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A nice hack would have been to auto set all radio channels to the teen hip hop channel and to disable the ability to turn off the radio 
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Your "member symbol" suggests a handy solution to that problem. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wouldn't Tesla owners be too sensitive to indulge in physical aggression though? 
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Not if you play hip hop at 'em all the time! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nish Nishant wrote: auto set all radio channels to the teen hip hop channel and to disable the
ability to turn off the radio
I thought incomprehensible torture was outlawed.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ah yes, the Hamster Hack as it's affectionately known to me, thanks to our friends at the BBC and TopGear.
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jeron1 wrote: Tis a shame they can't do something useful with their hacking abilities, like taking down the cell phone twatter and/or farcebook system.
Enfixed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whilst this is probably one of the bigger\serious types of these hacks, ever since more things are being internet enabled (IoT) they're almost all been hacked, from web cams to your smart heating thermostat. With the IoT it's almost like we're forgetting all lessons learned from the web and going right back to step 1 with people implementing protocols and architectures without thinking "...what if the client is malicious?". I can imagine the future where we're constantly downloading updates for everything, from our light switches to our refrigerator and every time we put bread in our toaster it'll say "Hi INSERT NAME, this is your bank and we need very much you update your security details, it is of utmost urgency. Please tell me your PIN number and we'll get started..."
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:shudder:
Ransomware on the coffee maker could be financially viable...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Ransomware on the coffee maker
No worries. Encrypted coffee is fine. Just drink it anyway.
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If anybody uses ransomware to get in-between me and my morning cup of joe, I swear that I will demand the invasion of their country
or get a french press
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Car hacks: Not just for the Jeep Cherokee anymore!
Considering how much more reliant on onboard computers the Tesla is, it's definitely a juicier target.
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I'm quite surprised to see how a lot of these 3-month coding bootcamps are guaranteeing like 90% job placement rates... I've been to one in person and heard the promise with my own ears at a hackathon recently...
But I can't help but cringe a bit because I don't know, I just don't feel like 3 months of rushed education is truly enough to prepare someone for a software development or even moreso, a software engineering career.
I myself am a strange case... I happen to be super self-driven and I can read, so I've sorta put myself through my own education program which so far has included all sorts of C#/JavaScript learning, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, Entity Framework, SQL, Relational Database Design, I've also just finished up setting up my first from-scratch OAuth/Identity implementation. But more importantly, I enjoy reading titles like Code Complete by Steve McConnell, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass, and taking software engineering courses on Pluralsight, sometimes for specific things such as security, other times for more generalized learning.
I recently went to a hackathon at the local "code academy"/bootcamp deal, and frankly... I thought they were going to blow me out of the water... Being a self-study myself, I was nervous going into there... Turns out, the 3 students who were in my group all pulled up chairs and wanted me to teach them and in fact their .NET Development instructor asked me if I would be a guest speaker at the school some time, which was flattering of course.
But this is not an ego-stroking post... The point is, I kinda felt bad for the students who have paid $12,500 for the course, when I've spent like maybe $500 on a couple online courses and a small library of nice books. And I could tell that they were not being taught thoroughly... That the education was ditching software engineering lessons in exchange for a speed primer on frameworks and coding. I just don't get how these code academies are lining people up with jobs... But at the same time, I sometimes feel like a weirdo because the two socially acceptable paths these days seems to be go to a code academy or get a CS degree. I'm in neither boat, but so far I'm having a blast, learning a ton, and working on fun projects.. But people seem to be freaked out when I tell them I have no CS degree and haven't attended a bootcamp.
Whats your opinion on these bootcamps? I have a feeling that they're going to inject a lot of lousy engineers into the workforce and it's going to backfire in some way or another... That said, there was ONE great programmer who was a student there, and it was obvious to me that she is a natural and also has done some study outside the curriculum.
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$12,500? 
Anyone who can waste that amount of money on something they can get for free from the web, low cost from books or online training sites like Pluralsight aren't potential developers, they're potential project managers.
See this site[^] for further information on the subject of project management.
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Coding bootcamps work because code monkeys are in demand. They will never make something awesome, but that doesn't matter, all their employers want from them is to work on the various stereotypical braindead projects and their maintenance.
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." -- Kurt Vonnegut
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: a lot of these 3-month coding bootcamps are guaranteeing like 90% job placement rates...
Tried to do a six-month version and dropped out. The job-guarantee is often a temporary placement.
Imagine you have 100k to invest; do you go for RentACoder, a bootcamper, or someone else? Programming is not just about learning a language, it is just as much about the environment and user-expectations. Did we not have enough people here trying to pass dates as strings?
I can only hope that brain-surgery camps are more succesfull. Anyone that can learn to code decent in a few months should be able to do brainsurgery as well.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Interesting post.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Tried to do a six-month version and dropped out.
Why did you end up dropping out? Cost? Time?
Just curious.
If these were marketed as "break into the industry" then they might be more valid.
However, the idea of learning to be a "Software Architect" in 6 mos or whatever is obviously false and gives people an idea that great practices, methodology, design, and the art of software creation can be picked up quickly.
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raddevus wrote:
Why did you end up dropping out?
Too many arguments with "the" professor
raddevus wrote: be a "Software Architect" in 6 mos or whatever is obviously false
It doesn't say that in the advertisement.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It doesn't say that in the advertisement.
I was generalizing not saying you were taken in by bad marketing.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Too many arguments with "the" professor
What were the "arguments" about? Come on! Dish!
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raddevus wrote: Come on! Dish!
No.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you want an interesting analogy out of the past, look up "Speed Reading[^]".
Yeah - perhaps you read Lord of the Rings trilogy in an hour . . . but why?
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What they REALLY need is debugging bootcamps...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: What they REALLY need is debugging bootcamps
So true. Crappy code is easy to write. You can google and paste together something.
But, what do you do when it don't work?
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