If I got 4,000 emails flooding my machine, I'd turn off the rules wizard. Give me some credit, will ya?
Sorry to step into the middle of your guys' flamewar, but I have to agree with davidu (not that I expect you to care, nanogator).
If a spam/joe-job campaign consists of 10,000,000 email addresses, and one tenth of one percent of all recipients had your software installed, the spoofed mailbox owner would receive 10,000 "notification" emails.
I trust that you ARE monitoring your own client and will shut it off if you start sending more than "4000" emails per [some magical threshold], but the flaw is that you don't know how many other hundreds, or thousands of other netizens have the same "rule". Your personal volume may be low, but you can't possible measure the incoming volume on the spoofed box.
It _is_ selfish, and it's very bad netiquette. It's not, however, illegal, and there's not really any way of stopping you.
You have a point, but what you say is offset by sheer volume.
When Napster was at its pinnacle, I could hop on and find almost ANYTHING. Rare, live bootlegs, to un-released (pre-release) albums, to really old, out-of-print albums.
NASA may hold the distinction of having the most embarrassing computer bug. In 1962, the Mariner I space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral. The probe's mission was to visit Venus, a journey that was scheduled to take ten years. But approximately four minutes into the flight, the Mariner I pulled a U-turn and landed smack in the Atlantic. That bug cost the taxpayers about ten million dollars.
Upon investigation, NASA engineers realized that a logical negation operator had been omitted from the computer system that was supposed to control the rocket's engines. To be honest, I have no idea what a logical negation operator is, and I've read the definition: "The logical negation operator is unary, that is, it takes a single operand. It is denoted by NOT (or its lexical alternative ~ ), and performs the logical negation of its operand. It thus applies only to the Boolean type.
I heard about a similar bug in a specific model of jet, that, when crossing from the northern hemisphere to the southern (ie, the equator), the plane inverted: canopy pointed down.
DVDHype in Canada (here in Montreal, actually) has the same business model.
I subscribed to them for a while, but they had some systems trouble, and emailed their entire customer base (IN THE TO: FIELD!), about the issues.
I replied (to their entire customer base) with something like "I can't believe you just emailed my email address to all of your customer. Unsubscribe me immediately."
10 or so others followed suit.
I don't miss it. (-:
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1) consistant database integration - Why not have a SetDBType() function, rather than hardcoding mysql_connect, mssql_connect, myodbc_connect, pgqsl_connect, etc?
Because different databases do different things, and abstracting degrades performance -- you CAN, however use ODBC with PHP. I do abstract whenever time allows. Manual abstraction is easy. There's a DB:: class in PEAR as well as ADOdb.
2) Native XML support - It's just not there? Why re-invent the wheel each time? Give us a good XML tree-walking engine DAMMIT!
3) sane and consistant functions. Single quotes, double quotes, some functions work with both, some work with one or the other, embedded html in an echo screws up if you don't double quote it, etc.
Quotes always work consistently. If you're thinking of Magic Quotes, it's a "feature" put there to make newbies not do stupid things. It can be turned off, and worked around very easily. I will, however, give you that function naming could use an overhaul, but in order to save backwards compatibility, this has not been done. The parameter order of implode vs. substr is confusing, and easy to forget.
I have a batch primary-fermenting in my BEDROOM right now, and I can barely smell it (without taking the lid off).. once it's moved to the secondary (carboy -> airlock), it's barely detectable, short of snorting the airlock.
What does smell, however, is on brewing day -- the whole place smells like malted barley (much like molasses, actually), but I wouldn't call it horrible.. it's sugary and sweet..
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If I got 4,000 emails flooding my machine, I'd turn off the rules wizard. Give me some credit, will ya?
Sorry to step into the middle of your guys' flamewar, but I have to agree with davidu (not that I expect you to care, nanogator).
If a spam/joe-job campaign consists of 10,000,000 email addresses, and one tenth of one percent of all recipients had your software installed, the spoofed mailbox owner would receive 10,000 "notification" emails.
I trust that you ARE monitoring your own client and will shut it off if you start sending more than "4000" emails per [some magical threshold], but the flaw is that you don't know how many other hundreds, or thousands of other netizens have the same "rule". Your personal volume may be low, but you can't possible measure the incoming volume on the spoofed box.
It _is_ selfish, and it's very bad netiquette. It's not, however, illegal, and there's not really any way of stopping you.
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I certainly hope you mean XBox 3.1, or XBox95.
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I was discussing the virtues of software firewalls with my co-workers this morning.
It's REALLY nice to be able to see what's "phoning home", on top of the regular firewall.
There's a free version, too.
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Very cool. Thanks for the info.
Mods: mod parent up.
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AFAIK, The Gimp still has no CMYK support, so it is still [largely] unusable for print.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.. haven't looked at The Gimp in many months.
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I _was_ going to mod you down, but I'll reply instead:
That is how its illegal. Injecting thoughts into my mind so I go out and buy stuff.
This is illegal now? Cool. I'm glad it finally happened. No more product placement, or advertising for me, nope. It's illegal.
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You have a point, but what you say is offset by sheer volume.
