I was finished with this thread (just to avoid that). If what I wrote him, is not enough... there is nothing else we can do. M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Than I'm sure you can appreciate why one if they could avoid it would ass off documenting someone else's Excel Macro. It's one thing when it's your code but another when it's someone you don't even know; aren't familiar with how they code. And to top it off there is of course ZERO notes/documentation in the macro. I know that even a year from now I'm not always going to remember everything important about some code I created so I document it extensively going so far as to also include my thinking of why I choose to do something the way I did and that has saved my butt more than once. This wasn't ion VBA but some SQL code where my boss had me change some logic and a year later it was an issue and he wanted to know why it had been changed and because I documented that in the script I was able to say "because you told me on XX date to change it".

I agree; but what is actually happening from the VPN's point of view? I'm not sure of what's being run from where; or if the "host" has changed access rules. "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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pen and paper - Is there a simple hash function that one can compute without a computer? - Cryptography Stack Exchange[^] Second answer has an example that explains the concept :) Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

Every game patch note document I've ever seen has always had at least one "Various balance and performance improvements" line item. That said, balances that are applied to a select few individuals/teams that I've heard of are algorithmically determined based on Level/League Rank or something similar. And I've only heard about them in respect to competitive games like Overwatch, LoL, etc... A recent kerfuffle in one community (can't recall which now) had to do with something like this. i.e. changing matchmaking based on perceived rank rather than actual rank. But the dev certainly wasn't stealth about it. Note: I'm not actually in the Game Dev industry. More of a parasite floating around the rim of it.

You might want to look at this article[^] by David Auld as a starting point. m.bergman For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron I am not a chatbot

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Well he said it was a mind exercise/puzzle, so I guess it's supposed to be solvable by a person in a reasonable time. You may well be right that the XOR key is simply a 12 character pass code/encryption key. Encrypting 'aaaaaaaaaaa' (or the equivalent with byte zeroes) is often useful for key analysis in simple encryption schemes. I had to modify the first version of my stream encryptor because by throwing a stream of zeroes at it, it would dispense the key. (Real life binary messages, particularly if you're using my socket library as well, often have quite a few zeroes in known places – for example if you request an EXE or DLL download you can rely on 16 or more consecutive zeroes in places in the header; and 4 byte length encoded messages will generally be possible to generate with three zeroes in known positions.)

Microsoft as a company is about 30 years old. Maybe the execs who are old-timers are just tired of the rat-race and retiring to live on their $millions. Microsoft is less relevant than it was 20 years ago, so perhaps it's less newsworthy that they're bleeding executives. It is well understood that Ballmer is a problem for microsoft, so perhaps the executive exodus is not viewed as surprising enough to be newsworthy. I am interested in the notion of chasing away all worthy replacements as a job retention strategy for Ballmer. There's still the complete outsider, like Gerstner from PepsiCo being hired in to run IBM. But there's also a problem with Microsoft's DNA. Microsoft has never made any money by innovating. Microsoft's method is to follow trends and then outmarket and outspend its competitors, leveraging the huge, stable revenue stream from the Windows franchise. This strategy worked pretty well during the time that software came in a box. It worked long enough to chase away innovators at all levels of Microsoft's management hierarchy. But it's not working on the web. That's because (for instance), while anyone can build a search engine, only one such engine is called "google". The brand is the URL, and it has proven hard to get customers to type in your not-as-familiar-as-the-leader URL. Following doesn't work well in the web era. Once a competitor gets popular, they also have the brand/URL and the critical mass of users. Even if you duplicate all the features of their site, it's way hard to convince their users to switch. It must be near impossible to change a philosophy so deeply wired into your company. It certainly can't happen while the executives who were raised on that philosophy are still leading. So maybe they're leaving because they can't change Microsoft's course, and maybe they're leaving because they know Microsoft's course needs to change.

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Because there have been some posts that I can't be certain if they are serious or or not I decided to reply to my own poost for clarification. The NOOP-OSCN was sarcasm to make a point about how ridiculous many (not all) of the NoSQL efforts are. Thanks

YSLGuru wrote: If you re-read your first reply you'll see that you cliamed the government is allowed to decide what is legal and what isn;t and did so without any qualifications you're right. i didn't provide qualifications, because those qualifications weren't pertinent to what you were complaining about: YSLGuru wrote: The government will use their fondness for ‘interpreting’ to radically change what is considered legal and what is not, thereby limiting free speech on the internet. in this situation, the government is perfectly within its authority to interpret the laws it has written. if you're talking about Net Neutrality, you're talking about the FCC which has the authority (given to it by Congress) to interpret and define the way the internet works in the US. if you don't like the authority the FCC has to regulate electronic communications (an authority it has had since 1934), you can persuade your representatives to change the laws. but to say the government (via the FCC) is somehow out of bounds in regulating the internet is absolutely loony. image processing toolkits | batch image processing