It also doesn't protect their liability. Since they provided the access, if someone does something bad... they are just as liable, and since I assume they don't have all the security/audit capabilities on that environment, they are probably even more liable because they didn't put forth business reasonable efforts to limit your ability to do bad things.
Most of these kids just asked their parents to buy the game, and since the parents don't spend 30 seconds finding out what the game is about, they buy it and are shocked when 3 weeks later they find out he's ripping some guys head off in the game.
Yeah, the inability to scale is the primary reason all the porn sites use it...
And why we have a lot of high traffic sites that have no issue with it...
Threading != Scalability. Threading is only needed if you do certain types of tasks that need it.
In programming, there is no silver bullet, there are lots of tools suited for different jobs, PHP fits in a lot of those places, Java in others, other languages elsewhere. Threading isn't a "Oh, I'll multithread it, that'll make it faster" type of magic button.
A trademark is started with common usage more often than not. It is very trademarkable, as is Google, even though people use it as a verb, even when referring to Yahoo or other search engines.
I love this, you people make it sound like there was no code before Java. You realize that most imbedded code is Assembler or C, right? You realize that before "managed" code that bad programmers could use to not suck so much, there was plenty of good stable programs.
I know Microsoft has worked hard to convince everyone that C/C++ suck, but just because the largest software company in the world can't get code to work doesn't mean it is the fault of the language. C++ can be extremely stable if you spend a little bit of time making sure you don't assume anything.
Unstable code has nothing to do with the language, and everything to do with the programmers.
You know that if you have an accident, and you aren't wearing your seatbelt the Insurance will just say "Fuck you, no money"... right?
Not to mention, it's just silly to not wear one... To say it's stupid to have a law about it is one thing... but to not actually wear one is quite another.
Having worked for Bowker (The guys that generate ISBNs and supply all the stores with their database) for several years I have a little insight into this...
The publisher gets exclusive rights to publish a work (i.e., the Author can't go somewhere else). However, the publish must always be willing to publish the book... if they stop publishing the book even when someone requests a copy the Author then gets the rights back to go to another publisher. This protection is so that a publisher can't buy rights to a book, print 5 copies and they kill the book. This exclusivity is what the publisher is using to say the Author can't have Google publish the book.
If a book truly becomes "Out of Print" the rights return to the author, but the definition of Out of Print can become a little grey. If you ever look at Bowker's Books out of Print product you will see a blurb about this.
abuse e-mail addresses get a huge amount of spam, because they are easily discovered or guessed. Ours gets about a 1000:1 ratio of spam to real e-mail, not running a spam filter really isn't an option.
A Web farm is the simplest form of clustering, some would argue it isn't even a cluster because the nodes are not aware of each other. However, it gets more confusing when you add a Java layer that load balances...
Anyway, I do agree that I've seen more trouble caused by DB Clustering solutions than it helps...
A cluster adds complexity to the environment, Complexity == Cost, even without the expensive software.
Pre-sliced, you no longer had to crush your bread trying to cut it (remember, didn't exactly have laser-sharpened stainless steal bread knives at that time). Also, bread was a bit tougher shortly after it cooled off, making it worse.
Is it even theoretically possible to embed computer code in a JPEG file and execute it through the viewer? No, this is not even theoretically possible. There is no way that could ever happen unless somebody went out of his way to specifically write a viewer that would load the image data into memory and then issue a jump instruction. Never gonna happen.
Two problems: 1). Too late, already happened with the jpg exploit. 2). How do you create the JPG unless you figure out what the page looks like, which means running the formatting rules to create the JPG, which it will need to do when you first get to the folder. Unless you expect every application to change and add a thumbnail to its metadata.
Their biggest database is just public records, so they have your information if you ever took out a loan, bought a house, have a drivers license, been arrested, or walked near an ATM.
That is not what got abused, another database owned by Seisint (Only recently purchased by LexisNexis) was the target.
Oh please, nobody gave a crap about that... it was that their little Timmy might have seen a boob.
As the parent stated, nobody in America cares about violence, or even being sexist... nudity and people swearing are considered the worst offenses in the country.
While I think it's silly to quit before actually trying out their tools, I have to say... the MS tools are annoying to deal with. I dealt with them for years, and always prefered a good Programmers Editor linked to the tools instead.
Real programmers don't care which LANGUAGE they program in, you will find they are generally extremely picky about which TOOLS they use. Just look at the vi/emacs wars.
See, you got my point. It happens, I've been in and out of corporate America for 12+ years, and I've been on the losing end of it before, I've also been on the lucky side, not because I was a suck-up, but because I happened to be on the "Hot Project of the Week".
But beating yourself up over it, or worrying about it will just make you miserable.
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It also doesn't protect their liability. Since they provided the access, if someone does something bad... they are just as liable, and since I assume they don't have all the security/audit capabilities on that environment, they are probably even more liable because they didn't put forth business reasonable efforts to limit your ability to do bad things.
Most of these kids just asked their parents to buy the game, and since the parents don't spend 30 seconds finding out what the game is about, they buy it and are shocked when 3 weeks later they find out he's ripping some guys head off in the game.
