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I enjoyed myself waaaaaaaaay too much :laugh: Basically a 3-year drinking binge, couldn't believe I got a 2:1 at the end of it. This years sports alumni weekend was a harsh reminder that I can't take it anymore though :laugh: Was Mike Sanderson (mainly java prof) there during your time?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
:laugh: Yes most of my friends would probably say similar. I never touched a drop and was usually thought to be amongst the drunkest in any given gathering. Mike Sanderson was indeed there in my time (I bet he doesn't remember it though :laugh: ) He lectured us on Occam and related parallel languages. He wrote an Occam interpretter which worked on a single processor machine but apparently replicated true non deterministic parallelism, scared the hell out of most of the other academics. Does his tounge still wander out of his mouth while he's talking and wave around like an independent animal without seeming to affect his speech? It took a while to get used to that :laugh: Definitely the smartest stoner I've ever met. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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:laugh: Yes most of my friends would probably say similar. I never touched a drop and was usually thought to be amongst the drunkest in any given gathering. Mike Sanderson was indeed there in my time (I bet he doesn't remember it though :laugh: ) He lectured us on Occam and related parallel languages. He wrote an Occam interpretter which worked on a single processor machine but apparently replicated true non deterministic parallelism, scared the hell out of most of the other academics. Does his tounge still wander out of his mouth while he's talking and wave around like an independent animal without seeming to affect his speech? It took a while to get used to that :laugh: Definitely the smartest stoner I've ever met. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Yup he's still got the same voice. In one lecture I decided to write down every word that got "emphasised" to see if it was some sort of hidden message, turns out it wasn't :laugh: 9am lectures with him are the worst, when he shouts a word it's a real shock to the system, especially over LTB6/7's sound system.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Yup he's still got the same voice. In one lecture I decided to write down every word that got "emphasised" to see if it was some sort of hidden message, turns out it wasn't :laugh: 9am lectures with him are the worst, when he shouts a word it's a real shock to the system, especially over LTB6/7's sound system.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
I have to admit I seldom made it a 9am lecture but I can imagine :laugh: I don't remember much a sound system although I suppose they had one in LTB6/7. I guess they must have a had a refit or two since my day. Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar? :-D
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I have to admit I seldom made it a 9am lecture but I can imagine :laugh: I don't remember much a sound system although I suppose they had one in LTB6/7. I guess they must have a had a refit or two since my day. Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar? :-D
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar?
Think too much time may have passed for that, neither ring a bell, but a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++ :laugh: In the 3 years I was there, Level2 was just refitted, the underground has had a full overhaul costing the SU a bomb, so much so that they can't afford to run the best feature of the new underground... the air conditioning :laugh: So it's still a sweaty pit in there on fridays, also the SU bar is supposed to be getting a refit this summer. Another new thing is the second LTB building, the "tin can" built by the car park. It was a much nicer place to have the graduation ceremony, I heard is used to be squeezed in the main LTB.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Corinna John wrote:
The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
Firstly, you're too nice, that email would have landed in my deleted folder fairly fast. Secondly, damn you! Now I spent an hour in which I should be doing boring DB data synchroniztion instead trying to figure out how to encode information in an audio file that would be undetectable to the average human ear and yet survive compression :P
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar?
Think too much time may have passed for that, neither ring a bell, but a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++ :laugh: In the 3 years I was there, Level2 was just refitted, the underground has had a full overhaul costing the SU a bomb, so much so that they can't afford to run the best feature of the new underground... the air conditioning :laugh: So it's still a sweaty pit in there on fridays, also the SU bar is supposed to be getting a refit this summer. Another new thing is the second LTB building, the "tin can" built by the car park. It was a much nicer place to have the graduation ceremony, I heard is used to be squeezed in the main LTB.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
Phannon wrote:
a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++
:-D Dave Lyons, a superb bloke, I expect he's still making gadgets for the disabled in his spare time (except around Christmas obviously :laugh: ). Air conditioning in the underground :omg: . It just wouldn't be the same without being a sweaty pit. They had a smoke machine in there in my day that used to produce smelly off colour smoke generally known as custard. 500 people , 'Goats Don't Shave' on the stage and the floor a 1/4 inch deep in stout in a room full of custard, now those were the days :cool: I'm glad Level 2 survived, they were talking about scrapping it the last I heard. If I started going on about that place and the things that happend there I'd be here till midnight. Anyway its good to know the old place is still fun and it sounds like they're still growing too.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I am always mildly surprised when someone who is or wishes to be a professional .NET developer spends any time at all trash-talking one of the two main .NET languages. As near as I can tell, VB & C# split about 85% of all .NET jobs more or less equally. Not knowing both, very well, is a foolish choice, unless you just aren't smart enough to handle both. I do know that there are Devs who have all the work they could possibly want and who chose to work in a single language. I respect and admire them. The vast majority of people in our profession are not in that boat and pretending they are is not the best career move one can make. This is, obviously, my opinion, and is worth every penny you paid for it.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Don't second-guess the spam filter.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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If he had said something like "I too and intersted in steganography and am studying it in college, I've seen your articles and know you are an expert on the subject, I have one small question about [insert extremely technical question about steganography here] that I am stumped on, I've tried this approach [insert extremely technical approach here] and this approach [etc], can you point me in the right direction?" then I'm sure you'd be happy to help out. What he actually wrote is "I'm over my head and lazy, do my work for me". Just ignore it, no good can come of answering that message.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Ah, help the guy out. Write his entire application for him, get it all nice and ready to go so he justs needs to run it for his final grade. Convice him to show it to the entire class... But neglect to tell him that halfway thru, it'll pop up the Hamster Dance in a continous loop with the words "School Sux" that only a complete system reboot will stop. I can almost bet he'd never check it/run it prior to class.
