You''re one to talk, you''re e-mail''s not listed on your profile. Anyway, hiding is what anonymity is for dumba$$. More importantly there''s less anonymity on the net than in the real world cause there aren''t cameras everywhere yet. If fighting isn''t an option cause you''d lose, if running isn''t an option cause you''d be caught, then hiding is the only other way to remain safe.
Usually it''s just a combination of ''security'' and laziness because I don''t keep the GD.net cookies on my computer and have to retype my username and pw everytime I make a post.
And despite popular opinion being a ''man'' and being stupid enough to piss off someone whom you don''t know when you don''t know their name, what they look like, where they live, or if they have the ability to track someone down like a fox are not the same things. Having said that I''d like to point out that those are my concerns whenever I go online or outside for that matter and if no one else feels that way then you''ve never studied history. The largest genocides in human history have taken place during the last century. If you''re not afraid you''re neighbors will suddenly go to your dwelling and attack for no reason then count yourself lucky because it happened somewhere in the world that and every other day.
Create. Flame me, I love the fire. I lick the flames and they are sweet like warm chocolate dancing on my tongue. Liv Tyler makes a really great elf. Break our molds and shatter our compliant non-existence, shock the world by removing us from it, if thou wish to crack the crust the world must be moved and shaken violently until the core screams ''I yield I yield I yield to your power!", change the universe by making them realize they are not the same and the glory shall be great and the price terrible and all will be silent before a new dawn crashes and drowns out the old, decadent, and decayed putrified ruins.
C/C++ syntax isn''t confusing. It''s just a bunch of colons, semicolons, parentheses, brackets, letters, numbers, words, asterisks, ampresands, carets, forward slashes, double and single quotes, question marks, percent signs, exclamation marks, periods, less than signs, greater than signs, equal signs, curly braces, addition symbols, subtraction symbols, commas, tildes, maybe some whitespace, and whatever that symbol is called that''s used in the OR operator. (And that''s just off the top of my head, didn''t need a book or nothing.)
if its not so hard, why not help somebody out? i take it someone was a severe dick to you when you were learning, and you feel the need to subject others to the same kind of treatment? "We''re all programmers" is fairly irrelevant. since when does being a programmer mean you have to treat newbies like shit and act like the god of syntax?
quote:Original post by RolandofGilead More importantly there''s less anonymity on the net than in the real world cause there aren''t cameras everywhere yet.
it might just be me, but this makes no sense at all. is there a camera on my modem or something?
quote:And despite popular opinion being a ''man'' and being stupid enough to piss off someone whom you don''t know when you don''t know their name, what they look like, where they live, or if they have the ability to track someone down like a fox are not the same things... The largest genocides in human history have taken place during the last century. If you''re not afraid you''re neighbors will suddenly go to your dwelling and attack for no reason then count yourself lucky because it happened somewhere in the world that and every other day.
where do you live? have you suffered through genecide lately? oh, and if you actually have the skills to hunt me down based on my email address then you deserve to get your arse kicked when you show up.
About your first and second statements, if you read my comments you can see that I''m not trying to be mean and am doing all this in a rather joking manner. More importantly, read ELS1''s responses, he really doesn''t seem to be pissed at me and it doesn''t appear that we''re on bad terms and if he ever posts again I will undoubtedly help him if I can. So lighten up.
About your third and fourth statements, I was making a bit of a joke with the "We''re all..." line. Programming is sometimes logical and direct and sometimes the programmers are too, overly so. Anyway, an exercise frequently done in a beginning programming course is to sometimes make a list of actions necessary to do something considered easy, such as tying shoes. My first suggestion was a play on that, I''m sorry I wasn''t more clear, it would have been more clear if perhaps I did something along the lines of
to krez: You have given inspiration to me and with it I have come up with a new definition for manly, "being able to kick the arse of people who can track you down".
There might not be one on your modem, but some viruses can turn web cameras on, and it''s possible to find every site you visit and everyone you e-mail and everything you post on the internet. I have not lived near or through any genocides and I thank God for that. What I want to know is, why are you asking me? The point I was trying to make is that the world for the majority of the population is not a safe place to live and never has been. As far as I know there may only be a period of 20-40 years within human history that has gone without war. Most wars have more deaths due to disease than injuries and most wars have seen more civilian deaths than military losses. Crime has certainly never stopped and what bugs me is that while violent crime see individuals put into prison, the white collar crime, where for example many people die because of cutting corners during construction or fire exits are blocked and people are trapped, will only see a fine.
quote:Original post by RolandofGilead There might not be one on your modem, but some viruses can turn web cameras on, and it''s possible to find every site you visit and everyone you e-mail and everything you post on the internet.
fair enough, but i don''t have a web cam, nor do i download virii, nor do i care if some hax0r wants to see how many times i visited gamedev.net. anyone who could do that much could probably find you when you post anon anyways. my only point was "who gives a damn?"
quote:I have not lived near or through any genocides and I thank God for that. What I want to know is, why are you asking me? The point I was trying to make is that the world for the majority of the population is not a safe place to live and never has been.
i only asked because you mentioned the horrible genecides and how nobody should feel safe from their neighbors. i would imagine that most of the people who are in this danger you speak of aren''t avid internet posters.
quote:As far as I know there may only be a period of 20-40 years within human history that has gone without war. Most wars have more deaths due to disease than injuries and most wars have seen more civilian deaths than military losses. Crime has certainly never stopped and what bugs me is that while violent crime see individuals put into prison, the white collar crime, where for example many people die because of cutting corners during construction or fire exits are blocked and people are trapped, will only see a fine.
while i can see your point here, what does it have to do with posting anonymously? or even better yet, what does it have to do with (scrolls up to see what we''re supposed to be talking about) string functions in c++? ok, as a fellow off-topic rambler, i''ll shut up too.