Yeah, the inability to scale is the primary reason all the porn sites use it...
And why we have a lot of high traffic sites that have no issue with it...
Threading != Scalability. Threading is only needed if you do certain types of tasks that need it.
In programming, there is no silver bullet, there are lots of tools suited for different jobs, PHP fits in a lot of those places, Java in others, other languages elsewhere. Threading isn't a "Oh, I'll multithread it, that'll make it faster" type of magic button.
A trademark is started with common usage more often than not. It is very trademarkable, as is Google, even though people use it as a verb, even when referring to Yahoo or other search engines.
I love this, you people make it sound like there was no code before Java. You realize that most imbedded code is Assembler or C, right? You realize that before "managed" code that bad programmers could use to not suck so much, there was plenty of good stable programs.
I know Microsoft has worked hard to convince everyone that C/C++ suck, but just because the largest software company in the world can't get code to work doesn't mean it is the fault of the language. C++ can be extremely stable if you spend a little bit of time making sure you don't assume anything.
Unstable code has nothing to do with the language, and everything to do with the programmers.
You know that if you have an accident, and you aren't wearing your seatbelt the Insurance will just say "Fuck you, no money"... right?
Not to mention, it's just silly to not wear one... To say it's stupid to have a law about it is one thing... but to not actually wear one is quite another.
That means at some point you told FireFox "No, I'm an idiot, don't warn me about this stuff in the future!".
That still isn't a FF issue.
They regularly publish how many beige boxes they have...
Having worked for Bowker (The guys that generate ISBNs and supply all the stores with their database) for several years I have a little insight into this...
The publisher gets exclusive rights to publish a work (i.e., the Author can't go somewhere else). However, the publish must always be willing to publish the book... if they stop publishing the book even when someone requests a copy the Author then gets the rights back to go to another publisher. This protection is so that a publisher can't buy rights to a book, print 5 copies and they kill the book. This exclusivity is what the publisher is using to say the Author can't have Google publish the book.
If a book truly becomes "Out of Print" the rights return to the author, but the definition of Out of Print can become a little grey. If you ever look at Bowker's Books out of Print product you will see a blurb about this.
abuse e-mail addresses get a huge amount of spam, because they are easily discovered or guessed. Ours gets about a 1000:1 ratio of spam to real e-mail, not running a spam filter really isn't an option.
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I don't know, I've replaced almost every component on my production servers without taking them down... Of course, that's a $1Million server...
A Web farm is the simplest form of clustering, some would argue it isn't even a cluster because the nodes are not aware of each other. However, it gets more confusing when you add a Java layer that load balances...
Anyway, I do agree that I've seen more trouble caused by DB Clustering solutions than it helps...
A cluster adds complexity to the environment, Complexity == Cost, even without the expensive software.
Pre-sliced, you no longer had to crush your bread trying to cut it (remember, didn't exactly have laser-sharpened stainless steal bread knives at that time). Also, bread was a bit tougher shortly after it cooled off, making it worse.
There is no denying that Microsoft created this culture of "Click on anything you see".
Is it even theoretically possible to embed computer code in a JPEG file and execute it through the viewer? No, this is not even theoretically possible. There is no way that could ever happen unless somebody went out of his way to specifically write a viewer that would load the image data into memory and then issue a jump instruction. Never gonna happen.
Two problems: 1). Too late, already happened with the jpg exploit.
2). How do you create the JPG unless you figure out what the page looks like, which means running the formatting rules to create the JPG, which it will need to do when you first get to the folder. Unless you expect every application to change and add a thumbnail to its metadata.
Which is good for AMD anyway, because it drives down Intel's profit margins.
Their biggest database is just public records, so they have your information if you ever took out a loan, bought a house, have a drivers license, been arrested, or walked near an ATM.
That is not what got abused, another database owned by Seisint (Only recently purchased by LexisNexis) was the target.
It was a social engineering attack.
You are late... this is going to be (already is) true very soon, 1 free Credit report a year.
That was the worst analogy I've ever seen I think.
Oh please, nobody gave a crap about that... it was that their little Timmy might have seen a boob.
As the parent stated, nobody in America cares about violence, or even being sexist... nudity and people swearing are considered the worst offenses in the country.
You're right... I only programmed for 15 years in 7 languages using over 20 different editors and IDEs.
However, my experience with the over 100 programmers I have dealt with are that they are picky about their editors moreso than the language.
While I think it's silly to quit before actually trying out their tools, I have to say... the MS tools are annoying to deal with. I dealt with them for years, and always prefered a good Programmers Editor linked to the tools instead.
Real programmers don't care which LANGUAGE they program in, you will find they are generally extremely picky about which TOOLS they use. Just look at the vi/emacs wars.
Apparently about $10billion worth...
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/60min
Grocery stores like Giant and Pathmark give you competitive coupons when you buy items, I always wondered why they didn't complain about that.
See, you got my point. It happens, I've been in and out of corporate America for 12+ years, and I've been on the losing end of it before, I've also been on the lucky side, not because I was a suck-up, but because I happened to be on the "Hot Project of the Week".
But beating yourself up over it, or worrying about it will just make you miserable.