So let me get this straight. You set up your new Linux machine, and it's working well. You've compiled everything you need to compile, and since you're compiling anything at all it's pretty apparent that you're a geek. Now you set up your machine to dual-boot into Windows, and you stop being a geek all of a sudden? Specifically at what point does that occur?
PC users = Wishing they could be any of the above so they to could have cool sites to post upon rather then having to claim "I am a geek" on a windows machine.
Are you trying to assert that using Windows and being a geek are mutually exclusive?
This is a complete non-story and is just Opera trying to drum up some publicity for the release.
What do you mean, is that like when Apple leaks product details to the media before a product launch? I agree, it's a non-story, but people sure like to talk about it.
Yeah, Opera, you hear that? It's time to shut the doors, close the shop down. Some anonymous guy on Slashdot doesn't like your product, so it looks like it's time to give it a rest.
Opera is making a piddling amount of profit even in comparison to someone like Red Hat.
"Even in comparison to Red Hat?" Red Hat is a services company, they provide services to people. They had a revenue of 194M USD in Q3-09. Opera, by contrast, is a software company, exclusively producing web browsers. Their only business is web browsers. Their revenue streams are split between desktop and mobile versions of their software. They had a 22.8M USD revenue in Q3-09. It's a terrible comparison to compare a services company with a software company, but even so, 22.8M in a quarter for a web browser is not bad at all.
Are you trying to assert that no update has ever reset the default browser, or just that you haven't installed one that did? If the latter is true, who cares?
His basic point is that free sites which have high operating costs are expensive to run, so they need more money to continue to offer services for free. His solution to getting more money for the free sites is to have more intrusive advertising. One example of a free site with high operating costs is a proxy site.
I'm not sure why he needed 14KB to say that, but that's what he's saying.
It was copied over unthinkingly to the first WIMP machines
Hmm.. Windows Is My Pimp Who Is Microsoft Paying Windows Is My Problem (ha!) Why Is My 'PuterCrashing Windows Introduces Meat Puppets Where Is My Productivity What Is My Password
Don't worry, he said "rapidly becoming", not "already is". There's plenty of time for Apple to redefine what they want to "allow" on their desktop machines and OS. It's not all that far fetched to imagine that a company whose products focus on controlling what the user is able to do would eventually apply that to their entire product line.
In reading through TFA I was a little surprised at the common theme. Everything was "will Apple allow it", instead of "can we make it happen". Sort of made me realize again why I've chosen not to be one of Apple's customers.
If one of the problems they're citing is not being able to save documents as MS Office formats and then emailing them out, my first suggestion as a reasonably intelligent computer user would be to download and install a different office suite, like OpenOffice, instead of trying to make iWork do what I want it to. It's sort of sad that I would need some sort of approval from Apple in order to do that.
I guess to each his own. I'm more in the camp of inherently distrusting all advertisers altogether. I think it's sort of strange that a company can actually garner trust just by advertising to someone. That sort of seems like the same type of personality who would assume that the sounds a prostitute makes indicate that she actually is enjoying it.
Google earns your trust through unobtrusive ads? That's a pretty low threshold for trust you've got. Not to mention the fact that "obtrusive ads" aren't really the first thing I think of when I think of Microsoft.
I think that in most cases that 0 is not a valid value for most uses. Database IDs, for example, will never be 0. If you use intval and then the value is 0, the ID wasn't set. You can also use is_numeric to check if you have a numeric string (vs. non-numeric string), and you can also use strict comparison if the return of intval is 0 to check if the original string was neither "" nor "0", if not then again it's a non-numeric string.
It's a fault of PHP insofar as PHP promotes bad coding practices, by making it easier to write bad code, and harder to write good code.
It's not hard for a good programmer to write good code, PHP just doesn't require it.
If a file couldn't be opened, then code should explicitly check for error and provide some fallback - or otherwise die as loudly as possible.
You don't always want your application dying as loudly as possible. You don't necessarily want a user to see filesystem or database details in error messages. In most production systems you would route all errors to a log anyway instead of the browser. I'm not trying to defend the @ operator because I never use it. You hold it up as an example of why PHP is bad, when in reality it's an artifact that doesn't really get used. The example you pointed to shows one example of hiding the error message from the user, but in reality most systems use an error log instead. The @ operator doesn't come into play.
No other language I know, other than PHP, has a similar operator or construct specifically for this purpose.
Error suppression is not an uncommon thing, but I'm not going to represent that I know a significant amount about a significant number of languages, my programming knowledge is limited to a relatively small set of languages.
and note that, while it is clearly obvious when a string literal is used in the source code, how about a string variable, or other expression computed at runtime?
It should be clearly obvious that if you want to use a string as an integer, you use intval to convert it first. Programmers who know the difference between strings and integers know that. Don't take that personally, that comment isn't aimed at you, there are many, many PHP "programmers" who really don't know anything about data types (as a question answerer on the w3schools forum, I can readily attest to this; the level of inexperience people have when trying to tackle major projects is staggering).
