Will the republicans finally pull the jesus buttplug out of their ass and start being conservatives and start getting rid of all the inheritance bullshit they've built up over the years to protect their vision of what a family is supposed to be?
I feel that COBOL is the exact opposite of Perl. People call Perl a write-only language because you can write code in it that is really, really hard to read and understand. Meanwhile, statements like
MULTIPLY X BY Y GIVING RESULT
are easy to read and understand exactly what is happening, but I'll be damned if I can ever remember to write that twisted bit of English without looking it up in a reference (and I use this statement as an example every time I make this point about COBOL). For me, COBOL's attempt to be almost but not quite English has made it a read-only language.
1. Eliminate the Doctrine of Equivalents 2. Especially with regards to "after-invented technology"
What 1 means is that if you come up with a way to do the same thing, even if you do it a completely different way, they can still sue you in court and you get to spend a million dollars proving that not only did you not infringe on their patent, you came nowhere near infringing on their patent.
What 2 means is that if someone invents something, and later someone else comes along and invents a better way to do something in the patent, it's still infringement because of fucked up court rulings that basically amount to "boo hoo the poor widdle inventors couldn't foresee this invention and shouldn't be penalized because they didn't think of it." Fuck that, if they wanted patent protection for it, they should have invented it themselves.
now its a discovery that sending the equivalent of a post card though the mail might be read!
LOL, this old shit again. The government isn't reading your post card in the mail, they're walking right into your house and picking it up from your nightstand and reading it while you're sitting there looking at them in disbelief that they can just come in and read it since it's on a postcard and it's been more than 180 days since you got the card.
is it generally safe to store them in a.htaccess-restricted folder provided that the filename has been cleansed of path separators
The htaccess restriction is important to prevent one of the other leading causes of PHP vulnerability: Allowing someone to upload a valid jpeg with a.php file extension in an image field and not checking the file extension before putting it somewhere someone can request <img src="profilepics/pwnme.php"> from the server. In fact, don't try to cleanse the filename. Just assign it one yourself. Keep the original filename in a database (aware of SQL injection) if you think someone will completely flip out if they can't find out what the file was named, and keep userpic12345.[extension as determined from content]
Part of the reason why PHP is such a large gun for shooting yourself in the foot is that it mixes content and code by design, so you have to have a few extra precautions when accepting content from somewhere else that it doesn't have unwanted code mixed in. Some of the precautions are basic PHP (like "include() is not how you read a file"), others take a little more awareness of the entire environment (like "the webserver will happily execute anything anyone uploads with a php extension in a folder accessible from the web").
It's just that PHP has managed to attract a huge number of absolute retards who do things like evaluate image files (it WAS an image file you uploaded, right? It ended in.gif, right? So it's totally an image file and I shouldn't even be bothered to verify the contents because nobody would ever upload php code ending in.gif) in order to dump the contents out to the browser instead of using ANY of the multiple functions or methods to do just that securely.
Sysadmins often use VC on their configuration files as well
Definitely. etckeeper (can be configured to use one of serveral VC systems) is excellent for this job and I use it so when I do something that breaks the server, rolling back the configuration to a known good state is trivial.
You're saying that in so far as the iron was unmined, and as such, the actual quantity / quality unknown, the people who accepted it as collateral should not have?
Assuming that the poster isn't exaggerating, perhaps they should have asked to see a business plan, considered the history of the mining company to judge their ability to extract the ore, considered the fact that the company is the king's crony should anyone dare call to collect, etc. You know, things that require research and footwork, that can't be spit out by an algorithm.
essentially it's a bluff on a good day, a fraudulent transaction on a bad day
The only way for anyone to find out would be for the company to fuck up a trade and lose money. As long as they can pay back their loans it won't matter to any of their lenders if the iron never leaves the ground. The fun begins when the lenders try to collect, I'd guess the mining company would just hand them shovels and tell them to get to work.
The "financial system" allowed them to claim iron underground as a valuable asset even if there was no plans or way to monetize it. The people giving this company money on this basis done fucked up, pets.com style, no matter how you look at it.
