The summary: improvised explosives involve pretty nasty stuff that you'd be hard pressed to mix in an airplane lavatory without killing yourself in the process.
And, to a suicide bomber, this is a downside how? What might kill you would also likely kill others aboard the plane, so it would serve its purpose... terrorizing and killing people. Might not be as spectacular as killing 10 planes worth of people, but even 50 people spread out over those 10 planes would have put a kink in air commerce for a while.
Personally, I've not found the urge to keep my pilot's license up-to-date since 2001, because I don't want to feel like a criminal for doing something I enjoy... And any effort to get in the air today puts you smack in the middle of the "prove to us you're still not a criminal today" attitude of the public in general, not just the government. It came to a head last year when I got an advertisement for a safety publication that spent the first page and a half explaining how it could help me avoid losing my license or being shot down for breaking all the different placebo rules on flying, rather than "real" safety issues, related to preventing accidents.
The attitude is no longer correct. Time to bail out.
limit the session to the IP-address of the visiting user.
Yes, this is a good one - it also keeps AOL users from your site, as an added bonus!
use mysql_real_escape_string() on all database input, or better: the variable binding feature of PEAR::DB
It would be nice, but not always possible. If a site uses MS SQL or PostgreSQL, there is a good chance that the server wasn't configured with MySQL support, meaning mysql_real_escape_string() isn't available. Not everyone puts the PEAR library in. And a recently-discovered problem with that function and multibyte characters has caused some interesting issues, depending upon how the server gets "fixed".
Brazil has a surplus of cane-based ethanol to sell us, any time we want to drop the protective tarriff on anything based upon sugar cane (currently US$0.56/gallon, if I recall correctly). They have this surplus because they no longer need as much ethanol as they thought they did... Since they discovered several major domestic source of oil over the past 10 years.
We aren't "raping" Brazil for its "abundant" ethanol for the same reason CocaCola tastes like crap in this country, compared to countries that don't have sugar lobbies that are bigger than their actual industries...
Wow, it's amazing how many security updates are listed on that link that would appear to apply to my computers! Windows update keeps telling me I only need the latest installer and Windows Genuine Advantage tool... Since security updates aren't supposed to require installation of the WGA spyware app, and Windows Update says that's the only thing available, that should mean I'm up-to-date, security-wise, right? Why won't it show me all these updates?
(hmm... I wonder why the sarcasm tag doesn't work here...)
The chief executive of the current Republican administration knew Kenneth Lay well enough to have a nickname for him.
And I suppose you've never known anyone who later turned out to be a criminal and/or a liar? Should we blame you for their actions, just because your friend is a crook?
Famous people know other famous people. Corporate types try to get to know as many famous people as they can, hoping to take advantage of that relationship... Bill Clinton knew Ken Lay personally, too, as did several dozen senators and congresscritters.
A lot of blind eyes were turned in the Enron case. Regulators, auditors, banks, companies, and, yes, even investors, large AND small, who didn't give a damn how things were done, so long as they got dividends. Someone opened their eyes in 2001, and it all blew up. Now, George Bush didn't start the investigation, but he also did not get in the way of it, as some other presidents might have...
They are "wide spread" because a lot of SATA-based boards have these "RAID Controllers" built in, whether you want them or not. Something like 80% of the popular A64 boards have "RAID chips" on them, usually just the RAID 0/1 variety. And there are a lot of $30 add-in cards that are of the same ilk.
It's always interesting to read comments about how this is a GOP problem, but it was a Republican administration that refused to grant special favours to Enron, accelerating the collapse of the house-of-cards they built with the regulatory approval of a Democratic administration.
In any case, though, Enron was an obvious fraud to many people. I've always been suspicious of any group that makes the type of claims they did. "Snake oil salesman" comes to mind. Guess I'm too suspicious to listen favourably on 99% of what any corporations trading on stock exchanges have to say...
The problem is complicated by the fact that some fonts can arrive as part of other people's documents and can sometimes stay, unlicensed, on a network.
And the fact that several Microsoft and Adobe applications will "helpfully" insert font files into documents and even emails so that you can have a proper "presentation" with the end user (who might not have the same fonts installed) doesn't do much for anyone trying to keep things legal. If I open a PDF with embedded fonts, am I now a pirate?
