If person A trespasses on person B's property, and then charges them for trespassing, it's not hypocrisy when person C walks in on person D's property and they don't care.
Further more, Alexis Madrigal didn't scrape 110k+ emails from Netflix's customer database.
It's like walking through a door you know to be private property, you have no right to access, but because it's unlocked, you just walk through and start taking pictures of everything you see.
In reality, this is still trespassing and you're accessing something you have no authorization to access.
Granted, like I said, AT&T isn't off the hook for lousy security, but this doesn't forgive what weev did.
He's in jail because he accessed a crapload of records from ATT he shouldn't have.
Not to say ATT shouldn't have used better security, mind you, but thems the breaks. It's not like the end point he found was big P public. He found it snooping on the traffic from an ipad during sign up.
Further more instead of going to ATT, he went to Gawker first.
If they can speed up the optical scan, say get a phone with a faster camera or optimize their scan algorithm, I'm willing to bet they can shave another half second off that time.
And? Steve Jobs said a lot of wacky shit in his day.
(Also, you mention this but don't care to bring up NeXT Cube?)
I can't defend the GP's point about Samsung throwing off the shelf parts into a box and calling it a phone, but, no, it's not a new development. Woz, Burrell and a whole host of Apple engineers did design custom hardware. It's only during the Dark Age of Apple did shit slip. Even then, I believe the Newton had custom silicon in it.
Interesting hypothesis, but it depends on your definition of attraction, and that exactly is my point. Attractiveness has a social element to it. Different ages do have different beauty standards. If you exclude the muscular body, quite a few of those football studs aren't actually that attractive. And if you take away the glasses and the bad taste clothes, some of those nerds actually are.
Also, not every girl was into the football stud. You're overestimating the drawing capacity of footballers.
Everyone wants to trash on the movie Hackers, but the one thing they got absolutely right was that not every geek looked like Moss from the IT Crowd.
I live in Europe, and I've seen much of the same happening, so it's not a) a particular USA problem and b) specific to the "small government" idiocity that we in Europe largely don't share.
Then why the horrible push for austerity? The same forces are at work. There's no more trust in the Government, and there's no more trust in each other.
Two things, first, maybe girls didn't fuck the nerds because they were unattractive. Being attractive and being smart aren't mutually exclusive. That's why they didn't fuck me, however, could also be that I didn't fancy any of the girls in my school so I didn't even try.
(Wish I did, kind of fucked me up later in life)
Or maybe you were on the football team and they did fuck you and you felt guilty or something.
Second, you know this is true in other countries right? Even in Korea, China and Singapore?
Further more, given how much revenue a given star generates for something like a movie or even a single instance of a sports event, making millions for doing that non-utilitarian thing like acting or singing or playing sportsball is actually really fair.
When a sporting event, movie or album generates millions in revenue, who should get most of it? The asshole team owner or some other middleman? You think it's obscene that Nicki Minaj or Tom Brady are making the money that they do, yet, in the periphery of all of that, there are a lot of people making way more.
It's also one of the last bastions of unionized labor in this country. Ask Junior Seau what he thinks about the working conditions for football players.
The reason why we don't have enough brains in this country is that the baseline is really so goddamn low. Raising up the gifted and talented is one thing, however by your early 20's, your peer group really has caught up in any given field.
The reason why THAT is, is that America seems to resist focusing on actual education. It's not just money, it's human power and good policy.
All of our problems can be summed up by thinking about what happened over the last 40 years. We got told that Government is the problem. Then when we systematically gutted the system and trust in the system we found out exactly we lost. In short, we tried to fixed what wasn't even broken and now we're in an extremely bad, but not insurmountable bad place.
After describing Phoebe going around and around on that carousel, Holden writes, "God, I wish you could have been there." But we are there! When studeents complain about reading critically, about having to do all this "English-class-stuff", that's what they're forgetting. All that English class stuff is a way into empathy; for Holden and for all of us, it's a way to hear and be heard. -- John Green
Honestly, the value of college isn't the boost you get with employment. While there IS that, and some fields I'd be way more comfortable with someone who did get their degree(Doctor, Lawyer, etc). However, that pales in comparison to the chance to take a few years off from Real Responsibility. Take the time to really expand your mind and horizons.
Arguably, it could be said that you're spending a lot of money on an education you could be getting for a dollar fifty in late charges at your public library. However, with out teachers there to give you some sort of context and broader view of what's going on, it's kind of pointless.