If the "financial system" is there to separate fools and their money, then it's working as designed.
Yep. There are some great sites out there that discuss things like this. I end up pulling out this one on a regular basis and have a read through all the comments by people who write useless shit software where it doesn't matter if they have anything correct, raging at the guy for suggesting that they should work a little harder to make something better ("Think of how much money we'd have to spend! We've got no budget for changing char(10) to varchar()!!1! Rawwwwrr!")
There's another good one about time, but nobody rages about anything in it, except for people who insist on storing future events in GMT without the local timezone, and I think they all committed suicide when the government changed DST and they couldn't figure out when their times were anymore.
Yeah, the time for denials is over, they fucked up the coverup hardcore. They had their shot a week ago when google was saying "prism? what prism?" they could have said the guy faked a powerpoint slide and is pulling one over on everyone to get his name in the news and sell books, but no, they came out and said "yeah we're doing it but we're doing it for your own good" and pushed that line hard and fast.
Why are we even talking about this still?! Didn't you hear? Syria used chemical weapons and crossed the line Obama told them not to cross! Quick lets talk about Syria! They've got it coming now!
They will be laughing on the other sides of their faces when Obama's storm troopers round them up and ship them to a FEMA camp.
Why should I worry? It's not like the government is tracking every website I visit and every person I talk to, how would they know if I've even downloaded this liberator gun, much less made one?
I must have missed it.... where is privacy protected by the constitution?
I must have missed it... where is the government spying on its citizens allowed in the constitution?
(Hint: it's either a war power, or the 4th amendment. If you want to call it a war power, note that Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them)
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Will the republicans finally pull the jesus buttplug out of their ass and start being conservatives and start getting rid of all the inheritance bullshit they've built up over the years to protect their vision of what a family is supposed to be?
I feel that COBOL is the exact opposite of Perl. People call Perl a write-only language because you can write code in it that is really, really hard to read and understand. Meanwhile, statements like
are easy to read and understand exactly what is happening, but I'll be damned if I can ever remember to write that twisted bit of English without looking it up in a reference (and I use this statement as an example every time I make this point about COBOL). For me, COBOL's attempt to be almost but not quite English has made it a read-only language.
So how did computing get as big as it did prior to the 1998 State Street Bank decision?
1. Eliminate the Doctrine of Equivalents
2. Especially with regards to "after-invented technology"
What 1 means is that if you come up with a way to do the same thing, even if you do it a completely different way, they can still sue you in court and you get to spend a million dollars proving that not only did you not infringe on their patent, you came nowhere near infringing on their patent.
What 2 means is that if someone invents something, and later someone else comes along and invents a better way to do something in the patent, it's still infringement because of fucked up court rulings that basically amount to "boo hoo the poor widdle inventors couldn't foresee this invention and shouldn't be penalized because they didn't think of it." Fuck that, if they wanted patent protection for it, they should have invented it themselves.
now its a discovery that sending the equivalent of a post card though the mail might be read!
LOL, this old shit again. The government isn't reading your post card in the mail, they're walking right into your house and picking it up from your nightstand and reading it while you're sitting there looking at them in disbelief that they can just come in and read it since it's on a postcard and it's been more than 180 days since you got the card.
And when that's done the statute of limitations begins, and they have years to sue people who were infringing on the patent before 2015
Has anybody thought about recompiling the source and seeing if you get the same binary?
The article says you can try, but you don't.
The htaccess restriction is important to prevent one of the other leading causes of PHP vulnerability: Allowing someone to upload a valid jpeg with a .php file extension in an image field and not checking the file extension before putting it somewhere someone can request <img src="profilepics/pwnme.php"> from the server. In fact, don't try to cleanse the filename. Just assign it one yourself. Keep the original filename in a database (aware of SQL injection) if you think someone will completely flip out if they can't find out what the file was named, and keep userpic12345.[extension as determined from content]
Part of the reason why PHP is such a large gun for shooting yourself in the foot is that it mixes content and code by design, so you have to have a few extra precautions when accepting content from somewhere else that it doesn't have unwanted code mixed in. Some of the precautions are basic PHP (like "include() is not how you read a file"), others take a little more awareness of the entire environment (like "the webserver will happily execute anything anyone uploads with a php extension in a folder accessible from the web").
