Posts by jwenting

The main problem is that people expect they have a certain level of privacy protection and shielding of their private data when in reality they don't.

Any respectable business would realise this and indeed protect the private data of their users, Google and Facebook (among others) however deliberately don't, as they're in the business of monetising that data and thus want to collect as much of it as possible.

They can get away with it because they're US based companies, a country where the law regarding privacy and related issues is extremely lax.
European users especially are used to far stricter laws regarding protection of their privacy (as well as consumer protection in general) and act based on the idea that those laws are applied by any company/entity they deal with. Most of them are utterly unaware they live in a bubble of protection situated in a sea of openness where they have no protection whatsoever.

don't EVER use scriptlets.
There's not been a need for them for at least a decade and they lead to essentially unreadable code.
Use JSTL instead.

learn to read and understand compiler errors.
It's some of the most basic skills you're required to have as a programmer, and these couldn't be much more clear.

you have 3 problems, not 1 (or maybe more than 3).
1) you have no experience writing software
2) you have no distribution channel
3) you have no marketing tools
4) you're ignoring the fact that the vast majority of people are going to just pirate it

Until you rectify 1) there's no need to look into any of the others.
Apple's distribution model is way too ambitious for you, the only practical way for it to work would be for you to contract them to distribute for you (which is what most people do who develop for iPhone).
They do however have a strict vetting program to ensure that only things they like (quality, content, etc) get into their store.
Unless you're a more experienced developer you're unlikely to get your software approved for sale through their channels.
I assume other resellers have similar programs (though likely with other requirements of course).

Hmm.... i have noticed that every time i got curious about the origin of some site or another from one of spam links and did a DNS lookup, it was always registered in Pakistan.

interesting. Doesn't quite match the average demographics of homework kiddos (the other 50% of new members) who largely originate in India.
But maybe Indian spammers use Pakistani hosting providers?

so? make sure that header file is available to the compiler when you're compiling it.

It is extremely simple to determine that hashcodes are not unique.
A hashcode is a 32 bit integer, it is possible to create more object instances than fit inside a 32 bit integer. Ergo, a hashcode cannot possibly be unique, as there are more possible object instances than possible hashcodes and every object instances will have a hashcode.
Even simpler reasoning is that it's possible to override hashcode with another method that returns a fixed value.

Isn't signature spamming fun? What kind of sticks and poor quality DVDs are you unloading on the naive public? Too bad the new design doesn't prevent that.

Worse, it clearly shows the mods/admins have no interest in stopping spammers even if they're pilfering products that are in clear violation of the law.

read up on what private means and you should understand.

First question you got right. Indeed you cannot assign a numeric value to a String like that.
Second you got wrong. Look at the access modifier of the field. It's private, that means you can't assign to it from outside the class itself.
In fact, none of the statements given as possible answers there are correct.

There is no such thing as an "object method", unless you mean instance methods.

Simply put, if you think you need a static ("class") method you almost certainly should rethink your design.
In about 99 out of 100 cases the idea that one needs them is an indication of a design flaw, and the problem is better solved otherwise.

Some exceptions might be in constructional design patterns like factories, but cases are few, far between, and well known to those that need them.

Still looking for that "final year project idea generator"...
Would help out a lot of kids who're too thick to think creatively and therefore can't come up with their own project ideas.

That's different from the school paying the cost for you, which is what OP is looking for.
OP appears to be the typical no-good lazy kid we see a lot here who wants everything for free with no effort whatsoever.

don't bother. Noone's going to buy them.

All those "for dummies" books teach you a LOT of BAD things as shortcuts to actual correct procedures and practices.
That's how they get to be short and seem to provide rapid progress.

The main reason games sales decline is still the ever increasing amount of piracy, now ever more openly condoned by both ISPs and governments with vague laws that state that while providing copyrighted material for download is illegal, downloading and using it is not.
Another reason is the ever increasing popularity of MMORPGs, especially the Korean F2P pvp grinders, which cost tons of money to play (again, especially the "free" ones with their item malls which can cost a serious player hundreds of dollars a month).

The ever decreasing originality of games is a distant third there, but not something to be forgotten.

"(and by the way you are asked to fill in your full name and address) "

Doesn't matter.
Impossible to verify all those names and addresses, so you can just have a piece of software (or a human brain) make up a few million.
Happens a lot, makes pretty much all "petitions" impossible to verify as an instrument of opinion polling.

Heck, if the US can't even prevent millions of fraudulent voter registrations leading to millions of votes by people that don't exist (or exist but don't have a right to vote), how is someone going to decide the validity of some list of addresses and names that stretch the entire globe?

no, you're completely and utterly mistaken in your comprehension of the very concepts of "open source", "proprietary", etc. etc.

that's usually the way. Those professionals aren't paid a decent salary for nothing.

Even there... As there's no way to determine whether any of the "signatures" are real, there's no way to determine whether anyone actually signed it so it shouldn't be listened to.

that is no "general information", it's highly specific.

And no, "Java" is not open source.
Specific implementations of the programming platform may be, the language specification is not.
And the island certainly isn't.

no, YOU tell US what you think, and we may tell you if you're right.

it's just an http call away.

You fail. That's not an applet, and it's not Java. It's BASIC written in Java syntax.

Of course they claim nothing's wrong. This is a typical way Facebook can use to do its own little phishing scam, find out more and more valuable private data from people to sell to marketeers and other interested parties.

yes it is. Hijacks a thread and asks for us to email him business proposals.
Exactly what the OP also wanted.

