I think they mean small publishers as in companies that have twitter accounts for their companies that tweet about coupons, deals, etc. I might be totally wrong though as I don't use twitter.
I'm sorry, but you're completely off tune with reality. The majority of the people in this world aren't computer savvy and would struggle with RSS feeds. They signed up for updates from the companies, because they wanted them in email. Something even the most computer inept people can use now. One company I work with just sent out an email to their investors, guess what it's a newsletter.
If you were to go create something that got mild success in it's first month say you got 20k users and you're sending email that a normal person would expect from you (sign up confirmations, updates, etc) you wouldn't get through to the major free email providers even though people requested the information. That is a legitimate use of email and you'd be considered a bulk sender. Unfortunately spammers have caused this, but just because you don't like something you signuped for doesn't mean it's spam. There's a simple solution tell them you no longer want to receive anything from them and I'm pretty sure most places won't ever contact you again.
*No I'm not talking about the people send out email to lists they buy, rent, or how the fuck ever they get them so they're "CAN-SPAM complaint" and then flood you're email with diet offers, pills, and god knows what else*
I'm sorry, but I don't see how the ReturnPath program is for spammers. I've gone through the process for real companies (i.e. not spammers) sending newsletters and transactional email. The complaint rates you have to maintain to keep their service are extremely low. I don't see how a spammer could maintain those complaint rates and keep using their service.
Just because somebody is a bulk sender doesn't mean it's spam. I really doubt you'd consider this website a source of spam, but it would be considered a bulk sender.
Speaking of CCIE that's very true. My best friend at the ripe old age of 23 is damn near pulling in 6 figures with out a degree, because he's that good. His CCIE has put him in that bracket and he'll have 2 CCIEs before he's 25 and probably pulling in closer to 200k a year with out a degree.
Changes in PHP 6 Issue: Register globals are the source of many application's security problems and cause a constant grief.
Discussion: We shortly discussed how we want to attend users on the disappearance of this functionality. We decided that if we find the setting during the startup of PHP we raise an E_CORE_ERROR which will prevent the server from starting with a message that points to the documentation. The documentation should explain why this functionality was removed, and some introduction on safe programming.
Conclusions:
We are going to remove the functionality. We throw an E_CORE_ERROR when starting PHP and when we detect the register_globals setting
Issue: Magic_quotes can be cumbersome for application developers as it is a setting that can be set to on or off without any influence from within the script itself as input parameters are escaped before the script starts.
Discussion: In the same way as with the remove of the register_globals functionality, we decided that if we find the setting during the startup of PHP we raise an E_CORE_ERROR which will prevent the server from starting with a message that points to the documentation. The documentation should explain why this functionality was removed, and point the users at the input_filter extension as replacement.
Conclusions:
We remove the magic_quotes feature from PHP. We throw an E_CORE_ERROR when starting PHP and when we detect the magic_quotes, magic_quotes_sybase or magic_quotes_gpc setting.
The spam laws aren't shot down. It's basically the same thing. If I have a company in Texas and someone in Mass buys something I have to protect their data or face fines. If I send UCE to someone in say California and I'm sending it from Texas I can face fine in California.
I really don't see how I'm an idiot for wanting a phone that does 1 thing well and that's make a phone call. I don't care about all the other crap that most phones have. I will agree though that I'm in the minority.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you to a point. I can get vim setup up to do exactly what I need fairly quickly, but I didn't learn that while I was at work. I learned it, because I fiddled with it on my own time before I was even a professional programmer.
If you have no knowledge of the either of them and decide one day to walk into work and figure it out then yeah you're not that bright or feel like messing off.
If you're a systems guy / programmer / it / whatever and you don't fiddle around with things that makes you worse than someone who does. It's just a matter of when you do it (i.e. your free time not on the clock).
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Why should I have to pay for the business bundle because I want to stream netflix and play online games?
heathen!
Is that 11 central or eastern time?
I think they mean small publishers as in companies that have twitter accounts for their companies that tweet about coupons, deals, etc. I might be totally wrong though as I don't use twitter.
So the government can spend more money, duh.
+1 funny!
I'm sorry, but you're completely off tune with reality. The majority of the people in this world aren't computer savvy and would struggle with RSS feeds. They signed up for updates from the companies, because they wanted them in email. Something even the most computer inept people can use now. One company I work with just sent out an email to their investors, guess what it's a newsletter.
