Fuck off, troll.

YOU FUCKING IDIOT, read the next part where I said to change the delimiter to a space / tab!

Who’s skimming now, hmm?

Tested and works. YOU are the one who failed at reading comprehension to duplicate what I told you to do.

I’ll say it again. That wasn’t my script. I don’t do shell scripts. Keep shrilling your insanity, nobody cares.

P.S. There’s a reason the hosts file is plain text. Anyone who needs a database to manage their hosts file is a fucking moron. It was never meant to be that large.

I know what a varchar field is, you arrogant prick. That’s what the memo field does in Access. You’re an idiot.

Then you exported it wrong, moron. Go in to the settings and change it from “fixed width” to “delimited”. Then change the field delimiter to “{space}” or “{tab}” and the text delimiter to “{none}”.

Your failure at exporting data from Access does not me wrong make.

What about the cameras...

The caveats that the destruction was intentional and you knew it was evidence do apply. But in general “destruction of evidence” is taken to imply those two things. If you intentionally destroy something that you know is evidence, you’re violating the law.

Apparently it means moving the ground wire on the pool light enclosures to the hot leg of the circuit. However you’d probably also have to work around any GFCI and/or circuit breakers. (And anyone who uses “polarity” when talking about an AC circuit is a freaking retard... Timothy.)

As I don’t have a pool, I’m fairly sure I can post this without being the subject of an investigation. However, that might not apply to those of you reading it. Sorry about that.

If you’re not mistaken, if you clicked that link and someone near you dies sometime soon, you’re a murderer.

Personally, I think you’re mistaken, though.

Destroying evidence of a crime is always illegal, and if it’s not evidence of a crime, it’s not evidence. So what he said was basically correct.

You don’t need to set up your own network to harvest MAC addresses, unless you want to get a particular person I suppose – I think you’d need to break the encryption to get any MAC addresses off an encrypted network but you could sniff all the devices on any unencrypted network just fine.

And spoofing a real MAC address isn’t even necessary to begin with. Just using something like 01:23:45:67:89:ab or 0d:ea:db:ee:f0 would be sufficient.

View-source reveals nothing out of the ordinary:

I stopped after previewing the tinyurl (persistent cookie) revealed that it was an ow.ly link. The only reason anyone would need to double-hide the URL is to keep people from knowing what they’re about to visit.

Now, if I knew how to preview an ow.ly link, curiosity probably would have led me to at least see what it led to, but I don’t. So... meh. I tried using telnet to get the response but it seems to be blocked at the firewall somewhere.

LOL, as much as I’d love to take credit for the script, I really didn’t write it.

False. Access calls it a memo field type instead of a varchar field type. It holds up to 63,999 characters.

Also false. Fixed-length text fields are not padded with spaces in Access:

Up to 255 characters. Microsoft Access only stores the characters entered in a field; it does not store space characters for unused positions in a Text field. To control the maximum number of characters that can be entered, set the FieldSize property.

I disagree. His livelihood depends on it. He’s extremely biased.

That doesn’t mean that his opinion is invalid, but it certainly means that people should take that bias into consideration when they evaluate statements like the one he made above.

And then he makes statements like this:

Somehow I have a feeling that if he were a musician his tune would be different.

He’s a professional journalist saying that amateur journalism will never cut it. Well, “professional” programmers also talk down on the amateurs who write open-source software. “Professional” musicians talk down on amateur garage bands. I see no real difference amongst them, and I see no reason to believe that any of their claims are true.

Never mind, I should have read his next couple of sentences:

And then I noticed his username and wondered if he wasn’t possibly just a shill...

Oh. I see.