That's just natural selection in action. The human race doesn't need people who move at geological speeds (or, as they're more commonly called, civil servants).
About 90% of my foes list is comprised of people who used "M$" in a sentence.
You're on my foes list and I don't think I've ever used 'M$' in a sentence (until now). I mostly make my living working with MS products and have done for many years. While I am fairly critical of MS at times I try to be even-handed and realistic about it, as they've made me a nice living. I even work for the world's largest distributor of MS products.
Your presence on my foes list is nothing to do with anti-MS zealotry. I just think you're a cunt.
Everything InsaneCreator just said is true. I've worked with people who have written amazingly dangerous PHP scripts for commercial web sites and don't have the programming background to understand why their code is so insecure. With support for automating PHP code generation built into Dreamweaver this is probably going to become a more widespread problem.
It's very easy to pick up the basics of PHP and develop scripts quickly, even with limited programming experience. Sadly until recently so many of the default settings in PHP (still required by a lot of freely available scripts out there) make it a non-trivial task to secure these scripts. The point about register_globals is a good one -- the fact that it allows users to change the value of a variable by specifying it in the URL is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons. This has not been the default behaviour in PHP for some time, but most people I know end up switching it back on to avoid having to rewrite all their scripts to use HTTP session variables.
Of course it's possible to write insecure code in any language, and the newer versions of PHP have filled in some of the bigger security holes, but by being so newbie friendly it's still going to end up with more than its share of dangerous scripts.
Seconded. It's not exactly a deep book, but it's highly entertaining and moves at a cracking pace.
And, luckily it's not out of print (well, not in the UK anyway). Gollancz republished it recently as part of their SF Collector's series, complete with classic yellow cover.
I can't help but get the feeling that you're confusing the ability to modify the source code with some kind of necessity to do so. Most of the open source software I use does what I want without me having to change a single line of code, as does most of the equivalent closed source. The difference is that if a program doesn't do something I want and it's open source I can do something more constructive about it than submit feature requests, wait and hope not to get fobbed off.
Personally I think that it's recognition of the fact that eternal torment can take place in either Hell or Hull. The only problem I can see is that the scope hasn't been extended to include Dundee.
Or, of course, until it's pre-installed on more than a handful of systems. For most end-users any OS is too difficult to install. I end up having to install/upgrade OSes for my non-techie friends regularly, including Windows.
Personally I haven't found a modern Linux distro that isn't easier to install than Windows, and, while I'm willing to accept that at least part of that may be down to me knowing what I'm doing, I don't think your Mr. Doe is going to have an easier time installing Windows.
Well, mine uses VI. Of course when I say "mine" I actually mean my right hand, but as it's my only regular sexual partner these days I think it should qualify as an honourary girlfriend.
My left hand also helps out with VI sometimes, but I try to keep it quiet to avoid making my right hand jealous. Women, eh?
And some businesses don't want to upgrade because of the cost. Not only would you be looking at licenses, but also hardware upgrades, retraining of IT staff, taking time out to plan an Active Directory implementation and all the testing involved in seeing if your apps run properly in the new environment. For a medium to large sized company that can represent a huge investment in time and money just to stay supported.
A rumored Amish belief that I have heard (never validated, though) is that part of their soul is stolen when a photo is taken of them.
I wonder if that also means that part of the soul of a song is stolen every time it's copied. That would kind of explain why so much contemporary music is soulless, bland, commercial mulch.
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Just be glad you're not dyslexic as well. :)
Looking at the uniform, it'd take more than the jaws of life to get him in there.
"The stitching canna take it, captain!"
I think the /. crapflooders may have prior art.
Try picking one up for that price back in the "old days".
OK, I'm confused now. Was the article about keyboards or time machines?
That's just natural selection in action. The human race doesn't need people who move at geological speeds (or, as they're more commonly called, civil servants).
About 90% of my foes list is comprised of people who used "M$" in a sentence.
You're on my foes list and I don't think I've ever used 'M$' in a sentence (until now). I mostly make my living working with MS products and have done for many years. While I am fairly critical of MS at times I try to be even-handed and realistic about it, as they've made me a nice living. I even work for the world's largest distributor of MS products.
