You known, the government is elected by that same bunch of amateurs with political axes to grind. That's the whole point of government for the people, by the people, isn't it?
You seem to be advocating a government that's intrinsically better than the people it rules over. I'm very sorry, but that's pretty close to advocating fascism.
If you're in a job that requires that you treat all members of the public equally, a membership in a party that explicitly calls for unequal treatment is not compatible with your job. So yeah, the public has a right to know that the local bobby is a racist who will look the other way when a molotov cocktail is thrown into a Pakistani shop.
For at least W-CDMA related patents, grandparent is right. The only way you get RAND terms is by applying to become a member of the consortium and put up your own patents for the common pool.
Not only is this condescending as all get out, it is also a sign of lousy software. If the developers can't be arsed to implement decent exception handling, and expect me to jump through hoops to get at my own data, they're lazy bastards.
It is shit like this that makes me hate doing end user support. Last time I had to fix an issue with.pst files not being synced across a Terminal Server cluster. I mentioned to the user "I'm going to try to copy the files manually. That ought to work, and on a *nix machine that practically always works, but my experience on Windows is that programmers sometimes have stupid assumptions about files, so I can't promise anything.". The user, our CEO, understood and said, "sure, go ahead, I'm glad you're at least trying."
But it's a crying shame when I as a sysadmin can't trust basic filesystem operations. And shit like the DV Rack programmers are pulling up above is not helping.
If I ever get my hands on a developer who pulls a stunt like that, I'll put his head on a stake, pour encourager les autres.
Again with the false dilemma and the goal post moving. The issue is not whether or not other manufacturers weatherproof their phones; the issue is that Apple has been known to refuse warranties due to the LCIs indicating the phone got wet, and it now being obvious that the LCIs give false positives in normal Northwestern European winter weather. If the iPhone can't handle normal weather above 60 degrees latitude, that is a shortcoming in the product.
And as for your fanboism, your posting history says it all. No matter what the criticism, we find you on Slashdot parroting the official Apple line.
The Nazis'] initial basis of power was picking an unpopular minority and demonizing it. Backing away from that stance would have required some pretty savvy political maneuvering.
Their initial basis of power was the German people's disgust at the ineffective Weimar Republic, coupled with despair due to the Great Depression. Their pamphlets and recordings of their speeches are quite clear on the strategy of their electoral campaigns. In their anti-semitism, the Nazis were not exceptional in Germany. They were only exceptional in how far they were willing to go acting on it.
What kind of weatherproofing is needed to avoid damaging condensation in normal usage patterns in normal Northern Hemisphere winter weather?
It's a mobile phone. If I can't carry it in my pocket when going outside, it's shoddily manufactured. And now you're going to tell the world that it is up to us to prove to Apple that their sensors are oversensitive?
Yes, you are a fanboi. You'd eat shit and exclaim how wonderful it tastes if Jobs told you to.
Funny that you mention the Pandora. Just yesterday I suddenly received mail from their servers for a totally unrelated product, one I didn't sign up for.
In other words, they are also spammers. One more reason to not buy a Pandora.
Business logic will always partially reside in the database. Even something as basic as your schema design is constrained by business logic. Further, with multitier architectures like MVC, the database is an ideal place to store business logic; in the example given, it would be the Model.
The minute you use a database, it will hold (part of the) business logic, so why not use all the features available?
I think you have just proven the point. When confronted with a statement that PHP encourages bad practices, your answer is to use escaping before creating a query out of an input string. That's the wrong way to go about it. The right solution is to use parametrized queries; they're safer, and more efficient because the database server can optimise them once and re-use them, instead of parsing them over and over again.
So yeah. The solution you propose is sadly typical for PHP 'programmers', making GP's attack fully justified.
Most security vulnerabilities are due to programmers simply not checking for exceptional conditions, like overflowing the bounds of an array or a buffer, or not checking input. These are not subtle errors. These are egregious errors.
And they're surprisingly common. On one of the programming newsgroups I read, at least once a month someone has to remind a poster to 'always check the condition of open. The language even has an idiomatic construct to do so, yet it is ignored regularly.
Dammit, if I as a sysadmin can write my Perl scripts with every check in place, how hard can it be for a professional developer?
Simply repeating your assertion that Hansen has committed fraud doesn't make it any more true. So how about providing what was asked, some backup to your mudslinging?
