# Dr Matrix sucks ass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058 "2003-06-24T15:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/21 "2003-06-24T16:18:55Z")
Oh and a small coda. You pitted the wrong guy dude. Heh! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/22 "2003-06-24T16:20:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantula \* > \*\* > Gotta go - I’ll be back in 12 hours to get me some satisfaction… > > \*\* Say, what do you suppose this means? Is he threatening the board? [beavis] Are you threatening me? [/beavis] ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/23 "2003-06-24T16:22:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantula \* > \*\*If I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it. \*\* I’m pretty sure you did. > [@](#): > > what’s wrong with discussing this here ??? If you don’t want answers from the public (all together now), don’t post it on a public fucking message board. The mods have enough shit to do without having to read all the rules to you, and explain them using really small words. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/24 "2003-06-24T16:23:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantula \* > **Also - QED - who died and made you King ? If I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it.** You _did_ ask for it: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantula \* > \*\*So you can only ask questions that meet their approval ? What idiots. [www.howstuffworks.com](http://www.howstuffworks.com) has shitloads on how to pick locks - what’s wrong with discussing this here ??? > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/25 "2003-06-24T16:26:00Z")
**Tarantula** , behold the powers of the mighty E-MAIL! WATCH! As your questions are answered by the person who you wish to answer them! SEE! As the reasoning behind thread closure is explicated for you! BE AWED! As the cheerful moderator doesn’t rip you to shreds like those on a public message board might! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/26 "2003-06-24T16:26:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*Do a quick search on “lockpicking”, and you find a large collection of threads that have all been locked, \*\* So…I guess the answer to tarantula’s question is, learn to hack? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/27 "2003-06-24T16:26:48Z")
Does anyone else think that **Tarantula** needs to lie down for a few minutes with a cool cloth over his eyes? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/28 "2003-06-24T16:33:08Z")
Wait a sec, **QED** can’t be king as long as I am queen! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/29 "2003-06-24T16:46:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > \*\*So…I guess the answer to tarantula’s question is, learn to hack? \*\* You can read locked threads. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/30 "2003-06-24T16:56:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*You can read locked threads. \*\* But if you hit a locked thread in just the right spot with a hammer, you can post to itagain. Does any one here know how to do that? Or should I do a search on [getafuckingclue.com](http://getafuckingclue.com) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/31 "2003-06-24T17:35:15Z")
[SDMB Registration Agreement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=148527) > [@](#): > > You agree not to post any material that in our opinion fosters or promotes illegal activity. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/32 "2003-06-24T17:48:22Z")
You offered no valid reason why you might need to pick a lock, just that you needed advice picking a lock. You leave us with the cocnclusion that your intentions are less then benign. Also, you are a fucking idiot for likening a person locking a thread for dubious legal reasons to a organization that systematically exterminated millions of people. As mentioned before, grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/33 "2003-06-24T17:59:44Z")
Good GOD, you’re a dumbass. They don’t want people posting “how tos” on possibly illegal activities, because if someone DOES use the info, the Chicago Reader could get sued, and we wouldn’t have the SDMB anymore. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/34 "2003-06-24T18:00:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*You offered no valid reason why you might need to pick a lock, just that you needed advice picking a lock. You leave us with the cocnclusion that your intentions are less then benign. > \*\* that wouldn’t matter, I suspect, if you refer to the registration agreement linked by **Dr.Matrix** , it doesn’t say “unless you’ve got a really, really, really good reason to” ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/35 "2003-06-24T18:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*that wouldn’t matter, I suspect, if you refer to the registration agreement linked by **Dr.Matrix** , it doesn’t say “unless you’ve got a really, really, really good reason to” \*\* Oops. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/36 "2003-06-24T18:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*that wouldn’t matter, I suspect, if you refer to the registration agreement linked by **Dr.Matrix** , it doesn’t say “unless you’ve got a really, really, really good reason to” \*\* You’re always **wring** ing on people’s parades. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/37 "2003-06-24T18:17:29Z")
it’s my nature. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/38 "2003-06-24T18:28:23Z")
Okay, **Tarantula**. Suppose that we assume you have a real problem in that your own bicycle, purchased with your own money, is locked, and you for whatever reason have absolutely no way of causing that lock to unlock (lost and forgot the combination, only key is missing or broken off in the keysocket, etc.). Good enough; you’re honest and law-abiding. And if the answer to your question is posted on open board, it provides the jerk down the street, who knows just who you are and has no morals, and who has been lurking on this board for months in hopes of ripping you off for something, with precisely how to steal your bike. **That** ’s why threads like that are closed. I’m doing work for a former boss as a subconsultant. Let’s suppose that he has access to a few megabytes of online storage somewhere, and wants me to set up a place where he, our clients, and I can upload and download files we need, using one of the file-sharing programs out on the market. Not knowing how to go about this, I post a GQ asking for advice. Now, about half the mods. have interacted with me on e-mail and know me as a good-intentioned person. I’ve sat and shared a beverage with **Uncle Beer** at a Dopefest, and have met one or two others in person. They have absolutely no reason to doubt my bona fides, and my OP makes it 100% clear that I’m not engaged in anything illicit. Know what will happen to that thread? **They’ll close it.** And probably send me a nastygram about it. Because the techniques I’d use in making those files publicly available for file-sharing are just what people would use in stealing MP3s and illegally trading them. It’s not about **you**. Or me, either. It’s about whether the answer to the question could be reasonably used for illegal purposes. And in your case, and mine, it definitely could. * * * \*While I’m here, I want to compliment my fellow Dopers for restraint, though. With an OP like this one, not one person (until now) has dared to use the word “felch”! \* ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/39 "2003-06-24T19:06:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _Orig. by Polycarp_ > While I’m here, I want to compliment my fellow Dopers for restraint, though. With an OP like this one, not one person (until now) has dared to use the word “felch”! Until right there. :eek: Oh, well, that’s _that_ word taken care of … 😉 **Tarantula** , quit being a gormless hot-headed twit, coming across to all and sundry just like a kid having a tantrum (“Waaah!!! I didn’t get to have my thread live!!! Bad moddy!!! Waaahhhh!!!”), and just bloody well move on, won’t you? You’re wastin’ valuable space, here. And yes – if you know of other sites that help you find out how to pick locks, then use 'em. Otherwise, it would appear you only wanted the sodding attention. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058/40 "2003-06-24T19:23:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\* > \*While I’m here, I want to compliment my fellow Dopers for restraint, though. With an OP like this one, not one person (until now) has dared to use the word “felch”! \* \*\* Greaaaaat… we were going for a record. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-matrix-sucks-ass/184058.md?page=3)