• dube (unregistered)

    the replicators even replicated the function!

    probably thats why they're so powerful: their javascript doesn't mind functions with exactly the same method descriptors!

  • (cs)

    This is not the first code WTF on Stargate. I remember the episode where a Goa'uld (Anubis ?) inserted a virus in the software used by the stargate control panel. The virus was propagating to any stargate open from or open to an infected stargate. Fataly, SGC was contaminated and Samantha Carter had to counter this virus by another one.

    Guess what was the language written on a whiteboard in Sam's lab ? Java ! They were writting a virus with Java ! OMG :))

    Yeah, never underestimate the true power of a virus that have no native access to your computer... But you know the real WTF is watching Stargate SG1 :)

  • ChrisH (unregistered)

    If they're using javascript now we're in deep trouble. If we don't act soon they'll be fully AJAX conversant.

    We must send Paula through the gate at the earliest opportunity, only then can the outcome be brillant.

  • jpm (unregistered)

    I can only assume that the replicators outsourced their development to the same intergalactic software developers that the aliens in 'Independence Day' used where Jeff Goldblum was able to write a virus on his laptop that ran perfectly well on their operating system.

  • Nitty McPickerson (unregistered)

    Stargate has done this a few times. In the episode where O'Neill and Mayborn hack into the NID flight database, a snippet of code is displayed briefly in the corner of Mayborn's screen. A freeze-frame reveals that the code is a mixture of symbolic assembly language and... HTML.

  • Synchronos (unregistered) in reply to MET
    It clearly is a forum post as you can make out the two :O icons [...]

    To me, they look much more like toilet seats. Perhaps they are handy aliases for buffer flush commands. Or even more, the highly sophisticated Asgard folks have finally got rid of all computer-based WTFs with automated filters. Thus, those icons must be for sanitising the preceding block of all the crappy code.

  • letatio (unregistered) in reply to jpm
    jpm:
    I can only assume that the replicators outsourced their development to the same intergalactic software developers that the aliens in 'Independence Day' used where Jeff Goldblum was able to write a virus on his laptop that ran perfectly well on their operating system.

    Didn't you hear? Everyone in the galaxy outsources to Earth's "Asia" region.

  • (cs) in reply to Dirk
    Dirk:
    gerrr:
    more javascript? /facehand Hard disk partitions are part of the HTML DOM now? Client side JavaScript code hacking? It's not like they found the login password in the page source.

    No first they tried really hard to "hack" the server (entering the URL into the browser's address field). When they found out that these hacking attempts didn't work out they decided to send an "backdoor trojan" per email. The code is the trojan... And of course it works immediately. Embarrassing.

    Not only that, but it sends them an e-mail in German, even though the website is Russian, Cyrillic alphabet and all (I'm guessing that from "www.rus.net" anyway).
  • DHager (unregistered) in reply to Kilwch
    Kilwch:
    This is not the first code WTF on Stargate. I remember the episode where a Goa'uld (Anubis ?) inserted a virus in the software used by the stargate control panel. The virus was propagating to any stargate open from or open to an infected stargate. [...] Guess what was the language written on a whiteboard in Sam's lab ? Java ! They were writting a virus with Java ! OMG :))

    They figured that Java was obviously the best choice for write-once execute-everywhere-in-the-frickin-galaxy.

  • (cs) in reply to Nitty McPickerson
    Nitty McPickerson:
    Stargate has done this a few times. In the episode where O'Neill and Mayborn hack into the NID flight database, a snippet of code is displayed briefly in the corner of Mayborn's screen. A freeze-frame reveals that the code is a mixture of symbolic assembly language and... HTML.
    Oh come on, everyone knows that next-gen CPUs run HTML natively, in order to be fully compliant with Web 3.0
  • Kal (unregistered)

    My god, this means the ultimate weapon that would stop the Replicators from replicating is... a pop-up blocker!

  • Jesin (unregistered) in reply to Prosthetic Lips
    Prosthetic Lips:
    COBOL, LISP, APL, FORTH ... I think they were all uppercase-only. Anyone else remember back that far?
    LISP was uppercase-only, Common Lisp is case-insensitive, and R6RS Scheme and Arc are both case-sensitive.

    From what I've heard, APL couldn't be uppercase-only, given its heavy reliance on a huge character set.

  • KZeg (unregistered)

    JavaScript is The One. I knew it!!

  • Colin (unregistered)

    damnit, I always knew people who use javascript were evil. this just proves it...

  • Joe (unregistered) in reply to merreborn

    I'm not sure how a 'half-sibling' would work with Replicators, but she does look vaguely like she could be Fifth's half-sister.

  • ludus (unregistered) in reply to Pyro

    If you think of JavaScript as LISP with C syntax slapped on top of it, you wouldn't be far from the truth.

  • Widdershins (unregistered) in reply to Pyro

    I've got a hunch that the kernel is probably written in LOLcode.

  • ckelly84@_g_m_a_i_l_.com (unregistered)

    the code is from the Royal Bank of Canada, a major financie, website.

    http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/oec/avatar/html/01_PB/1_flash_paybill.htm

  • Orion (unregistered)

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  • Daniel Wouters (unregistered)

    It is actually the code of the old Stargate SG1 .com website. so take your pick and laugh at the supposed to be replicator program code.

  • Hakan ISIKHAN (unregistered) in reply to J. Irvine

    I think Dr. Weir and McKay uploaded MS internet explorer on replicator's base code (season 4 episode2) Then they run a simple javascript hack and replicators were killed by a bluescreen of death.

  • Michael (unregistered) in reply to Kilwch
    Kilwch:
    I remember the episode where a Goa'uld (Anubis ?) inserted a virus in the software used by the stargate control panel. The virus was propagating to any stargate open from or open to an infected stargate. Fataly, SGC was contaminated and Samantha Carter had to counter this virus by another one.
    The episode was SG-1 season 7's "Avenger 2.0". The Goa'uld was Ba'al. And no, Sam wasn't writing the anti-virus, she and Felger were writing the original virus, and Ba'al liked the idea when they tried it on his gate and rewrote it.
    Kilwch:
    Java ! They were writting a virus with Java ! OMG :))
    It's actually C#. Note how the camel-casing style is more like .NET's than Java's: - initial letters are also capitalized - enum values are camel-cased rather than all caps Indeed, the SymmetricAlgorithm class and FileAccess and FileMode enums really exist in the .NET BCL.

    Interestingly, Amanda Tapping, who plays Sam, actually came up with this code herself (or so they say on the DVD commentary track). Your call whether that's TRWTF.

  • OVERLORDCHAOS (unregistered) in reply to morry

    yes i agree. its ok to get 100% of my debt as extra payment for the bank. but create replicators to get rid of the tiresome of maintaining a web server its just too much. well there are 1 good thing and 1 bad thing. the good thing its that our data its protected since only the coronel carter or the dr.mckay can crack the replicator code. the bad thing its that once those nasty replicators gets to replicate to a good number will destroy the world and spread to all the known universe to destroy all. well i think that now in days the afraid of beeing attacked by a hacker by a bank justifies the end of all the life in the universe...

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