Noah

I left some cherries on the counter in a sealed container for a year. They formed a pool of liquid in the container but they never really grew mold. They turned brown eventually. Then in the last month they have started to draw a vacuum. What kind of reaction is going on on my counter? Should I be worried?

My question simply is, who can I talk to to get help with spring security? Is there like a live chat developers help somewhere?

But let me vent so you understand what I mean a little more.

I've got a project set up where I'm running a spring web app, with jboss, and hibernate to a mysql server. I'm doing most of the configuration using annotations. @requestmapping @entity @service ..yaddi yadda. All that's working great.

I've got to the point now where I want to have user logins to my app, users may have roles (basic, admin, etc. ) I'd like to approach this in a professional way instead of some adhoc user managment solution. So I check out spring-security.

Holy cow what a cluster ---- of disorganized garbage. I can get it working, I just have no idea how or why.

I've been working with java professionally for 5 years. I'm no genius, but I'm usually competent. I've been reading through the 20+ chapters of spring-security docs for the last 2 days but whoever wrote it seems to have actively decided to leave out any useful concrete examples of how to do anything.

I've been doing my due diligence trying to google things that confuse me. Yet all I can find is everyone saying the same stupid things "do this and this and it works" "put this string here to make this happen" with no explanations. Magic.

I will gladly stroke your ego for access to your sage wisdom.

My friend says no one knows what pudding bread is.

So I want to turn something on and off. But where I would normally have an on/off toggle I want to have a button in one place that only turns something on and another button that only turns something off. I don't know what what this would be called to search how to do it.

So what's it called? or What components do I need to do this?

So, Windows 7 machine. C drive tells me 91GB is being used. I go into C and check the properties of each folder including hidden folders and using my handy dandy calculator only find 73GB.

Where do I find my missing 18GB?

So here I was on the porcelain thinking chair when I was thinking about a question on here someone asked about if the earth stopped rotating. I said something about the earth being an oblate spheroid thanks to it's rotational inertia and left it at that. But then I got to thinking how we know earth is rotating. I mean, motion is relative after all. We tend to think of stars as fixed points of reference but they're not really.

So lets say we took a rotating planet like earth that is a oblate spheroid thanks to it's inertia and plopped it into an otherwise empty universe. Without any frame of reference there would be no way to establish it was rotating, would it's rotational inertia simply vanish? Or would we assume there to just be some 'dark force' that acts against gravity keeping earth oblate.

I read though this which I think describes the answer as "We know it's rotating because we like how the math works better" but I'm not sure if I read it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_ref...

K... go.

If an ancient race of intelligent dinosaurs landed on the moon then returned home and got hit by an asteroid wiping our their civilization and species, would we be able to still see evidence of their landing and would we have found it by now?

The set up: A cop stops you for speeding and ask you to get out of your car and join him in his car while he writes up the ticket. In the car is a drug dog.

The query: Now if I understand right, you must comply if an officer asks you to leave your car. And that it would be an unreasonable search of your vehicle for him to bring a drug sniffing dog to your car with no probable cause. If you're instead compelled by law to go to the dog instead of it going to you and the dog signaled the speeding violator was possessing something, would it be an unreasonable search at that point? What protections are there against this kind of entrapment?