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I can't tell when it was added, but I'm pretty sure it's been like this for a long time. By the way, I just checked the settings. It's only 5 posts, not 10.

A link to his website where he claims to be a big shot "hacker" (read: cracker/script kiddie). I removed the link. thorpe is no longer an admin, but I'd wager he would have removed it himself had he been. It might well have looked weird after the signature was removed. I don't have, and never will have, respect for egotripping script kiddies who find joy in others' suffering though. Few people do, and that is why he was met with a harsh response.

You're missing the point. He is the one bringing insult by using the "term" hacker in that way, and by claiming to be one apparently without even knowing what it means. This is a programming community, and there are different "rules" and norms associated with a such one. Hacking has nothing to do with breaking into stuff. Given the context he has chosen to act in, it's quite ludicrous that you say we are insulting him. See this (and the rest of the document). A few quotes for the lazy readers:

I can guarantee you that he would have been picked on the same way even if he was 50 years old. I don't see why he should have special treatment just because he is 14 years old. He wasn't picked on due to his age, but do to the things he said.

You have to do that until you have 10 posts. Then it'll go away.

Many people frequently use multiple computers. Having to log in all the time would be a pain in the ass for normal sites like this.

Are you looking for work, or do you wish to discuss the feasibility of this?

What the difference would be? Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see the similarity...

See the sticky.

I can easily judge your programming skills by your posts here. Oh really? I've never heard of him. What kind of major accomplishments has he made? Why would I? I see nothing off interest there. You lost it yourself... You don't proclaim yourself a hacker. You get that title by being recognized by other hackers. Real hackers like Eric Raymond or Linus Torvalds for instance.

Sounds more like "I found some program on the internet that allowed me to do some cool shit without having any real skill. I like doing stuff like that because it gives me an ego trip so I can play tough buy behind the keyboard." I've taken a look at your posts here, and there is no way you would possibly qualify for the hacker title. You're nothing more than a script kiddie, and calling yourself a hacker (again, do not confuse hackers with crackers, who are also low-life scum) is an insult to people with real skill. Stop making a fool out of yourself.

No, encryption does by definition have an inverse function. MD5 is not encryption though. No it doesn't. Hashing is by definition not inverse. The people who made that site don't know what they're talking about and should take a basic math course. See this topic: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,254277.0.html

Well, notice anything wrong here? height=\"280\" width=\"400\"

Change if (strlen($bots <> $badbot)) { to if (strtolower($bots) != strtolower($badbot)) {

If you want case-insensitivity, make both of them lower case (or uppercase, it doesn't matter). 'Foo' != 'foo', but because strtolower('Foo') == 'foo', strtolower('Foo') == 'foo', but also strtolower('FOO') == 'foo' and strtolower('foO') == 'foo' and so on. Get it?

There is no reason why it cannot be expanded to cover all real numbers, hence the reason why it has been done in some fields outside of number theory. It's not just some BS I made up.

That is exactly my point, so why not tell us what this is all about? It's not like we don't want to help you, but if we don't know what you're trying to do it will be a little difficult.

How many times does 1 go into 1.25? 1 time with a remainder of 0.25. How many times does 0.2 go into 1.1? 5 times with a remainder of 0.1. It can easily be extended to support real numbers as well.

Strictly speaking, what you are and are not permitted to do depends on the copyright laws in your country and the license under which the content is published. Because something is published to you it doesn't mean you're allowed to further publish it. Quoting a blog post or something like that would fall under fair use in most copyright laws. For real legal advice you should consult a lawyer in your legal jurisdiction though. In any case, a full reference and attribution to the original source would be good style.

I would imagine something like this: Nobody is on (or everyone has a chat partner) and user X clicks the button. Considering there is no person to pair him up with, he'll be put on hold. Now user Y comes and there is a person waiting for him when he clicks the button so he gets paired up with user X who was on hold.

Did you try it? Doing so you'll find out. Much faster than waiting for someone to respond here Check out the manual page for mail() though.

No, you can kindly ask the user agent not to cache it, but you cannot prevent it or force people not to. Once you send me the data, I can do whatever I want with it.

For some reason, PHP's modulo operator can only return an integer. (int).25===0. You can use fmod to get a float instead. Edit: To clarify, the operands of % get converted to an integer, not the result. This means that for all integers a, a%1=0.

The difference lies in that you can generate an array during runtime whereas a switch statement is created at compile time. If you are only ever going to use those four, it would technically speaking be better because you don't need to allocate memory for all the other strings. Surely you can see the portability and scaling issues though. However, do note that array indices start at 0 and not 1. It has to do with the internal representation of arrays. It simply makes more sense to start from 0. If you ever learn a language like C you'll know why. Nothing is missing. Break is optional, and in particular with the last case doesn't it matter. It breaks implicitly at the end of the block anyway. Of course you might argue that it's better style to add it anyway, but that's an entirely different matter. @CV: I would imagine it's way faster generating one pseudo-random number than shuffling an array and selecting the new first element.

If you're so confident that your idea is so awesome, why haven't you filed a patent application yet*? Why do you think people won't "steal" your idea (that you want us to figure out, mind you) after you've launched? Competition is what keeps making products better and better. You are "stealing" other people's ideas as well, aren't you? * Note that I'm in principle against software patents, but considering it's a legal possibility, I of course cannot deny people their lawful right to obtain and enforce such ones.