Did reading Hero of a Thousand Faces for my world lit class make me a better programmer? Arguably, no. But it did make me a better person. I never would've thought to go in that direction ever.
The problem with higher education these days is that they're overselling the practical aspects of it and really undervaluing the soft fuzzy side of life.
None of this was "obvious." It's obvious in retrospect, sure, but obvious then?
Were you around for the dawn of smart phones?
The fact that the Android team turned on a dime upon hearing about the iPhone just shows how little UX design got back in those days.
Personally, I just don't see who would've built the iOS style launcher. We all want to look at Palm OS and say that Springboard was similar to Palm OS, a collection of squares in a row, but the way paging happens is killer. It's a small detail that made the difference. It's like saying that MSDOS and BASH are similar because you have a prompt you type into.
No. Metro being a cash grab is so stupid it's not even wrong. Mostly because the numbers just aren't there to support that claim.
If this is true, then Microsoft is in a huge amount of trouble more than just they shipped a crappy OS. Their management is so thoroughly incompetent they couldn't find their own asses with the help of Bing Maps.
Microsoft execs, I'm being optimistic here, aren't THAT stupid.
Instead I suggest that Metro was a way for Microsoft to try to sunset win32 and have a better UX for apps.
Except they didn't follow the right Apple example. Instead of following the Classic Mac OS -> OSX Carbon -> OSX Cocoa example, they skipped ahead to iOS App Store instead.
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So don't use $_REQUEST.
If you absolutely have to pull something out of a POSTed form, use $_POST.
By sanitize, I mean, don't just write, "INSERT INTO table (col1, col2, col3, col4) VALUES ($unescapedValue, $hosed, $haxedLol, $bobbyTables)".
Which you can totally do in Ruby, Python, C#, NodeJS, etc.
I know mysql_real_escape_string is kind of a pain in the ass. Not to mention a huge WTF. Is the other one fake or something? Still, it's not perfect, but can you do Real Work in it? YES. It's not MUMPS for god's sake.
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If you can't tell the difference between GET, POST and COOKIE you have bigger problems.
You complain about that but you suggest Node? Node is fine, but pulling out request variables requires you to parse through the headers and query string.
Further more, sanitizing DB inputs and making sure your logic doesn't suck isn't the worst thing you have to do. Mt.Gox went down because their API was stupid, not because of some fundamental flaw in PHP.
I don't know. php is the Gary busey of programming languages. Used to be kind of crazy. Still slightly temperamental, but getting better.
Personally, I just don't think there are bad languages to develop for. C# is nice, if you don't mind being strapped to IIS or Mono, Python and Ruby are clean and sane, PHP is wacky but gets the job done. Perl is old but dependable and still quite spry. I just don't get the language hate.
Like I said. A lot of smoke. Let's see if there's fire.
I think Apple could strike it huge here, since gaming wouldn't be the primary purpose. They can afford to fall a little flat and have it pick up later.
MS, Google, and Apple are all looking to exploit and profit off of user data
I know it's trendy to bash Apple around here, and it's easy to fall into the Apple fanboy trap, however...
How is Apple, or Microsoft for that matter, guilty of this? When have they shown Google levels of concern for your personal data? Everything Apple has been doing has been to restrict the amount of user data 3rd parties can collect.
iAds famously restricts the amount of user data advertisers can get, Google was told to kick rocks because they wanted more user data from YouTube and Maps.
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ICC-IDs are not sequential. You'd have to try a lot of them before you get a successful hit.
Plus, if the API wasn't told to you by AT&T, then it's not public.
Because Netflix isn't pressing charges.
If person A trespasses on person B's property, and then charges them for trespassing, it's not hypocrisy when person C walks in on person D's property and they don't care.
Further more, Alexis Madrigal didn't scrape 110k+ emails from Netflix's customer database.
It's like walking through a door you know to be private property, you have no right to access, but because it's unlocked, you just walk through and start taking pictures of everything you see.
In reality, this is still trespassing and you're accessing something you have no authorization to access.
Granted, like I said, AT&T isn't off the hook for lousy security, but this doesn't forgive what weev did.
He's in jail because he accessed a crapload of records from ATT he shouldn't have.
