hacks

Okay, this is a thread for describing hacks, confusions, sillinesses, stupidities, and downright disturbing nonsense in the programming business. I'll start. I can never remember to use the new operator in object oriented languages. Why is it necessary? When the class name is used as method...

As I am very new to JREF Forum I expect to be throughly flamed on this thread but I am compelled to ask. If one finds a web site that advocates say, child abuse or pedophilia, murder or sexual abuse of the weak, can one ethicly hack the site and attempt to take it down ? This does not include...

Back in September which is all of two months ago, the CIA's plan to derail the Iraqi elections came to light courtesy of Time magazine:- "The Bush administration has been forced to scale back a plan proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates, favoured by Washington, in the Iraq elections...