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I never knew you'd post my email publicly and humiliate me like this. :(( ;P
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Well, I haven't heard from the email's sender, yet. Maybe he'll never show up again. :-D
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Corinna John wrote:
The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
Firstly, you're too nice, that email would have landed in my deleted folder fairly fast. Secondly, damn you! Now I spent an hour in which I should be doing boring DB data synchroniztion instead trying to figure out how to encode information in an audio file that would be undetectable to the average human ear and yet survive compression :P
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
Have you found a way by now? I was content with a way to make it undetectable for common human brains though the human ears hear the change. That means, the ears send notice to the brain, but the brain says "calm down, I know such noises, they just happen".
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Ah, help the guy out. Write his entire application for him, get it all nice and ready to go so he justs needs to run it for his final grade. Convice him to show it to the entire class... But neglect to tell him that halfway thru, it'll pop up the Hamster Dance in a continous loop with the words "School Sux" that only a complete system reboot will stop. I can almost bet he'd never check it/run it prior to class.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Corinna John wrote:
But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression.
Don't. He openly admits he's willing to cheat on his final test. Even if he's 100% true about his motives, you are not responsible to uphhold his parents illusions that the college money wasn't wasted. Here's the nicest way to deal with him, without hurting other strangers: Ask him to show what he already did. If he's stuck with a few isolated problems you can help with, do so. But if you truly believe he couldn't pull it off alone*, tell him you can't write his final test for him. I guess that sounds harsh for oyu (otherwise oyu wouldn't consider sending hm the code?), but there are two reasons for this: His parents happiness for the rest of their life may indeed depend on his graduation*. He may move to some field that fits him better and everything turns out well. But you don't know them. If you knew he couldn't make it, would you lie to his parents face to face about his skills? I strongly believe you have the right to make this decision, but I don't think you have enough information for that. Second: He's still a stranger. The internet, with informality of e-mail, blurs the classic definitions of friends vs. strangers, so maybe these definitions are outdated. However, he has the same "strangerness status" as all parents foregoing their own wishes to give their kid a good college education, all teachers, as anyone who has yet to figure out that charming boy with the good grades is actually an unskilled poser. Most of these strangers, if they could send you an e-mail now, would tell you to not send the code.
or, if that doesn't convince you, the short version: If he can't work it out from your articles, he shouldn't graduate. *) or, say, mostly alone with use of a telephone joker for one question **) my mom was shattered when I told her I wouldn't get a diploma, much less be the professor she always saw me as. It hurt her, it hurt me, but it was a heavy load taken from both of us.
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Well, I haven't heard from the email's sender, yet. Maybe he'll never show up again. :-D
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I'd say you're rather too nice. I delete all such emails instantly. :)
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Have you found a way by now? I was content with a way to make it undetectable for common human brains though the human ears hear the change. That means, the ears send notice to the brain, but the brain says "calm down, I know such noises, they just happen".
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Corinna John wrote:
Have you found a way by now? I was content with a way to make it undetectable for common human brains though the human ears hear the change. That means, the ears send notice to the brain, but the brain says "calm down, I know such noises, they just happen".
I was just thinking about this again. Answer: not really. Anything I can think of would either modify the sound such that a sensitive would hear it, be subject to entropy via compression or carry such little bandwidth as to be pointless. I shall leave this for now to your mighty steganographic brain :)
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh: