[Users] A Serious Miscarriage of Justice...

[Dominique]

What is your App suposed to do may I ask?
What device are you writing it for?

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tyler" <twkav at kc.rr.com
>To: <users at zonebbs.com
>Date sent: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:16:34 -0600
>Subject: Re: [Users] A Serious Miscarriage of Justice...

>OK, so here goes.  Anything preceded by a double slash (//) is a 
comment.

>int main(int argc, char **argv[]){ //This is the main starting 
point for my
>little application.
>for (int i=1; i<=(sizeof(byte)*sizeof(ulong64)*209); i++) //This 
is called a
>"for" loop; it repeats the same code a certain number of times, 
in this case
>(1*16*209) times.
>malloc((i*sizeof(ulong64)+sizeof(int64)*512)); //This simply is 
used to
>allocate more memory.  This is actually a broken line of code 
because the
>malloc() function needs to assign its result to a particular 
place in the
>memory, and it does not do so.
>} //The end.

>HTH,
>Tyler

>-----Original Message-----
>From: users-bounces at zonebbs.com 
[mailto:users-bounces at zonebbs.com] On Behalf
>Of Rachel D Keyte
>Sent: Friday, 25 December 2009 17:10
>To: users at zonebbs.com
>Subject: Re: [Users] A Serious Miscarriage of Justice...

>I still don't understand what the code is meant to do.  could you 
explain
>this is plain english please?
>At 05:59 AM 26/12/2009, you wrote:
>>well it is you so I wouldn't be all that shocked On 2009-12-25, 
at 1:18
>>PM, Tyler wrote:

>>>Hello all,

>>>I feel that a serious miscarriage of justice was committed 
yesterday
>>>(Thursday, December 24, 2009) on the Zone.  I had written some
>>>innocuous (harmless) code in C (which I will reprint below), and 
this
>>>prompted an investigation by Doug V, who came to the conclusion 
that,
>>>in his words, I had been "suggesting ways . . .  to hack [another
>>>user]'s account." The code I had written has nothing whatsoever 
to do
>>>with hacking.  Doug subsequently banned me for two weeks for my
>>>(apparent) wrongdoing.  I appealed the decision to the 
administration,
>>>and have yet to get a response.  Another user was banned about 
thirty
>>>minutes before me on the same count.  Here is the code, more or 
less.
>>>Tell me, people: Is this, or is this not, considered "hacking 
another
>>>user's account?" My opinion is that it is not.

>>>---Start of Code---

>>>int main(int argc, char **argv[]){
>>>for (int i=1; i<=(sizeof(byte)*sizeof(ulong64)*209); i++)
>>>malloc((i*sizeof(ulong64)+sizeof(int64)*512));
>>>}

>>>---End of Code---

>>>This is simply a block of memory-allocation code (which, btw, 
won't
>>>work because malloc needs a variable to store its result in), 
which I
>>>directed at the user whose account Doug said I was suggesting 
ways to
>>>hack.  Honestly, I feel that our CL's, before banning people, 
need to
>>>know *what* exactly they are dealing with (be it computer 
programming,
>>>speaking foreign languages, etc), and they need to do a thorough
>>>investigation to figure out exactly what harm, or lack thereof, 
could
>>>come from the questionable content posted in quicknotes or other
>>>media.
>>>Do you think that Doug was right in banning me for this? Why or 
why not?

>>>Thanks for your attention.
>>>Tyler (a.k.a.  twkav on the Zone)
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