It's difficult to fault a language just because it's easy to learn though. PHP is easy to learn, because it does a lot of stuff automatically (casting, error suppression, etc, like you said). So that means a lot of people copy and paste, go through quick tutorials, etc, and try to write code in it. You end up with a lot of crappy code, but that's not the fault of PHP, that's the fault of the people who are trying to write code without learning any theory at all (literally). Any decent programmer would be pretty surprised that a large portion of people asking PHP questions on w3schools are developing on a server with error message display disabled, errors are routed to a log file instead. They don't know that, and don't know how to change it, so they never even see error messages, just a blank page when they get a fatal error. I sometimes wonder how those people ever manage to debug, then remember that's why they're posting on the w3schools forum.
Oh, I also don't know of any other language that has what effectively amounts to synactic sugar for try/catch with an empty catch block
C'mon, if you want to cherry pick examples you can claim whatever you want.
The error suppression operator is for suppressing errors. The die/exit statements are for quitting execution and optionally printing a message. Some functions return false if they fail, so you can do something like this:
mysql_query($sql) or exit(mysql_error());
to print a specific error message for a specific situation. It should be obvious that's equivalent to this:
if (!mysql_query($sql)) exit(mysql_error());
That's what your example shows, printing an error that a file couldn't be opened if the file wasn't able to be opened. If you want exception handling and try/catch blocks, here you go:
But, if an attacker can get control, then so can the owner, which means the owner can fix the security hole.
Not really.. you're assuming the flaw exists in software. Regardless though, I'm interested to see a "fix" for a vulnerability get published which requires people to hack their phone and gives them a list of memory addresses and values that need to be changed. That would go over well.
Right, assuming that GE actually paid him the $2B, even though when contacted they said they haven't heard of him and that they always do due diligence when investing in anything, especially for that much.
In other words, $2B sight unseen offers do not exist. This should have been obvious to anyone he told that to. Anyone investing $2B into anything is going to do quite a bit of research to make sure their investment is going to pay off.
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So let me get this straight. You set up your new Linux machine, and it's working well. You've compiled everything you need to compile, and since you're compiling anything at all it's pretty apparent that you're a geek. Now you set up your machine to dual-boot into Windows, and you stop being a geek all of a sudden? Specifically at what point does that occur?
PC users = Wishing they could be any of the above so they to could have cool sites to post upon rather then having to claim "I am a geek" on a windows machine.
Are you trying to assert that using Windows and being a geek are mutually exclusive?
This is a complete non-story and is just Opera trying to drum up some publicity for the release.
What do you mean, is that like when Apple leaks product details to the media before a product launch? I agree, it's a non-story, but people sure like to talk about it.
Yeah, Opera, you hear that? It's time to shut the doors, close the shop down. Some anonymous guy on Slashdot doesn't like your product, so it looks like it's time to give it a rest.
Opera is making a piddling amount of profit even in comparison to someone like Red Hat.
"Even in comparison to Red Hat?" Red Hat is a services company, they provide services to people. They had a revenue of 194M USD in Q3-09. Opera, by contrast, is a software company, exclusively producing web browsers. Their only business is web browsers. Their revenue streams are split between desktop and mobile versions of their software. They had a 22.8M USD revenue in Q3-09. It's a terrible comparison to compare a services company with a software company, but even so, 22.8M in a quarter for a web browser is not bad at all.
Are you trying to assert that no update has ever reset the default browser, or just that you haven't installed one that did? If the latter is true, who cares?
His basic point is that free sites which have high operating costs are expensive to run, so they need more money to continue to offer services for free. His solution to getting more money for the free sites is to have more intrusive advertising. One example of a free site with high operating costs is a proxy site.
I'm not sure why he needed 14KB to say that, but that's what he's saying.
It was copied over unthinkingly to the first WIMP machines
Hmm..
Windows Is My Pimp
Who Is Microsoft Paying
Windows Is My Problem (ha!)
Why Is My 'PuterCrashing
Windows Introduces Meat Puppets
Where Is My Productivity
What Is My Password
Don't worry, he said "rapidly becoming", not "already is". There's plenty of time for Apple to redefine what they want to "allow" on their desktop machines and OS. It's not all that far fetched to imagine that a company whose products focus on controlling what the user is able to do would eventually apply that to their entire product line.
In reading through TFA I was a little surprised at the common theme. Everything was "will Apple allow it", instead of "can we make it happen". Sort of made me realize again why I've chosen not to be one of Apple's customers.
If one of the problems they're citing is not being able to save documents as MS Office formats and then emailing them out, my first suggestion as a reasonably intelligent computer user would be to download and install a different office suite, like OpenOffice, instead of trying to make iWork do what I want it to. It's sort of sad that I would need some sort of approval from Apple in order to do that.
For future reference, Family Guy references are never obligatory.
What's a hacker going to do with a message which says "Error opening 'C:\Windows\system32\config\SAM'."?