So by your logic (if I'm reading it correctly) journalists should do nothing.
Doing something in London or Peoria does not do a lot where the problem is, in China. It's putting pressure on someone who has no power to change things. If they were putting pressure on the Chinese government about this, that would be different. But, it is symbolism over substance for these people.
Unless you're advocating an invasion of China to fix things, change has to come from the Chinese people themselves. Yahoo et al are tools for spreading information, even if it's censored. As the people of China learn about what is possible, they'll fix their own government. It won't be painless. It won't come about by boycotting people. And it will probably be bloody.
"Liberal" as in thinking, "Complying with the laws of China resulting in a journalist/blogger/grandmother being jailed for violating Chinese law" is completely different than "Complying with the laws of the USA resulting in a pedophile being jailed for stalking children online". In both cases, the company is doing what it is legally required to do. To claim moral superiority or inferiority for one action versus the other is selective outrage, at best. Repeat after me - it's the Chinese laws that are "bad", or "immoral".
Much is made about YAHOO being a corporation, because the assumption is that corporations are evil. Corporations are neither evil nor good. They may do things that are considered evil or good, but the laws about forming a corporation in most places in the world say nothing about "good" or "evil", they use terms like "legal" and "abide by the laws of...". Failure to comply with those laws can result in civil and criminal penalties. Not just for executives, but for low-level flunkies with no power to change company policy.
If you publish something on internet that you don't want "the government" to know about, you're stupid to think it won't know or be able to find out. Blaming someone for complying with the law when it results in your detention under those same laws is pretty much fruitless, too. And calling for a boycott of someone for complying with the law, especially when you do it from a safe distance, is typical of today's activist journalists.
I wonder how many of those calling for the boycott did so the last time they were standing in downtown Beijing?
Not just functions - conditional includes. In most cases, the accelerator deals with them poorly.
When someone says they have a "can not redeclare class X" error, it's probably because of a caching program being added. It's kept a copy of the compiled script... but keeps hitting those pesky "include()" calls, and reloads what it previously included in the compiled version, or it fails to include the correct file, because it already finished reading its includes.
With some applications, though, the time to compile the PHP is only a fraction of the time to run the program. What's the use of cutting a tenth of a second off the load time, when you're dealing with queries that take 5 to 10 seconds to run? Or if you've got a host that runs PHP as a CGI program?
Why not? Unless they get the majority (do you think they will?) they should make a nice counterbalance.
If you don't think they can make a majority, then voting for them based solely on this one issue as a protest is useless. Single-issue candidates can always stir emotions, but they rarely can do anything worth while on other issues that have a more profound effect upon your life. What are their positions on anything other than copyright issues?
Too many people already vote based upon pet peeves, rather than "the whole package". Which candidate for the job will do the least damage to you overall is the way to go. Some years back, an aviation organization I belong to endorsed a particular candidate as being "friendly to our cause", neglecting his record on economic issues. While he has occasionally voted pro-aviation, his real track record neutral at best. And his stance on other issues can best be summarized as, "anyone who can afford to fly needs to be sending that excess capital to Washington for ME to spend!"
Yep, it's just a case of marketing getting what it wants to sell, rather than customers getting what they want to buy.
Personally, I don't want text messaging, so I don't pay for it... but, then again, I do, because Sprint won't turn it off, so people send me text messages at a cost of $0.10 each, because I don't have a "text messaging plan". And they charge that even when it's a spam message. Then only control I have over TM is whether or not I send one - there's no control over whether or not I get them.
I don't want to browse internet via the phone, but they decided I needed to have IP services enabled, so they can send me software updates... to improve the browsing and text messaging capabilities I don't want, and potentially allow a virus in. Sunday at 0000 CDT, my phone started bleeping at me. When it starts making noise at that time of night, it damn well better be because someone needs immediate assistance.... but, no, it was telling me about the latest TM update, which I wasn't asked if I wanted until after it installed it.
When I eventually need to replace my old phone, I'll be hard-pressed to find a phone. They don't sell those anymore, for the most part. Lots of things with phone features, but no phones...