For gods sake, don't include() it to send it to the browser, because it could be a valid image with in an EXIF tag.
It's just that PHP has managed to attract a huge number of absolute retards who do things like evaluate image files (it WAS an image file you uploaded, right? It ended in .gif, right? So it's totally an image file and I shouldn't even be bothered to verify the contents because nobody would ever upload php code ending in .gif) in order to dump the contents out to the browser instead of using ANY of the multiple functions or methods to do just that securely.
Sysadmins often use VC on their configuration files as well
Definitely. etckeeper (can be configured to use one of serveral VC systems) is excellent for this job and I use it so when I do something that breaks the server, rolling back the configuration to a known good state is trivial.
You're saying that in so far as the iron was unmined, and as such, the actual quantity / quality unknown, the people who accepted it as collateral should not have?
Assuming that the poster isn't exaggerating, perhaps they should have asked to see a business plan, considered the history of the mining company to judge their ability to extract the ore, considered the fact that the company is the king's crony should anyone dare call to collect, etc. You know, things that require research and footwork, that can't be spit out by an algorithm.
essentially it's a bluff on a good day, a fraudulent transaction on a bad day
The only way for anyone to find out would be for the company to fuck up a trade and lose money. As long as they can pay back their loans it won't matter to any of their lenders if the iron never leaves the ground. The fun begins when the lenders try to collect, I'd guess the mining company would just hand them shovels and tell them to get to work.
not the financial system
The "financial system" allowed them to claim iron underground as a valuable asset even if there was no plans or way to monetize it. The people giving this company money on this basis done fucked up, pets.com style, no matter how you look at it.
If the "financial system" is there to separate fools and their money, then it's working as designed.
Live updates on who's calling who? We'll see if it's "just metadata" when it's the government's representatives being spied on.
Yep. There are some great sites out there that discuss things like this. I end up pulling out this one on a regular basis and have a read through all the comments by people who write useless shit software where it doesn't matter if they have anything correct, raging at the guy for suggesting that they should work a little harder to make something better ("Think of how much money we'd have to spend! We've got no budget for changing char(10) to varchar()!!1! Rawwwwrr!")
There's another good one about time, but nobody rages about anything in it, except for people who insist on storing future events in GMT without the local timezone, and I think they all committed suicide when the government changed DST and they couldn't figure out when their times were anymore.
Really? You cant even read the post?
BTW the reason everyone has a gender is so a computer can send you your junk mail with a proper salutation, Mr. Jennifer.
It's only illegal for baseball stars to lie to congress.
Yeah, the time for denials is over, they fucked up the coverup hardcore. They had their shot a week ago when google was saying "prism? what prism?" they could have said the guy faked a powerpoint slide and is pulling one over on everyone to get his name in the news and sell books, but no, they came out and said "yeah we're doing it but we're doing it for your own good" and pushed that line hard and fast.
Everyone from the President on down basically spent the last week saying "yeah, we're doing this, but we're doing it to protect Teh Freedums".
And now they're suddenly not doing it? Pull the other one!
Why are we even talking about this still?! Didn't you hear? Syria used chemical weapons and crossed the line Obama told them not to cross! Quick lets talk about Syria! They've got it coming now!
"What makes you worth tracking?"
As the cost of this approaches $0, it's pretty easy to make tracking any given person's life worth more than it costs to do it.
They will be laughing on the other sides of their faces when Obama's storm troopers round them up and ship them to a FEMA camp.
Why should I worry? It's not like the government is tracking every website I visit and every person I talk to, how would they know if I've even downloaded this liberator gun, much less made one?
(oh wait...)
I must have missed it.... where is privacy protected by the constitution?
I must have missed it... where is the government spying on its citizens allowed in the constitution?
(Hint: it's either a war power, or the 4th amendment. If you want to call it a war power, note that Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them)
Or you're a tea party supporter trying to start a nonprofit.
Your Swiss cheese security is full of holes!