Hack Off Their Hacking Heads (Or 2018-YouTube-Stars' Stolen Popularity)

Hack Off Their Heads (Quiz Answers)

I've amended the title of this page to remind us of the crime of views stealing that was committed against its link to my music chronology, documented in my Record of Assaults.

Below today's post are the answers to yesterday's JavaScript Quiz.

That's the Way They Like It

I worked all my life and I don't have a cent
And that's the way they like it
I'm lucky if I can afford my rent
And that's the way they like it
My songs made them millions, my laughs made them more
But I disagreed with their method of war
The truth they destroyed will take years to restore
And that's the way they like it

I look back on sorrow from sharing my works
And that's the way they like it
But fond recollections for song stealing jerks
And that's the way they like it
The happiest parties that ever were thrown
Glorified creeps for invading my home
And they think there is nothing for which to atone
Because that's the way they like it

Not very much for an artist to eat
And that's the way they like it
Plenty for liars who kiss Satan's feet
And that's the way they like it
My love fed an army for over three years
As false accusations assaulted my ears
And now my survival's their greatest of fears
And that's the way they like it

I've no faith in people, only in God
And that's the way they like it
This civilization is hopelessly flawed
And that's the way they like it
They could not outwit me, they lost the debate
So they ruined my life-work to make them feel great
They can't seem to love but they know how to hate
And that's the way they like it

David Skerkowski, Songs That Don't Rhyme (© 2014).

It was another holiday yesterday, so I couldn't stay long on the computer. I went home after I posted my quiz and recalled the last time I shared a quiz like it, about ten years ago. Did someone steal it? Flag it down right now. It was meant to help the less computer literate appreciate the depth of knowledge required to consciously perform even the simplest programming tasks, not to make liars look legitimate.

Since the taxpayers provided the funds to pay for my tuition in 2000, I was strongly obliged, for their sake, to learn my lessons in that DHTML class. My online tutorial, from 2000 to 2007, was meant to return the favour to such hard working taxpayers out there. I wasn't like the wealthy students in my class who could demand a higher mark from the teacher on the grounds of getting their money's worth. Still, few of my classmates, even among the sponsored students, seemed to learn their code as thoroughly as I did. So, just like I was the only one on YouTube sharing hit songs and countless bullshitters got the credit for my rare talent, before that, I was the only student in my training program who struggled to really learn JavaScript and countless bullshitters got the credit for my rare effort.

It's 2018 now. That means that a lot of people reading this today were barely out of their mother's womb when I got my web design diploma in 2000. I apparently created much of the music and comedy that they've embraced over the last ten years, as well providing many original, popular solutions to their HTML problems, but I haven't been treated very well by them so far. The lying, lawbreaking broadcasters have made sure of that.

Unless asking for examples, I wanted the below answers in English, rather than JavaScript. If you can describe these programming components accurately in your own words, you'd be able to write your own programs. Otherwise, if you're passing yourself off as a programmer, you're really just an empty headed, copying and pasting character assassin like this person who 'only knows how to teach?' my code. Such horrible hackers make a total mockery of an otherwise distinguished profession.

9:10am: I'm adding this after waiting for ten minutes outside my local library branch on Hastings and Heatly only to see every computer taken when I walked through the door at ten seconds after 9:00. It wasn't like that on Saturday morning. It's on the same block as the Astoria Hotel, which reminds me about the owner of that hotel telling me in 2007 that my web programming is easy. Why did he think my hard won skill was so easy? Was it because I made it look so easy with my struggled for solutions available to stupid, insecure jerks like him on the web? Probably. And was he heavily invested in the pirate station? Maybe he should burn on a stake, in a blazing fire made out of his piles and piles of filthy money.

1. Name one person directly involved in the development of JavaScript.

1. Answer: Danny Glover (Netscape).

2. What is a variable?

2. Answer: A variable is a typically short, alphabetic invention, used by computer programmers for storing and passing data, whose value may change or 'vary' within a field of alternative possibilities.

3. What would be the most common string variable to a web programmer?

3. Answer: The string value of a URL.

4. What is an object model hierarchy?

4. Answer: An object model hierarchy is an organized intellectual structure for referencing or creating conceptual objects within a computer programming environment.