I'd like to see exactly what's stored in that file, but sadly I can't access it with my admin account.
I guess to each his own. I'm more in the camp of inherently distrusting all advertisers altogether. I think it's sort of strange that a company can actually garner trust just by advertising to someone. That sort of seems like the same type of personality who would assume that the sounds a prostitute makes indicate that she actually is enjoying it.
Even though Google does want to own your computer and does want you to do everything their way, I can sort of understand your point.
Google earns your trust through unobtrusive ads? That's a pretty low threshold for trust you've got. Not to mention the fact that "obtrusive ads" aren't really the first thing I think of when I think of Microsoft.
today after Microsoft partners with the N.S.A. for "help" to
stop the "China hackers".
That was Google wanting to partner, not Microsoft. Keep trusting Google and fearing Microsoft, though.
What exactly did Google do to earn your trust that Microsoft never could?
Sadly, past failures have forever tainted the sample.
I think that in most cases that 0 is not a valid value for most uses. Database IDs, for example, will never be 0. If you use intval and then the value is 0, the ID wasn't set. You can also use is_numeric to check if you have a numeric string (vs. non-numeric string), and you can also use strict comparison if the return of intval is 0 to check if the original string was neither "" nor "0", if not then again it's a non-numeric string.
It's a fault of PHP insofar as PHP promotes bad coding practices, by making it easier to write bad code, and harder to write good code.
It's not hard for a good programmer to write good code, PHP just doesn't require it.
If a file couldn't be opened, then code should explicitly check for error and provide some fallback - or otherwise die as loudly as possible.
You don't always want your application dying as loudly as possible. You don't necessarily want a user to see filesystem or database details in error messages. In most production systems you would route all errors to a log anyway instead of the browser. I'm not trying to defend the @ operator because I never use it. You hold it up as an example of why PHP is bad, when in reality it's an artifact that doesn't really get used. The example you pointed to shows one example of hiding the error message from the user, but in reality most systems use an error log instead. The @ operator doesn't come into play.
No other language I know, other than PHP, has a similar operator or construct specifically for this purpose.
Error suppression is not an uncommon thing, but I'm not going to represent that I know a significant amount about a significant number of languages, my programming knowledge is limited to a relatively small set of languages.
and note that, while it is clearly obvious when a string literal is used in the source code, how about a string variable, or other expression computed at runtime?
It should be clearly obvious that if you want to use a string as an integer, you use intval to convert it first. Programmers who know the difference between strings and integers know that. Don't take that personally, that comment isn't aimed at you, there are many, many PHP "programmers" who really don't know anything about data types (as a question answerer on the w3schools forum, I can readily attest to this; the level of inexperience people have when trying to tackle major projects is staggering).
It's difficult to fault a language just because it's easy to learn though. PHP is easy to learn, because it does a lot of stuff automatically (casting, error suppression, etc, like you said). So that means a lot of people copy and paste, go through quick tutorials, etc, and try to write code in it. You end up with a lot of crappy code, but that's not the fault of PHP, that's the fault of the people who are trying to write code without learning any theory at all (literally). Any decent programmer would be pretty surprised that a large portion of people asking PHP questions on w3schools are developing on a server with error message display disabled, errors are routed to a log file instead. They don't know that, and don't know how to change it, so they never even see error messages, just a blank page when they get a fatal error. I sometimes wonder how those people ever manage to debug, then remember that's why they're posting on the w3schools forum.
Oh, I also don't know of any other language that has what effectively amounts to synactic sugar for try/catch with an empty catch block
C'mon, if you want to cherry pick examples you can claim whatever you want.
The error suppression operator is for suppressing errors. The die/exit statements are for quitting execution and optionally printing a message. Some functions return false if they fail, so you can do something like this:
mysql_query($sql) or exit(mysql_error());
to print a specific error message for a specific situation. It should be obvious that's equivalent to this:
if (!mysql_query($sql)) exit(mysql_error());
That's what your example shows, printing an error that a file couldn't be opened if the file wasn't able to be opened. If you want exception handling and try/catch blocks, here you go:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php
enabling him to man-in-the-middle SSL traffic from that phone
So "man-in-the-middle" is a verb now, huh?
Yeah, screw all those unhealthy people with no money to begin with, let's make our money more valuable!
But, if an attacker can get control, then so can the owner, which means the owner can fix the security hole.
Not really.. you're assuming the flaw exists in software. Regardless though, I'm interested to see a "fix" for a vulnerability get published which requires people to hack their phone and gives them a list of memory addresses and values that need to be changed. That would go over well.
Does anyone know why people post things like this? Is there steganography involved here?
Right, assuming that GE actually paid him the $2B, even though when contacted they said they haven't heard of him and that they always do due diligence when investing in anything, especially for that much.
In other words, $2B sight unseen offers do not exist. This should have been obvious to anyone he told that to. Anyone investing $2B into anything is going to do quite a bit of research to make sure their investment is going to pay off.