I'm guessing that it is rare for two genes out of a fairly large number (!) to also pop out on a study such as this, but correlation and causation and all that
These two genes were specifically looked for, so there are potentially hundreds of other genes that could be more common between cases. And there is no mention of whether or not those same two genes were checked in a larger population to see how wide-spread the mutations are in those who didn't die at age 3 months. And, of course, there's the whole problem with such a small sample size...
But, since I'm not a genetic researcher, there are those here who will cry out that I have no right to comment on the silliness of this story...
It shouldn't cost colleges anything to give the government complete access to their systems. Repeated announcements in the news show that they've already configured their networks to allow arbitrary access to sensitive personal information!
Or are they worried about the cost of limiting that access to just the government?
They're doing it by bringing jobs to areas where the idea of having a job is more important to people than being a union member. I mean, how can it not be more important to support your union than to work and get paid? It's un-American!
Population control please, no more than two children per family.
Everyone "knows" that our problems are the fault of "the rich", but they don't seem to want to notice that the trend for the past 30 years or so is that "the rich" tend to have fewer children than "the poor", especially outside the U.S. Those who qualify as "rich" in this country are often childless, or only have one child.
Sure, there are exceptions. But most of the growth in population comes from the "protected" group, collectively known as "the lower classes". The population explosion in the "third world" makes the U.S. birth rate look pathetic, as any a quick Google search will confirm. Most of the U.S. population growth over the past 20 years has been from immigration.
Since the "educated" are already limiting their birth rate, how are you going to curb the birth rate of the "unenlightened masses", short of forcing them to stop screwing around?
with Windows you will be running PHP as a user (cgi style) so you can implement per-user security on it.
CGI is a good way to kill server performance, which is why PHP has come with an ISAPI version for several years. I have one machine dual-processor running PHP on Windows as a CGI; it chokes at less than 1/3rd the user load of a single-processor version of the same box running LAMP. Plus, you can implement per-site restrictions under mod_php.
My mod_php runs as an unprivileged user right now... It can not write to any user directories without special steps being taken to accommodate it. I shudder every time someone claims that using things like SUEXEC to run scripts as the directory's owner is "more secure", given that you have just given it write privileges in that directory. Scripts involving uploads become far more dangerous, because they can write to anywhere the user can, which also means what is uploaded can be run.
But, it doesn't run as well on Godaddy's Windows servers as it does on their Linux boxes. This is because Godaddy has chosen to make liberal use of "Safe Mode" and "OpenDir" restrictions on the Windows boxes, presumably to protect them. Should NOT be necessary, but they feel it is.
If you have a program that opens files in multiple directories, or enumerates files in a directory, you have to ask to be hosted on a Linux box at Godaddy.
they'll provide 'a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage.'
If you want to run anything on Godaddy's servers that accesses files in PHP (which includes things like include and require in directories other than the current one), you have to ask to be put on a Linux server. This is because the only way Godaddy has found to keep Windows "secure" is to disable features... It's one of the reasons they recently stopped supporting "one button install" for PHPBB; it wouldn't work if it was on a Windows box, due to safe mode restrictions.
Fortunately, that isn't a problem with parked domains!
Then why do the overwhelming majority of climate scientists think that global warming is influenced by human activities?
I don't know - maybe because they are ignoring the evidence NASA has that global warming is also occuring on Mars, which doesn't have any SUVs to speak of, or coal-powered electrical plants, or any of those other nasty human-caused things?
I think any time you start using religious parallels to describe the open source movement, you are hurting that movement in the eyes of business.
Then you need to keep RMS out of the picture. And some others. Because FOSS has any number of people who do treat it as a religious experience and calling. RMS is "chief evangelist" for his vision of software. Lessig has his vision. Others have different visions, or different degrees of the same vision. And all think the others are working against the greater good, because they "miss the point" of the "perfect vision".
The fact that GPL requires a lawyer to describe what you can and can not do with software is scary enough for businesses. "If we compile our proprietary software with gcc, do we now have to distribute the source?" "If we include the GPL'd drivers for the left-handed USB Framis, are we compelled to release our source, or just the driver's source code?" Businesses do not like confusion. The government gives us all that we can stand, so adding in an obscure, vision-inspired license doesn't make us comfortable.
