What is wrong with this country? Isn't there a lawyer out there somewhere with enough ethics to say this is extortion and defend this poor kid? Are there any lawyers on/. that can do that??? Someone stop the madness!
Oh good grief! Paranoia city. If you must buy clothes with such a tag in them then cut it out if you're worried someone is going to track you.
If that fails then take a sewing class and make your own clothing.
Re:Changing e-mail clients won't do anything.
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How is this insightful? Last I checked Mozilla's mail client (and many others) don't have any kind of scripting enabled by default. You have to click attachments to get them to do anything, and by default it asks you to Save rather than open. So even if someone clicks on it and then Clicks OK, they just saved it somewhere.
Even cookies are off by default in the mail client. And you can turn off images.
So yeah I suppose people could "try" and target mozilla but I honestly don't think there is a whole lot of damage they could be allowed to do. The stuff that could potentially cause harm is off by default and the and people smart enough to turn it on are smart enough not to execute worms and viruses!
it's about the ability to deny entry to others and the ability to raise prices without consequence.
To a market. The market in question is computer makers. Apple sells computers, HP sells computers, Dell sells computers. Joe Sixpack goes to the store he's going to buy the computer that offers the best value at the lowest price. Can you buy a Dell from HP? No. Can you buy the componants that make up a Dell? Yes. Can you buy the componants that make up an Apple? Yes.
As for the OS you can buy that from Apple and probably make yourself a custom built Mac. How is that different from getting componants and building a PC and buying Windows from MS for it?
Should GM be forced to license their designs so that Ford can produce GM cars or vice-versa? Apple can do whatever they want with and OS and hardware they produce. They have a "monopoly" on those products but that's the way it works. Otherwise we could get rid of trademarks, patents and copyright all together. (Which IMHO would be a bad idea)
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I guess YMMV, New Edge is a bit pricey but in all my dealings with them they were extremely helpful, I've worked for two ISPs that use them for DSL connections to customers.
Look in the dictionary under "monopoly". Hint: its about market share not about the product you sell. Should we break up Dell because they have a monopoly on Dells?
Ummm... the intent of my post was to be funny since anyone serious about web development isn't going to be using FrontPage (I know because I'm a web-developer). The vast majority of developers are using Macromedia and Adobe products, with a significant portion of them on Macs.
I guess I ruined my own joke with the consumer bit.:)
All your content can then be DRM protected by default with FrontPage
How can this be a bad thing? Those of us who don't use IE at all won't even be able to see the crap generated by anyone using Front-Page! This can only be a win for the consumer!
Nice conspiracy. I bet MS has Bin Laden working for them too and that Bush staged that whole 911 thing so he could justify starting two wars and become dictator.
Nah not good enough, if Bush really wanted to help MS he's have everyone that uses Linux charged of being a terrorist, that would be much quicker. Of course the Internet would go bye-bye as well but that's beside the point.
DMCA! DMCA! DMCA! DMCA! Okay I want to be modded up to!
Come on mods! Just because something says 'DMCA' or 'Patriot Act' doesn't make it insightful.
The DMCA or the Patriot Act have nothing to do with this case, in fact they have nothing to do with each other.
SCO isn't going anywhere with this, there are no congress-critters to pay off in this case, and I don't think that the Big Bad Media would care anyway because it doesn't have anything to do with N'Sync being copied.
Also SCO may be a lot of things but I don't think they are terrorists.
I don't like IE anymore than you do but your post doesn't make much sense.
As a proffesional web developer (going on five years now) I can say that I have not experienced the degree of problems with IE that you seem to have had. I code by hand using CSS and at least HTML 4.
IE had decent CSS 1 support before Mozilla really got off the ground and today is definitly on par with Gecko in following the standards. Are there descrepancies? sure a few but its not difficult to get around them. I'd say that 95% of the time my code works in both IE and Moz without a whole lot of tweaking. I honestly have more problems with Opera (though 7 was a huge improvement) and KHTML.