Neither wants to do actual work, they want to "get rich working from home sending email".

humanity will burrow itself in red tape and drown in a sea of bureaucracy, which will make it impossible to do anything without filling out elaborate forms and waiting years for permission to do even something as basic as reproduce.
Those who do not give up living at that stage will be so stupified they'll be incapable of doing anything, even breeding.

It did nothing in that it did not cause anyone in a position of power to change their opinion.
Having a floppy disk full of "e-signatures" from people saying that "yes, we want you to stop world hunger" isn't going to get anyone sit down and take notice because (as I pointed out) they know full well that 99.999% at least of those signatures are bogus (and of course pretty much any "online petition" is completely idiotic in scope and target, even if maybe that particular one wasn't).

So the "petition" didn't have the effect you claim, the publicity that came after it did. Politicians are extremely sensitive to bad press, don't give a sh*t about actual people and their opinions unless they have a printing press or TV station.

Turbo C is certainly not a toy. It is however so heavily outdated it has no use in the tools arsenal of anyone who's currently programming unless (s)he is maybe maintaining a 20 year old piece of embedded software that can't be compiled without it.

Doesn't matter. If you know both concepts it should be easy to combine them.
We're NOT here to hand you everything on a golden platter.

if you already know your database can't handle it, the first step would be to step up to a real database like Oracle...

yup, that would work. IF you have access to the map data which that product won't include, you'd still have to buy that.

Or you must be content with a program that has no graphical display, roadmaps, ets. It'd be just a way to tell you to go north, south, east, or west without telling you how to get there.

system requirements: a sheet of paper, a pencil, and a semi-functional brain.

Not going to read all that code to try and figure out what "runtime errors" you're getting.
Post the exact errors, why you think they're happening and where, and maybe we'll tell you if you're right.

No, the online part did nothing (except maybe raise awareness).

And with the vast majority of online "petitions" being utterly nonsensical ("sign here to stop hunger in Africa" comes to mind, "give your email address to make Microsoft keep selling Windows XP", and a bazillion like it) those "targetted" have no business paying any attention to them, even if the accuracy of the "signatures" as being real people (and only one per person) could be in any way established.

In fact paper petitions in part suffer from the same flaw, but are easier to debunk if deliberately fraudulent on a large scale.
For example there was one here in the 1980s to "ban the bomb", trying to force the government to declare the country a nuclear free zone (despite NATO treaty obligations, but then it had been started by an offshoot of the communist party).
They "collected" over a million signatures, except some 80% of those were fake. Hundreds having the exact same handwriting, signatures made in the name of pets and toddlers, non-existent persons, etc. etc.
The fraud there was so obvious even the press (who had been extremely sympathetic, as they are to any leftist idea) had to report on it.

don't do database access from jsp, use a servlet instead.
and it will insert the data just fine, the database is just discarding the insert because you never commit the insert.

good, that's such terrible code it should never work.
Even if it were syntactically correct (I didn't even bother to check) it's conceptionally so utterly wrong it should just give up and die.

What you're supposed to do almost certainly (there's hardly ever a need to derive from Thread) is to create a new class that implements Runnable and implement the run() method in that.

Don't bother with a forum list or message list. The icons and fonts are so massive it requires an inordinate amount of scrolling to get anywhere.

If this is an improvement on the previous design (except for the colour) I don't know what your designer considered to be worse than what you had.

no we don't

Not only do online petitions never work (and rightly so, there's no way in hell to know if the people "signing" are real and not some bot being used to generate millions of "signatures", but I fully agree with banning kids from playing gory games.
Just as I fully agree with banning kids from watching gory movies and porn.

there is no way. You're destroying data, of course you're loosing quality when you then blow it back up.
Anyone with half a brain would realise that.

get a job rather than trying to trick people into giving you money for nothing.

so you're another freeloader who wants someone to do your work for you for free so you can then sell it?
Get lost.

A few thousand lines of code is nothing, certainly not something anyone is going to pay money for.

in fact, if you were to "stick it to them" like that you'd open yourself up for all kinds of nastiness, and rightly so.
From civilian lawsuits for damages to criminal charges for sabotage and destroying property.
Wouldn't look good on your resume to have to explain that you spent a year in prison for destroying a company mailserver because you thought you had been treated bad by them.

Eve is as free as WoW...
It's also just as bad, nothing more than spawn camping and harassing newcomers, just like WoW.

So yes, it would be the ultimate "free online games like wow for free" in that it's just like wow in both price and gameplay.

The problem is that Obama can't think for himself.
Most people use the TP as an aid in case they loose their line, Obama is clueless without it.
Change the text on the TP and he drones something else, turn it off and he's lost for words.

so it is homework. Maybe not all of it but homework still.
Do it yourself or admit to your teachers that you've got to where you are through fraud and really can't do anything at all except play videogames.

but goto is deprecated in java. its not recommended to use goto

Wrong. So utterly wrong I can't begin to describe it.
Goto is NOT deprecated.
It is a reserved word that was never implemented.

This was done quite deliberately because there's never a need for goto.
Any programmer who thinks they need it have serious design flaws and need to rethink their architecture, start to learn programming Java rather than Basic.

Loops, methods, etc. are where it's at, not random jumping around in code.

I've enough nothings, don't need any more. But thanks for the kind thoughts ;)