This way, I can decide which elements I can reasonably trust on faith, and which elements may have ulterior motives for pomulgating.
Sounds to me that the reason is that you can decide whether to reject the opinion outright because of your prejudice for or against the employer, or if you're going to have to bother coming up with a reasoned argument against it.
It really doesn't matter who has the opinion, if it is based upon verifiable evidence. If you don't like the opinion, show where it deviates from the evidence, and *poof*, it disappears in a puff of logic. If you can not show that, then you might want to reconsider your opposition to it.
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The summary: improvised explosives involve pretty nasty stuff that you'd be hard pressed to mix in an airplane lavatory without killing yourself in the process.
And, to a suicide bomber, this is a downside how? What might kill you would also likely kill others aboard the plane, so it would serve its purpose... terrorizing and killing people. Might not be as spectacular as killing 10 planes worth of people, but even 50 people spread out over those 10 planes would have put a kink in air commerce for a while.
Personally, I've not found the urge to keep my pilot's license up-to-date since 2001, because I don't want to feel like a criminal for doing something I enjoy... And any effort to get in the air today puts you smack in the middle of the "prove to us you're still not a criminal today" attitude of the public in general, not just the government. It came to a head last year when I got an advertisement for a safety publication that spent the first page and a half explaining how it could help me avoid losing my license or being shot down for breaking all the different placebo rules on flying, rather than "real" safety issues, related to preventing accidents.
The attitude is no longer correct. Time to bail out.
And to top it all off, I've been running this configuration within a VM lately, so that I don't lock out my LAN with the VPN connection.
I take it that you haven't found the check box on the VPN connection dialog to not use the default gateway on the remote network yet?
limit the session to the IP-address of the visiting user.
Yes, this is a good one - it also keeps AOL users from your site, as an added bonus!
use mysql_real_escape_string() on all database input, or better: the variable binding feature of PEAR::DB
It would be nice, but not always possible. If a site uses MS SQL or PostgreSQL, there is a good chance that the server wasn't configured with MySQL support, meaning mysql_real_escape_string() isn't available. Not everyone puts the PEAR library in. And a recently-discovered problem with that function and multibyte characters has caused some interesting issues, depending upon how the server gets "fixed".
We aren't "raping" Brazil for its "abundant" ethanol for the same reason CocaCola tastes like crap in this country, compared to countries that don't have sugar lobbies that are bigger than their actual industries...
Wow, it's amazing how many security updates are listed on that link that would appear to apply to my computers! Windows update keeps telling me I only need the latest installer and Windows Genuine Advantage tool... Since security updates aren't supposed to require installation of the WGA spyware app, and Windows Update says that's the only thing available, that should mean I'm up-to-date, security-wise, right? Why won't it show me all these updates? (hmm... I wonder why the sarcasm tag doesn't work here...)
The chief executive of the current Republican administration knew Kenneth Lay well enough to have a nickname for him.
And I suppose you've never known anyone who later turned out to be a criminal and/or a liar? Should we blame you for their actions, just because your friend is a crook?
Famous people know other famous people. Corporate types try to get to know as many famous people as they can, hoping to take advantage of that relationship... Bill Clinton knew Ken Lay personally, too, as did several dozen senators and congresscritters.
A lot of blind eyes were turned in the Enron case. Regulators, auditors, banks, companies, and, yes, even investors, large AND small, who didn't give a damn how things were done, so long as they got dividends. Someone opened their eyes in 2001, and it all blew up. Now, George Bush didn't start the investigation, but he also did not get in the way of it, as some other presidents might have...
They are "wide spread" because a lot of SATA-based boards have these "RAID Controllers" built in, whether you want them or not. Something like 80% of the popular A64 boards have "RAID chips" on them, usually just the RAID 0/1 variety. And there are a lot of $30 add-in cards that are of the same ilk.