Not to say ATT shouldn't have used better security, mind you, but thems the breaks. It's not like the end point he found was big P public. He found it snooping on the traffic from an ipad during sign up.
Further more instead of going to ATT, he went to Gawker first.
So. No.
If they can speed up the optical scan, say get a phone with a faster camera or optimize their scan algorithm, I'm willing to bet they can shave another half second off that time.
Madness.
And? Steve Jobs said a lot of wacky shit in his day.
(Also, you mention this but don't care to bring up NeXT Cube?)
I can't defend the GP's point about Samsung throwing off the shelf parts into a box and calling it a phone, but, no, it's not a new development. Woz, Burrell and a whole host of Apple engineers did design custom hardware. It's only during the Dark Age of Apple did shit slip. Even then, I believe the Newton had custom silicon in it.
Not just the hardware, have you actually tried to use one of those things?
HTC's android skin blows away touch wiz.
Interesting hypothesis, but it depends on your definition of attraction, and that exactly is my point. Attractiveness has a social element to it. Different ages do have different beauty standards. If you exclude the muscular body, quite a few of those football studs aren't actually that attractive. And if you take away the glasses and the bad taste clothes, some of those nerds actually are.
Also, not every girl was into the football stud. You're overestimating the drawing capacity of footballers.
Everyone wants to trash on the movie Hackers, but the one thing they got absolutely right was that not every geek looked like Moss from the IT Crowd.
I live in Europe, and I've seen much of the same happening, so it's not a) a particular USA problem and b) specific to the "small government" idiocity that we in Europe largely don't share.
Then why the horrible push for austerity? The same forces are at work. There's no more trust in the Government, and there's no more trust in each other.
Two things, first, maybe girls didn't fuck the nerds because they were unattractive. Being attractive and being smart aren't mutually exclusive. That's why they didn't fuck me, however, could also be that I didn't fancy any of the girls in my school so I didn't even try.
(Wish I did, kind of fucked me up later in life)
Or maybe you were on the football team and they did fuck you and you felt guilty or something.
Second, you know this is true in other countries right? Even in Korea, China and Singapore?
Further more, given how much revenue a given star generates for something like a movie or even a single instance of a sports event, making millions for doing that non-utilitarian thing like acting or singing or playing sportsball is actually really fair.
When a sporting event, movie or album generates millions in revenue, who should get most of it? The asshole team owner or some other middleman? You think it's obscene that Nicki Minaj or Tom Brady are making the money that they do, yet, in the periphery of all of that, there are a lot of people making way more.
It's also one of the last bastions of unionized labor in this country. Ask Junior Seau what he thinks about the working conditions for football players.
The reason why we don't have enough brains in this country is that the baseline is really so goddamn low. Raising up the gifted and talented is one thing, however by your early 20's, your peer group really has caught up in any given field.
The reason why THAT is, is that America seems to resist focusing on actual education. It's not just money, it's human power and good policy.
All of our problems can be summed up by thinking about what happened over the last 40 years. We got told that Government is the problem. Then when we systematically gutted the system and trust in the system we found out exactly we lost. In short, we tried to fixed what wasn't even broken and now we're in an extremely bad, but not insurmountable bad place.
After describing Phoebe going around and around on that carousel, Holden writes, "God, I wish you could have been there." But we are there! When studeents complain about reading critically, about having to do all this "English-class-stuff", that's what they're forgetting. All that English class stuff is a way into empathy; for Holden and for all of us, it's a way to hear and be heard. -- John Green
Honestly, the value of college isn't the boost you get with employment. While there IS that, and some fields I'd be way more comfortable with someone who did get their degree(Doctor, Lawyer, etc). However, that pales in comparison to the chance to take a few years off from Real Responsibility. Take the time to really expand your mind and horizons.
Arguably, it could be said that you're spending a lot of money on an education you could be getting for a dollar fifty in late charges at your public library. However, with out teachers there to give you some sort of context and broader view of what's going on, it's kind of pointless.
Did reading Hero of a Thousand Faces for my world lit class make me a better programmer? Arguably, no. But it did make me a better person. I never would've thought to go in that direction ever.
The problem with higher education these days is that they're overselling the practical aspects of it and really undervaluing the soft fuzzy side of life.
If these guys had customers in mind, they wouldn't make a half baked half assed hybrid between windows and android.
Not that I'm slamming either, but, this makes about as much sense as a toaster refrigerator combo.