If you were to go create something that got mild success in it's first month say you got 20k users and you're sending email that a normal person would expect from you (sign up confirmations, updates, etc) you wouldn't get through to the major free email providers even though people requested the information. That is a legitimate use of email and you'd be considered a bulk sender. Unfortunately spammers have caused this, but just because you don't like something you signuped for doesn't mean it's spam. There's a simple solution tell them you no longer want to receive anything from them and I'm pretty sure most places won't ever contact you again.
*No I'm not talking about the people send out email to lists they buy, rent, or how the fuck ever they get them so they're "CAN-SPAM complaint" and then flood you're email with diet offers, pills, and god knows what else*
I'm sorry, but I don't see how the ReturnPath program is for spammers. I've gone through the process for real companies (i.e. not spammers) sending newsletters and transactional email. The complaint rates you have to maintain to keep their service are extremely low. I don't see how a spammer could maintain those complaint rates and keep using their service.
Just because somebody is a bulk sender doesn't mean it's spam. I really doubt you'd consider this website a source of spam, but it would be considered a bulk sender.
Speaking of CCIE that's very true. My best friend at the ripe old age of 23 is damn near pulling in 6 figures with out a degree, because he's that good. His CCIE has put him in that bracket and he'll have 2 CCIEs before he's 25 and probably pulling in closer to 200k a year with out a degree.
*Whoosh*
Come on everyone knows you use the right tool for the job. You shouldn't even be considering JavaScript when the correct answer is obvious, Flash.
Changes in PHP 6
Issue: Register globals are the source of many application's security problems and cause a constant grief.
Discussion: We shortly discussed how we want to attend users on the disappearance of this functionality. We decided that if we find the setting during the startup of PHP we raise an E_CORE_ERROR which will prevent the server from starting with a message that points to the documentation. The documentation should explain why this functionality was removed, and some introduction on safe programming.
Conclusions:
We are going to remove the functionality.
We throw an E_CORE_ERROR when starting PHP and when we detect the register_globals setting
http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#id12
Issue: Magic_quotes can be cumbersome for application developers as it is a setting that can be set to on or off without any influence from within the script itself as input parameters are escaped before the script starts.
Discussion: In the same way as with the remove of the register_globals functionality, we decided that if we find the setting during the startup of PHP we raise an E_CORE_ERROR which will prevent the server from starting with a message that points to the documentation. The documentation should explain why this functionality was removed, and point the users at the input_filter extension as replacement.
Conclusions:
We remove the magic_quotes feature from PHP.
We throw an E_CORE_ERROR when starting PHP and when we detect the magic_quotes, magic_quotes_sybase or magic_quotes_gpc setting.
http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#id13
They are also planning on getting rid of the non-PDO db stuff at a future date.
Vim > emacs > Notepad++ Let the war begin!
It is so much easier to use signed integers. Think about all the productive lost typing unsigned!
I think they key phrase in his post was "some cities". I can tell you where I liveit's a hell of a lot higher than 9.7%.
wow plan9 reference you sir receive the obscure OS reference of the day award.
The spam laws aren't shot down. It's basically the same thing. If I have a company in Texas and someone in Mass buys something I have to protect their data or face fines. If I send UCE to someone in say California and I'm sending it from Texas I can face fine in California.
I really wish I could mod you funny :)
I really don't see how I'm an idiot for wanting a phone that does 1 thing well and that's make a phone call. I don't care about all the other crap that most phones have. I will agree though that I'm in the minority.
What's paid overtime?
How about seize nothing, because this law is retarded.
If you don't have access to the original developers and they didn't document it you're going to just have to spend a lot of time reading the code. =\
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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you to a point. I can get vim setup up to do exactly what I need fairly quickly, but I didn't learn that while I was at work. I learned it, because I fiddled with it on my own time before I was even a professional programmer.
If you have no knowledge of the either of them and decide one day to walk into work and figure it out then yeah you're not that bright or feel like messing off.
If you're a systems guy / programmer / it / whatever and you don't fiddle around with things that makes you worse than someone who does. It's just a matter of when you do it (i.e. your free time not on the clock).
Can't argue with that. I do like Zend Studio, but I prefer vim for the same reason you prefer Zend Studio. I get more done quicker.