In any case, though, Enron was an obvious fraud to many people. I've always been suspicious of any group that makes the type of claims they did. "Snake oil salesman" comes to mind. Guess I'm too suspicious to listen favourably on 99% of what any corporations trading on stock exchanges have to say...
And the fact that several Microsoft and Adobe applications will "helpfully" insert font files into documents and even emails so that you can have a proper "presentation" with the end user (who might not have the same fonts installed) doesn't do much for anyone trying to keep things legal. If I open a PDF with embedded fonts, am I now a pirate?
Doing something in London or Peoria does not do a lot where the problem is, in China. It's putting pressure on someone who has no power to change things. If they were putting pressure on the Chinese government about this, that would be different. But, it is symbolism over substance for these people.
Unless you're advocating an invasion of China to fix things, change has to come from the Chinese people themselves. Yahoo et al are tools for spreading information, even if it's censored. As the people of China learn about what is possible, they'll fix their own government. It won't be painless. It won't come about by boycotting people. And it will probably be bloody.
"Liberal" as in thinking, "Complying with the laws of China resulting in a journalist/blogger/grandmother being jailed for violating Chinese law" is completely different than "Complying with the laws of the USA resulting in a pedophile being jailed for stalking children online". In both cases, the company is doing what it is legally required to do. To claim moral superiority or inferiority for one action versus the other is selective outrage, at best. Repeat after me - it's the Chinese laws that are "bad", or "immoral".
Much is made about YAHOO being a corporation, because the assumption is that corporations are evil. Corporations are neither evil nor good. They may do things that are considered evil or good, but the laws about forming a corporation in most places in the world say nothing about "good" or "evil", they use terms like "legal" and "abide by the laws of ...". Failure to comply with those laws can result in civil and criminal penalties. Not just for executives, but for low-level flunkies with no power to change company policy.
If you publish something on internet that you don't want "the government" to know about, you're stupid to think it won't know or be able to find out. Blaming someone for complying with the law when it results in your detention under those same laws is pretty much fruitless, too. And calling for a boycott of someone for complying with the law, especially when you do it from a safe distance, is typical of today's activist journalists.
I wonder how many of those calling for the boycott did so the last time they were standing in downtown Beijing?
When someone says they have a "can not redeclare class X" error, it's probably because of a caching program being added. It's kept a copy of the compiled script... but keeps hitting those pesky "include()" calls, and reloads what it previously included in the compiled version, or it fails to include the correct file, because it already finished reading its includes.
With some applications, though, the time to compile the PHP is only a fraction of the time to run the program. What's the use of cutting a tenth of a second off the load time, when you're dealing with queries that take 5 to 10 seconds to run? Or if you've got a host that runs PHP as a CGI program?
If you don't think they can make a majority, then voting for them based solely on this one issue as a protest is useless. Single-issue candidates can always stir emotions, but they rarely can do anything worth while on other issues that have a more profound effect upon your life. What are their positions on anything other than copyright issues?
Too many people already vote based upon pet peeves, rather than "the whole package". Which candidate for the job will do the least damage to you overall is the way to go. Some years back, an aviation organization I belong to endorsed a particular candidate as being "friendly to our cause", neglecting his record on economic issues. While he has occasionally voted pro-aviation, his real track record neutral at best. And his stance on other issues can best be summarized as, "anyone who can afford to fly needs to be sending that excess capital to Washington for ME to spend!"
Personally, I don't want text messaging, so I don't pay for it... but, then again, I do, because Sprint won't turn it off, so people send me text messages at a cost of $0.10 each, because I don't have a "text messaging plan". And they charge that even when it's a spam message. Then only control I have over TM is whether or not I send one - there's no control over whether or not I get them.
I don't want to browse internet via the phone, but they decided I needed to have IP services enabled, so they can send me software updates... to improve the browsing and text messaging capabilities I don't want, and potentially allow a virus in. Sunday at 0000 CDT, my phone started bleeping at me. When it starts making noise at that time of night, it damn well better be because someone needs immediate assistance.... but, no, it was telling me about the latest TM update, which I wasn't asked if I wanted until after it installed it.
When I eventually need to replace my old phone, I'll be hard-pressed to find a phone. They don't sell those anymore, for the most part. Lots of things with phone features, but no phones...