Your presence on my foes list is nothing to do with anti-MS zealotry. I just think you're a cunt.
Only on /. can you get modded "+1 funny" for explaining someone else's joke. :)
Imagine I put up a website claiming I fucked your mother...
Dad? Is that you?
Everything InsaneCreator just said is true. I've worked with people who have written amazingly dangerous PHP scripts for commercial web sites and don't have the programming background to understand why their code is so insecure. With support for automating PHP code generation built into Dreamweaver this is probably going to become a more widespread problem.
It's very easy to pick up the basics of PHP and develop scripts quickly, even with limited programming experience. Sadly until recently so many of the default settings in PHP (still required by a lot of freely available scripts out there) make it a non-trivial task to secure these scripts. The point about register_globals is a good one -- the fact that it allows users to change the value of a variable by specifying it in the URL is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons. This has not been the default behaviour in PHP for some time, but most people I know end up switching it back on to avoid having to rewrite all their scripts to use HTTP session variables.
Of course it's possible to write insecure code in any language, and the newer versions of PHP have filled in some of the bigger security holes, but by being so newbie friendly it's still going to end up with more than its share of dangerous scripts.
And don't even get me started on PHP-Nuke! :)
If you get two candidates with similar skills, one who worked at Microsoft and one who is maintainer of some Linux kernel driver, who would you hire?
Depends on which one gives the best head.
And don't forget Duke Nukem Forever! Oh, what, you meant this year? Sorry.
Seconded. It's not exactly a deep book, but it's highly entertaining and moves at a cracking pace.
And, luckily it's not out of print (well, not in the UK anyway). Gollancz republished it recently as part of their SF Collector's series, complete with classic yellow cover.
"Whole Life" would be quite an honest name though, as that's what it's likely to consume.
And the really sad thing is that's still not often enough to keep up with all the security updates required.
I can't help but get the feeling that you're confusing the ability to modify the source code with some kind of necessity to do so. Most of the open source software I use does what I want without me having to change a single line of code, as does most of the equivalent closed source. The difference is that if a program doesn't do something I want and it's open source I can do something more constructive about it than submit feature requests, wait and hope not to get fobbed off.
Personally I think that it's recognition of the fact that eternal torment can take place in either Hell or Hull. The only problem I can see is that the scope hasn't been extended to include Dundee.
Funny -- I've had similar thoughts about "transgaming". Maybe WINE is optimised for transvestites.
Or, of course, until it's pre-installed on more than a handful of systems. For most end-users any OS is too difficult to install. I end up having to install/upgrade OSes for my non-techie friends regularly, including Windows.
Personally I haven't found a modern Linux distro that isn't easier to install than Windows, and, while I'm willing to accept that at least part of that may be down to me knowing what I'm doing, I don't think your Mr. Doe is going to have an easier time installing Windows.
It's from a radio series called Blue Jam, written by Chris Morris. Specifically, it's from the "Suicide Journalist" sketch.
I predict that in 100 years someone, somewhere, will still be running COBOL applications.
And I will still be refusing to maintain them.
Surely that depends on whether you're damned or not. I imagine there's a whole circle of hell devoted to maintaining COBOL apps.
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I think our friend at goatse.cx may have prior art here.
Well, mine uses VI. Of course when I say "mine" I actually mean my right hand, but as it's my only regular sexual partner these days I think it should qualify as an honourary girlfriend.
My left hand also helps out with VI sometimes, but I try to keep it quiet to avoid making my right hand jealous. Women, eh?
And some businesses don't want to upgrade because of the cost. Not only would you be looking at licenses, but also hardware upgrades, retraining of IT staff, taking time out to plan an Active Directory implementation and all the testing involved in seeing if your apps run properly in the new environment. For a medium to large sized company that can represent a huge investment in time and money just to stay supported.
I think you'll find they're just being blackholed. *rimshot*
Ew. I really wish I hadn't just used the syllable "rim" in that context.
A rumored Amish belief that I have heard (never validated, though) is that part of their soul is stolen when a photo is taken of them.
I wonder if that also means that part of the soul of a song is stolen every time it's copied. That would kind of explain why so much contemporary music is soulless, bland, commercial mulch.