Gambling is a *huge* money laundry machine. Nevada cracked down on it, but offshore/foreign gambling sites don't have as many rules.
If you've got a big stash of illegal cash (drug money. crime money, terrorist money), what better way to legitimize it than claim you just got really lucky?
There are 4 authors, and I'm not sure there was even 1 editor. Like many multi-authored books, half the chapters are spent repeating information that will be reworded by the next author. Maybe they could get jobs as slshdot editors?:)
The example code is contrived and ignores a lot of real world problems. Of course, if you're writing a shopping cart of your own, you won't learn anything new here. If you don't know php and want to add some dynamic content to your web pages, it's a good book, though.
"scripting language" is a loaded term... it implies (too me, at least) that somebody started writing code without understanding the scope of the problem, without proper design. Sure, that can (and does) happen with programming languages like C or Java too, but the compile phase seems to convince peope to think it over (and also, each.c or.java file is more opaque, just showing off a few functions or #defines in the header/java file).
Smalltalk, Ruby, and scheme are also "scripting" languages, but a lot of big, complex web sites have been written with them.
Of course, SLASH (perl) is a maintenence nightmare, while PHPNuke, Drupal, etc aren't.
on the subject of 1040ez, even easier is the teletax... you just call the 1800 number, punch in some numbers, and that's that. If you have anything more complicated than an hourly job and interest, you probably can't make use of it.
i paid $10 for tax cut (and got MS Money free. Don't laugh, i love it!).
I used to do them by hand, but last year I had some capital gains (not very much, though:), and trying to understand the IRS directions was not an option.
Also, it makes it a lot easier to play with the numbers, and determine in real time how much I can contribute to my IRA.
If *I* ran a business whose sole purpose was to collect money form people, I would sure the fuck make it easy for people to pay!
We use mod_gzip for the "non-standards compliant" Work Complaint Center. We tried using xhtml + stylesheets in a mockup, but found that the redesign time would be enormous. Additionally, our logs show most of our readership uses older browsers, and we can't force them to upgrade. Furthermore, the bandwidth savings were minimal.
I like using xhtml and css, and use it for my own personal web pages. When you're going for a larger audience, though, you are limited by their constraints. (Insert MS Windows joke here)
Looks like the slashdot editors don't eat their own (dog) food. And there aren't any mysterious future subscribers, or CmdrTaco doesn't bother checking if they report a dupe story.
If you want news, theregister + osnews + kerneltrap + nationalenquirer will gie it to you better than slashdot (and less dupes/speculation).
If you want a flamefest, usenet, kuro5hin, or freerepublic are better, and much more democratic.
In A.D. 2003 War was beginning. Saddam: What happen ? Uday: Somebody set up us the bomb. Tariq: We get signal. Saddam: What ! Tariq: Main screen turn on. Saddam: It's You !! W: How are you gentlemen !! W: All your base are belong to us. W: You are on the way to destruction. Saddam: What you say !! W: You have no chance to survive make your time. W: HA HA HA HA.... Saddam: Take off every 'zig' !! Saddam: You know what you doing. Saddam: Move 'zig'. Saddam: For great injustice.
Denmark is in the coalition of the winning (oops, willing). They've donated medical officers to help deal with possible chemical/biological weapon attacks.
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Hopefully, when CmdrTaco and Hemos are working the register at burger king, we'll get duplicate hamburgers.
90% of slashdot readers are running using IE and windows. Apple security updates get hidden in apple.slashdot, BSD in bsd.slashdot, and linux/miscellaneous get ignored or hidden in developers.slashdot.
It's only MS bugs that are "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" enough to get front-page coverage.
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This is slashdot. Maybe a PERL conference in space, but not a honeymoon.
France, go fuck yourself!
I heard you caught herpes and won the war on virginity.
If you've got a big stash of illegal cash (drug money. crime money, terrorist money), what better way to legitimize it than claim you just got really lucky?
you bastards!
The example code is contrived and ignores a lot of real world problems. Of course, if you're writing a shopping cart of your own, you won't learn anything new here. If you don't know php and want to add some dynamic content to your web pages, it's a good book, though.
Why exactly is that? I don't seea P3P policy covering the use of harvested email addresses.
Smalltalk, Ruby, and scheme are also "scripting" languages, but a lot of big, complex web sites have been written with them.
Of course, SLASH (perl) is a maintenence nightmare, while PHPNuke, Drupal, etc aren't.
Would you eat out a man's asshole?
on the subject of 1040ez, even easier is the teletax... you just call the 1800 number, punch in some numbers, and that's that. If you have anything more complicated than an hourly job and interest, you probably can't make use of it.
Maybe he is from Utah?
I used to do them by hand, but last year I had some capital gains (not very much, though :), and trying to understand the IRS directions was not an option.
Also, it makes it a lot easier to play with the numbers, and determine in real time how much I can contribute to my IRA.
If *I* ran a business whose sole purpose was to collect money form people, I would sure the fuck make it easy for people to pay!
That would explain why LinuxCon is being held in Amsterdam....
mr goatse and his girlfriend, ms tubgirl, would disagree with you.
I like using xhtml and css, and use it for my own personal web pages. When you're going for a larger audience, though, you are limited by their constraints. (Insert MS Windows joke here)
hopefully, this technology can be used to project my penis inside natalie portman's pussy.
If you want news, theregister + osnews + kerneltrap + nationalenquirer will gie it to you better than slashdot (and less dupes /speculation).
If you want a flamefest, usenet, kuro5hin, or freerepublic are better, and much more democratic.
Ok, now moderate me -1 redundant
In A.D. 2003 ....
War was beginning.
Saddam: What happen ?
Uday: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Tariq: We get signal.
Saddam: What !
Tariq: Main screen turn on.
Saddam: It's You !!
W: How are you gentlemen !!
W: All your base are belong to us.
W: You are on the way to destruction.
Saddam: What you say !!
W: You have no chance to survive make your time.
W: HA HA HA HA
Saddam: Take off every 'zig' !!
Saddam: You know what you doing.
Saddam: Move 'zig'.
Saddam: For great injustice.
Umm, actually i think it should be "editors are DUMB"
Next, onw of you geeks will be caught making out with your stuffed tux doll.
Denmark is in the coalition of the winning (oops, willing). They've donated medical officers to help deal with possible chemical/biological weapon attacks.
Hopefully, when CmdrTaco and Hemos are working the register at burger king, we'll get duplicate hamburgers.
I'm pretty sure Tron + Linux = "Li'l nuts"
It's only MS bugs that are "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" enough to get front-page coverage.
$1.99 to frob your dick? Sign me up!