Also the lead designer here uses Dreamweaver which while not perfect still uses CSS and generally valid mark-up. A lot of times bad code in the editors is more a result of people not knowing how to use the tool. For instance our designer tends to nest tables (slowly getting him away from that) to produce a desired layout. The only way that's Dreamweaver's fault is if you said they need to abstract page layout more so developers will get away from using tables to do it. Of course then the problem is still Netscape 4 which is heavily used in government and big corps.
I'm not trying to flame you but you really sound like one of those people that doesn't fully understand the tool and blames the app.
That's a restriction, because it means you can never make software that is available for sale from anything that has been opened as GPL
Why can't you? The only thing the GPL requires is that you also distribute the source code. Sure people can copy your software but how is that different from the state of commercial software now? People are copying commercial software regardless of the license and yet MS is still rolling in the dough, along with lots of other companies.
The whole idea that you can't sell GPL software is ludicrous, there will always be people who are willing to pay for a nice box and a book full of documentation.
I imagine the other problem is that another company could take your code and redistribute it, but they aren't going to be able to sell a boxed version of the thing without getting into a trademark dispute, so all you have to do is build brand loyalty and continue to innovate your own product.
Not really. Even MySQL isn't going to put a string into an integer field and it doesn't put more characters than allowed in a field either.
So to get around those little problems the programmer I'm refering to tended to just change fields to blobs so he could put in whatever he wanted! Come to think of it the problem was probably more due to laziness than incompetence:)
a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'
Turn it all off then. Vast portions of the Internet run on Linux, FreeBSD (even though it isn't GPL) and especially Apache. Maybe we should all pick a day and turn it all off, at least in the US it would probably bring traffic to a halt. THEN maybe they will reconsider making stupid laws regarding the choice of one's operating systems!
4. Separation of logic from HTML design. (templating)
I don't know how many times the company I work for now has been burned because a previous programmer never checked any input to his scripts, rather just blindly inserting it into the database.
While I agree that the parent is wrong, PHP's error handling is still horrid because (at least by default) it outputs to the user of the page which could expose information to a hacker/cracker type person. I much prefer errors being logged where they can be later examined and the language should emit a 500 error to the client.
And before someone says "I don't like the crappy page that gets sent on a 500 error", with Apache you can change that error to whatever page you want.
Why argue about this? The Bible is not a science book the creation story was written the way it was because ancient people who read it nor those that wrote it understood amino-acids.
I'm a Christian, I've moved on from this argument because it doesn't matter how we got here, what matters is that God did it and why and how we are supposed to live now. Doing otherwise puts God in a box and limits him by religion (and that IMHO is wrong).
While I agree with you in principle, the biggest problem with IDEs is that not everyone uses the same one and often code from one gets mangled in another. Case in point I use VIM (and you can take it away when you pry it from my cold dead fingers:) ) while a programmer I work with uses something called 'PHP Coder' on Windows. His code is all nicely layed out on his screen but if I open it in mine things get jumbled, something to do with the way his IDE handles tabs.
Point is, good programmers are the ones that take the time to learn how to code well on their own without the help of an IDE.
As for reusing other people's code, I think that's a case by case basis. Sure there is bad code out there but there is also a lot of good code as well and my original point was about learning from bad code (i.e all the Perl programmers that learned stuff from Matt's Script Archive) rather than using it because it serves a particular purpose. I don't know how many times I've been coding in Perl and CPAN saved me tons of time. Not that one should just blindly use code (it should always be tested) but one shouldn't automatically set out to re-invent the wheel either.
Perl/C/C++/Java/Python can all be self-documenting if the programmer chooses to do so. The problem is poorly trained programmers and the proliferation of bad code on the Internet:)
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What is wrong with this country? Isn't there a lawyer out there somewhere with enough ethics to say this is extortion and defend this poor kid? Are there any lawyers on /. that can do that??? Someone stop the madness!
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Oh good grief! Paranoia city. If you must buy clothes with such a tag in them then cut it out if you're worried someone is going to track you.