So despite the fact that you did all in your power to make VLC the default player, Microsoft still feels the need to nag you with a popup in the vein of "Are you sure you don't want to use Media Player?". And this is improvement how?
But it does mean that it doesn't come installed by default. Debian does not come with the Open Symbol font. It does not even come with Debian's preferred desktop environment Gnome. It must be explicitly installed.
"Hey, [OOo] is better than MS Office" but the problem is [this] statement isn't true.
In what way is it not better? Simply asserting that it isn't is not enough. How about some backup on that assertion?
Personally, I think it is horrible, but MS Office is worse. At least OOWriter encourages formatting through styles a lot more, and handles complex formatting in longer documents better, to give just an example.
No. Those flaws do say something about Microsoft. Just about any flaw exposed in their products is of the same type: functions accepting outside input without validation. The fact that so many flaws have turned up over the years says outright that you guys are sloppy coders.
Why not mail it? Because he is used to using bluetooth, because just about every other device except the Jesusphone accepts bluetooth file transfer. Why should he have to change his habits and workflow because Apple decided to only implement a subset of a standard?
Your comment seems perfect to piggy-back on, so here goes.
Funny that you mention VASL. It wasn't until I got my work laptop, with a 15" 1920x1200 widescreen, that I seriously considered going VASL. Given that a normal ASL board is 8x22", and that most scenarios are two or three boards, you can see that fitting a scenario on screen with the same amount of information preserved from the physical layout is impossible. Either you zoom out to see the entire board, losing counter detail (important in ASL), or you zoom in to 1:1 scale counters, losing your map overview at the same time.
Now try that on a 9.7" screen. It's patently absurd to think that that is suitable for any but the most trivial board games.
But the Apple fanbois are eating it up. Just like they are buying the new Macbooks with chicklet keyboards. I don't get it.
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You known, the government is elected by that same bunch of amateurs with political axes to grind. That's the whole point of government for the people, by the people, isn't it?
You seem to be advocating a government that's intrinsically better than the people it rules over. I'm very sorry, but that's pretty close to advocating fascism.
Mart
And this is a problem, how?
If you're in a job that requires that you treat all members of the public equally, a membership in a party that explicitly calls for unequal treatment is not compatible with your job. So yeah, the public has a right to know that the local bobby is a racist who will look the other way when a molotov cocktail is thrown into a Pakistani shop.
Mart
For at least W-CDMA related patents, grandparent is right. The only way you get RAND terms is by applying to become a member of the consortium and put up your own patents for the common pool.
Mart
Not only is this condescending as all get out, it is also a sign of lousy software. If the developers can't be arsed to implement decent exception handling, and expect me to jump through hoops to get at my own data, they're lazy bastards.
It is shit like this that makes me hate doing end user support. Last time I had to fix an issue with .pst files not being synced across a Terminal Server cluster. I mentioned to the user "I'm going to try to copy the files manually. That ought to work, and on a *nix machine that practically always works, but my experience on Windows is that programmers sometimes have stupid assumptions about files, so I can't promise anything.". The user, our CEO, understood and said, "sure, go ahead, I'm glad you're at least trying."
But it's a crying shame when I as a sysadmin can't trust basic filesystem operations. And shit like the DV Rack programmers are pulling up above is not helping.
If I ever get my hands on a developer who pulls a stunt like that, I'll put his head on a stake, pour encourager les autres.
Mart
Again with the false dilemma and the goal post moving. The issue is not whether or not other manufacturers weatherproof their phones; the issue is that Apple has been known to refuse warranties due to the LCIs indicating the phone got wet, and it now being obvious that the LCIs give false positives in normal Northwestern European winter weather. If the iPhone can't handle normal weather above 60 degrees latitude, that is a shortcoming in the product.
And as for your fanboism, your posting history says it all. No matter what the criticism, we find you on Slashdot parroting the official Apple line.
Mart
Their initial basis of power was the German people's disgust at the ineffective Weimar Republic, coupled with despair due to the Great Depression. Their pamphlets and recordings of their speeches are quite clear on the strategy of their electoral campaigns. In their anti-semitism, the Nazis were not exceptional in Germany. They were only exceptional in how far they were willing to go acting on it.
Mart
Trinity was a plutonium device. How about next time actually reading your link yourself instead of trying to pass yourself of as smart?
