> type denotes the message digest algorithm that was used to generate m. It usually is one of NID_sha1, NID_ripemd160 and NID_md5; see objects(3) for details.
1. according to Netbeans, there are no variables starting with NID
2. what the fuck is objects(3)?
There is no such fucking manpage anywhere on the internet
A bug report was filed in 2007 for the issue of objects(3) not existing despite being referenced by 5 other man pages.
OpenSSL is a bit of a mess. If I had to code against it I'd be tempted to try to use the command line utilities whenever possible, instead of interacting with the code :p
I generated a 2048 bit private key file with the openssl genrsa command and got a 1679 byte file.
> The big mistake is thinking Lisp is going to grow by first being adopted in Tall Buildings. They are the drones, the lemmings, the sheep. They follow where We the Blessed Gurus lead them. But this time it is to the slaughterhouse, because the world needs only fifty Lisp programmers to write All the Code.
> I struggle to learn C#. It's like someone put a pile of @#$% together and called it a language. Every time I think I'm starting to get the hang of it, they add another turd to the pile, and it doesn't look smell or taste like any of the other turds. There's no rhyme or reason - it's not architecture, it's one turd on top of another.
I need public cryptography working on key pairs that can be saved each in chunks of 128 bits.
I don't care how weak it is, I just need to be able to call it public cryptography and I just need to be able to do signatures and signature verification with them
If you want to send encrypted e-mail what you need to do depends on what e-mail client you're using. If you're using gmail, for instance, there are browser plugins available which enable S/MIME support.
Alternately, you could use the smime command line tool to encrypt and decrypt the messages. ...
okay so the guy who i have had a crush on for 6 months asked me out to a dance. I said yes and we had a GREAT time. We ended up slow dancing together! When i went home, we were texting and i summoned the courage to ask him if he liked me more than a friend. He said "i think so. I'm.....not sure w...
So, SMS gateways are expensive, and shortcodes are uber expensive.
Cell phone service with unlimited texting is cheap.
I wonder what would happen if you ran a commercial asking people to text your home phone number, and wrote an Android/iOS app to pass the texts from your phone to a web service to process them.
How many thousand texts before someone cuts off your unlimited messaging?
In the Stack Overflow JavaScript room, we wanted to add the feeds of the blogs of several prominent JavaScript developers. This is what we got:
This sucks. The format is totally usable, there's no indication of which goes to what (the top link goes to the feed URL, the bottom link links to th...
their way of dealing with being a crappy little state, maybe, like NV with gambling
" If you request forwarding of Mail across national borders, you acknowledge that compliance with international laws and treaties requires us to open and inspect all packages and all letters that might contain something other than documents before forwarding such items to another country, and you grant us your consent to open any such packages delivered to us in your name. "
> Discovered I was suspended without any reason thanks to some whiny little kid butthurt I didn't accept his answer. I asked another very different question and it was flagged and reported by the same little bitch which got me suspended. I respond with covert offensive penetration into his web assets but decide I am overreacting. I am back again.
@badp Well it's obvious now since she's in the developmental community management team that she should leverage her position to encourage blue sky thinking and foster comradery amongst the end-user base in the real-time messaging environment here on the sister site of the world's largest programming Q&A site to create extraneous synergy that value-adds to the main functionality of this interwebsite
@RebeccaChernoff Of course. The topic of whether or not you want to leverage your position to encourage blue sky thinking and foster comradery amongst the end-user base in the real-time messaging environment here on the sister site of the world's largest programming Q&A site to create extraneous synergy that value-adds to the main functionality of this interwebsite is an exceedingly interesting one
- high altitude view
- holistic approach
- blue sky thinking
- think outside the box
- on/off my radar
- brain dump
- good to go
- raise the flagpole
- heads-up
- touch base
- grey area
- bandwidth
- let's take that offline
- cascade information
- 360-degree
- drop the ball
- take a rain check
- going forward
- sort the wheat from the chaff
- singing from the same hymn sheet
- my door is open on this issue
- the use of 'did we...' when someone blatantly means 'did you' (this was the company's highest earner)
> Council leaders have compiled a banned list of the 200 worst uses of jargon, with "predictors of beaconicity" and "taxonomy" among the worst horrors.