These two genes were specifically looked for, so there are potentially hundreds of other genes that could be more common between cases. And there is no mention of whether or not those same two genes were checked in a larger population to see how wide-spread the mutations are in those who didn't die at age 3 months. And, of course, there's the whole problem with such a small sample size...
But, since I'm not a genetic researcher, there are those here who will cry out that I have no right to comment on the silliness of this story...
Something that occurs in less than 2% of studied cases is a "potential contributing cause"?
Or are they worried about the cost of limiting that access to just the government?
They're doing it by bringing jobs to areas where the idea of having a job is more important to people than being a union member. I mean, how can it not be more important to support your union than to work and get paid? It's un-American!
Everyone "knows" that our problems are the fault of "the rich", but they don't seem to want to notice that the trend for the past 30 years or so is that "the rich" tend to have fewer children than "the poor", especially outside the U.S. Those who qualify as "rich" in this country are often childless, or only have one child.
Sure, there are exceptions. But most of the growth in population comes from the "protected" group, collectively known as "the lower classes". The population explosion in the "third world" makes the U.S. birth rate look pathetic, as any a quick Google search will confirm. Most of the U.S. population growth over the past 20 years has been from immigration.
Since the "educated" are already limiting their birth rate, how are you going to curb the birth rate of the "unenlightened masses", short of forcing them to stop screwing around?
CGI is a good way to kill server performance, which is why PHP has come with an ISAPI version for several years. I have one machine dual-processor running PHP on Windows as a CGI; it chokes at less than 1/3rd the user load of a single-processor version of the same box running LAMP. Plus, you can implement per-site restrictions under mod_php.
My mod_php runs as an unprivileged user right now... It can not write to any user directories without special steps being taken to accommodate it. I shudder every time someone claims that using things like SUEXEC to run scripts as the directory's owner is "more secure", given that you have just given it write privileges in that directory. Scripts involving uploads become far more dangerous, because they can write to anywhere the user can, which also means what is uploaded can be run.
But, it doesn't run as well on Godaddy's Windows servers as it does on their Linux boxes. This is because Godaddy has chosen to make liberal use of "Safe Mode" and "OpenDir" restrictions on the Windows boxes, presumably to protect them. Should NOT be necessary, but they feel it is.
If you have a program that opens files in multiple directories, or enumerates files in a directory, you have to ask to be hosted on a Linux box at Godaddy.
If you want to run anything on Godaddy's servers that accesses files in PHP (which includes things like include and require in directories other than the current one), you have to ask to be put on a Linux server. This is because the only way Godaddy has found to keep Windows "secure" is to disable features... It's one of the reasons they recently stopped supporting "one button install" for PHPBB; it wouldn't work if it was on a Windows box, due to safe mode restrictions.
Fortunately, that isn't a problem with parked domains!
I don't know - maybe because they are ignoring the evidence NASA has that global warming is also occuring on Mars, which doesn't have any SUVs to speak of, or coal-powered electrical plants, or any of those other nasty human-caused things?
Then you need to keep RMS out of the picture. And some others. Because FOSS has any number of people who do treat it as a religious experience and calling. RMS is "chief evangelist" for his vision of software. Lessig has his vision. Others have different visions, or different degrees of the same vision. And all think the others are working against the greater good, because they "miss the point" of the "perfect vision".
The fact that GPL requires a lawyer to describe what you can and can not do with software is scary enough for businesses. "If we compile our proprietary software with gcc, do we now have to distribute the source?" "If we include the GPL'd drivers for the left-handed USB Framis, are we compelled to release our source, or just the driver's source code?" Businesses do not like confusion. The government gives us all that we can stand, so adding in an obscure, vision-inspired license doesn't make us comfortable.
Sounds to me that the reason is that you can decide whether to reject the opinion outright because of your prejudice for or against the employer, or if you're going to have to bother coming up with a reasoned argument against it.
It really doesn't matter who has the opinion, if it is based upon verifiable evidence. If you don't like the opinion, show where it deviates from the evidence, and *poof*, it disappears in a puff of logic. If you can not show that, then you might want to reconsider your opposition to it.