If that fails then take a sewing class and make your own clothing.
How is this insightful? Last I checked Mozilla's mail client (and many others) don't have any kind of scripting enabled by default. You have to click attachments to get them to do anything, and by default it asks you to Save rather than open. So even if someone clicks on it and then Clicks OK, they just saved it somewhere.
Even cookies are off by default in the mail client. And you can turn off images.
So yeah I suppose people could "try" and target mozilla but I honestly don't think there is a whole lot of damage they could be allowed to do. The stuff that could potentially cause harm is off by default and the and people smart enough to turn it on are smart enough not to execute worms and viruses!
it's about the ability to deny entry to others and the ability to raise prices without consequence.
To a market. The market in question is computer makers. Apple sells computers, HP sells computers, Dell sells computers. Joe Sixpack goes to the store he's going to buy the computer that offers the best value at the lowest price. Can you buy a Dell from HP? No. Can you buy the componants that make up a Dell? Yes. Can you buy the componants that make up an Apple? Yes.
As for the OS you can buy that from Apple and probably make yourself a custom built Mac. How is that different from getting componants and building a PC and buying Windows from MS for it?
Should GM be forced to license their designs so that Ford can produce GM cars or vice-versa? Apple can do whatever they want with and OS and hardware they produce. They have a "monopoly" on those products but that's the way it works. Otherwise we could get rid of trademarks, patents and copyright all together. (Which IMHO would be a bad idea)
I guess YMMV, New Edge is a bit pricey but in all my dealings with them they were extremely helpful, I've worked for two ISPs that use them for DSL connections to customers.
Look in the dictionary under "monopoly". Hint: its about market share not about the product you sell. Should we break up Dell because they have a monopoly on Dells?
Well then I guess its a good thing they claimed it fell because if its falling then Congress won't need to pass any laws regarding it.
I believe that John McCain (R, Arizona) has said that he doesn't like the ruling either
Ummm ... the intent of my post was to be funny since anyone serious about web development isn't going to be using FrontPage (I know because I'm a web-developer). The vast majority of developers are using Macromedia and Adobe products, with a significant portion of them on Macs.
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I guess I ruined my own joke with the consumer bit.
All your content can then be DRM protected by default with FrontPage
How can this be a bad thing? Those of us who don't use IE at all won't even be able to see the crap generated by anyone using Front-Page! This can only be a win for the consumer!
That assumes that nature itself is intellegent. Hmmmmm ....
Nice conspiracy. I bet MS has Bin Laden working for them too and that Bush staged that whole 911 thing so he could justify starting two wars and become dictator.
Nah not good enough, if Bush really wanted to help MS he's have everyone that uses Linux charged of being a terrorist, that would be much quicker. Of course the Internet would go bye-bye as well but that's beside the point.
DMCA! DMCA! DMCA! DMCA! Okay I want to be modded up to!
Come on mods! Just because something says 'DMCA' or 'Patriot Act' doesn't make it insightful.
The DMCA or the Patriot Act have nothing to do with this case, in fact they have nothing to do with each other.
SCO isn't going anywhere with this, there are no congress-critters to pay off in this case, and I don't think that the Big Bad Media would care anyway because it doesn't have anything to do with N'Sync being copied.
Also SCO may be a lot of things but I don't think they are terrorists.
I don't like IE anymore than you do but your post doesn't make much sense.
As a proffesional web developer (going on five years now) I can say that I have not experienced the degree of problems with IE that you seem to have had. I code by hand using CSS and at least HTML 4.
IE had decent CSS 1 support before Mozilla really got off the ground and today is definitly on par with Gecko in following the standards. Are there descrepancies? sure a few but its not difficult to get around them. I'd say that 95% of the time my code works in both IE and Moz without a whole lot of tweaking. I honestly have more problems with Opera (though 7 was a huge improvement) and KHTML.