> The shot captures the leader of the free world, in relaxed and expansive mode, with a wide-eyed and slightly open-mouthed Zuckerberg in full-on deer-in-headlights mode.
@arex1337 With upvoting as 'liberal' as it is now, surely giving people the chance to vote before they even see the contents of the post is a bad idea?
@arex1337 it's a perfectly fine question, but I find it a very bad idea. We have too much upvoting of bad questions as it is. Not having to look at the question before upvoting would, if anything, make the problem worse. Remember that negative vote scores are the main metric for the "low quality questions" detection system.
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This now works as expected:
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@TimStone and anyone else who was following me yesterday, I got a response to my inquiry. That home really is $950! Here's her reply...
> Hello, how do you do ? Thanks for the interest in my House,my house is still available for rent and is located at xxx, quite and safe I only need someone that can take good care of the house at my absence because right now am not around i just secured a contract in London of which i will not be back until after 2years.
> And am here with the house keys and document, i tried to look for managent before i left but couldn't get any in time.If you know that you have a good reference and a good crediential you can email me back to secure and occupy my house at my absent.
Oh boy, I am going to have fun with this crackpot!
> Pet is permitted with the necessary pet security deposit etc. Renters will be required to pay First month $950 and a $650 Refundable Security Deposit prior to occupancy. This is a new listing in a highly desirable location. All email correspondence will be answered. Please walk by first.! There is also high speed wireless internet access.Pets acceptable (deposit required).
> References a must., Hope you are Okay with the rent fee of $950 per month and a $650 Earnest security Deposit to Hold Property , get back to me asap because i need a tenant urgently and i can also forward the application form to you, if you are interested. Have a nice day.
$950/mo for a home that should be $2000/mo, with a $650 security deposit!?!?!? Yeah that doesn't sound like a scam in the slightest bit...
Now taking bets as to what country the scammer is in! I vote Nigeria.
@TheRenamedException I would follow up on it just for the laughs. She'll be unexpectedly called to London soon, so could you please send the deposit by wire transfer so she can reserve it for you? She'll have somebody come round with the keys.
@TheRenamedException yeah! For example, you could be called for an urgent business trip to London, too, and arrange to hand over the deposit in cash at Heathrow. The possibilities are endless!
@Pekka yes, I sent the link to this client of mine. She had her facebook account hacked and someone asked all her friends for money; two weeks later some Nigerian put her mother's house up for rent unbeknowns to the mother
Although it's a dangerous business: Several people who got ruined by a scam and then actually went to Nigeria or wherever the scammers were located, never came back
@Pekka yes. Fortunetly none of her friends sent any money, and the damage was not done to her mother, it was to the poor family who showed up at the mother's door ready to move in. Needless to say the mother was... shocked.
@Pekka Don't worry, I will not be traveling to Nigeria ;-)
> But who beyond a vanishingly small minority will care about your reputation on “Atheism”, “Board and Card Games,” or “English Language and Usage,” to pick three new StackExchange sites?
Although the author probably has a point in that some sites with huge potential are never going to be created with the current audience, e.g. law. There are simply too few expert programmers who at the same time are expert lawpeople
@Pekka - That will naturally solve itself over time. As sites like Cooking draw more people, we quickly move past just sites that 'programmers' propose.
The one thing that the article doesn't even come close to touching is how involved the community is with new site creation. People devote a lot of time to getting betas off the ground.
Then we have pro-tem mods like the ones on Programmers SE that took a potential train wreck and guided it into a very useful resource
@TimPost mm yeah, but I don't think that is necessarily going to lead to a core of expert lawpeople starting a law site. I could see SE partnering up with a site or organization in the field to get something like that off the ground.... But time will tell, and they are likely to be thinking about this stuff a lot
@Pekka what you mean to say is it works pretty well for programmers. Part of my job is HIPAA/HITECH compliance. The same lawyers who are brilliant in court also store stuff that should never be put on line in dropbox
It's not too bad: Pick a local college with a law school, and offer the students $1 a question to post their homework to the SE site. They will attempt to answer each others questions, often getting it wrong. This will lead to their professors answering the questions correctly, because nobody can handle someone else being wrong on the internet.
