Hacker News: ropers

New comment by ropers in "Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)"

ropers — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:11:52 +0000

It turns out I'm an idiot. I should have provided sixth bits (00100000, \040, 32, 0x20) for your XORing pleasure:

%20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20

My mistake.

New comment by ropers in "Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)"

ropers — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:56:30 +0000

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

New comment by ropers in "DRM in the cinema"

ropers — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:54:29 +0000

> the industry is shifting – not only its medium, not only its focus, but with it – and most significantly for theatres like us – it’s shifting the element of control

That's a bingo. Like with so many things DRM, where rights are no longer balanced and only the concerns of one side, the DRM-issuing side are ever taken into account, this is a power-grab.

New comment by ropers in "Apple's officially over the optical drive, for better or worse"

ropers — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:08:17 +0000

Did the author really just omit any mention of USB flash drives in that article? Or am I just slightly blind?

New comment by ropers in "Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress""

ropers — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:43:01 +0000

*statute

New comment by ropers in "Top Programming Fonts"

ropers — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:34:45 +0000

Would you consider taking a screenshot of how that looks?

New comment by ropers in "'Steal everything' era of hacking"

ropers — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:53:39 +0000

> The hack, which has led to the network being unavailable for over a week, has left observers wondering if a company as vast and seemingly advanced as Sony can get hit, who out there is safe?

Thank you, Dave Lee, for revealing early on in the article that you don't understand the subject matter and that the article won't be worth reading.

New comment by ropers in "WSJ Responds to Safehouse Security and Anonymity"

ropers — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:40:24 +0000

Leaking things to Murdoch?

Hell no!

PS: I think it's pretty clear who will be "leaking" things there: Lobbyists and PR firms who want to further insulate their wholly aware paymasters from accountability.

New comment by ropers in "Russian tycoon buys Warner Music for $3.3bn"

ropers — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:08:31 +0000

Does the "tycoon" hold US or Russian citizenship (or both)?

New comment by ropers in "The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code"

ropers — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:55:52 +0000

Or try Coral Cache:

http://dirkriehle.com.nyud.net/2011/05/01/the-parser-that-cr...

"It worked for me." ;-)

New comment by ropers in "Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies"

ropers — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:06:28 +0000

This reminds me of a similarly unethical behaviour I've encountered recently: I tried to buy a certain rare electronics component, and found it listed by a bunch of people. There were lots of bait-and-switchers in the Google results, who only had the part listed for the googlebot to pick up, but as soon as I actually tried to order the part, their site told me they didn't actually have it and suggested I buy something else from them.

It gets worse: When I finally did find a seller who allowed me to order the part, they accepted my order -- and then came back later saying that, oh no, actually they didn't have it either, but would I like to convert my order into an order for something else? (Fuck off.)

I still don't have the part.

New comment by ropers in "Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies"

ropers — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:54:14 +0000

And that's how the American economy "works".