Also the lead designer here uses Dreamweaver which while not perfect still uses CSS and generally valid mark-up. A lot of times bad code in the editors is more a result of people not knowing how to use the tool. For instance our designer tends to nest tables (slowly getting him away from that) to produce a desired layout. The only way that's Dreamweaver's fault is if you said they need to abstract page layout more so developers will get away from using tables to do it. Of course then the problem is still Netscape 4 which is heavily used in government and big corps.
I'm not trying to flame you but you really sound like one of those people that doesn't fully understand the tool and blames the app.
That's a restriction, because it means you can never make software that is available for sale from anything that has been opened as GPL
Why can't you? The only thing the GPL requires is that you also distribute the source code. Sure people can copy your software but how is that different from the state of commercial software now? People are copying commercial software regardless of the license and yet MS is still rolling in the dough, along with lots of other companies.
The whole idea that you can't sell GPL software is ludicrous, there will always be people who are willing to pay for a nice box and a book full of documentation.
I imagine the other problem is that another company could take your code and redistribute it, but they aren't going to be able to sell a boxed version of the thing without getting into a trademark dispute, so all you have to do is build brand loyalty and continue to innovate your own product.
while its somewhat offtopic that's an interesting article,
though I must say the day I'm forced to use a GUI for writing web pages is the day I quit.
Not really. Even MySQL isn't going to put a string into an integer field and it doesn't put more characters than allowed in a field either.
:)
So to get around those little problems the programmer I'm refering to tended to just change fields to blobs so he could put in whatever he wanted! Come to think of it the problem was probably more due to laziness than incompetence
a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'
Turn it all off then. Vast portions of the Internet run on Linux, FreeBSD (even though it isn't GPL) and especially Apache. Maybe we should all pick a day and turn it all off, at least in the US it would probably bring traffic to a halt. THEN maybe they will reconsider making stupid laws regarding the choice of one's operating systems!
1. Checking any input from outside the program
2. Checking input
3. Checking input!!!
4. Separation of logic from HTML design. (templating)
I don't know how many times the company I work for now has been burned because a previous programmer never checked any input to his scripts, rather just blindly inserting it into the database.
While I agree that the parent is wrong, PHP's error handling is still horrid because (at least by default) it outputs to the user of the page which could expose information to a hacker/cracker type person. I much prefer errors being logged where they can be later examined and the language should emit a 500 error to the client.
And before someone says "I don't like the crappy page that gets sent on a 500 error", with Apache you can change that error to whatever page you want.
Why argue about this? The Bible is not a science book the creation story was written the way it was because ancient people who read it nor those that wrote it understood amino-acids.
I'm a Christian, I've moved on from this argument because it doesn't matter how we got here, what matters is that God did it and why and how we are supposed to live now. Doing otherwise puts God in a box and limits him by religion (and that IMHO is wrong).
While I agree with you in principle, the biggest problem with IDEs is that not everyone uses the same one and often code from one gets mangled in another. Case in point I use VIM (and you can take it away when you pry it from my cold dead fingers :) ) while a programmer I work with uses something called 'PHP Coder' on Windows. His code is all nicely layed out on his screen but if I open it in mine things get jumbled, something to do with the way his IDE handles tabs.
Point is, good programmers are the ones that take the time to learn how to code well on their own without the help of an IDE.
As for reusing other people's code, I think that's a case by case basis. Sure there is bad code out there but there is also a lot of good code as well and my original point was about learning from bad code (i.e all the Perl programmers that learned stuff from Matt's Script Archive) rather than using it because it serves a particular purpose. I don't know how many times I've been coding in Perl and CPAN saved me tons of time. Not that one should just blindly use code (it should always be tested) but one shouldn't automatically set out to re-invent the wheel either.
Perl/C/C++/Java/Python can all be self-documenting if the programmer chooses to do so. The problem is poorly trained programmers and the proliferation of bad code on the Internet :)
PHP: i_want_to_shoot_myself_in_the_foot($foot,$gun);
But be careful because the i_want_to_shoot_myself_in_the_hand() function takes a different parameter order.