@TimPost I was referring to completely different people coexisting because they share the same profession. SO is full of entirely different people with massively varying backgrounds and pay grades, and still they manage to coexist
By the way folks, while my name does show up in blue the purpose of this room is casual fun, banter and conversation. The only thing I act on is profanity or creepy stalkers, so don't feel like you need to redact your posts (to me) just because they might seem heated.
I think Popular Demand put it best:
It's a well-known fact that all the best taverns follow a specific naming convention. "The Brass Lantern," "The Prancing Pony," "The Drunken Clam," "The Mended Drum,"... they're all "The [Descriptor] [Noun]." Unfortunately, the tavern we're in isn't so bles...
Is anyone else having an issue loading meta.stackoverflow.com/questions and question pages? Page content seems to show up for me, but my browser continues "loading" it indefinitely while "waiting for www.gravatar.com"
I don't get where people picked up the habit "I want to leave a comment -- better edit the other user's post". It's not like that on forums; where do people get that?
I really hope people aren't applying Wikipedia Talk page principles to SO. And in that case it was the question asker doing the edit, so it wasn't
I just realized the comedy of users being able to edit posts before they can comment on them
I'm starting to wish they had "convert to comment" for suggested edits; I find myself manually posting comments on behalf of other users just like I used to do for answers
@RebeccaChernoff Lemme know when you have a second to look at the reorganized chat script. I think I'm getting the last of the kinks worked out of it, but I wanted to make sure you don't see anything terribly wrong about it before I pull it into the main repository.
@MichaelMrozek do you think it would be easier to moderate if everyone could comment without mod intervention? It seems to me like that would be a whole new can of worms...
@JasonPlank The problem is people can't comment right away, and they can't even know that they can't comment, because the UI hides the "add comment" link, so instead they edit their post, or suggest an edit on somebody else's post. They're failing because they don't know any better, and it's been happening for ages
If you're clarifying, then go for it, but there are uses for comments. And askers can comment on answers to their own question anyway; it's other people that are stuck with no options
If you're new and you see an answer and it's wrong, you can't downvote it, you can't comment on it, and you can't comment on the question. You can suggest an edit that adds "BTW this is wrong", or you can post your own answer that says "I don't know the answer, but answer X is wrong". Both of those are the wrong thing to do, but since they're the only options, that's exactly what happens
You can comment on your own answer at any level, right?
@MichaelMrozek If so, it seems like there would be a pretty narrow set of use cases for unprivileged users needing to make comments, although in practice (judging by what you've been saying) it doesn't seem very narrow.
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Or if you meant bona-fide new questions to clarify other questions, well... that could get really meta-heavy very quickly, whereas it could have been taken care of with two comments and no additional clutter.
If you want to send encrypted e-mail what you need to do depends on what e-mail client you're using. If you're using gmail, for instance, there are browser plugins available which enable S/MIME support.
Alternately, you could use the smime command line tool to encrypt and decrypt the messages. ...
In the Stack Overflow JavaScript room, we wanted to add the feeds of the blogs of several prominent JavaScript developers. This is what we got:
This sucks. The format is totally usable, there's no indication of which goes to what (the top link goes to the feed URL, the bottom link links to th...
what percentage of open source projects are in use, and how are they allowed to still ship a software claiming it's all proprietary?
Bold & Italic
This now works as expected:
Let me ***emphasize*** this
turns into
Let me emphasize this
Codeblocks in multiple backticks
This is new, and almost works like in regular markdown now:
```code with one ` or two `` backticks```
becomes
code with one ` or two...
I think Popular Demand put it best:
It's a well-known fact that all the best taverns follow a specific naming convention. "The Brass Lantern," "The Prancing Pony," "The Drunken Clam," "The Mended Drum,"... they're all "The [Descriptor] [Noun]." Unfortunately, the tavern we're in isn't so bles...
// If you use selectors multiple times, always cache them into variables, else jQuery has to search for them multiple times.
var $cont = $('.cont'),
$expandAll = $('#expandAll'),
$trigger = $('.trigger');
function expandAll() {
$cont.removeClass('hid');
$trigger.html('-');...