In cookery, you use egg whites to bind the debris in a bouillon so you can easily clear it out afterwards. Maybe some form of salt-activated, slow-setting polymer could be used to bind the trash into an island ?
Not necessarily. PHP must at some point interpret the PHP code as lower-level instructions, so it should be possible to provide those lower-level instructions as the "encrypted" file.
Compare it to, say, the intermediate code that.net uses. And yes, that is still edible, but so is assembly. You won't have the benefit of clear function and variable names, so it'd be a bother.
(I'm not saying that *is* how it works, mind you - I've seen it used, but never did so myself)
> I could not see over 30 people all doing the same thing to play a game with toyota, especially putting their own lives in danger....just to see if they can fake an accident and get a new car....
Oh, I can see quite some people do that, easily, especially after it's been clear that there might be money in it.
My lack of faith is disturbing, I know. It's just that there's Darwin Awards out there for a reason.
> it's a great sprawling PHP application so they have to give you the source
That's a misconception. Zend offers the possibility to only provide encrypted PHP to your customers.
Also, the whole open-or-not merely comes down to what license they use. Nothing in GPL, for instance, prevents you from saying "we won't give you this bit of functionality unless you pay".
Here's the GPL, very briefly:
* IF your distribute a program, THEN you MUST also provide the source for free * You MUST allow people to modify and/or redistribute the program, and they must then too comply with the GPL
Nothing says that they have to give the code to people who haven't paid them for the commercial version, given that everyone has to pay for the commercial version.
Thank you, kdawson, for another utterly useless post.
I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart. And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire.
Oh, I mostly agree with what you're expressing, but it's quite important to realise that "the people" who form "the nation" are not quite uniform.
While you're of course correct that corporations are formed by members of "the people", the interests of those corporations are the interest of *only* the people who form them, and distinctly not of the rest of "the nation". It follows that any legislation that is passed, will not be tilted to the benefit of "the people" or "the nation", but towards the benefit of "the corporation", which is most smoothly accomplished by ensuring that there is also a benefit to "the politicians" - another one of those groups who come from the people but see themselves as quite distinct.
Thus, you get things from "gifts" to "campaign donations" (America) to corruption, the latter of which should be well-known to an eastern european, if the stories are even halfway true.
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Yes, I agree. Yast is a wonderful tool if you have never used it.
I have, however, and I've still got nightmares.
"yast is very nice" ?
My god, man, keep your masochistic tendencies out of my face.
Vendors have financial stakes in privacy loss scandals ? That's apparently not how Suckerberg sees things.
Yeah, they're everywhere in the mountains. You pop your head over a ledge and suddenly you're staring into mad, beady eyes. Scary shit.
Usually they just tell you to spellcheck before posting, though.
In cookery, you use egg whites to bind the debris in a bouillon so you can easily clear it out afterwards. Maybe some form of salt-activated, slow-setting polymer could be used to bind the trash into an island ?
> Apparently, not all birds produce the same type of egg shell.
No shit. An austrich egg can hold the weight of a man, if carefully stepped on.
Probably not the weight of a geek, though.
Gotta be honest, most real humans seem to have the same bug.
Someone notify CmdrTaco that kdawson got a hold of his password.
IP can be used to track area.
Social engineering can provide you with people's details.
Film at eleven.
> Hey - it's Slashdot! No-one's going to fuss over the details! :D
:-)
If I hadn't seen your UID, I'd given you the ymbnh treatment. This is Slashdot, the details are gonna be used to rape you to oblivion
Not necessarily. PHP must at some point interpret the PHP code as lower-level instructions, so it should be possible to provide those lower-level instructions as the "encrypted" file.
.net uses. And yes, that is still edible, but so is assembly. You won't have the benefit of clear function and variable names, so it'd be a bother.
Compare it to, say, the intermediate code that
(I'm not saying that *is* how it works, mind you - I've seen it used, but never did so myself)
> I could not see over 30 people all doing the same thing to play a game with toyota, especially putting their own lives in danger....just to see if they can fake an accident and get a new car....
Oh, I can see quite some people do that, easily, especially after it's been clear that there might be money in it.
My lack of faith is disturbing, I know. It's just that there's Darwin Awards out there for a reason.
> it's a great sprawling PHP application so they have to give you the source
That's a misconception. Zend offers the possibility to only provide encrypted PHP to your customers.
Also, the whole open-or-not merely comes down to what license they use. Nothing in GPL, for instance, prevents you from saying "we won't give you this bit of functionality unless you pay".
Here's the GPL, very briefly:
* IF your distribute a program, THEN you MUST also provide the source for free
* You MUST allow people to modify and/or redistribute the program, and they must then too comply with the GPL
Nothing says that they have to give the code to people who haven't paid them for the commercial version, given that everyone has to pay for the commercial version.
Thank you, kdawson, for another utterly useless post.
Not *entirely* true - good blowjob skills don't help you win the lottery.
I'm sure the laser could detect a distinct, timed up-down movement as a click. A click/drag might be more complex then, though.
He'll be typing exactly the same way he does now. With loads of spelling errors.
I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
Oh, I mostly agree with what you're expressing, but it's quite important to realise that "the people" who form "the nation" are not quite uniform.
While you're of course correct that corporations are formed by members of "the people", the interests of those corporations are the interest of *only* the people who form them, and distinctly not of the rest of "the nation". It follows that any legislation that is passed, will not be tilted to the benefit of "the people" or "the nation", but towards the benefit of "the corporation", which is most smoothly accomplished by ensuring that there is also a benefit to "the politicians" - another one of those groups who come from the people but see themselves as quite distinct.
Thus, you get things from "gifts" to "campaign donations" (America) to corruption, the latter of which should be well-known to an eastern european, if the stories are even halfway true.
When and where the interests of corporations supercede those of the people, those two concepts are easily contrasted.
Why can't it be both ?
Ah. That explains quite a bit about the US, then.
The thing might come back and report that there is currently no Guinness in the fridge that is procreating.
The PR series should be well suited to that.
No.
Next question ?
Well, to be fair, Germany is probably wurst.