5. How does JavaScript's object model hierarchy differ from those of other computer programming languages?

5. Answer: JavaScript's is a containment hierarchy.

6. How could you further define the following?

document.all.rows.style.color='red'

6. Answer: The reference can be extended to:

window.document.all.rows.style.color='red'

7. How many objects and how many properties are in the above reference? Which are the objects and which the properties?

7. Answer: The reference holds three objects: document, rows, and style, and two properties: all and color.

8. Which of my online JavaScript programs employs concatenation and to what end?

8. Answer: My slideshow program, visible in the page source of my Live Videos employs concatenation in the changing of URL's that comprise the source of the page's 'iframe' (video), according to user clicks.

9. Why was it necessary for me to concatenate there?

9. Answer: Concatenation was necessary to join my string variable to the rest of the URL for the program's shuffling operation.

10. What is a JavaScript array?

10. Answer: A JavaScript array is a set of differing, alternating values which belong to one variable.

11. How is such an array organized?

11. Answer: Such an array is organized in square brackets, with a comma between each quotation-marks-straddled string value, no spaces outside the quotation marks. It is positioned to the right of the variable to which it belongs, separated by an equals sign.

12. Name two JavaScript parameters.

12. Answer: Two JavaScript parameters are 'new' and 'this'.

13. Which parameter do I employ in my 'mouseover' program for my 'songs' 'scripts' and 'statements' links?

13. Answer: I employ the 'this' parameter in my rollover code, such as in this.style.visibility='visible'.

14. List five common event handlers in JavaScript.

14. Answer: Five common event handlers in JavaScript are onLoad, onMouseOver, onMouseOut, onClick, and onChange.

15. Which event handler executes with no direct user interaction?

15. Answer: The onLoad event handler executes independently, when the page loads into the browser.

16. What is parsing?

16. Answer: Parsing is a method which lets the computer see a keyboard character as a calculable number - or, in programming lingo, distinguish a numeric value from a string.

17. In what instance would parsing be necessary?

17. Answer: Wherever numbers are used or entered as text, the computer needs you to parse them before it can calculate them.

18. How is an equals sign in JavaScript unusual?

18. Answer: An equals sign is active in JavaScript. It doesn't just sit there, but passes values through itself.

19. What is a JavaScript operator?

19. Answer: A JavaScript operator is a mathematical symbol that performs a programming task within a statement.

20. Give an example of a comparison operator and an assignment operator.

20. Answer: Equals (=) is an assignment operator and double equals (==) is a comparison operator.

21. What full-time job did you hold for at least two years, in order to qualify for government sponsorship for your computer training?

21. Answer: I worked full-time at Kona Stained Glass from 1997 to 1999, as listed in my employment history: a Canadian Artist's Professional Background. Kill anyone who uses my real background as their joke resume.

22. What college did you attend?

22. Answer: I attended Metro Training Institute, where I received 700 hours of instruction in the year 2000.

23. Did you get your diploma?

23. Answer: I was awarded my diploma in web design at the end of that year.

24. Who taught you and who attended with you?

24. Answer: My teachers were Paul, Slan, and Sean, mostly. My classmates included Noreen, Kelvin, the rich Persian, his wife, and one of the customers of my former employer, the glass shop.

25. What other studies besides JavaScript were in your course curriculum?

25. Answer: HTML, relevant software applications, and marketing.

Well, I might as well return to my script counting on my index page now. I want to count the hundreds of scripts listed as previously shared, which we all know to have been stolen by dishonest stars and broadcasters.

11:09am. Did the first four pages. Looks like about two hundred previously shared so far. I'm taking a break now. One last thought for any of you rich people who thought it so proper to tear my beautiful work to pieces: it's a good thing you have money because you have NO CLASS. Oh, does he have a big bank account? Look, everyone, the barbarian has a big bank account! What innocent victim did he ruthlessly plunder his profits from this time? We're onto him, right?

2:53pm. Back for more counting after a trip to the food bank for emergency groceries. That 'Popeye' tooth ain't gonna be cheap to fix. And I probably won't even have to worry about my image onstage since I'm dying so fast from all the stress of these thousands of crimes no one seems to care much about. Are you going to see Oldis Cooper? Tell him Mike Myers sucks my you know what.

Life is so not worth living in an upside down crime culture like this. The best anyone can hope for is to stay impaired for as long as possible so they don't have to face the miserable reality of their bullshit life. Still, I'm not committing suicide this time. I already tried that back in 1965, apparently, and here I am again, more victimized than ever. Just let them keep pummeling with their monosyllabic assault. It shouldn't take much longer to die the way God wants me to, slowly and painfully.