When Napster was at its pinnacle, I could hop on and find almost ANYTHING. Rare, live bootlegs, to un-released (pre-release) albums, to really old, out-of-print albums.
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[weather sensors] powered by solar panels
Uh... Isn't that like using your mail server to route messages to your pager to let you know that said mail server isn't working properly?
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Marzipan!
... (punches-in-the-face).
YOU ARE THE OFFICIAL WINNER OF _ONE_MILLION_
THAT'S RIGHT! Come outside right now to colled your ONE MILLION (punches-in-the-face). I'm hiding in the bushes.. I mean.. uh..
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Check out:
here, here and here
This one is my favorite.
"Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 6.1)" blah blah blah...
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See the FAQ.
According to that, $21, of those $30 went to the Levy. (seems extremely high)
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Hey Nick McKay and Tech Central Station: SHUT UP.
This was one of our best kept secrets..
Thanks for waving the proverbial red cape in front of the raging bull (RIAA).
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...but nevertheless very cool:
Pictures:
GEOS
Space Station: one and two.
Pretty awesome.
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NASA may hold the distinction of having the most embarrassing computer bug. In 1962, the Mariner I space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral. The probe's mission was to visit Venus, a journey that was scheduled to take ten years. But approximately four minutes into the flight, the Mariner I pulled a U-turn and landed smack in the Atlantic. That bug cost the taxpayers about ten million dollars.
Upon investigation, NASA engineers realized that a logical negation operator had been omitted from the computer system that was supposed to control the rocket's engines. To be honest, I have no idea what a logical negation operator is, and I've read the definition: "The logical negation operator is unary, that is, it takes a single operand. It is denoted by NOT (or its lexical alternative ~ ), and performs the logical negation of its operand. It thus applies only to the Boolean type.
I heard about a similar bug in a specific model of jet, that, when crossing from the northern hemisphere to the southern (ie, the equator), the plane inverted: canopy pointed down.
Hate to be that pilot.
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stick it in the microwave for about 5 seconds (just before the lighting effect happens)
The 70's called. They want their microwave back.
I've never seen a microwave so low-powered that it takes longer than 5 seconds to blast a CD.
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Here.
As mentioned in that story, my all-time favorite is from a Mackie (audio mixer) manual:
"The mating ritual of consenting adult banana plugs".
(anyone who's ever "mated" banana plugs knows exactly what the author was talking about. (-: )
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Also, their basses (Musicman) are sweet.
The active pickups and LOW action make them REALLY nice to play.
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the rest of us can then get our jobs back.
Nah. They'll just get outsourced somewhere else.
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I believe Web Content is much like Music when it comes to "making money".
Bands rarely make cash by selling their CD, but often in side-offers like t-shirts, stickers, etc ("merch"), and ticket sales to shows.
Web artists/authors/etc, rarely make (enough) cash by selling memberships/content, but often on side-offers, like ads, merch, etc.
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At my high school, the seniors would offer "elevator passes" to the juniors, during frosh week.
My high school did not have an elevator (-:
This whole thing seems oddly familiar.
*checks to see if BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. went to his high school*
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Curious.. where did you get this $15,000 figure?
(BTW: I ordered them.. (-; )
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DVDHype in Canada (here in Montreal, actually) has the same business model.
I subscribed to them for a while, but they had some systems trouble, and emailed their entire customer base (IN THE TO: FIELD!), about the issues.
I replied (to their entire customer base) with something like "I can't believe you just emailed my email address to all of your customer. Unsubscribe me immediately."
10 or so others followed suit.
I don't miss it.
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1) consistant database integration - Why not have a SetDBType() function, rather than hardcoding mysql_connect, mssql_connect, myodbc_connect, pgqsl_connect, etc?
Because different databases do different things, and abstracting degrades performance -- you CAN, however use ODBC with PHP. I do abstract whenever time allows. Manual abstraction is easy. There's a DB:: class in PEAR as well as ADOdb.
2) Native XML support - It's just not there? Why re-invent the wheel each time? Give us a good XML tree-walking engine DAMMIT!
php.net/xml
3) sane and consistant functions. Single quotes, double quotes, some functions work with both, some work with one or the other, embedded html in an echo screws up if you don't double quote it, etc.
Quotes always work consistently. If you're thinking of Magic Quotes, it's a "feature" put there to make newbies not do stupid things. It can be turned off, and worked around very easily. I will, however, give you that function naming could use an overhaul, but in order to save backwards compatibility, this has not been done. The parameter order of implode vs. substr is confusing, and easy to forget.
4)
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but the January issue of PHP Architect has an article on using PHP with the
Enjoy. PHP is not all things, but it does a GOOD job on the web.
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They accepted the kernal as a package, under good faith that all contributions to it were legitimately licensed by the contributing parties.
By that logic, they wouldn't have threatened to sue Linus.
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Smell horrible?
I have a batch primary-fermenting in my BEDROOM right now, and I can barely smell it (without taking the lid off).. once it's moved to the secondary (carboy -> airlock), it's barely detectable, short of snorting the airlock.
What does smell, however, is on brewing day -- the whole place smells like malted barley (much like molasses, actually), but I wouldn't call it horrible.. it's sugary and sweet..
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