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What are these contact things people are talking about?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Short for contact lenses, obviously 
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Got the same email too.
The password is from a site I haven't used in the last 15 years and I have had no webcam in the last 10 years.
But I can imagine a bunch of people will be scared to death if they receive such an email and I know a couple of them
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.
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There was a hack long ago on a big site. I forget which one. I got one of those e-mails that had the password from that old site. Of course that demonstrates why we shouldn't use the same password on multiple sites. It did encourage me to go back and make sure of that at least. Back in those happier, more innocent days, it probably wasn't uncommon for even fairly technically astute people to use the same password. I had done it a few times, but all of them were either defunct now, or a couple online stores that only had many years of of date info that would have just set off alarms if they tried to use it.
Explorans limites defectum
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Unfortunately a lot off people fall for it ...
I'm the same as you, at home desktop with no camera attached (or mic).
My work laptop has one but that is disabled in control panel and I doubt that video off me programming is going to freak anyone out... (and I never take my work laptop home so ...)
I haven't received such email tho, I never get the scam phone calls either.
Starting to feel left out  
Tom
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I had a similar email a while back. Apparently they had hijacked my passwords and had been watching me via my laptop's camera. Unfortunately my laptop hasn't got a camera. Nice try 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Believe me, my dear friend - if you would turn on my camera I would notice it!
But you didn't, and I've already lost eight dollars on pornhub because of people demanding their money back plus damages!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was able to solve this problem without my camera lens getting all tape-sticky by simply not masturbating in front of my computer while watching porn. Kinda spoiled the scam in my case.
Let me guess...I'm an...outlier?
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Typically, its just phish email, trying to get your personal info.
Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.
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I always wanted to email 'em back to let them know I already told my family and friends all the weird sh*t, pr0n, etc.
/How do you stop the kidnapper? Shoot the hostage.
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Hill chaps bear tortured (9)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hill TOR
chaps MEN
bear TED (teddy)
== TORMENTED (tortured)
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You are up tomorrow. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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106. Dirty mixed up girl (4)
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Soil ( mixed up Lois )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ya
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Well, I successfully created something that eats grammars and spits out parsers for them (both LALR and LL1)
but so much left to do before it's road ready. I want to post this article badly but i might be as much as 2 weeks out and I can't wait.
patience. om. patience
*meditates*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: created something that eats grammars and
"what big eyes you have," she said. "The better to see you with, my dear." "Oh, but, what a big mouth you have" ...
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Can it parse its own grammar?
Is it simpler to use than all its predecessors?
Is it C# friendly?
Is it easy to embed a custom grammar in another project?
So many questions! So few answers! 
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Yes it can parse its own grammar. At least with LALR. The grammar isn't LL(1) currently, but that's not a limitation of the code, just that style of parser.
It's simple to use, and personally I think it's simpler than a lot of tools out there.
When I'm done it will be a whole lot simpler than anything I've used for certain. That's part of why I'm creating it.
The grammar format is EBNF and easy on the fingers, allowing complex rules using parentheses and optional (ebnf loop not yet supported - but maybe by the time i post it) - a lot of parser generators including Gold do not do that.
The parsers work at runtime, or can generate raw compiled or table driven (like most other offerings) parsers.
The runtime parsers means it's a bit easier to test your grammars since you don't have to compile first.
You can literally just do like:
var doc = EbnfDocument.Parse("some grammar");
var parser = doc.ToLalrParser(ParseContext.Create("string to parse"));
while(parser.Read()) {
}
this supports pull parsers unlike many other offerings, and streaming, so it scales to huge documents.
Many do not. That always frustrated me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The sky is more than blue and not even a limit anymore!
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It's pretty cool. I've also separated the Ebnf document from the grammar so that you can build other grammar syntaxes - like maybe using Gold Parser's grammar (i can already parse it)
So imagine what a strategic set of these could open up in terms of available grammars one could just plug in to it.
I'm not sure how practical all that is, because a lot of grammars have code embedded and my parsers do not yet support anything like that, but we'll see.
My hope is to eventually support everything that Programmar did. Programmar was THE BEST parser out there for a long time, but it's gone now. It didn't do code generation either, was a C++ dll but the grammar format it supported was super clean and incredibly expressive and it had a debugger.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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So FireFox ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed with my browser.
The telephone keeps ringing from ing scammers
Tried to Log in to Yahoo and they suddenly needed to verify me, emailed me a 4-char key, and then promptly told me (seconds after I logged in) that I was away too long and had to ing log in again. And more. It just keeps coming without letup.
"What the world needs now" is not "love sweet love" but some serious fixing.
So tell me - now that I've just about had enough - where do I find a good course in learning how to effectively "Go Postal" .
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Install a decent host-file, and read Pratchetts instructions on going postal.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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.
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There is an interactive tutorial I have tried a few times: Going Postal[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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