Sure. My parents accidentally missed an HOA payment and then they got extraordinarily renditioned and water boarded.
They then complained loudly and then had to serve a few years at a prison camp.
Oh wait, HOAs don't do that. Evil? Sure. Worse than TLA agencies? No.
Oh my god. What? No. Simply no.
None of this was "obvious." It's obvious in retrospect, sure, but obvious then?
Were you around for the dawn of smart phones?
The fact that the Android team turned on a dime upon hearing about the iPhone just shows how little UX design got back in those days.
Personally, I just don't see who would've built the iOS style launcher. We all want to look at Palm OS and say that Springboard was similar to Palm OS, a collection of squares in a row, but the way paging happens is killer. It's a small detail that made the difference. It's like saying that MSDOS and BASH are similar because you have a prompt you type into.
oh god.
No. Metro being a cash grab is so stupid it's not even wrong. Mostly because the numbers just aren't there to support that claim.
If this is true, then Microsoft is in a huge amount of trouble more than just they shipped a crappy OS. Their management is so thoroughly incompetent they couldn't find their own asses with the help of Bing Maps.
Microsoft execs, I'm being optimistic here, aren't THAT stupid.
Instead I suggest that Metro was a way for Microsoft to try to sunset win32 and have a better UX for apps.
Except they didn't follow the right Apple example. Instead of following the Classic Mac OS -> OSX Carbon -> OSX Cocoa example, they skipped ahead to iOS App Store instead.
So don't use $_REQUEST.
If you absolutely have to pull something out of a POSTed form, use $_POST.
Tasteful and profitable wins over open or closed.
OSX might have awful market share but Apple sells more than most Windows OEMs do and they make money on each unit sold.
That's winning. Not massive market share. Profit and sustainability. Only fools go after popularity.
They're driver dependent. If you don't want the mysqli set of methods, don't enable the driver.
register_globals hasn't been part of the default PHP runtime since 2002.
see: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4...
There are a lot of WTFs to PHP, something that hasn't been true since the first Bush administration isn't one of them.
You mean like PDO?
By sanitize, I mean, don't just write, "INSERT INTO table (col1, col2, col3, col4) VALUES ($unescapedValue, $hosed, $haxedLol, $bobbyTables)".
Which you can totally do in Ruby, Python, C#, NodeJS, etc.
I know mysql_real_escape_string is kind of a pain in the ass. Not to mention a huge WTF. Is the other one fake or something? Still, it's not perfect, but can you do Real Work in it? YES. It's not MUMPS for god's sake.
If you can't tell the difference between GET, POST and COOKIE you have bigger problems.
You complain about that but you suggest Node? Node is fine, but pulling out request variables requires you to parse through the headers and query string.
Further more, sanitizing DB inputs and making sure your logic doesn't suck isn't the worst thing you have to do. Mt.Gox went down because their API was stupid, not because of some fundamental flaw in PHP.
I don't know. php is the Gary busey of programming languages. Used to be kind of crazy. Still slightly temperamental, but getting better.
Personally, I just don't think there are bad languages to develop for. C# is nice, if you don't mind being strapped to IIS or Mono, Python and Ruby are clean and sane, PHP is wacky but gets the job done. Perl is old but dependable and still quite spry. I just don't get the language hate.
Like I said. A lot of smoke. Let's see if there's fire.
I think Apple could strike it huge here, since gaming wouldn't be the primary purpose. They can afford to fall a little flat and have it pick up later.
Yeah, but I really take Apple rumors with a giant grain of salt. How many times have Apple rumors just simply been wrong?
There's a lot of smoke there, to be sure, but to guess what Apple is going to do is a fool's errand.
If Apple cared about this market,
And they haven't.
I don't think we'll see apple make a move here any time soon.
MS, Google, and Apple are all looking to exploit and profit off of user data
I know it's trendy to bash Apple around here, and it's easy to fall into the Apple fanboy trap, however...
How is Apple, or Microsoft for that matter, guilty of this? When have they shown Google levels of concern for your personal data? Everything Apple has been doing has been to restrict the amount of user data 3rd parties can collect.
iAds famously restricts the amount of user data advertisers can get, Google was told to kick rocks because they wanted more user data from YouTube and Maps.
What the bloody fuck are you talking about?
Settings -> privacy
Apple didn't drop the ball on this. Not as hard as google, at least.