also a side note, the company is still 74% in the hands of the Walloon government and each year about 200 P90's are smuggled out of the factory in parts
they've done some really dodgy stuff in the past as well, like selling to Ghadaffi. Then when they realized he was shooting his own people, and received an official inquiry they just said "Here's a paper Ghadaffi signed where he promisses he wouldn't use it against his own people"
@LucasKauffman yeah, ish - its a legal thing, so companies have to just accept it. There is the (equivalent of) Social Security that pays companies for their employees time, and the companies just pay the regular salaries as if nothing.
Or you can just take the pay straight from the Social Security, e.g. if you're not employed.
@RoryAlsop More like hurling a chain with two rocks on the end, amirite
Looks like Norway is determined to beat the idiocy of the Germany Music Rip-off organization (GEMA):
In Norway, if you publicly perform a recorded musical work where the performer has abandoned all rights by using CC0, or the artist simply declare that the recording is in the public domain, you are obliged to pay a levy to a solidarity fund for performing artists, managed by the collection society GRAMO. I doubt that performers expected (or wanted) this to happen. While (AFAIK) there are no similar legal hazard when CC0 is applied to software, these legal tools tend to lead to unexpected effects and OSI recognizes this problem and do not put them on their list of approved licenses. — Free Radical3 hours ago
First time I've got the following message on SO:
Too many of your edits were rejected,
try again in 7 days.
Although, I have made ~50 accepted edits this day.
I'm sure that should outweigh the ~5 rejected edits, right?
My suggestion:
bool allowEdit(USER u)
{
if(u.rejected * 5 > u...
This is why we need to make sure that we read proposed edits and reject if they don't work, otherwise this sort of thing keeps happening. I think people are now spotting his edits even before they see his name, as they are uniformly bad, and I've had to contact him already
Anybody know how long from the end of the election until the results are out? (And yes, I know I could download the data, and go download and install the program, and crunch the numbers myself, but I don't wanna.)
@raz @etherealflux Speaking of debugger fun, I remember a story from a guy who worked on C++ team at Microsoft, specifically on the debugger. One of the things that they do to test, is that they actually do their day-to-day development using the latest nightly builds of Visual Studio. So he was explaining that a bug had been filed against the debugger, and he was having an..."interesting" time trying to debug the debugger while using the buggy version of the debugger to debug.
I was thinking about creating my own hash+salt function, something like sha1(password + md5(login)), then I read here (part 4) that creating it's own hash+salt function is a bad idea, because if the hacker retrieve database content and code he can understand the mecanism behind it.
So I've read ...
@etherealflux I'm sure the team that came up with it was enormously pleased with how clever they were, as they made bad design decision after bad design decision.
Even when I pulled the 3 consecutive months of 100hr weeks, I was still not sleeping over 6 hrs a night at the end of it. Was a bit tired, and a tad grumpy, but felt fine
@Simon Don't get me wrong, the job was awesome. If I didn't have a family I would still be doing it. Travelling the world, staying in 5 star hotels, hacking banks, talking with movers and shakers
First time I've got the following message on SO:
Too many of your edits were rejected,
try again in 7 days.
Although, I have made ~50 accepted edits this day.
I'm sure that should outweigh the ~5 rejected edits, right?
My suggestion:
bool allowEdit(USER u)
{
if(u.rejected * 5 > u...