Mart
What kind of weatherproofing is needed to avoid damaging condensation in normal usage patterns in normal Northern Hemisphere winter weather?
It's a mobile phone. If I can't carry it in my pocket when going outside, it's shoddily manufactured. And now you're going to tell the world that it is up to us to prove to Apple that their sensors are oversensitive?
Yes, you are a fanboi. You'd eat shit and exclaim how wonderful it tastes if Jobs told you to.
Mart
No, no, no. We should implement your suggestion starting at version 3.
Mart
So, once again an Apple fanboi is telling customers that it is their responsibility to work around shortcomings in Apple's product.
I have two words for that: Fsck off.
Mart
Funny that you mention the Pandora. Just yesterday I suddenly received mail from their servers for a totally unrelated product, one I didn't sign up for.
In other words, they are also spammers. One more reason to not buy a Pandora.
Mart
Don't be silly.
Business logic will always partially reside in the database. Even something as basic as your schema design is constrained by business logic. Further, with multitier architectures like MVC, the database is an ideal place to store business logic; in the example given, it would be the Model.
The minute you use a database, it will hold (part of the) business logic, so why not use all the features available?
Mart
I think you have just proven the point. When confronted with a statement that PHP encourages bad practices, your answer is to use escaping before creating a query out of an input string. That's the wrong way to go about it. The right solution is to use parametrized queries; they're safer, and more efficient because the database server can optimise them once and re-use them, instead of parsing them over and over again.
So yeah. The solution you propose is sadly typical for PHP 'programmers', making GP's attack fully justified.
Mart
subtle programming errors?!
Most security vulnerabilities are due to programmers simply not checking for exceptional conditions, like overflowing the bounds of an array or a buffer, or not checking input. These are not subtle errors. These are egregious errors.
And they're surprisingly common. On one of the programming newsgroups I read, at least once a month someone has to remind a poster to 'always check the condition of open. The language even has an idiomatic construct to do so, yet it is ignored regularly.
Dammit, if I as a sysadmin can write my Perl scripts with every check in place, how hard can it be for a professional developer?
Mart
Simply repeating your assertion that Hansen has committed fraud doesn't make it any more true. So how about providing what was asked, some backup to your mudslinging?
So despite the fact that you did all in your power to make VLC the default player, Microsoft still feels the need to nag you with a popup in the vein of "Are you sure you don't want to use Media Player?". And this is improvement how?
Mart
But it does mean that it doesn't come installed by default. Debian does not come with the Open Symbol font. It does not even come with Debian's preferred desktop environment Gnome. It must be explicitly installed.
Mart
don't most Linux boxes come with Open Symbol installed? I know Debian does.
No it doesn't. Open Symbol is a dependency of openoffice.org-core, so by default it only comes with an OpenOffice.org install.
Mart
A smiley is like a laugh track on a sitcom: if you have to point out the jokes, chances are they're not funny.
Mart
No. Those flaws do say something about Microsoft. Just about any flaw exposed in their products is of the same type: functions accepting outside input without validation. The fact that so many flaws have turned up over the years says outright that you guys are sloppy coders.
Mart
Too bad it doesn't work like that. The local restrictions count, no matter your passport, as long as you're an EU citizen.
Mart
Why not mail it? Because he is used to using bluetooth, because just about every other device except the Jesusphone accepts bluetooth file transfer. Why should he have to change his habits and workflow because Apple decided to only implement a subset of a standard?
Mart
Your comment seems perfect to piggy-back on, so here goes.
Funny that you mention VASL. It wasn't until I got my work laptop, with a 15" 1920x1200 widescreen, that I seriously considered going VASL. Given that a normal ASL board is 8x22", and that most scenarios are two or three boards, you can see that fitting a scenario on screen with the same amount of information preserved from the physical layout is impossible. Either you zoom out to see the entire board, losing counter detail (important in ASL), or you zoom in to 1:1 scale counters, losing your map overview at the same time.
Now try that on a 9.7" screen. It's patently absurd to think that that is suitable for any but the most trivial board games.
But the Apple fanbois are eating it up. Just like they are buying the new Macbooks with chicklet keyboards. I don't get it.
Mart
I just said there were no two sets of restrictions. Why don't you come back when you have learned to read?
Mart