I come from a PHP background and have written entire Content Management Systems with eCommerce and a whole bunch of other crap. Since then I've moved into Ruby & MVC work. However, about 4 months ago I got into a Magento project.
So here are the problems:
1. Bane of documentation
2. Ugly MVC implementation
3. Indian Developer Support (& slow in my opinion)
4. Unoptimized querying (just watch your query log)
5. Zero developer tools (just wait until you have to debug this bitch)
6. Mage_Has_Great_Catalog_Product_Class_Name_Yah_Shit_Is_Retarded
7. 1-6, need more?
I've worked with so many different code bases and web application structures, but Magento is absolutely the worst.
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*sigh*, I was expecting more of a challenge from the big G.
Not really, he's mostly going to declare bankruptcy and sell out for an exclusive interview or use the publicity in another manor.
Your thinking is linear at best. Do x, get y.
A kid has to declare bankruptcy over the companies lack of policies in managing their intellectual property.
Is that non-existent $1.5 million going to help Nintendo protect their property or just hurt their public image and a kid, you decide!
Well, I guess Nintendo throwing down $100k for publicity might be worth it, however it still grosses me out.
Satoru Iwata step off the kid, you got your publicity.
Finally my autoblogs will breathe easier with some cheaper ex-china ip's
Honestly, that's it china, we're cutting off the internet, your grounded buddy.
I'm in the same situation, try odesk.com for bidding on projects or other similar websites like ifreelance.com or elance.com never-the-less.
I like oDesk, it does all the management for me, but cuts 10% on anything you make, creates less of a hassle for me.
If you want to talk about productive, then get an extra monitor or two. Personally I triple span my Macbook Pro 17" via 2 other monitors.
I think it's great that they standardize the ratios, now if they could only work on increasing PPI (Pixels Per Inch) like Apple did, that'd be great.
During my youth and period of arrogant idiocy, I got myself in enough trouble to have a couple sit-down conversations with the Feds. I have no doubt that similar behavior to my own would turn out VERY bad for today's youth... when it comes to Virus writing - just don't do it:P I can't agree with that, without virus writing what pressures companies to actually secure and protect your data. Without the bad, there will be no good.
White hats may hate black hats, but without them there is no balance. I'm glad to see you're doing your best in educating and passing the best word to others.
And yes, security can't be 100%, that's why there is insurance.
Not many - but how many 40 or 50 year olds had access to a PC when they were in their teens? Tell me if you find out.
I am personally at an age that had I been born much earlier, I would not have had the option of learning to code a virus for a PC in my teens. I am 34 and easy access to PC hardware was a new concept when I was in my early teens. Home computer networks and mass adoption of the Internet didn't start until the early 90's... about the time I was your age.
All that being said, it is in the vast majority of teens' natures to take risks and seek attention. A computer crime, particularly an Internet crime has a reach that far exceeds anything my father could dreamed of. There is very little a 15 year old could have done in there parents basement in the US that would have affected someone in Australia (geographical locations are arbitrary) when he was a teen. I don't think they planned for attention. PS: In Canada milk comes in bags.
Last but not least, when I was a teenage and wrote my first PC virus (yeah, yeah... I did it too) that completely baffled the system administrators at my high school - I was supposedly one of the world's "elite". The statistics stated that perhaps only 10,000 people in the world had the knowledge to do so... reading that statistic was what actually inspired me to see if I could. So, I bought several books on x86 assembly language and got my hands on as many viruses as possible, printed reams of disassembled virus bytecode, and stepped through countless lines of instructions in DOS's debug.exe to watch them in action. After a few months was able to craft a completely unique virus that was prolific as hell and slipped right through the Antivirus applications' (of that day and time) scanners. You've said something to impress me.
Now I hear my kids' friends talking about how they write viruses... I had an entertaining discussion with a 14 year old at one point claiming he was one of the reasons that I have a job (I own a small PC security consulting company), yet from the remainder of the discussion it was pretty clear that he wouldn't know a PCI slot from DIMM socket if he was put on the spot to identify them. That was for attention. PS: In Canada milk comes in bags.
