~~god~~ mod

Adnan

@AviD Or have 20K

TildalWave

@ScottPack I believe also any other low-q & spam flagged posts?

Gilles

@ScottPack yes, deletion is only for questions that have been closed for at least 2 days

it's not a very useful privilege

seeing deleted posts is a lot more useful

at 20k, you can also delete answers with a negative score (and questions that have been closed for less than 2 days, but you shouldn't do that)

Adnan

@Gilles I wish I could see deleted comments.

Gilles

10:27 PM

@Adnan that's mod-only, and even then has only existed for a year or so

Adnan

@Gilles Well, I guess I don't need to write answers anymore. I thought that at 20k you can see deleted comments.

Gilles

@Adnan 20k also lets you edit tag wikis without supervision

Adnan

@Gilles The most sought-after privilege on the SE network.

Simon

@Adnan Yes, it's the only reason why I'm here.

TildalWave

@Gilles Were you doing this CTF much at all? I didn't have time to follow our progress much

Gilles

10:33 PM

@TildalWave a bit, I solved two easy challenges

I'll post write-ups later

TildalWave

@Gilles oh nice, thanks!

I already posted my 2/3 successful one... I had 20 minutes to spare

shoot, I just realized I can't use tw@... for my email address :))

HamZa

10:59 PM

@TildalWave They don't exist, some humans just hope desperately in their existence

TildalWave

11:09 PM

@HamZa what do you mean? sure aliens exist... they're just not too civilized :P you probably mean "extraterrestrials"? :))

HamZa

@TildalWave lolwut aren't they the same ?

TildalWave

@HamZa well not really...

> Alien: Adjective: Belonging to a foreign country or nation. Noun: A foreigner, esp. one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living.

HamZa

@TildalWave Hmmm ok

TildalWave

@HamZa just joking, we all know who we meant :P

HamZa

@TildalWave I know, but extraterrest sounds more specific

Does anyone know a good site with CTF write ups to learn some tricks ?

TildalWave

11:20 PM

@HamZa ctftime.org/event/83/tasks this should get you started, but check the blogs it links to also for other CTFs

HamZa

@TildalWave thx

@TildalWave I've found something in french for ufoctf ...

TildalWave

@HamZa link me

HamZa

http://hexpresso.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/ufoctf-2013-aliensgif-write-up/
On the sidebar there are other writeups

TildalWave

@HamZa damn that stego with the flashing gif image is easy... I've nearly solved it another way now in 2 minutes... I've replaced the main colour of each frame with gray and I can see the binary message at the top of each frame... damn

HamZa

11:38 PM

in PHP on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 days ago, by tereško

php 6.0 should introduce E_DOESNT_WORK and E_LOLWUT

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