I guess my point is - the bar has been drastically lowered for entry into the virus writing world. About anyone with the ability to use notepad and search google can write a VBScript app that will spread itself via Email (or a Perl script for those who would like to jump on the down-with-windows bandwagon). This being the case, it fits into the teenage rebel without a clue mentality quite nicely. The percentage of kids that are actually gifted programmers hasn't really changed but the number of kids tinkering with scripts and programming certainly has - which is precisely where the stereotype of the teen script-kiddie comes from. (The word "kiddie" has a basis in reality as well). Security is a modern day myth, and thinking of the idea of having it is almost a joke.
Don't get me wrong - I am not putting you down. For all I know you could have an IQ of 200 and have graduated high school at 12. However, the vast majority of people are complete idiots - with the level of skill needed to write viruses and the average computer user now being part of that majority. By the time people are in their 20's/30's there are slightly more important things to do (job, family, etc) than try to mess with the computer of someone halfway across the globe to gain a +1 to e-peen size. So, yes, it is a pretty safe assumption that script kiddies will be in their teens. Your points are well stated, however they are still script kiddies, maybe I don't follow the sought after wikipedia description, but too me, these kids annoyed thousands and we're caught, maybe it is a call for attention, but should we really be spending time debating about it or getting out there and stopping it?
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I come from a PHP background and have written entire Content Management Systems with eCommerce and a whole bunch of other crap. Since then I've moved into Ruby & MVC work. However, about 4 months ago I got into a Magento project.
So here are the problems:
1. Bane of documentation
2. Ugly MVC implementation
3. Indian Developer Support (& slow in my opinion)
4. Unoptimized querying (just watch your query log)
5. Zero developer tools (just wait until you have to debug this bitch)
6. Mage_Has_Great_Catalog_Product_Class_Name_Yah_Shit_Is_Retarded
7. 1-6, need more?
I've worked with so many different code bases and web application structures, but Magento is absolutely the worst.
http://jarlsberg.appspot.com//saveprofile?action=new&uid=lol&pw=cats&is_author=True&is_admin=True *sigh*, I was expecting more of a challenge from the big G.
...with his beady little eyes and blank stare
anyone else think he's a robot? and did he steal shatner's hair piece?
dont print, get an ipad
Not really, he's mostly going to declare bankruptcy and sell out for an exclusive interview or use the publicity in another manor. Your thinking is linear at best. Do x, get y.
A kid has to declare bankruptcy over the companies lack of policies in managing their intellectual property.
Is that non-existent $1.5 million going to help Nintendo protect their property or just hurt their public image and a kid, you decide!
Well, I guess Nintendo throwing down $100k for publicity might be worth it, however it still grosses me out.
Satoru Iwata step off the kid, you got your publicity.
Finally my autoblogs will breathe easier with some cheaper ex-china ip's Honestly, that's it china, we're cutting off the internet, your grounded buddy.
What about Amazon's "One Click" patent? Because clearly there is another certain method to do that.
I'm in the same situation, try odesk.com for bidding on projects or other similar websites like ifreelance.com or elance.com never-the-less. I like oDesk, it does all the management for me, but cuts 10% on anything you make, creates less of a hassle for me.
i #!'d ur wife
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I will miss the days of high quality news
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PROBLEM : RATIO CHANGE = LESS SCREEN AREA
SOLUTION : BUY A BIGGER MONITOR.
If you want to talk about productive, then get an extra monitor or two. Personally I triple span my Macbook Pro 17" via 2 other monitors.
I think it's great that they standardize the ratios, now if they could only work on increasing PPI (Pixels Per Inch) like Apple did, that'd be great.
Oh not again...
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF TOMMOROW. Web 3.0, I can't wait for the next set of buzzwords. This news article is just grassroots.
Humorous method to highlight the link in between paragraphs and relative nature of the topic on "attention".
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So it's right to assume they're "skilled hackers"?
No, solely on their methods. I'm 20, live with it.
From the ages of 17-26.
Wouldn't you say the RCMP is just hunting down script kiddies?